Movies like Dawn of the Dead

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Dawn of the Dead (2004)
 7.3
 271K
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Japan, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.
Style: scary, splatter, atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, apocalyptic, intense, cult classic, rough ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, virus, zombie apocalypse, survival, living dead, post apocalypse, infected, plague, terror, zombie attack, survival horror, walking dead, gory, infection, violence, shopping mall, zombie outbreak, chaos and mayhem, zombification, group of strangers, undead, american horror, isolation, fear ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, future, year 2000, year 2003, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, midwest, wisconsin
Keyword: attack, reboot, doctors, portuguese, challenge, watching a movie, outburst

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Most similar movies to Dawn of the Dead

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspense, suspenseful and apocalyptic films with plots about zombie, gore, undead, danger, survival, infection and infected mostly in Horror, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Dawn of the Dead: Train to Busan (2016), 28 Days Later (2002), 28 Weeks Later (2007), World War Z (2013), The Crazies (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Land of the Dead (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the ...
Style: suspense, scary, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalypse, zombie attack, gory, virus, end of the world, violence, cannibalism, post apocalyptic, zombie outbreak ...
Time: future, year 2005, year 1995, 90s, 2000s
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 255K
Train to Busan (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…
Style: suspense, apocalyptic, emotional, tense, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, virus, survival, epidemic, apocalypse, pandemic, train, zombie attack, survival horror, zombie apocalypse, undead, living dead ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, y2k, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, busan, east asia, china ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Although not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" ...
Style: scary, suspense, grindhouse, black and white, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, cemetery, zombie apocalypse, basement, living dead, survival, monster, supernatural, gory, cannibalism, zombie attack, post apocalypse ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1968, year 1967
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 442K
28 Days Later (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalypse, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, rage ...
Time: year 2002, year 2000, year 2003, distant future, near future ...
Place: london, britain, england, bolivia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Day of the Dead (1985)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final chapter of George A. Romero's "Dead Trilogy". In an underground government installation they are searching for a cure to overcome this strange transformation into zombies. Unfortunately, the zombies from above ground have ...
Style: bloody, disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, living dead, virus, apocalypse, gory, mad scientist, violence, insanity, macabre, survival, monster ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 292K
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this chilling sequel to 28 Days Later, the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to ...
Style: scary, tense, suspense, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, infected, survival, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, plague, deadly virus, post apocalypse, infection, chaos, gory ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 7.0
 715K
World War Z (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Malta
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: zombie, virus, apocalypse, epidemic, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, deadly virus, survival, infected, end of the world, post apocalyptic, natural disaster ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, jurassic ...
Place: new jersey, new york, israel, philadelphia, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put ...
Style: funny, horror comedy, not serious, humorous, scary ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: zombie, teenager, gory, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, friendship, survival, strip club, zombie attack, supernatural, youth, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.5
 128K
The Crazies (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: epidemic, infected, virus, plague, insanity, deadly virus, survival, gory, infection, chaos and mayhem, quarantine, transformation ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s
Place: iowa, usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Day of the Dead (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Day of the Dead is a horror film which is nominally a quasi-remake of George A. Romero's classic zombie film of the same name, which was the third in Romero's Dead series. The film is directed by Steve Miner (who also directed Friday the ...
Style: suspense, scary, stylized, rough, intense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, virus, apocalypse, quarantine, infection, epidemic, small town, survival, survival horror, post apocalyptic, brutality, transformation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In this remake of the original classic film, a group of people are trapped inside a farmhouse as legions of the walking dead try to get inside and use them for food.
Style: scary, creepy, splatter, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: zombie, living dead, end of the world, gory, cemetery, zombie attack, survival horror, zombie apocalypse, survival, chaos, danger, cannibalism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
30 Days of Night (2007)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted ...
Style: scary, creepy, suspense, atmospheric, splatter ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vampire, small town, winter, survival, gory, snow, monster, supernatural, zombie, sunrise, blood, creature ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, oceania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Style: grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, splatter, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, infection, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, monster, epidemic, end of the world, survival, living dead, siege, shopping mall, undead ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, philadelphia, bolivia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.6
 287K
Resident Evil (2002)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak. Alice and Rain ...
