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Epidemic (2020)
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Epidemic (2020)
Original name: Épidémie
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 realizing the existence of this highly contagious disease? Will it be too late to prevent a deadly epidemic from spreading throughout the population?
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, enigmatic
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: epidemic, deadly virus, laboratory, infection, infected, hospital, virus, medical research, scientist, doctor, public health, society, fate of humanity, research, death, quarantine, media coverage, medicine, disaster, vaccine, pandemic, humanity, humanity in peril, deadly, coughing
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: montreal, canada
Keyword: doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, serious and apocalyptic films and TV series with plots about virus, epidemic, apocalypse, pandemic, disease, infection and disaster mostly in Thriller, Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Epidemic: The Hot Zone (2019), ReGenesis (2004), Virus (2019), To the Lake (2019), Contagious (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Hot Zone (2019)
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: suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, terrifying, psychological ...
Plot: virus, infection, research, scientist, female protagonist, laboratory, military, death, doctor, disease, blood, army ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 1989
Place: africa, washington d.c., virginia, texas, cleveland ohio ...
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ReGenesis (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC, a fictional organization with a lab ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: epidemic, scientist, infection, disease, investigation, virus, save the world, inventions and discoveries, heroes, global effort, plague, genetic engineering ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, usa, latin america, mexico
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Virus (2019)
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, disturbing, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: virus, epidemic, deadly virus, infection, quarantine, pandemic, doctor, nurse, life is a bitch, infected, fate of humanity, plague ...
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To the Lake (2019)
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, apocalyptic, serious
Plot: virus, epidemic, apocalypse, survival, panic, post apocalypse, extinction, dystopia, infection, snow, family in danger, zombie ...
Place: moscow russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Contagious (1997)
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, pandemic, virus, quarantine, disaster, infection, apocalypse, hospital, doctor, cholera, deadly virus, camping ...
Place: colombia, taipei, los angeles
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Containment (2015)
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: suspenseful, suspense, serious, mysterious, creepy ...
Plot: epidemic, infection, pandemic, virus, trapped, quarantine, human nature, secret, life turned upside down, society, disease, post apocalyptic ...
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Helix (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
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, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: scientist, deadly virus, virus, pandemic, zombie, survival, dna, danger, quarantine, save the day, immortality, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, georgia
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The Burning Zone (1996)
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: rough, suspenseful, bleak, exciting, serious
Plot: virus, supernatural, infection, rescue, monster, colleague, medicine, pandemic, deadly virus, heroes, race against time, danger ...
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Day 5 (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: After a fortuitous drug bender saves his life, addict Jake ventures out into the quiet streets… unaware that most of the world already died in their beds. Now, battling sleepless fatigue and encroaching delirium, Jake teams with a scrappy ...
Style: suspense, intense, suspenseful, psychological, apocalyptic
Plot: epidemic, sleep deprivation, survival horror, virus, death, humanity in peril, humanity, trapped, society, paranoia, fate of humanity, deadly virus ...
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Pandemic (2009)
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, serious, psychological, sad
Plot: epidemic, quarantine, disaster, plague, disease, virus, infection, research, doctor, danger, investigation, society ...
Time: near future, 2010s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Between (2015)
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: serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: virus, isolation, youth, plague, chaos, chaos and mayhem, teenage life, quarantine, death, danger, trapped, escape attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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41%
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Carriers (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A female Army doctor and a journalist team up to track a killer virus.
Plot: epidemic, pandemic, disaster, writers, quarantine, virus, infection, monkey, traffic accident, dead boy, informant, biological warfare ...
Place: delaware, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Factor 8 (2009)
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: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: epidemic, airplane, disaster, quarantine, passenger, moral dilemma, virus, deadly virus, isolated place, isolation, stewardess, scientist ...
Place: germany
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39%
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Outbreak (1995)
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, serious, exciting, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: epidemic, virus, plague, quarantine, disaster, bio weapon, monkey, medical, infection, disease, natural disaster, deadly virus ...
Time: future, jurassic, 60s, year 1967, year 1995 ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, captivating, serious, exciting ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Pandora's Clock (1996)
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: germany, iceland, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Island (2020)
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, suspense, tense, apocalyptic
Plot: pandemic, virus, teenage girl, quarantine, teenage protagonist, island, epidemic, stranded on an island, struggle for survival, society, survival, lifestyle change ...
Time: 2020s
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Black Death (1992)
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: plague, hospital, disease, quarantine, infection, die hard, pandemic, virus, epidemic, disaster, terminal illness, race against time ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
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37%
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Infection (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Venezuela, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic
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Place: venezuela
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The End? (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
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Pandemic (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 169 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: quarantine, pandemic, epidemic, plague, disaster, rescue, airport, fighting the system, danger, investigation, confined, save the day ...
Place: australia, los angeles, usa, california
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36%
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Containment (2016)
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, tense, serious, horrifying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: epidemic, virus, quarantine, society, death, tragic event, doctor, infection, conspiracy theory, murder, blood, end of the world ...
Place: usa, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
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, melancholic, harsh, stylized ...
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Time: future, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Style: realistic, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story: On July 4th, private Jay Williams returns home from the Middle East, but a mysterious epidemic breaks out and infects his friends at his party. On the road to salvation, Jay is joined by his ex-sergeant, who reveals chilling secrets leading to a ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, suspense
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan
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Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, medical drama
Plot: revenge, vengeance, family problems, life is a bitch, doctor, loss of family member, bereavement, medicine, female protagonist, loss of father, medical malpractice
Place: japan
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35%
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Invasion (1997)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
TV show
Story: Small rocks fall from the sky which, when touched, trigger a latent virus that has always existed in humans and begins mutating them into an alien species. Taking advantage of its hive mentality, the aliens are absolutely dedicated to transforming ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, serious, scary
Audience: boys' night, teens
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Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
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Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 83 min.
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Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
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Story: A new type of deadly virus spread throughout the city, and the apartment where has different social classes of people is sealed off. With the fear of the virus, and the conflicts of the different classes, the residents have to spend and survive in ...
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Time: near future
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