Films about viral outbreaks

1995 film directed by Terry Gilliam

2007 film directed by Francis Lawrence

2013 film directed by Marc Forster

2002 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

2011 film directed by Rupert Wyatt

2014 film directed by Matt Reeves

2004 film directed by Alexander Witt

Zombieland is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic zombie comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer, in his directorial debut, and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. It stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin and Bill Murray. In the film, four survivors of a zombie apocalypse, Tallahassee (Harrelson), Columbus (Eisenberg), Wichita (Stone) and Little Rock (Breslin) make their way on an extended cross-country road trip to find a sanctuary free from a virus that turns people into zombies.

2016 film directed by Yeon Sang-ho

2011 film directed by Steven Soderbergh

2007 film directed by Russell Mulcahy

28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. It stars Cillian Murphy as a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to discover that the accidental release of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus has caused the breakdown of society. Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns, and Brendan Gleeson appear in supporting roles.

2010 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

28 Weeks Later is a 2007 post-apocalyptic action horror film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who co-wrote it with Rowan Joffé, Enrique López Lavigne, and Jesús Olmo. It is a standalone sequel to 28 Days Later (2002) and the second instalment in its series. The film stars Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Mackintosh Muggleton, Imogen Poots, and Idris Elba. Set six months after the earlier Rage Virus outbreak, it follows the US-led NATO forces' attempt to establish a safe zone in London, the consequences of two young siblings breaking protocol, and the virus's reintroduction into Britain.

2018 film directed by Wes Anderson

2012 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

2018 film directed by Wes Ball

28 Years Later is a 2025 post-apocalyptic coming-of-age horror film produced and directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. The third film in the 28 Days Later film series, it stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes. The film tells the story of a boy living in a post-apocalyptic world who undertakes a hazardous journey with his ill mother in an effort to obtain medical treatment for her.

1995 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen

1971 film directed by Luchino Visconti

2016 film by J Blakeson

2019 film by Ruben Fleischer

2016 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

2007 film by Oliver Hirschbiegel, James McTeigue

1976 film by George P. Cosmatos

1972 film directed by J. Lee Thompson

2008 animated film directed by Makoto Kamiya

2021 film directed by Johannes Roberts

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a 2026 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. It is the direct sequel to 28 Years Later (2025) and the fourth instalment in the 28 Days Later film series. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Chi Lewis-Parry. The film follows Spike as he is adopted into "Sir Lord" Jimmy Crystal's satanic cult while Dr. Ian Kelson makes an unexpected connection with Samson, an Alpha Infected.

1971 film directed by Boris Sagal

1971 film by Robert Wise

2002 film directed by Eli Roth

2008 film by Neil Marshall

Daybreakers is a 2009 dystopian sci-fi action-horror vampire film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film takes place in a futuristic world overrun by vampires, and centers around a vampiric corporation which sets out to capture and farm the remaining humans while researching a substitute for human blood. Ethan Hawke plays vampire hematologist Edward Dalton, whose work is interrupted by human survivors led by former vampire 'Elvis' (Willem Dafoe), who has a cure that can save the human species.

1964 film directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow

2007 film by Robert Rodriguez

2008 film directed by Fernando Meirelles

1979 film directed by Lucio Fulci

1950 film by Elia Kazan

2008 film directed by John Erick Dowdle

2013 Bollywood superhero science fiction film directed by Rakesh Roshan

2012 film by Makoto Kamiya

2015 film by Henry Hobson

2010 film directed by Breck Eisner

2015 film directed by Christopher Landon

1993 film directed by Roger Spottiswoode

2009 film directed by Àlex Pastor and David Pastor

2016 animated film by Yeon Sang-ho, prequel to Train to Busan

2021 film directed by Peter Thorwarth

1971 film by Yoshimitsu Banno

1964 horror film directed by Roger Corman

2020 South Korean film

2017 film by Trey Edward Shults

2008 film by Steve Miner

2008 film by Jay Lee

1980 film by Kinji Fukasaku

1973 film directed by George A. Romero

2006 film by Jonathan King

2005 animated film

2013 film directed by Christopher Hatton