Movies Like Unknown Island

If you liked Unknown Island (1948), a science fiction and horror movie directed by Jack Bernhard, 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
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
★ 6.8/10Also adventure and horror
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead…
2
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure and science fiction
Three years after Jurassic World was destroyed, Isla Nublar now sits abandoned. When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this…
3
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and adventure
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive…
4
Jurassic Park (1993)
★ 8/10Also adventure and science fiction
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and…
5
65 (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and science fiction
65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the…
6
The Lost World (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and science fiction
This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his…
7
Timescape (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventure
Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the…
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Jurassic World (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and science fiction
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.
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The Lost World (1960)
★ 5.8/10Also adventure and science fiction
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
10
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
★ 7.2/10Also science fiction and adventure
When a huge alien probe enters the galaxy and begins to vaporize Earth's oceans, Kirk and his crew must travel back in time in order to bring back whales and save the planet.
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and science fiction
Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.
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Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and adventure
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest…
13
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and science fiction
An ancient tribe attempts to sacrifice Sanna as an offering to the Sun god to save their tribe from dinosaurs. Tara, a young man from another tribe, saves Sanna and takes her along with him.
14
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure and science fiction
Four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to…
15
King Kong (1933)
★ 7.6/10Also adventure and horror
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and…
16
The Meg (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and horror
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
17
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in…
18
The Time Machine (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventure
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
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Event Horizon (1997)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and science fiction
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something…
20
Deep Rising (1998)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and horror
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.