20 best movies like World War Z (2013)

List of the best movies like World War Z (2013): The Girl with All the Gifts, 28 Weeks Later, 40 Days and Nights, Frankenfish, Contagion, Zombex, Rise of the Zombies, Army of the Dead, Daylight's End, Dawn of the Dead.

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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: 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: 4.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA

      When the body of a man is found completely destroyed in the swamps in Louisiana, the medical investigator Sam Rivers is assigned to investigate the murder. He travels with the biologist Mary Callahan to the location where the victim lived in a floating house and he meets his family and friends. They find that Chinese snake-heads genetically engineered that belong to a wealthy hunter are attacking and killing the locals. While the group fights to survive, the hunter Jeff arrives with his team to hunt the predators.

      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: 2.1
      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: 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: 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: 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: 7.3
      Genrehorror, action
      CountryUSA, Canada, Japan, France
      Duration01:49

      A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.

      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: 5.4
      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
      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: 5.5
      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
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
      CountryAustralia, USA
      Duration01:34

      In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save humankind.

      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: 1.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.

      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: 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: 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: 6.3
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, Hungary
        Duration01:59

          A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural being that have taken over a European city.

          Markimdb: 4.1
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
          CountryUSA, Lithuania, Italy
          Duration01:26

          Captain Martin Stone is leading a finely-trained, elite platoon of Allied soldiers as they attack an enemy bunker. Underestimating their enemy's strength, they are quickly beaten back into the forest. As they try to regroup, they are suddenly attacked by the same soldiers they had just killed a few minutes earlier. Forced to flee deeper into Russian territory, they discover one of war's most terrifying secrets and realize they have woken up a far more deadlier enemy.

          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: 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.

          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: 3.1
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
            CountryUSA, Romania

            When most of the population of Earth is infected by a virus and transformed into flesh eaters and blood drinking creatures, a group of hunters lead by Tao and his sword chase the vampire zombies to eliminate them. Six non-infected survivors try to find the exit of an abandoned hospital crowded of the infected creatures. Meanwhile, the military is ready to bomb the whole area.

            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: 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: 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: 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: 4.4
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action
            CountryIsrael

            The movie is a post-apocalyptic horror/science fiction film. the setting is in a near post apocalyptic future where a biological warfare program goes wrong, and turns most of humanity to mindless, murderous creatures.

            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: 4.6
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Canada, Germany
              Duration01:33

              A sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever - in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial life forms - the Alien and the Predator. When a Predator scout ship crash-lands in the hills outside the town, Alien Facehuggers and a hybrid Alien/Predator are released and begin to terrorize the town.

              Markimdb: 3.3
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
              CountryUSA, Bulgaria
              Duration01:28

              It is 2020 and the impending apocalypse is inevitable. Due to a rapidly growing Black Hole headed straight for the sun, Earth begins to fall into darkness, waves rise above Los Angeles, Paris is rocked by extreme earthquakes and Japan is crumbling. Governments around the world race to build massive space arks for the lucky few who will escape Earth's tragic fate, though billions of people will be left behind. At the same time in the ruins of a Mayan temple a solution is discovered: 12 ancient skulls, that when brought together can stop the destruction. A team of scientists set out to find the hidden skulls and rescue mankind from imminent destruction.

              Markimdb: 3.1
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, detective, military
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:26

              A group of researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a platoon of masked soldiers and dragged into a hidden continent in the center of the Earth. There, they discover that surviving Nazi soldiers are plotting an invasion of Earth to revive the Third Reich.

              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: 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: 3.2
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
              CountryUSA

              A Marine Biologist is assigned to investigate the mysterious deaths of some marine life in an inland salt water lake that has been attributed to a creature thought to have been the stuff of a legend.

              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: 3.1
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
              CountryRussia, USA
              Duration01:30

              A group of young people stuck in the small Texas town of Fossil Ridge have to fight for their lives against dinosaurs that have been reanimated by a local scientist.

              Markimdb: 3.1
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
              CountryCanada

              The virus came so fast no one had time to prepare. Before the day was over, entire towns were decimated, and large cities became monumental tombs. Left with nothing but fading hope and the will to live, reclusive software consultant Michael (Dexter Fletcher) and temperamental mechanic Carl (Dickon Tolson) lead a small group of survivors into the country in hopes of riding out the coming winter. But now the decaying victims of the plague are reanimating, growing more smart and vicious with each passing day. Now, the only hope for the survival of the human race is Phillip (Carradine), a man who refused to leave the city, and has somehow avoided becoming food for the flesh-eating masses.

              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: 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: 4.7
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller
              CountryUnited Kingdom, South Africa
              Duration01:30

              A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion.

              Markimdb: 3.6
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure
              CountryCanada, USA
              Duration01:26

              Just in time for the joyous holiday season, this film connects the ancient Mayan prophecy of worldwide destruction at the end of 2012, and the iconic holiday song, The 12 Days of Christmas. But there is hope: a father learns that his daughter is really the "Chosen One" who, alone, can stop further catastrophe - if he can stave off the lunatic townspeople blaming her for the community's destruction.

              Markimdb: 3.8
              Genrehorror, fantastic
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:32

              Six college friends unite for a weekend getaway where they find themselves fighting for their lives after a terrorist attack turns the local residents into rage infused zombies.

              Markimdb: 3
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:21

              A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by an even bigger terror giant mutated wasps that are, for some reason, thirsty for blood.

              Markimdb: 4
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
              CountryUSA

              During their search for a habitable planet the last living humans crash-land on a barren world, inhabited by bloodthirsty aliens and mysterious post-apocalyptic warriors.

              Markimdb: 4.7
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
              CountryChina
              Duration01:55

              A man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by mysterious figures.

              Markimdb: 3.7
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
              CountryCanada

              The world watches in awe as the Roebling Clipper is launched into space. Using state-of-the-art scalar engines to fly around the Moon and back in just hours, the maiden voyage of the first-ever trans-lunar passenger ship is about to make history. Among those on board: First Lady Simone Mathany, space-exploration entrepreneur Steve Roebling, Dr. Denise Balaban, pilot Fiona Henslaw, and a very lucky lottery winner. But while en route, a massive solar flare sparks a cosmic-ray burst that accelerates Aurora’s engine and blows the ship away from Earth’s orbit. Now out of control, it’s hurtling straight for the sun.




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