Movies like Toxin (2015)
The best movies like Toxin (2015) are Laboratory Conditions (2018), Chimera Strain (2018) and Viral (2016). If Toxin hooked you with its drama and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedDoctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)7.7/10 from 263 votes
- Newest2073 (2024)Released 2024
Laboratory Conditions (2018)
A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChimera Strain (2018)
A brilliant but disturbed scientist freezes his children alive, while he races to cure their deadly genetic disease by decoding the DNA of the immortal Turritopsis jellyfish.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Viral (2016)
Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family's new life in quarantine and tries to protect her infected sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDon't Grow Up (2015)
Teenage delinquents who are living in an island youth center wake up to find themselves alone with no one to watch over them. After much partying, they realize the island has been deserted and the adults have been infected by a mysterious epidemic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lazarus Effect (2015)
Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisGoblin (2010)
Every Halloween, a small hamlet in the deep woods is visited by a fierce goblin, intent on capturing infants and brutally murdering anyone in its path.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Thaw (2009)
At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Facility (2012)
A group of volunteers find themselves fighting for their lives when a drug trial goes horribly wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
After surviving a plane crash caused by a magnetic storm, United Nations attorney Edward Douglas stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Shrine (2010)
A group of young journalists investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice, but their ambitious ways may lead them to becoming the cult's next victims.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Hive (2015)
An amnesiac must reach back into his mind for memories that will help him save the love of his life before a virus completely takes over.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisUrge (2016)
A group of friends on holiday on an island experiment with a new designer drug that makes them lose their ability to control their urges.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrankenstein (2015)
After he is artificially created, then left for dead by a husband-and-wife team of eccentric scientists, Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him. This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come to grips with the horrific nature of humanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisPandemic (2016)
After a virus of epic proportions overwhelms the planet—with more infected than uninfected—humanity is losing its grip on survival and its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren, a doctor, arrives in Los Angeles with her crack team to lead the hunt for uncontaminated civilian survivors, but nothing can prepare them for the blood-soaked mayhem they witness as they head into the Californian streets where everything is considered a trap.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Cleanse (2018)
The story of a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover that the course releases more than everyday toxins and traumatic experiences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCabin Fever (2016)
While staying at a remote cabin for a week-long vacation, a group of five college friends succumb to an infectious, flesh-eating disease.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Evil in Us (2016)
While on a fourth of July holiday, six best friends fall victim to the insidious plan of a terrorist organization when they unknowingly take a bio-active drug that transforms them into bloodthirsty cannibals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisVirus (1999)
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Sleeping Car (1990)
Jason moves into an abandoned train car where he resurrects the vicious ghost of his landlady's dead husband... The Mister. After some near-fatal encounters with the violent specter, he consults a local exorcist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Recovery (2019)
The patients and staff of a secluded heroin treatment center must do battle with more than their own demons as a mysterious killer begins picking them off one-by-one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Red 11 (2019)
A human lab rat in a sinister medical research facility tries to buy his way out of debt to the company while under the influence of experimental psychoactive drugs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Closer to God (2014)
A man on the cutting edge of science becomes the first to successfully clone a person, but events unravel when the news leaks out before his team could prepare for what's to come.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Jonathan (2018)
Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisLight of My Life (2019)
Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this2073 (2024)
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)
The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOmni Loop (2024)
Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to be.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Asphyx (1972)
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question...What is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisContagion (2011)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Vanishing (1993)
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Toxin?
The closest matches to Toxin are Laboratory Conditions (2018), Chimera Strain (2018) and Viral (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Toxin?
People who watched Toxin most often go on to Laboratory Conditions (2018), Chimera Strain (2018) and Viral (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like Toxin?
Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014), rated 7.7/10 by 263 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Toxin?
2073 (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Toxin?
Yes: Laboratory Conditions (2018), Chimera Strain (2018) and Viral (2016).
How are movies similar to Toxin chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Toxin, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.