Movies like Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008)
The best movies like Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008) are Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009), Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007) and What Planet Are You From? (2000). If Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs hooked you with its animation and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedFuturama: Bender's Big Score (2007)7.4/10 from 799 votes
- NewestMars (2026)Released 2026
- Same seriesFuturama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009)Futurama
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009)
Leela becomes an outlaw when she and a group of ecologically-minded feminists attempt to save an asteroid of primitive life forms and the Violet Dwarf star from being destroyed, while Fry joins a secret society and attempts to stop a mysterious species known as the "Dark Ones" from destroying all life in the universe.
Why it matches: Same series: Futurama · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFuturama: Bender's Big Score (2007)
The Planet Express crew return from cancellation, only to be robbed blind by hideous "sprunging" scam artists. Things go from bad to worse when the scammers hack Bender, start traveling through time, and take Earth over entirely! Will the crew be able to save the day, or will Bender's larcenous tendencies and their general incompetence doom them all?
Why it matches: Same series: Futurama · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhat Planet Are You From? (2000)
A human-looking alien from a highly advanced but emotionless all-male society is sent to Earth to impregnate a woman and bring the child back to their planet. The alien ends up falling in love while a suspicious FAA agent tails him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisPlanet 51 (2009)
When Earth astronaut Capt. Chuck Baker arrives on Planet 51 -- a world reminiscent of American suburbia circa 1950 -- he tries to avoid capture, recover his spaceship and make it home safely, all with the help of an empathetic little green being.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMars Attacks! (1996)
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFuturama: Bender's Game (2008)
When Leela is insulted by a group of space-rednecks (like regular rednecks, but in space), she enters the Planet Express ship in a demolition derby. Leela emerges victorious, but when she brings the damaged ship home, and the Professor sees the fuel gauge, he's enraged by the hit he's going to take at the Dark Matter pump. Now the crew have to find a way to break Mom's stranglehold on starship fuel, even if they have to wade through a Lord of the Rings-inspired fantasy-land to do it!
Why it matches: Same series: Futurama · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStarship Troopers: Invasion (2012)
The troopers of two starships have joined forces to terminate a massive bug attack at a Federation outpost. Before the mission can be completed and the survivors evacuated, one ship abruptly departs and goes inexplicably dark. The remaining battle-hardened troopers race to the rescue only to discover that the threat from the bugs is about to hit home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisAttack the Block (2011)
A South London teen gang must team up with the other residents of their housing estate to protect the neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe ChubbChubbs! (2002)
A janitor at an alien night-club gets his wish to be a singer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)
Now, we find the rowdy extraterrestrial getting used to life with his new ʻohana. However, a malfunction in the ultimate creation of Dr. Jumba soon emerges, which reinstates his destructive programming and threatens to both ruin his friendship with Lilo and to short him out for good!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMutant Aliens (2002)
An unlikely crew – an astronaut, his intrepid daughter, and a quintet of sympathetic, albeit violent, alien creatures – seek revenge against a space industry baron.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Titan A.E. (2000)
A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Drej are bent on mankind's destruction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEscape from Planet Earth (2013)
Astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLeroy & Stitch (2006)
Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley have finally caught all of Jumba's genetic experiments and found the one true place where each of them belongs. Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley are offered positions in the Galactic Alliance, turning them down so they can stay on Earth with Lilo, but Lilo realizes her alien friends have places where they belong – and it's finally time to say "aloha".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPaul (2011)
For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStarship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017)
Federation trooper Johnny Rico is ordered to work with a group of new recruits on a satellite station on Mars, where giant bugs have decided to target their next attack.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMonsters vs Aliens (2009)
When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The military jumps into action and captures Susan, secreting her away to a covert government compound. She is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of Monsters...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe History of Future Folk (2012)
An alien intending to claim Earth for his people before their homeworld is destroyed by a comet decides not to eliminate humanity when he hears their music. Instead, he lives among them until another alien is sent to find and kill him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022)
In 1998, Beavis and Butt-Head are sentenced to Space Camp by a “creative” judge. Their obsession with a docking simulator (huh huh) leads to a trip on the Space Shuttle, with predictably disastrous results. After going through a black hole, they re-emerge in our time, where they look for love, misuse iPhones, and are hunted by the Deep State. Spoiler: They don’t score.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInvader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019)
ZIM discovers his almighty leaders never had any intention of coming to Earth and he loses confidence in himself for the first time in his life, which is the big break his human nemesis, Dib has been waiting for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMars (2026)
A ragtag group of misfits embark on a wild space adventure to Mars, only to discover they’ve been bamboozled by a billionaire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019)
When an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWorld of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts (2017)
Emily Prime is swept into the brain of an incomplete backup clone of her future self.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & animation
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisTripping the Rift: The Movie (2008)
What begins for Chode and crew as a routine mission to protect a pissed-off princess will soon become a filth- splattered saga of dismembered royalty, indestructible clown assassins and desperately horny housewives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Dante's Inferno (2007)
A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps. And the Prince of Darkness himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Journey to Saturn (2008)
A Danish crew of misfits travel to Saturn in search for natural resources. However, the planet is colonized by a ruthless army of Aliens that turn their eye on Earth and invade Denmark. Thus, the crew change their mission to liberate Denmark.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Meet the Robinsons (2007)
Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when he meets Wilbur Robinson and his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSunshine Barry & the Disco Worms (2008)
It's not easy to be Barry. An earthworm gets no respect. He lives at the bottom of the food chain. But one day, an old disco record turns his life upside down. Suddenly he sees before him his own destiny, the star of the world's greatest disco band: Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms! Okay, he's got no arms, no rhythm and no band. But as Barry says: "We'll do it anyway!"
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFlatland²: Sphereland (2012)
Set on the eve of Flatland's first mission into their 'outer-space,' the story presents the intriguing mysteries of triangles with angle sums greater than 180 degrees and flipping into dimensions that are literally out of this world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & animation
Flatland (2007)
Flatland is a two-dimensional universe occupied by living geometric figures - squares, triangles, circles, etc. A Square, Attorney At Law, finds himself in the middle of two upheavals: the rise of martial law by the circular leadership of Flatland, and the arrival of A Sphere, CEO Of Messiah, Incorporated, a creature from a hitherto-unknown third dimensional world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs?
The closest matches to Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs are Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009), Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007) and What Planet Are You From? (2000). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs?
People who watched Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs most often go on to What Planet Are You From? (2000), Planet 51 (2009) and Mars Attacks! (1996).
What is the highest-rated movie like Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs?
Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007), rated 7.4/10 by 799 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs?
Mars (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Futurama, which includes Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009), Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007) and Futurama: Bender's Game (2008).
Are there English movies like Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs?
Yes: Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009), Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007) and What Planet Are You From? (2000).
How are movies similar to Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.