Shows Like Tales of the Gold Monkey

If you liked Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982), a action & adventure and drama 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.

1
Lost (2004)
★ 8/10Also action & adventure and drama
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
2
The Assassin (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and action & adventure
Secluded on a remote Greek island, retired assassin Julie has a somewhat thorny reunion with her estranged son, Edward, visiting from England. Armed with questions around new information on his paternity, Edward…
3
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…
4
The Unit (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also action & adventure and drama
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.
5
Masters of the Air (2024)
★ 7.8/10Also drama
During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.
6
Skull Island (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also action & adventure
Shipwrecked in the South Pacific, a group of explorers encounter a menagerie of fearsome creatures — including the giant ape who rules the island: Kong.
7
Fena: Pirate Princess (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also action & adventure
Fena Houtman remembers little about her childhood. Orphaned and raised as a servant in a brothel, her life changes when she escapes to an island of pirates where she discovers the truth behind her family. With Fena…
8
Blood & Treasure (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and action & adventure
An antiquities expert teams up with an art thief to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks using stolen artifacts.
9
The Pacific (2010)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and action & adventure
Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001…
10
Kung Fu (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also action & adventure and drama
A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to find her hometown overrun with crime and…
11
The Mosquito Coast (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and action & adventure
Allie Fox—a brilliant inventor and stubborn idealist—uproots his family for a dangerous quest through Mexico to flee the U.S. government and find safety.
12
Banshee: Origins (2013)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and action & adventure
Banshee: Origins is a series of webisodes based on the American drama television series produced by Cinemax called Banshee. The series offers flashbacks in-between the time where Lucas Hood was arrested and when…
13
Killjoys (2015)
★ 6.9/10Also action & adventure
An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system of planets…
14
Citadel (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and action & adventure
What if you lost your memory? What if a spy didn't know they were a spy? Years ago, the top agents of Citadel, Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, had their minds wiped. But, they're called back to action as sinister forces…
15
Continuum (2012)
★ 7.5/10Also action & adventure and drama
The series centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the…
16
Dark Blue (2009)
★ 6.9/10Also action & adventure and drama
Wandering in and out of he underbelly of Los Angeles, where criminals roam free under the veil of night or hide in the shadows of day, is routine for Lieutenant Carter Shaw and his special undercover task force. This…
17
The Equalizer (1985)
★ 7.2/10Also action & adventure and drama
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have…
18
The Terminal List (2022)
★ 8/10Also action & adventure and drama
Navy SEAL Commander James Reece turns to vengeance as he investigates the mysterious forces behind the murder of his entire platoon. Free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons he's learned…
19
La Femme Nikita (1997)
★ 7.4/10Also action & adventure and drama
Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who was accused of killing a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to death by lethal injection, upon…
20
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…