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10 Best Movies Like Contagion

If you loved Contagion, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Continental Split

Continental Split

2024★ 5.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contagion for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

As the New Madrid Fault threatens to tear the U.S. in half, a desperate team of seismologists and government agents race to prevent disaster while the clock ticks down....

#2
Dragons Forever

Dragons Forever

1988★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contagion for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A hot-shot lawyer is hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, he is torn...

#3
Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus

1947★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contagion for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They wo...

#4
Purple Noon

Purple Noon

1960★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contagion for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess....

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contagion for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
Life, and Nothing More…

Life, and Nothing More…

1992★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contagion for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In...