Best tv shows like The Stand
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Plot Summary:
The human race is wiped out by a government invented super flu. The remaining survivors take sides in the forces of good and evil. A mysterious old woman who is a servant of God and a powerful and deadly man who might be the devil himself. A gas station attendant, a rock star, a mute, a professor, a farmer, a socialite, a mildly retarded man, a judge, a teenager, a mother, and a nerd take forces.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 361 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, apocalyptic, suspense, serious, futuristic, tense, rough, captivating, suspenseful
Best tv shows and movies like The Stand (1994):
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Day of Resurrection (1980)
Plot Summary:
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, epic
Similar in 81%
Legion (2010)
Plot Summary:
When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel Michael.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, absurd, stylized, apocalyptic, satanic, demonic, tense, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
Storm of the Century (1999)
Plot Summary:
A very powerful blizzard hits the fictional small town of Little Tall Island off the coast of Maine. All access off the island is blocked, and no one is able to leave the island until the storm is over. While trying to deal with the storm, tragedy strikes when one of the town's residents is brutally murdered.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 257 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, creepy, intense, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, splatter, clever
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The Stand (2020)
Plot Summary:
After the world is decimated by a man-made plague, a battle of literally Biblical proportions ensues between the survivors.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 510 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful, action adventure, dark fantasy, supernatural thriller, epic fantasy
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10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
Plot Summary:
A jolted West Coast deals with the deadly aftereffects of a massive tremor in this sequel to the disaster drama 10.5. Concerned that a widening fault line may set off two nuclear reactors, seismologist Samantha Hill (Kim Delaney) contacts the president (Beau Bridges). Assembling an expert rescue team, they search for the one man who can help them: Samantha's father (Frank Langella), a scientist who predicted this catastrophe. Dean Cain co-stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, suspense, futuristic, fast, disaster movie
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The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Plot Summary:
A U.S. satellite crash-lands near a small town in Utah, unleashing a deadly plague that kills virtually everyone except two survivors, who may provide clues to immunizing the population. As the military attempts to quarantine the area, a team of highly specialized scientists is assembled to find a cure and stop the spread of the alien pathogen, code-named Andromeda.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspenseful, futuristic, melancholic, harsh, stylized, apocalyptic, exciting, suspense
Similar in 80%
V-Wars (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a mysterious disease begins transforming people into vampires, Dr. Luther Swann is pitted against his best friend, now a powerful vampire leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense
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The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Plot Summary:
Robert Morgan is the last man on earth, as far as he can tell. A plague killed everyone else on the planet several years ago. He was immune to it, and can only guess why. Vampires that were formerly human attack Morgan's home every night.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, grindhouse, scary, atmospheric, suspense, apocalyptic, classic horror, black and white, tense, bleak
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How It Ends (2018)
Plot Summary:
A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, road movie, suspenseful, tense, suspense, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, disaster movie
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The Day After (1983)
Plot Summary:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as several family farms situated next to nearby nuclear missile silos.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious, thought provoking, psychotronic, suspense, bleak, rough
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Maggie (2015)
Plot Summary:
There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to eradicate those with the virus, Wade is pushed to the limits in an effort to protect her. Joely Richardson co-stars in this post-apocalyptic thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, touching, suspenseful, bleak, emotional, atmospheric, heartbreaking, suspense, cult classic, apocalyptic
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The Divide (2011)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, apocalyptic, bleak, futuristic, disturbing, satanic, scary, controversial, psychotronic
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Cell (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, surreal, suspense, absurd, ambiguous ending, melancholic, grindhouse, apocalyptic, psychotronic, atmospheric
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The Crazies (2010)
Plot Summary:
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 128000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, serious, splatter, creepy, psychological, atmospheric, bleak
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Carriers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe and no one can be trusted. Four young attractive people race through the back roads of the American West to the pounding beat of a vacation soundtrack. Their aim is to retreat to secluded utopian beach in the Gulf of Mexico, where they could peacefully wait out the pandemic and survive the apocalyptic disease. Their plans take a grim turn when their car breaks down on an isolated road starting a chain of events that will seal the fate of each of them in an inexorable and horrifying voyage of hell through a western landscape populated by only the hideous dead or the twisted living.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, road movie, suspenseful, psychological, apocalyptic, melancholic, absurd, serious, intense
Similar in 78%
The Last of Us (2023)
Plot Summary:
Joel and Ellie, a pair connected through the harshness of the world they live in, are forced to endure brutal circumstances and ruthless killers on a trek across post-pandemic America.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 475000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, apocalyptic, scary, psychological, epic, slasher, crying, spectacular, neo western
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Dominion (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dominion is an epic supernatural drama set in the near future. Specifically, 25 years after "The Extinction War," when an army of lower angels, assembled by the archangel Gabriel, waged war against mankind. The archangel Michael, turning against his own kind, chose to side with humanity. Rising out of the ashes of this long battle are newly fortified cities which protect human survivors. At the center of the series is the city of Vega, a glistening empire that has formed from the ruins of what was once Las Vegas.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, dark, sexy, apocalyptic, scary, dark fantasy, demonic, epic fantasy
Similar in 76%
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, stylized, splatter, suspenseful, serious, visual, action packed, spectacular, saga
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The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: dark, suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak, absurd, apocalyptic, psychotronic, psychological thriller, surprise ending
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Survivors (2008)
Plot Summary:
Survivors was a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent unknown strain of influenza which has wiped out most of the human species. According to the producers, the series is not a remake of the 1970s BBC television series Survivors, created by Terry Nation, but is loosely based on the novel of the same name that Nation wrote following the first series of the 1970s series. Two series were produced of the new series. Series 1 ran on BBC One and BBC HD in November–December 2008, and series 2 ran in January–February 2010, ending with a cliffhanger. The BBC announced on 13 April 2010 that, due to poor viewing figures and other considerations, Survivors had been cancelled. The series had its premiere in South Africa on BBC Entertainment in September 2009, in France on DTTV channel NRJ 12 on 12 January 2010, and on BBC America in the United States on 13 February 2010. The series' Australian premiere was on Channel Nine, on 21 March 2010.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, serious, tense, captivating, stylized, atmospheric, cliffhanger, clever, bleak, suspenseful
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The Passage (2019)
Plot Summary:
A post-apocalyptic story about a botched U.S. government experiment that turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, and an orphan girl who might be the only person able to stop the ensuing crisis.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, disturbing, exciting, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, gothic, action adventure
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The 5th Wave (2016)
Plot Summary:
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, futuristic, absurd, serious, teen, suspense, romantic, freeze frame
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Stake Land (2010)
Plot Summary:
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, road movie, suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, brutal, futuristic
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The Happening (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister? John Leguizamo and Betty Buckley co-star in this thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 215000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, gloomy, scary, suspenseful, mind bending, twist ending, apocalyptic, bleak
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The Omega Man (1971)
Plot Summary:
Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bleak, apocalyptic, intense, suspenseful, scary, bad ending, cult classic, grindhouse, depressing
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28 Days Later (2002)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 436000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, tense, dark, suspense, psychological, disturbing, creepy
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World War Z (2013)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 706000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Malta
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, epic, splatter, suspense, entertaining, action packed
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28 Weeks Later (2007)
Plot Summary:
In this chilling sequel to 28 Days Later, the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 289000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, creepy, apocalyptic, intense, bloody
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The Walking Dead (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, apocalyptic, serious, epic, bloody, psychological, exciting
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I Am Legend (2007)
Plot Summary:
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 799000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, rough, serious, suspense, bleak