Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "infectious-disease"

1. Tomb Raider (2018)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she discovers the island where her father, Lord Richard Croft disappeared.

Director: Roar Uthaug | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu

Votes: 227,390 | Gross: $58.25M

2. Contagion (2011)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Thriller

Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow

Votes: 316,347 | Gross: $75.66M

3. Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

R | 117 min | Biography, Drama

In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Steve Zahn

Votes: 519,937 | Gross: $27.30M

4. REC (2007)

R | 78 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Stars: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano, Pablo Rosso

Votes: 197,076

5. It Comes at Night (2017)

R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

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.

Director: Trey Edward Shults | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough

Votes: 103,279 | Gross: $13.99M

6. Cabin Fever (2002)

R | 93 min | Horror

Five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.

Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent

Votes: 83,798 | Gross: $21.16M

7. The Crazies (2010)

R | 101 min | Horror

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.

Director: Breck Eisner | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Timothy Olyphant, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson

Votes: 129,086 | Gross: $39.12M

8. The Fog (1980)

R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman

Votes: 83,134 | Gross: $21.38M

9. Outbreak (1995)

R | 127 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

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.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey

Votes: 137,947 | Gross: $67.82M

10. Quarantine (2008)

R | 89 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC, after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.

Director: John Erick Dowdle | Stars: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Columbus Short, Jay Hernandez

Votes: 77,481 | Gross: $31.69M

11. Thirst (2009)

R | 134 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways.

Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-bin, Choi Hee-jin, Seo Dong-soo

Votes: 51,467 | Gross: $0.30M

12. Happiness (2021– )

TV-14 | 65 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

An apocalyptic thriller that takes place in a time in which infectious diseases have become the new normal.

Stars: Han Hyo-joo, Park Hyung-sik, Jo Woo-jin, Park Joo-hee

Votes: 10,230

13. The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

PG | 105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Miss Jane Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin

Votes: 9,459

14. The Painted Veil (2006)

PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, Romance

Dr Walter gets married to the beautiful Kitty but soon finds out that she is cheating on him. Battling his way through problems, he heads to China to fight a dreaded disease spread in a small village.

Director: John Curran | Stars: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Catherine An

Votes: 95,998 | Gross: $8.06M

15. Rabid (1977)

R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into blood-thirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Terry Schonblum, Joe Silver

Votes: 21,423

16. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)

Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A legendary American war veteran is recruited to hunt a mythical creature.

Director: Robert D. Krzykowski | Stars: Sam Elliott, Rocco Gioffre, Aidan Turner, Melissa Jalali

Votes: 13,829

17. Blindness (2008)

R | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.

Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Yûsuke Iseya

Votes: 75,233 | Gross: $3.07M

18. Medicine Man (1992)

PG-13 | 106 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the beautiful and dangerous Amazon rainforest, dissimilar people must make their choices between business, science, and love.

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, José Wilker, Rodolfo De Alejandre

Votes: 24,813 | Gross: $45.50M

19. And the Band Played On (1993 TV Movie)

PG | 141 min | Drama, History

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau, Nathalie Baye

Votes: 11,022

20. Bite (I) (2015)

Not Rated | 88 min | Horror

While on her bachelorette party getaway, Casey, the bride to be, gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect. After the trip, Casey discovers that everything can change with a single bite.

Director: Chad Archibald | Stars: Elma Begovic, Annette Wozniak, Denise Yuen, Jordan Gray

Votes: 5,580

21. Encounter (III) (2021)

R | 108 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Two brothers embark on a journey with their father, who is trying to protect them from an alien threat.

Director: Michael Pearce | Stars: Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer, Lucian-River Chauhan, Aditya Geddada

Votes: 10,982

22. Bleeder (1999)

98 min | Crime, Drama

Two stories for the price of one: Lenny works in a video shop and tries to get aquainted with the waitress Lea. Leo beats his pregnant wife, Louise, which is a VERY bad idea, as her brother, Louis, is a violent racist.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Kim Bodnia, Mads Mikkelsen, Rikke Louise Andersson, Liv Corfixen

Votes: 9,199

23. The Lost Future (2010 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

After a global cataclysm, mankind has degraded to a tribal society. In one of the tribes there is a disagreement about what is the best way to survive.

