Virus movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant virus movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious, psychological and tense films and TV shows about / with virus, epidemic, apocalypse, survival, disaster, disease, pandemic, infection, danger and post apocalypse plots mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, South Korea and other countries.
virus movies
1404
TOP 10 movies tagged as virus: World War Z (2013), Contagion (2011), Hidden (2015), Containment (2016), Train to Busan (2016), I Am Legend (2007), Viral (2016), Carriers (2009), 28 Weeks Later (2007), To the Lake (2019).

List of virus movies

Type:
Tag:
 7.0
 776K
World War Z (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspenseful, scary, tense, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, virus, epidemic, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, deadly virus, post apocalyptic, infected, post apocalypse, pandemic, dystopia ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, jurassic ...
Place: new jersey, new york, israel, philadelphia, seattle ...
Is relevant?
 6.8
 329K
Contagion (2011)
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 ...
Is relevant?
 6.4
 29K
Hidden (2015)
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 ...
Is relevant?
 7.1
 12K
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, 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
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
pandemic movies
1278
infection movies
792
epidemic movies
1613
infected movies
522
 7.6
 301K
Train to Busan (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…
Style: suspense, apocalyptic, dark, emotional, spooky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, pandemic, survival, virus, apocalypse, train, epidemic, zombie attack, survival horror, zombie apocalypse, living dead, undead ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, y2k, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, busan, china, indiana ...
Is relevant?
 7.2
 870K
I Am Legend (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville ...
Style: intense, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, post apocalypse, virus, infected, post apocalyptic, isolation, supernatural, plague, end of the world ...
Time: future, year 2007, near future, year 2013, jurassic ...
Place: new york, america, usa, vermont, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
 5.5
 11K
Viral (2016)
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 ...
Is relevant?
 5.9
 53K
Carriers (2009)
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
Is relevant?
 6.8
 357K
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In this chilling sequel to 28 Days Later, the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to ...
Style: scary, suspense, rough, tense, sexy ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, infected, survival, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, plague, deadly virus, infection, post apocalypse, chaos, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, europe, france ...
Is relevant?
 7.2
 17K
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, serious, apocalyptic
Plot: epidemic, virus, apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, panic, infection, extinction, family in danger, disaster, fear, chaos ...
Place: russia, moscow russia
Is relevant?
 6.6
 16K
Flu (2013)
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
Is relevant?
 5.0
 226K
The Happening (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style: tense, gloomy, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, disaster, survival, virus, natural disaster, end of the world, suicide, graphic violence, catastrophe, paranoia, danger, plague ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place: new york, boston, philadelphia, west virginia, usa ...
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
 7.3
 10K
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: rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, terrifying, psychological ...
Plot: virus, infection, research, death, laboratory, female protagonist, military, doctor, disease, scientist, quarantine, hysteria ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 1989
Place: washington d.c., africa, virginia, texas, dallas texas ...
Is relevant?
 5.9
 87K
The Invasion (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, sexy, breathtaking, serious ...
Plot: alien invasion, alien, virus, epidemic, psychiatrist, danger, invasion, infected, alien encounter, doctor, hysteria, save the world ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, future
Place: washington d.c., usa, kurdistan, russia
Is relevant?
 3.5
 1K
Darkest Day (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dan wakes up on a beach with no memory. He discovers an empty city ravaged by a deadly virus. After befriending a small group of survivors it soon becomes clear the army are hunting him down, and the group are forced on a dangerous journey to escape.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: zombie, virus, memory loss, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, survival horror, sole survivor, british, beach, walking dead, survival, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, brighton
Is relevant?
 8.0
 676K
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style: psychological, surreal, twist ending, futuristic, non-linear ...
Plot: time travel, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, insanity, virus, post apocalypse, time loop, paranoia, end of the world, psychology, mental institution, dystopia ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1990, year 1996, 90s ...
Place: philadelphia, maryland, pennsylvania, california, baltimore ...
Is relevant?
