Movies like Sanctuary Population One (2018)
The best movies like Sanctuary Population One (2018) are The Moment After 2: The Awakening (2006), Embers (2015) and Right at Your Door (2006). If Sanctuary Population One hooked you with its science fiction and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedMaze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)6.7/10 from 11,351 votes
- NewestHomestead (2024)Released 2024
The Moment After 2: The Awakening (2006)
In The New World Order, who can you trust? The government? Ragtag militia? Religious "fanatics"? After a dramatic escape from death row, former FBI agent Adam Riley reunites with his friend and mentor Jacob Krause leader of The Way, and his small remnant of Christians. Little do they know the forces out for their destruction. Global Alliance leader Commander Fredericks has forced Adam's former partner Charles Baker to hunt them down while a ragtag militia, led by "Captain" Jackson, spy on them for their own gain. As events lead to an explosive confrontation, all will be forced to an awakening of the real struggle... for their very souls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Embers (2015)
After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisRight at Your Door (2006)
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisRefuge (2013)
A post-apocalyptic thriller set in the ruins of a collapsed America, Refuge follows a family’s struggle to survive and rebuild a life in the absence of civilization. In the wake of a catastrophic plague, the family lives a lonely existence, struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy amidst a lawless world of roaming gangs and dwindling resources.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
The Day (2011)
Open war against humanity rages. For five survivors – lost and on the run – the pursuit is relentless, the bullets are dwindling and the battle is everywhere. This is a 24-hour look into their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThese Final Hours (2014)
With the end of the world only hours away, self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing father. This simple act sets James on a path to redemption.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEdge of Extinction (2022)
15 years after a global apocalypse, mankind is on the verge of extinction. Civilisation no longer exists, food is scarce and most eke out a living by stealing and killing. One boy clings onto life in the desolate British countryside, where staying away from others has been key to his survival. But this self-imposed isolation comes to an abrupt end when he crosses paths with another group of survivors and faces an enemy far more savage than any of them could imagine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & action
The Last Days (2013)
A mysterious epidemic spreads across the planet. Humanity develops an irrational fear of open spaces that causes instant death. Soon, the world population is trapped inside buildings. As Barcelona descends into chaos, Marc sets off on a quest to find Julia, his missing girlfriend, without ever going outside.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAwake (2021)
After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter. The question is, can Jill safely deliver her daughter and save the world before she herself loses her mind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDomain (2017)
After a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, the survivors are forced to wait alone in self-sustaining bunkers while the viral threat runs its course. Able to communicate through a networked video interface, the survivors wait for years and slowly become a motley family of sorts. But their fragile social ecosystem is shattered when, one by one, they start mysteriously disappearing from their bunkers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisZ for Zachariah (2015)
In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation exposure and his desperate search for others. A fragile, imperative strand of trust connects them. But when a stranger enters the valley, their precarious bond begins to unravel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Survivalist (2015)
In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStake Land (2010)
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRevelation Road: The Beginning of the End (2013)
Josh McManus, a traveling salesman with a cloudy past, finds himself in a dusty West Texas town at the wrong time. After a crippling series of earthquakes throws the entire world into chaos, a traveling salesman will have to fight his way through a vicious outlaw biker gang known as the Barbarians to get home to his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
After a catastrophe destroys most of humanity, recluse Del lives in his small, empty town, content with the utopia he has methodically created for himself, until an interloper, young Grace, disrupts his solitude.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisHere Alone (2016)
A woman struggles to survive on her own in the wake of a mysterious epidemic, which has decimated society and forced her deep into the unforgiving wild.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisHomestead (2024)
A nuclear bomb is detonated in Los Angeles, and the nation devolves into unprecedented chaos. Ex-Green Beret Jeff Eriksson and his family escape to The Homestead, an eccentric prepper’s fortress nestled in the mountains. As violent threats and apocalyptic conditions creep toward their borders, the residents of The Homestead are left to wonder: how long can a group of people resist both the dangers of human nature and the bloodshed at their doorstep?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInto the Forest (2016)
In the not too distant future, two young women who live in a remote ancient forest discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. Informed only by rumor, they fight intruders, disease, loneliness & starvation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisRoad Wars (2015)
After the earth’s water supply is depleted, the survivors form roving road gangs, armed to the teeth and desperate to find and protect water supplies. But when a new breed of blood-drinking humans emerges, the survivors must contend with a whole new threat to their existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & action
The Last Survivors (2014)
In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow I Live Now (2013)
An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Domestics (2018)
A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMaggie (2015)
There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to eradicate those with the virus, Wade is pushed to the limits in an effort to protect her. Joely Richardson co-stars in this post-apocalyptic thriller.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisHow It Ends (2018)
A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHell (2011)
In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Omega Man (1971)
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMaze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
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 superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTerminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExtinction (2018)
A chief mechanic at a factory, haunted by apocalyptic nightmares, becomes a hero when Earth is invaded by a mysterious army bent on destruction.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisElysium (2013)
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that, if successful, will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & action
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Sanctuary Population One?
The closest matches to Sanctuary Population One are The Moment After 2: The Awakening (2006), Embers (2015) and Right at Your Door (2006). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Sanctuary Population One?
People who watched Sanctuary Population One most often go on to The Moment After 2: The Awakening (2006), Embers (2015) and Right at Your Door (2006).
What is the highest-rated movie like Sanctuary Population One?
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), rated 6.7/10 by 11,351 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Sanctuary Population One?
Homestead (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Sanctuary Population One?
Yes: The Moment After 2: The Awakening (2006), Embers (2015) and Right at Your Door (2006).
How are movies similar to Sanctuary Population One chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Sanctuary Population One, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.