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Movies that feel like#Alive (2020)

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.

If you loved #Alive, the closest films we have are Colony (2026), Shin Godzilla (2016) and Deep Blue Sea (1999). All three share #Alive's kinetic and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991).

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Colony
2026 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 82%★ 6.5horror · action · 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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Shin Godzilla
2016 · dir. Shinji Higuchi
🍅 87%★ 6.9action · science fiction · horrorMax

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

The same mix in both: unease, then ideas

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
1991 · dir. Lam Ngai Kai
🍅 89%★ 7action · science fiction · horror

Both lean on momentum more than on action

In 2001, where all correctional facilities have been privatized, martial artist Ricky finds himself victim to the corrupt system, found "guilty" of the manslaughter of an infamous crime boss.

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

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

The difference: Easier on the momentum than #Alive

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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Resident Evil
2026 · dir. Zach Cregger
🍅 96%★ 7.3horror · science fiction · adventureRent or buy

The same two preoccupations: survival, and zombie apocalypse

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than #Alive does

Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

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

Unsettling science fiction in both cases

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

Action built on ideas, twice over

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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Underwater
2020 · dir. William Eubank
🍅 48%★ 5.9horror · science fiction · actionPrime Video

Common ground: survival

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than #Alive does

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

Both are built on the same subject: zombie

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

The same preoccupation in both: zombie apocalypse

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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The New Mutants
2020 · dir. Josh Boone
🍅 36%★ 5.3science fiction · horrorDisney+

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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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