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Movies that feel likeA Quiet Place (2018)

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

If you loved A Quiet Place, the closest films we have are Overlord (2018), Bird Box (2018) and 28 Days Later (2002). All three share A Quiet Place's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Under the Shadow (2016).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: A Quiet Place Part II (2021)

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Overlord
2018 · dir. Julius Avery
🍅 82%★ 6.6horror · war · science fictionParamount+

Trapped behind enemy lines with something worse than the enemy

The difference: A pulpy war-horror splatter ride — loud where yours is hushed

On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.

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Bird Box
2018 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 64%★ 6.6horror · thriller · dramaNetflix

A parent shepherding children through a world with one deadly rule

The difference: Blunter and more schematic, without the same knuckle-white craft

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

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28 Days Later
2002 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 87%★ 7.5horror · thriller · science fictionApple TV+

Survivors moving through eerie quiet, punished the moment they slip

The difference: Rougher and more feral, with human cruelty as the real threat

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

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World War Z
2013 · dir. Marc Forster
🍅 67%★ 7action · horror · science fictionParamount+Peacock

A father crossing a collapsed world to keep his family alive

The difference: Big, loud and globe-spanning — spectacle instead of held breath

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

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Under the Shadow
2016 · dir. Babak Anvari
🍅 99%★ 6.8drama · horror · warNetflix

A parent shielding a child from a threat that seeps into home itself

The difference: Wartime Tehran and slow dread — political weight, fewer set pieces

After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.

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The Host
2006 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 93%★ 7.1horror · drama · science fictionPrime Video

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Easier on the bleakness than A Quiet Place

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.

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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
2016 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 39%★ 5.5action · horror · science fictionNetflixHulu

Survivors scraping through a world the monsters already won

The difference: Frantic video-game action — chaos cut fast, tension optional

Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

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The Purge
2013 · dir. James DeMonaco
🍅 41%★ 5.8science fiction · horror · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

A family barricaded in, waiting for what is outside to get in

The difference: Cruder and more political, with none of the sound-design finesse

Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.

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Brightburn
2019 · dir. David Yarovesky
🍅 57%★ 6.1horror · science fiction · dramaPeacock

Rural quiet, parental love and a child at the center of the horror

The difference: The child is the threat here — crueler and more nihilistic

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
2021 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 30%★ 5.2action · horror · science fictionHuluStarz

The same mix in both: ideas, then bleakness

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

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Alien Resurrection
1997 · dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
🍅 55%★ 6.2science fiction · horror · action

Humans as prey, creatures bred to hunt, escape the only plan

The difference: A gonzo franchise oddity — grotesque humor over sustained dread

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.

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A Quiet Place: Day One
2024 · dir. Michael Sarnoski
🍅 86%★ 6.2horror · science fiction · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

The same sound-hunting invasion, seen from the first, worst day

The difference: City chaos over farmstead intimacy — the family core is gone

As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sam fights to survive with her cat.

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