More like NCIS
Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
NCIS covers the full range of crimes tied to Navy and Marine Corps personnel — murder, espionage, terrorism, and stolen submarines all fall within the team's jurisdiction. It signals a taste for military procedural drama where institutional rank is never far from the investigation, and where the agents themselves are part of the same command structure they examine. Fans tend to want that same combination of ensemble dynamics, institutional friction, and cases that carry genuine geopolitical weight.
About NCIS
NCIS is an American military police procedural television series and the first installment within the NCIS media franchise. With production helmed by showrunner, Steven D. Binder, the series portrays a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The concept and characters were initially introduced with two episodes of the CBS series JAG ; as a spin-off from JAG, the series premiered on September 23, 2003, on CBS. Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill are co-creators and executive producers of the premiere member of the NCIS franchise. As of 2025, NCIS was the third-longest-running scripted, live-action American prime-time TV series currently airing, surpassed only by Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–present) and Law & Order ; it is the fifth-longest-running scripted American prime-time TV series overall.
From the Wikipedia article NCIS_(TV_series), available under CC BY-SA.
Films like NCIS
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S.I.S.
An elite LAPD squad faces its hardest case yet when a new psychopath targets Los Angeles.
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Basic
A military training exercise that goes fatally wrong pulls investigators into a tangle of rank, cover-up, and competing testimony.
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Clear and Present Danger
A CIA officer uncovers links between a politically connected murder and deeper institutional corruption.
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High Crimes
A marine accused of wartime crimes and a cover-up reaching into the military hierarchy.
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Agent Red
A Navy special operations commander races to escort a lethal viral weapon to secure storage.
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Most Wanted
A marine recruited for a covert ops team is framed for assassinating the First Lady.
Games like NCIS
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The Operator
A desk-based operator solves cases by guiding field agents through a computer console — investigative procedure from behind the scenes.
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Dangerous Waters
Total control over air, surface, and submarine platforms in a modern naval combat environment.
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Medal of Honor (1999)
Covert special-forces missions behind enemy lines — the same blend of institutional duty and high-stakes field operations.
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COAST GUARD
A coast guard officer pursues dangerous criminals at sea under a code of honour, responsibility, and duty.
Books to read after NCIS
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The new enemy
A new Recce Platoon recruit runs intelligence-gathering missions behind enemy lines, learning the cost of inexperience in hostile territory.
Book
Killer Elite
An account of the United States' most secretive advanced special operations — covert institutional power as the subject.
Book
Special ops
Special Forces warriors are deployed against a legendary revolutionary — military ensemble action with a sharp historical edge.
Book
Field of graves
A cop and a medical examiner work a serial murder case together — investigative partnership under intense public scrutiny.
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Police at the station and they don't look friendly
A detective probing a bizarre killing barely survives becoming the next victim — procedural investigation tangled with personal danger.
Book
Unsolved
An FBI agent whose skill at spotting connections others miss meets a case that stubbornly refuses to resolve.
More series like NCIS
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NCIS: Sydney
US NCIS agents and Australian federal police form a joint taskforce targeting naval crimes across a contested stretch of ocean.
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NCIS: Los Angeles
The same NCIS mandate applied to an elite undercover division operating out of Los Angeles — specialised jurisdiction, deeper concealment.
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CSI: Cyber
Federal agents hunting criminals through the dark-net, led by a cyber-psychologist — procedural ensemble work in a more digital arena.
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NCIS: Origins
In 1991, a young Gibbs begins his career as a newly minted NCIS special agent.
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Special Ops
A RAW officer links a pattern of terrorist attacks to one person and builds a covert five-agent team.
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The A-Team
Ex-special-forces operatives branded as war criminals take on mercenary cases — the military-outsider tension runs through every episode.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after NCIS?
Fans of NCIS's military crime-solving will feel right at home with NCIS: Los Angeles, which follows an elite undercover unit handling naval cases, or NCIS: Sydney, which transplants the same formula to a U.S.–Australian joint taskforce in the Pacific.
Are there any books like NCIS for fans of military investigations?
Unsolved features an FBI agent with a knack for spotting hidden connections across cold cases, and Field of Graves pairs a detective with a medical examiner on a serial-killer hunt — both carry that procedural tension NCIS fans crave.
What games capture the NCIS feeling of working cases and chasing criminals?
The Operator puts you in a support-analyst role, directing field agents through cases from a computer console, while COAST GUARD has you pursuing dangerous criminals at sea under a "Honor – Respect – Duty" motto — both scratch that investigative itch.