Movies like Carriers 1998

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Carriers (1998)
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Carriers (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A female Army doctor and a journalist team up to track a killer virus.
Plot: epidemic, writers, pandemic, disaster, virus, quarantine, monkey, military, doctor, infection, hospital, genetic engineering, informant, cover up, harbor, dead boy, biological warfare, traffic accident, disease, jungle, missing child, car accident, writing, jeep, axe ...
Place: delaware, usa, boston
Keyword: outburst

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Most similar movies to Carriers

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, serious and apocalyptic films with plots about epidemic, virus, disaster, apocalypse, quarantine, pandemic and danger mostly in Thriller, Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Carriers: Contagious (1997), Pandemic (2009), Black Death (1992), Epidemic (2020), Virus (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Contagious (1997)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When some shrimp from Mexico, tainted with Cholera, is served to some people on a plane bound for LA. An outbreak ensues. And a doctor sets out to find the source and contain it before it turns into a epidemic. And if things weren't bad enough, ...
Plot: epidemic, pandemic, virus, quarantine, disaster, infection, apocalypse, hospital, doctor, cholera, deadly virus, camping ...
Place: colombia, taipei, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.3
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Pandemic (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza or is it some other ...
Style: suspense, captivating, serious, psychological, sad
Plot: epidemic, quarantine, disaster, plague, disease, virus, infection, research, doctor, danger, investigation, society ...
Time: near future, 2010s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.6
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Black Death (1992)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still on vacation, she breaks down in the middle of the street and dies shortly after in a hospital ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, apocalyptic
Plot: plague, hospital, disease, quarantine, infection, die hard, pandemic, virus, epidemic, disaster, terminal illness, race against time ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.5
 382
Epidemic (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
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Story: -A dangerous virus is spreading in Montreal (in Canada) among a group of ostracized and vulnerable homeless people. How long will Anne-Marie Leclerc, infectious disease specialist and director of the Laboratory for Emergency Health, take before ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, enigmatic
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: epidemic, deadly virus, laboratory, infection, infected, hospital, virus, medical research, doctor, scientist, public health, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: montreal, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Virus (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A real life account of the deadly Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, and the courageous fight put on by several individuals which helped to contain the epidemic.
Style: suspense, disturbing, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: virus, epidemic, deadly virus, infection, quarantine, pandemic, doctor, nurse, life is a bitch, infected, fate of humanity, plague ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Outbreak (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: epidemic, virus, plague, quarantine, disaster, bio weapon, monkey, medical, infection, disease, natural disaster, deadly virus ...
Time: future, jurassic, 60s, year 1967, year 1995 ...
Place: africa, utah, usa, northern california, washington d.c. ...
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50%
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Plague (1979)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An outbreak of a bacteria called M-3 causes people to die in extreme pain via body spasms. A woman who is a carrier escapes from a hospital and goes on the run, spreading the plague to people she encounters, and onto food in fast food stops etc. She ...
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, atmospheric, independent film
Plot: disease, virus, disaster, pandemic, post apocalypse, epidemic, quarantine, plague, apocalypse, distopia, natural disaster, dystopia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.8
 422
Virus (1995)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Who could have deliberately released a rare and deadly African plague that is now spreading uncontrollably throughout America's largest urban areas? A lone determined doctor desperately and fearlessly searches for the truth, but she soon finds ...
Style: mystical, apocalyptic
Plot: pandemic, epidemic, virus, deadly virus, quarantine, disease, dystopia, medicine, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, medical, hospital ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the ...
Style: bleak, serious, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: mental institution, mistreatment, female reporter, investigative reporter, torture, abuse, journalist, fish out of water, violence, investigative journalism, psychiatrist, strong female lead ...
Time: victorian era, 1880s, 1800s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Patriot (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A deadly virus threatens to wipe out an entire Rocky Mountain town, leaving the town doctor to find some way to escape the soldiers who enforce the town's quarantine and devise an antidote. Matters take a more deadly turn after the physician is ...
Style: melancholic, exciting, serious, rough, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, small town, virus, doctor, death, epidemic, chase, indians, violence, fight scenes, father daughter relationship, hospital ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 3K
Warning Sign (1985)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
Style: slasher, sad, tech noir, scary, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: virus, epidemic, infection, disease, laboratory, biological warfare, crisis, infected, apocalypse, found footage, monster, bio weapon ...
Time: year 1985, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.8
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Contagion (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 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.
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, bleak, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: epidemic, virus, deadly virus, pandemic, infection, infected, quarantine, survival, plague, disaster, medical, natural disaster ...
Time: 2010s, future, distant future, year 2000, year 2011 ...
Place: minnesota, hong kong, san francisco, california, bay area ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Pandemic (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A slow-paced, action thriller about a virus that strikes a New Mexico county and the local veterinarian who gets caught in the middle.
Style: suspense, bleak, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: quarantine, danger, plague, dishonesty, disaster, save the day, epidemic, virus, rivalry, apocalypse, disease, found footage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 1K
Infection (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Venezuela, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Film about an epidemic outbreak of a new rabies virus in Venezuela and a father trying to save his son from contagion. A Russian man is in Caracas under the influence of the Krokodil drug, when he gets infected with the rabies virus and starts an ...
