
Movies that feel likeContagion (2011)
If you loved Contagion, the closest films we have are Side Effects (2013), Silent Heart (2014) and Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011). All three share Contagion's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Cell 211 (2009).
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If Contagion hit the spot, these will too

Both are Steven Soderbergh's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than Contagion does

The same preoccupation in both: terminal illness
The difference: Easier on the tension than Contagion

The same mix in both: stillness, then tension
The difference: Leans harder into action than Contagion does

Thriller with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases


Tense science fiction in both cases

Thriller built on ideas, twice over
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

Both are built on the same subject: terminal illness

Both are working the same pair: quarantine, lethal virus

Drama with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

Drama built on stillness, twice over
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