Movies like Cell
If Cell's mix of suicide, airport and boston, massachusetts stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Cell's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Twelve Monkeys
1995 · Directed by Terry Gilliam · 129 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: post-apocalyptic future, virus, intense · Also science fiction and thriller
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground…
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A Quiet Place Part II
2021 · Directed by John Krasinski · 97 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: post-apocalyptic future, hostile · Also science fiction and thriller
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk…
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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
2015 · Directed by Wes Ball · 131 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: post-apocalyptic future, virus · Also science fiction and thriller · From the same decade (2010s)
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD.
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A Quiet Place
2018 · Directed by John Krasinski · 91 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: post-apocalyptic future, hostile · Also horror and science fiction · From the same decade (2010s)
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
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I Am Legend
2007 · Directed by Francis Lawrence · 101 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: post-apocalyptic future, virus · Also science fiction and thriller
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the…
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28 Days Later
2002 · Directed by Danny Boyle · 113 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: virus · Also 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.
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The Maze Runner
2014 · Directed by Wes Ball · 113 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: post-apocalyptic future · Also science fiction and thriller · From the same decade (2010s)
A teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze.
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The Departed
2006 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 151 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: boston, massachusetts, intense
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise.
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Hidden
2015 · Directed by Ross Duffer · 83 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: virus · Also thriller and horror · From the same decade (2010s)
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
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World War Z
2013 · Directed by Marc Forster · 116 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: virus · Also horror and science fiction · From the same decade (2010s)
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies.
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The Long Walk
2025 · Directed by Francis Lawrence · 108 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: suicide · Also science fiction and thriller
In a dystopian America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.
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The Book of Eli
2010 · Directed by Allen Hughes · 118 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: post-apocalyptic future · Also thriller and science fiction · From the same decade (2010s)
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.