Movies Like Beyond The Third Kind

If you liked Beyond The Third Kind (2015), a movie directed by Shiraz Henry, 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
3 Generations (2016)
★ 6.4/10
A teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact.
2
The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025)
★ 6.1/10
Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.
3
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
★ 6.9/10
Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in…
4
Pretty Boy (2015)
★ 7.5/10
Sean is taken to a motel and is given a prostitute for his 18th birthday by his father. He must sleep with her to "fix" his questionable homosexuality. "Pretty Boy" is a coming of age story of a young bullied teen…
5
Disclosure (2020)
★ 7.8/10
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
6
The Girl in the Book (2015)
★ 5.8/10
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
7
A Different Man (2024)
★ 6.9/10
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.
8
Palm Trees and Power Lines (2023)
★ 6.3/10
Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break tanning in her backyard, and drifting between tiptoeing around her needy mother, and aimlessly trailing her best friend and boys from school. This monotony is interrupted…
9
Anna (2013)
★ 6.5/10
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
10
Boy Erased (2018)
★ 7/10
Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his…
11
Speak (2004)
★ 7.1/10
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles…
12
Sorry, Baby (2025)
★ 6.9/10
Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England house they once shared as graduate students, now working as a professor at her…
13
The Plague (2025)
★ 6.4/10
A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer.
14
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
★ 7.4/10
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a…
15
It Ends with Us (2024)
★ 6.9/10
When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for…
16
Port Authority (2019)
★ 6/10
Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them…
17
Slanted (2026)
★ 5.8/10
An insecure Chinese-American teenager undergoes experimental surgery to appear white, hoping to secure the prom queen title and peer acceptance.
18
I Used to Be Funny (2024)
★ 6.8/10
Sam, an aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, weighs whether to join the search for Brooke, a missing teenage girl she used to nanny. As she fights to recover from her trauma and return to the…
19
Cowboys (2020)
★ 6.2/10
Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.
20
Empire Waist (2024)
★ 7.8/10
Lenore Miller’s size has always earned her teases and jeers in her school’s hallways, but this clothes-loving teenager is about to set the world on fire with her own line of inclusive fashion designs.