Movies like Zombi Child
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Zombi Child (2019)
3K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Haiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, weird
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, zombie, cemetery, sisterhood, boarding school, ghost, supernatural being, beauty, blaxploitation, eaten alive, broken heart, ritual, funeral, piano, talking to the dead, apocalypse, survival, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, virus, violence, battles, gory, infection, living dead ...
Time:
year 1962, year 1980, 2010s, contemporary
Place:
haiti
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense and disturbing films with plots about zombie, infected, virus, apocalypse, survival, living dead and epidemic mostly in Horror, Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Zombi Child: The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Ayla (2017), Stake Land (2010), The Iron Rose (1973), Blood Quantum (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of ...
Style:
sexy, creepy, surreal, suspense, mysterious ...
Plot:
voodoo, superstition, black magic, zombie, anthropologist, hallucination, nightmare, surrealism, buried alive, torture, supernatural, religion ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1978, year 1985
Place:
haiti, boston, caribbean
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100%
935
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A man haunted by the mysterious death of his 4-year-old sister brings her back to life thirty years later as an adult woman, with dire consequences.
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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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
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.
Style:
gothic, surreal, atmospheric, grindhouse, sad ...
Plot:
cemetery, arthouse horror, surrealism, young lovers, skeleton, tomb, skull, beach, female nudity, sex scene, grave, train ...
Time:
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Place:
france, new york
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35%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.
Style:
suspense, perverse, apocalyptic, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
zombie, native american reservation, graphic violence, indigenous people, moral dilemma, supernatural, immunity, survival, infected, virus, disaster, zombie apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A decade after the American Civil War, Edward Young returns home from a hunting trip to find a horrific reanimation of his wife and that their son Adam has disappeared. He must battle his way through an unexplainable outbreak of the walking dead.
Style:
suspense, rough, bleak, serious, tense ...
Plot:
zombie, supernatural, survival, obsessive quest, life turned upside down, civil war, chaos, danger, escapades, good versus evil, life is a bitch, american civil war ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
31%
11K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a village, things have changed. Some of the people are not what they were anymore. They start attacking their families, their friends, their neighbours... We call them "Les Affamés" (The Hungry). A few survivors go deep into the forest ...
Style:
suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
infection, zombie apocalypse, epidemic, infected, apocalypse, post apocalypse, zombie, survivor, small town, zombie outbreak, undead, virus ...
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1965 Mexico City, Fabiola, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Graciela, a young orphan girl who has an unhealthy fascination with witchcraft. Fabiola is convinced that she, herself, is a witch by Graciela, who then uses the fear that ...
Style:
modern fairy tale, gothic, terrifying, deep, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
occult, witchcraft, witch, evil child, spell, pagan, teenager, religion, child, 666, creepy child, murder ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A Retrovirus, which was conceived as a tool for industrial genetic engineering, has gotten out of control and is spreading rapidly. While it crosses all organisms within our ecological system completely indiscriminately (mixing plant with animal and ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, epidemic, isolation, infection, survivor, genetic mutation, death, chaos, danger, on the road, post apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, surreal, psychedelic ...
Plot:
back from the dead, small town, supernatural, friendship, haunted by the past, social relations, living dead, dead, minimalism, infected, fae, infection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After waking up in an apartment where only the night before a party was raging, Sam is forced to come to grips with reality: He is now alone and the living dead have invaded the streets of Paris. Petrified with fear, Sam is going to have to ...
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, rough, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
zombie, infection, loneliness, suicide, zombie apocalypse, survival horror, zombie survival, zombie outbreak, virus, apocalypse, epidemic, male nudity ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
27%
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, dramatic, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, epidemic, wilderness, end of the world, father daughter relationship, virus, survival, infection ...
Time:
future, 80s
Similarity:
27%
263
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
What begins as an annual visit to their family grave-site quickly becomes a night of sheer terror as two brothers are unexpectedly forced to fight back against a sudden onslaught of violent assailants.
Style:
independent film, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
zombie, living dead, night of the living dead, undead, survival horror, zombie outbreak, flesh eating zombie, gory, farm, deadly virus, cure, violent content ...
