Movies Like The Fly

If you liked The Fly (1958), a science fiction and horror movie directed by Kurt Neumann, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Fly (1986)
★ 7.5/10Also horror and science fiction
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and…
2
The Brood (1979)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and science fiction
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalised wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
3
The Kindred (1987)
★ 6/10Also horror and science fiction
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's…
4
Mimic (1997)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and science fiction
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This…
5
Color Out of Space (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and science fiction
The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the…
6
Alien: Covenant (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.
7
The Thing (1982)
★ 8.1/10Also horror and science fiction
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
8
Prometheus (2012)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and horror
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
9
Splice (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction
Elsa and Clive, two rebellious young scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the…
10
Frankenstein (2025)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and horror
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
11
The Void (2016)
★ 6/10Also horror and science fiction
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only…
12
Man-Made Monster (1941)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and science fiction
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
13
From Beyond (1986)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and science fiction
The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she…
14
The Thing (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and science fiction
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as…
15
Eraserhead (1977)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and science fiction
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
16
Dark Skies (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and horror
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an…
17
Elizabeth Harvest (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and horror
The newly married Elizabeth arrives with her new husband, the scientist Henry, at a magnificent house. He tells her that she can do there anything she pleases, except to enter a certain closed room.
18
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and science fiction
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment…
19
Resident Evil (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and science fiction
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain…
20
The Invisible Man (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and horror
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can…