epidemic

Genre
IMDB
6 (52639 votes)
Budget
30,000,000.00$
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.

Genre
IMDB
5.4 (2222 votes)
After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.

鹿の王 ユナと約束の旅 | Japan
Genre
IMDB
6.4 (484 votes)
Following a brutal war, former soldier Van toils in a mine controlled by the ruling empire. One day, his solitary existence is upended when a pack of wild dogs carrying a deadly and incurable disease attack, leaving only Van and a young girl named Yuna as survivors. Finally free, the pair seek out a simple existence in the countryside but are pursued by nefarious forces. Intent on protecting Yuna at all costs, Van must uncover the true cause of the plague ravaging the kingdom—and its possible cure.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.4 (51952 votes)
Budget
3,500,000.00$
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed, as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted "replacement", realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he trust to help him and who has already been snatched?

Ridicule | France
Genre
IMDB
7.4 (6973 votes)
Budget
3,000,000.00$
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

28 Days Later | Spain| United Kingdom
Genre
IMDB
7.6 (362218 votes)
Budget
5,000,000.00$
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

And the Band Played On | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.8 (9034 votes)
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

The Normal Heart | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.9 (32207 votes)
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.

Genre
IMDB
6.7 (222554 votes)
Budget
60,000,000.00$
"Contagion" follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.. Casting: Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne Directed by: Steven Soderbergh

Genre
IMDB
6.6 (106094 votes)
Budget
50,000,000.00$
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.

Genre
IMDB
6.4 (119740 votes)
Budget
20,000,000.00$
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind. Cast: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo Directed by Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig Script: Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig Producer: Chris Brown, Bryan Furst, Sean Furst

Painted Veil, The | United States of America| Canada| China
Genre
IMDB
7.4 (93939 votes)
Budget
19,400,000.00$
Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young English couple, Walter (Edward Norton), a middle class doctor and Kitty (Naomi Watts), an upper-class woman, who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else. When he uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and takes her along. Their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. Cast: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones Directed by John Curran