With the current state of epidemic in the world, and several searches related to the subject, let's see how fiction deals and portrays the subject in the most diverse ways, with drama, suspense and terror. Below is a list of some movies about epidemics. But remembering that it is not a Top! Some of these films can give us a sense of how to deal with the situation we find ourselves in, as well as explain in some way how quarantine works and how it works.
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Contagion (2011 – Steven Soderbergh)
Perhaps the film about epidemics that comes closest to the current situation we find ourselves in, in every sense, thanks to that it has gained a lot of proportion nowadays. But the similarities are so many that it seems like an episode of Simpsons predicting the future, including in the film the virus also appears in China, with a man dying on a business trip due to a “flu”.
It is a lethal, highly contagious virus that kills people within days of being infected. With the entire scientific community running out of time, in search of a solution to control the panic in the population.
Blindness (2008 – Fernando Meirelles)
A great film, which also deals with epidemics, directed by Brazilian Fernando Meirelles (Director of City of God). This film depicts a highly contagious virus that causes blindness. The whole situation started with a driver who suddenly went blind while driving, and all the people who came into contact with him. But with one exception the ophthalmologist's wife where the first patient consults.
The government confines these people, and they begin to meet their basic needs. However, the government begins to fail to supply, awakening primitive survival instincts in people, which makes this “immune” woman play the role of guiding a group to freedom.
Epidemic (1995 – Wolfgang Petersen)
The film portrays an epidemic caused in an American city, after a contaminated monkey is smuggled into the United States. This monkey came contaminated from Africa, where this very contagious and lethal virus quickly wiped out a village's population and animals.
It is one of the films about epidemics, which portrays a virus and a real problem that has already been faced, in this case it is about the Ebola virus, which haunted Africa. It can be easily watched, since the entire movie is available on Youtube and it is also part of the Netflix Catalog. Anyway, I recommend you watch the movie too. 93 days, also on netflix, which portrays treatment of the Ebola epidemic.
I Am Legend (2007 – Francis Lawrence)
It is perhaps the best-known film about epidemics on this list. The film portrays a post-apocalyptic world, which has been ravaged by an incurable virus, which causes a mutation turning infected into a species of Zombies. But a scientist (played by Will Smith), is immune to the virus. And while studying a way to cure the virus, he broadcasts radio messages around the city looking for more survivors, accompanied by his faithful dog.
World War Z (2013 – Marc Forster)
Like the previous one, this is also one of the best-known movies about epidemics. This film portrays a world that has been ravaged by an epidemic of a disease that turns the infected into zombies. And a former UN agent (played by Brad Pitt), investigates what is happening and races against time in search of a cure for humanity that is increasingly reduced, a race against extinction.
Resident Evil: The Cursed Guest (2002 – Paul WS Anderson)
In a list of films about viral epidemics… Resident Evil, based on a series of games with the same name, cannot be left out. The film is about the T-Virus, a biological weapon created in a genetics laboratory called The Hive, which belongs to the Umbrella Corporation. This virus accidentally ends up contaminating those in the facility and turning them into zombies, not only humans, but also animals.
In order to isolate and contain the spread of the virus, the artificial intelligence that controls the Hive called the red queen, will completely isolate the laboratory in 3 hours, which makes the task force assembled and sent to find a solution to the problem, In addition to being in danger of contamination and facing zombies, you also have to race against time.
REC (2007 - Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza)
The film is about an epidemic of a rabies virus, which occurs in Barcelona, Spain. The infection, or outbreak of rabies, occurs in a lady in her apartment. A fire department is called to her apartment to save her, after neighbors hear the woman screaming and call her, thinking she is trapped in her apartment.
And a team from a local newspaper who were reporting on the firefighters accompanied them to the scene. When the situation is discovered, in order to prevent spread, the building is isolated, and while they are there, the reporting team decides to record everything that is happening. The film is available on Amazon's Prime Video.
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