50 Movies Like Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (2024) You Need to Watch Next
Updated August 2026
View Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End details →If you loved Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (2024) by Carles Torrens, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Revenge, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Babadook. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
The Best Movies Similar to Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
Selected for their real similarity in content, these are the movies that share the most with Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End in terms of theme, narrative tone, and cinematic style. Every recommendation goes beyond genre — we evaluate the type of conflict, pacing, dramatic context, and the experience they create for viewers.
Revenge
2017 · Coralie Fargeat
Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpecte
In common: Action · Drama · Horror
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007 · Tim Burton
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit
In common: Drama · Horror
The Babadook
2014 · Jennifer Kent
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
In common: Drama · Horror
Cujo
1983 · Lewis Teague
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
In common: Drama · Horror
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976 · Pier Paolo Pasolini
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
In common: Drama · Horror
Carrie
2013 · Kimberly Peirce
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.
In common: Drama · Horror
mother!
2017 · Darren Aronofsky
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
In common: Drama · Horror
Warrior
2011 · Gavin O'Connor
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the fighter on a collision course wit
In common: Action · Drama
Sound of Freedom
2023 · Alejandro Monteverde
The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.
In common: Action · Drama
Deepwater Horizon
2016 · Peter Berg
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
In common: Action · Drama
Bāhubali: The Beginning
2015 · S. S. Rajamouli
The young Shivudu is left as a foundling in a small village by his mother. By the time he’s grown up, it has become apparent that he possesses exceptional gifts. He meets the beautiful warrior princes
In common: Action · Drama
Apocalypto
2006 · Mel Gibson
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrow
In common: Action · Drama
Top Gun: Maverick
2022 · Joseph Kosinski
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TO
In common: Action · Drama
Beast
2022 · Baltasar Kormákur
A recently widowed man and his two teenage daughters travel to a game reserve in South Africa. However, their journey of healing soon turns into a fight for survival when a bloodthirsty lion starts to
In common: Action · Drama
The Grey
2012 · Joe Carnahan
Following a grueling five-week shift at an Alaskan oil refinery, workers led by sharpshooter John Ottway are flying home for a much-needed vacation. But a brutal storm causes their plane to crash in t
In common: Action · Drama
Chernobyl: Abyss
2021 · Danila Kozlovsky
The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even b
In common: Action · Drama
A Taxi Driver
2017 · Jang Hoon
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwa
In common: Action · Drama
Harakiri
1962 · Masaki Kobayashi
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver
In common: Action · Drama
Carriers
2009 · Àlex Pastor
A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe, and no one can be trusted. Four friends race through the back roads of the American West on their way to a secluded
In common: Action · Drama · Horror
Van Helsing
2004 · Stephen Sommers
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unhol
In common: Action · Horror
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
2013 · Tommy Wirkola
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and mu
In common: Action · Horror
The Forever Purge
2021 · Everardo Gout
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish
In common: Action · Horror
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 · Timur Bekmambetov
President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.
In common: Action · Horror
Attack on Titan
2015 · Shinji Higuchi
100 years ago, titans suddenly appeared on Earth. Soon, human civilization veered on collapse due to the titans. Humans then built a giant wall to defend themselves. Within the giant walls, humans liv
In common: Action · Horror
Willy's Wonderland
2021 · Kevin Lewis
When his car breaks down, a quiet loner agrees to clean an abandoned family fun center in exchange for repairs. He soon finds himself waging war against possessed animatronic mascots while trapped ins
In common: Action · Horror
Deep Blue Sea
1999 · Renny Harlin
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,
In common: Action · Horror
No Way Up
2024 · Claudio Fäh
Characters from different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they're travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean. A nightmare fight for survival ensues with the air supply running out and
In common: Action · Horror
Dracula Untold
2014 · Gary Shore
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in ord
In common: Action · Horror
Planet Terror
2007 · Robert Rodriguez
Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enr
In common: Action · Horror
Unhinged
2020 · Derrick Borte
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. Afte
In common: Action · Horror
They Will Kill You
2026 · Kirill Sokolov
A woman answers a help wanted ad to be a housekeeper in a mysterious New York City high-rise, unaware that she is entering a community that has seen a number of disappearances over the years and may b
In common: Action · Horror
Meg 2: The Trench
2023 · Ben Wheatley
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 batt
In common: Action · Horror
The Meg
2018 · Jon Turteltaub
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
In common: Action · Horror
Godzilla Minus One
2023 · Takashi Yamazaki
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair a
In common: Action · Horror
Shin Godzilla
2016 · Shinji Higuchi
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
In common: Action · Horror
#Alive
2020 · Cho Il
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.
In common: Action · Horror
The Hunt
2020 · Craig Zobel
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt
In common: Action · Horror
Interview with the Vampire
1994 · Neil Jordan
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
In common: Drama · Horror
Martyrs
2008 · Pascal Laugier
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell o
In common: Drama · Horror
The Innocents
1961 · Jack Clayton
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
In common: Drama · Horror
Rosemary's Baby
1968 · Roman Polanski
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
In common: Drama · Horror
The Craft
1996 · Andrew Fleming
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
In common: Drama · Horror
Session 9
2001 · Brad Anderson
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
In common: Drama · Horror
Suspiria
2018 · Luca Guadagnino
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the night
In common: Drama · Horror
The Shallows
2016 · Jaume Collet-Serra
While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requi
In common: Drama · Horror
Frankenstein
2025 · Guillermo del Toro
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
In common: Drama · Horror
A Quiet Place
2018 · John Krasinski
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
In common: Drama · Horror
The Host
2006 · Bong Joon Ho
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
In common: Drama · Horror
The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
2011 · Tom Six
Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
In common: Drama · Horror
Midsommar
2019 · Ari Aster
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where t
In common: Drama · Horror
Popular series
Breaking Bad
2008 · Michelle MacLaren
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
2023 · Kazutaka Yamanaka
After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity’s m
Avatar: The Last Airbender
2005 · Michael Dante DiMartino
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.
