CrossBinge
Series: Spider-Noir →

More like Spider-Noir

Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.

Spider-Noir drops Nicolas Cage's Ben Reilly into 1930s New York: an aging, down-on-his-luck private investigator forced to reckon with the double life he once lived as the city's sole superhero. The show is neo-noir through and through — morally tangled, atmospherically dark, and more interested in the burden of a past identity than in the spectacle of the costume. Fans will find natural companions in hard-boiled crime fiction, psychologically complicated investigators, and superhero stories that treat the mask as a wound rather than a gift.

About Spider-Noir

Spider-Noir is an American neo-noir superhero series developed by Oren Uziel for MGM+ and Prime Video. Based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Spider-Man Noir, the series follows an aging private investigator and superhero in 1930s New York City who grapples with his past. Uziel and Steve Lightfoot serve as the showrunners of the series, which is produced by Sony Pictures Television in association with Amazon MGM Studios. It is set in an alternate universe within the Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) franchise. Nicolas Cage stars as Ben Reilly / The Spider in his first lead role in a television series, with Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston, and Brendan Gleeson also starring.

From the Wikipedia article Spider-Noir, available under CC BY-SA.

Films like Spider-Noir

Games like Spider-Noir

Books to read after Spider-Noir

More series like Spider-Noir

Frequently asked

What should I watch after Spider-Noir?

Fans of its crime-and-costume mix should try The Penguin, which similarly puts a street-level villain at the centre of a gritty urban power struggle, or The Tick for a more comedic but equally self-aware take on neighbourhood superheroes.

Are there games that capture Spider-Noir's 1930s detective atmosphere?

Face Noir is the closest match — a point-and-click private-eye thriller soaked in Chandler-esque atmosphere — while Adam Wolfe blends supernatural detective work with brooding city streets if you want a slightly stranger edge.

Is there a book with the same moody private-investigator feel as Spider-Noir?

Early Autumn follows a wisecracking private investigator in the tradition of Chandler and MacDonald, and Gaslight Arcanum collects dark genre fiction with a Victorian-era crime flavour that shares the show's gaslit, shadow-filled mood.

Explore more