Best movies like COVID-21: Lethal Virus
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Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
Best tv shows and movies like COVID-21: Lethal Virus (2021):
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Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a zombie-infested Australian wasteland, soldier Rhys has dedicated his life to tracking and capturing survivors for the Surgeon General in hopes of finding a cure.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, apocalyptic, surprise ending
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Death Valley (2021)
Plot Summary:
Mercenaries with nothing to lose are hired to rescue a bioengineer imprisoned in a cold war bunker. Upon entering the ominous facility, they find themselves in a fight for their lives when they come under attack from an unknown and deadly creature.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, perverse
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Diverge (2016)
Plot Summary:
The survivor of a deadly virus is given the chance to reclaim his lost life by stopping the man responsible for the disease.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Before the Fire (2020)
Plot Summary:
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 homecoming attracts a dangerous figure from her past – threatening both her and the family that serves as her only sanctuary.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, captivating, apocalyptic, tense
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The Rezort (2015)
Plot Summary:
The ReZort, a post apocalyptic safari, offers paying guests the opportunity to kill zombies in the wake of an outbreak.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, spooky, psychological, tense, scary, enigmatic, creepy
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The Last Hope (2020)
Plot Summary:
The world has been devastated by the virus that has reanimated the dead to consume the living. Australia has so far remained unscathed through a brutal border protection policy and internment facilities. Derek Jones and the High Risk Response Unit restore order to the internment facilities when law and order breaks down. When the arrival of a mysterious girl collides with the uprising at the Briar's Hill Detention Centre, will Australia, the last hope for many, finally fall?.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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G - Zombie (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sara is a research student who wants to make an immunity booster to save humanity. Her experiment however turns people into zombies and in comes Dhruva to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Beyond the Call to Duty (2016)
Plot Summary:
Five Spec Ops, Alpha Squad, head a simple Recon Mission that turns into an all out war for survival against a wave of undead experiments. Alpha Squad must fight, not just for the sake of their own survival, but the fate of the world.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Fear (2021)
Plot Summary:
A lethal virus forces humanity to remote regions for survival, one family fights to try to save its children from a band of marauders bent on revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, scary
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Zombie Resurrection (2014)
Plot Summary:
15 months after the apocalypse, a group of survivors are forced to take refuge in an abandoned school, where they encounter a mysterious zombie with the power to bring the undead back to life.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Day of the Dead (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of strangers try to survive the first 24 hours of an undead invasion. This ode to George A. Romero’s famous flesh-eaters reminds us that sometimes all it takes to bring people together is a horde of hungry zombies trying to rip them apart.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, funny, slasher, apocalyptic, spooky
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Domain (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, the survivors are forced to wait alone in self-sustaining bunkers while the viral threat runs its course. Able to communicate through a networked video interface, the survivors wait for years and slowly become a motley family of sorts. But their fragile social ecosystem is shattered when, one by one, they start mysteriously disappearing from their bunkers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, psychological thriller, surprise ending
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Chrysalis (2014)
Plot Summary:
Joshua and Penelope are survivors of a deadly infection that laid waste to humanity 25 years ago. When they encounter fellow survivor Abira, their lives are forever changed as they fight off the remnants of the infected.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, touching, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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The Cured (2017)
Plot Summary:
What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, scary, tense, apocalyptic, queer horror, melancholic, enigmatic, suspense
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The Returned (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, scary, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, grindhouse
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Deranged (2012)
Plot Summary:
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 parasitic horsehair worms, called 'Yeongasi', that can control the human brain. Those infected shows symptoms of hunger and thirst, hence jumps into the river to combat dehydration. Whilst the authorities work to find a cure, Jae-hyuk struggles to save his family when they also exhibits similar symptoms.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, action thriller, twisted, disaster movie
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Disaster L.A.: The Last Zombie Apocalypse Begins Here (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a meteor shower strikes Los Angeles, toxic smoke is released across the city causing people to physically change and become violent. A small group of survivors plans to vacate the city by heading to the coast.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, breathtaking, suspense
