Action & Adventure TV Shows
The list contains the best, new, and most relevant Action & Adventure TV Shows ordered by relevance. Trendflicks helps you find the most attractive TV Shows from all kinds of streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Prime Video, HBO, etc.
Best TV Shows
Popular TV Shows:
Harley Quinn(2019) , Into the Badlands(2015) , Star Wars: The Clone Wars(2008) , Constantine(2014) , DC's Legends of Tomorrow(2016) , NCIS(2003) , Marvel's Iron Fist(2017) , The Shield(2002) , Ash vs Evil Dead(2015) , The Venture Bros.(2004) , The Sandman(2022) , SEAL Team(2017) , Scorpion(2014) , Station 19(2018) , 9-1-1: Lone Star(2020) , Legion(2017) , Marvel's Daredevil(2015) , Archer(2009) , 24(2001) , Doctor Who(2005) , Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.(2013) , Arrow(2012) , Continuum(2012) , Battlestar Galactica(2004) , The Umbrella Academy(2019) , Lost in Space(2018) , The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power(2022) , Smallville(2001) , The Pacific(2010) , Fear the Walking Dead(2015)
List of Best TV Shows
Harley Quinn (2019)
8.4
TV-MA
Release Date: 2019-11-29
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: Harley Quinn, who believes her boss and boyfriend, The Joker, will save her after a botched boat theft, is sent to Arkham Asylum. After rescuing her during a jailbreak a year later, her closest friend, Poison Ivy Woman, tries to crush her heart. Knowing he never loved her, Harley Quinn ends their relationship. Gotham's criminal underbelly is where Harlee intends to establish her reputation.
Cast: Kaley Cuoco, Lake Bell
Into the Badlands (2015)
7.9
TV-14
Release Date: 2015-11-15
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: The globe is in ruins due to conflict 500 years later. Seven barons and Ramesses dominate the Badlands, an area of the former North American nations. They manage their domain and assemble an army of lethal warriors known as the Clippers. A strange youngster named MK is rescued by the formidable warrior Regent Sonny. Sonny finds out that the pendant MK is wearing is the same as the picture of the boy's house, Azra, that he saw on his childhood compass. Sonny wants to know more about the metropolis that lies beyond the badlands to discover the truth about his background.
Cast: Daniel Wu, Emily Beecham, Nick Frost, Orla Brady, Alexia Ioannides
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
8.4
TV-PG
Release Date: 2008-10-03
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: The Republic and separatists engaged in several engagements throughout the first season. The Jedi fight against General Grievous and Count Dooku to persuade other planetary systems to support their cause. Rex and Cody, the clone officers, are alone in a distant outpost where they have to convince their rookie soldiers that they can repel an attack by robot commandos. After a heated space combat, R2-D2 vanishes, and Anakin has to locate him before the separatists learn Jedi military secrets stored in his memory bank.
Cast: Ashley Eckstein, Matt Lanter, James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kane
Constantine (2014)
7.5
TV-14
Release Date: 2014-10-24
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: When Constantine is alone with death, those Allies who ought to perish invariably accompany him. Constantine never employs magic and instead relies on his allies and intellect to solve difficulties. In his view, Allies are only tools to be exploited. He always possessed a certain level of leadership, guiding the challenging issues that the heroes were unable to assess. He just acts in self-interest, misleading both God and the devil, but he has the last say and the moral authority to judge right from wrong. He can't resist flirting with his allies, and someone will always be desperate enough to be recruited before he breaks his heart.
Cast: Matt Ryan, Angélica Celaya, Charles Halford, Harold Perrineau
DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016)
6.7
TV-14
Release Date: 2016-01-21
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: Time-traveling, visionary thief Time-traveling robber Rip Hunt will give it everything he has to stop this from happening. To take on an insurmountable menace that affects not only Earth but all of time, Rip Hunt is entrusted with uniting a varied coalition of heroes and villains. Is there an immortal enemy that this motley crew hasn't seen before that they can defeat?
Cast: Caity Lotz, Tala Ashe, Jes Macallan, Olivia Swann, Adam Tsekhman
NCIS (2003)
7.8
TV-14
Release Date: 2003-09-23
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: Any offense involving even the slightest evidence connecting members of the Navy and Marine Corps, regardless of rank or position, is investigated by the NCIS, a special Pentagon agency. These investigators go throughout the globe to look into any type of illegal conduct connected to the Navy and Marine Corps, from terrorism and submarine theft to murder and espionage.
