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Exploring the Dark Side of Reality: Best Movies and TV Shows Related to Pandemics

Get ready to immerse yourself in thought-provoking stories that delve into the human experience during times of crisis. From gripping dramas to intense thrillers, we've curated a list of the best movies and TV shows related to pandemics that will leave you questioning the world we live in.

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Bo Burnham

Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)

8.0 612 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: Stuck in COVID-19 lockdown, US comedian and musician Bo Burnham attempts to stay sane and happy by writing, shooting and performing a one-man comedy special.

Plot: quarantine, stand-up comedy, breaking the fourth wall, youtube, mental illness, sketch comedy, pandemic, internet culture, ...

Staged (2020) TV Show

7.9 103 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Argentina, United Kingdom

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-14

Story: David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' in the West End. The pandemic has put an end to that, but their director (Simon Evans) is determined not to let the opportunity pass them by.

Plot: staging, webcam, pandemic, stage play, workplace comedy, covid-19, show within a show, meta cinema

Cast

Gong Yoo

Kim Su-an

Jung Yu-mi

Don Lee

Train to Busan (2016)

7.8 8.5K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: halloween, zombie, train, survival horror, pandemic, aggressive, somber, busan, ...

Place: south korea

Cast

Nonso Anozie

Christian Convery

Adeel Akhtar

Stefania LaVie Owen

Sweet Tooth (2021) TV Show

7.8 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: On a perilous adventure across a post-apocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's half-human and half-deer searches for a new beginning with a gruff protector.

Plot: cataclysm, post-apocalyptic future, deer, hybrid, based on comic, armageddon, virus, pandemic, ...

Cast

Ian Somerhalder

Adrian Holmes

Jacky Lai

Kimberly-Sue Murray

V Wars (2019) TV Show

7.2 348 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After a mysterious disease begins transforming people into vampires, Dr. Luther Swann is pitted against his best friend, now a powerful vampire leader.

Plot: predator, vampire, based on comic, pandemic, blood

Cast

Mia Goth

David Corenswet

Tandi Wright

Matthew Sunderland

Pearl (2022)

7.2 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

Style: nostalgic, whimsical

Plot: farm, pornography, dance performance, confession, alligator, barn, prequel, murder, ...

Time: 1910s

Place: texas

Cast

Will Smith

Alice Braga

Charlie Tahan

Dash Mihok

I Am Legend (2007)

7.2 17.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.

Plot: new york city, saving the world, based on novel or book, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, infection, matter of life and death, alone, ...

Cast

Ahmed Amin

Razane Jammal

Aya Samaha

Reem Abdel Qader

Paranormal (2020) TV Show

7.1 180 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Egypt, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-14

Story: Set in the 1960s; Paranormal follows the adventures of Dr. Refaat Ismail, a professor of hematology, as he comes up against various supernatural events with the help of his Scottish old flame, Maggie.

Style: bizarre

Plot: religion and supernatural, murder, paranormal, pandemic, myth, the myth of the house, egyptian curse

Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak (2020) TV Show

6.9 630 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Story: In this docuseries, meet the heroes on the front lines of the battle against influenza and learn about their efforts to stop the next global outbreak.

Plot: quarantine, outbreak, virus, pandemic, influenza

Cast

Eric Dane

Adam Baldwin

Charles Parnell

Travis Van Winkle

The Last Ship (2014) TV Show

6.9 1.0K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 56

Audience: TV-14

Story: Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.

Plot: navy, post-apocalyptic future, survival, battleship, military, virus, pandemic

Cast

Berant Zhu

Regina Lei

Wang Tzu-chiang

Apple Chen

The Sadness (2021)

6.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.

Plot: rape, mass murder, cruelty, virus, pandemic, depraved, cannibalism, fight for survival

The Stand (2020) TV Show

6.8 741 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 9

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In a world mostly wiped out by the plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.

Plot: based on novel or book, wilderness, remake, virus, pandemic, plague survivors, good versus evil, horror

Cast

James Wolk

Nonso Anozie

Billy Burke

Kristen Connolly

Zoo (2015) TV Show

6.8 603 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, Slovakia

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 39

Audience: TV-14

Story: Set amidst a wave of violent animal attacks sweeping across the planet, a young renegade scientist is thrust into a race to unlock the mystery behind this pandemic before time runs out for animals and humans alike.

Plot: based on novel or book, survival, animals, extinction, pandemic

Exam (2009)

6.7 2.3K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, where an armed guard keeps watch, they are given 80 minutes to answer one simple question.

Plot: gun, riddle, room, guard, suspicion, final exam, exam, intelligence test, ...

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

Martin Freeman

Simone Landers

Anthony Hayes

Susie Porter

Cargo (2017)

6.4 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: NR

Story: After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, woman director, pandemic, aboriginal, father daughter relationship

Place: australia

Cast

Mu00e9lissa Boros

Tahar Rahim

Golshifteh Farahani

Emma Mackey

Alpha (2025)

6.2 125 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: France, Belgium

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Plot: coming of age, disease, pandemic, mother daughter relationship, body horror, depressing

Cast

Sean Bean

Eddie Redmayne

Carice van Houten

Kimberley Nixon

Black Death (2010)

6.1 975 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Horror

Country: United Kingdom, Germany

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.

Plot: witch, inquisition, monk, village, battlefield, knight, torture, necromancer, ...

Time: medieval, 14th century

Cast

Joel Edgerton

Christopher Abbott

Carmen Ejogo

Riley Keough

It Comes at Night (2017)

5.9 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

Plot: fire, nightmare, nihilism, darkness, homicide, door, paranoia, post-apocalyptic future, ...

Cast

Milla Jovovich

Sienna Guillory

Michelle Rodriguez

Aryana Engineer

Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

5.8 4.4K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, Germany

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by new found allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.

Plot: dystopia, mutant, sequel, conspiracy, tokyo, japan, zombie, one man army, ...

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