Shows Like Containment

If you liked Containment (2016), a 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.

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Between (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also drama
Between is the story of a town under siege from a mysterious disease that has wiped out everybody except those 21 years old and under. The series explores the power vacuum that results when a government has quarantined…
2
Helix (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves…
3
The Stand (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a maleficent being - to face each other in a final battle…
4
The Last of Us (2023)
★ 8.4/10Also drama
Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a…
5
Dynasty (2017)
★ 8/10Also drama
Follows two of America’s wealthiest families, the Carringtons and the Colbys, as they feud for control over their fortune and their children focusing on Fallon Carrington, the daughter of billionaire Blake Carrington…
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The Stand (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
In a world mostly wiped out by the plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors…
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Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots (2013)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
Follow the complicated dynamic between the rich and powerful Cryer family and the hired help who work in their opulent Savannah, Georgia, mansion.
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The Strain (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
A 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…
9
Z Nation (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his…
10
Julia (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
Through Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women's movement, the…
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The Last Ship (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
Their 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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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…
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Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
Follow the relationships of a group of husbands and wives that live and love on the same street. While the neighbors come from very different backgrounds, their lives are similar – raising children, dealing with exes…
14
Wu-Tang: An American Saga (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
In the early 1990s in New York, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a visionary musician named Bobby Diggs aka The RZA begins to form a super group of a dozen young, black men, who will eventually rise to…
15
The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023)
★ 7.9/10Also drama
Maggie 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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Station Eleven (2021)
★ 7/10Also drama
The 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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The Nevers (2021)
★ 7.9/10Also drama
In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious…
18
Social Distance (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
Filmed in isolation, this narrative anthology series features both dark and funny takes on how people strive to stay connected while staying apart.
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Raised by Wolves (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is…
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ReGenesis (2004)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC, a…