20 best movies like The Road (2009)


List of the best movies like The Road (2009): Children of Men, The Last Seven, The Colony, The Omega Man, The Battery, Snowpiercer, Hell, Day of the Dead: Bloodline, The Postman, Vanishing on 7th Street.

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Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Japan
Duration01:44

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:24

Seven strangers wake up on the deserted streets of London with no knowledge of how they got there. Before long someone -or something - is picking them off, one by one....

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: 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: 6.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

In rural Connecticut, baseball players Ben and Mickey are trying to survive a zombie plague. They are forced to form a battery: a catcher and a pitcher who work together to outwit the batter, the one who hits the ball. And the batter in this case just happens to be a zombie. Tough Ben and gentle Mickey frequently disagree on the best way to go about the situation. Then they suddenly hear a human voice through their walkie-talkies. Is salvation nearby, like Mickey thinks, or is Ben’s suspicion justified?

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, action, drama
CountrySouth Korea, Czech Republic
Duration02:06

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryGermany, Luxembourg
Duration01:29

In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins.

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, action, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:57

In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.

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: 5.9
    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: 2.5
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    Set against the backdrop of a post-Apocalypse Earth, Population 2 is about a relationship that ends in tragedy forcing a woman to struggle in the aftermath.

    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: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, drama, crime
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:43

    10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his car through the lawless wasteland of the Australian outback, aided by the brother of one of the thieves.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:13

    In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

    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: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

      An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.

      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
      Genrefantastic, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.

      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: 6.7
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.

      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: 6.5
      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      In a post-apocalyptic world where the Russians have taken over a nuked USA and Elvis is king of Lost Vegas, Buddy is a '50s rocker and wandering warrior rolled into one, too-cool package. Armed with his six-string in one hand and his sword in the other, Buddy is on his way to Vegas to succeed Elvis as King. Along the way, he saves an orphan who decides to tag along.

      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: 6.4
      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: 8
      Genrefantastic, action, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, USA
      Duration02:05

      Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama, adventure, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:28

      The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama
      CountryItaly, USA
      Duration01:56

      A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.

      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: 5.8
      Genrefantastic, drama
      CountrySouth Africa, Republic of Ireland
      Duration01:40

      In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to steal the land for himself.

      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: 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: 5.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, he descends to the level of a cave dweller and falls deeper into crime and degradation.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA

      In a white hot flash of light, and with no warning, one minute our moon is there, the next it's gone. Then, a second flash. And that's the last thing anyone on Earth can remember. 11 months later, it's not post- apocalyptic; it's apocalyptic as Earth has been sucked through a wormhole, literally ripping our planet from the inside out. With bizarre disasters and civilization collapsing, our heroes must find a way to survive and get to "safe ground" before it's too late.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryAustralia
      Duration01:27

      What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing father. This simple act sets James on a path to redemption.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      Tommy and his older brother Eric live in the midst of vast remote forests. The death of their friend pushes them close to the edge. Eric doesn’t know how to channel his energy. All at once, nature’s vastness feels stifling.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
      CountryGermany, France, Australia
      Duration02:38

      Set in 1999, Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with some bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law Dr. Farber, an American who is being chased by the CIA. They want to confiscate a device his father invented which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions. On the run they travel the globe from Berlin to Lisbon to Moscow to Tokyo, ending up in Australia at his father's research facility, where they hope to play back the recordings Farber captured for his blind mother.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrefantastic, action, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:42

        In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama
        CountryChina
        Duration02:26

        In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by the most tragic famine in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated by locusts, windstorms, earthquakes, epidemic disease and the corruption of the ruling Kuomintang government.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrefantastic, drama
        CountryUSA

        A Man and a Woman wander through a hostile wilderness in a far-away world. One day, they stumble upon a mysterious set of Structures, which will complicate their lives both for good and ill.

        Markimdb: 3.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountrySingapore, USA
        Duration01:48

        When young and successful reporter Jamie finds out that her sister has died in mysterious circumstances, she travels to Singapore to uncover the truth. There, she discovers multiple deaths linked to her sister's and must join forces with her sister's husband in order to defeat a demonic entity that is using new technology to complete an ancient mission.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, adventure
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
        Duration01:41

        An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as war breaks out.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUSA

        After a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal.

        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: 6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA

        When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

        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: 5.1
        Genrehorror, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        The Sequel to the Ford brothers The Dead. The action moves to India.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genredrama, military, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:18

        A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail, and paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama
        CountryGermany, France, Turkey
        Duration01:48

        A woman struggles with love and personal loss against the backdrop of a land torn by civil war in this drama from filmmaker Ozcan Alper. Sumru (Gaye Gursel) is a Turkish woman who studies ethnic music at a college in Istanbul and frequently makes field recordings of artists who practice rare and unusual forms. Sumru is struggling with loneliness after the disappearance of her Kurdish boyfriend, and for her latest project, she sets out on a lengthy road trip recording the stories of Kurdish women who have survived the murder of their Turkish husbands or lovers, hoping she might track down her man in her travels. After making her first stop in the city of Diyarbaki, Sumru meets Ahmet, who makes a living selling black market goods and shares her love of music and history. The two become fast friends, and as Ahmet joins Sumru on her travels, their relationship grows deeper, though she also becomes more aware of the tragedy that has gripped her country and the consequences of the civil war.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genredrama, western
        CountryUSA, France
        Duration02:02

        When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.




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