Movies like Black Death 1992
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Black Death (1992)
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Original name: Quiet Killer
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 -- by the plague, as the terrified coroners find out. While trying to keep this from the public to avoid a panic, epidemic commissioner Dr. Nora Hart has to investigate Sarah's identity and find everyone who had contact with her. If she misses a single person, the plague could kill half the city in a few days!
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, apocalyptic
Plot:
hospital, quarantine, pandemic, airplane, epidemic, catastrophe, plague, disaster, getting home, terminal illness, doctors and patients, race against time, apocalypse, school, infection, medical, surgery, riot, infected, mayor, female doctor, chases and races, danger, deadly, eyeglasses ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york
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Most similar movies to Black Death
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and bleak films with plots about disaster, danger, catastrophe, apocalypse, race against time, chases and races and heroes mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like Black Death: Virus (1995), Pandemic (2009), Contagious (1997), Thirst (1998), Plague (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
Plot:
epidemic, deadly virus, apocalypse, pandemic, quarantine, medical, hospital, medical research, caucasian, plague, swearing, disease ...
Place:
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877
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:
bleak, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
quarantine, suspense, dishonesty, plague, disaster, epidemic, save the day, virus, rivalry, pandemic, apocalypse, conspiracy ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new mexico
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77%
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, disaster, pandemic, quarantine, hospital, doctor, cholera, apocalypse, deadly virus, infection, camping, girl ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
346
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town's water supply, causing people who drink it to die of thirst.
Style:
serious, exciting, bleak, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, heat wave, nypd, hospital, quarantine, escapades, race against time, plague, couple relations, chaos, catastrophe, city ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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309
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:
psychotronic, atmospheric
Plot:
disaster, post apocalypse, pandemic, quarantine, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, natural disaster, plague, laboratory, virus, hospital ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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331
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:
captivating, psychological, serious, sad
Plot:
pandemic, disaster, epidemic, quarantine, virus, research, plague, doctor, disease, suspense, investigation, society ...
Time:
near future, 2010s
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On a secret military base a group of scientists have made a discovery unequaled since the invention of the A-bomb; code-named Eruptor, it's a device that supercharges Dark Matter and uses it to change the molecular structure of its target, ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, military base, natural disaster, experiment gone awry, heroes, mad scientist, race against time, save the world, disorder, save the planet, technology gone awry, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, tense, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
isolation, terrorism, post apocalypse, disaster, infection, apocalypse, couples, toxic, save the day, race against time, americana, epidemic ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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, serious, scary, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, epidemic, virus, laboratory, infection, catastrophe, biological warfare, disease, monster, apocalypse, found footage, bio weapon ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, intense, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
suspense, alien, alien invasion, save the world, epidemic, psychiatrist, survival, transformation, virus, invasion, alien encounter, hysteria ...
Time:
future
Place:
washington d.c., usa, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
Fuming over the departure of his wife Vivian and the cutting of his research funding, crazy nuclear scientist Rogers Henry constructs Medusa, a thermonuclear bomb capable of generating a continent-sized electro-magnetic pulse; such EMP could ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
airplane, air disaster, disaster, chaos, escapades, heroes, save the day, vengeance, rivalry, race against time, couple relations, technology gone awry ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
washington d.c., london, pentagon, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
This is the story of Starflight One, the world's first "hypersonic plane," which flies faster and higher than any other commercial jet. On the night of its maiden flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, a freak accident incolving an ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, disturbing
Plot:
airplane, airplane accident, disaster, space, rescue, space shuttle, heroes, confined, stranded, zero gravity, passenger, race against time ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy ...
Style:
futuristic, tense, exciting, suspenseful, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
alien, plague, deadly virus, disaster, laboratory, survival, science, virus, epidemic, catastrophe, distopia, natural disaster ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 50s, future
Place:
new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
261
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Characters in a bio technological firm utilize nanotechnology (miniature, smart robots) to control others for their own good.
Style:
serious, rough, exciting, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
laboratory, experiment gone awry, corporate crime, technology gone awry, future dystopia, inventions and discoveries, life is a bitch, graphic violence, kidnapping, workplace intrigue, doctors and patients, child illness ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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, pandemic, virus, disaster, quarantine, isolation, heroic mission, race against time, plague, experiment gone awry, chaos, life is a bitch ...
