Movies Like Rise of the Zombies

If you liked Rise of the Zombies (2012), a action and horror movie directed by Nick Lyon, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
God Is a Bullet (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and action
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the…
2
Daylight's End (2016)
★ 5.8/10Also action and horror
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station…
3
Shadow Master (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also action and thriller
After being slain by a group of criminals, a man is reborn with animal-like superpowers and makes it his mission to right the wrongs of his city.
4
Frank and Penelope (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller and horror
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is…
5
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller and action
A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.
6
The Resurrected (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller
Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.
7
Grindhouse (2007)
★ 7/10Also thriller and action
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…
8
Planet Terror (2007)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and action
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 enraged aggressors…
9
The Divide (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller
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.
10
Night of the Hunted (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller
When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her…
11
Doomsday (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also action and thriller
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a…
12
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
★ 5.9/10Also action and horror
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the…
13
The First Purge (2018)
★ 6/10Also action and horror
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of…
14
Cheat (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller and horror
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek…
15
The Belko Experiment (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller
A group of eighty American workers are locked in their office and ordered by an unknown voice to participate in a twisted game.
16
Hollow Man (2000)
★ 6/10Also action and thriller
Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the…
17
Becky (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and horror
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
18
Until Death (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also action and thriller
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.
19
Rampage: Capital Punishment (2014)
★ 6/10Also action and thriller
A man takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money.
20
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
★ 7.1/10Also horror and action
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.