Disease movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant disease movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious, scary and weird films and TV shows about / with disease, suspense, virus, epidemic, pandemic, infection, apocalypse, death, danger and survival plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as disease: Medical Investigation (2004), Everything, Everything (2017), Contagion (2011), The Hot Zone (2019), ReGenesis (2004), Sweet November (2001), Eli (2019), Outbreak (1995), Cabin Fever (2016), Cabin Fever (2002).

List of disease movies

Medical Investigation (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Medical Investigation was an American medical drama television series that began September 9, 2004, on NBC. It ran for 20 one-hour episodes before being cancelled in 2005. The series was co-produced by Paramount Network Television and NBC Universal ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: investigation, disease, epidemic, medical, public health, teamwork, lifesaver, workplace situations, doctors and patients, infection, unconventional method, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
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Everything, Everything (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.
Style: romantic, sincere, captivating, sentimental, scenic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, love, illness, neighbor, teenage love, interracial love, interracial romance, teen romance, teenage girl, disease, teenage protagonist, love interest ...
Place: hawaii, new york, los angeles
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 6.8
 307K
Contagion (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
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, bleak, suspenseful, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: epidemic, virus, pandemic, quarantine, deadly virus, infected, survival, infection, natural disaster, suspense, death, disease ...
Time: future, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, california, san francisco, minnesota, asia ...
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 7.3
 9K
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, psychological, apocalyptic, stylized ...
Plot: military, virus, infection, research, disease, scientist, laboratory, female protagonist, death, doctor, deadly virus, army ...
Time: 2000s, september 11 2001, 80s, year 1989
Place: africa, washington d.c., virginia, texas, dallas texas ...
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 7.9
 3K
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: disease, scientist, investigation, virus, save the world, inventions and discoveries, heroes, genetic engineering, global effort, plague, terrorism, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, latin america, usa, mexico
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 6.7
 92K
Sweet November (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, love, terminal illness, bittersweet, fall in love, tragic love, love and romance, opposites attract, couples, leukemia, self discovery, changing lives ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa, new jersey
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 5.8
 38K
Eli (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A boy named Eli with a rare autoimmune disorder is confined to a special experimental clinic for his treatment. He soon begins experiencing supernatural forces, turning the supposedly safe facility into a haunted prison for him and his fellow ...
Style: twist ending, bleak, rough, scary, psychological ...
Plot: disease, child protagonist, suspense, antichrist, evil child, allergy, evil wins, treatment, demon, surgery, ghost, loneliness ...
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 6.6
 132K
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: exciting, suspenseful, serious, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: epidemic, virus, quarantine, plague, bio weapon, monkey, disaster, disease, natural disaster, catastrophe, conspiracy, deadly virus ...
Time: jurassic, future, year 1995, year 1967, 60s ...
Place: boston, san francisco, africa, cuba, usa ...
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 3.7
 10K
Cabin Fever (2016)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In this grisly remake of the 2002 horror hit, five college chums rent an isolated woodland cabin for a party. But their fun quickly ends when the group is exposed to a hideous flesh-eating virus, and survival becomes the name of the game.
Style: rough, bleak, slasher, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: cabin in the woods, virus, disease, isolation, suspense, death, teenager, zombie, friendship, flesh eating, supernatural, epidemic ...
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 5.6
 80K
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: scary, disturbing, rough, splatter, campy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: virus, suspense, forest, infected, death, disease, plague, fear, survival, paranoia, illness, apocalypse ...
Time: 2000s, 80s, 21st century
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 7.0
 680K
World War Z (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Malta
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: suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, virus, epidemic, deadly virus, survival, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, pandemic, natural disaster, chaos ...
Time: future, jurassic, 2000s, year 1973, 21st century
Place: israel, new jersey, new york, philadelphia, jerusalem ...
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The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The Cassandra Crossing is an all-star disaster spectacular telling of the terrifying odyssey of 1000 doomed passengers trapped aboard a plague-infested train. A terrorist infected with a deadly virus boards the Stockholm to Geneva Express and ...
Style: exciting, tense, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, disaster, plague, survival, train crash, terrorism, race against time, quarantine, catastrophe, disease, suspense, military ...
Time: 70s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: geneva switzerland, poland, new orleans, europe, sweden ...
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 6.0
 48K
Carriers (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, 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, suspenseful, psychological, absurd ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, virus, infection, post apocalypse, pandemic, road trip, biohazard, apocalypse, deadly virus, suspense, end of the world, zombie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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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: tense, serious, stylized, melancholic, harsh ...
Plot: laboratory, virus, biohazard, plague, catastrophe, bacteria, disease, deadly virus, cure, disaster, time travel, infection ...
Time: future, 70s, 21st century
Place: usa, utah, shanghai, los angeles
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It Comes at Night (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Style: rough, brutal, psychological, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: pandemic, post apocalypse, infection, paranoia, interracial couple, fear, suspense, murder, apocalypse, dog, forest, infected ...
