# The best movies about epidemics and pandemics

From Contagion and Outbreak to 28 Days Later and Train to Busan: the virus and outbreak films that come up most in the lists of Nueva Tribuna and SensaCine.

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- Jul 6, 2021 · pilar ortega
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## Top 15

1. **Contagion (2011)** (41 · ▲42 ▼1) — Steven Soderbergh: a respiratory virus circles the globe in days.
2. **Outbreak (1995)** (38 · ▲40 ▼2) — Wolfgang Petersen: an Ebola-like virus reaches a California town.
3. **12 Monkeys (1995)** (29 · ▲29 ▼0) — Terry Gilliam: a prisoner travels back to stop a virus that wiped out most of humanity.
4. **28 Days Later (2002)** (28 · ▲29 ▼1) — Danny Boyle: a courier wakes up in an empty London after the rage virus.
5. **Train to Busan (2016)** (26 · ▲30 ▼4) — Yeon Sang-ho: a zombie outbreak on a high-speed train.
6. **I Am Legend (2007)** (21 · ▲25 ▼4) — Will Smith, the last survivor in New York after a virus meant to cure cancer.
7. **The Andromeda Strain (1971)** (19 · ▲21 ▼2) — Robert Wise: scientists locked in with a microorganism from space.
8. **93 Days (2016)** (16 · ▲19 ▼3) — Nigeria stops Ebola in Lagos in 2014.
9. **World War Z (2013)** (15 · ▲19 ▼4) — Brad Pitt hunts for the source of a zombie pandemic across the globe.
10. **\[REC\] (2007)** (13 · ▲18 ▼5) — Balagueró and Plaza: a reporter trapped in a quarantined Barcelona building.
11. **Dawn of the Dead (2004)** (13 · ▲14 ▼1) — Zack Snyder: survivors holed up in a shopping mall.
12. **Cargo (2017)** (12 · ▲14 ▼2) — Martin Freeman looks for someone to care for his daughter in an infected Australia.
13. **Blindness (2008)** (11 · ▲15 ▼4) — Fernando Meirelles adapts Saramago: an epidemic of white blindness.
14. **The Last Man on Earth (1964)** (10 · ▲14 ▼4) — Vincent Price alone against the victims of a plague.
15. **28 Weeks Later (2007)** (9 · ▲14 ▼5) — The sequel: London repopulated and the virus coming back.
16. **Dallas Buyers Club (2013)** (8 · ▲13 ▼5) — Matthew McConaughey and AIDS in the 1980s.
17. **The Seventh Seal (1957)** (5 · ▲12 ▼7) — Ingmar Bergman: a knight plays chess with Death during the plague.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.