Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Douban score: 8.3
Starring: Sophia Roland / Richard Harris / Martin Sheen / O· J. Simpson
Genre: Drama / Action / Thriller / Disaster
"Cassandra Bridge" is a British, Italian and West German film, and the film's shooting method and content have become the classic model of disaster films since then.
Terrorists broke into the headquarters of the International Health Organization in Geneva and attempted to carry out a terrorist attack, but were stopped by security guards. During the pursuit, the police officer accidentally smashed the experimental plague bacteria and splashed it on the criminal. One of the gangsters died of infection and rot on the spot, while another sneaked onto a train bound for Stockholm. The virus spread very quickly, and many people on the train were infected with this bacterium, and the International Police Department controlled the train so that the plague bacterium did not spread to others, did not allow any stops, and drove it to the Cassandra Bridge to destroy it. Female writer Jennifer (Sophia Roland) and husband Dr. Chamberlain (Richard Harris) are also involved. Doctors through experimental methods to make many people to disarm the bacteria, but not by the superiors to believe, only their own methods to solve, the people on the train clashed with the anti-chemical warfare forces, people have taken up arms. The fate of the crowd follows the train into the unknown.....
12 Monkeys Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Douban score: 8.1
Starring: Bruce Willis / Brad Pitt / David Morse
Genre: Sci-fi / Suspense / Thriller
In 2035 AD, humanity was invaded by a virus developed by the 12 monkey army, most of which died in this virus disaster, and only a few people escaped, but they could only survive in the dark underground.
Scientists decided to send people back in time to 1996 to trace the origins of the 12 monkey army. Prisoner James Cole (Bruce Willis) is selected as a volunteer. Cole travels back in time to 1990, when he describes the future catastrophe to the people of the time, is caught as a psychosis and diagnosed with schizophrenia by doctor Catherine Shirley (Madeleine Stone). Cole escapes with the help of his fellow patient, Jeffrey Gönes, and returns to the future. Without finding out the origins of the 12 Monkey Army, Cole was sent back to 1996.
Cole discovers the origin of the 12 Monkey Army in Philadelphia this time, he finds the doctor Catherine, and the two of them embark on an adventure to track down the 12 Monkey Army!
I Am Legend (2007)
Starring: Will Smith
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
In 2012, humans were infected by an unknown virus, and New York became an empty city. Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a scientist serving the military and a survivor of immunity to the virus. During the day, he takes his dog Sam in search of food in the streets, uses the radio to look for survivors, and researches ways to cure the virus in the laboratory; at night, he can only hide in the house, because those who are infected with the virus and do not die, become "night devils" who can only come out at night, lose their minds, and attack all people.
One day, Sam also contracted the virus and died, and Robert Neville fell into loneliness like never before. As he prepares to die with the Night Devils, he is saved by another survivor, Anna. Anna believes there are survivors in the quarantine on the hill, but the stubborn Robert Neville insists on staying in New York.
Another night, the Night Devil attacks Robert Neville's residence, by which time his research has been successful, but only by holding out until dawn can humans survive.
Resident Evil (2002)
Douban score: 8.0
Starring: Mira Jovovich / Michelle Rodriguez / Colin Salmon / Eric Mabis
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Horror
The Amberra Company, which is a graduate engineer for the military, has a huge research center under Raccoon City, the Hive, and due to an accident that led to the leakage of airborne biological and chemical weapons, the "Red Queen", the computer system responsible for the security of the hive, activated emergency measures, but hundreds of staff members were killed... Four hours later, Hive Security Officer Alice (Mira Jovovich) wakes up at the exit of the hive and loses her memory due to hypnotic gases. A special squad ordered to shut down the Red Queen arrives here and teams up with Alice, Anderson, who calls himself a policeman, and Hive Worker Parks. The group is attacked by a series of defense systems and zombies due to the conflict between the mission objectives and the Red Queen, and Alice's gradually recovered memories reveal her extraordinary connection with her companions. How can this biochemical zombie crisis be lifted? Or is it simply a prelude to despair?
