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Movies that feel likePeninsula (2020)

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

If you loved Peninsula, the closest films we have are Ziam (2025), Colony (2026) and [REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014). All three share Peninsula'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 Operation Red Sea (2018).

🍅 55% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.5 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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Ziam
2025 · dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
🍅 77%★ 4.9horror · thriller · actionNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: zombie

The difference: Trades the scale of Peninsula for an angle of its own

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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Colony
2026 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 82%★ 6.5horror · action · science fiction

Yeon Sang-ho working the same nerve twice

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

Common ground: zombie

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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Blood Red Sky
2021 · dir. Peter Thorwarth
🍅 81%★ 6.1horror · thriller · actionNetflix

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.

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Badland Hunters
2024 · dir. Heo Myeong-haeng
🍅 67%★ 6action · adventure · thrillerNetflix

Both land momentum and tension at once

After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor.

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Operation Red Sea
2018 · dir. Dante Lam Chiu-yin
🍅 80%★ 6.6action · thriller · warPrime Video

The same mix in both: scale, then bleakness

The difference: Leans harder into war than Peninsula does

A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist organization.

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

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: Afterlife
2010 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 21%★ 5.8action · adventure · horrorNetflixPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

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

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

Horror built on dread, twice over

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

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

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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Unhinged
2020 · dir. Derrick Borte
🍅 49%★ 6action · thriller · horrorPrime Video

Both lean on momentum more than on action

Rachel is a divorced single mother whose bad day gets even worse. She's running late to drop her son off at school when she honks her horn impatiently at a fellow driver during rush-hour traffic. After an exchange of words, she soon realizes that the mysterious man is following her and her young son in his truck. A case of road rage quickly escalates, at horrifyingly psychotic proportions, into full-blown terror as Rachel discovers the psychopath's sinister plan for revenge. He is single-mindedly determined to teach her a deadly lesson.

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