A search for dark matter and unparticle production at the LHC has beenperformed using events containing two charged leptons (electrons or muons),consistent with the decay of a Z boson, and large missing transverse momentum.This study is based on data collected with the CMS detector in 2015,corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.3 inverse femtobarns ofproton-proton collisions at the LHC, at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Noexcess over the standard model expectation is observed. Compared to previoussearches in this topology, which exclusively relied on effective fieldtheories, the results are interpreted in terms of a simplified model of darkmatter production for both vector and axial vector couplings between a mediatorand dark matter particles. The first study of this class of models using CMSdata at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV is presented. Additionally, effective field theoriesof dark matter and unparticle production are used to interpret the data.