Movies like The Plague (2006)
The best movies like The Plague (2006) are Population 436 (2006), The Deaths of Ian Stone (2008) and Mortuary (2005). If The Plague hooked you with its thriller and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedWhisper (2007)6.3/10 from 333 votes
- NewestCheat (2023)Released 2023
Population 436 (2006)
A census-taker is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Deaths of Ian Stone (2008)
Deaths tells the story of an all-American guy who is murdered each day by horrifying pursuers, only to wake up in slightly different lives to experience the terror of being murdered again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMortuary (2005)
A family moves to a small California town where they plan on starting a new life running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, suspected to be on haunted ground.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMulberry Street (2006)
A deadly infection breaks out in Manhattan, causing humans to devolve into blood-thirsty rat creatures. Six recently evicted tenants must survive the night and protect their downtown apartment building as the city quickly spirals out of control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrom Within (2008)
When the citizens of a small evangelical town systematically begin committing suicide, a young girl struggling to reconcile her Christian upbringing with her desire to experience the outside world finds her faith put to the ultimate test.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisPenny Dreadful (2006)
Young Penny goes on a retreat with her psychologist; the intention is to help her overcome her phobia, an intense fear of cars. Unexpected events find her in a nightmarish situation where her worst fears come true.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAutopsy (2008)
Emily Johnson, her boyfriend Bobby and their friends Clare and Jude are recent college grads driving cross-country, taking a last vacation together before they face the "real" world. An accident leaves them hurt and stranded on a lonely Louisiana road. When the ambulance arrives, it whisks them to Mercy Hospital.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Gravedancers (2006)
After a night of drunken exploits, Allison, Harris, and Kira are chased and terrorized by the ghosts of a child pyromaniac, an ax murderer, and a rapist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMadhouse (2004)
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Abandoned (2006)
Marie, a film producer, returns to her native Russia to find her birth parents. She quickly learns they are dead, and she has inherited their long-empty farmhouse. At the farm, she meets Nicolai, who claims to be her twin brother. Events take a terrifying turn when the two spot a pair of ghastly doppelgangers and the house itself seems to propel them toward a fate they should have met 40 years earlier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWicked Little Things (2006)
Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLong Time Dead (2002)
A group of British students embark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Reaping (2007)
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Haunting in Connecticut (2009)
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like this100 Feet (2008)
After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHusk (2011)
A group of friends stranded near a desolate cornfield find shelter in an old farmhouse, though they soon discover the dwelling is the center of a supernatural ritual.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisPro-Life (2006)
Angelique, a traumatized fifteen year old, is taken to an abortion clinic to end her pregnancy. However, her deeply religious father and three brothers are out to make sure the baby lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Garden (2006)
A troubled young boy and his father on a road trip stumble upon a rural farm where the elderly owner has sinister plans for the both of them involving witchcraft and evil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Cthulhu (2008)
A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reacquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has a long-awaited tryst. Caught in an accelerating series of events, he discovers aspects of his father's New Age cult which take on a dangerous and apocalyptic significance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeadline (2009)
A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTerritories (2010)
Five friends return home from a wedding in Canada to the United States. Not far from the border, two customs officers stop them to check their identity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisWalled In (2009)
Having finally secured her first assignment from her family's demolition business, Sam Walczak is sent to supervise the destruction of an apartment house, only to discover a group of tenants still living in the condemned building. One such tenant, Jimmy, tells Sam an urban legend about a serial murderer who used to live in the building and entomb his victims in the walls. What's worse, the dead are believed to still harass the residents to this day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Legend of Lucy Keyes (2006)
When an urban family moves to a rural New England town with secrets, little do they know that their new house holds a history of tragic sorrow.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Unrest (2006)
A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisContainment (2015)
Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCheat (2023)
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town's unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve - a female college student - sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are horrifically killed by the savage being - one-by-one at a rapid pace. Eventually, Maeve, Charlie and the few survivors band together in an attempt to defeat the monster once and for all.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEradication (2022)
When an unknown disease wipes out most of the world’s population, a man with unique blood is isolated for study. Fearing for his wife’s safety, he breaks his quarantine – into a world overrun by monstrous Infected and a shadowy agency hunting them down.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrank and Penelope (2022)
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhisper (2007)
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlay Dead (2022)
Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Plague?
The closest matches to The Plague are Population 436 (2006), The Deaths of Ian Stone (2008) and Mortuary (2005). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Plague?
People who watched The Plague most often go on to Population 436 (2006), The Deaths of Ian Stone (2008) and Mortuary (2005).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Plague?
Whisper (2007), rated 6.3/10 by 333 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Plague?
Cheat (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Plague?
Yes: Population 436 (2006), The Deaths of Ian Stone (2008) and Mortuary (2005).
How are movies similar to The Plague chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Plague, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.