Movies like Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)

Name: Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Released: 2021

10 films to watch after Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

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The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)

Fit 69%

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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 humanity.
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Doomsday (2008)

Fit 65%

Shares Action and Science Fiction with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.

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 major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
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The Crazies (2010)

Fit 62%

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Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
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Arcadian (2024)

Fit 55%

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In the near future, on a decimated Earth, Paul and his twin sons face terror at night when ferocious creatures awaken. When Paul is nearly killed, the boys come up with a plan for survival, using everything their father taught them to keep him alive.
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Land of the Dead (2005)

Fit 54%

Shares Horror and Science Fiction with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.

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.
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Resident Evil (2002)

Fit 47%

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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 the outbreak.
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Daybreakers (2010)

Fit 47%

Shares Action and Science Fiction with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.

In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save humankind.
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Extinction (2015)

Fit 45%

Shares Horror and Science Fiction with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.

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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Maggie (2015)

Fit 44%

Shares Horror and Science Fiction with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.

There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to eradicate those with the virus, Wade is pushed to the limits in an effort to protect her. Joely Richardson co-stars in this post-apocalyptic thriller.
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Hollow Man (2000)

Fit 43%

Shares Action and Science Fiction with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.

Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.