# Movies about self quarantine or social distancing? intentional and un- **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 19, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-self-quarantine-or-social-distancing-intentional-and-un/849776 "2020-03-19T01:16:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-self-quarantine-or-social-distancing-intentional-and-un/849776/1 "2020-03-19T01:16:42Z")
The Extirminating Angel Das Boot Night of the Living Dead The Descent Alien The Purge Silent Running Dogtooth Room High Life Bug . . . . . . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-self-quarantine-or-social-distancing-intentional-and-un/849776/2 "2020-03-19T01:22:05Z")
The 2011 movie contagion is extremely good to watch during this period. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-self-quarantine-or-social-distancing-intentional-and-un/849776/3 "2020-03-19T01:25:22Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > The 2011 movie contagion is extremely good to watch during this period. Not looking for films about pandemics; looking for movies about a small group of people who have to live together in a small space; either to protect themselves, or they simply can’t escape. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-self-quarantine-or-social-distancing-intentional-and-un/849776/4 "2020-03-19T01:47:16Z")
10 Cloverfield Lane ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-self-quarantine-or-social-distancing-intentional-and-un/849776/5 "2020-03-19T02:51:23Z")
Would “Five Feet Apart” count? Haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard it’s pretty good. It was about two teenagers with cystic fibrosis who fall in love, but they have to avoid close contact so they don’t share their germs. > **[Five Feet Apart (2019) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6472976/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)** > > Five Feet Apart: Directed by Justin Baldoni. With Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Moises Arias, Kimberly Hebert Gregory. A pair of teenagers with cystic fibrosis meet in a hospital and fall in love, though their disease means they must avoid close... ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-self-quarantine-or-social-distancing-intentional-and-un/849776/6 "2020-03-19T04:38:27Z")
NEVER CRY WOLF - Farley Mowat self-isolates with wolves. Hilarity ensue, before and after return to “civilization”. Any space opera depicting long spaceflights with limited crews. Long sea voyages are similar. Downplay any same-sex stuff. All those Big Brother and Survivor shows are about isolation, init? Same with MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-self-quarantine-or-social-distancing-intentional-and-un/849776/7 "2020-03-19T12:10:02Z")
What about _The Martian_ for people who are in isolation all by their lonesome? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-self-quarantine-or-social-distancing-intentional-and-un/849776/8 "2020-03-19T12:30:16Z")
Biodome. ETA: Not so much what the movie is based on, but self-isolation is the premise, Blast From The Past. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-self-quarantine-or-social-distancing-intentional-and-un/849776/9 "2020-03-20T01:27:52Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Not looking for films about pandemics; looking for movies about a small group of people who have to live together in a small space; either to protect themselves, or they simply can’t escape. [Right at Your Door](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458367/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_35) is about the aftermath of a dirty bomb, but fits this quoted criteria almost perfectly. The first time I saw it my DVR cut off the last few minutes. Months later I found it again, this time adding extra time to my recording to be sure to get it all. I was shocked by the ending. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-about-self-quarantine-or-social-distancing-intentional-and-un/849776/10 "2020-03-20T13:44:01Z")
[It’s a Disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Disaster) is about a group of people holed up in a house during the end of the world. Not really a long drawn out quarantine though. But it’s worth watching anyway.