Movies like Contagious
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Contagious (1997)
419
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
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, a drug smuggler who was carrying some drugs on him contaminates the drugs and are sold on the street. And to top things of her husband who is on a camping trip with their two children is sick but did not show any symptoms until they were isolated from the rest of the world. Can she get to them in time?
Plot:
epidemic, pandemic, virus, infection, quarantine, disaster, apocalypse, doctor, hospital, deadly virus, cholera, airplane, children, forest, medical, cocaine, family relations, drug dealer, helicopter, policewoman, stepmother, journalism, girl, mirror, camping ...
Place:
los angeles, colombia, taipei
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Most similar movies to Contagious
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic and serious films with plots about pandemic, epidemic, virus, apocalypse, quarantine, disaster and infection mostly in Thriller, Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Contagious: Virus (1995), Carriers (1998), Black Death (1992), Epidemic (2020), Pandemic (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
457
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:
apocalyptic, mystical
Plot:
pandemic, epidemic, deadly virus, virus, quarantine, disease, medical, virus outbreak, dystopia, medicine, post apocalyptic, apocalypse ...
Place:
africa
Similarity:
95%
255
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A female Army doctor and a journalist team up to track a killer virus.
Plot:
epidemic, quarantine, virus, pandemic, virus outbreak, disaster, writers, biological warfare, doctor, military, dead boy, genetic engineering ...
Place:
delaware, usa, boston
Similarity:
95%
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:
hospital, plague, disease, quarantine, infection, female doctor, epidemic, die hard, virus, pandemic, disaster, terminal illness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
93%
425
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
TV show
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:
disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, enigmatic
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
epidemic, deadly virus, laboratory, hospital, infection, infected, virus, medical research, doctor, scientist, public health, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
montreal, canada
Similarity:
90%
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367
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, psychological, serious, sad
Plot:
epidemic, quarantine, disaster, plague, disease, virus, infection, research, doctor, pandemic, investigation, danger ...
Time:
near future, 2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The president of the United States declares a state of emergency after a deadly virus developed as a bio-weapon is accidentally released across the globe.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
quarantine, bio weapon, pandemic, virus, terrorism, epidemic, virus outbreak, terrorist attack, disease, terrorist, deadly virus, terrorizing ...
Similarity:
88%
6K
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, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
virus, deadly virus, epidemic, infection, quarantine, pandemic, doctor, nurse, virus outbreak, danger, fate of humanity, infected ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Lee Myung-hyun and his disease control task force investigate a mutant virus that has a 100% fatality rate and kills the infected within three days. Not only must they find an antidote, they must also stop the epidemic from spreading and killing all ...
Style:
medical drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
epidemic, infection, quarantine, pandemic, disease, plague, investigation, deadly virus, virus, scientist, problem, biohazard ...
Place:
korea, south korea, seoul
Similarity:
86%
329K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong
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, medical horror, bleak, clever ...
Plot:
virus, pandemic, epidemic, deadly virus, infected, infection, death, quarantine, plague, survival, disaster, medical ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 2000, distant future, future ...
Place:
hong kong, minnesota, san francisco, california, bay area ...
Similarity:
82%
318
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:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, tension
Plot:
epidemic, airplane, quarantine, moral dilemma, disaster, isolation, passenger, pandemic, virus outbreak, deadly virus, isolated place, virus ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
81%
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.
Style:
suspense, tension, tense, grim
Plot:
quarantine, disaster, cruise ship, virus outbreak, ocean, mutiny, mother daughter relationship, biohazard, confined, panic, isolation, pandemic ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
80%
352
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, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, grim ...
Plot:
pandemic, quarantine, plague, disaster, virus, disease, infection, bacteria, epidemic, post apocalypse, mass death, panic ...
Time:
year 1970
Similarity:
79%
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, post apocalypse, disease, brutality, pandemic, survival, danger, virus, body horror, gory, quarantine, infected ...