Cast: Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama, Katrina Law, Brian Dietzen, Rocky Carroll
Marvel's Iron Fist (2017)
6.4
TV-MA
Release Date: 2017-03-17
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: Danny "Fist of Iron" Rand is a master of martial arts who received his training in the enigmatic "Kunlun." He gets his supernatural abilities from the immortal dragon Shou-Lao and can focus qi into his fists. Asian-American Colleen Wing was raised in Japan, where she was trained as a warrior. After they worked together on an operation, he became Rand's capable sidekick in the war against crime.
Cast: Finn Jones, Jessica Henwick, Jessica Stroup, Tom Pelphrey, Sacha Dhawan
The Shield (2002)
8.7
TV-MA
Release Date: 2002-03-12
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: The moral compass is always shifting in this harsh and chaotic society where the novel is set. A bunch of dishonest but extremely skilled police officers and a sheriff who seeks to utilize them for his political gain are the main antagonists in the television series. The leader of the elite Strike gang, Vic Mackey, is a very effective detective who always does things his way. Vic's approach is not to head David Aceveda's liking; he is a young district police head who seeks to destroy Vic's authority.
Cast: Michael Chiklis, Catherine Dent, Paula Garcés, Walton Goggins, Michael Jace
Ash vs Evil Dead (2015)
8.4
TV-MA
Release Date: 2015-10-31
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: Ashley Williams, the brave former monster slayer, has been a grey-haired, out-of-form Casanova who is stuck in a rut for three long and oddly silent decades since his last horrific confrontation with demonic monsters from the Army of Darkness. On the spur of the moment, Ash decides to return to the Slaughter game, but only unwillingly, for he believes the wicked Death will return with a fury after spending years reflecting on the past. Ash is going to have to brace himself for the worst as a pandemic of dead molecules threatens to wipe out not only the town but the human species globally.
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, Lucy Lawless, Arielle O'Neill
The Venture Bros. (2004)
8.6
TV-MA
Release Date: 2004-08-07
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: The show follows the exploits and life experiences of the Venture family, including the emotionally unstable, immoral, and underachievers father, Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture; Hank and Dean Vinge, his well-intentioned but incompetent adolescent fraternal twin boys; Agent Brock Samson, the family's bodyguard, or the temporary stand-in, the former villain and pedophile Hate Sergeant; and the family's self-described archenemy, the monarch, a supervillain with a butterfly motif.
Cast: Doc Hammer, Christopher McCulloch, Patrick Warburton, James Urbaniak, Michael Sinterniklaas
The Sandman (2022)
7.7
TV-MA
Release Date: 2022-08-05
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: An enchantress who seeks perpetual life instead imprisons her brother Dream after failing to catch death. The magician kept him trapped in a glass container for decades out of fear for his safety. Morpheus resumed his quest for his stolen power after making his getaway. Morpheus's victims, both individuals and locations. Trying to atone for his wrongdoings to the universe and humanity, Morpheus dedicated his lengthy life to this endeavor.
Cast: Tom Sturridge, Boyd Holbrook, Vivienne Acheampong, Patton Oswalt
SEAL Team (2017)
7.8
TV-14
Release Date: 2017-09-27
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: In addition to showing how they train and carry out the most hazardous tasks the country assigns them, the movie also chronicles the daily lives of an elite squad of Navy seals serving on the front lines. With just a little window of time to communicate with their family via long-distance phone bills, they are prepared to go on covert operations around the globe. Despite overwhelming odds, this purportedly close SEAL squad demonstrated their unshakable patriotism and fierce loyalty.
Cast: David Boreanaz, Neil Brown Jr., A.J. Buckley, Toni Trucks, Beau Knapp
Scorpion (2014)
7
TV-14
Release Date: 2014-09-22
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: A mysterious computer specialist joins forces with a bunch of highly skilled worldwide computer hackers to build a global defensive network. In his early years, he gained notoriety as a hacker and went on to become CEO of Scorpion Computer Services, which offered information services to customers all over the world. He is reputed to possess one of the greatest IQs ever recorded. He is the real-life counterpart of Dr. X, gathering and preparing gifted individuals from all over the world to battle for issues resolution and life-saving. They deal with a variety of challenges, from more serious state-to-state relations difficulties like drone strikes to more trivial ones like casino security.
Cast: Elyes Gabel, Katharine McPhee, Jadyn Wong, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Ari Stidham
Station 19 (2018)
7.1
TV-14
Release Date: 2018-03-22
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: The sitcom follows a group of firemen at Seattle Fire Department's Station 19, from captain to recruit, as they navigate their personal and professional lives. Andy serves as Station 19's co-acting captain. Robert Sullivan took his position afterward. Following a fatal fire at the coffee bean mill, Station 19 personnel are placed on high alert, and one of its members ends up in Graysloan, facing death and an unclear future. The scenario gets more complicated as firefighters fight a storage facility fire.
