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10 Best Movies Like The Plague

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

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#1
Contagion

Contagion

2011★ 6.6

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

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster t...

#2
Blindness

Blindness

2008★ 6.5

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

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine....

#3
Woman of Straw

Woman of Straw

1964★ 6.2

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

Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him....

#4
Mary and Martha

Mary and Martha

2013★ 6.3

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

Wealthy American housewife Mary Morgan takes her bullied son George out of school for home education,including a trip to Southern Africa. Whilst in Mozambique George is bitten by a...

#5
Isle of the Dead

Isle of the Dead

1945★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Plague for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a...

#6
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

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