
Movies that feel likeContagion (2011)
If you loved Contagion, the closest films we have are Side Effects (2013), Under the Skin (2014) and Primer (2004). All three share Contagion's contemplative and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Fracture (2007).
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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

Both land stillness and tension at once
The difference: Easier on the melancholy than Contagion

Drama built on ideas, twice over

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that


Science fiction with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases
The difference: Leans harder into action than Contagion does

Both lean on tension more than on thriller
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

Both are built on the same subject: terminal illness


Both are working the same pair: quarantine, lethal virus

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