Resident Evil

50 Movies Like Resident Evil (2002) You Need to Watch Next

2002·Paul W. S. AndersoniRank52
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When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military tas

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If you loved Resident Evil (2002) by Paul W. S. Anderson, 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 Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, World War Z. 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.

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