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Movies that feel likeOverlord (2018)

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.

If you loved Overlord, the closest films we have are Under the Shadow (2016), Spring (2014) and A Quiet Place (2018). All three share Overlord's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is M3GAN (2022).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Julius Averydreadunsettlingbleakcerebral
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Under the Shadow
2016 · dir. Babak Anvari
🍅 99%★ 6.8drama · horror · warNetflix

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the ideas than 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 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 85%★ 6.7horror · romance · science fiction

Horror with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Trades the bleakness of Overlord for an angle of its own

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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A Quiet Place
2018 · dir. John Krasinski
🍅 96%★ 7.5horror · drama · science fictionParamount+

Bleak science fiction in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Overlord does

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

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M3GAN
2022 · dir. Gerard Johnstone
🍅 93%★ 6.3science fiction · horrorNetflix

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

Both lean on unease more than on horror

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

Science fiction built on bleakness, twice over

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

Both lean on ideas more than on war

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

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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The Purge
2013 · dir. James DeMonaco
🍅 41%★ 5.8science fiction · horror · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Science fiction built on unease, twice over

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

Same instincts, 2 years apart

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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Alien Resurrection
1997 · dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
🍅 55%★ 6.2science fiction · horror · action

Both work the same bleakness

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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Brightburn
2019 · dir. David Yarovesky
🍅 57%★ 6.1horror · science fiction · dramaPeacock

Both are horror through and through

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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