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic
Plot: infection, virus, post apocalypse, disease, zombie apocalypse, zombie, pandemic, survival, danger, gory, body horror, brutality ...
Place: venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Factor 8 (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A presumed virus outbreak during a flight from south Asia to Munich. Most of all, the scientific premise is utterly wrong. Retroviruses is shown as multiplying in erythrocytes, which lack a) DNA (necessary for retrovirus replication) and b) the ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: epidemic, airplane, disaster, quarantine, passenger, moral dilemma, virus, deadly virus, isolated place, isolation, stewardess, scientist ...
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 3K
Containment (2015)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
Style: suspenseful, suspense, serious, mysterious, creepy ...
Plot: epidemic, infection, pandemic, virus, trapped, quarantine, human nature, secret, life turned upside down, society, disease, post apocalyptic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Cry in the Wilderness (1974)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. ...
Plot: rabies, disaster, race against time, flood, skunk, boy, mountain, hallucination, father son relationship, truck, farm, water ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Trapped: Buried Alive (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The management of a ski resort blatantly ignores a local expert's warning that a mass of snow has build up which is just waiting to come down the ski slopes in a terrible avalanche. Instead of clearing the endangered area, skiers are allowed to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, resort, save the day, rescue, forces of nature, isolation, family in crisis, family life, danger, escapades, confined, heroic mission ...
Place: usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Voyage of Terror (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An infectious disease researcher is on a cruise with her daughter when an ebola-type virus attacks the ship's passengers and crew.
Plot: disaster, quarantine, disease, virus, die hard, infection, boat, president, videotaping, submarine, u.s. president, ocean ...
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31%
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The Invasion (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, intense, psychological ...
Plot: alien, alien invasion, virus, epidemic, psychiatrist, survival, invasion, danger, save the world, infected, alien encounter, end of the world ...
Time: year 2007, distant future
Place: washington d.c., usa, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: epidemic, virus, disease, disaster, quarantine, isolation, heroic mission, plague, experiment gone awry, chaos, heroes, danger ...
Place: usa, angola, virginia
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29%
What Still Remains (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After the loss of her family, a young woman struggles to survive in a world long-since destroyed by disease; but when a lonely traveler offers her a place in his community, she must decide if the promise of a better life is worth the risk of ...
Style: apocalyptic, captivating, suspenseful, tense, intense
Plot: post apocalypse, community, secrets, survival, distopia, plague, female protagonist, religious, epidemic, dystopia, apocalypse, disaster ...
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28%
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Event 15 (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Three soldiers get trapped in an elevator when terrorists set off a dirty bomb. But when White escapes, her world turns upside down as she realizes nothing is what it seems.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: isolation, survival, soldier, military, trapped in an elevator, terrorist attack, veteran, elevator, danger, confined, losing-it hero, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Isolation (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this eerie hospital chiller, a medical student wakes up in an isolation room, gravely ill with no idea how she got there or how to get out. Trying to make sense of her plight and save herself, she finds the hospital staff distinctly unhelpful.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological ...
Plot: confined, danger, isolation, hospital, medical student, abduction, murder, woman in danger, student, orchard, revenge, flashback ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Diverge (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The survivor of a deadly virus is given the chance to reclaim his lost life by stopping the man responsible for the disease.
Style: suspense, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: epidemic, virus, time travel, pandemic, choice, fate of humanity, scientific experiment, deadly virus, save the world, saving a life, struggle for survival, disaster ...
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27%
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Stigma (1972)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A black doctor ex-convict returns to the all-white town he knows as home and discovers a deadly disease threatening the citizens. He must fight prejudice and time if he is to save the town.
Style: independent film
Plot: exploitation, epidemic, sheriff, doctor, conspiracy, revenge, island, virus, brothel, african american protagonist, infection, promiscuity ...
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26%
Before the Fire (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Deep in the throes of a global pandemic, up and coming TV star, Ava Boone, is forced to flee the mounting chaos in Los Angeles and return to her rural hometown. But as she struggles to acclimate to a way of life she left behind long ago, her ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Plot: small town, chores, homecoming, danger, quarantine, dark past, female protagonist, troubled past, fear, epidemic, survival, chaos and mayhem ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Black Butterfly (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, melancholic, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: writers, dating show, isolation, twists and turns, murder, drifter, recluse, kidnapping, dangerous friend, fear, serial killer, journalism ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 2.8
 238
Face of Evil (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On July 4th, private Jay Williams returns home from the Middle East, but a mysterious epidemic breaks out and infects his friends at his party. On the road to salvation, Jay is joined by his ex-sergeant, who reveals chilling secrets leading to a ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, suspense
Plot: zombie, epidemic, infection, survival horror, pandemic, characters in danger, soldier, violence, plague, zombie apocalypse, survival, walking dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Final: The Rapture (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Argentina, Costa Rica
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A gritty, international tale of four separate stories woven together by a common theme: the Rapture.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot: end of the world, religion, christian, danger, chases and races, race against time, rescue, worldwide chaos, religions or cults, chaos and mayhem, apocalypse, christian propaganda ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tokyo, los angeles, rio de janeiro, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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