Best tv shows like The Andromeda Strain
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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
Best tv shows and movies like The Andromeda Strain (2008):
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The Burning Zone (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Burning Zone is a television drama broadcast on the UPN network as part of its 1996–97 lineup. It ran for 19 episodes. The series was rerun on SciFi Channel in the mid-to-late 1990s. The Burning Zone featured a team of American agents who could be almost instantly dispatched almost anywhere in the world to fight biological warfare and naturally occurring biohazards. The series is believed to be cashing in on the success of the New York Times bestseller The Hot Zone, which spawned biological disaster movies like Outbreak. There was a villainous organization known as "The Dawn" that was responsible for some of the threats the team faced. The members of "The Dawn" were shadowy and never fully exposed but their goals and aims were clear: To allow disease and pestilence of a biological nature restore the Earth by rendering extinct the most virulent pestilence of all—mankind.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Warning Sign (1985)
Plot Summary:
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, sad, tech noir, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, weird, disaster movie
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Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
Plot Summary:
Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino, Academy and Golden Globe Award winner Anjelica Huston and Stephen Dorff star in this nail-biting tale of action and intrigue about members of an elite undercover team who race against time to locate the source of a deadly virus threatening the lives of millions of Americans.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disaster movie
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The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Plot Summary:
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 Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense, cerebral, atmospheric, talky, serious, scary
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Invasion (2005)
Plot Summary:
Invasion is an American science fiction television series that aired on ABC for only one season beginning in September 21, 2005. Somewhat similar to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the show told the story of the aftermath of a hurricane in which water-based creatures infiltrate a small Florida town and begin to take over the bodies of the town's inhabitants through a cloning process. The show was produced by Shaun Cassidy Productions and Warner Bros. Television. Due to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the aftermath in the southern United States, early on-air promotions were quickly pulled by ABC. The advertising then switched emphasis completely to the alien invasion aspect of the series, while the hurricane received no mention. The premiere was also preceded with a warning that the show featured images of a fictional hurricane that viewers could be sensitive to.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, epic, mysterious
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ReGenesis (2004)
Plot Summary:
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 based in Toronto. The organization investigates problems of a scientific nature, such as bio-terrorism, mysterious diseases or radical changes in environment throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico. NorBAC is headed by David Sandström, the chief scientist and molecular biologist. Through this character the show often addresses topical social, political and ethical issues related to the science at hand. The series was originally seen on The Movie Network and Movie Central with rebroadcasts on Global and Showcase in Canada. Internationally it can be seen on FX in the United Kingdom, The Science Channel, Halogen TV and in syndication and CW Plus in the United States, and FX Latin America in Mexico; as well as numerous broadcasters in Europe and Asia. International distribution is handled by Oasis International. As of April 2012 the show can also be seen on Hulu.com.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, bleak
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Jeremiah (2002)
Plot Summary:
Jeremiah is an American television series starring Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner that ran on the Showtime network from 2002 to 2004. The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where most of the adult population has been wiped out by a deadly virus.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, atmospheric, tense, bleak, serious, scary, futuristic, disaster movie
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Ever Since the World Ended (2001)
Plot Summary:
Twelve years ago, a plague swept through, wiping out most of the population; in San Francisco, only 186 people remain. Two of them use jury-rigged batteries to power a camera and make a documentary. We see a variety of approaches to survival, from the artist and engineer who trade for their needs, to the surfers and woodsmen who fish and hunt, to the scavengers, and a communal farm. We also see how the community deals with those who threaten it, and how the youth are growing up with different values from those who knew our world.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tense, bleak, serious, sincere, atmospheric, suspense, realistic, independent film, thought provoking
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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
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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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Between (2015)
Plot Summary:
Between is the story of a town under siege from a mysterious disease that has wiped out everybody except those 21 years old and under. The series explores the power vacuum that results when a government has quarantined a 10-mile diameter area and left the inhabitants to fend for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak, apocalyptic, independent film
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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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Right at Your Door (2006)
Plot Summary:
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, rough, serious, apocalyptic, futuristic, twisted, surprise ending, independent film, scary
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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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Toxic Skies (2008)
Plot Summary:
A doctor must find a cure for a viral epidemic that is spreading through vapors from jets.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense, disaster movie
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Helix (2014)
Plot Summary:
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 life-and-death struggle that holds the key to mankind's salvation...or total annihilation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, spooky, scary
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To the Lake (2019)
Plot Summary:
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 the city with the woman he loves and her autistic son. It's still safe there. In spite of that he rushes to Moscow to save his ex-wife and their son, although she hates Sergei . These people, who never believed they'd be under the same roof again, have to put the past behind them and set off on a long, dangerous journey north to find an isolated hunting lodge on a deserted island. The Outbreak is a family drama in the midst of a global disaster.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense, serious
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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 (2015)
Plot Summary:
What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 141000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspenseful, surreal, apocalyptic, grindhouse, creepy, scary, bleak, serious
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The Langoliers (1995)
Plot Summary:
On a red eye flight from LA to Boston, 10 people wake up to a shock. All the passengers and crew have vanished. When they try to contact the ground they make no connections. They land the plane only to discover that things haven't changed. But its like the world is dead. No one is there, the air is still, sound doesn't echo, the food is tasteless. A distant sound is getting louder, something is coming closer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, cult horror, atmospheric, mind bending, clever, intellectual, dark
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The 4400 (2004)
Plot Summary:
4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman strength to an unexplained healing touch. A government agency is formed to track the 4400 people after one of them commits a murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, exciting, atmospheric, bad ending, anthology, apocalyptic, spooky
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Flashforward (2009)
Plot Summary:
When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For some, the future is hopeful, while for others, it is unexpected. For a few, it doesn't seem to exist. Knowing their fate will alter each person's life, destinies will be changed.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: mind bending, suspenseful, stylized, surreal, apocalyptic, tense, thought provoking, captivating, futuristic, cliffhanger
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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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Survivors (2008)
Plot Summary:
Survivors was a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent unknown strain of influenza which has wiped out most of the human species. According to the producers, the series is not a remake of the 1970s BBC television series Survivors, created by Terry Nation, but is loosely based on the novel of the same name that Nation wrote following the first series of the 1970s series. Two series were produced of the new series. Series 1 ran on BBC One and BBC HD in November–December 2008, and series 2 ran in January–February 2010, ending with a cliffhanger. The BBC announced on 13 April 2010 that, due to poor viewing figures and other considerations, Survivors had been cancelled. The series had its premiere in South Africa on BBC Entertainment in September 2009, in France on DTTV channel NRJ 12 on 12 January 2010, and on BBC America in the United States on 13 February 2010. The series' Australian premiere was on Channel Nine, on 21 March 2010.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, serious, tense, captivating, stylized, atmospheric, cliffhanger, clever, bleak, suspenseful
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12 Monkeys (2015)
Plot Summary:
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 the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: futuristic, mind bending, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, mindfuck, intense, suspense, exciting, spiritual
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Outbreak (1995)
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
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The Rain (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, atmospheric, exciting, apocalyptic, tense, bleak, suspenseful, stylized, compassionate, sitcom
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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 100 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the books by Kass Morgan, this show takes place 100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity. The last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 270000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized, intellectual, humorous, sitcom, juvenile, action packed