Shows Like The Plague

If you liked The Plague (2018), a action & adventure and crime 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
The Legend of El Cid (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also action & adventure and drama
The story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a Castilian nobleman and war hero in medieval Spain.
2
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…
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
Hernán (2019)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and action & adventure
The Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrives in the shores of what today is Mexico and faces both local demons and those who have sailed with him.
5
Rosario Tijeras (2010)
★ 7.4/10Also action & adventure and crime
This is the story of the legendary Rosario Tijeras, the beautiful warrior from a slum who fell in love with Antonio and Emilio, two handsome and wealthy young men. Antonio, a young architect, desperately rushes the…
6
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…
7
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…
8
High Seas (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
Two sisters discover disturbing family secrets after a string of mysterious deaths occur on a luxury ship traveling from Spain to Brazil in the 1940s.
9
Black Doves (2024)
★ 7/10Also action & adventure and crime
When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.
10
Kill Jackie (2026)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and crime
Jackie Price has been living a wealthy, luxurious life for the past 20 years after escaping a dangerous past as an international cocaine dealer. But just as life begins to feel a little boring, she discovers that The…
11
El Dragón: Return of a Warrior (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and action & adventure
A Tokyo business man returns to his home country of Mexico where he must battle rivals to replace his grandfather as the head of a cartel.
12
Enemigo íntimo (2018)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and drama
The story of two siblings who witness the murder of their parents in the hands of one of the drug cartels in Mexico, after which Alejandro Ferrer's younger sister is kidnapped. 25 years later, Alejandro is now the…
13
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.
14
The Cartel (2008)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and drama
The Cartel follows ten friends, all of them members of a dangerous drug cartel, whose ambition for power and money will cause them to eventually kill each other. For it is an undeniable truth that, in this business…
15
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…
16
Arrow (2012)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama
Spoiled 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.
17
Boundless (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also action & adventure and drama
The First Circumvallation Around the World, tracking the 1519–22 voyage initiated by Ferdinand Magellan and culminated by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
18
El Conde: Amor y Honor (2024)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and action & adventure
A wrongful conviction changes the life of Alejandro Gaitán and separates him from the woman he loves, Mariana Zambrano. After 17 years in jail, he becomes a count with the help of another prisoner and seeks revenge on…
19
Spartacus: House of Ashur (2025)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and action & adventure
In a world where he survived the events of Spartacus, Ashur clawed his way to power, owning the same ludus that once owned him. Allying with a fierce gladiatrix, Ashur ignites a new kind of spectacle that offends the…
20
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…