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Movies that feel like #Alive (2020)

If you loved #Alive, the closest films we have are Colony (2026), What We Become (2015) and 28 Years Later (2025). All three share #Alive's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

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If #Alive hit the spot, these will too

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Colony
2026 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
6.5action · horror · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: zombie

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.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
5.5horror · thriller

Common ground: virus

The difference: Missing the momentum of #Alive

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.

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28 Years Later
2025 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 88%6.6horror · thriller · science fiction

Common ground in both: survival and zombie apocalypse

The difference: None of the momentum #Alive is built on

Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

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Ziam
2025 · dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
🍅 77%4.9horror · thriller · action

Both are built on the same subject: zombie

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than #Alive does

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.

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Shin Godzilla
2016 · dir. Shinji Higuchi
🍅 87%6.9action · science fiction · horror

Kinetic where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

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Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
2024 · dir. Carles Torrens
6.1drama · action · horror

The same preoccupation in both: zombie apocalypse

When a kind of rabies that transforms people into aggressive creatures spreads across the planet, Manel isolates himself at home with his cat, relying on his wits to survive; but soon they must go out in search of food, by land and by sea, dodging many dangers.

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Warm Bodies
2013 · dir. Jonathan Levine
🍅 81%6.8horror · comedy · romance

Unsettling and cerebral in the same breath

After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

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Underwater
2020 · dir. William Eubank
🍅 48%5.9horror · science fiction · action

One thread runs through both: survival

After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

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Meg 2: The Trench
2023 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 27%5action · science fiction · horror

Both lean on momentum more than on action

An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.

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

Both are built on the same subject: escape

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

Horror built on dread, twice over

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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Spring
2014 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 85%6.7horror · romance · science fiction

Unsettling science fiction, and it commits to that

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

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