Cast: Jaina Lee Ortiz, Jason George, Boris Kodjoe, Barrett Doss, Jay Hayden
9-1-1: Lone Star (2020)
7.3
TV-14
Release Date: 2020-01-19
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: Owen Strand was the lone survivor of the 9/11 Manhattan Fire Department more than 20 years ago. Owen was given the duty of reconstructing the fire department following the terrorist assault. Following a comparable tragedy in an Austin fire station, Owen uses his life experiences and firefighting expertise to assist his troublesome son, TK, and the people there to start afresh. Although Owen appears to be a major city dweller, he is concealing a terrible secret that might perhaps ruin his life.
Cast: Rob Lowe, Gina Torres, Ronen Rubinstein, Jim Parrack, Natacha Karam
Legion (2017)
8.1
TV-MA
Release Date: 2017-02-08
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: David Haller has spent a large portion of his life in and out of mental facilities after receiving a split personality and schizophrenia diagnosis at a young age. In actuality, though, his dual personality serves as his superpower; each of his personas has a certain talent or quality. He battled this mutant superpower up until he found Syd, his ideal woman, and made the decision to embrace his true nature. David finds himself being chased by both a nonprofit group that wants to assist him in understanding and using his skills and a clandestine government entity that wants to weaponize him as he starts to become aware of his own and those around him.
Cast: Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Jeremie Harris, Amber Midthunder
Marvel's Daredevil (2015)
8.6
TV-MA
Release Date: 2015-04-10
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: When Matt Murdock was a little kid, a strange chemical leak disaster cost him his sight. Instead of putting restrictions on him, it gave him superhuman senses that made it possible for him to see the world in a powerful and unique way. These days, he utilizes his abilities to further justice by working as a nighttime vigilante and practicing law at his own office, Daredevil-style, through the streets of Hell's Kitchen.
Cast: Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jay Ali
Archer (2009)
8.6
TV-MA
Release Date: 2009-09-17
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: Global crises are just chances for the highly educated staff of a worldwide espionage organization to deceive, sabotage, betray, and generally screw each other royally. At the center of it all is the dapper master spy Sterling Archer, also known by his less-than-masculine code name, "Duchess." Malory, Archer's boss and possessive mother, is his boss. Along with Malory's love-sick secretary, Cheryl, he has to cope with his ex-girlfriend, Agent Lana Kane, and her new lover, comptroller Cyril Figgis.
Cast: H. Jon Benjamin, Judy Greer, Amber Nash, Chris Parnell, Aisha Tyler
24 (2001)
8.4
TV-14
Release Date: 2001-11-06
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: Each season of this concept drama is set in a single 24-hour period. Day 1: Jack Bauer, the field operations commander for an elite squad of CTU operatives, uncovers an assassination plan against Presidential contender David Palmer. Meanwhile, Jack's difficult marriage with Teri is tested by the abrupt disappearance of their troublesome teenage daughter. What will happen in the next 24 hours?
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Raver, Mary Lynn Rajskub, William Devane, Yvonne Strahovski
Doctor Who (2005)
8.5
TV-PG
Release Date: 2005-03-26
Duration: 30min
Country: GB
Plot: Using the British classic blue police box time machine, the TARDIS, the final time Lord in the universe known as "Doctor," sets out on a daring time travel to save Earth, space, and time, as well as extraterrestrial life. The Doctor possesses the power to regenerate in addition to physical strength and great intelligence. The physician embarks on a journey alongside his friends. They come into creatures, but occasionally, they also need to defend the planet.
Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013)
7.5
TV-14
Release Date: 2013-09-24
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: The world has not been the same since the Battle of New York. It is now aware of not just the Avengers but also the formidable threats that call for the combined might of all those superheroes to defeat them. To combat these dangers wherever they may be, Phil Coulson of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division put together a top-notch clandestine squad. These S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are prepared to take on the supervillains as the world becomes weirder and more deadly.
Cast: Clark Gregg, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge, Ming-Na Wen, Henry Simmons
Arrow (2012)
7.5
TV-14
Release Date: 2012-10-10
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: Oliver Queen, a billionaire, was thought to be dead for five years before he was discovered alive. Oliver has been put to the test physically and psychologically by the island experience, and he is determined to right the wrongs his father has caused to the city. While he remains a wealthy son by day, he takes on the form of the justice-bringing "green arrow" messenger at night. To maintain municipal safety, Laurel's father, Detective Quentin, seeks to apprehend the renegade ranger.
