20 best movies like Dawn of the Dead (2004)


List of the best movies like Dawn of the Dead (2004): World War Z, Army of the Dead, The Girl with All the Gifts, Warm Bodies, I Am a Hero, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Day of the Dead: Bloodline, Zombie Reddy, #Alive, Daylight's End.

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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: 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: 6.6
    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: 6.8
      Genrehorror, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:38

        After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, action
        CountryJapan

        Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old mangaka assistant, whose life seem to be stuck around his exhausting but low-paying job, unfulfilled dreams, strange hallucinations and unsatisfying relationships. He sees himself as a supporting character in his own life, has low self-esteem, resulting in frustration. One day, the world as Hideo knows it is shattered by the presence of a disease that turns people into homicidal maniacs, whose first instinct is to attack and devour the nearest human.

        Genrehorror, fantastic, action
        CountryCanada, Germany

          Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

          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: 6.9
          Genrehorror, action, comedy
          CountryIndia

          A game developer and his friends head to Kurnool to attend their friend’s wedding. But something much more menacing rather than delicious pelli bhojanam awaits them there.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrehorror, action
          CountrySouth Korea

          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.

          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: 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: 3.5
          Genrehorror, action, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:33

          Zombie Hunter is set in a post-apocalyptic Zombie wasteland caused by the mysterious street drug "Natas". We follow one man who has nothing left other than a beat up Camaro and a trunk full of guns and booze. He runs down Flesh Eaters, hunting for sport and redemption, while also running from his past. After crashing into a small group of survivors, who are running low on resources, he decides to lend a hand. But a surprise attack by the Flesh Eaters forces them on the run and puts the Hunter's skills to the test.

          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: 4.4
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:09

            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 ensuing chaos after.

            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: 4.2
            Genrehorror, action, comedy
            CountryUSA

            A group of veterans wake up after a night of partying to find out that the zombie apocalypse has spread across the United States. Together, they must fight their way across the country in order to find a cure for the outbreak and restore freedom before it's too late.

            Markimdb: 3.4
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy
            CountryUSA, South Africa

            A group of young explorers discover a secret area hidden from all maps and GPS devices. When they reach the center of the lake, they discover an abandoned facility that houses one of the largest, and deadliest apex-predators known to man.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrehorror, action, comedy
            CountryIndia

            When a zombie outbreak occurs in a hill station, a traffic cop takes on the responsibility of transporting a team of doctors to a city hospital so that they can find an antidote.

            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: 5.5
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
            CountryUSA, Germany, France, Canada, South Africa, Australia, United Kingdom, Japan, China
            Duration02:28

            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 in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

            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: 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: 4.6
            Genrehorror, fantastic
            CountryUSA

            It has been over one year since the start of the outbreak. Our society has collapsed and the world has descended into chaos. Elvis and Tweeter are two of the last people left alive, and band together to flee the United States for a remote island somewhere in the Caribbean. On the island, they find a new community struggling to hold out against an army of corpses. They can join this band of survivors-- but only if they can do what must be done for the good of the group.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:35

              Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.

              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: 4.7
              Genrehorror, action
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:45

              Investigative reporter Chase Carter must stop a secret government conspiracy in the zombie infested quarantine zone of East Mission City.

              Markimdb: 6.3
              Genrehorror, action, comedy
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:05

              Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.

              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: 4.1
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action
              CountryUSA

              A female doctor struggling to find her daughter after a long lost World War II biological weapon explodes on a U.S. military base in Bulgaria, turning people into mutant zombies.

              Markimdb: 5.3
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, detective
              CountrySpain
              Duration01:35

              Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

              Markimdb: 4.9
              Genrehorror, thriller, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:31

                A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic horror. Realizing they may in fact be the last people on earth, a dark shadow hones in on them alone.

                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: 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: 5.1
                  Genrehorror, action
                  CountryUnited Kingdom
                  Duration01:33

                  As the world succumbs to a zombie apocalypse, Cole - a hardened mercenary - is chasing the one person who can provide a cure. Not only to the plague but to Cole's own incumbent destiny.

                  Markimdb: 5.6
                  Genrefantastic, action
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:34

                  Only a few people still live in New York in 2015. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other.