Director: Mikael Salomon | Stars: Sean Bean, Corey Sevier, Sam Claflin, Annabelle Wallis

Votes: 5,646

24. Flu (2013)

Not Rated | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Chaos ensues when a lethal, airborne virus infects the population of a South Korean city less than 20 kilometers from Seoul.

Director: Kim Sung-su | Stars: Jang Hyuk, Soo Ae, Min-ah Park, Yoo Hae-jin

Votes: 14,624

25. River of Death (1989)

R | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 1965 a guide in the Amazon leads people to a lost city in search of a mad Nazi doctor.

Director: Steve Carver | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Herbert Lom

Votes: 1,525 | Gross: $0.54M

26. The Rats (2002 TV Movie)

R | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A clan of evil rats overtakes a Manhattan department store and threatens to overrun the city.

Director: John Lafia | Stars: Mädchen Amick, Vincent Spano, Shawn Michael Howard, Daveigh Chase

Votes: 2,204

27. The Quiet Duel (1949)

95 min | Drama

A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô, Kenjirô Uemura

Votes: 3,911

28. The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Police seek a smuggler while doctors, unaware she's the same person, desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier.

Director: Earl McEvoy | Stars: Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop, Dorothy Malone

Votes: 1,808

29. Under Our Skin (2008)

Unrated | 104 min | Documentary

Exposes the hidden epidemic of Lyme disease and reveals how our corrupt health care system is failing to address one of the most serious illnesses of our time.

Director: Andrew Abrahams | Stars: Mandy Hughes, Sean Hughes, Dana Walsh, Jordan Fisher Smith

Votes: 1,042 | Gross: $0.10M

30. Friend of the World (2020)

TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.

Director: Brian Patrick Butler | Stars: Nick Young, Alexandra Slade, Michael C. Burgess, Kathryn Schott

Votes: 89

31. Close to Leo (2002 TV Movie)

Unrated | 88 min | Drama, Romance

When 21-year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+ family bonds are tested. The family decides that 11-year-old Marcel, the youngest, is ... See full summary »

Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Yaniss Lespert, Pierre Mignard, Marie Bunel, Rodolphe Pauly

Votes: 1,123

32. In the Same Breath (2021)

95 min | Documentary

How did the Chinese government turn pandemic cover-ups in Wuhan into a triumph for the Communist party?

Director: Nanfu Wang | Stars: Alex Azar, Bill de Blasio, Anthony Fauci, Xi Jinping

Votes: 1,849

33. Dark Souls (2010)

R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller

A revengeful father embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered.

Directors: César Ducasse, Mathieu Peteul | Stars: Johanna Gustavsson, Kristian Holter, Ida Elise Broch, Morten Rudå

Votes: 2,205

34. 76 Days (2020)

Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary, Drama

Raw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.

Directors: Weixi Chen, Hao Wu, Anonymous

Votes: 1,410

35. Fauci (2021)

PG-13 | 104 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A glimpse into infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci who has led the U.S. fight against every epidemic the country has faced from AIDS to SARS to Ebola, and the ongoing COVID-19.

Directors: John Hoffman, Janet Tobias | Stars: Bono, George W. Bush, Francis Collins, Anthony Fauci

Votes: 12,760

36. The Directive (2019)

113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Kyle Abraham, Scott Thompson, Hannah Pimentel, Hashim Gari

Votes: 1,317

37. Skeleton on Horseback (1937)

78 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

"The White Sickness", a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war.

Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Hugo Haas, Bedrich Karen, Zdenek Stepánek, Václav Vydra

Votes: 382

38. Germ (2013)

80 min | Action, Drama, Horror

The military's attempt to shoot down an orbiting satellite unleashes a space-borne epidemic on a remote, small town.

