Movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The best movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) are It Came from Outer Space (1953), Invaders from Mars (1953) and The Man from Planet X (1951). If Invasion of the Body Snatchers hooked you with its science fiction and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedNight of the Living Dead (1968)7.6/10 from 2,900 votes
- NewestThe Invasion (2007)Released 2007
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInvaders from Mars (1953)
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Man from Planet X (1951)
While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Thing from Another World (1951)
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThem! (1954)
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Day of the Triffids (1963)
After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Blob (1958)
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Puppet Masters (1994)
The Midwest USA is invaded by stingray-shaped alien slugs that ride on people's backs and control their minds in order to spread their dominion. Government agency reps Sam Givens, Andrew Nivens, and Mary Sefton must stop the aliens.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisInvisible Invaders (1959)
Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately. Sequestered in an impregnable laboratory trying to find the aliens' weakness, Penner, his daughter, a no-nonsense army major and a squeamish scientist are attacked from outside by the aliens, who have occupied the bodies of the recently deceased.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBody Snatchers (1993)
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Invasion (2007)
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like this20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save Colonel Robert Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mysterians (1957)
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe War of the Worlds (1953)
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Monolith Monsters (1957)
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisQuatermass 2 (1957)
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVillage of the Damned (1960)
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTarantula (1955)
A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new female assistant, they discover that something is devouring local cattle and humans in increasingly large quantities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFiend Without a Face (1958)
An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he is letting on..
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight of the Living Dead (1968)
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThis Island Earth (1955)
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTarget Earth (1954)
Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are Frank and Nora (who has recently attempted suicide). They meet a celebrating couple at a café, Vicki Harris and Jim Wilson. The quartet escape the robot patrol and take refuge in a large hotel. There, they encounter a new danger in Davis, a psychopathic killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
It Conquered the World (1956)
An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife try to intervene.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Green Slime (1968)
A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity. Soon the station is crawling with them, and people are being zapped left and right!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSeconds (1966)
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAttack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
When an abused wife grows to giant size following an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her philandering husband with revenge on her mind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
The closest matches to Invasion of the Body Snatchers are It Came from Outer Space (1953), Invaders from Mars (1953) and The Man from Planet X (1951). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
People who watched Invasion of the Body Snatchers most often go on to It Came from Outer Space (1953), Invaders from Mars (1953) and The Man from Planet X (1951).
What is the highest-rated movie like Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
Night of the Living Dead (1968), rated 7.6/10 by 2,900 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
The Invasion (2007) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
Yes: It Came from Outer Space (1953), Invaders from Mars (1953) and The Man from Planet X (1951).
How are movies similar to Invasion of the Body Snatchers chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Invasion of the Body Snatchers, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.