Best tv shows like Aim High
Last updated March 2024
Looking for tv shows similar to Aim High? Contribute your familiarity to help others toward movies and tv shows you've already seen that might similarly enthrall them. Aid in enlarging the circle of people referring videos amongst each other. We encourage your engagement!
Plot Summary:
A web series centered around a high school student with a double life as a teenage spy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, scenic, semi serious
Best tv shows and movies like Aim High (2011):
Similar in 87%
Harry's Game (1982)
Plot Summary:
Harry is an undercover agent for the British army sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA and find (and terminate) the assassin of a British Cabinet Minister. Harry is alone, the army hasn't been told he is being put in place, his wife is fed up with him and his job, and his one new friend, an Irish woman who falls for him will be consumed by his relentless search for the assassin.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Similar in 85%
The Widow (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman's search to uncover the mysterious disappearance of her husband leads her to the Congo, where she's forced to seek the truth about what happened to the man she loved.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, detective, action packed, exciting
Similar in 81%
Athena: Goddess of War (2010)
Plot Summary:
Athena: Goddess of War is a South Korean espionage television drama series broadcast by SBS in 2010 and a spin-off of 2009's Iris. Budgeted at ₩20 billion like its predecessor, the two series are among the most expensive Korean dramas ever produced. Starring Jung Woo-sung, Cha Seung-won, Soo Ae, and Lee Ji-ah, the series premiered in December 2010 after filming in a number of overseas locations, including Italy, New Zealand, Japan, and the United States. The series is set in the same universe as its predecessor, allowing for select characters from Iris to reprise their roles throughout the story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, romantic
Similar in 83%
Connor Undercover (2009)
Plot Summary:
Connor Heath always dreamed of a spy career. When his parents take in the mysterious Gisela, who turns out to be a politician's daughter, Connor gets opportunities to taste the spy life. He seizes those eagerly, and soon proves his worth while learning on the job.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Similar in 81%
Secrets of State (2008)
Plot Summary:
In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, psychological thriller
Similar in 90%
Beneath the Darkness (2011)
Plot Summary:
After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspense, bleak, psychotronic, teen, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 83%
Undercovers (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five years after leaving the CIA to open a catering company, Steven and Samantha Bloom are recruited back into the agency by Carlton Shaw. They take on special missions the average agent cannot handle. Having made a pact to never discuss their pasts with each other, the Blooms find surprising new things about their spouse in the course of each mission.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, semi serious, sexy, fast
Similar in 76%
Undercover Blues (1993)
Plot Summary:
When fun-loving American agents Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decide to skip the sitter and give their bouncing baby girl the adventure of a lifetime. There's nothing to the dumb story about a deadly arms dealer in the Louisiana Bayou, but you'd be hard put to find a friskier pair of doting parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, entertaining, melancholic, exciting, realistic, spy comedy, smart, colorful
Similar in 87%
Underclassman (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young detective goes undercover at an elite private school to destroy an international stolen car ring.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, light, captivating, black comedy, teen, humorous, fast, detective
Similar in 79%
Time Lapse (2001)
Plot Summary:
Clayton Pierce is an agent working under deep cover. Although he is a top agent, he is questioning his loyalty after twenty years of service. His devotion has already cost him his wife, family and personal life. During a de-briefing from his last assignment, he is unknowingly administered the drug Oblivion, which destroys brain cells causing permanent memory loss. Within a few days of injection, the drug's effects become irreversible. Clayton will not only lose his memory, he will lose his identity as well. He realizes he can no longer rely on anyone at the agency to help him, not even his boss, Agent LaNova. With nowhere left to go, he appeals to his ex-wife, Kate, for help. Clayton and Kate must locate the antidote before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, independent film, bleak, realistic, talky
Similar in 80%
The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Plot Summary:
7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, teen, exciting, rough
Similar in 81%
M.I. High (2007)
Plot Summary:
M.I. High is a BBC children's spy-fi adventure series. It was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Kudos, who also produced the hit BBC spy drama Spooks. It follows in the success of the Young Bond and the Alex Rider series of books and films. M.I. High is recorded in high definition and is shown on the CBBC Channel and CBBC Outputs on BBC One and BBC Two. M.I. High is also shown on the BBC HD Channel. Repeats also frequently air in Australia on ABC3. As of October 2012 the series has began airing on the UKTV channel Watch.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, light, humorous, nostalgic
Similar in 83%
Agent Cody Banks (2003)
Plot Summary:
Recruited by the U.S. government to be a special agent, nerdy teenager Cody Banks must get closer to cute classmate Natalie in order to learn about an evil plan hatched by her father. But despite the agent persona, Cody struggles with teen angst.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spoof, exciting, humorous, not serious, spy comedy, teen, sweet, anamorphic, parody, fast
Similar in 83%
K.C. Undercover (2015)
Plot Summary:
K.C. Cooper, a high school math whiz and karate black-belt, learns that her parents are spies when they recruit her to join them in the secret government agency, The Organization. While she now has the latest spy gadgets at her disposal, K.C. has a lot to learn about being a spy, including keeping her new gig a secret from her best friend Marisa. Together, K.C. and her parents, Craig and Kira, and her younger siblings, Ernie and Judy (a humanoid robot), try to balance everyday family life while on undercover missions, near and far, to save the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic
Similar in 89%