Directors: J.T. Boone, John Craddock | Stars: Marguerite Sundberg, Michael Flores, Mark Chiappone, Beth Pratt

Votes: 873

39. Carriers (1998 TV Movie)

105 min | Thriller

A female Army doctor and a journalist team up to track a killer virus.

Director: Alan Metzger | Stars: Judith Light, Pamela Reed, Philip Bosco, Bill Nunn

Votes: 243

40. Island of Horrors (1970)

83 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Female inmates on a desert island prison run by sadistic guards deal with the arrival of a new warden - a disgraced official determined to prove his toughness, while a deadly plague is starting to spread across the island.

Director: Kunihara Toshiaki | Stars: Masakazu Tamura, Maya Kitajima, Reiko Kasahara, Yuki Aresa

Votes: 68

41. Jungle Man (1941)

Approved | 63 min | Adventure

An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic.

Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Charles Middleton, Sheila Darcy, Vince Barnett

Votes: 187

42. Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery (2010)

52 min | Documentary

KURU: THE SCIENCE AND THE SORCERY follows Australian scientist, Michael Alpers, deep into the jungles of Papua New Guinea; into a mysterious world of sorcery, cannibalism and tribal conflict.

Director: Rob Bygott | Stars: Russ Harris, Michael Alpers, Pako Ombeya, Atenamu Bavasa

Votes: 46

43. The Toilet: An Unspoken History (2012 TV Movie)

49 min | Documentary, History

Documentary looking at the role of the toilet in our culture, exploring its social history in Britain and abroad, and finding possible future solutions to global sanitation issues.

Director: Nick Watts | Stars: Ifor Ap Glyn, Ron Cutler, Dafydd Davies-Hughes, Junko Kobayashi

Votes: 100

44. Epidemiologist Rates 10 Zombie Virus Movies and TV Shows for Realism (2020 Video)

21 min | Documentary, Short

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Star: Tara C. Smith

45. The Plague (2005 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary, History, Horror

How apocalyptic pandemic known as Black Death or simply the Plague devastated Europe between 1346 and 1353, leaving half of its population dead. As social and religious order fell apart, superstition, zealotry and murder took its place.

Director: Robert H. Gardner | Stars: John Aberth, Kelly DeVries, Ken Gage, Richard Johnson

Votes: 71

46. In Hand (2019)

46 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Himokura Tetsu is a scientist who specializes in the study of parasites. His right arm is fitted with a robotic hand which is not known how it came about. He then is recruited to solve a case with scientific methods.

Stars: Tomohisa Yamashita, Tomorô Taguchi, Nanao, Gaku Hamada

Votes: 971

47. The Specialists (1975 TV Movie)

73 min | Drama

Inspectors for the U.S. Public Health Service try to track down the cause of a rash of mysterious ailments suddenly appearing among the general populace.

Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Robert Urich, Maureen Reagan, Jack Hogan, Jed Allan

Votes: 20

48. The Wrath Within Mercy (2023)

25 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

Within the early days of a lawless, mysterious post apocalyptic world, a small group occupying a cabin faces their first true test of morality when forced to play judge, jury, and possibly executioner.

Director: Haaris Chaudhry | Stars: Kristian Burnett, Jack De Courcey, Lukas Gabco, Patrik Gabco

Votes: 6

49. Lions, Bones & Bullets (2021)

73 min | Documentary

A British author uncovers an elaborate, international wildlife con with an annual turnover of nearly 100 million U.S. dollars.

Director: Anton Leach | Stars: Peter Egan, Richard Peirce, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Votes: 8

50. KonTiki Project

Documentary, History, Mystery | Filming

An archaeological excavation in the ancient Museum of Human Anatomy in Pisa, Italy.

Director: Beatrice Barberis | Stars: Pasquale Barile, Maria Longhena, Ramona Melli, Stefania Zampetti