Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
The Blacklist is built on a central paradox: the most dangerous man in the room is also your best weapon. Raymond Reddington — fugitive, criminal, and self-appointed consultant — hands the FBI a shadow world of threats they didn't know existed, while keeping his own motives carefully obscured. That tension between complicity and control, between the insider who breaks rules and the institution that reluctantly needs him, is what pulls viewers across the full recommendation map: morally complex operatives, shadowy agencies, and the strange alliances that form when the official channels aren't enough.
The Blacklist is an American crime thriller television series created by Jon Bokenkamp and developed by John Eisendrath. It stars James Spader as Raymond Reddington, an international criminal and one of the FBI's Most Wanted fugitives who cooperates with the FBI in hunting down other criminals on his "Blacklist". The series also stars Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold, Amir Arison, Hisham Tawfiq, and Harry Lennix.
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Film
RED
A retired black-ops agent pulls together his old crew to unravel a conspiracy that targets them all.
Film
Red Letters
A professor hides an escaped convict who needs his help to prove her innocent of murder.
Film
The Heat
An arrogant FBI agent and an unorthodox local cop are forced into an uneasy partnership to break a case.
Film
Blacklight
A government operative who works in the shadows discovers a deadly conspiracy running straight through his own agency.
Film
Blackhat
A furloughed convict with inside knowledge is brought in to hunt a high-level criminal network across multiple continents.
Film
RED 2
Retired intelligence operatives reassemble for a global mission to track down a missing nuclear device.
Game
The Operator
A desk-bound operator guides field agents through criminal cases using only a computer console and sharp thinking.
Game
BLACK
A deniable strike force operates outside official oversight to neutralize threats against the United States.
Game
She Sees Red
A detective hunts an elusive killer on a murderous spree through a night club in this interactive thriller.
Game
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist
A counter-terrorism operative works to neutralize a threat from a group operating entirely outside the law.
Game
NEON STRUCT
A framed ex-spy moves off the grid, hunted by the very agency she once served, working to clear her name.
Game
The Bureau
A covert government unit operating in total secrecy confronts an existential threat during a Cold War standoff.
Book
Point Blank (FBI Thriller)
FBI agents Savich and Sherlock face the most dangerous case of their careers in this thriller.
Book
Split Second
FBI agents hunt a serial killer whose crimes connect to a notorious figure from criminal history.
Book
Red glove
A teenager with rare criminal abilities is courted by federal agents who want him on their side, not the mob's.
Book
The killing season
A man operating under an assumed identity is pulled back in when a notorious killer escapes from death row.
Book
Field of graves
A cop and a medical examiner collaborate under intense public pressure to catch a serial killer targeting students.
Book
The survivor
A CIA operative races to recover stolen classified data before it falls into the wrong hands.
Series
The Blacklist: Redemption
A covert operative teams up with the head of a mercenary organization to handle threats too dangerous for official channels.
Series
The Red Road
An ex-con and a compromised cop are bound together by secrets that steadily unravel both their lives.
Series
The Bureau
Deep inside French intelligence, clandestine agents live double lives under constant threat of exposure.
Series
FBI: Most Wanted
A mobile FBI task force relentlessly hunts the most notorious fugitives on the Bureau's Most Wanted list.
Series
Last Man: The Blind Profiler
A blind FBI agent relies on exceptional instinct rather than sight to close cases others can't crack.
Series
FBI
The New York FBI office channels every resource and skill it has into keeping the country safe from major threats.
If you want more rogue-operative intrigue, The Blacklist: Redemption continues directly from the main show, while The Bureau offers a grittier, slower-burn take on intelligence agents running deep-cover operations abroad.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist is the obvious pick — a stealth-action game built around dismantling a criminal network, much like Reddington's list. The Operator casts you as an intelligence analyst assisting field agents to bring criminals to justice.
Fans of the FBI procedural angle should try Point Blank (FBI Thriller), which follows FBI agents on a high-stakes case, or The survivor, a CIA-operative thriller where classified secrets and a race against time drive the plot.