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Plot Summary:
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 House.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 136000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, suspense, intense, intellectual, breathtaking, action thriller, terrifying
Best tv shows and movies like Outbreak (1995):
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Pandemic (2009)
Plot Summary:
A slow-paced, action thriller about a virus that strikes a New Mexico county and the local veterinarian who gets caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, disaster movie, awful
Similar in 77%
By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a nuclear missile is launched by presumably Soviet forces toward Turkey, the beginning of the ultimate war to end all wars WW 3 is started. Powers Boothe, his girlfriend and copilot Rebecca DeMornay and their flight crew take off in a B 52 on what they believe is just another drill only to find out that this is the real deal.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, independent film, corny, disaster movie
Similar in 82%
Airport (1970)
Plot Summary:
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense, serious, psychotronic, erotic, psychological, cult classic, rough
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The Towering Inferno (1974)
Plot Summary:
At the opening party of a colossal - but poorly constructed - office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, epic, sexy, breathtaking, sad
Similar in 79%
100 Degrees Below Zero (2013)
Plot Summary:
After freak climate and weather events destroy the world around them, a group of rogue scientists attempt to reverse the deadly new ice age.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, disaster movie
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2012: Supernova (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two hundred years ago a supernova exploded somewhere in the Lyra constellation. Now the lethal burst of radiation is headed straight for Earth, and time is swiftly running out. The only thing standing between humanity and complete devastation is astrophysicist Dr. Kelvin (Brian Krause), who heads up a project to save the planet.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, mockbuster, tense, funny, disaster movie
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Pandora's Clock (1996)
Plot Summary:
Quantum Airlines flight 66 has just taken off from Frankfurt, Germany bound for New York's JFK International Airport with 247 passengers aboard. After take-off, a man infected with a Doomsday Virus passes out while a flight attendant and doctor try to save the man. The pilot tries to land the plane but can't because the people on the ground know about the virus. An ambassador and his secretary help the pilot struggle through the government's secret attempt to shoot flight 66 out of the air. And if the plane does land, Doomsday has arrived on earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Plot Summary:
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 exposes all aboard to the disease. Colonel Mackenzie (Burt Lancaster) is called in to handle the situation and finds Dr. Chamberlain (Richard Harris) who is on board the train. Mackenzie decides to re-route the train to the Cassandra Crossing where it will plunge into oblivion. But passengers miraculously begin to recover and Chamberlain must race against time to disconnect the cars.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, intense, rough, serious, entertaining, retro, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
Plot Summary:
An outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Pandemic (2009)
Plot Summary:
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 variety of virus? As the situation worsens and more cases begin arriving, a medical officer from the World Health Organization named Eiko Kobayashi is dispatched to the area. At the rate the virus is spreading, the entire city’s transportation system and infrastructure would be brought to a halt within 3 months. Within 6 months it could spread to tens of millions of people--reaching a death toll far worse than any war.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, psychological, serious, sad
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The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Plot Summary:
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 highly specialized scientists is assembled to find a cure and stop the spread of the alien pathogen, code-named Andromeda.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspenseful, futuristic, melancholic, harsh, stylized, apocalyptic, exciting, suspense
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Containment (2016)
Plot Summary:
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 of humanity and the birth of unlikely heroes.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, suspense, disaster movie
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Pandemic (2007)
Plot Summary:
The outbreak of a strange, deadly virus aboard a passenger plane sends Los Angeles into a panic in this terrifying TV movie. As the virus spreads across the city and the death toll rises, Dr. Kayla Martina (Tiffani Thiessen, FASTLANE) fights to control the outbreak while reasoning with stubborn public officials, including the mayor (Eric Roberts) and governor (Faye Dunaway, NETWORK).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, disaster movie
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I Am Omega (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Last Man Alive Must Battle a Planet of the Dead. [An Asylum film.].
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, suspense, cyber, futuristic, fast, disaster movie
Similar in 75%
The Crazies (1973)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, scary, intense, suspenseful, rough, creepy, cult classic, psychotronic, apocalyptic, black comedy
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Blindness (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Canada, Japan, UK, Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, disturbing, depressing, intense, suspenseful, allegory, serious, suspense, stylized
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Flu (2013)
Plot Summary:
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 smuggling illegal immigrants into the country, Byung-woo dies from an unknown virus. Soon after that, the same symptoms are plaguing scores of residents in Bundang.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, terrifying, psychological, mysterious, disturbing, bleak, suspense, disaster movie
Similar in 82%
Sickness (2017)
Plot Summary:
On this ill-fated day when many in this sector of the world go completely insane, a group of virtual strangers left with sanity have to fight to stay alive by fending off those out for blood. The heart and courage of different individuals are tested, as they have to figure out how to survive this chaotic onslaught of murder and mayhem, all caused by those with a mysterious sickness.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic
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The Hot Zone (2019)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, History, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, psychological, apocalyptic, terrifying, anthology, stylized, grim, gloomy
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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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Doomsday (2008)
Plot Summary:
A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, serious, road movie, splatter, cult classic
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Plot Summary:
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice joins a small band of elite soldiers, enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. It's a heart-pounding race against time as the group faces off against hordes of blood- thirsty zombies, stealthy Lickers, mutant canines and the most sinister foe yet.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 208000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA, Canada, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, gothic, scary, suspense, splatter, action packed, exciting, rough, serious, stylized
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Deep Impact (1998)
Plot Summary:
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 188000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, intense, breathtaking, apocalyptic, exciting, action adventure
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Contagion (2011)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 313000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, emotional, exciting, clever
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The Happening (2008)
Plot Summary:
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 terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister? John Leguizamo and Betty Buckley co-star in this thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 215000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, gloomy, scary, suspenseful, mind bending, twist ending, apocalyptic, bleak
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The Invasion (2007)
Plot Summary:
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 transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, intense, apocalyptic, breathtaking, sexy, psychotronic, mystical
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The Omega Man (1971)
Plot Summary:
Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bleak, apocalyptic, intense, suspenseful, scary, bad ending, cult classic, grindhouse, depressing
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28 Days Later (2002)
Plot Summary:
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 virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 436000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, tense, dark, suspense, psychological, disturbing, creepy
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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
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I Am Legend (2007)
Plot Summary:
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 has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 799000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, rough, serious, suspense, bleak