Movies like 2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus (2021)

9 (2009)

When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & science fiction

Maze 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 & thriller

Chaos Walking (2021)

Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & science fiction

The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction

Allegiant (2016)

Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & science fiction

Tomorrowland (2015)

Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & science fiction

Doomsday (2008)

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction

Songbird (2020)

During a pandemic lockdown, Nico, a young man with rare immunity, must overcome martial law, murderous vigilantes and a powerful family to reunite with his love, Sara.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & adventure

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction

The 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 & thriller

Finch (2021)

On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & adventure

The Book of Eli (2010)

A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction

I Am Legend (2007)

Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

Right at Your Door (2006)

A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & science fiction

Timescape (1992)

Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the future who visit the past to witness history's greatest catastrophes—and his small town is their next stop.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & adventure

Daybreakers (2010)

In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save humankind.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & science fiction

These 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction

Lunatique (2016)

Lunatique is a sci-fi short film about a lonely woman who fights daily for survival in a post apocalyptic world.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction & thriller

The Doll (2017)

When Chris and Andy order a model from an escort service, they find that something is unnaturally wrong with Natasha, something deadly wrong.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction & thriller

Children of Ether (2017)

Follow Rhonda, a woman with a dark past and a mysterious power, as she is pursued by an unknown assailant after the death of her father. Aided only by her wits and a pair of orphans, she journeys through a decaying, dystopian metropolis populated by raiders, gangs, and the supernatural. As she struggles to survive in this harsh urban tangle, she meets both friends and enemies, and searches for answers about this power, "The Ether", awakening within her.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure & science fiction

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

Several generations following Caesar's reign, apes – now the dominant species – live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all he's known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction & adventure

Arachnid (2001)

Mercer's brother, an amateur pilot, crashes on an island and is killed by a giant spider. A year later, when Mercer goes in search of him, she discovers a breed of venomous arachnids ready to attack.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure & science fiction

Red Sonja (2025)

A young girl rises from the ashes of tragedy to become the most feared warrior woman of all time: the She-Devil with a Sword.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure & fantasy

City of Ember (2008)

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, before the the lights go out forever.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure & fantasy

Specter (2014)

The town of Midground is threatened by a tsunami caused by a massive earthquake in the North Pacific Ocean. After other unexplainable events transpire, Chase Lombardi and friends are forced to discover whether they are experiencing a natural phenomenon or something else all together.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & science fiction

Vampire Princess Miyu the TV Movie (2025)

Based on a manga titled Vampire Princess Miyu. A young girl by the name Miyuu wakes up in Tokyo 1991 but no memory of who she is nor her mother's whereabouts, until she see a vision of her president Zovrinka. He explains to her that she is not from this world, she was born in 2500 during the Great War in the universe, with a special power that can save the earth. He's sending her back in time to fight other people with same power as her and to prevent the planets to collapse. Then she meet sergeant July who works for the other president, she claim that Miyuu is working for the wrong side, but who can she trust.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy & science fiction

2054 (2025)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & science fiction