                  Markimdb: 4.9
                  Genrehorror, comedy
                  CountryNew Zealand
                  Duration01:44

                  From the land of early Peter Jackson comes another Braindead movie in bad taste. It’s the third day of shooting the low budget horror ‘Tonight They Come’ on location in the wilds of New Zealand. Director SMP is already beside himself having to work with a self-obsessed leading man and a bimbo actress when into his line of fire comes a new runner, wannabe screenwriter Wesley Pennington. Clearly an accident-prone nerd, Wesley nevertheless tries his best to fit in with the crazed cast and demented crew while falling head over heels for Susan, the set caterer. But something nasty has entered the local water supply and suddenly the zombie extras start acting like genuine members of the living dead, gore stunts looks even more authentic and actual severed limbs fly. Reel life turns real as Wesley attempts to save the day while ensuring his latest script will get made.

                  Markimdb: 3.3
                  Genrehorror, fantastic
                  CountryTaiwan
                  Duration01:28

                  A virus gets loose in Taipei Army and SWAT teams oversee evacuation but in Ximending the gangs don't want the police They attack the military but when both find themselves under attack by zombies there is an alliance as they try and escape.

                  Markimdb: 3.7
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama
                  CountryGermany, Canada, USA

                  In Guesta Verde University, the deranged Professor Curien is trying to bring back the dead, killing students for the experiment. There is an outbreak of zombies in the campus, and the government sends a NSA medical research team, formed by Dr. Alexandra Morgan a.k.a. Nightingale and lieutenant Ellis, with a special force leaded by lieutenant Dalton, trying to get the zero sample from the first generation zombie. The team has a very short time to accomplish their mission and leave the place before missiles are sent to destroy the area. However, the place is crowded of hyper sapiens and the group has to fight to survive.

                  Markimdb: 4.3
                  Genrehorror, short
                  CountryUSA

                  The story centers on two lone survivors of a bizarre accident that reduced most of the world's population to zombies. They take refuge in a vacant casino and fight a losing battle against the undead.

                  Markimdb: 3.9
                  Genrehorror, fantastic
                  CountryUSA

                  The year is 1998, six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors. One of these groups stumbles into an abandoned government research facility, where they were working on making the body capable of creating its own amino acids, thus obviating the need for food. They are then attacked by one of the leftover experiments and begin experiencing an attrition problem.

                  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: 5
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
                  CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, France
                  Duration01:39

                  When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

                  Markimdb: 3.2
                  Genrehorror, action, comedy
                  CountryCanada
                  Duration01:31

                  When the world is taken over by flesh eating zombies, best friends Tommy and Edwin figure out a way to benefit from it by turning zombies into fertilizer for growing potent weed! There will be bud.

                  Markimdb: 6
                  Genrehorror, thriller, drama
                  CountryFrance
                  Duration01:07

                  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 barricade himself inside the building and organize his survival. But is he really the sole survivor?

                  Markimdb: 6.1
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
                  CountrySpain, France
                  Duration01:43

                  2013; A mysterious epidemic spreads across the planet. Humanity develops an irrational fear of open spaces that causes instant death. Soon, the world population is trapped inside buildings. As Barcelona descends into chaos, Marc sets off on a quest to find Julia, his missing girlfriend, without ever going outside.

                  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: 5.8
                  Genrehorror, action, comedy
                  CountryUSA

                  With Prom only hours away, the usual suspects of Cosa High (Cheerleaders, geeks, bad boys and the happy-go-lucky student council alike) are preoccupied with the annual rituals of teendom. On the night of the big dance when the dead unexpectedly rise to eat the living, polar opposite groups will be forced to unite in their final chance to save the town from the zombies.

                  Markimdb: 4.8
                  Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:44

                  Part crime caper gone awry, part survival horror film, this 1970s set thriller depicts a harrowing fight for survival after a pair of wannabe crooks botch a bank heist and flee into the desert, where they inexplicably stumble upon Carnage Park, a remote stretch of wilderness occupied by a psychotic ex-military sniper.

                  Markimdb: 3.6
                  Genrehorror, action
                  CountryUSA

                  Following the 9/11 attacks, the war on terror against Afghanistan continues. With the Taliban insurgents hiding out in the mountains however, they become increasingly difficult for the US military to engage. The solution is to try and flush them out by adding low level chemicals to the water supply. Little do the USA know however that enemy scientists have adapted the chemicals to make their own formula, one that can bring the dead back to life.




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