vote

2202 Views Share:

The Best Pandemic Movies

Movie list created by Stehako

Sort by: Showing 25 items

Decade: Rating: List Type:

Add items to section

The TV Show

239

6.9

7.3

The Strain (2014)

A mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism ravages the city of New York.

Stehako's rating:

Add items to section

The Movies

356

6.1

6.4

Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

A love story... in the time of a Cholera outbreak.

308

6.4

6.2

It Comes at Night

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.

423

6.3

6.4

Black Death

A group of knights searching for a heretic during the 14th-century plague.

Stehako's rating:

1148

6.5

Blindness (2008)

The world is hit by a pandemic that renders people blind.

896

7.2

7.5

The Painted Veil (2018)

A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

Stehako's rating:

913

6.1

6.5

The Crazies

After a strange and insecure plane crash, an unusual toxic virus enters a quaint farming town. A young couple are quarantined, but they fight for survival along with help from a couple of people.

Stehako's rating:

441

6.6

Bird Box

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

Stehako's rating:

1641

6.3

World War Z (2013)

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.

Stehako's rating:

496

7.1

Perfect Sense (2011)

A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions.

7.3

6.3

1918 (1985)

Set during World War I and the Spanish Flu.

361

6.7

6.5

The Omega Man (1971)

A plague wiped out most of humanity and the survivors, save the main character, have been turned into (essentially) vampires.

Stehako's rating:

4514

6.7

7.2

I Am Legend (2007)

A plague wiped out most of humanity and the survivors, save the main character, have been turned into (essentially) vampires.

Stehako's rating:

310

6.9

6.7

The Last Man on Earth (1964)

A plague wiped out most of humanity and the survivors, save the main character, have been turned into (essentially) vampires.

Stehako's rating:

3368

7.2

7.6

Zombieland (2009)

Strangers team up, fighting a post-viral pandemic, to get to their destination across the country.

Stehako's rating:

569

7.2

7.6

Train to Busan

While a virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.

Stehako's rating:

1752

7.1

7.2

The Road (2009)

In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea.

Stehako's rating:

277

7.2

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

Scientists investigating an infectious organism that fell to Earth from space.

Stehako's rating:

3876

7.6

7.9

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Two best friends' uneventful lives are disrupted by a zombie pandemic.

Stehako's rating:

3516

7.6

7.9

Children of Men (2006)

In a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.

Stehako's rating:

3660

7.3

7.6

28 Days Later (2002)

Viral pandemic that turns anyone infected into permanently enraged monsters

Stehako's rating:

1718

8.3

8.1

The Seventh Seal (1957)

Set during the Black Death plague of the 1300s,

Stehako's rating:

1409

6.3

6.8

Contagion

Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
This might be the most accurate rendering of what a modern pandemic would look like.

Stehako's rating:

931

6.2

6.6

Outbreak

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.

Stehako's rating:

4223

7.7

12 Monkeys

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.

Stehako's rating:

Voters of this movie list - View all

This list was created by and in the opinion of Stephen H Koontz

24 Movies and 1 TV Show about other pandemics told on film. How many movies will now come out about the Covid19 pandemic?