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Movies that feel likeResident Evil (2002)

When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.

If you loved Resident Evil, the closest films we have are Minority Report (2002), World War Z (2013) and Deep Blue Sea (1999). All three share Resident Evil's kinetic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Colony (2026).

🍅 36% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paul W. S. Andersondreadunsettlingkineticcerebralbleakparanoid
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) · Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) · Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) · Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) · Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

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Minority Report
2002 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 89%★ 7.6science fiction · action · thrillerPrime VideoParamount+

Two things both keep coming back to: dystopia and hologram

The difference: Reviewed even better

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.

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

One thread runs through both: zombie

The difference: Trades the paranoia of Resident Evil for an angle of its own

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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Deep Blue Sea
1999 · dir. Renny Harlin
🍅 60%★ 6action · horror · science fictionStarz

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives.

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

The same preoccupation in both: zombie

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Resident Evil does

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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The Island
2005 · dir. Michael Bay
★ 6.8action · thriller · science fictionParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dystopia

In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.

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Colony
2026 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 81%★ 6.5horror · action · science fiction

Both land momentum and ideas at once

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 2020s show

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

The same two preoccupations: biological weapon, and mutant

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

Horror built on bleakness, twice over

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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The Faculty
1998 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 57%★ 6.6horror · science fictionParamount+

Science fiction with a pulse of paranoia, in both cases

When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.

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Death Race
2008 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 41%★ 6.4action · thriller · science fictionStarz

The same hand behind both of them: Paul W. S. Anderson

Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.

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AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 21%★ 5.7adventure · science fiction · action

Paul W. S. Anderson directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race.

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Doom
2005 · dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak
🍅 18%★ 5.2action · horror · science fictionStarz

Common ground: special forces

A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.

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