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10 Best Movies Like The Dead Nation

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

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#1
Winter Light

Winter Light

1963★ 7.9

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

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God....

#2
Anti Matter

Anti Matter

2016★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dead Nation for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Oxford PhD student Ana finds herself unable to build new memories, following an experiment to generate and travel through a wormhole. The story follows her increasingly desperate e...

#3
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#4
Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction

1994★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dead Nation for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in ...

#5
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

1957★ 8.6

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

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begi...

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dead Nation for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....