Movies Like The Day (2011)

The Day is a 2011 action, drama, horror, science fiction film from Douglas Aarniokoski with a MovieMagicScore of 5.1/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with 28 Years Later and Outside.

Action Drama Horror Science Fiction

28 Years Later

2025

Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

6.6

MagicScore

Outside

2024

A family retreats to an isolated farm during a zombie outbreak, but years of painful secrets take a toll as they navigate their desolate world.

6.2

MagicScore

This Is Not a Test

2026

Sloane and four classmates take cover in Cortege High to escape a world plagued by the infected. As danger relentlessly pounds on the doors, Sloane begins to see the world through the eyes of those who actually want to live and takes matters into her own hands.

5.4

MagicScore

Mad Max: Fury Road

2015

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

7.6

MagicScore

Concrete Utopia

2023

The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming in to Hwang Gung Apartments trying to escape the extreme cold. Before long, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Feeling a threat to their very survival, the residents enact a special measure.

6.9

MagicScore

Dredd

2012

In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.

6.9

MagicScore

The Book of Eli

2010

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.

6.8

MagicScore

Malevil

1981

In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed...

6.6

MagicScore

Hell

2011

In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins.

5.8

MagicScore

#10

Attack on Titan: Chronicle

2020

In the fourth recap movie, episodes 1 to 59 of the anime are retold, compiling the first Three seasons of Attack on Titan into a two-hour event.

7.5

MagicScore

#11

The Road

2009

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones and, when the snow falls, it is gray. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.

7.0

MagicScore

#12

A Quiet Place

2018

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

7.4

MagicScore

#13

The Thing from Another World

1951

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

6.7

MagicScore

#14

Primitive War

2025

During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs.

6.7

MagicScore

#15

Underwater

2020

After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

6.3

MagicScore

#16

Resident Evil: Damnation

2012

U.S. federal agent Leon S. Kennedy sneaks into the "East Slavic Republic" to verify rumors that Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs) are being used in the country's civil war, which the U.S. and Russia are making preparations to jointly intervene in. Right after his infiltration, the U.S. government orders him to leave immediately. Determined to uncover the truth, Leon ignores the order and enters the battlefield to end the chain of tragedies caused by the BOWs.

6.9

MagicScore

#17

A Quiet Place Part II

2021

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 beyond the sand path.

7.5

MagicScore

#18

Bird Box

2018

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

6.8

MagicScore

#19

Junk Head

2022

Mankind can no longer reproduce because of gene manipulation aimed at making life longer. The clones ruling the bottomless underworld may have become fertile. Parton is selected to go on a mission through a subterranean labyrinth crawling with monsters to secure humanity's future.

6.6

MagicScore

#20

Year 10

2024

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.

5.3

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Day?

The top films similar to The Day by MovieMagicScore are 28 Years Later (6.6), Outside (6.2), This Is Not a Test (5.4). Each shares action/drama/horror/science fiction themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Day worth watching?

The Day holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.1/10 from 269 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Day?

The Day (2011) is a action, drama, horror, science fiction film directed by Douglas Aarniokoski, starring Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell, Michael Eklund.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Day?

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About movies like The Day

This ranked list pairs The Day (2011), a action and drama and horror and science fiction film from Douglas Aarniokoski, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Shawn Ashmore take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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