The Specialists

The First Fallen

2021 · ★ 6.1

1983 — A young biologist returns home from studies abroad and feels something wrong with his body. This is the start of the AIDS crisis when the first wave of the epidemic hit Brazil. Lives will change, friends will be lost and the future is uncertain.

Minus 31: The Nagpur Files

2023 · ★ 5.3

A murder has happened at the time of COVID, and the female cop is on duty to find the murderer.

The Middle of Nowhere

2017 · ★ 2.5

A remote village in the Finistère countryside. A man is suspected of carrying the Ebola virus. He is black. His name is Maurice. His best friend, Michel, an ambulance driver, travels across the region with his intern Rémi to find him and check on him.

The Great Fever

2006

On September 13, 1900, thirty-four-year-old physician Jesse Lazear believed he was on the brink of a scientific breakthrough that would put an end to yellow fever, the worst epidemic scourge of nineteenth-century America. Dr. Jesse Lazear, a member of the US Yellow Fever Board working in Havana, was working on a radical theory of transmission, which placed the lowly mosquito at the center of one science's most elusive riddles. Shortly after being bitten by a lab mosquito known to be infected with yellow fever, two of Lazear's co-workers had fallen ill. Encouraged by this success, the ambitious young surgeon put himself at risk, allowing an infected mosquito to bite him. In less than two weeks, after several days of delirium and black vomit, Jesse Lazear was dead. This film documents the research of intrepid Cuban scientist Carlos Finlay and the efforts of Major Walter Reed and his medical team, some of whom put their own lives on the line to eradicate yellow fever.

A Matter of WHO

1961 · ★ 6.4

Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.

The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black

Kyoto during the Heian period (the 10th century) in Japan. Tens of thousands dead, gutters filled with corpses, children abandoned in the mountains, and groups of wild dogs vigilantly watching outside the city. The elegant image of the Heian period has been shown in many literary and artistic works. However, Katabuchi's new work takes us back to Kyoto a thousand years ago, when the city was shrouded in darkness due to repeated epidemics of plague.

Vigil in the Night

1940 · ★ 5.9

A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.

The Andromeda Strain

1971 · ★ 7.1

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scrambles to a secure laboratory and tries first to isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form, unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.

Perfect Creature

2007 · ★ 5.3

The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.

Quarantine

2025 · ★ 7

Describing herself as a "trouble magnet," Zeynep finds herself in the middle of chaos on her first day at her new school. An outbreak forces the school into lockdown, and that night, she stumbles upon the lifeless body of a female student in the dark hallways. She’s not alone—she’s joined by Onur Zorlu, the school principal’s son, and his friends Burak and Mert. Fearing his father’s weak heart won’t handle the news of a murder, Onur proposes they keep it a secret until the quarantine is lifted and find the killer themselves. With a disease outbreak and a murderer on the loose, the group believes their only option is to solve the mystery without alarming the parents outside. Drawn into this dangerous plan, Zeynep becomes the fourth, unexpected member of their group. Together, they embark on a perilous journey full of secrets, danger, and twists they never saw coming.

The Epidemic

1972 · ★ 9

Based on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man.

80,000 Suspects

1963 · ★ 7.2

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.