The film is the first in a series based on the well-known video game Resident Evil.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Virus au paradis (2003)
Starring: Richard Pollinger / Martin Forsström / Faurelia Deliba
Type: Thriller
A farmer who runs a chicken farm always coughs, and Dr. Essa diagnoses him with the flu, but the next day the man dies of a lung infection. Soon, another veterinarian also fell ill for a short time, which caught Dr. Essa's attention. She contacted professor Lucas, an epidemiologist, to get his help, but Professor Lucas had an eccentric personality and was reluctant to get involved. The veterinarian died suddenly, and Professor Lucas and his former colleagues found that there was a very similarity to the Dhaka virus he had been studying for years. The virus is highly contagious and there is currently no good cure. Soon, French officials informed the whole country of the incident, and people who had been exposed to the source of the disease were quickly quarantined, including Essa. The virus was taken to Sweden by a passerby, and Dr. Marx invited Professor Lucas to Sweden for a short exchange study, at which point Essa was found infected with the virus and sent to the intensive care unit, where she died shortly thereafter...
Hussar on the roof Le hussard sur le toit (1995)
Douban score: 7.9
Starring: Juliet Binoche / Olivier Martinez / Pierre Adity
Genre: Drama / Romance / Adventure
In the mid-nineteenth century, Italy was under the throes of Austro-Hungarian rule. In order to liberate the motherland, the Hussar Colonel Angelo (Olivier Martinez) plotted to launch a rebellion to overthrow colonial rule, but had to go into exile in France due to a planned leak. Because of the betrayal of his childhood friend, Angelo was hunted down by Austrian spies in France. The fleeing Angelo inadvertently broke into a plague zone in France, where mourning was raging and people were going crazy. Locals believed that it was a poison thrown by Angelo, and Angelo became the target of the hunt for no reason.
One day, Angelo inadvertently falls from the roof into an attic and meets Paulina (Juliet Binoche), a woman who has been separated from her husband. Knowing that Paulina is now in a difficult situation, Angelo is determined to help her find her husband. As they walked through the epidemic area, Paulina was unfortunately infected with the epidemic...
Influenza 감기 (2013)
Starring: Jang Hyuk / So-ae / Park Min-ho / Yoo Hae-jin / Lee Hee-joon
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Disaster
A group of Southeast Asian stowaways came to South Korea through hardships, but almost all the stowaways in the entire container died, and only one person escaped into the city with his weak body dragged. As everyone knows, this person carries the deadly swine flu virus, and in just one day, the virus quickly spread to all corners of the city. Many people are unknowingly infected, which in turn leads the shadow of death to all those around them. The beautiful female doctor Kim In-hoe (Xiu Ai) is a single mother who recently suffered a car accident and was rescued by the fire brigade rescue worker Kang Ji-joo (Jang Hyuk), but was reprimanded by her boss for losing important thesis materials. During this period, the younger brother of the Korean snakehead was sent to the hospital in Inhae for treatment due to influenza, and the cause of the flu was finally discovered after diagnosis, and the container of dead bodies undoubtedly became the key to finding the source of the disease.
Before long, the swine flu virus spread in a geometric way, and the people who enjoyed peace faced unprecedented disasters...
Extreme Panic Outbreak (1995)
Douban score: 7.6
Starring: Dustin Hoffman / Renee Russell / Morgan Freeman / Kevin Spacey / Cooper Gooding Jr. / Donald Sutherland
In 1967, in Africa's Zaire Motaba Valley, a sudden illness raged in a U.S. mercenary barracks, and the death toll was rising. After the medic took a sample of infected blood and left, the entire barracks was destroyed by a bomb, and the white-faced monkeys in the nearby woods screamed...
It wasn't until the 1990s that a young American captured a small white-faced monkey in Zaire, Africa, and brought it home to sell. Young people released the monkeys because they did not meet the buyer's demands, and a new type of disease spread across the town of Cedar Creek in San Francisco. Sam (Dustin Hoffman), a colonel at the Institute of Infectious Diseases, receives the news and immediately begins research and treatment with his wife (Renee Russell) and colleagues. Because the disease was extremely contagious, the government urgently dispatched troops to blockade the town, and those who wanted to flee were killed. At this time, a batch of secret poisoned serum was sent, but Sam and a group of others found that this batch of serums could cure the disease of 1967, but it had no effect on the virus that has mutated today. Soon, when Sam's wife was infected and her life was in danger, the government also made a decision to destroy the virus by dropping bombs to destroy the entire town. With time to go, Sam finds out the source of the virus and must find the original carrier before dropping the bomb.
