Best Movies to Avoid When You're Confined - 20 Minutes

  • Pandemic, epidemic and contagion are the theme of many films in the cinema.
  • "20 Minutes" has listed a handful of truly anxiety-provoking feature films, the very ones that it is recommended not to see right now to avoid panicking.

You are confined to your home, perhaps with your children. Watching a movie may seem like a good idea. As long as you choose it wisely, because there is no shortage of disaster films on epidemics or contagions.

"Contagion": As if we were there

No need to draw a picture: it's all in the title. Contagion by Steven Soderbergh tells the frantic race to find the patient zero during an epidemic while the patients die at great speed. It's full of stars (Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Gwyneth Paltrow), but not recommended in the current context .

"Alert! ": No need to add more

It's all in the title too. Alert! de Wolfgang Petersen follows doctors played by Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo as they try to liquidate a devastating virus. A soldier finds it a good idea to drop a bomb on an infected area. Ideal if you want to psychotic on your sofa. Otherwise, clearly not recommended.

"World War Z": Brad Pitt infected

Even if there is Brad Pitt in the credits, to see him trying to stop a pandemic in World War Z by Marc Forster is not encouraging. He faces formidable beings made particularly aggressive by a mysterious virus. Understand: they don't just rob the supermarket's spaghetti department: they also attack people.

"28 days after": Humans on the menu of the day

A good guy wakes up from a coma in the middle of an epidemic in which the sick have only one obsession: to work for their neighbor. Danny Boyle's 28-day script is already made to freak out in normal times. But the coronavirus epidemic makes his vision even more disturbing when the hero roams the streets, chased by hungry zombies.

"Infected": Paranoia is contagious

The flight of young people to escape the virus that threatens mankind is the theme of Infected David and Alex Pastor. They try to avoid human contact but end up discovering that being friends does not protect everything. Do you see where we're coming from? Guaranteed paranoia!

"Pandemic": Here, here, here

Chaos quickly spreads in Pandémie , a Sung Soo-kim film available on VOD. Overflowing emergencies, quarantine and other merry things are on the program of a very hard work in which it is easier to identify with the protagonists. Do we really need this right now?

"The Night of the Mad Living": Insane (s)

We can trust George A. Romero to donate the mickets. In Night of the Mad , the people infected with a virus sink into such dementia that the only remedy is to kill them! Yes, yes, you read that right: shoot them down. If the remake of the same story by Breck Eisner is less successful, The Crazies remains very anxious anyway.

"Melancholia": Does the end of the world speak to you?

It is not a virus but a planet ready to come and pulverize our good old Earth. Melancholia by Lars von Trier is a very beautiful film, sublime but depressing. In the end, everyone dies, even Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kirsten Dunst. Do you want to watch this, right now, right now? Maybe if you want to think that, all things considered, the current situation is not so dramatic.

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