Movies Like Friend of the World

If you liked Friend of the World (2020), a comedy and science fiction movie directed by Brian Patrick Butler, 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
Cold Storage (2026)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and science fiction
When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two employees – joined by a grizzled bioterror operative – must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction.
2
Afterburn (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and comedy
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of…
3
They Cloned Tyrone (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and science fiction
A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy lurking directly beneath their neighborhood.
4
Extinction (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and science fiction
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.
5
Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1 (2013)
★ 6/10Also comedy and horror
Return to the Class of Nuke 'Em High follows a young couple that are up against the school glee club. Unfortunately, the glee club has mutated into a gang called The Cretins. When the other students begin to undergo…
6
Eraserhead (1977)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and science fiction
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
7
Idiocracy (2006)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and science fiction
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events…
8
Hold the Fort (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and comedy
A HOA turns out to be more troublesome than usual in this wildly amusing, FX-heavy freak-out about newly minted suburbanites unexpectedly forced to take part in a struggle against monstrous forces.
9
Iron Lung (2026)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and science fiction
In a post-apocalyptic future where an event known as "The Quiet Rapture" caused all known stars and habitable planets in the universe to disappear, a convict is sent to search an ocean of blood discovered on a desolate…
10
Bugonia (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also science fiction and comedy
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
11
Bloody Hell (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and comedy
A man with a mysterious past flees the country to escape his own personal hell... only to arrive somewhere much worse. In an effort to survive this new horror, he turns to his personified conscience.
12
Freaks of Nature (2015)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and comedy
In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get…
13
Year 10 (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
14
Resident Evil (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and science fiction
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 task force to contain…
15
Vampire's Kiss (1989)
★ 6/10Also comedy and horror
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction.
16
Britannia Hospital (1982)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and science fiction
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the…
17
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and science fiction
In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into thoughtless, flesh-eating monsters. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save…
18
The Divide (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction
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.
19
Night of the Comet (1984)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and horror
After a comet wipes out most of life on Earth, two Valley Girls find themselves fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.
20
Bad (1977)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and comedy
Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work after he runs out of money. She…