Check out this list of 10 viral outbreak movies which you can binge-watch while staying at home during quarantine:
1. Contagion
Contagion is a 2011 American thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh.The story concerns the spread of a virus transmitted by fomites, challenges faced by medical workers to contain the virus, the loss of social order and the introduction of vaccines. The film became popular via word of mouth as many have noticed the similarity of the film’s story with the events in real life with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). “Soderbergh presents collective patterns of behavior during the epidemic, which lead to social discord.”
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2. Outbreak
Outbreak is a 1995 film helmed by Wolfgang Petersen which tackles about a deadly virus, carried by a monkey host from the African rain forest which starts infecting the entire population and forces a handful of scientists to find a cure. A real-life outbreak of the Ebola virus was occurring in Zaire when the film was released on March 10, 1995.
Here is another movie that you guys should watch now that you've seen #Contagion go watch #OutBreak pic.twitter.com/8CjDyzhO06
— Lungelo (@_LungeloMbuyazi) April 6, 2020
3. 93 Days
93 days is a 2016 Nigerian drama-thriller film directed and co-produced by Steve Gukas. It tells the true-to-life story of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Nigeria and its successful containment by heroic health workers of a Lagos hospital.
93 DAYS (Nigerian 2016)#Coronavirus movie 39
Disease type: #ebolavirus)
Source: chimps
Transmission: body fluids
R0: 1.5-2
Incubation rate: 3-13 days (21 day quarantine)
Fatality rate: ~80-90%
Depicts a small outbreak in Nigeria during the 2014 West African Ebola virus epidemic. pic.twitter.com/xNx5PVm4s2— Built from Ash (@the_frontlist) March 6, 2020
4. Virus
Virus is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed and co-produced by Aashiq Abu. The film was a real-life account of the deadly Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, and the courageous fight put on by several individuals which helped to contain the epidemic in 2018.
Day 11 : Virus (2019)
A masterpiece from Malayali cinema. Movie based on Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala. Must watch movie in current situation.
Available on Amazon Prime.#21daysLockdown pic.twitter.com/tMOm5cuiN6
— Right Arm Over (@RightArmOver_) April 4, 2020
5. Flu
Flu is a 2013 South Korean drama-sci-fi film written and directed by Kim Sung-su. It’s about an airborne virus that infects the population of a South Korean city less than 20 kilometres from Seoul. The novel disease was seen similar to the strain of avian influenza AH5N1 virus that kills its victims within 36 hours.
Another movie about corona "Flu"
2013 trailer pic.twitter.com/Ftou5GBVis— Thabo D Monamodi (@PusherAfrica) April 6, 2020
6. Panic in the Streets
Panic in the Streets is a noir/thriller from 1950 directed by Elia Kazan. It mainly features the story of a doctor and a policeman in New Orleans who only have 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.
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7. It Comes at Night
It Comes at Night is a 2017 horror-mystery film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults. The film centers on the story of two families who are forced to share a home in an uneasy alliance after a mysterious apocalypse leaves the world with only a few survivors.
IT COMES AT NIGHT 4/10 ✨
After a mysterious apocalypse leaves the world with few survivors, two families are forced to share a home in an uneasy alliance. Its quite boring, slow, confusing and unsettling. pic.twitter.com/I61hbLRCOx
— やな (@ManzMinaj) April 5, 2020
8. Carriers
Carriers is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic/horror film written and directed by Alex and David Pastor. It features the challenges faced by four survivors of a viral pandemic attempting to avoid the looming threat of becoming infected. The present invention measures used in the film were deemed similar to practices used in the fight against the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
It's Chris Meloni's birthday — does anybody remember the 2009 movie CARRIERS starring him and Chris Pine and Emily VanCamp and Lou Taylor Pucci that's about a lethal pandemic? I swear I saw it but my mind's a blank pic.twitter.com/YZWLEaAeFI
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 2, 2020
9. Blindness
Blindness is a 2008 film directed by Fernando Meirelles and adapted from the 1995 novel written by Portuguese author Jose Saramago.
The story centers on a family seeking safety after getting affected by an epidemic known as the ‘white sickness’ that blinds everyone.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that this movie “considers the human capacity for prejudice, indifference, selfishness, and an easy resort to aggression and violence.”
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10. Containment
Containment is a 2015 film written by Davide Lemon and directed by Neil Mcenery-West. Set in the 1970s in the United Kingdom, the film tells the struggles of residents in a town who were sealed in apartments with no electricity, no water, and no communications with the outside world.
CONTAINMENT (2015)#COVID19 movie 21
Disease type: Unnamed (mutated C. pnemoniae?)
Source: Unknown (cattle, sheep, goats, swines, koalas)
Transmission: airborne
R0: high
Incubation rate: >2 days
Fatality rate: high
Suspenseful closed-door thriller. A lot of unknowns. pic.twitter.com/g9j2IUOxI5— Built from Ash (@the_frontlist) February 16, 2020
