Movies and TV shows like The Stand
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The Stand (1994)
41K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
The human race is wiped out by a government invented super flu. The remaining survivors take sides in the forces of good and evil. A mysterious old woman who is a servant of God and a powerful and deadly man who might be the devil himself. A gas station attendant, a rock star, a mute, a professor, a farmer, a socialite, a mildly retarded man, a judge, a teenager, a mother, and a nerd take forces.
Style:
scary, apocalyptic, satanic, suspense, serious, futuristic, tense, rough, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, virus, disaster, end of the world, stephen king, post apocalypse, pandemic, supernatural, plague, good versus evil, cursed object, deadly virus, betrayal, martial law, distopia, race against time, survivor, justice, lone hero, vengeance, danger, chaos and mayhem, heroic mission, natural disaster, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
las vegas, nebraska, maine, usa, oregon, austin texas, new york ...
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Most similar movies to The Stand
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful and serious films and TV series with plots about post apocalypse, apocalypse, danger, distopia, epidemic, death and dystopia mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like The Stand: Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), Storm of the Century (1999), 28 Days Later (2002), The Walking Dead (2010), The Girl with All the Gifts (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
33K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story:
After the world is decimated by a man-made plague, a battle of literally Biblical proportions ensues between the survivors.
Style:
suspense, rough, apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stephen king, post apocalypse, deadly virus, god or devil, epidemic, cursed object, devil, good versus evil, virus, pandemic, apocalypse, wilderness ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some ...
Style:
apocalyptic, satanic, exciting, splatter, saga ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, monster, post apocalypse, infected, undead, mutation, blood, kick-butt women, strong female lead, female martial artist, female warrior, apocalypse ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, future
Place:
los angeles, usa, tokyo, california, japan ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
TV show
Story:
A very powerful blizzard hits the fictional small town of Little Tall Island off the coast of Maine. All access off the island is blocked, and no one is able to leave the island until the storm is over. While trying to deal with the storm, tragedy ...
Style:
creepy, scary, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
supernatural, stephen king, blizzard, demon, small town, stranger, snow, secret, storm, suicide, mysterious stranger, murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
67%
538K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
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, frightening, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
distant future, year 2003, near future, year 2000, year 2002 ...
Place:
london, england, bolivia, britain, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, frightening, scary ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
zombie, survival, virus, post apocalypse, apocalypse, pandemic, walking dead, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, peril, plague, fear ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, atlanta georgia, georgia
Similarity:
100%
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, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, apocalypse, pandemic, military, infection, zombie apocalypse, teacher, scientist, zombie child, children, abandoned city ...
Time:
future, year 2016
Place:
london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A post-apocalyptic story about a botched U.S. government experiment that turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, and an orphan girl who might be the only person able to stop the ensuing crisis.
Style:
touching, disturbing, exciting, apocalyptic, futuristic ...
Plot:
vampire, protector, post apocalypse, government conspiracy, supernatural, escape, child in peril, dystopia, vaccine, dystopic future, epidemic, supernatural ability ...
Similarity:
100%
665K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Style:
exciting, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, island, stranded, mysterious place, desert island, stranded on an island, lost, human nature, death, plane crash, destiny, air disaster ...
Time:
y2k, 70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
fictional island, hawaii, pacific ocean
Similarity:
67%
Movie in collections
776K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
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, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, virus, epidemic, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, deadly virus, post apocalyptic, infected, post apocalypse, pandemic, dystopia ...
Time:
future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, jurassic ...
Place:
new jersey, new york, israel, philadelphia, seattle ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
Style:
cult classic, retro, serious, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
pandemic, apocalypse, disaster, epidemic, virus, post apocalypse, biohazard, deadly virus, infection, nuclear holocaust, chaos, dystopian future ...
Time:
year 1980, 80s, year 1982, year 1981, year 1983 ...
Place:
antarctica, rome italy, london, tokyo, ussr ...
Similarity:
48%
53K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe and no one can be trusted. Four young attractive people race through the back ...
Style:
scary, road movie, frightening, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
virus, survival, infection, pandemic, road trip, post apocalyptic, biohazard, post apocalypse, deadly virus, dystopia, apocalypse, blood ...
Time:
distant future, 21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling ...
Style:
futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, scary, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, plague, isolation, infection, post apocalyptic, pandemic, virus, dystopia, transformation, loneliness, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 70s, year 1971, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, china, woodstock, california ...
Similarity:
47%
870K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville ...
Style:
intense, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, post apocalypse, virus, infected, post apocalyptic, isolation, supernatural, plague, end of the world ...
Time:
future, year 2007, near future, year 2013, jurassic ...
Place:
new york, america, usa, vermont, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Joel and Ellie, a pair connected through the harshness of the world they live in, are forced to endure brutal circumstances and ruthless killers on a trek across post-pandemic America.
