Shows Like Z Nation
If you liked Z Nation (2014), a mystery 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 Walking Dead (2010)
★ 8.1/10Also action & adventure and dramaSheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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Black Summer (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and action & adventureIn the dark, early days of a zombie apocalypse, complete strangers band together to find the strength they need to survive and get back to loved ones.
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Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and dramaWhat did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the…
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The Last Ship (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also action & adventure and dramaTheir mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from…
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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023)
★ 8/10Also action & adventure and dramaAfter washing ashore in France, Daryl struggles to piece together how he got there and why, as he navigates a fractured, walker-infested landscape to find his way home. During his journey, Daryl has to protect a young…
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The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023)
★ 7.9/10Also action & adventure and dramaMaggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
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The Passage (2019)
★ 7/10Also action & adventure and dramaA post-apocalyptic story about a botched U.S. government experiment that turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, and an orphan girl who might be the only person able to stop the ensuing…
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The Strain (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and mysteryA high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral…
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The 100 (2014)
★ 7.9/10Also action & adventure and drama100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100…
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Station Eleven (2021)
★ 7/10Also drama and mysteryThe survivors of a devastating flu attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew – while holding on to the best of what’s been lost.
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Van Helsing (2016)
★ 7/10Also mystery and action & adventureVanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula nemesis Abraham Van Helsing is resurrected five years in the future to find out that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique…
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Falling Skies (2011)
★ 7.1/10Also action & adventure and dramaFalling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside…
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Lost (2004)
★ 8/10Also mystery and action & adventureStripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
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Tales of the Walking Dead (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and action & adventureAn episodic anthology series focused on both new and established characters set in the world of "The Walking Dead."
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Arrow (2012)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and action & adventureSpoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
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The Imperfects (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also action & adventure and dramaAfter an experimental gene therapy turns them into monsters, three twenty-somethings band together to hunt down the scientist responsible and force him to make them human again.
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Fallout (2024)
★ 8.1/10Also action & adventure and dramaThe story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there's almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape…
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Swamp Thing (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also mystery and dramaCDC researcher Abby Arcane investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but she soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When unexplainable and…
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The Unit (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also action & adventure and dramaA 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.
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The Walking Dead: Red Machete (2017)
★ 7/10Also action & adventure and dramaFollow the path of the red-handled weapon from its innocent beginnings, as it lands in the hands of survivors good and evil, familiar and new.