Movies and TV shows like The Strain
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The Strain (2014)
93K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers, wage war for the fate of humanity itself.
Style:
scary, captivating, suspenseful, serious, exciting, gothic, supernatural thriller, bleak, apocalyptic, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vampire, infected, good versus evil, supernatural, deadly virus, epidemic, public health, survival, fate of humanity, plague, chaos and mayhem, corpse, protective parent, chaos, vampire slayer, dracula, disaster, danger, human existence, save the world, virus, microbiology, scientist, silver, adaptation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, england, paris france, france, spain, canada ...
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Most similar movies to The Strain
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and apocalyptic films and TV series with plots about supernatural, danger, apocalypse, survival, epidemic, deadly and virus mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Strain: Helix (2014), Van Helsing (2016), The Walking Dead (2010), I Am Legend (2007), Kingdom (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
31K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 40 min.
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Story:
Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
scientist, deadly virus, virus, survival, dna, danger, pandemic, quarantine, save the day, zombie, arctic, epidemic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia, georgia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula nemesis Abraham Van Helsing is resurrected five years in the future to find out that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary ...
Plot:
vampire, murder, superhero, vampire slayer, supernatural, blood, heroine, post apocalypse, superheroine, werewolf, supernatural ability, society ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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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:
75%
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:
86%
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63K
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
In this zombie thriller set in Korea's medieval Joseon dynasty, a crown prince is sent on a suicide mission to investigate a mysterious outbreak.
Style:
bloody, dorama, spooky, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
zombie, medieval, epidemic, rivalry, royal family, living dead, zombie apocalypse, joseon dynasty, twists and turns, walking dead, korean history, virus outbreak ...
Time:
2010s, 16th century
Place:
korea, thailand, busan, seoul
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.
Style:
stylized, captivating, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
battleship, navy, apocalypse, heroes, danger, chaos, shooting, save the world, deadly virus, military, survival, plague ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
65%
Movie in collections
140K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, stylized, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vampire, dystopian future, virus, vampirism, epidemic, supernatural, distopia, pandemic, cure, apocalypse, dystopia, female vampire ...
Time:
future, year 2009, year 2019, near future, 2010s ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
TV show
Story:
Somewhere on the outskirts of our solar system, the unthinkable occurs. A giant asteroid collides with a smaller one and changes direction - headed directly toward The Earth. The burning meteor rain that beats down with devastating force, is only a ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
disaster, comet, small town life, save the world, natural disaster, chaos and mayhem, race against time, contests and competitions, danger, father daughter relationship, meteorite, survival ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
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%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
TV show
Story:
Writer Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot and discovers that it is being terrorized by vampires.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot:
stephen king, vampire, supernatural, hospital, good versus evil, priest, murder, small town, danger, rivalry, mysterious character, supernatural ability ...
Place:
maine, oceania, usa, israel, middle east ...
Similarity:
100%
329K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, medical horror, bleak, clever ...
Plot:
virus, pandemic, epidemic, deadly virus, infected, infection, death, quarantine, plague, survival, disaster, medical ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 2000, distant future, future ...
Place:
hong kong, minnesota, san francisco, california, bay area ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A mysterious virus, carried by mutant rats, creates pandemonium in New York City in which rat-bite victims turn into homicidal rat-mutants. This movie centers on six tenants of a small apartment complex on the Lower East Side Mulberry Street as they ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, infection, rat, dangerous animal, survival, supernatural, plague, eaten alive, virus, epidemic, danger, creature feature ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A man struggling with his faith is haunted by the sins of his past but is suddenly thrust into the role of defending humanity from the gathering forces of darkness.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, supernatural thriller, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, angel, supernatural power, demon, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, rescue, danger, save the world, good versus evil, demonic possession, psychic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Cha Hyun-Soo is a high school student. He is also a recluse and rarely leaves his room. He refuses to talk to his father, mother and younger sister. One day, his whole family, except for him, dies in a car accident. Cha Hyun-Soo is left all alone. ...
Style:
psychological thriller, bleak, serious, dark fantasy, slasher ...
Plot:
criminal, society, apocalypse, danger, virus, monster, survival, murder, creature, supernatural, self harm, high school student ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White ...
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
werewolf, danger, supernatural, small town, vampire, gypsy, desire, protagonist as suspect, family relations, family secret, forbidden sex, sheriff ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, scary, serious, detective ...
Plot:
supernatural, shooting, good versus evil, victim, legends and myths, fate of humanity, ghost, curses spells and rituals, time travel, escapades, determination, characters in danger ...
Time:
2010s, 18th century, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
60%
Movie in collections
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, West Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Forever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective ...
Style:
detective, gothic, suspenseful, serious, supernatural thriller ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, police detective, vampire human love, haunted by the past, rivalry, mysterious character, law enforcement, hopes, obsessive quest, immortal, police ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada, ontario canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A doctor must find a cure for a viral epidemic that is spreading through vapors from jets.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
disaster, dystopia, save the world, supernatural, life is a bitch, survival, dystopian future, isolation, terminal illness, escapades, chaos, plague ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
30K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A small town family is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world, and in some cases, each other.
Style:
bleak, breathtaking, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night, family outing
Plot:
stephen king, survival, danger, twists and turns, small town, supernatural, fog, suicide, survival horror, salvation, halloween, exodus ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
50%
27K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the volatile world of 17th century Massachusetts, 'Salem' explores what really fueled the town's infamous witch trials and dares to uncover the dark, supernatural truth hiding behind the veil of this infamous period in American ...
Style:
scary, gothic horror, gothic, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
witch, supernatural, evil force, curses spells and rituals, society, danger, supernatural ability, witch hunt, wizards and magicians, love affair, devil, religions or cults ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
new england, salem massachusetts, hawaii, usa, massachusetts
Similarity:
67%
Movie in collections
42K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, tense, absurd, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, virus, gory, zombie apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, supernatural, chaos, graphic violence, on the road, danger ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
16%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, surreal, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, danger, society, chaos, plague, post apocalypse, survival, post-apocalyptic future, family in danger, gory ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
16%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A plane is taken over by a mysterious virus. When the plane lands it is placed under quarantine. Now a group of survivors must band together to survive the quarantine.
Style:
scary, slasher, splatter, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
infected, zombie, quarantine, plague, virus, infection, zombification, confinement indoors, stewardess, airport, chaos and mayhem, chaos ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death ...
Style:
brutal, tense, horrifying, sexy, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
vampire, post apocalypse, vampire hunter, apocalypse, monster, survival, coming of age, religious fanaticism, blood, infected, vengeance, depression ...
Time:
future, 2010s, distant future
Place:
canada, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When a mysterious object crashes to Earth, a group of seemingly unconnected strangers die from the energy pulse, but then awaken to learn that they have assigned the task of preventing the impending Apocalypse.
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, demonic ...
Plot:
angel, good versus evil, apocalypse, supernatural ability, superhuman powers, chaos, danger, rivalry, religions or cults, supernatural, death, fugitives ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A heroic group of teens sheltered from the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world leave the safety of the only home they have ever known and embark on a cross-country journey to find the one man who can possibly save the world.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, scary, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, walking dead, gay, supernatural, plague, survival, human existence, zombie, undead, halloween, chaos, danger ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
27%
22K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story:
During a fictional series of Big Brother, a zombie outbreak occurs, but the house-mates are unaware of the impending doom outside of the Big Brother House.
Style:
suspense, scary, bloody, bleak, spooky ...
Plot:
zombie, satire, zombie apocalypse, group of strangers, society, dark humor, gory, cannibalism, supernatural, brutality, danger, survival horror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
27%
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