 7.5
 538K
28 Days Later (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the ...
Style: scary, frightening, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, experiment gone awry ...
Time: distant future, year 2003, near future, year 2000, year 2002 ...
Place: london, england, bolivia, britain, europe ...
Is relevant?
 7.2
 41K
Sweet Home (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Cha Hyun-Soo is a high school student. He is also a recluse and rarely leaves his room. He refuses to talk to his father, mother and younger sister. One day, his whole family, except for him, dies in a car accident. Cha Hyun-Soo is left all alone. ...
Style: psychological thriller, bleak, serious, dark fantasy, slasher ...
Plot: criminal, society, apocalypse, danger, virus, monster, survival, murder, creature, supernatural, self harm, high school student ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: south korea
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Black Mountain Side (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of archaeologists uncover a strange structure in Northern Canada, dating over ten thousand years before the present. The team finds themselves isolated when their communication systems fail and it's not long before they begin to feel ...
Style: spooky, suspense, lovecraft, rough, bleak ...
Plot: snow, amputation, virus, cosmic horror, blood, isolation, expedition, creature, nightmare, archaeology, temple, isolated place ...
Place: canada
Is relevant?
 4.5
 33K
Cell (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ...
Style: surreal, suspense, ambiguous ending, scary, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: virus, zombie, apocalypse, epidemic, stephen king, life & death, post apocalypse, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, survival, paranoia, on the road ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: boston, new england, maine
Is relevant?
 5.6
 88K
Cabin Fever (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Style: suspense, scary, creepy, cult horror, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: virus, gory, woods, infected, body horror, disease, fear, paranoia, eaten alive, danger, plague, forest ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Is relevant?
 7.7
 53K
12 Monkeys (2015)
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
Is relevant?
 6.3
 41K
Unlocked (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that another ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, rough, cult classic ...
Plot: terrorism, spy, biohazard, female warrior, rogue agent, cia agent, virus, female protagonist, female spy, cia, biological warfare, terrorist ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, year 2012
Place: london, paris france, moscow russia, big ben london, tower bridge london ...
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
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
Is relevant?
 7.7
 6K
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, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: virus, deadly virus, epidemic, infection, quarantine, pandemic, doctor, nurse, virus outbreak, danger, fate of humanity, infected ...
Place: india
Is relevant?
 5.7
 32K
The Bay (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been ...
Style: mockumentary, frightening, suspenseful, horrifying, medical horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: parasite, infection, found footage, disaster, water, virus, ecological disaster, disease, plague, infected, epidemic, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maryland, california
Is relevant?
 6.4
 140K
Daybreakers (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save ...
Style: futuristic, scary, stylized, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vampire, dystopian future, virus, vampirism, epidemic, supernatural, distopia, pandemic, cure, apocalypse, dystopia, female vampire ...
Time: future, year 2009, year 2019, near future, 2010s ...
Is relevant?
 5.4
 2K
The End? (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Claudio Verona is a young and cynical businessman. One day he gets locked in his Roman office elevator before an important meeting with a client. Soon this annoying obstacle will turn into a nightmare. For outside that metal cage, a deadly virus has ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, bleak ...
Plot: zombie, virus, zombie apocalypse, trapped in an elevator, elevator, epidemic, infection, trapped, zombie survival, zombie attack, trapped in a building, infected ...
Place: rome italy
Is relevant?
 5.2
 126K
The 5th Wave (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, teen, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, end of the world, alien, invasion, post apocalypse, danger, survival, virus, obsessive quest, escapades, humanity in peril ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2016
Place: ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, london, tower bridge london ...
Is relevant?
 4.4
 9K
Pandemic (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the near future, a virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. There are more infected than uninfected, and humanity is losing its grip on survival. Its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren is a doctor ...
Style: suspense, serious, disturbing, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot: pandemic, apocalypse, found footage, infection, virus, violence, teenage girl, survivor, post apocalypse, rescue, survival horror, zombie apocalypse ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future
Place: los angeles
Is relevant?