Shows Like Washington Black

If you liked Washington Black (2025), a drama and action & adventure series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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The Terminal List: Dark Wolf (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also action & adventure and drama
Before The Terminal List, Navy SEAL Ben Edwards finds himself entangled in the black operations side of the CIA. The deeper Ben goes into the 'gray', the harder it will become to not give himself over to his darker…
2
Black Sails (2014)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and action & adventure
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking…
3
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
With magic long since lost to England, two men are destined to bring it back; the reclusive Mr. Norrell and daring novice Jonathan Strange. So begins a dangerous battle between two great minds.
4
The Survivors (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
Fifteen years ago, the loss of three young people tore this sleepy seaside town apart. Now, the mysterious death of a young woman dredges up the past.
5
Fallen (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and action & adventure
The phenomenal journey of Aaron Corbett, an 18-year-old Nephilim (half-angel/half human), as he struggles to come to terms with his role as The Redeemer and is drawn into a world where angels walk among us.
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Obsession (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
A respected London surgeon's affair with his son's fiancée turns into an erotic infatuation that threatens to change their lives forever.
7
Conversations with Friends (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
Two college students, Frances and Bobbi, forge a strange and unexpected relationship with a married couple.
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Imperfect Women (2026)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
After a murder shatters the lives of three best friends, their decades-long bond is tested when an investigation reveals betrayals and shocking truths.
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The Day of the Jackal (2024)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and action & adventure
An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who…
10
El final del paraíso (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and action & adventure
In this new era, Catalina, now head of the DEA in Colombia, has a new challenge: to track down a criminal organization that is trafficking a new synthetic drug. What she ignores is that her daughter is part of the…
11
Marvel's Hit-Monkey (2021)
★ 7.8/10Also action & adventure
After a high-profile political assassination goes sideways, an injured hitman hides out amongst a tribe of snow monkeys in the mountains of Japan.
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La Brea (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and action & adventure
An epic adventure begins when a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles, pulling hundreds of people and buildings into its depths. Those who fell in find themselves in a mysterious and dangerous primeval…
13
WWE ECW (2006)
★ 6.4/10Also action & adventure and drama
ECW was a professional wrestling television program for WWE, based on the independent Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion that lasted from 1992 to 2001. The show's name also referred to the ECW brand, in which WWE…
14
George & Tammy (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
A chronicle of the country music power couple George Jones and Tammy Wynette, whose complicated-but-enduring relationship inspired some of the most iconic music of all time.
15
Knots Landing (1979)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
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Tell Me Lies (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
When Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. They quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will…
17
The Last Kingdom (2015)
★ 8.3/10Also action & adventure and drama
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with…
18
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
Amanda Knox arrives in Italy for her study abroad only to be wrongfully imprisoned for murder weeks later. Follow Knox's relentless fight to prove her innocence and reclaim her freedom and examines why authorities and…
19
Tales from the Loop (2020)
★ 7/10Also drama
The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.
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Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
London is rocked by terrorist attacks as armed police shoot dead an innocent man on his way to work.