Movies Like Contagion
If you liked Contagion (2002), a drama and science fiction movie directed by John Murlowski, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Contagion (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and science fictionAs 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.
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Outbreak (1995)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA 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…
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Light of My Life (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and dramaYears after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
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The Andromeda Strain (1971)
★ 7/10Also science fiction and dramaWhen virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent…
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Stormageddon (2015)
★ 6/10Also drama and science fictionWhat happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human…
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and science fictionA highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caesar decides to revolt against those who have harmed…
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also science fiction and dramaA group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
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Jonathan (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and science fictionJonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.
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Transcendence (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and dramaTwo leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of…
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Max Winslow and The House of Secrets (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionFive teenagers compete to win a mansion owned by entrepreneur and scientist Atticus Virtue. To win the teens must face-off against a super computer named HAVEN who controls the mansion.
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Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
★ 6/10Also science fictionAfter meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the…
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I Am Mother (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also science fictionA teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaAn African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
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The End of Oak Street (2026)
★ 7.1/10Also science fictionAfter a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they…
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Looker (1981)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionPlastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr…
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Hereafter (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaThree people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
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The Core (2003)
★ 5.8/10Also science fictionGeophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at…
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2073 (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and dramaInspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and…
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Experimenter (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaYale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in…
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