Movies like Pandemic 2009
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Pandemic (2009)
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, psychological, suspenseful, disaster movie, awful
Plot:
quarantine, danger, plague, dishonesty, disaster, epidemic, save the day, virus, rivalry, apocalypse, disease, found footage, conspiracy, profanity, violent content, government conspiracy, veterinarian, pandemic, catastrophe, graphic violence, deadly, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new mexico
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Most similar movies to Pandemic
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, tense and suspense films with plots about danger, apocalypse, deadly, epidemic, virus, disaster and chaos mostly in Thriller, Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Pandemic: Toxin (2015), Before the Fire (2020), Warning Sign (1985), Contagion (2002), Panic at Rock Island (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller
Plot:
virus, conspiracy, vaccine, war veteran, scientist, danger, supernatural, murder, epidemic, apocalypse, distopia, bare chested male ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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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:
66%
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:
64%
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:
57%
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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:
56%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An island on spectacular Sydney Harbour. Summer sun Top international artists. Tens of thousands of music fans from across the world Idyllic... Until unimaginable disaster strikes.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
chaos, plague, family in danger, danger, antidote, quarantine, death, society, murder, apocalypse, distopia, pandemic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
56%
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:
56%
511
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
save the day, political conspiracy, politics, danger, undercover, terrorism, rivalry, state affairs, dishonesty, murder, terrorist, propaganda ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The movie opens with a faulty nanotechnology experiment that results in a massive, deadly explosion. The company's CEO manages to sidestep blame by framing a meddling young reporter (Katherine), who now holds the only surviving evidence needed ...
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
disaster, conspiracy, experiment gone awry, danger, chaos, technology gone awry, dishonesty, reporter, catastrophe, save the day, rivalry, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
It's not politics as usual, or is it? The governor of Louisiana is about to become the vice-presidential candidate for his party but a murder and an international web spanning from South Africa to Pakistan and North Korea might just get in the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
assassination, campaign, danger, politics, haunted by the past, political corruption, dishonesty, rivalry, violent content, state affairs, profanity, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
54%
776
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
ZOMBEX tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. NOLA residents are no longer experiencing the depression and post-traumatic stress due to the trauma of the hurricane, thanks to the ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
chaos, supernatural, profanity, escapades, danger, zombie, anti depressant, post traumatic stress, fear, graphic violence, epidemic, undead ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans, louisiana
Similarity:
53%
223
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When cattle mysteriously start dying of anthrax in a small Alberta ranching community, an RCMP officer tries to keep the peace as ranchers lay the blame on a local agricultural research center. A reporter encourages the angry ranchers - led by the ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
quarantine, investigation, bio weapon, government agency, journalism, race against time, danger, virus, biohazard, infection, protest, civil unrest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
"BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
danger, rivalry, dishonesty, secret, couple relations, uncover truth, maniac, murder, best friend, violent content, profanity, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Gerber's Syndrome is an contagious viral disease that was discovered in Germany in 2008 and spread all over the world. It is extremely contagious, fast spreading, and deadly. This syndrome is very difficult to spot, because it's like a ...
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, psychological, medical drama ...
Plot:
found footage, pandemic, terminal illness, body horror, danger, plague, virus, vaccine, infection, society, quarantine, social commentary ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
51%
549
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A mystery surrounds a small town that was attacked on September 9, 2009. Now sixty years later, the last survivor, Sarah, sends a high profile reporter a letter suggesting what really happened on that day. The government calls 9/9/09 the start of ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, danger, social relations, dishonesty, love triangle, creature, infection, government coverup, uncover truth, survival, virus, pandemic ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A series of freak weather occurrences around Washington D.C. reunites two estranged brothers who are the sons of a once prestigious climate scientist. One of them suspects their father is behind it and upon further investigation, they discover that ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
disaster, storm, chaos, chaos and mayhem, escapades, danger, save the day, family relations, disorder, siblings relations, parents and children, forces of nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
50%
699
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the radiation-infected aftermath of World War III, one man's desperate attempt to find his wife in the wastelands that were once the United States inspires his fellow survivors to fight for humanity. The bomb has dropped, and in the blink of ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, apocalyptic, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, missing person, danger, chaos, society, escapades, life is a bitch, post apocalypse, plague, journey, violence ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
48%
171
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
distopia, isolation, mosquito, survival, chaos, danger, plague, confined, post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopia, dystopian future ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
48%
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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:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
When a sudden, unexplained rise in local temperatures threatens to turn Los Angeles County into a parched, lifeless desert, one scientist must put her theories to the test in a desperate effort to prevent the catastrophe.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, danger, save the day, forces of nature, escapades, scientist, catastrophe, apocalypse, chases and races, heroes, heat wave ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, futuristic, twisted ...
Plot:
isolation, nuclear war, terrorism, epidemic, post apocalyptic, infection, nuclear explosion, post apocalypse, couples, toxic, danger, race against time ...
Time:
future, year 2006, distant future
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Seven strangers find themselves trapped inside an abandoned hospital after an unexplainable apocalyptic event. In addition to being haunted by what they've lost, the strangers must also fight off mysterious creatures that hunt them down one by ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, futuristic, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, danger, survival horror, supernatural, zombie, hospital, creature, monster, abandoned building, violence, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
murder, chemistry, kidnapping, on the run, drug dealing, danger, dishonesty, drug abuse, violent content, farm, confined, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
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732
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A suspenseful drama about a young couple on a road trip who get caught in the midst of a worldwide gas shortage.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
on the road, couple relations, couples, social differences, chaos, life is a bitch, escapades, danger, global warming, distopia, apocalypse, epidemic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
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:
47%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On their way to a weekend hunting trip in the Ozarks, four friends get in to a car accident, killing the driver of the other car...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
gangster, vengeance, partner, dishonesty, rivalry, murder, danger, car accident, car, son, revenge, friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crack in the world has started... we have 24 hours to stop it.
Style:
exciting, serious, bleak, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, forces of nature, race against time, danger, chaos, save the planet, end of the world, epidemic, threat, military ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this science fiction thriller, David Whitman (William Hurt) is a chemist who lost his wife and child in a freak accident and is trying to rebuild his life on his own. While doing research, Whitman discovers a series of mysterious deaths that seem ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
uncover truth, investigation, on the run, danger, plague, journalism, death in the family, biohazard, infection, medicine, covert operation, pandemic ...
Time:
80s
Place:
budapest, los angeles, hungary
Similarity:
47%
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:
46%
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In an abandoned mental institution, doctors carry out secret experiments on unsuspecting patients. The experiments, codenamed Limes, are designed to cure violent episodes within the inmates through new methods of brainwashing and mind manipulation. ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
profanity, dishonesty, captivity, mental institution, confined, revenge, experiment gone awry, danger, scientist, death, violence, government facility ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
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