Films like The Thing from Another World (1951)

The Thing from Another World (1951) is drama, horror, science fiction. These 24 films share its genres, ordered by how much overlap they have and how well they are rated.

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A Quiet Place (2018)

Also drama and horror. 7.4/10

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

Also drama and horror. 7.0/10

After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the…
Maggie (2015)

Also drama and horror. 5.4/10

There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As…
The Host (2006)

Also drama and horror. 7.0/10

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic…
Brightburn (2019)

Also drama and horror. 6.2/10

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
Dreamcatcher (2003)

Also drama and horror. 5.7/10

Four childhood friends reunite for a hunting trip in the Maine woods, bound by a psychic force born from a childhood friend's dreamcatcher. They find themselves caught in a…
The Fly (1958)

Also drama and horror. 7.0/10

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually…
Frankenstein (1931)

Also drama and horror. 7.5/10

Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening…
Fire in the Sky (1993)

Also drama and horror. 6.7/10

After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no-one believes…
Alpha (2025)

Also drama and horror. 6.2/10

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
The Room (2019)

Also drama and horror. 6.4/10

Kate and Matt discover that a part of their house can grant wishes. In the wake of two miscarriages, what they want most is a child.
Black Friday (1940)

Also drama and horror. 6.0/10

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend…
Flatliners (1990)

Also drama and horror. 6.5/10

Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.
Carriers (2009)

Also drama and horror. 6.0/10

A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe, and no one can be trusted. Four friends race through the back roads of the American West on…
Terror in the Midnight Sun (1959)

Also drama and horror. 4.0/10

After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Lapland in northern Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to…
Pulse (2006)

Also drama and horror. 5.1/10

When the dead discover a means to contact the living through electronic devices, cellphones and computers become open gateways to monstrosities and destruction.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

Also drama and horror. 6.4/10

Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments…
The Cured (2017)

Also drama and horror. 5.5/10

What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching…
Dragon Wars: D-War (2007)

Also drama and horror. 4.6/10

Ethan learns he carries the spirit of a warrior who battled dragons in 16th-century Korea -- and one day he'll find a tattooed girl carrying the spirit of that warrior's beloved…
Sputnik (2020)

Also drama and horror. 6.5/10

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is…
Viral (2016)

Also drama and horror. 5.8/10

Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family's new life in quarantine and tries to protect her…
Laboratory Conditions (2018)

Also drama and horror. 7.2/10

A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.
Sea Fever (2020)

Also drama and horror. 6.1/10

The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
Hostile (2018)

Also drama and horror. 6.0/10

Juliette, a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fights to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange disturbing creatures that only come out at nighttime.