Best Epidemic Movies List

World War Z (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 190 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $202.35M

Lead Role: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale, | Director: Marc Forster,

Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Aggregate Rating: 189 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross, | Director: George A. Romero,

Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

Contagion (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 167 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 70 | Earnings: $75.64M

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

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

Awakenings (1990)

Aggregate Rating: 165 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $52.10M

Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, | Director: Penny Marshall,

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

120 battements par minute (2017)

Aggregate Rating: 161 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: $0.11M

Lead Role: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, | Director: Robin Campillo,

Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.

The Painted Veil (2006)

Aggregate Rating: 152 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 69 | Earnings: $8.05M

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

A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

Les témoins (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 143 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 75 | Earnings: $0.08M

Lead Role: Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Julie Depardieu, | Director: André Téchiné,

Paris, 1984: A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

Outbreak (1995)

Aggregate Rating: 139 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $67.82M

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

Extreme measures are necessary to contain an epidemic of a deadly airborne virus. But how extreme, exactly?

Perfect Sense (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 134 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 55 | Earnings: $0.00M

Lead Role: Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Lauren Tempany, Connie Nielsen, | Director: David Mackenzie,

A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions.

Test (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 132 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 70 | Earnings: $0.02M

Lead Role: Scott Marlowe, Matthew Risch, Evan Boomer, Kevin Clarke, | Director: Chris Mason Johnson,

In 1985, a gay dance understudy hopes for his on-stage chance while fearing the growing AIDS epidemic.

Epidemic (1987)

Aggregate Rating: 129 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Allan De Waal, Ole Ernst, Michael Gelting, Colin Gilder, | Director: Lars von Trier,

A film director and a script writer (performed by Lars von Trier and Niels Vørsel themselves) write a screenplay, in which an epidemic spreads about the whole world. Like the protagonist ...

The Falling (2014)

Aggregate Rating: 125 | Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Maxine Peake, Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh, Anna Burnett, | Director: Carol Morley,

It's 1969 at a strict English girls' school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved.

Here Alone (2016)

Aggregate Rating: 116 | Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 59 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Lucy Walters, Gina Piersanti, Adam David Thompson, Shane West, | Director: Rod Blackhurst,

A young woman struggles to survive on her own in the wake of a mysterious epidemic that has killed much of society, and forced her deep into the unforgiving wilderness.

Blindness (2008)

Aggregate Rating: 114 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 45 | Earnings: $3.07M

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

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

The Invasion (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 114 | Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 45 | Earnings: $15.07M

Lead Role: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, | Director:

As a Washington psychiatrist unearths the origin of an alien epidemic, she also discovers her son might be the only way it can be stopped.

Embers (2015)

Aggregate Rating: 108 | Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 55 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Jason Ritter, Iva Gocheva, Greta Fernández, Tucker Smallwood, | Director: Claire Carré,

After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory.

Gamgi (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 108 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 40 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Hyuk Jang, Soo Ae, Roxanne Aparicio, Tom Bauer, | Director: Sung-su Kim,

The worst epidemic ever seen is sweeping through Bundang, the suburb of Seoul. After smuggling illegal immigrants into the country, Byung-woo dies from an unknown virus. Soon after that, ...

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Aggregate Rating: 100 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 32 | Earnings: $0.14M

Lead Role: Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head, Alexa PenaVega, Sarah Brightman, | Director: Darren Lynn Bousman,

A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.

Survival of the Dead (2009)

Aggregate Rating: 94 | Imdb: 4 | Metascore: 43 | Earnings: $0.10M

Lead Role: Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Kathleen Munroe, Joshua Peace, | Director: George A. Romero,

On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.

Pandemic (2016)

Aggregate Rating: 93 | Imdb: 4 | Metascore: 47 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Rachel Nichols, Alfie Allen, Missi Pyle, Mekhi Phifer, | Director: John Suits,

Pandemic is set in the near future, where a virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. There are more infected than uninfected, and humanity is losing its grip on survival. Its ...