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Contagion: Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Gwyneth Paltrow, Tien You Chui, Josie Ho, Daria Strokous. Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
- (318K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Steven Soderbergh
- 2011-09-09
Films about viral outbreaks, epidemics or pandemics of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals. A widespread endemic disease with a stable number of infected individuals is not a pandemic.
- I Am Legend. Will Smith, Alice Braga, Dash Mihok. 4,595 votes. In this post-apocalyptic thriller, humanity is all but wiped out by a devastating pandemic that turns the infected into feral, nocturnal creatures.
- Dawn of the Dead. Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber. 1,834 votes. As a compelling and horrifying portrayal of a zombie apocalypse, this classic film shows society in chaos as the dead return to life and terrorize the living.
- 28 Days Later. Cillian Murphy, Noah Huntley, Naomie Harris. 4,635 votes. This groundbreaking film turns the traditional zombie narrative on its head, portraying the infected as terrifyingly fast and aggressive.
- Outbreak. Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman. 4,570 votes. This tense medical thriller centers around the desperate race to control a deadly, Ebola-like virus that threatens a small California town.
1. Outbreak. 1995 2h 7m R. 6.6 (140K) Rate. 64 Metascore. A team of Army doctors struggle to find a cure for the deadly Motaba virus that was transported from Africa to North America by a white-headed Capuchin monkey and is now spreading quickly throughout a small California town.
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- TV-MA
1. Contagious. 1997 1h 43m PG-13. 5.4 (405) Rate. TV Movie. When some shrimp from Colombia, tainted with cholera, is served to some people on a plane bound for L.A., an outbreak ensues. And a doctor sets out to find the source and contain it before it turns into a epidemic.
May 13, 2023 · Coming out of the global pandemic and still reeling from its effects, every disaster movie about a viral outbreak feels different in retrospect—like cautionary tales of doom that really could be. Diseases, viruses, and sicknesses are terrifying for how quickly they can dismantle society and erode humanity.
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Nov 28, 2020 · Put that COVID-19 screenplay you’ve been meaning to write on bedrest, and watch one of these best pandemic movies of all time.