20 best movies like The War of the Worlds (2019)


List of the best movies like The War of the Worlds (2019): Love and Monsters, The Darkest Dawn, Threads, The Midnight Sky, The Divide, Day of the Dead: Bloodline, Oceans Rising, Awake, The Last Scout, The Girl with All the Gifts.

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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: 4
Genrefantastic, action, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom

Evacuated from their home, two teenage sisters unite with fellow survivors and escape London by river to embark on an odyssey across the badlands of Britain.

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: 5.6
Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA

A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

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: 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: 2.4
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA

A scientist readies a boat after his warnings of an Earth-destroying flood are ignored. However, after the disasters reach a peak level of destruction those who maligned the scientist now turn to him in desperation, as he and other refugees look to save the world and stop the disaster using the two Supercolliders on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

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: 4.5
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
Duration01:16

In 2065, the crew of the Pegasus are searching for a new home for humanity. As they approach their potential new world, the discovery of another ship could be the key to their salvation, or doom them and the rest of humanity to extinction.

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: 5.9
    Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Luxembourg, United Kingdom
    Duration02:05

    A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free humans.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
    CountryAustria, United Kingdom, Germany, France

    A genetically engineered plant scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures. The afflicted appear strange, as if they were replaced - especially for those, who are close to them. Or is it all just imagination? Thus starts a play between various truths,on which end stands the loss of the own identity.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, drama
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:35

    Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm. Together they grow and co-exist, all the while the other aliens are making meals of other humans; Shin feels he must put a stop to it all, but his alien, Migi, doesn't see why.

    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: 3.7
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryCanada, Argentina, United Kingdom

    Tov Matheson is a war veteran with PTSD who perceives that the apocalypse is coming. After starting a relationship with a dubious Messiah, he leaves his normal life and begins the construction of a shelter underground, training himself, in an extreme way, at the cost of losing everything and making people believe he is insane. When he also believes it, something extraordinary happens.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrefantastic, action, drama
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:07

    Eren leaves to restore a break in the wall destroyed by a Titan. He comes under attack by the Titans and is cornered. Shikishima comes to his aid. The titans never stops attacking. Eren is now injured and tries to protect Armin, but is swallowed by a titan. A Titan with black hair appears and begins to expel the other titans.

    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: 6.9
    Genrefantastic, action, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

    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: 5.3
    Genrefantastic, action
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:19

    The story of humankind's last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, a U.S. soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. Their bond will be tested as they search for refuge across a crumbling world.

    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: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

    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
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, West Germany, United Kingdom
    Duration01:48

    A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrefantastic, action, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    No sooner has 15-year-old Lee Keegan been expelled from his private school than an apocalyptic event wipes out most of the world's population. With his father dead and mother trapped abroad, Lee is given one instruction: go back to school. But safety and security at St. Mark's School for Boys is in short supply. Its high walls can't stop the local parish council from forming a militia and imposing marshal law, while inside the dorms the end of the world is having a dangerous effect on his best friend and his unrequited crush on the school nurse isn't helping him concentrate on staying alive.

    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: 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: 2.4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA

      When a colossal tectonic shift causes the sea level to start rising, a microbiologist gathers the DNA of as many species as she can, while the military creates an "ark" in a desperate attempt to preserve life on Earth.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA, New Zealand, Japan
      Duration02:25

      Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:45

      Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, South Africa, Germany
      Duration01:45

        A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrefantastic, action, drama
        CountryAustralia

        Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that could see the war come to a decisive end. With the Alien invaders hell-bent on making earth their new home, the race is on to save mankind.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:05

        Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrefantastic, action, drama, western
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:47

        A bounty hunter named Atticus Gage tracks down criminals in a post-apocalyptic Earth.

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:30

        Doom: Annihilation follows a group of space marines as they respond to a distress call from a base on a Martian moon, only to discover it’s been overrun by demonic creatures who threaten to create Hell on Earth.

        Markimdb: 3.9
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:34

        Mo Ali’s futuristic knife-crime drama brings the dystopian environment of CHILDREN OF MEN and DISTRICT 13 to London’s East 17. SHANK delivers a ruthless vision of forthcoming urban life, where guns have been superseded by knives and are fiercely wielded by aimless youths. Amidst the chaos is the Paper Chazers gang, a rare morally conscious group who trade scavenged food for money. After Chazers gang member, Junior (Kedar Williams-Stirling), witnesses his brother, murder he must decide whether to get revenge of stick to the gangs moral code... In this superbly paced and artistic film, present-day social issues, and murky city streets, provide a perfect canvas for imagination and action.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrefantastic, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:32

        After the human race has been wiped out, Del lives in an empty town, content in his solitude and the utopia he has methodically created for himself, until he meets young Grace, who wants to stay with him.

        Markimdb: 2.4
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        After freak climate and weather events destroy the world around them, a group of rogue scientists attempt to reverse the deadly new ice age.

        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: 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: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:00

        Adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War II.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Republic of Ireland
        Duration01:28

        Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, like love - until she meets Micheal. Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure while the world around them seems to be falling apart. A life-affirming look at what it means to love and be loved in turbulent times.

        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: 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: 5.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:03

        In an isolated rural community of Quebec, Canada, some inhabitants attack other people, hungry for human flesh. A few survivors gather and go deep into the forest to escape them.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:37

        The adventures of teenager Max McGrath and alien companion Steel, who must harness and combine their tremendous new powers to evolve into the turbo-charged superhero Max Steel.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Romania
        Duration01:35

        Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel, which comes in the night to devour warriors trapped at the Outpost. The Outpost is ruled by Hrothgar. He has a daughter, whose husband may have been murdered by the Outpost's master of arms.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration00:43

        London cop and compulsive gambler Harry Clayton is on the verge of losing everything. On the night when his huge debts are to be called in, he meets the enigmatic Eve, who gives him a mysterious bracelet said to endow the wearer with immense luck. Harry's fortunes suddenly begin to shift, but he also soon finds himself sucked into a sinister crime wave sweeping through the city.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:28

          A teen gang in a grim South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.

          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.




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