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Exploring the World of Epidemics on Screen: A Guide to the Best Movies and TV Shows

Delve into the gripping world of epidemics with our curated selection of movies and TV shows that capture the intensity and drama of these life-altering events. From the early days of pandemics to the current global health crises, we've got you covered with the most thought-provoking and engaging content.

Whether you're a fan of historical dramas, sci-fi thrillers, or documentary series, our list has something for everyone. Get ready to immerse yourself in the stories of resilience, hope, and humanity in the face of adversity.

Cast

Bella Ramsey

Gabriel Luna

Isabela Merced

Young Mazino

The Last of Us (2023) TV Show

8.4 7.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.

Plot: people smuggling, post-apocalyptic future, infection, survival, epidemic, based on video game

High School of the Dead (2010) TV Show

8.1 993 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A small group of students at Fujimi High are fighting for their lives after surviving a zombie outbreak. It is up to Takashi to unite the survivors and escape the horrors that surround them. In this new world of the living dead...will they escape?

Style: erotic

Plot: swordplay, post-apocalyptic future, end of the world, gore, survival, coming of age, gunfight, zombie, ...

Cast

David Tennant

Lindsay Duncan

Peter O'Brien

Sharon Duncan-Brewster

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars (2009)

7.9 237 votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 62 min.

Story: In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.

Plot: alternate history, epidemic, carrot, altruism, tv special

Cast

Mark Ruffalo

Matt Bomer

Taylor Kitsch

Jim Parsons

The Normal Heart (2014)

7.7 919 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: 15

Story: The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.

Plot: new york city, aids, gay club, based on play or musical, hiv, male homosexuality, epidemic, lgbt, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Jang Hyuk

Soo Ae

Park Min-ha

Yoo Hai-jin

The Flu (2013)

7.5 1.3K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: A case of the flu quickly morphs into a pandemic. As the death toll mounts and the living panic, the government plans extreme measures to contain it.

Plot: quarantine, police, flu, survival, disaster, doctor, lethal virus, epidemic, ...

Cast

Yo Oizumi

Kasumi Arimura

Masami Nagasawa

Hisashi Yoshizawa

I Am a Hero (2016)

7.5 514 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Horror

Country: Japan

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: R

Story: A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed on impact. A moment later, when the corpse stands up and walks away, it could be a hallucination or something far more extraordinary.

Plot: zombie, based on manga, epidemic, survival horror, zombie apocalypse, comic strip artist, manga artist

Time: post-apocalyptic

Place: japan

Cast

Edward Norton

Naomi Watts

Liev Schreiber

Toby Jones

The Painted Veil (2006)

7.3 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG-13

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

Plot: infidelity, based on novel or book, shanghai, china, nun, cholera, foreign aid, doctor, ...

Time: 1920s

Place: china

Cast

Dirk Bogarde

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Romolo Valli

Mark Burns

Death in Venice (1971)

7.2 546 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 131 min.

Story: Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.

Plot: venice, italy, composer, obsession, beauty, vacation, cholera, male homosexuality, ...

Cast

Julie Le Breton

Outbreak (2020) TV Show

7.2 129 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Canada

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A dangerous virus appears in a group of homeless people, causing a risk of outbreak. How long will it take Anne-Marie Leclerc, director of the Emergency Public Health Laboratory, to realize that an actual epidemic is starting to take shape?

Plot: montreal, canada, epidemic, virus

Cast

Luke Newberry

Marie Critchley

Steve Cooper

Harriet Cains

In the Flesh (2013) TV Show

7.2 181 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 9

Audience: TV-14

Story: Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?

Plot: small town, rehabilitation, supernatural, undead, zombie, epidemic, lgbt, zombie apocalypse, ...

Cast

Brad Pitt

Mireille Enos

Daniella Kertesz

James Badge Dale

World War Z (2013)

6.8 16.7K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 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.

Plot: philadelphia, pennsylvania, new jersey, based on novel or book, dystopia, end of the world, apocalypse, zombie, ...

Place: jerusalem

Containment (2016) TV Show

6.8 215 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: 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.

Plot: quarantine, epidemic, trapped, virus

Place: atlanta

Cast

Georgina Campbell

Joe Keery

Sosie Bacon

Vanessa Redgrave

Cold Storage (2026)

6.8 559 votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two employees – joined by a grizzled bioterror operative – must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction.

Plot: based on novel or book, mutation, vomit, deer, outbreak, survival, nuclear bomb, epidemic, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Marion Cotillard

Matt Damon

Laurence Fishburne

Jude Law

Contagion (2011)

6.6 6.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America, United Arab Emirates

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 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.

Plot: quarantine, saving the world, mutation, infection, terminal illness, outbreak, disease, vaccine, ...

Cast

Evan Peters

Anthony Ramos

Jeremy Pope

Ashton Kutcher

The Beauty (2026) TV Show

6.5 161 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 11

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The world of high fashion turns dark when international supermodels begin dying in gruesome and mysterious ways. FBI Agents Cooper Madsen and Jordan Bennett are sent to Paris to uncover the truth. As they delve deeper into the case, they uncover a sexually transmitted virus that transforms ordinary people into visions of physical perfection, but with terrifying consequences.

Plot: paris, france, based on comic, epidemic, miracle drug, sexually transmitted disease, mysterious death, high fashion, ...

Cast

Sidney James

Eric Barker

Kenneth Connor

Charles Hawtrey

Carry On Constable (1960)

6.3 62 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: NR

Story: With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away, even before they arrive at the station. They all have to prove themselves or else they'll be out of a job and Sgt. Wilkins will be transferred.

Plot: bank robber, flu, romance, carry on, cross dressing, black and white, police officer, police station, ...

Cast

Ethan Hawke

Sam Neill

Willem Dafoe

Claudia Karvan

Daybreakers (2010)

6.3 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Australia

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save humankind.

Plot: experiment, sunrise, waitress, vampire, dystopia, rain, sunlight, undead, ...

Cast

Nicole Kidman

Daniel Craig

Jackson Bond

Jeremy Northam

The Invasion (2007)

6.0 1.7K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 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.

Plot: based on novel or book, escape, sleep, flu, alien, remake, doctor, disease, ...

Cast

Osman Sonant

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Kubilay Tunu00e7er

El-Gomgoma El-Sakhena (2022) TV Show

6.0 69 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Turkey

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In a world shaken by an epidemic of madness that spreads through speech, Murat is the only immune person. As he searches for the secret of his mysterious immunity, his “hot skull", he has to leave the safe zone and embark on an adventure within the ruins of Istanbul.

Style: gritty

Plot: based on novel or book, epidemic, authoritarianism