Movies Like CONTAINMENT

If you liked CONTAINMENT (2026), a thriller and horror movie directed by Isaac Mendez, 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
Die Alone (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller
Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he…
2
Resident Evil (2026)
★ 7.3/10Also horror
Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
3
Land of the Dead (2005)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller
The living dead have taken over the world, and the remaining humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they cope with the situation.
4
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled…
5
Forgive Us All (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and thriller
In a post-apocalyptic world, a virus has transformed humans into violently deranged cannibals. A bereaved mother has lost everything and takes refuge in an isolated mountain cabin, until a desperate wounded stranger…
6
Extinction (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
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28 Days Later (2002)
★ 7.2/10Also horror and thriller
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…
8
The Hunt (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and horror
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 humans for sport…
9
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
★ 6.9/10Also horror
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
10
The Driver (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also horror
After a plague of the undead decimates human life on Earth, a former hit man (Mark Dacascos), his wife, and daughter live quietly in a survivalist compound. But when their base is attacked, a massive explosion summons…
11
They Reach (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also horror
In 1979, a young girl stumbles upon a possessed tape player. She unknowingly unleashes a demonic entity that haunts her family while slowly dragging the small town of Clarkston to Hell.
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Open Grave (2013)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
A man awakes -- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer.
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The Bay (2012)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and thriller
Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.
14
Re-Kill (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also horror
Five years after a zombie outbreak, the men and women of R-Division hunt down and destroy the undead. When they see signs of a second outbreak, they fear humanity may not survive.
15
Grindhouse (2007)
★ 7/10Also thriller and horror
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…
16
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.
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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…
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28 Years Later (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and thriller
Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he…
19
Doomsday (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also 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…
20
Patients of a Saint (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also horror
There's a zombie outbreak after a medical trial in an international detention and medical facility on an isolated island. An ex US Special Forces/bodyguard woman inmate and a guard form a team.