Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
The Rain opens on a world gutted by a lethal virus, leaving two young siblings to navigate a collapsed Scandinavian society where every decision is a matter of survival. The show speaks to viewers drawn to stories where the threat is systemic and environmental, where family loyalty is the last anchor, and where the bleak landscape carries as much weight as any character.
Film
Occupation: Rainfall
Desperate survivors fighting back against overwhelming odds in a world already largely lost to invasion.
Film
The Seed
An isolated getaway becomes a site of horror and death when something alien and lethal arrives uninvited.
Film
Fear of Rain
A teenager living with schizophrenia suspects her neighbor has kidnapped a child, while her parents hide their own secrets.
Film
During the Rains
Two young women — one unemployed, one a student — navigate life at the mercy of others during the pandemic.
Film
Rain
Six interwoven lives in which chance encounters peel back the surface to expose something raw and true.
Film
After the Rain
Strangers trapped together by natural disaster, with rising tensions revealing what people hide under pressure.
Game
Rain
A boy rendered invisible journeys alone through an eerie world to find and save someone equally unseen.
Game
Rainswept
A detective unpicks a quiet community's secrets, where the official explanation for two deaths doesn't quite hold.
Game
The Light
A solitary figure moving through an abandoned, overgrown world where nature has reclaimed everything humanity left behind.
Game
Solstice
A frozen, cut-off city where small personal disasters compound into catastrophe for the few who remain.
Game
Storm
A meditative journey through the seasons using natural phenomena to guide a seed toward fertile soil.
Game
Rain World
A lone creature separated from family must hunt, hide, and endure in a hostile world ruled by relentless rain.
Book
The rain
A sixteen-year-old's first kiss is abruptly interrupted, setting off a chaotic and awkward chain of events.
Book
Unlocked
A near-future virus rewrites society in ways nobody anticipated, unfolding sooner than the world was ready for.
Book
The prey
Teen survivors in a post-apocalyptic world escape a dark fate and fight for freedom across hostile terrain.
Book
Hot rain
A woman on the run after uncovering dangerous truth, forced into a perilous situation she never sought.
Book
Peter Spier's Rain
Two children spend a rainy day playing outside in their backyard.
Book
After the rain
A fifteen-year-old carrying quiet anxieties as she navigates family, friendship, and a first real relationship.
Series
Love Rain
A love story stretched across decades, shaped by loss and the pull of an unexpected reunion.
Series
Something in the Rain
A slow, tender account of two people discovering each other across the distance of unfamiliarity.
Series
The Strain
A disease investigator races to contain a mysterious viral outbreak with increasingly alarming hallmarks.
Series
Thundercloud Rainstorm
An uneasy arrangement between two people spirals into something far darker and more consuming than either anticipated.
Series
Rainless Love in a Godless Land
A dying world and an unlikely bond, as the last rains leave and time runs out for both gods and humans.
Series
The Terror
People in extreme situations drawn from history, rendered with the dread of something that cannot be outrun.
The Strain shares the same premise of a devastating viral outbreak investigated by a small team racing against collapse. Rainless Love in a Godless Land offers a more lyrical take on a world ending by environmental catastrophe.
Rain World is the closest tonal match — a lone creature separated from family surviving in a dangerous, rain-soaked world. Solstice adds a dystopian mystery layer set in a frozen, isolated city cut off from the outside.
It puts ordinary people — specifically siblings — at the centre of an extraordinary collapse, keeping the emotional stakes intimate even as the world falls apart. The Scandinavian setting gives the survival story a distinct, bleak atmosphere that separates it from American post-apocalyptic fare.