Movies like Zombies (2016)
The best movies like Zombies (2016) are The Killing Strain (2010), Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2022) and Z (2014). If Zombies hooked you with its horror and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedColony (2026)8.2/10 from 1,538 votes
- NewestApocalypse Z: New World (2026)Released 2026
- In GermanAttack of the Lederhosen Zombies (2016)Also in German
The Killing Strain (2010)
A man-made virus, 'The Killing Strain'-- an out-of-control swine flu-- turns infected humans into raging monsters. As it rapidly spreads, a group of uninfected survivors must make life-or-death decisions before the U.S. military firebombs the area in a desperate attempt contain the contagion. The survivors are unaware that the virus has already reached their group-- by infecting one of them-- and now the merciless metamorphic process has begun.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2022)
In a zombie-infested Australian wasteland, soldier Rhys has dedicated his life to tracking and capturing survivors for the Surgeon General in hopes of finding a cure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisZ (2014)
A pandemic causes a massive outbreak of zombies. Several uninfected people take refuge in a hospital to evade the reanimated ghouls that keep attacking even if they are split in half by a sharp blade, but become increasingly paranoid. Will they be able to survive?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Ziam (2025)
In a fight for survival against a horrifying army of zombies, a former Muay Thai fighter must use skill, speed and grit to save his girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisColony (2026)
Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisApocalypse Z: New World (2026)
The Canary Islands have become Europe’s last refuge following the outbreak of the TSJ virus. When a special mission sets out for the mainland in search of vital supplies, Roberto joins the team with questionable intentions. The dangerous operation turns into a desperate race for survival, and Roberto and his companions find themselves caught between hordes of infected and divided loyalties.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dead 2: India (2013)
An infectious epidemic spreads through India as an American turbine engineer learns that his pregnant girlfriend is trapped near the slums of Mumbai. Now he must battle his way across a 300mile wasteland of the ravenous undead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisCollapse (2012)
The normal worries of a struggling small town farmer are blown away when the world is suddenly overrun by undead monsters. How can a good man protect and provide for his family in a hostile world without becoming a monster himself?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Block Z (2020)
A pre-med student and her friends encounter the death of a patient that exhibited symptoms of rabies. They are soon faced with an even bigger problem as their patient comes back from the dead and infects the people on campus, causing a lockdown and trapping the students inside.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & horror
Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies (2016)
Steve, a young professional snowboarder, ruins a high-paying photo shoot by playing a silly prank. He, his girlfriend Branka and fellow snowboarder Joschi are left behind on the mountain. They seek shelter in an après-ski tavern that is hosting an all-night party. Things go from bad to worse when a scientific experiment unleashes an epidemic of zombies and mutant wildlife. This is mostly lost on the local drunkards, as they are not always easy to distinguish from zombies themselves. But Steve, Branka and Joschi have to find a way to survive this hellish night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFestival of the Living Dead (2024)
While attending a festival to commemorate the original zombie attack, Ash and her friends encounter the living dead and must fight back or be devoured.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Dead and Deader (2006)
Lt. Bobby Quinn is a Special Forces commando killed during a recon mission in the Cambodian jungle. But when Quinn interrupts his own stateside autopsy, he discovers that the rest of his dead squad has been resurrected with a ravenous apetite for human flesh. Now with the help of a wisecracking cook and a sexy film geek, the part-zombie Quinn must stop the plague before it can infect the entire nation. Who holds the shocking secret behind this blood-crazed carnage? And what happens when Quinn stops gnawing on raw steak and starts chomping on the hot chick?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
Undead (2003)
A quaint Australian fishing village is overcome by meteorites that turn its residents into the ravenous undead, leaving a small group of those unharmed to find a way out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisFlight of the Living Dead (2007)
On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of the aircraft allows the corpse to get out of its container.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPatients of a Saint (2020)
There's a zombie outbreak after a medical trial in an international detention and medical facility on an isolated island. An ex US Special Forces/bodyguard woman inmate and a guard form a team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDay of the Dead (2008)
When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead, a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Returned (2013)
In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisState of Emergency (2012)
Chaos consumes a small town when a chemical facility explodes releasing a deadly toxin. Moments after the leak, the town's residents show signs of mutation, causing the military to quarantine the area leaving any survivors helpless and trapped inside. The story follows Jim, a young man isolated within the red zone, as he eludes flesh eating zombies in an attempt to win back his freedom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhat We Become (2015)
A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisPatient Zero (2018)
After an unprecedented global pandemic has turned the majority of humankind into violent infected beings, Morgan, a man gifted with the ability to speak the infected's new language, leads the last survivors on a hunt for patient zero and a cure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dead (2010)
When the last evacuation flight out of war-torn Africa crashes off the coast, American Air Force Engineer Lieutenant Brian Murphy emerges as the sole survivor in a land where the dead are returning to life and attacking the living.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisEver After (2019)
An apocalyptic female buddy movie. Two years ago zombies took over the earth. Weimar and Jena are the last places of human civilisation. Vivi and Eva have to fight the undead together, as well as the demons of their past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2010)
An idyllic peninsula town is under attack by that most invasive of pests: zombies! Port Gamble is being overrun with braineaters, and the people seem powerless to stave them off. But wait, a ragtag band of rebels is trying to turn the tide and push the invading hordes of undead back!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Rezort (2015)
The ReZort, a post apocalyptic safari, offers paying guests the opportunity to kill zombies in the wake of an outbreak.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDiary of the Dead (2007)
A group of young filmmakers encounter real zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisRedcon-1 (2018)
After a zombie apocalypse spreads from a London prison, the UK is brought to its knees. The spread of the virus is temporarily contained but, without a cure, it’s only a matter of time before it breaks its boundaries and the biggest problem of all… any zombies with combat skills are now enhanced. With the South East of England quarantined from the rest of the world using fortified borders, intelligence finds that the scientist responsible for the outbreak is alive and well in London. With his recovery being the only hope of a cure, a squad of eight Special Forces soldiers is sent on a suicide mission to the city, now ruled by the undead, with a single task: get him out alive within 72 hours by any means necessary. What emerges is an unlikely pairing on a course to save humanity against ever-rising odds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDead Snow (2009)
Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler's horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of zombie Nazi soldiers intent on devouring anyone unfortunate enough to wander into the remote mountains where they were once sent to die.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisForgive Us All (2025)
In a post-apocalyptic world, a virus has transformed humans into violently deranged cannibals. A bereaved mother has lost everything and takes refuge in an isolated mountain cabin, until a desperate wounded stranger arrives with a story of hope.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Battery (2012)
In rural Connecticut, baseball players Ben and Mickey are trying to survive a zombie plague. They are forced to form a battery: a catcher and a pitcher who work together to outwit the batter, the one who hits the ball. And the batter in this case just happens to be a zombie. Tough Ben and gentle Mickey frequently disagree on the best way to go about the situation. Then they suddenly hear a human voice through their walkie-talkies. Is salvation nearby, like Mickey thinks, or is Ben’s suspicion justified?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPeninsula (2020)
A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Zombies?
The closest matches to Zombies are The Killing Strain (2010), Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2022) and Z (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Zombies?
People who watched Zombies most often go on to The Killing Strain (2010), Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2022) and Z (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Zombies?
Colony (2026), rated 8.2/10 by 1,538 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Zombies?
Apocalypse Z: New World (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there German movies like Zombies?
Yes: Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies (2016) and Ever After (2019).
How are movies similar to Zombies chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Zombies, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.