Death Video [Rec] (2007)
Douban score 7.6
Starring: Manuela Velasco / Ferran Terrassa / Giorgio Serrano
Type: Horror
Journalist Angela (Manuela Velasco) and photographer Pablo Rosso plan to make a documentary about the work of firefighters. After receiving an alarm call, they followed the fire brigade to an old-fashioned apartment. There seems to be some kind of deadly virus spreading in the apartment, and the infected people are crazy and bloodthirsty. Households were evacuated urgently, and the death toll was increasing. I thought it was an ordinary interview, but I didn't expect to shoot a real and terrifying scene through the camera...
The film won the SilverScream Award at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival in 2008, the Best Film and Audience Vote at the 2008 Portuguese Fantasy International Film Festival, and the 2008 Spanish Goya Award for Best Screenplay and Best Newcomer Actress.
Perfect Sense (2011)
Starring: Ivan McGregor / Eva Green / Connie Nelson
Genre: Drama / Romance
This is an apocalyptic love that occurs when the end of the world is coming. Epidemiologist Susan (Eva Green) and restaurant chef Mike (Ivan McGregor) meet and fall in love, but the world is suffering from a new epidemic at this moment. As the epidemic spreads, patients gradually lose their sense of taste, smell, hearing, and eventually vision as they lose control of their emotions. Although both Susan and Mike try to avoid illness, when Mike, as a chef, can no longer taste the food, and Susan as a scientist gradually loses her senses, the two end-time lovers know that no one can escape this catastrophe. The two then choose to cherish each other, and finally embrace each other in the gradual blurring of vision.
Blindness (2008)
Douban score: 7.2
Starring: Mark Ruflo / Julianne Moore / Alice Braga / Gail Garcia Bernal
Genre: Drama / Suspense / Thriller / Disaster
Nobel laureate Jose Saramago's novel Blindness will be brought to the film stage. The book describes a city caught in a blinding virus, the fuse ignited from a driver, after suddenly going blind, he received a person's kind help, the line continued to burn, the ophthalmologist came to help them, and the story began. All the blind are imprisoned in an abandoned psychiatric hospital, heavily guarded, and the spread of the disease is stopped at the cost of their lives. Julianne Moore will play the only person who is not blind - the doctor's kind wife, the famous black filmmaker Danny Glover, in the film to play a blinding black elderly man. Although the protagonist is from the United States, the film is an international film co-produced by Japan, Brazil, and Canada.
28 Days Later... (2002)
Douban score: 7.1
Starring: Kirian Murphy / Naomi Harris / Christopher Ecclestone
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror
The Cambridge team has found a virus that can permanently kill infected people, and the virus is extremely fast and unstoppable. After members of animal protection groups accidentally released a group of gorillas carrying the virus in the lab, bustling London became a dead city in just 28 days.
The bike courier (Silian Murphy) woke up one morning 28 days later to find himself naked in a dilapidated hospital, surrounded by chaos that made him suspect he was in a dream. When night came, he was attacked by people infected with the virus, and in a critical moment he was rescued by Schlenna (Neiomi Harris) and Mike (Noah Huntley), and he learned of what was happening in London, and the city's uninfected people were only a small number of London residents and some soldiers stationed outside Manchester. When the three of them worked hard to find a glimmer of hope for the future, they found that the real horror was not the virus.
Shock 28 Weeks Later (2007)
Douban score: 6.7
Starring: Jeremy Renner / Harold Perino / Robert Carlisle
Genre: Thriller / Horror
After 28 weeks of a horrific and deadly virus, britain is empty. With the loss of the vector, the virus also dies out. With the landing of a transport plane from the United States, the British, who had left Britain before the outbreak of the virus, re-embarked on the land that had been ravaged by the virus for half a year. This is arguably the last group of Britons on earth, and the burden of rebuilding their homeland falls on this group of civilians. However, not long after the reconstruction work began, survivors of the virus infection were reported. Scientists also hope to extract serum from survivors to develop a vaccine against the virus. However, what never expected was that the virus had not died out as everyone thought, but had evolved to become more powerful. The last group of people on the British Isles will face an unprecedented crisis...
The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Douban score: 6.8
Starring: Benjamin Blatter / Krista Miller / Luis Ferreira
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Disaster
The film is a miniseries re-directed by the Scott brothers on the 2008 TELEVISION series.