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27%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In a world ravaged by a rabies virus that turns people into hungry cannibals, Alice a pregnant survivor, along with two other men, struggles to reach an island unaffected by the plague. Meanwhile a dangerous man is on the trail of a mysterious girl, ...
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, scary, disturbing, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, escape, virus, undead, walking dead, violence, cannibalism, killing, dystopian future, plague, chase, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
When lovelorn Michael arrives in Berlin to return a set of keys to his ex-girlfriend, Gabi, as an excuse to see her again, he finds her apartment empty save for a couple of plumbers making repairs to the central heating. Just as Michael learns from ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
26%
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:
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Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Austria, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Similarity:
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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, exciting, disturbing, psychological, splatter ...
Plot:
zombie, survival, isolation, walking dead, infection, epidemic, apocalypse, zombie attack, zombie apocalypse, virus, zombie outbreak, zombie survival ...
Time:
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Place:
seoul, south korea
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The film tells about the cold reality of death and the horrors of grave torments.
Style:
scary, black comedy, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
death, social problems, transformation, night of the living dead, punk, flesh eating zombie, epidemic, american horror, attic, zombie apocalypse, cannibalism, blood ...
Similarity:
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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:
24%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, violence, zombie attack, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, gory, virus, zombie outbreak, survival horror, cannibalism, infected ...
Time:
future, year 2005, 90s, year 1995, 2000s
Place:
pittsburgh
Similarity:
24%
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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:
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Place:
usa, midwest, california
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
In a punk-rock homage to "Reefer Madness," two plot threads intertwine: a hapless junkie falls victim to "Bath Salts" addiction, while a police detective attempts to uncover and stamp out a new strain of designer drug products.
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, horror comedy ...
Plot:
zombie, virus, swat, danger, life is a bitch, plague, end of the world, cannibal, murder, violence, showdown, struggle for survival ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Fed up with her parents' bickering, poor-little-rich-girl Maya (Dylan Penn) moves in with her boyfriend who is squatting in an old, condemned building on Manhattan's Lower East Side. With neighbors that are meth heads, junkies and ...
Style:
scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
anarchy, virus, survival, fear, zombie, gory, violence, pursuit, chaos, youth, violent, blood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An independent Australian horror/drama that explores the societal norms that break down among a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world. Ravenous hordes of infected zombies terrorize the survivors, but it is the horror within their own ...
Style:
psychotronic, scary
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, virus, gender roles, plague, peril, human nature, survival, pandemic, walking dead, fate of humanity, killing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
23%
315
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A deadly pathogen is unleashed and unknowingly carried to Dana Overbeck's 30th birthday party, where her estranged father, Rufus, is coming to make amends.
Style:
suspense, spooky, bleak, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
virus, epidemic, quarantine, apocalypse, zombie, pandemic, disease, post apocalyptic, humanity, dystopian future, scared, infected ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A high school becomes ground zero for a zombie virus outbreak. Trapped students must fight their way out — or turn into one of the rabid infected.
Style:
dorama, dark fantasy, apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
zombie, virus, zombie attack, zombie outbreak, apocalypse, epidemic, struggle for survival, survival, zombie apocalypse, living dead, bullying, pandemic ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After an unprecedented global pandemic has turned the majority of humankind into violent "Infected," a man gifted with the ability to speak the Infected's new language leads the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, apocalyptic, rough ...
Plot:
virus, infected, pandemic, zombie, infection, patient, bunker, eaten alive, end of the world, epidemic, professor, survival ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2016
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Anthology feature with short zombie films from around the world and focusing on survival in a zombie apocalypse.
Style:
anthology, apocalyptic, rough, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
zombie, flesh eating zombie, escapades, catastrophe, survivor, vaccine, zombie outbreak, chaos and mayhem, fight, pandemic, infected, post apocalyptic ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
Style:
scary, tense, apocalyptic, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, found footage, apocalypse, chase, gory, virus, zombie apocalypse, danger, filmmaker, death, violence, chaos ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2000, 2000s
Place:
bolivia
Similarity:
22%
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