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Pandemic & Virus Movies

Name: Pandemic & Virus Movies
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Films about pandemics and viral outbreaks — contagion, quarantine, and the fight for survival.

Pandemic Virus Movies — 29 entries in the movies category, sortable by Title, Year, Director. Every row is ranked by community votes, giving you a crowd-sourced perspective you won't find on Wikipedia or IMDb.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Train to Busan	2016	Yeon Sang-ho	7.7	Horror, Thriller, Action, Adventure	South Korea	118	When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie	2001	Shinichiro Watanabe	7.7	Action, Animation, Science Fiction	Japan	115	The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop; Spike, Faye, Jet and Ed, take the case with hope...
Twelve Monkeys	1995	Terry Gilliam	7.6	Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery	United States of America	129	In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's ar...
The Flu	2013	Kim Sung-soo	7.5	Action, Science Fiction, Thriller	South Korea	122	A case of the flu quickly morphs into a pandemic. As the death toll mounts and the living panic, the government plans extreme measures to contain it.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	2014	Matt Reeves	7.3	Science Fiction, Action, Drama, Thriller	United Kingdom	130	A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
The Painted Veil	2006	John Curran	7.3	Romance, Drama	Canada	125	A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
I Am Legend	2007	Francis Lawrence	7.2	Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller	United States of America	101	Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desp...
28 Days Later	2002	Danny Boyle	7.2	Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction	United Kingdom	113	Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs ...
#Alive	2020	Cho Il	7.2	Action, Horror, Science Fiction	South Korea	98	As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.
Perfect Sense	2011	David Mackenzie	6.9	Drama, Science Fiction, Romance	Germany	93	In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.
Hidden	2015	Ross Duffer	6.9	Thriller, Horror	United States of America	83	A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Resident Evil: Vendetta	2017	Takanori Tsujimoto	6.9	Action, Animation, Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror	Japan	97	When a fearless enemy out for revenge unleashes a brutal and deadly new virus, BSAA captain Chris Redfield enlists the help of Agent Leon S. Kennedy and Professor Rebecca Chambers to bring down the death merchant and save New York City.
World War Z	2013	Marc Forster	6.8	Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller	United Kingdom	116	Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this ...
The Sadness	2021	Rob Jabbaz	6.8	Horror, Thriller	Taiwan	100	A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.
Contagion	2011	Steven Soderbergh	6.6	Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction	United States of America	106	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 than the virus itself.
28 Weeks Later	2007	Juan Carlos Fresnadillo	6.6	Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction	United Kingdom	99	Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon...
Outbreak	1995	Wolfgang Petersen	6.6	Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller	United States of America	129	A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
Blindness	2008	Fernando Meirelles	6.5	Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller	Brazil	121	When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
Osmosis Jones	2001	Peter Farrelly	6.5	Adventure, Animation, Action, Comedy, Family, Science Fiction	United States of America	95	A white blood cell policeman, with the help of a cold pill, must stop a deadly virus from destroying the human they live in, Frank.
Daybreakers	2010	Michael Spierig	6.3	Action, Fantasy, Science Fiction	United States of America	98	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.
Carriers	2009	Àlex Pastor	6.1	Action, Drama, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller	United States of America	84	A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe, and no one can be trusted. Four friends race through the back roads of the American West on their way to a secluded utopian beach in the Gulf of Mexico where they could peacefully wait out the pandemic. Their pla...
Mimic	1997	Guillermo del Toro	6.1	Horror, Science Fiction	United States of America	105	A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Su...
The Invasion	2007	Oliver Hirschbiegel	6	Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller	United States of America	99	Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unf...
Doomsday	2008	Neil Marshall	5.9	Action, Thriller, Science Fiction	Germany	108	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...
Resident Evil: Retribution	2012	Paul W. S. Anderson	5.8	Action, Horror, Science Fiction	Canada	95	The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterio...
Quarantine	2008	John Erick Dowdle	5.8	Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller	Spain	89	A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
Cabin Fever	2003	Eli Roth	5.7	Horror	United States of America	93	A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
The Happening	2008	M. Night Shyamalan	5.4	Thriller, Science Fiction	United States of America	90	When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliot Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something ...
[REC]³ Genesis	2012	Paco Plaza	5.3	Horror	Spain	80	A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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