Movies like Plague 1979
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Plague (1979)
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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 has no idea however that she is a carrier, and as such may carry a cure.
Style:
apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful, psychotronic, grim, retro, period piece, atmospheric, independent film
Plot:
pandemic, quarantine, plague, virus, disaster, disease, post apocalypse, epidemic, infection, bacteria, survival, escape, biohazard, panic, mass death, fugitive, claustrophobia, isolation, female protagonist, urban, cover up, biological warfare, apocalypse, distopia, natural disaster ...
Time:
year 1970
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Most similar movies to Plague
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, tense and apocalyptic films with plots about epidemic, virus, pandemic, apocalypse, survival, disaster and quarantine mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like Plague: What Still Remains (2018), Deranged (2012), Pandemic (2009), Domain (2016), The Collapsed (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
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:
92%
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:
91%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, the survivors are forced to wait alone in self-sustaining bunkers while the viral threat runs its course. Able to communicate through a networked video interface, the survivors wait for years and ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
communication, bunker, virus, survival, disappearance, trapped, epidemic, deadly virus, struggle for survival, quarantine, pandemic, locked in a room ...
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In the wake of the end of the world, a family of four desperately tries to survive. Their goal: escaping the city and traveling to the rural community they once called home. The constant threat of a violent death forcing them to stay as far away ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, family in danger, life is a bitch, on the run, woods, chaos, gory, disease, virus, dystopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
75%
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, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
epidemic, virus, heroic mission, disease, disaster, quarantine, isolation, experiment gone awry, plague, chaos, heroes, life is a bitch ...
Place:
angola, usa, virginia
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Mini-series in which an unknown virus turns Moscow into a city of the dead. There is no electricity, money has lost all value and those who are still not infected, are desperately fighting for food and fuel. The main character, Sergei, lives outside ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, serious, apocalyptic
Plot:
epidemic, virus, apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, panic, infection, extinction, family in danger, disaster, fear, chaos ...
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
75%
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:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Plot:
small town, chores, homecoming, danger, dark past, troubled past, quarantine, female protagonist, fear, epidemic, survival, chaos and mayhem ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
70%
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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, tech noir, scary, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
biological warfare, epidemic, infection, disease, laboratory, virus, pregnancy, bacteria, quarantine, infected, crisis, virus outbreak ...
Time:
year 1985, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, utah
Similarity:
70%
11K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the near future, breathable air is nonexistent. Virtually all of humanity has disappeared, and those chosen to reestablish society reside in a controlled state of suspended animation. Two engineers tasked with guarding the last hope for mankind ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, ambiguous ending, dark, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
isolation, bunker, science, humanity, freezing, distopia, dystopia, disaster, post apocalypse, contamination, apocalypse, trapped ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Similarity:
67%
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:
66%
437
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
As the world faces a deadly plague, humanity's hope for a cure lies with a scientist who awakens imprisoned in a metal chamber. She desperately works to escape her confined cell to save the last of humanity.
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
plague, epidemic, isolation, scientist, pandemic, claustrophobia, save the world, deadly virus, humanity, confined space, threat, virus ...
Similarity:
65%
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:
64%
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:
63%
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:
61%
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:
58%
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:
56%
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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:
52%
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, apocalyptic, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
epidemic, couple relations, disease, quarantine, post apocalyptic, apartment building, neighbor, survival, virus, chaos, confined, isolation ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
52%
885
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:
rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, intellectual
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
quarantine, bio weapon, terrorism, save the day, survival, chaos, state affairs, danger, undercover, plague, antidote, infection ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When martial law is declared, a family seeks shelter in the safety of its own home during a nationwide lockdown for a highly contagious virus.
Style:
suspense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
martial law, distopia, pandemic, quarantine, deadly virus, biohazard, house, virus, evil, coronavirus, isolation, fear ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on a novel by Mary Shelley
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, exciting
Plot:
post apocalypse, disease, epidemic, pandemic, virus, apocalypse, bio weapon, isolation, nuclear, survival, frankenstein, cannibalism ...
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a cataclysmic event, five strangers sealed inside an emergency shelter with all the comforts of home must learn to cope with their situation and with each other.
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, bleak, serious, tension ...
Plot:
survival, disaster, trapped, post apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, nuclear holocaust, survival horror, isolation, confined space, bunker ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
51%
52K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, United Arab Emirates, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.
Style:
apocalyptic, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
pandemic, zombie, post apocalypse, survival, boat, father daughter relationship, infected, virus, infection, danger, desert, aborigine ...
Time:
near future, 2010s
Place:
australia, oceania, south australia
Similarity:
49%
53K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe and no one can be trusted. Four young attractive people race through the back ...
Style:
scary, road movie, frightening, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
virus, survival, infection, pandemic, road trip, post apocalyptic, biohazard, post apocalypse, deadly virus, dystopia, apocalypse, blood ...
Time:
distant future, 21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
Style:
apocalyptic, bleak, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, child in peril, father daughter relationship, forest, girl, survival, immunity, virus, epidemic, distopia, post apocalyptic, fight ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
persia
Similarity:
48%
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:
46%
46K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, exciting, apocalyptic, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
post apocalypse, virus, apocalypse, pandemic, survival, vestiges of humanity, brother sister relationship, illness, danger, distopia, life is a bitch, desperation ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
TV show
Story:
A series of murders take place in 16th-century Seville, where the plague has taken hold; a condemned man faces the Inquisition as he attempts to save the son of a friend by speaking out.
Style:
tense, bleak, psychological, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
dystopia, dystopian future, quarantine, pandemic, plague, dystopian society, death, distopia, society, dystopic future, danger, government conspiracy ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
45%
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