Movies like World War Z
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World War Z (2013)
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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 persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
Style:
suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary, serious, tense, epic, splatter, entertaining, exciting, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, virus, epidemic, deadly virus, survival, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, pandemic, natural disaster, chaos, vaccine, save the world, self sacrifice, infected, suspense, zombie outbreak, scientist, plague, escapades, asthma, disease, supernatural, disaster ...
Time:
future, jurassic, 2000s, year 1973, 21st century
Place:
israel, new jersey, new york, philadelphia, jerusalem, paris france, india ...
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Most similar movies to World War Z
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out apocalyptic, suspenseful, scary and serious films with plots about apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, disaster, danger, violence and virus mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Horror genres. Some movies like World War Z: I Am Legend (2007), 28 Weeks Later (2007), Train to Busan (2016), Resident Evil (2002), The Girl with All the Gifts (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, post apocalypse, virus, distopia, supernatural, isolation, infected, end of the world, dog ...
Time:
future, jurassic, 2000s, year 2012, near future ...
Place:
new york, usa, vermont, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain, USA
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, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, survival, virus, end of the world, post apocalypse, infected, deadly virus, zombie apocalypse, chaos, suspense, chaos and mayhem, infection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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:
apocalyptic, emotional, intense, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, survival, virus, suspense, apocalypse, pandemic, epidemic, train, zombie attack, undead, quarantine, zombie apocalypse ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, india, busan, east asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
276K
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, atmospheric, splatter, bloody, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, virus, survival, monster, suspense, infected, zombie apocalypse, bio weapon, female protagonist, mutant, apocalypse, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
near future, future, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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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, scary, suspenseful, bleak, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, apocalypse, pandemic, suspense, distopia, infection, experiment, zombie apocalypse, military, zombie child, monster ...
Time:
future
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most ...
Style:
scary, stylized, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, monster, virus, chase, female fighter, future dystopia, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, plague, tough girl, pandemic ...
Time:
future
Place:
tokyo, canada, washington d.c., new york, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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:
scary, suspenseful, entertaining, exciting, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, monster, post apocalypse, supernatural, survival, zombie apocalypse, heroine, experiment, genetically altered, one man army, heroic mission ...
Time:
future
Place:
las vegas, salt lake city utah, utah, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, post apocalypse, virus, survival, zombie apocalypse, living dead, zombie attack, walking dead, zombie outbreak, plague, shopping mall ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
usa, midwest, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA, Canada, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice joins a small band of elite soldiers, enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. It's a heart-pounding race against time as the group faces off against ...
Style:
scary, gothic, apocalyptic, splatter, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, monster, post apocalypse, distopia, mutant, end of the world, chase, zombie apocalypse, survival horror, apocalypse, virus, survival ...
Time:
future, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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:
scary, exciting, suspenseful, rough, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, zombie attack, apocalypse, suspense, virus, violence, future dystopia, cannibalism, zombie outbreak, survival ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 90s, year 1995
Place:
pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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The Maze Runner similar movies
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive ...
Style:
exciting, splatter, sexy, apocalyptic, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, virus, end of the world, pandemic, chaos, monster, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, female warrior, mutant, female fighter ...
Time:
future
Place:
washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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:
exciting, stylized, splatter, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, monster, future dystopia, apocalypse, virus, survival, mutation, infected, zombie survival, female warrior, supernatural ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, usa, tokyo, california, japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, disaster, found footage, giant monster, alien, survival, deadly creature, fear, survival horror, destruction, chaos, suspense ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Adventure, 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, tense, suspenseful, splatter, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
infected, epidemic, insanity, survival, deadly virus, chaos and mayhem, quarantine, plague, virus, suspense, small town, bio weapon ...
Place:
usa, iowa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 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, scary, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, pandemic, supernatural, virus, zombie apocalypse, graphic violence, peril, fear, plague ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, atlanta, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Films like I Am Legend
61K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural being that have taken over a European city.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, military, technology, science, chase, heroes, heroic mission, chaos and mayhem, escapades, survival, super soldier, distopia ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
virginia, usa, eastern europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Hungary, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
Style:
scary, apocalyptic, suspenseful, dramatic, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, zombie, zombie apocalypse, epidemic, end of the world, wilderness, father daughter relationship, virus, monster, survival, apocalypse, chase ...
Time:
future, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who ...
Style:
captivating, apocalyptic, tense, disturbing, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
distopia, desert, cure, vaccine, imprisonment, virus, teenage hero, friendship, post apocalypse, battles, maze, fight ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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29K
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:
scary, twist ending, surreal, absurd, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
virus, zombie, apocalypse, post apocalypse, end of the world, epidemic, insanity, survival, zombie apocalypse, violence, life & death, suicide ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
boston, new england, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
307K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
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, bleak, suspenseful, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot:
epidemic, virus, pandemic, quarantine, deadly virus, infected, survival, infection, natural disaster, suspense, death, disease ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, california, san francisco, minnesota, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Movies similar to The Last Ship
131K
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, splatter ...
Plot:
vampire, distopia, supernatural, epidemic, apocalypse, pandemic, dystopic future, cure, female vampire, vampirism, future dystopia, transformation ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
383K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, race against time, tsunami, forces of nature, humanity in peril, destruction, human existence, vestiges of humanity ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, 2000s, year 2009 ...
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, mount everest, british columbia, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
Style:
tense, exciting, bleak, thought provoking, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
monkey, post apocalypse, colony, leader, deadly virus, animal attack, gorilla, suspense, humanity, rescue, revolution, power struggle ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 2030s, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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78K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, distopia, future dystopia, society, cannibalism, survival, rescue, chaos, epidemic, quarantine, antidote ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, britain, london, scotland, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
588K
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, parody, apocalyptic, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, post apocalypse, survival, zombie apocalypse, road trip, virus, dark humor, amusement park, survival horror, chaos and mayhem, supernatural ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., los angeles, california, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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, futuristic, absurd, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, end of the world, invasion, survival, virus, distopia, twists and turns, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
ohio, usa, new york, tower bridge london, london ...
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52%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After a meteor shower strikes Los Angeles, toxic smoke is released across the city causing people to physically change and become violent. A small group of survivors plans to vacate the city by heading to the coast.
Style:
scary, rough, exciting, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, virus, survival, chaos, plague, escapades, battles, zombie outbreak, buddies, disaster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, bleak, rough, brutal ...
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, zombie survival, virus, epidemic, apocalypse, deadly virus, monster, vampire, zombie apocalypse, pandemic, zombie violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
211K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India, USA
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, serious, gloomy, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
apocalypse, virus, disaster, catastrophe, survival, end of the world, natural disaster, suicide, paranoia, graphic violence, suspense, plague ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, philadelphia, usa, west virginia, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set on an island off the coast, a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college coeds and a Coast Guard officer. Soon, they discover that their X-laced escapades are to be interrupted by zombies and monsters that attack them on the ground, ...
Style:
scary, stylized, suspenseful, rough, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, monster, brutality, island, mad scientist, survival, party, chaos, teenage life, suspense, video game, murder ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
seattle, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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