Movies like City of the Living Dead (1980)
The best movies like City of the Living Dead (1980) are The Beyond (1981), Burial Ground (1981) and Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979). If City of the Living Dead hooked you with its horror and fantasy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDawn of the Dead (1978)7.5/10 from 2,425 votes
- NewestCemetery Man (1994)Released 1994
- In ItalianThe Beyond (1981)Also in Italian
The Beyond (1981)
New Yorker Liza Merril inherits an old hotel in Louisiana and invests her savings to reopen the place, unaware that the hotel houses the body of a dead painter murdered decades earlier, and that the location is about to become a gateway to Hell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBurial Ground (1981)
A cursed country estate is besieged by horny houseguests, undead Etruscans, and the unusual relationship between a mother and her young son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisZombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
After an abandoned boat sails into New York harbor with a zombie aboard, a reporter teams up with the daughter of the boat's missing captain to investigate the island where he was last seen conducting research—the site of an alleged zombie outbreak.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight of the Zombies (1980)
A rat causes a chemical leak at a Papua New Guinea research facility, leading a group of eco-terrorists to demand the closure of all facilities. When a team of Interpol commandos are enlisted to eliminate the terrorists, they find themselves embroiled in a zombie outbreak.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDemons (1985)
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe House by the Cemetery (1981)
After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, takes over his studies and moves his family into the Boston mansion. Soon after, Boyle's young son Bob becomes plagued by visions of a young girl, who warns him of the danger within the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Evil Dead (1983)
In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)
When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNightmare City (1980)
A reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from the hordes of bloodthirsty, undead people exposed to nuclear radioactivity as military leaders fight a losing war of attrition against the relentless attacks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe House of Clocks (1989)
A gang of ruthless thugs intent on robbery prey upon a seemingly harmless elderly couple, Vittorio and Sara. The simple plan turns into a terrifying nightmare, as Vittorio's antique clock collection mysteriously turns back time. Now the hunters become the hunted and the old couple becomes a vengeful, malevolent force.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPsychomania (1973)
A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. Following their leader, they commit suicide one after the other, but things don't necessarily turn out as expected...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDemons 2 (1986)
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlack Past (1989)
Tommy finds a cursed mirror and a diary in an attic in the new house they moved in. The mirror starts to give Tommy horrible and gruesome visions as his crush keeps rising from the dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Church (1989)
In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHellraiser (1987)
A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZombie Flesh Eaters 2 (1988)
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing a virus and bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDoctor Butcher M.D. (1980)
After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMessiah of Evil (1975)
A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInferno (1980)
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPatrick Still Lives (1980)
A group of strangers are summoned to the secluded home of Patrick, a young man rendered comatose after a freak accident, but soon find themselves falling victim to Patrick's mysterious psychic powers and murderous rage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Day of the Dead (1985)
As the world is overrun by zombies, scientists and military personnel in an underground Florida bunker must decide on how they should deal with the undead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTwo Evil Eyes (1990)
A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPhantasm (1979)
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThey Have Changed Their Face (1971)
A mid-level automotive company employee is summoned to the mountain villa of owner Giovanni Nosferatu, only to discover a glossy netherworld where capitalism is the new vampirism, and escape may be impossible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
Beyond the Darkness (1979)
A disturbed young embalmer digs the grave of his recently deceased girlfriend and brings her body to his family villa with help from his strange housekeeper. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCemetery Man (1994)
Francesco Dellamorte is the groundskeeper at a cemetery where the dead just won’t stay dead—and it’s up to him to deal with those who come back to life with a hunger for human flesh. But Dellamorte’s job soon becomes much more complicated when he falls for an enigmatic young woman whose husband has recently died.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDawn of the Dead (1978)
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Black Cat (1981)
Townspeople of a small English village begin to die in a series of horrible accidents, and a Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate a mysterious local medium who records conversations with the dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNude for Satan (1974)
Italian Gothic horror that tells the tale of a man who stops at a remote castle hoping to get medical help for an injured woman, only to find the inhabitants mirror the darker sides of the woman and himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDead & Buried (1981)
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like City of the Living Dead?
The closest matches to City of the Living Dead are The Beyond (1981), Burial Ground (1981) and Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after City of the Living Dead?
People who watched City of the Living Dead most often go on to The Beyond (1981), Burial Ground (1981) and Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979).
What is the highest-rated movie like City of the Living Dead?
Dawn of the Dead (1978), rated 7.5/10 by 2,425 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like City of the Living Dead?
Cemetery Man (1994) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like City of the Living Dead?
Yes: The Beyond (1981), Burial Ground (1981) and Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979).
How are movies similar to City of the Living Dead chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside City of the Living Dead, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.