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Germ (2013)
Plot Summary:
The military's attempt to shoot down an orbiting satellite unleashes a space-borne epidemic on a remote, small town. Deputy Max Brody and his girlfriend Brooke must battle their way through an army of infected townsfolk and soldiers as they struggle to save themselves and their loved ones from a horrible, early death. When cannibalism is contagious, will even the strong survive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 865
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, disaster movie
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Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a world overrun by zombies, military personnel and survivalists live in an underground bunker while they seek a cure.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, apocalyptic, exciting, tense, rough, disturbing, retro, perverse, thrilling, psychotronic
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Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010)
Plot Summary:
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 the plumber’s apprentice, Harper, that Gabi has popped out for a while but will return soon, the apprentice is attacked by his boss who has unexpectedly and inexplicably transformed into a raging madman. Together, Michael and Harper manage to bundle the crazed plumber out of the apartment and barricade themselves safely inside. Within minutes, they find themselves trapped in apartment block under siege from a horde of similarly insane people, apparently hungry for human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, enigmatic, disturbing, apocalyptic, deep
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Survivors (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kate Meadows (Joanne Gale) and her cameraman Duke (Simon Burbage) embark on a mission to uncover whether or not a government weapons contractor has secretly been using humans as their test subjects. As they dig deeper, they realise the brutal reality... The test subjects have escaped and are carrying a deadly new contagion meant for use in biological war. They soon find themselves in a race for their own survival as the military lose the fight against the infected and those responsible for the outbreak stop at nothing to prevent the truth being revealed... In a world without laws, without order and with nobody watching, how far would you go to survive?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Here Alone (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a terrible virus ravages human civilization, Ann finds herself living alone in a forest, foraging for supplies, and accompanied only by a radio that broadcasts a single transmission in French. Few animals even remain; the only survivors seem to be the roving hordes of infected creatures with a taste for human flesh. One fateful day, Ann crosses paths with two more survivors, Chris and Olivia. But after surviving on her own for so long, she struggles to relate to them and and their desire to settle down and start a new community.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller, spooky, interesting, low-budget
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Contracted: Phase II (2015)
Plot Summary:
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 consumes his body, but the world as we know it.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, sexy, apocalyptic, grindhouse, detective
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Carriers (2009)
Plot Summary:
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 roads of the American West to the pounding beat of a vacation soundtrack. Their aim is to retreat to secluded utopian beach in the Gulf of Mexico, where they could peacefully wait out the pandemic and survive the apocalyptic disease. Their plans take a grim turn when their car breaks down on an isolated road starting a chain of events that will seal the fate of each of them in an inexorable and horrifying voyage of hell through a western landscape populated by only the hideous dead or the twisted living.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, road movie, suspenseful, psychological, apocalyptic, melancholic, absurd, serious, intense
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Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462 (2015)
Plot Summary:
The web series tells the story of a group of passengers aboard a commercial airplane during the earliest moments of the outbreak. Over the course of the series, the plane and the lives of its passengers are put in jeopardy once they discover an infected traveler.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, scary, rough, suspense, suspenseful, epic
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Ravenous (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a village, things have changed. Some of the people are not what they were anymore. They start attacking their families, their friends, their neighbours... We call them "Les Affamés" (The Hungry). A few survivors go deep into the forest to escape them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, slasher, enigmatic, art house, spooky, psychotronic
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Extinction (2015)
Plot Summary:
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Hungary, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful, retro, intense, bad ending, bloody, entertaining, dramatic
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Daylight's End (2016)
Plot Summary:
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, rough, brutal, bleak, fantasy adventure, psychotronic, independent film, apocalyptic
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Cargo (2017)
Plot Summary:
After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, bleak, scary, dark, social, sad, tear jerker
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World War Z (2013)
Plot Summary:
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 persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 706000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Malta
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, epic, splatter, suspense, entertaining, action packed