Place:
usa, virginia, angola
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A plane is taken over by a mysterious virus. When the plane lands it is placed under quarantine. Now a group of survivors must band together to survive the quarantine.
Style:
scary, splatter, slasher, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, quarantine, virus, infected, airplane, infection, plague, stewardess, zombification, airport, chaos, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
14K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Infected through the respiratory system, there is a new kind of disease that kills in 36 hours once infected. The people of the city struggle to survive this. The worst epidemic ever seen is sweeping through Bundang, the suburb of Seoul. After ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
epidemic, quarantine, deadly virus, virus, infected, plague, disaster, survival, pandemic, chaos, infection, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
740
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Physicist Eva Soderstrom discovers greedy industrialist Thomas Abernathy is on the verge of creating an artificial black hole in a laboratory on Earth. It's the same experiment that killed her father years earlier, except bigger. With the help ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, semi serious
Plot:
experiment gone awry, escapades, chaos, technology gone awry, disaster, suspense, black hole, androids and robots, apocalypse, physicist, blind woman, race against time ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, bleak, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, space and aliens, natural disaster, apocalypse, post apocalypse, asteroid, distopia, christian, intrigue, family relations, race against time, heroes ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
texas, kansas, usa, kansas city, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
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Story:
Quantum Airlines flight 66 has just taken off from Frankfurt, Germany bound for New York's JFK International Airport with 247 passengers aboard. After take-off, a man infected with a Doomsday Virus passes out while a flight attendant and doctor ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, epidemic, air disaster, deadly virus, survival, aviation, infection, natural disaster, virus, race against time, hostage ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
iceland, germany, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The virus came so fast no one had time to prepare. Before the day was over, entire towns were decimated, and large cities became monumental tombs. Left with nothing but fading hope and the will to live, reclusive software consultant Michael (Dexter ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, apocalyptic, interactive
Plot:
apocalypse, zombie, plague, virus, isolation, survival, chaos, deadly creature, save the world, post apocalypse, suspense, infection ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Seven executives die while on a video conference call, the victims of a rapidly spreading virus. Dr. Samantha Craig (Janine Turner) and disgraced doctor Nick Baldwin (Antonio Sabato Jr.) investigate, tracking the disease to a rival firm able to ...
Style:
exciting, scary, serious, suspenseful, tech noir
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
computer virus, chaos, heroes, race against time, a.i., rivalry, save the world, man versus machine, special agents, technology gone awry, plague, bio weapon ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A journalist searches for her daughter as a series of catastrophic disasters push a destabilized society toward the brink of global war.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, futuristic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jae-hyuk is a pharmaceutical worker for a medical supplies company. When a series of dead bodies are found floating in the Han River. The public is shocked to discovered that the deaths are related to a fatal outbreak of virus-infected mutant ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, apocalyptic, twisted
Plot:
parasite, epidemic, disaster, survival, virus, apocalypse, deadly virus, drowning, victim, distopia, post apocalypse, struggle for survival ...
Place:
south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After dense matter from an imploded white hole hits Earth, the planet's rotation is devastated. A group of government agents must locate a lost satellite network that is the world's only hope for survival.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, save the world, satellite, race against time, forces of nature, heroes, special agents, government agency, dishonesty, escapades, extinction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A scientist (James Caan) replaces a military officer (Robert Duvall) as an astronaut on a space-race moonshot.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric, psychotronic ...
Plot:
nasa, astronaut, moon, space, race against time, against the odds, spacewalk, government agency, space exploration, moon landing, space race, spacesuit ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, texas, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Inside a quarantined apartment building a man must protect his pregnant wife from his new neighbors.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Machines have taken over, but left humans thinking that they are still the ones in charge. The androids need humans because of the human brain fluid; without it the android brains can't work. Until the mad scientist finds out how to make this ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, futuristic, bleak, epic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
764
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the 21st Century, terrorists have developed a new way to strike: disease. Not only have they created a deadly Level Four Ebola virus, their first victim is the President of the United States. The virus is particularly contagious and is spreading. ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, bleak, intellectual
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
quarantine, survival, terrorism, save the day, undercover, state affairs, chaos, race against time, bio weapon, plague, antidote, disaster ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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