20 best movies like Cell (2016)

List of the best movies like Cell (2016): 28 Weeks Later, Extinction, World War Z, It Comes at Night, Intruders, Pandemic, Daylight's End, Day of the Dead: Bloodline, The Divide, The Day.

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Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain
Duration01:40

    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 set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
    CountrySpain, USA, Hungary, France
    Duration01:53

    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.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain
      Duration01:40

      Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      In the near future, a virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. There are more infected than uninfected, and humanity is losing its grip on survival. Its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren is a doctor who, after the fall of New York, arrives in Los Angeles to lead the hunt for uncontaminated civilian survivors. But nothing can prepare her crack team for the blood-soaked mayhem they are about to witness as they head into the Californian mean streets where everything is considered a trap… From director John (THE SCRIBBLER) Suits, a boundary-crashing, game-changing science fiction thriller featuring non-stop action from a first person shooter perspective, putting the audience in the middle of every fight whilst feeling in control of every punch thrown and shot fired. Welcome to the new model of immersive action thriller for the hardcore video game generation.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:58

      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 help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.

      Markimdb: 3.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:19

      In a world overrun by zombies, military personnel and survivalists live in an underground bunker while they seek a cure.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
      CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
      Duration02:02

      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.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      Open war against humanity rages. For five survivors – lost and on the run – the pursuit is relentless, the bullets are dwindling and the battle is everywhere. This is a 24-hour look into their lives.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:13

        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.

        Markimdb: 4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:26

        Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:26

        After a terrible virus ravages human civilization, Ann finds herself living alone in a forest, foraging for supplies, and accompanied only by a radio that broadcasts a single transmission in French. Few animals even remain; the only survivors seem to be the roving hordes of infected creatures with a taste for human flesh. One fateful day, Ann crosses paths with two more survivors, Chris and Olivia. But after surviving on her own for so long, she struggles to relate to them and and their desire to settle down and start a new community.

        Markimdb: 3.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:34

        When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heros are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Bulgaria
        Duration02:27

        Bill Pope is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous ex-convict Jericho Stewart. When he wakes up with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and eliminate him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal.

        Markimdb: 4.4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:26

        Day of the Dead is a horror film which is nominally a quasi-remake of George A. Romero's classic zombie film of the same name, which was the third in Romero's Dead series. The film is directed by Steve Miner (who also directed Friday the 13th Part 2 & 3 and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later) and written by Jeffrey Reddick.

        Markimdb: 3.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:31

        The Last Man Alive Must Battle a Planet of the Dead. [An Asylum film.]

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA

        After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter. The question is, can Jill safely deliver her daughter and save the world before she herself loses her mind.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrehorror, action, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:23

        Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryIceland, Luxembourg, USA
        Duration02:28

        In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation exposure and his desperate search for others. A fragile, imperative strand of trust connects them. But when a stranger enters the valley, their precarious bond begins to unravel.

        Markimdb: 4.4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA, Singapore
        Duration01:28

        Following a deadly viral outbreak, private military soldier Max Gatling leads a handful of survivors and a ragtag band of robots against an army of the infected.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUSA, Hong Kong
        Duration02:27

          After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:30

          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.

          Markimdb: 2.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:05

          A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.

          Markimdb: 4.9
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA

          When a nuclear strike causes an electromagnetic pulse that cuts off all power, water, and communication to the entire western United States, Reese finds herself plunged into an all-too-real fight to survive. As pandemonium grips her city, Reese and her father set out on a desperate journey in search of safety--a perilous trek through a world gone mad where every encounter with a stranger could be your last.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:37

          When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.

          Markimdb: 3.3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
          CountryUSA

          In a post-apocalyptic future mankind is lives in a prehistoric manner. After killing his father for sexually assaulting his girlfriend, the son of a tribal leader runs away with a group of his teenage friends. They are taken in by Neil and Judith who introduce them to the vices outlawed by their tribes namely sex and drugs.Neil and Judith, however, are genetically altered indestructible mutants who have their own plans for the future of the human race.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA, Canada, New Zealand
          Duration02:01

          Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

          Markimdb: 5
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:44

          A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, crime
          CountrySpain, Canada

          In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrefantastic, action, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration02:34

          A young boy finds a powerful otherworldly weapon, which he uses to save his older adoptive brother from a crew of thugs. Before long, the two of them are also pursued by federal agents and mysterious mercenaries aiming to reclaim their asset.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration03:11

            Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.

