Movies like World War Z

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World War Z (2013)
 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 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: apocalyptic, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, epic, splatter, suspense, entertaining, action packed ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: zombie, virus, apocalypse, epidemic, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, deadly virus, survival, infected, end of the world, post apocalyptic, natural disaster, pandemic, plague, vaccine, zombie outbreak, save the world, dystopia, chaos, catastrophe, self sacrifice, infection, disaster, scientist, escapades ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, jurassic, 2000s, year 1973 ...
Place: new jersey, new york, israel, seattle, philadelphia, jerusalem, paris france ...
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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, suspense and serious films with plots about epidemic, apocalypse, survival, danger, post apocalypse, disaster and distopia mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Horror genres. Some movies like World War Z: I Am Legend (2007), Extinction (2015), 28 Weeks Later (2007), Resident Evil (2002), Train to Busan (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I Am Legend (2007)
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: scary, intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, post apocalypse, virus, infected, isolation, supernatural, plague, end of the world, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 2007, near future, jurassic, distant future ...
Place: new york, america, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 5.8
 18K
Extinction (2015)
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, suspense, suspenseful, retro ...
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalyptic, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, wilderness, father daughter relationship, dystopia, virus, monster, survival ...
Time: future
⇓ 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 ⇓
86%
 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 ⇓
91%
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 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 ⇓
88%
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 ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, virus, zombie apocalypse, survival, living dead, post apocalypse, infected, plague, terror, zombie attack, survival horror ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 2000, future, year 2003 ...
Place: usa, midwest, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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 ⇓
79%
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
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: exciting, bleak, suspense, breathtaking, intense ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: post apocalypse, ape, planet of the apes, monkey, colony, dystopia, end of the world, deadly virus, animal attack, gorilla, post apocalyptic, dystopian future ...
Time: year 2014, future, 2020s, 2010s, 2030s ...
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 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 ⇓
88%
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
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, apocalyptic, exciting, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, monster, virus, female fighter, zombie apocalypse, infected, infection, tough girl, plague, chase, pandemic ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s
Place: tokyo, washington d.c., moscow russia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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 ⇓
75%
Disaster L.A.: The Last Zombie Apocalypse Begins Here (2014)
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: rough, scary, bleak, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, virus, undead, survival, battles, escapades, chaos, plague, danger, buddies, survival horror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
83%
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
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: gothic, scary, suspense, apocalyptic, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, monster, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, post apocalypse, survival horror, virus, mutant, distopia, evil corporation, dark heroine, undead ...
Time: future, year 2004, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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 ⇓
100%
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
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, exciting, stylized, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, monster, infected, apocalypse, virus, undead, end of the world, mutation, blood, female warrior, supernatural ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, future
Place: los angeles, usa, tokyo, california, japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
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, apocalyptic, splatter, saga, disgusting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, virus, pandemic, post apocalyptic, chaos, end of the world, monster, female warrior, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, one woman army ...
Time: future, year 2016, year 2017
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 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 ⇓
72%
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 7.0
 419K
Cloverfield (2008)
Genre: 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: suspenseful, suspense, tense, mockumentary, lovecraft ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, disaster, found footage, alien, giant monster, survival, survival horror, danger, destruction, fear, creature, chaos ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new york, bolivia, brooklyn new york city, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Walking Dead (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 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, scary, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: zombie, survival, virus, post apocalypse, apocalypse, supernatural, pandemic, walking dead, zombie apocalypse, plague, undead, fear ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, america, atlanta georgia, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspense, serious, intense ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: distopia, post apocalypse, survival, desert, maze, teenager, dystopia, epidemic, apocalypse, young heroes, twists and turns, zombie ...
Time: future, year 2015, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 135K
Daybreakers (2009)
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, supernatural, epidemic, vampirism, distopia, pandemic, apocalypse, dystopian future, cure, female vampire, virus, transformation ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, year 2019, 2010s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 64K
Spectral (2016)
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: stylized, exciting, suspenseful, serious, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, danger, science, technology, chase, military, heroes, heroic mission, chaos and mayhem, escapades, super soldier, survival ...
Time: future, near future
Place: virginia, usa, eastern europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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 6.8
 315K
Contagion (2011)
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, suspense, bleak, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: epidemic, virus, deadly virus, pandemic, infection, infected, quarantine, survival, plague, disaster, medical, natural disaster ...
Time: 2010s, future, distant future, year 2000, year 2011 ...
Place: minnesota, hong kong, san francisco, california, bay area ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 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%
 6.9
 528K
Pacific Rim (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, stylized, serious, visually stunning ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: giant monster, monster, robot, kaiju, creature, battles, androids and robots, invasion, chaos and mayhem, destruction, danger, survival ...
Time: future, year 2013, near future, year 2017, 2010s ...
Place: tokyo, pacific ocean, seattle, san francisco, hong kong ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.6
 486K
Divergent (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes ...
Style: exciting, serious, teen, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: distopia, fighting the system, heroine, rebellion, survival, dystopia, danger, chosen one, choice, post apocalypse, society, youth ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 117K
The 5th Wave (2016)
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, apocalyptic, futuristic, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, end of the world, alien, invasion, virus, survival, post apocalypse, ufo, danger, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2016
Place: ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, tower bridge london, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
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, action adventure, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: distopia, cure, vaccine, imprisonment, virus, friendship, post apocalypse, disease, desert, battles, maze, fight ...
Time: 2010s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 5.0
 216K
The Happening (2008)
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: gloomy, serious, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: virus, apocalypse, disaster, survival, end of the world, natural disaster, suicide, paranoia, catastrophe, chaos, graphic violence, plague ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, philadelphia, boston, usa, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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