Pandemic Dreams
by LakesideScott | created - 12 Dec 2020 | updated - 12 Dec 2020 | PublicMovies related to viruses, epidemics, pandemics, plagues and more. I tried to avoid the pure zombie movies but couldn't help a few.
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1. Outbreak (1995)
R | 127 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Army doctors struggle to find a cure for a deadly virus spreading throughout a California town that was brought to America by an African monkey.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey
Votes: 137,803 | Gross: $67.82M
2. Contagion (2011)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Thriller
Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow
Votes: 316,022 | Gross: $75.66M
3. Carriers (2009)
PG-13 | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As a lethal virus spreads globally, four friends seek a reputed plague-free haven. But while avoiding the infected, the travelers turn on one another.
Directors: David Pastor, Àlex Pastor | Stars: Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Lou Taylor Pucci, Emily VanCamp
Votes: 49,659 | Gross: $0.09M
4. The Andromeda Strain (1971)
G | 131 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid
Votes: 40,451 | Gross: $3.42M
5. Blindness (2008)
R | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.
Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Yûsuke Iseya
Votes: 75,204 | Gross: $3.07M
6. Viral (I) (2016)
R | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | Stars: Sofia Black-D'Elia, Lio Tipton, Travis Tope, Michael Kelly
Votes: 9,734
7. 28 Days Later (2002)
R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Alex Palmer
Votes: 445,949 | Gross: $45.06M
8. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
R | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, Robert Carlyle, Harold Perrineau
Votes: 293,915 | Gross: $28.64M
9. The Stand (1994)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.
Stars: Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo
Votes: 38,424
10. The Happening (2008)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A science teacher, his wife, and a young girl struggle to survive a plague that causes those infected to commit suicide.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez
Votes: 216,537 | Gross: $64.51M
11. Pandemic (2016)
TV-MA | 91 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A New York doctor travels with her team to Los Angeles to find survivors of a worldwide pandemic.
Director: John Suits | Stars: Rachel Nichols, Alfie Allen, Missi Pyle, Mekhi Phifer
Votes: 8,475
12. World War Z (2013)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale
Votes: 719,633 | Gross: $202.36M
13. Alone (XXI) (2020)
R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
When an outbreak hits, Aidan barricades himself inside his apartment and starts rationing food. His complex is overrun by infected Screamers, and with the world falling apart into chaos, he is left completely alone fighting for his life.
Director: Johnny Martin | Stars: Tyler Posey, Summer Spiro, Donald Sutherland, Robert Ri'chard
Votes: 4,448
14. Quarantine (2008)
R | 89 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC, after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
Director: John Erick Dowdle | Stars: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Columbus Short, Jay Hernandez
Votes: 77,389 | Gross: $31.69M
15. La peste (2018–2019)
50 min | Crime, Drama, History
A series of murders take place in 16th-century Seville, where the plague has taken hold; a condemned man faces the Inquisition as he attempts to save the son of a friend by speaking out.
Stars: Pablo Molinero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Sergio Castellanos, Cecilia Gómez
Votes: 2,219
16. I Am Legend (2007)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Votes: 814,478 | Gross: $256.39M
17. It Comes at Night (2017)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
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. Then a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Director: Trey Edward Shults | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough
Votes: 103,130 | Gross: $13.99M
18. Cabin Fever (2002)
R | 93 min | Horror
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.
Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent
Votes: 83,715 | Gross: $21.16M
19. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
R | 86 min | Horror
A high school prom faces a deadly threat: a flesh-eating virus that spreads via a popular brand of bottled water.
Director: Ti West | Stars: Rider Strong, Noah Segan, Alexi Wasser, Rusty Kelley
Votes: 15,145
20. Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (2014)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a group of friends enjoying a bachelor cruise in the Caribbean stumble upon a research facility on a remote island, a deadly virus is unleashed. The group must find a way to survive before the flesh eating virus consumes them all.
Director: Kaare Andrews | Stars: Sean Astin, Currie Graham, Ryan Donowho, Brando Eaton
Votes: 8,350
21. Plague (1979)
PG | 88 min | Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
An ambitious lab assistant carries out a forbidden experiment and accidentally creates a deadly bacteria which kills her and rapidly engulfs the city. The authorities order a curtain of ... See full summary »
Director: Ed Hunt | Stars: Daniel Pilon, Kate Reid, Céline Lomez, Michael J. Reynolds
Votes: 331
22. Pandemic (2007)
169 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The bird flu virus spreads through Los Angeles as a doctor from the CDC races to find a vaccine.
Stars: Tiffani Thiessen, French Stewart, Faye Dunaway, Eric Roberts
Votes: 1,634
23. Kansen rettô (2009)
138 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Tsuyoshi Matsuoka, a doctor at a Tokyo hospital, misdiagnoses a patient's disease as a common cold. But after the patient's sudden death, he realizes that it's very serious disease, which ... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Rei Dan, Ryôko Kuninaka, Yûji Tanaka
Votes: 346
24. Here Alone (2016)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A young woman struggles to survive on her own in the wake of a mysterious epidemic that has killed much of society, and forced her deep into the unforgiving wilderness.
Director: Rod Blackhurst | Stars: Lucy Walters, Gina Piersanti, Adam David Thompson, Shane West
Votes: 7,919
25. Contracted: Phase II (2015)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Riley searches for a cure to the virus that took over Samantha before it consumes him and the entire world.
Director: Josh Forbes | Stars: Matt Mercer, Marianna Palka, Morgan Peter Brown, Anna Lore
Votes: 5,227
26. Pontypool (2008)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.
Director: Bruce McDonald | Stars: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly, Hrant Alianak
Votes: 35,493
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