In the small town of Piedmont, Utah, a couple of men and women are dating in the mountains when suddenly an artificial satellite falls. The curious two bring the satellite back to the town, unaware that they have also brought the terrible suffering back to the town. Suddenly, a terrible virus broke out in the town, and people died for unknown reasons. To prevent the spread of the virus to other cities, the army cordoned off the town and sent a scientific team code-named "Andromeda" to identify the source of the disease. The team includes infectious disease scientist Jeremy (Benjamin Blatter), space biologist Angela (Krista Miller), microbiologist Tsi (Kim Dae-hyun), and pathologist Charlene (Viola Davis). Meanwhile, a journalist named Jack (Eric McMackey) seems to be searching for secrets...
The Fatal Visit (2007)
Douban score 6.6
Starring: Nicole Kidman / Daniel Craig / Jeremy Northon
A spaceship crashes in a small town near Washington, D.C., and people wake up to find the people around them cold and strange. Psychiatrist Carol (Nicole Kidman) and assistant Ben (Daniel Quig) go through several twists and turns to discover that the change is due to an alien virus. As the disaster spread uncontrollably and infect more and more people, they occupied the city, set up quarantines, and wanted to turn humans into emotionless monsters, Carol began to flee with her son Oliver, who was surprised to find that Oliver was the hope of saving humanity.
Infectious Diseases Contagion (2011)
Douban score: 6.6
Starring: Marion Cotillard / Matt Damon / Lawrence Fishburn / Jude Lowe / Gwyneth Paltrow / Kate Winslet / Brian Colonston
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Disaster
The film tells the story of a new deadly virus that swept the world in a matter of days. Beth (Gwyneth Paltrow) dies of a sudden illness after returning to her home in Minneapolis from a business trip from Hong Kong, and her husband Thomas (Matt Damon) assists Dr. Erin Mears (Kate Winslet) investigates the truth. The terrible thing is that patients with the same disease are appearing on a large scale around the world, and the virus is constantly spreading. Conspiracy theorist journalist Aaron (Jude Lowe) takes the opportunity to spread public opinion against the government and medical institutions. Dr. Leonora Orantes (Marion Cotillard) is sent to Hong Kong to investigate the causes, but is held hostage by local doctors in exchange for vaccines. In Dr. Thanks to the efforts of Ellis Cheever (Lawrence Fishburn) and young doctor Ally Hextall (Jennifer Ellie), a vaccine to treat the virus is finally developed, and the incident finally calms down.
Variant DNA Mimic (1997)
Douban score: 6.4
Starring: Mira Sorvino / Jeremy Northon / Giancaro Giannini / Charles Dutton / Josh Brolin
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Horror
Recently, there has been a spate of bizarre deaths in Manhattan, and the main responsibility for these events has been attributed to a couple of entomologists who have no knowledge of it, Susan (Mira Sorvino) and Pete (Jeremy Northon).
It turns out that in order to fight the epidemic that once raged in Manhattan, Susan and Pitt created an insect called "Judas", an artificial insect that has no ability to reproduce but can eliminate the virus carrier cockroach. What the couple did not expect was that an unknown mutation occurred in Judah's body, so that it not only had the ability to reproduce offspring, but even incarnated into the form of a human to hunt, and their prey was no one else, it was the human itself. As Judah's "parents", Susan and Pitt are obliged to take on the responsibility of eliminating them, and with the help of the subway system expert Renard (Charles Dutton), the group heads to Judas' underground lair
Infecting archipelagos Infecting archipelagos (2009)
Douban score: 6.3
Starring: Tsumabuki Akira / Dan-ko / Kuninaka Koko / Tanaka Yuji
In the autumn of 2010, WHO official Eiko Kobayashi (Tan Li) traveled with a team to the Philippines to extinguish avian influenza, and the epidemic was quickly brought under control, but there were still infected people who left the affected area without permission... The following year, at a municipal hospital in Tokyo, a high-fever patient admitted by a doctor, Tsuyoshi Matsuoka (Satoshi Mu, his wife), took a sharp turn for the worse after admission, coughed up blood and died, and the patient's family and some doctors also fell ill due to infection. At the same time, avian influenza virus was detected in a chicken farm in the suburbs, and the peaceful life of the owner Shen Cang and his daughter was broken.
Eiko Kobayashi was commissioned to guide epidemic prevention here, and her old acquaintance Matsuoka served as her assistant. The epidemic spread rapidly, the number of sick deaths reached 2,000 within a month, panic appeared in various places, causing international concern, and the government quickly blocked the epidemic area. Matsuoka accidentally learned that the source of the virus may be somewhere else, and the test results sent back from abroad supported his judgment, and Matsuoka decided to go abroad to find the source of the disease. In the unprecedented epidemic, Matsuoka, Kobayashi and Shencang will all face the test of their own choices.
