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Movies that feel like Peninsula (2020)

If you loved Peninsula, the closest films we have are Colony (2026), Ziam (2025) and Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010). All three share Peninsula'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, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.

🍅 55% Rotten Tomatoes5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Yeon Sang-hodreadunsettlingkinetictenseepicbleak
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Train to Busan (2016)

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

Yeon Sang-ho working the same nerve twice

The difference: Missing the tension of Peninsula

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: zombie

The difference: None of the scale Peninsula is built on

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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Resident Evil: Afterlife
2010 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 21%5.8action · adventure · horror

Common ground: dystopia

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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The Purge: Election Year
2016 · dir. James DeMonaco
🍅 55%6action · horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: dystopia

Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge. On the night of what should be the final Purge, a betrayal from within the government forces Barnes and Roan out onto the street where they must fight to survive the night.

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

The same preoccupation in both: zombie

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than Peninsula does

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

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

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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JUNG_E
2023 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 52%5.5science fiction · action · adventure

Both are Yeon Sang-ho's work, and they rhyme

On an uninhabitable 22nd-century Earth, the outcome of a civil war hinges on cloning the brain of an elite soldier to create a robot mercenary.

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The First Purge
2018 · dir. Gerard McMurray
🍅 55%5.2action · horror · thriller

Both land momentum and tension at once

To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%5.5horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: halloween

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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#Alive
2020 · dir. Cho Il
6.3action · horror · science fiction

Common ground: south korea

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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Resident Evil: Retribution
2012 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 28%5.3action · horror · science fiction

Action with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by new found allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.

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