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Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who ...
Style: captivating, apocalyptic, tense, disturbing, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: distopia, desert, cure, vaccine, imprisonment, virus, teenage hero, friendship, post apocalypse, battles, maze, fight ...
Time: future
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Joe Finds Grace (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Simple-minded Joseph Briteman breaks a golden rule of his 'life skills' program when he walks away unsupervised to rescue his long lost baby sister.
Style: road movie, touching, psychological, humorous, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: disease, freak, fish out of water, sibling, redemption, deformity, missing person, disappearance, chase, screwball, journey, sibling relationship ...
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 6.8
 119K
Exam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, twist ending, tricky ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: psychology, twists and turns, plot twist, mind game, survival, confinement indoors, surveillance, rivalry, psychologist, suspense, pandemic, ambition ...
Time: future
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 5.4
 1K
The Unseen (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A man, who years earlier mysteriously abandoned his family and isolated himself in a small northern town, returns for one last chance to reconnect with his troubled daughter. When she goes missing, he risks everything to find her, including exposing ...
Style: psychotronic, scary, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: invisibility, disease, suspense, kidnapped girl, youth, supernatural, family relations, parents and children, dishonesty, violence, love, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, serious, absurd, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: distopia, post apocalypse, zombie, survival, teenager, desert, apocalypse, maze, young heroes, immunity, teenage hero, on the run ...
Time: future
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 4.3
 4K
Feral (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A wild animal attacks six medical students on a weekend hike in the woods. One by one, they become infected with a “feral disease,” turning them into rabid, bloodthirsty creatures, and the vacation becomes a nightmare as they fight to survive ...
Style: brutal, psychological, suspenseful, slasher, queer horror ...
Plot: forest, infected, disease, virus, zombie, survival, suspense, friends, wild animal, fear, mutation, panic ...
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 6.0
 53K
Mimic (1997)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, melancholic ...
Plot: insect, cockroach, virus, mutant, monster, tunnel, entomologist, suspense, creature, experiment gone awry, disease, giant insect ...
Time: 90s
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Robert Morgan is the last man on earth, as far as he can tell. A plague killed everyone else on the planet several years ago. He was immune to it, and can only guess why. Vampires that were formerly human attack Morgan's home every night
Style: gothic, atmospheric, scary, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, vampire, virus, zombie, survival, end of the world, distopia, chase, monster, disease, cemetery ...
Time: future
Place: rome italy, italy
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 5.5
 9K
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: bloody, suspenseful, brutal, bleak, scary ...
Plot: virus, infected, infection, quarantine, parasite, suspense, disease, zombie, pandemic, epidemic, survival, fate of humanity ...
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Contracted: Phase II (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Picking up directly where the previous film left off, the story follows Riley, one of the last people to come in contact with Samantha, as he scrambles to track down those responsible for the outbreak before the highly contagious disease not only ...
Style: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, psychotronic, sexy ...
Plot: body horror, infection, zombie, virus, disease, apocalypse, pandemic, survival, plague, struggle for survival, characters in danger, survivor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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World's End Harem (2021)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The Man-Killer Virus: a lethal disease that has eradicated 99.9% of the world's male population. Mizuhara Reito has been in cryogenic sleep for the past five years, leaving behind Tachibana Erisa, the girl of his dreams. When Reito awakens from ...
Style: ecchi, anime, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: harem, disease, virus, couple relations, human existence, male female relationship, suspense, humanity, mission, love story, fate of humanity, breeding ...
Time: future
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 5.7
 28K
The Bay (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 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: scary, disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful, absurd ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: infection, parasite, found footage, monster, disaster, suspense, plague, virus, apocalypse, ecological disaster, infected, small town ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: maryland, california, usa
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 4.3
 3K
Inmate Zero (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The film follows a group of doctors, guards and violent prisoners on St Leonards Island in the north Atlantic, who must unite when a rampant disease threatens the high security units.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, scary, bleak, exciting
Plot: zombie, zombie outbreak, infestation, undead, island prison, disease, quarantine, prisoner, experiment gone awry, suspense, maximum security prison, morphing ...
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The Theory of Flight (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, melancholic, sexy ...
Plot: virginity, disability, friendship, women, life & death, dying, disease, loneliness, eccentricity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, painter, physical disability ...
Time: 90s
Place: london
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 5.6
 938
The Plague (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK, Argentina
Duration: 148 min.
Story: In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the military close the city an idealistic doctor decides to stay and help the sick. In the ever changing circumstances he puts up a brave fight, being ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: plague, disease, isolation, doctor, quarantine, journalism, epidemic, apocalypse, medical profession, martial law, female reporter, deadly virus ...
Time: 90s
Place: south america, buenos aires argentina
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