If You Liked World War Z, Watch These Next
Finished World War Z (2013) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like World War Z, most of them are action, horror, science fiction.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Die Alone(2024)
6.4HorrorThrillerScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he encounters Mae, a hardened and eccentric survivor. Together, Ethan and Mae face threats both human…
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2.Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials(2015)
6.7Science FictionActionThrillerAlso science fiction and action
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly…
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3.The Girl with All the Gifts(2016)
6.6ActionHorrorScience FictionAlso action and horror
In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into thoughtless, flesh-eating monsters. 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.
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5.Worldbreaker(2025)
6.0ActionHorrorScience FictionAlso action and horror
Five years ago, a tear in the fabric of reality brought creatures to our world from an alternate dimension bent on our destruction. A father hides his daughter on an island to keep her safe while he prepares her for survival and the battles to come. But when the world is about to break, no place is safe.
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8.28 Years Later(2025)
6.6HorrorThrillerScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as…
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9.The Book of Eli(2010)
6.8ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
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.
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10.Resident Evil(2002)
6.7HorrorActionScience FictionAlso horror and action
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.
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11.Pontypool(2009)
6.5HorrorMysteryScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the…
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12.Daybreakers(2010)
6.3ActionFantasyScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. 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.
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13.Doomsday(2008)
5.9ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country…
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14.The First Purge(2018)
6.0ActionHorrorThrillerAlso action and horror
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and…
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15.The Crazies(1973)
6.1Science FictionHorrorActionAlso science fiction and horror
The military attempts to contain a manmade virus causing death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.
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16.Land of the Dead(2005)
6.3HorrorScience FictionThrillerAlso horror and science fiction
The living dead have taken over the world, and the remaining humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they cope with the situation.
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17.28 Days Later(2002)
7.2HorrorThrillerScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's…
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18.Terminator Salvation(2009)
6.1ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso action and science fiction
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend…
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19.Daylight's End(2016)
5.9ActionHorrorScience FictionAlso action and horror
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…
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20.Extinction(2015)
6.3HorrorScience FictionThrillerAlso horror and science fiction
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.
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