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Movies that feel like Overlord (2018)

If you loved Overlord, the closest films we have are Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016), Under the Shadow (2016) and Spring (2014). All three share Overlord's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 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.

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.

πŸ… 82% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Julius Averydreadunsettlingbleakcerebral
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
2016 Β· dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
πŸ… 39%β˜… 5.5action Β· horror Β· science fiction

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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Under the Shadow
2016 Β· dir. Babak Anvari
πŸ… 99%β˜… 6.8drama Β· horror Β· war

Bleak horror in both cases

The difference: Missing the ideas of Overlord

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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Spring
2014 Β· dir. Aaron Moorhead
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.7horror Β· romance Β· science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: None of the bleakness Overlord is built on

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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The New Mutants
2020 Β· dir. Josh Boone
πŸ… 36%β˜… 5.3science fiction Β· horror

Both lean on dread more than on war

Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.

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M3GAN
2022 Β· dir. Gerard Johnstone
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

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The Purge
2013 Β· dir. James DeMonaco
πŸ… 41%β˜… 5.8science fiction Β· horror Β· thriller

Science fiction built on bleakness, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Overlord does

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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Resident Evil: Afterlife
2010 Β· dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
πŸ… 21%β˜… 5.8action Β· adventure Β· horror

War built on ideas, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into action than Overlord does

In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

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A Quiet Place
2018 Β· dir. John Krasinski
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.5horror Β· drama Β· science fiction

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

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

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Brightburn
2019 Β· dir. David Yarovesky
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.1horror Β· science fiction Β· drama

Unsettling science fiction, and it commits to that

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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Alien Resurrection
1997 Β· dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
πŸ… 55%β˜… 6.2science fiction Β· horror Β· action

Bleak war in both cases

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1990s show

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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#Alive
2020 Β· dir. Cho Il
β˜… 6.3action Β· horror Β· science fiction

Both sit in the same cerebral register

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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Shin Godzilla
2016 Β· dir. Shinji Higuchi
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.9action Β· science fiction Β· horror

Both play horror straight

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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