The Agency (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Agency is a CBS television drama that followed the inner-workings of the CIA. The series was created by Michael Frost Beckner and was executive produced by Michael Frost Beckner, Shaun Cassidy Productions and Radiant Productions in association with Universal Network Television and CBS Productions. It aired from September 27, 2001 until May 17, 2003, lasting two seasons. It featured unprecedented filming from the actual CIA headquarters. The show was controversial regarding its exploration of current international affairs and its treatment of the ethical conflicts inherent in intelligence work. Beckner's pilot script, written in March 2001, posited a re-invented CIA tasked with a "War on Terror" after Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist organization plots a lethal attack on the west. The pilot was to premiere at CIA Headquarters on September 18, 2001 and set to air on CBS September 21, 2001, however, the actual 9/11 attacks convinced the network to hold the pilot and instead air a later episode. That first episode was aired later as the third episode of the first season. The September 11, 2001 terrorist events changed the way Americans viewed topical entertainment and "The Agency", at the time, was one of the most topical offering on network television. The producers of the series quickly responded to this new American perspective on world affairs, but CBS chose to cancel the show shortly after the second season's final episode.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, cerebral, exciting, serious
Similar in 79%
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Plot Summary:
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, stylized, suspense, retro, action adventure, fast, cult classic
Similar in 77%
Covert Affairs (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young CIA operative, Annie Walker, is mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after. Auggie Anderson is a CIA military intelligence agent who was blinded while on assignment and is Annie's guide in this world of bureaucracy, excitement and intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, heroic, detective, crime drama, political drama
Similar in 78%
Little Nikita (1988)
Plot Summary:
Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets; to prove he's serious, he's killing their agents one by one, including "sleepers," agents under deep cover awaiting orders. Roy interviews a high school lad, Jeff Grant, an applicant to the Air Force Academy. In a routine background check, Roy discovers that Jeff's parents are sleepers. He must see if Jeff is also a spy, confront the parents yet protect them, and catch his nemesis. Meanwhile, the Soviets have sent their own spy-catcher, the loner Karpov, to reel in Scuba. Alliances shift; it's cat and mouse.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspenseful, cult classic, serious, realistic, psychological, sexy, clever, brutal
Similar in 80%
Legends (2014)
Plot Summary:
Working for the FBI's Deep Cover Operations division, Martin Odum can transform himself into a different person -- whether it's an assignment as a Serbian extremist, a corrupt Chicago police officer, a British special forces colonel, or a legendary computer hacker. But when he learns that his life, itself, may be a lie, he faces the demands of his job and a desire to solve the mystery of his identity. And given the choice between the two, Odum doesn't always make the right decision. From the producers of "Homeland," "Legends" is based on Robert Littell's award-winning book.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective, action adventure, gloomy
Similar in 89%
A Perfect Spy (1987)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Magnus Pym, from his childhood to the end of his career in middle age. As a young man, there is little doubt that his father Rick was the most influential character in his life. Rick was a raconteur, con man, thief, black marketer and all in all, simply larger than life. From a young age, Rick included Magnus in his schemes and the young man learned that you would do anything for the ones you love. When a university student in Switzerland, Pym meets the other person who will have the greatest influence in his life, Axel, a Czech refugee. As Pym enters his career in the British Secret Service, his relationship with Axel and the values he developed in childhood lead him down his own path of betrayal and loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 982
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 374 min
Plot tags: political, psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Twisted (2013)
Plot Summary:
A one-hour mystery full of twists and turns that follows Danny Desai, a charismatic 16-year-old with a troubled past who returns to his hometown after spending five years in juvenile detention. Immediately branded an outcast, Danny attempts to reconnect with his two childhood best friends, Jo and Lacey. But when a fellow student is found dead in her home, Danny instantly becomes the prime suspect and town spirals into a frenzy of suspicion and mystery. Jo and Lacey must decide if their childhood friend is unforgivable, or if he's really a victim being persecuted for his own twisted secrets.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, enigmatic, suspense, detective, teen, realistic, odd
Similar in 86%
Ravenswood (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ravenswood is a spin-off of Pretty Little Liars set in Ravenswood, a town near Rosewood. The town has been suffering from a curse for generations. Five strangers suddenly feel connected by this fatal curse and feel the need to dig in the town's mysterious and horrible history before it's to late for each one of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, enigmatic, anthology
Similar in 85%
Scream: The TV Series (2015)
Plot Summary:
What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, anthology, horror comedy, spooky, psychological, sitcom
Similar in 84%
Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Plot Summary:
Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year later, they begin receiving messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 176000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, teen, soap opera, slasher, saga, relaxing, thrilling, teen horror
Similar in 77%
Abduction (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, teen, suspense, romantic, serious, entertaining, absurd, intense, psychological thriller
Similar in 77%
Nikita (2010)
Plot Summary:
Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, realistic, thrilling, interesting
Similar in 78%
Alias (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, cliffhanger, heroic, detective, action thriller, action adventure, thrilling, stylized
Similar in 90%
Burn Notice (2007)
Plot Summary:
A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, detective, political, anime, grindhouse, crime drama
Similar in 76%
Teen Wolf (2011)
Plot Summary:
Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day teenage life. The following characters are instrumental to his struggle: Stiles, his best friend; Allison, his love interest who comes from a family of werewolf hunters; and Derek, a mysterious werewolf with a dark past. Throughout the series, he strives to keep his loved ones safe while maintaining normal relationships with them.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 160000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: touching, suspenseful, serious, humorous, atmospheric, semi serious, teen, supernatural thriller, dread, juvenile
Similar in 76%
The Americans (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, dramatic, sexy, neo noir, political, dark