Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Person of Interest follows John Reese, a former CIA paramilitary operative presumed dead, and Harold Finch, a reclusive billionaire who built a surveillance system capable of flagging violent crimes. Working entirely outside official channels in New York City, they use Reese's covert training and Finch's technical genius to intercept crimes before they happen. The show draws fans who want secret operatives, tech-enabled detection, and an odd-couple partnership where brute skill meets intellectual power.
Person of Interest is an American science fiction crime drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2011, to June 21, 2016, with its five seasons consisting of 103 episodes. The series was created by Jonathan Nolan; executive producers were Nolan, J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Greg Plageman, Denise Thé, and Chris Fisher.
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Film
15 Minutes
Crime caught on camera in New York City, where media exposure warps the pursuit of justice.
Film
The Code
A genius code-breaker leads an elite detective unit solving cases others cannot crack.
Film
Someone to Watch Over Me
A newly promoted detective quietly watches over a witness to murder in New York City.
Film
Criminal
A dead CIA operative's memories survive inside a dangerous man, driving a covert mission forward.
Film
Max Payne
A DEA agent and an assassin team up to solve a conspiracy-driven series of murders in New York City.
Film
The Art of War
A covert agent who officially does not exist works to unravel an international conspiracy.
Game
The Operator
An operator solves cases remotely using a computer console, supporting field agents from the background.
Game
Nobody Wants to Die
A detective takes an off-the-books case in a future New York where hidden costs lurk beneath the surface.
Game
PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness
A society that quantifies mental states and predicts criminal behavior raises questions about who controls justice.
Game
The Operative: No One Lives Forever
A deadly operative works for a secret organisation fighting ruthless enemies through subterfuge and action.
Game
Art of Murder: FBI Confidential
A young FBI agent hunts a killer targeting the wealthy while working through her first major case.
Game
Detroit: Become Human
Beings built to serve begin to think and feel, forcing a reckoning over who decides the rules of justice.
Book
Person Of Interest
A CIA surgeon who creates new identities for blown operatives becomes a target herself.
Book
Unsolved
A driven FBI agent spots connections others miss while chasing an unsolvable case across the country.
Book
The villain's daughter
A daughter investigates a father who vanished into the criminal world, uncovering buried loyalties.
Book
Motive
A police lieutenant haunted by unsolved cases pursues justice for victims who never received it.
Book
The Informant
A Justice Department official and a mythical hit man trade information to crack an unsolvable case.
Book
Field of graves
A detective and a medical examiner face public pressure while hunting a serial killer targeting students.
Series
FBI
A New York federal team deploys technical expertise to protect the city from serious crime.
Series
CIA
A by-the-book agent pairs with a secretive CIA officer for covert operations in New York.
Series
Eye Candy
A tech-savvy woman uses her skills to track a cyber stalker threatening lives in Manhattan.
Series
CSI: NY
Forensic investigators and police combine science and procedure to solve crimes across New York City.
Series
Red Eye
An officer embroiled in an airborne conspiracy must untangle escalating murders while under pressure.
Series
Psych
A man with an exceptional eye for detail helps solve crimes while working outside official standing.
If you want more covert-operative procedurals in New York, CIA pairs a by-the-book FBI agent with a roguish CIA officer on an unofficial task force. Eye Candy leans into the tech-surveillance angle with a hacker hunting a cyber stalker in Manhattan.
The Operator puts you in a support role solving cases remotely via a computer console — the same back-channel, intelligence-driven dynamic. PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness explores a system that predicts criminal behaviour and the moral weight of acting on that data.
It centres a surveillance system that flags violent crimes before they happen, making every case a race against a clock neither the police nor the public knows is running. The partnership between a covert operative and a reclusive software genius keeps the moral stakes personal rather than institutional.