Deadly virus movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant deadly virus movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense, tense, serious and disturbing films and TV shows about / with deadly virus, epidemic, virus, apocalypse, pandemic, survival, disaster, post apocalypse, distopia and danger plots mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as deadly virus: Deranged (2012), Contagion (2011), Carriers (2009), The Andromeda Strain (1971), The Last Ship (2014), Epidemic (2020), Pontypool (2008), Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010), Outbreak (1995), 28 Days Later (2002).

List of deadly virus movies

 6.3
 4K
Deranged (2012)
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
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 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 ...
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 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
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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
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 7.4
 68K
The Last Ship (2014)
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
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 7.5
 425
Epidemic (2020)
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
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 6.5
 38K
Pontypool (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, creepy, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, deadly virus, virus, epidemic, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, radio, infection, small town, survival, insanity, fear ...
Time: year 2008, distant future
Place: ontario canada, canada
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Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 63 min.
Story: When lovelorn Michael arrives in Berlin to return a set of keys to his ex-girlfriend, Gabi, as an excuse to see her again, he finds her apartment empty save for a couple of plumbers making repairs to the central heating. Just as Michael learns from ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: deadly virus, zombie, zombie attack, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, virus, danger, chaos, rage, fear, life is a bitch, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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 6.6
 145K
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, 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. ...
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 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 ...
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 5.7
 33K
The Stand (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: After the world is decimated by a man-made plague, a battle of literally Biblical proportions ensues between the survivors.
Style: suspense, rough, apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: stephen king, post apocalypse, deadly virus, god or devil, epidemic, cursed object, devil, good versus evil, virus, pandemic, apocalypse, wilderness ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
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 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
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 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
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 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 ...
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 6.5
 137K
The Crazies (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Style: scary, suspense, creepy, splatter, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: infected, insanity, chaos and mayhem, plague, deadly virus, epidemic, gory, survival, quarantine, survival horror, transformation, virus ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s
Place: usa, iowa, kansas
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The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 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, 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
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Light of My Life (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
Style: apocalyptic, bleak, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: post apocalypse, child in peril, father daughter relationship, forest, girl, survival, immunity, virus, epidemic, distopia, post apocalyptic, fight ...
Time: year 2019
Place: persia
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 7.3
 93K
The Strain (2014)
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, captivating, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, infected, good versus evil, supernatural, deadly virus, epidemic, public health, survival, fate of humanity, plague, chaos and mayhem, corpse ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, montana, england, france ...
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 6.7
 31K
Helix (2014)
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
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 6.3
 54K
#Alive (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.
Style: suspense, exciting, disturbing, psychological, splatter ...
Plot: zombie, survival, isolation, walking dead, infection, epidemic, apocalypse, zombie attack, zombie apocalypse, virus, zombie outbreak, zombie survival ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: seoul, south korea
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COVID-21: Lethal Virus (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The climate change has released an ancient rabies virus trapped in the Antarctica ice. A female scientist tries to get to the laboratory to create a cure to save the world, protected by an eccentric and two members of the special forces.
Style: apocalyptic, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: walking dead, infection, virus, deadly virus, apocalypse, fate of humanity, humanity in peril, undead, pandemic, humanity, death threat, vestiges of humanity ...
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 4.2
 49K
Resident Evil (2022)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Nearly three decades after the discovery of the T-virus, an outbreak reveals the Umbrella Corporation's dark secrets. Based on the horror franchise.
Style: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Plot: deadly virus, zombie attack, post apocalypse, virus, zombie, resident evil, violence, evil corporation, apocalypse, supernatural horror, violent, corporate conspiracy ...
Time: 2030s, 2020s
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H+: The Digital Series (2011)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 5 min.
TV show
Story: H+: The Digital Series is a web series produced by Bryan Singer and created by John Cabrera and Cosimo De Tommaso. The series, which touches on the subject of transhumanism, premiered on August 8, 2012 on YouTube with two episodes. Two new episodes ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, serious, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Plot: computer virus, deadly virus, danger, society, apocalypse, dystopian future, technophobia, chaos, human existence, computers and web, chaos and mayhem, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 2015, 2040s, year 2014, year 2016 ...
Place: europe, asia, africa, oceania
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 6.1
 16K
The Crazies (1973)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.
Style: grindhouse, intense, medical horror, scary, creepy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: epidemic, infected, virus, plague, infection, quarantine, zombie, disaster, isolation, disease, military, survival ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, vietnam, usa, asia, washington d.c.
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 5.9
 3K
Phase 7 (2010)
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
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 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
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 6.5
 26K
The Sadness (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: With the spread of the new virus, people all over the world are becoming numb to the virus. No one believes that the mutation of the virus and the Tibet crisis are coming. Junzhe and his girlfriend Kai Ting discuss when the epidemic will end, but ...
Style: suspense, scary, psychological, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night
Plot: virus, pandemic, infection, rape, deadly virus, survival, plague, infected, couples, violent, undead, peril ...
Time: 2020s
Place: taiwan, taipei, east asia
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 6.6
 307K
Resident Evil (2002)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak. Alice and Rain ...
Style: scary, suspense, cult classic, splatter, saga ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, infected, virus, zombie apocalypse, artificial intelligence, monster, survival, experiment gone awry, post apocalyptic, woman with a gun, bio weapon, gory ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2002, near future, 21st century
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 5.8
 14K
Retreat (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: isolation, infection, virus, island, remote island, deadly virus, strained relationship, soldier, confined, couple relations, danger, holiday horror ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: scotland
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 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 ...
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