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The Hot Zone (2019)
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Genre: Drama, History, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, psychological, apocalyptic, terrifying, anthology, medical drama, stylized, grim, gloomy
Plot:
virus, infection, research, death, laboratory, female protagonist, military, doctor, disease, scientist, quarantine, hysteria, blood, epidemic, fear, apocalypse, pandemic, survival, women, gladiator, supernatural, plague, criminal, physician, medical ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 1989
Place:
washington d.c., africa, virginia, texas, cleveland ohio, dallas texas
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Most similar movies to The Hot Zone
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense and serious films and TV series with plots about virus, epidemic, pandemic, infection, apocalypse, plague and disease mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Hot Zone: Containment (2016), The Andromeda Strain (2008), Contagion (2011), Outbreak (1995), Virus (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
virus, epidemic, quarantine, death, society, tragic event, doctor, infection, conspiracy theory, murder, virus outbreak, blood ...
Place:
usa, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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Story:
A U.S. satellite crash-lands near a small town in Utah, unleashing a deadly plague that kills virtually everyone except two survivors, who may provide clues to immunizing the population. As the military attempts to quarantine the area, a team of ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, stylized, harsh, melancholic ...
Plot:
laboratory, virus, pandemic, biohazard, bacteria, infection, disaster, danger, time travel, cure, catastrophe, deadly virus ...
Time:
future, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, utah, shanghai, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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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:
100%
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:
100%
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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:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.
Style:
stylized, captivating, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
battleship, navy, apocalypse, heroes, danger, chaos, shooting, save the world, deadly virus, military, survival, plague ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
31K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
scientist, deadly virus, virus, survival, dna, danger, pandemic, quarantine, save the day, zombie, arctic, epidemic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia, georgia
Similarity:
100%
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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:
21st century
Place:
antwerp, belgium, europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
67%
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:
100%
11K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family's new life in quarantine and tries to protect her infected sister.
Style:
suspense, bloody, suspenseful, brutal, bleak ...
Plot:
infected, virus, infection, disease, parasite, quarantine, fate of humanity, pandemic, survival, mutation, humanity in peril, alien parasite ...
Similarity:
50%
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:
38%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – ...
Style:
apocalyptic, scary, bleak, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
epidemic, plague, apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, survival, virus outbreak, disaster, disease, vestiges of humanity, virus, distopia, crisis ...
Place:
britain, england, europe
Similarity:
37%
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:
37%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
USSR, 1980s. The Elista Children's Hospital is experiencing the country's first major HIV outbreak, with more than 70 children and several adults infected. Now everyone: doctors, patients, relatives need to preserve human dignity in the ...
Style:
dramatic, medical drama, disturbing, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
epidemic, doctor, medical, female protagonist, female nudity, branding iron, hiv, fighting illness, doctors and patients, children, terminal illness, illness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, surreal, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, danger, society, chaos, plague, post apocalypse, survival, post-apocalyptic future, family in danger, gory ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
The Burning Zone is a television drama broadcast on the UPN network as part of its 1996–97 lineup. It ran for 19 episodes. The series was rerun on SciFi Channel in the mid-to-late 1990s.
The Burning Zone featured a team of American agents who ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, bleak, rough, serious ...
Plot:
virus, supernatural, infection, search and rescue, monster, colleague, rescue, medicine, pandemic, deadly virus, danger, heroes ...
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Joel and Ellie, a pair connected through the harshness of the world they live in, are forced to endure brutal circumstances and ruthless killers on a trek across post-pandemic America.
Style:
exciting, suspense, apocalyptic, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, survival, infection, epidemic, survival horror, pandemic, post-apocalyptic future, survivor, violence, vestiges of humanity, zombie ...
Time:
2020s, future
Place:
usa, north america
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
TV show
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:
apocalyptic, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, epidemic, virus, deadly virus, aviation, infection, disease, die hard, survival, natural disaster, airplane accident, dystopia ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
germany, iceland, europe, new york
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story:
The outbreak of a strange, deadly virus aboard a passenger plane sends Los Angeles into a panic in this terrifying TV movie. As the virus spreads across the city and the death toll rises, Dr. Kayla Martina (Tiffani Thiessen, FASTLANE) fights to ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
pandemic, quarantine, epidemic, disaster, rescue, airport, investigation, danger, fighting the system, survival, save the day, confined ...
Place:
australia, los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, History, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Berlin, 1888. After penniless Ida’s life is saved at the Charité Hospital she must work off the treatment costs. While she becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era at the world-famous hospital, the self-determined young ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, stylized, medical drama, intellectual ...
Plot:
hospital, medicine, scientist, doctor, medical, german history, nurse, medical research, medical school, science, discovery, surgery ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1940s, 60s, 1880s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
35%
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:
35%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Medical Investigation was an American medical drama television series that began September 9, 2004, on NBC. It ran for 20 one-hour episodes before being cancelled in 2005. The series was co-produced by Paramount Network Television and NBC Universal ...
Style:
medical drama, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, medical, epidemic, disease, infection, public health, teamwork, doctors and patients, workplace situations, lifesaver, danger, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
35%
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:
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, frightening, scary ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
zombie, survival, virus, post apocalypse, apocalypse, pandemic, walking dead, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, peril, plague, fear ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, atlanta georgia, georgia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
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
Similarity:
35%
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:
35%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
A deadly virus hits a small community living on an island in the North Sea.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspense, apocalyptic
Plot:
pandemic, teenage girl, quarantine, virus, teenage protagonist, island, stranded on an island, epidemic, survival, society, community, lifestyle change ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
fictional island
Similarity:
35%
29K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological, dark ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
virus, post apocalypse, twists and turns, survival, father daughter relationship, murder, quarantine, epidemic, nightmare, infected, plot twist, isolation ...
Similarity:
35%
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