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Containment (2016)
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
An epidemic breaks out in Atlanta leaving the large city quarantined and those stuck on the inside fighting for their lives. This is the story of loved ones torn apart, and how the society that grows inside the quarantine reveals both the devolution of humanity and the birth of unlikely heroes.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, apocalyptic, horrifying, medical drama, suspense, disaster movie
Audience:
teens
Plot:
virus, epidemic, quarantine, death, society, tragic event, doctor, infection, conspiracy theory, murder, virus outbreak, blood, apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, twists and turns, police officer, disease, secret, friendship, heroes, supernatural, medicine, plague, medical ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
usa, atlanta georgia
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Audience:
boys' night, adult
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, terrifying, serious, tense, disturbing ...
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Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Heroic U.S. Army scientist Dr. Nancy Jaax, working with a secret military specialized team, puts her life on the line to head off an Ebola outbreak before it spread to the human population.
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rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, terrifying, psychological ...
Plot:
virus, infection, research, death, laboratory, female protagonist, military, doctor, disease, scientist, quarantine, hysteria ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Between is the story of a town under siege from a mysterious disease that has wiped out everybody except those 21 years old and under. The series explores the power vacuum that results when a government has quarantined a 10-mile diameter area and ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
death, virus, youth, isolation, chaos, chaos and mayhem, teenage life, plague, escape attempt, rivalry, quarantine, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
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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:
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Place:
hong kong, minnesota, san francisco, california, bay area ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A cordon seals off a section of Antwerp when a deadly virus threatens the city. People are left to their own devices which brings out the best but also the worst.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
quarantine, isolation, danger, confined, plague, chaos, infection, conspiracy, scientist, apocalypse, virus outbreak, survival ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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100%
16K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot:
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Story:
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time travel, epidemic, dystopian future, changing the past or future, sent to the past, existence paradox, time machine, post apocalypse, virus, paradox, apocalypse, plague ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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27K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Style:
suspenseful, captivating, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pandemic, dangerous animal, partner, pursuit, mutation, extinction, animal attack, save the world, virus, death, danger, survival ...
Time:
jurassic, 2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 48 min.
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Story:
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Style:
disturbing, tense, suspense, apocalyptic
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Time:
2020s
Place:
fictional island
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Under the Dome is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. It tells the story of the residents of the small town of Chester's Mill in Maine, where a massive, transparent, indestructible dome suddenly cuts them off from the rest of ...
Style:
exciting, mind bending, surreal, teen, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Country: USA
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37%
6K
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Duration: 152 min.
Story:
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Country: France
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
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Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Place:
usa
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36%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
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Place:
usa
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36%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, frightening, scary ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
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Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
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Plot:
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367
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
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serious, medical drama, captivating, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
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42K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, tense, absurd, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, virus, gory, zombie apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, supernatural, chaos, graphic violence, on the road, danger ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
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