Style:
exciting, suspense, apocalyptic, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, survival, infection, epidemic, survival horror, pandemic, post-apocalyptic future, survivor, violence, vestiges of humanity, zombie ...
Time:
2020s, future
Place:
usa, north america
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A young Healer armed with an unpredictable magic guides a runaway Elf in her perilous quest to save the peoples of the Four Lands from an age-old Demon scourge.
Style:
exciting, captivating, sexy, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural ability, fantasy world, elf, demon, imaginary kingdom, danger, imaginary, good versus evil, magic, young heroes, love triangle ...
Time:
future
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at ...
Style:
suspense, horrifying, disturbing, exciting, epic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
one against many, stephen king, humanity in peril, gunslinger, alternate dimension, literary, gun fu, brutality, murder, boy, supernatural, portal ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, future
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story:
A jolted West Coast deals with the deadly aftereffects of a massive tremor in this sequel to the disaster drama 10.5. Concerned that a widening fault line may set off two nuclear reactors, seismologist Samantha Hill (Kim Delaney) contacts the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
earthquake, natural disaster, disaster, apocalypse, rescue, chaos, race against time, save the day, danger, escapades, forces of nature, survival ...
Place:
texas, oregon, las vegas, usa, south dakota ...
Similarity:
43%
33K
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, ambiguous ending, scary, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
virus, zombie, apocalypse, epidemic, stephen king, life & death, post apocalypse, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, survival, paranoia, on the road ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
boston, new england, maine
Similarity:
43%
Movie in collections
226K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style:
tense, gloomy, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, survival, virus, natural disaster, end of the world, suicide, graphic violence, catastrophe, paranoia, danger, plague ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, boston, philadelphia, west virginia, usa ...
Similarity:
43%
16K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After a mysterious disease begins transforming people into vampires, Dr. Luther Swann is pitted against his best friend, now a powerful vampire leader.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, epidemic, immortality, apocalypse, pandemic, danger, friendship, brotherhood, good versus evil, monster, survival ...
Similarity:
43%
126K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, teen, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
apocalypse, alien invasion, end of the world, alien, invasion, post apocalypse, danger, survival, virus, obsessive quest, escapades, humanity in peril ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2016
Place:
ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, london, tower bridge london ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
A U.S. satellite crash-lands near a small town in Utah, unleashing a deadly plague that kills virtually everyone except two survivors, who may provide clues to immunizing the population. As the military attempts to quarantine the area, a team of ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, stylized, harsh, melancholic ...
Plot:
laboratory, virus, pandemic, biohazard, bacteria, infection, disaster, danger, time travel, cure, catastrophe, deadly virus ...
Time:
future, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, utah, shanghai, los angeles
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
Style:
suspense, satanic, tense, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
isolation, group of strangers, nuclear holocaust, torment, losing-it hero, survival, survival horror, social decay, violence, confined, apocalypse, nuclear explosion ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, north korea
Similarity:
42%
49K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to ...
Style:
touching, emotional, scary, bleak, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, father daughter relationship, apocalypse, pandemic, death, virus, zombie apocalypse, small town, transformation, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, terminal illness ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
usa, midwest, california
Similarity:
42%
25K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Dominion is an epic supernatural drama set in the near future. Specifically, 25 years after "The Extinction War," when an army of lower angels, assembled by the archangel Gabriel, waged war against mankind. The archangel Michael, turning ...
Style:
serious, sexy, exciting, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
angel, supernatural, danger, good versus evil, chosen one, fate of humanity, soldier, medieval, heroes, chaos, battles, survival ...
Time:
future
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
42%
119K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel Michael.
Style:
scary, demonic, suspenseful, absurd, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
angel, apocalypse, supernatural, religion, good versus evil, prophecy, save the world, extinction, desert, demon, survival, fallen angel ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa, north america, los angeles
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Robert Morgan is the last man on earth, as far as he can tell. A plague killed everyone else on the planet several years ago. He was immune to it, and can only guess why. Vampires that were formerly human attack Morgan's home every night
Style:
gothic, grindhouse, scary, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, horror for children
Plot:
post apocalypse, vampire, dystopia, virus, disease, zombie, cemetery, chase, dracula, distopia, monster, disaster ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1965, year 1968, 60s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
42%
129K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is ...
Style:
dark fantasy, scary, suspenseful, exciting, gothic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopia, clergy, danger, good versus evil, religion, distopia, lone hero, superhuman powers ...
Time:
future, year 2011, 2010s, year 2000
Similarity:
42%
137K
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, creepy, splatter, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
infected, insanity, chaos and mayhem, plague, deadly virus, epidemic, gory, survival, quarantine, survival horror, transformation, virus ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s
Place:
usa, iowa, kansas
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style:
futuristic, harsh, apocalyptic, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot:
cold war, nuclear war, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear explosion, disaster, nuclear bomb, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, dystopia, radiation, nuclear threat ...
Time:
80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place:
usa, kansas, soviet union, kansas city, ussr ...
Similarity:
42%
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