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The Best Pandemic Movies

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People who added this item 239 Average listal rating (136 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 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.

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People who added this item 356 Average listal rating (184 ratings) 6.1 IMDB Rating 6.4
A love story... in the time of a Cholera outbreak.

People who added this item 311 Average listal rating (232 ratings) 6.4 IMDB Rating 6.1
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.

People who added this item 425 Average listal rating (262 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.4
A group of knights searching for a heretic during the 14th-century plague.

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People who added this item 1150 Average listal rating (711 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 6.5
Blindness (2008)
The world is hit by a pandemic that renders people blind.

People who added this item 895 Average listal rating (525 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.5
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.

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People who added this item 913 Average listal rating (610 ratings) 6.1 IMDB Rating 6.5
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.

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People who added this item 443 Average listal rating (326 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 6.6
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.

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People who added this item 1644 Average listal rating (1111 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 7
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.

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People who added this item 496 Average listal rating (257 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.1
Perfect Sense (2011)
A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions.

People who added this item 6 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 6.3
Set during World War I and the Spanish Flu.
People who added this item 361 Average listal rating (238 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 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.

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People who added this item 4515 Average listal rating (3073 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 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.

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People who added this item 312 Average listal rating (195 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 6.7
A plague wiped out most of humanity and the survivors, save the main character, have been turned into (essentially) vampires.

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People who added this item 3371 Average listal rating (2348 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.6
Zombieland (2009)
Strangers team up, fighting a post-viral pandemic, to get to their destination across the country.

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People who added this item 569 Average listal rating (438 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.6
While a virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.

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People who added this item 1754 Average listal rating (1100 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.2
In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea.

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

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People who added this item 3877 Average listal rating (2739 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.9
Two best friends' uneventful lives are disrupted by a zombie pandemic.

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People who added this item 3520 Average listal rating (2357 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.9
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.

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People who added this item 3661 Average listal rating (2470 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.6
28 Days Later (2002)
Viral pandemic that turns anyone infected into permanently enraged monsters

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People who added this item 1722 Average listal rating (1076 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.1
Set during the Black Death plague of the 1300s,

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People who added this item 1410 Average listal rating (907 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.8
Contagion (2011)
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.

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People who added this item 931 Average listal rating (628 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 6.6
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.

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People who added this item 4226 Average listal rating (2843 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 8
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.

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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?

Created April 2020
Updated August 2020

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