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The Plague (2024)
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Original name: La Peste
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
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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, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, thrilling ...
Plot:
dystopia, dystopian future, plague, pandemic, quarantine, distopia, death, society, danger, dystopic future, dystopian society, fear, isolation, government conspiracy, biohazard, survival, claustrophobia, control, panic, public health, social commentary, ethical dilemma, investigation, morality, surveillance ...
Time:
near future, future
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Most similar movies to The Plague
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, captivating and serious films and TV series with plots about survival, apocalypse, epidemic, distopia, dystopia, danger and pandemic mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Plague: Brave New World (2020), Tracker (2024), Last Light (2022), The Rain (2018), Hot Skull (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 415 min.
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Story:
In a utopia whose perfection hinges upon control of monogamy and privacy, members of the collective begin to question the rules, putting their regimented society on a collision course with forbidden love and revolution.
Style:
thought provoking, futuristic, surprise ending, apocalyptic, saga ...
Plot:
distopia, utopia, satire, transhumanism, dystopia, forbidden love, conspiracy, totalitarianism, genetic engineering, brainwashing, social differences, propaganda ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw roams the country as a “reward seeker,” using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own fractured family.
Style:
suspenseful, detective, exciting, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
private detective, lone wolves, survivalist, crime investigation, crime scene, criminal underworld, amateur detective, true crime, fighting crime, crime fighter, investigation, road trip ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 43 min.
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Story:
Separated across continents, petro-chemist Andy Yeats and his family must survive the deadly effects of a sudden global oil crisis and find the mastermind behind it all.
Style:
tense, dramatic, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
survival, distopia, society, family drama, family relations, son, wife, daughter, rescue, teenage daughter, desperation, family bonds ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
56%
46K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 45 min.
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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:
49%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In a world shaken by an epidemic of madness that spreads through speech, Murat is the only immune person. As he searches for the secret of his mysterious immunity, his “hot skull", he has to leave the safe zone and embark on an adventure ...
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
epidemic, survival, pandemic, authoritarianism, dystopia, virus, city, life, distopia, madness, society, immunity ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
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Story:
A new series set in the “Orphan Black” universe is currently in the early development stages at AMC. Temple Street Productions, which produced the original series, is on board to produce the new one as well. This is not spin-off or reboot of the ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
bonding, clone, change of luck, identity, identity crisis, secrets, female protagonist, woman, women, dark future, destiny, seeing the future ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
44%
11K
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:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
41%
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:
41%
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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:
40%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
When the sun suddenly starts killing everything in its path, passengers on an overnight flight from Brussels attempt to survive by any means necessary.
Style:
unusual plot structure, apocalyptic, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sun, apocalypse, airplane, hijacking, survival, end of the world, distopia, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, worldwide chaos, flying, airplane trip ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
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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, 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:
38%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 53 min.
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Story:
When a fatal accident occurs on board the International Space Station, a lone astronaut makes the heroic journey back to Earth, only to discover key pieces of her life—including her young daughter—have changed.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, conspiracy, space, family drama, parent child relationship, woman, human in outer space, female astronaut, cosmonaut, space program, space exploration, deep space ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France
Duration: 385 min.
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Story:
Following a major catastrophe, a new society, Arcadia, is born. Resources have become scarce and a point system, known as the Citizen Score, is introduced. It determines what you can and may do and what a citizen is entitled to.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
dystopia, female nudity, lesbian interest, lesbian, family secret, family drama, dystopic future, daughter, father and daughter, dystopian future, dystopian society, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Shortly after a chemical weapon explosion in the Nevada desert, two scientists find themselves confronting a sinister cover up, and a band of hostile survivors who are looking to escape the quarantined area known as Territory 8.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, dramatic ...
Plot:
quarantine, desert, chemical weapon, survival, survival horror, escape, post-apocalyptic future, adaptation, scientist, fight, struggle for survival, danger ...
Time:
future
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In a future in which the earth has been sent out of control, affected by a cruel and inhuman mechanism that turns back Darwin's theory of Evolution, Hamming and Liv try to survive. It seems that nothing can stand in the way of their ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, futuristic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
relationships, loss, survival, post apocalyptic, dystopia, evolution, against humanity, human nature, civilization, fate of humanity, humanity, end of civilization ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
33%
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:
32%
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:
32%
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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:
32%
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:
31%
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:
31%
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:
31%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story:
In a future where the elite inhabit an island paradise far from the crowded slums, you get one chance to join the 3% saved from squalor.
Style:
tense, apocalyptic, psychological thriller, twisted, psychological ...
Plot:
brutality, society, rivalry, murder, culture clash, violence, death, dishonesty, life philosophy, betrayal, distopia, survival ...
Time:
future
Place:
south america, brazil
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
It is the last days and the Forever Winter has begun. Surviving in the deep woods, 15-year-old Lizzy is no longer a child but has been hardened by her experiences in a world that's quickly going to hell.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
struggle for survival, survival, post apocalyptic, abduction, kidnapping, child abduction, end of the world, life is a bitch, kidnapped, apocalypse, child kidnapping, post apocalypse ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
Outcasts is a 2011 British television science-fiction drama serial, starring Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Amy Manson, Daniel Mays, Jamie Bamber, Eric Mabius and Ashley Walters. It originally aired on BBC One, and BBC HD. It was broadcast in the ...
Style:
contemplative, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Plot:
space colony, mysterious planet, survival, distant planet, society, human nature, expedition, isolation, chaos, danger, hopes, epidemic ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 56 min.
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Story:
Thanks to science, after five years of coma, Florian has his mind transferred into another's body. Now he has to hide his identity, living as an officer with BATI, the anti-transfers unit.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
body swapping, switching bodies, dystopia, hidden identity, new identity, bodies, consciousness, technology, scientific experiment, identity crisis, ethical dilemma, conspiracy ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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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:
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A scientist working on an energy project discovers his family have undergone strange changes in their personalities, while a series of natural disasters are happening across the globe. He realises that his work has accidentally pushed the planet ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disaster, experiment gone awry, save the world, chaos, space travel, forces of nature, danger, time travel, escapades, alternate dimension, family drama, paranoia ...
Time:
near future, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
The Last Train is a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel. The serial was written by ...
Style:
apocalyptic, gloomy, serious, captivating, futuristic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, end of the world, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, top secret, train, distopia, epidemic, dystopia, wasteland ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
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Story:
When a night watchman finishes his shift at work, he is terrified to discover that everyone in the world who went to sleep the previous night has died. Now he and a band of survivors must stay awake and uncover the secret of this global epidemic, ...
Style:
suspense, tension, dark, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
sleep deprivation, survival, investigation, isolation, post apocalyptic, epidemic, insomnia, pandemic, paranoia, claustrophobia, night watchman, conspiracy ...
Similarity:
27%
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