Cast: Stephen Amell, Rick Gonzalez, Katherine McNamara, David Ramsey, Katie Cassidy
Continuum (2012)
7.6
TV-14
Release Date: 2012-05-27
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: Kiera Cameron, a police officer from 65 years in the future, becomes stranded in modern-day Vancouver in the suspenseful one-hour police drama Continuum. When Liber8, a group of vicious would-be criminals, surrounds her, she uses her CMR technology to get in touch with 17-year-old IT prodigy Alec Sadler. They create a unique alliance together. Kiera wants to go home only once she survives and stops Liber8 from changing history. She navigates the present with the help of futuristic gadgets and perseverance to save the future she left behind.
Cast: Rachel Nichols, Erik Knudsen, Victor Webster, Stephen Lobo, Omari Newton
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
8.7
TV-14
Release Date: 2004-10-18
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: To eradicate humanity, the androids known as Cylons have rebelled against their human creators, the Twelve Colonies of Cobol inhabitants. Following an unexpected assault, they almost achieve their goal. There are only around 50,000 people left, dispersed among a motley fleet. The Battlestar Galactica, the last remaining colonial battleship, is the focal point of this force.
Cast: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, Katee Sackhoff, James Callis
The Umbrella Academy (2019)
7.8
TV-MA
Release Date: 2019-02-15
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: Forty-three babies were inexplicably born to unconnected mothers in October 1989. Primed to rescue the world, seven individuals, adopted by millionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves, join The Umbrella Academy. The family splits up and disbands as teenagers. Following Hargreeves' passing, the six survivors reunite over thirty years later. Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Vanya, and Number Five look into the death of their father, which seems unexplained, and the impending end of the world. The urgency of averting disaster is increased by their disparate personalities and skill sets, which endanger the integrity of the family.
Cast: Aidan Gallagher, Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan
Lost in Space (2018)
7.3
TV-PG
Release Date: 2018-04-13
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: The Robinson family joins a colonization voyage to a better world in space, set thirty years in the future. They are abruptly thrown off track and must struggle to survive in a dangerous alien environment light-years away from their intended destination. Two strangers live next to the Robinsons: the cunning Dr. Smith, who has unclear intentions, and the roguish Don West, a talented contractor who has no intention of settling in the colony.
Cast: Toby Stephens, Molly Parker, Maxwell Jenkins, Taylor Russell, Mina Sundwall
Release Date: 2022-09-01
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: It shows the return of evil to Middle-earth and is set in the Second Age of the planet, thousands of years before Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Finrod, an elf, perishes in the process of locating Sauron, the Dark Lord Morgoth's servant, following his defeat. Finrod's sister Galadriel promises to carry on the hunt and finds, in the northern wastelands of Frodwise, an abandoned stronghold marked with Sauron's mark.
Cast: Charlie Vickers, Morfydd Clark, Robert Aramayo, Charles Edwards, Owain Arthur
Smallville (2001)
7.5
TV-PG
Release Date: 2001-10-16
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: The inhabitants suffer scars and secrets as years go by following a meteor shower that strikes them unexpectedly and causes severe damage. An attractive but shy adolescent attempts to piece together the meaning of his existence and his mysterious history from the wreckage of tragedy. Being strong and possessing unusual powers puts Clark at odds with his peers as he attempts to make the transition from boyhood to adulthood.
Cast: Tom Welling, Erica Durance, Cassidy Freeman, Justin Hartley
The Pacific (2010)
8.3
TV-MA
Release Date: 2010-03-14
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: It chronicles the life of a tiny unit of US Marines engaged in Pacific theater combat with the Japanese Empire during World War II. The interconnected stories of PfC. Robert Leckie, Sgt. Eugene B. Sledge and Eugene B. Sledge are three U.S. Marines who served in the Pacific Theater, from their initial encounter with the Japanese on Guadalcanal to the sandy shores of Iwo Jima and the terrifying experiences of Okinawa to their ultimate victorious reappearance on Victory Day.
Cast: James Badge Dale, Jon Seda, Joseph Mazzello, Ashton Holmes, Jacob Pitts
Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
6.8
TV-MA
Release Date: 2015-08-23
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: When Nick, Madison Clark's kid, wakes up high in an abandoned church and finds everyone else has been mauled to death and discovers a female "man" who is devouring people, Travis Manawa, a divorced high school English teacher, and Madison Clark, a widowed student counselor, are about to get engaged. Following a vehicle accident that sends Nick to the hospital, the rearranged family learns that what Nick has found is a forerunner to the global apocalypse.
Cast: Lennie James, Kim Dickens, Colman Domingo, Danay García, Austin Amelio