            Markimdb: 4.3
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:28

            When a group of close-knit friends assemble for the marriage of Skylar and Dan, they have no idea they will witness The Rapture and face a series of catastrophic events turning the celebration into a life-or-death struggle.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:04

            After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to safety his son, trapped in New York after the city is overwhelmed by the start of the new big freeze.

            Markimdb: 4.2
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
            CountryCanada

            When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion and mass-abductions.

            Markimdb: 3.5
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
            CountryCanada
            Duration01:22

            In the wake of the end of the world, a family of four desperately tries to survive. Their goal: escaping the city and traveling to the rural community they once called home. The constant threat of a violent death forcing them to stay as far away from civilization as possible, they take to the forest, soon to discover the danger posed by other survivors may be the least of their worries.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, adventure, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:17

            Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

            Markimdb: 5.5
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
            CountryUSA

            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 fight to survive the night against the rats and rapidly multiplying cannibal mutants.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:38

            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 themselves "The Family". The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic.

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller
            CountryCanada
            Duration01:34

            Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrehorror, action, drama
            CountryUSA

            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.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
            CountryCanada, USA, Australia

            Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson, along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, who is now 80 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel begins to fall for her again. As Joel realizes that there’s nothing left for him underground, he decides against all logic to venture out to Aimee, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.

            Markimdb: 3.9
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama
            CountryCanada

            The widow, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from Manhattan to Black Stone, New York, with her daughter Kelsey Kozik. There she expects to find a safe place to live. The day after moving, a homeless man is found dead in the tool shed of Jane's blind friend Beverly Rowe. Devin Hall and the entomologist Katherine Randell are summoned to help with the investigation. Devin is Jane's brother-in-law and former boyfriend, and Jane still has a crush on him. Meanwhile, Kelsey befriends the scientist Eli Giles, who has developed genetically modified wasps to the army as a weapon, and now he is trying to revert the process. When the wasps attack Black Stone, Jane, Devin and Eli team-up to attempt to destroy the swarm.

            Markimdb: 3.4
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:24

            Kate Parks has spent the past year on tour promoting her book, an in-depth look at the attempted cover up of her husband's death in a plane crash. Now all she wants is to return home to her daughter, 15-year-old Samantha. But when a powerful solar flare strikes her flight home, killing the pilot, knocking out the co-pilot and frying all the electronic systems on the plane, it looks like she may not get there. As panic sets in among the passengers, Kate works with flight attendant Jake to manage the growing chaos and tension on the plane as she tries to keep 30,000 tons of steel hurtling through the air at 500 miles per hour. Flying blind, Kate tries to find a way to communicate with air traffic control - one way or another, this plane is coming down. With the passengers' lives on the line, Kate will have to find a way to land safely... or never see her daughter again.

            Markimdb: 2.1
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:30

            ZOMBEX tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. NOLA residents are no longer experiencing the depression and post-traumatic stress due to the trauma of the hurricane, thanks to the revolutionary ZOMBEX - a rogue, yet, "clinically-proven" anti-depressant pharmaceutical manufactured by a nefarious organization. For those who call the Big Easy their home, everything is just now turning around for them. Or, could it just be the drug, ZOMBEX, talking... Just as things are turning around for the city and its people, they once again must face a disaster of epic proportions. Only this time, they're dealing with the prospect of losing the people of New Orleans as they turn into the city's walking dead.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg
            Duration01:48

              A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

              Markimdb: 5.5
              Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:35

              Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family's new life in quarantine and tries to protect her infected sister.

              Markimdb: 6
              Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
              CountryUSA, Canada
              Duration01:43

              High school senior Lily and her group of friends live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies and chats just like the rest of the world. So, when an anonymous hacker starts posting details from the private lives of everyone in their small town, the result is absolute madness leaving Lily and her friends questioning whether they'll live through the night.

              Markimdb: 5.8
              Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom
              Duration01:31

              Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.




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