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, splatter, bloody ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, infected, virus, zombie apocalypse, artificial intelligence, monster, survival, bio weapon, woman with a gun, gory, experiment gone awry, apocalypse ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2002, near future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A reboot of the "Resident Evil" franchise. Set in 1998, the intention is to re-create the 'terrifying visceral experience' of the first two games in the series, exploring 'the secrets hidden in the walls of the Spenser ...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Plot: zombie, virus, female warrior, infection, resident evil, mutant, zombie attack, zombie apocalypse, supernatural, one against many, one woman army, end of the world ...
Time: future, 2020s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 16K
The Horde (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A posse of crooked cops, malevolent gangsters and a horde of walking dead are the centre point of this gruesome, tight, action packed, claustrophobic tale of retribution and escape. Penned like animals, on the top floor of a deserted high-rise ...
Style: scary, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie apocalypse, zombie, female warrior, infection, murder, infected, violence spree, gang, danger, wrong place wrong time, gory, undead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 15K
Undead (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A quaint Australian fishing village is overcome by meteorites that turn its residents into the ravenous undead, leaving a small group of those unharmed to find a way out.
Style: scary, suspenseful, humorous, suspense, horror comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, small town, dark humor, virus, zombie attack, alien invasion, alien, undead, isolation, danger, save the world ...
Time: 2000s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
Style: suspenseful, scary, entertaining, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, monster, supernatural, heroine, zombie apocalypse, infected, survival, post apocalypse, danger, genetically altered, experiment ...
Time: future, year 2007, 2000s
Place: las vegas, salt lake city utah, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Movie in collections
 7.5
 617K
Zombieland (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to ...
Style: funny, humorous, apocalyptic, road movie, parody ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, manly ...
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, survival, road trip, virus, amusement park, end of the world, living dead, dark humor, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 2009, near future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., los angeles, ohio, columbus ohio, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.7
 8K
I Am a Hero (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old mangaka assistant, whose life seem to be stuck around his exhausting but low-paying job, unfulfilled dreams, strange hallucinations and unsatisfying relationships. He sees himself as a supporting character in his own ...
Style: scary, tense, rough, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: zombie, epidemic, virus, survival, japanese girl, infection, undead, apocalypse, human nature, survivor, danger, brutality ...
Place: japan, mount fuji
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 35K
Pontypool (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, epidemic, deadly virus, virus, radio station, survival, zombie apocalypse, supernatural, radio, infection, small town, fear ...
Time: year 2008, distant future
Place: ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
Style: dark, suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, pandemic, post apocalypse, infection, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, military, zombie child, children, undead, virus ...
Time: future, year 2016
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Zombie Apocalypse (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie apocalypse, zombie, supernatural, gory, survival, plague, zombie outbreak, undead, apocalypse, violent content, escapades, danger ...
Place: usa, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.3
 47K
#Alive (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, disturbing, splatter ...
Plot: zombie, survival, isolation, virus, infection, walking dead, epidemic, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, zombie attack, deadly virus, infestation ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: seoul, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 4.4
 30K
Cell (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ...
Style: surreal, suspense, scary, ambiguous ending, melancholic ...
Plot: virus, zombie, apocalypse, end of the world, epidemic, stephen king, post apocalypse, insanity, life & death, zombie apocalypse, on the road, survival ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: boston, new england, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The group will face a new zombie threat as a new breed of zombie has developed. This new super-zombie type is faster, bigger, and stronger than the previous strain of zombies and harder to kill. These super-zombies have started grouping up into a ...
Style: parody, road movie, apocalyptic, horror comedy, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: zombie, end of the world, zombie attack, post apocalypse, survival, marriage proposal, zombie apocalypse, mutation, zombie outbreak, plague, christmas present, apocalypse ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s, 2000s, year 2009
Place: washington d.c., north america, memphis, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.4
 195K
REC (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Style: scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: found footage, zombie, fear, trapped, epidemic, videotaping, gory, journalist, infected, blood, plague, infection ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, usa, barcelona, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Army of the Dead (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble: venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.
Style: suspense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, psychotronic, apocalyptic ...
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, undead, apocalypse, walking dead, zombie outbreak, mercenary, living dead, heist, battlefield, female warrior, monster ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.5
 191K
Grindhouse (2007)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 191 min.
Story: Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.
Style: rough, offbeat, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: killer, car chase, gory, serial killer, dark humor, violence, revenge, cannibalism, sadism, friendship, exploitation, zombie ...
Time: year 2007
Place: texas, tennessee, usa, austin texas, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.8
 31K
Zombie (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. A journalist travels to the Antilles with the daughter of the scientist. They discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying ...
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, bloody, scary, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, island, virus, zombie apocalypse, gory, apocalypse, shark, living dead, zombie outbreak, zombie attack, violence, monster ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, italy, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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