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Top 10 movies on virus outbreak

During this pandemic, COVID-19, as we all are under lockdown at our homes, we must be getting bored. To ward off our boredom I have come up with lists of few epidemic/virus movies. Here is a list of those thrilling movies, download now and enjoy!

#1

Contagion (2011) 106min | Action, Drama, Thriller | 9 September 2011 (USA) Summary: Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
Countries: United Arab Emirates, USALanguages: English, Mandarin, Cantonese

Contagion: The death of a mother and her son leads to the discovery of a deadly 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.

IMDB RatingRottentomatoesMetacritic SCORE
6.7/10Fresh : 96%
AUDIENCE SCORE : 72%
METASCORE : 70
USER SCORE : 7.0

#2

28 Days Later... (2002) 113min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 27 June 2003 (USA) Summary: Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
Countries: UK, SpainLanguages: English, Spanish

28 Days Later: Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a team of survivors tries to cope with the aftermath of the disaster and find security.

IMDB RatingRottentomatoesMetacritic SCORE
7.6/10Fresh : 87%
AUDIENCE SCORE : 85%
METASCORE : 73
USER SCORE : 7.7

#3

Dawn of the Dead (2004) 101min | Action, Horror | 19 March 2004 (USA) Summary: A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
Countries: USA, Canada, Japan, FranceLanguages: English

Dawn of the Dead: Survivors of an epidemic  take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

IMDB RatingRottentomatoesMetacritic SCORE
7.3/10Fresh : 75%
AUDIENCE SCORE : 77%
METASCORE : 59
USER SCORE : 8.6

#4

Outbreak (1995) 127min | Action, Drama, Thriller | 10 March 1995 (USA) Summary: 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.
Countries: USALanguages: English, Korean, French

Outbreak: A deadly airborne virus carried by a monkey host from the African rain forest, finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate, starts infecting the entire population, a handful of scientists struggle to find a cure. 

IMDB RatingRottentomatoesMetacritic SCORE
6.6/10Fresh : 59%
AUDIENCE SCORE : 56%
METASCORE : 64
USER SCORE : 6.5

#5

Blindness (2008) 121min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 3 October 2008 (USA) Summary: A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.
Countries: Brazil, Canada, Japan, UK, ItalyLanguages: English, Japanese

Blindness: When a sudden plague of blindness, an epidemic known as the ‘white sickness’ blinds everyone, devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

IMDB RatingRottentomatoesMetacritic SCORE
6.6/10Fresh : 44%
AUDIENCE SCORE : 47%
METASCORE : 45
USER SCORE : 5.9

#6

The Crazies (2010) 101min | Horror, Thriller | 26 February 2010 (USA) Summary: 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.
Countries: USA, United Arab EmiratesLanguages: English

The Crazies: A couple, imagine living in a small town where everything is safe and happy…until suddenly it isn’t, with two other people, are the only ones unaffected by a sudden spate of incidence whereby people turn into violent psychopaths. How long can they survive?

IMDB RatingRottentomatoesMetacritic SCORE
6.5/10Fresh : 71%
AUDIENCE SCORE : 56%
METASCORE : 56
USER SCORE : 7.1

#7

28 Weeks Later (2007) 100min | Horror, Sci-Fi | 11 May 2007 (USA) Summary: Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
Countries: UK, SpainLanguages: English

28 Weeks Later: Months after a virus turned half of Britain into zombies,  the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there.

IMDB RatingRottentomatoesMetacritic SCORE
7.0/10Fresh : 71%
AUDIENCE SCORE : 67%
METASCORE : 78
USER SCORE : 7.0

#8

Contracted (2013) 84min | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 22 November 2013 (USA) Summary: After being drugged and raped at a party, a young woman contracts what she thinks is an STD; but, it's actually something much worse.
Countries: USALanguages: English

Contracted: A young girl contracts what she thinks is a sexually-transmitted disease begins bleeding, shedding maggots and hallucinating after a stranger date rapes her at a party, but is actually something much worse.

IMDB RatingRottentomatoesMetacritic SCORE
5.3/10Fresh : 0%
AUDIENCE SCORE : 26%
METASCORE : 48
USER SCORE : 5.7

#9

Flu (2013) 122min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi | 15 August 2013 (South Korea) Summary: Chaos ensues when a lethal, airborne virus infects the population of a South Korean city less than 20 kilometers from Seoul.
Countries: South KoreaLanguages: Korean, English, Filipino

The Flu:  There is a new kind of disease that kills in 36 hours once infected the population of a South Korean city less than 20 kilometres from Seoul.  The people of the city struggle to survive this.

IMDB RatingRottentomatoesMetacritic SCORE
6.7/10Fresh : N/A
AUDIENCE SCORE : N/a
METASCORE : 40
USER SCORE : 7.2

#10

Rabid (2019) 107min | Horror, Sci-Fi | 13 December 2019 (USA) Summary: The quiet Rose works in women's fashion clothing, hoping to be a designer. A traffic accident damages her face. She gets experimental stem cell treatment, leaving her stronger and prettier than ever - but there's a side effect.
Countries: CanadaLanguages: English

Rabid: After undergoing radical surgery after a freak accident,  a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood.

IMDB RatingRottentomatoesMetacritic SCORE
5.1/10Fresh : 52%
AUDIENCE SCORE : 38%
METASCORE : N/A
USER SCORE : N/A

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