Place:
venezuela
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Pakistan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
While caring for his ailing wife, an American engineer in Pakistan stumbles upon a deadly pharmaceutical conspiracy.
Style:
apocalyptic, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, virus, disease, engineer, conspiracy, deadly virus, loss of loved one, chaos and mayhem, chaos, survival, death, infected ...
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A catastrophic train derailment sends the city spiraling into chaos. But the derailment is just the beginning. A biological gas attack sees crash survivors collapsing and dying within minutes. And the sickness is rapidly spreading.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
train wreck, biohazard, pandemic, infection, problem, survival, catastrophe, freight train, struggle for survival, chaos, apocalypse, train ...
Similarity:
77%
145K
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, exciting, apocalyptic, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
epidemic, plague, virus, quarantine, bio weapon, monkey, catastrophe, disaster, medical, infection, deadly virus, disease ...
Time:
jurassic, future, 60s, year 1967, 90s ...
Place:
africa, utah, northern california, usa, washington d.c. ...
Similarity:
77%
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:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, mysterious, creepy ...
Plot:
epidemic, infection, pandemic, virus, quarantine, trapped, human nature, life turned upside down, society, secret, disease, post apocalyptic ...
Similarity:
77%
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:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Plot:
parasite, epidemic, virus, survival, apocalypse, deadly virus, victim, drowning, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, pandemic ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
76%
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286
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, slasher ...
Plot:
confined, danger, isolation, hospital, medical student, abduction, murder, woman in danger, student, orchard, buried alive, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
76%
16K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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, terrifying, serious, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
epidemic, quarantine, plague, deadly virus, virus, infected, disaster, survival, pandemic, infection, chaos, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
76%
911
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A top secret government study involving the manipulation of the weather goes awry, leaving L.A. in the path of a destructive hurricane. A meteorologist sets out to save the city.
Style:
serious, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
catastrophe, disaster, manipulation, heroes, danger, technology gone awry, escapades, save the day, undercover, chaos, government agency, forces of nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, pacific ocean
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A doctor must find a cure for a viral epidemic that is spreading through vapors from jets.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
disaster, dystopia, save the world, supernatural, life is a bitch, survival, dystopian future, isolation, terminal illness, escapades, chaos, plague ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
75%
930
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:
74%
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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, sexy, breathtaking, serious ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, virus, epidemic, psychiatrist, danger, invasion, infected, alien encounter, doctor, hysteria, save the world ...
Time:
year 2007, distant future, future
Place:
washington d.c., usa, kurdistan, russia
Similarity:
74%
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:
captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, intense, tense
Plot:
post apocalypse, plague, community, distopia, survival, secrets, female protagonist, weapons, religious, quarantine, post apocalyptic, disaster ...
Similarity:
73%
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:
religion, christian, danger, chases and races, rescue, race against time, religions or cults, worldwide chaos, chaos and mayhem, dating, apocalypse, christian propaganda ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, tokyo, rio de janeiro, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
73%
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, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
deadly virus, virus, disaster, medical, laboratory, science, race against time, plague, alien, pandemic, epidemic, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, distant future, year 1971, year 1970 ...
Place:
new mexico, usa, north america
Similarity:
73%
921
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, disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
virus, pandemic, epidemic, post apocalyptic, time travel, choice, saving a life, fate of humanity, deadly virus, scientific experiment, save the world, struggle for survival ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dr. Katie Jones, a successful plastic surgeon, becomes entangled in the web of a narcissist patient whose path to perfection threatens to destroy Katie and her family.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, detective
Plot:
medical, female doctor, doctor, patient, doctors and patients, plan, revenge motive, threat to kill, medicine, relationship problems, threat, doctor patient relationship ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Digging at a nearby cave, a careless industrialist unearths a vein of pure base Lithium and inadvertently brings it to the surface, where the Lithium combusts when coming into contact with water and begins to wreak havoc on the country side.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, chaos, save the day, danger, race against time, forces of nature, escapades, heroes, heroic mission, chaos and mayhem, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, burned alive ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
72%
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