Quarantine (2008)
Douban score 6.4
Starring: Columbus Schoten / Jennifer Carpenter / Jay Hernandez
Genre: Suspense / Thriller / Horror
The tv anchor Angela (Jennifer Carpenter) was nervous about her first appearance because she was going to participate in a show where she spent the night with the crew at a Los Angeles fire station. Angela has a warm and cheerful personality, so she gradually integrates into the team, she not only understands everyone's personality, but also quickly becomes their pistachio. However, she suddenly received a call from 911, and Angela accompanied the group of firefighters to the accident site. In this eerie building, the screams of women are heard from time to time, the local police have blocked the building, and firefighters try to evacuate the trapped crowd, but inadvertently get into trouble. In the quarantine area, a woman who did not know what virus was infected cruelly hurt many people. Watching the firefighters suffer misfortune, Angela, who was unable to protect herself, was forced to the end of the road...
Doomsday Virus Carriers (2009)
Starring: Lou Taylor Pucci / Chris Pine / Piper Perabo /
A highly deadly and contagious virus spreads around the world, and in order to take refuge, Danny (Lou Taylor Putch) and his brother Brian (Chris Pine), girlfriend Bobby (Piper Perabeau) and friend Kate drive through the desert of the southwestern United States as fast as they can. They were looking for a relatively safe place, but after spending a full few days, they realized that perhaps there was no longer a place for them in the vast country. Not only is the ravages of the virus oppressing everyone's nerves, they are constantly forced to face the pressure of moral and ethical decisions and challenges – some difficult and human choices that they could not imagine before. Soon, they discover that the biggest enemy that stood in their way was not the deadly bacteria or viruses that constantly attacked and destroyed human beings, but the darkness and evil hidden in their hearts...
Doomsday (2008)
Douban score: 6.1
Starring: Lorna Matera / Bob Hoskins / Alexander Hidig
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Glasgow, Scotland, 2010. An unknown, terrifying virus spread wildly, infecting the whole body with herpes, ulcerating and pus, and eventually dying in pain in torture. Due to the lack of medical equipment and vaccines, thousands of people died in just one week. In order to curb the spread of the virus, the British government imposed a total lockdown on Scotland in an attempt to completely isolate the virus. After that, people in other parts of the planet were calmed for nearly three decades, but one day in 2035, the dead virus broke out again in London, England.
While government officials were anxious, they received an uplifting piece of news. A satellite photograph shows signs of life in the Scottish quarantine area. In order to find a way to fight the virus, the government sent a scientific team led by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) into the quarantine area. When Eden escaped from the epidemic area, when she returned to this homeland that had been separated for nearly thirty years, she found that it had become a flesh-and-blood battlefield where the weak and the strong preyed on the wild and brutal...
因子8号 Factor 8 - The Day Has Come (2009)
Starring: Gergena Zukorovsky / Jamis Butler / Andrei Henik
Genre: Drama / Disaster
"Factor 8", also known as antihemophilia globulin, participates in coagulation as a cofloor in the coagulation process. The film revolves around this special coagulant, telling the story of a group of tourists returning to Germany from Thailand who are stranded on the plane due to a mutated flu infection and waiting for testing and treatment, and finally the passengers fly to an uninhabited island in order to survive.
The Happening (2008)
Douban score: 6.0
Starring: Mark Wahlberg / Zoe Danscher / John Reggie Zamo
Genre: Sci-Fi / Mystery / Thriller / Disaster
The earth is the home of human beings, and it is constantly being plundered while supplying, when the earth's patience reaches its limit, what will happen to human beings?
In recent days, there have been many bizarre deaths in several major cities in the United States, and the scene of the incident is bloody and strange. How did these people die? Suicide or killing him? And why? Everything is in the fog. Eliot (Mark Wahlberg), a middle school teacher who studies natural sciences, caught his attention by the chain of events, and he felt that it was no coincidence. Larger human deaths occurred, and death was transmitted between citizens like a virus, and for a time, the population of the city was almost extinct. Elliot, with his wife Irma (Zoe Danschel) and a group of friends, begins their escape in a car, what exactly are they trying to hide from? They don't even know it.