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10 Best Movies Like 51

If you loved 51, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Trash

Trash

2014★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 51 for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong....

#2
Peelers

Peelers

2016★ 4.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 51 for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A small town strip club owner must defend her bar, her strippers and her life when violent infected patrons show up on the final closing night and all hell breaks loose....

#3
Night of Death!

Night of Death!

1980★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 51 for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When she takes up her new post at an eerie convalescent home deep in the French countryside, nurse Martine soon discovers that several missing co-workers may have fallen prey to an...

#4
Contagion

Contagion

2011★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 51 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster t...

#5
Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak

2015★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 51 for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of h...

#6
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

2011★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 51 for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that t...