20 best movies like The Happening (2008)


List of the best movies like The Happening (2008): The Divide, Errors of the Human Body, 28 Weeks Later, The After, The Remaining, Z for Zachariah, The Collapsed, Contagion, Toxin, D-Railed.

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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, thriller, drama, detective
CountryGermany, USA
Duration01:41

Canadian scientist, Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at a new institute in wintry Dresden in order to contribute to their most important project—a human regeneration gene—that also has the potential to make something miraculous out of a personal tragedy that has haunted him for years.

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: 7.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:55

    Eight strangers are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation.

    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
    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: 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: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
    Duration01:46

    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.

    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: 3.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA

    Passengers on a murder mystery train that crashes into a river must decide whether to risk waiting for help in the wreckage or take their chances in the murky depths below.

    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: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryBrazil, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy
    Duration02:01

    When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:29

      On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA

      Captured by a secret society known as the Faith and mentally controlled with a powerful spell, ancient demoness Lilith now lives as a young woman with no memory of her agless past. However, the terrifying plague unleashed by a rampaging monster, the Demonicos, forces one human to recruit her mystical power known as the Darklight to fight this terrifying beast...

      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: 6.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
      CountryItaly, USA
      Duration01:26

      Robert Morgan is the last man on earth, as far as he can tell. A plague killed everyone else on the planet several years ago. He was immune to it, and can only guess why. Vampires that were formerly human attack Morgan's home every night

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Greece
      Duration01:50

      A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

      Markimdb: 3.1
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:45

      A small group of survivors are left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish during the rapture and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.

      Markimdb: 3.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      A suspenseful drama about a young couple on a road trip who get caught in the midst of a worldwide gas shortage.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Sixteen year old Jude discovers each and every one of his fears is true.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:10

      Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      The interwoven stories of three couples which are forced to make life altering decisions in the face of a disastrous war. Inspired and sometimes blinded by their love, Len, Mia, Andy, Esther, Anna and Erik are as flawed and beautiful as any of the billions who are facing this human-made biological disaster.

      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: 5.3
      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: 8.8
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:28

        Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

        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: 7.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:43

        Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

        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: 3.6
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryIsrael, USA
        Duration01:35

        After a massive earthquake destroys Los Angeles, a new order is formed. But disagreement among the ranks leads to more war and disruption, and The Last Patrol must bring order if there's to be any hope for the future.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:34

        Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:14

        The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, smart and logical, and the perfect choice to learn more about the spacecraft.

        Markimdb: 4.2
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:08

        Following an unparalleled series of meteor fireballs plummeting toward Earth, a renowned scientist, his assistant, and an on-target conspiracy theorist race against time to expose a government cover-up, reveal the truth, and prevent a massive meteor from destroying the planet.

        Markimdb: 3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA

        When miner Charley 'Boomer' Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations in West Virginia, a gigantic earthquake is soon rocking the North Atlantic, exposing a deep seismic fault that runs the length of the North American continent. Joining forces with government seismology expert Dr Amy Lane, Boomer must now race against time to stop the chasm that is threatening to tear America - and the entire world - in half.

        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: 6.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.

          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: 6.1
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:39

          An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrefantastic, thriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:37

          In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.

          Markimdb: 4.9
          Genrefantastic, thriller, adventure
          CountryGermany, South Africa, USA
          Duration01:30

          A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civilization. They staunchly face genetically mutating beasts and mysterious diseases in an attempt to re-establish the human race as masters of Earth.

          Markimdb: 4
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, military
          CountrySerbia, Croatia, Hungary
          Duration01:48

          The story begins a couple days after the war has ended. A group of Serbian soldiers in charge of clearing the fields from mines discovers a man sealed inside a factory's basement. A mysterious man says he is 'ours', he doesn't feel cold, isn't hungry and only asks for cigarettes. As soon as he is brought along, people start disappearing, and the infighting begins. Who is the mystery man?

          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: 4.3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Mexico, Guatemala
          Duration01:59

          Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities struggling for survival. American soldiers are being sent abroad to protect US interests from the Monsters, but the war is far from being won.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, detective
          CountryHong Kong

          A night like any other in the streets of Hong Kong: in the midst of the tangle of night-owls, cars and vendors, a group of passengers climbs aboard a minibus that is to take them from Mongkok to Tai Po. The group is as diverse as the city: there’s a young man on drugs, an arguing couple, a woman with prayer beads and a girl who has just fallen in love. And behind the wheel sits the chatty driver. But as the bus emerges from a tunnel, everything is suddenly quite still: the streets and buildings are all empty and there’s not a soul to be seen; it’s as if everyone has suddenly been swallowed by the earth. Only the millions of neon lights continue to blink, as if nothing has happened. The eclectic group of passengers seek refuge in a deserted café and discuss what they should do. Then they make an horrific discovery…

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:25

          A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

          Markimdb: 1.9
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:25

          Massive earthquakes open the Arabian tectonic plate, resulting in unstable weather and freezing temperatures that will be unsurvivable by nightfall. Attempting to reach safety, a vacationing family in Egypt must battle the rapidly cooling temperatures that usher in a new Ice Age, covering the Sphinx, Pyramids, and Sahara Desert with mountains of snow.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:09

          Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Japan, Germany
          Duration01:50

          A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:19

          A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.




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