Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "genetic"

1. Jurassic World Dominion (2022)

PG-13 | 147 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, Biosyn operatives attempt to track down Maisie Lockwood, while Dr Ellie Sattler investigates a genetically engineered swarm of giant insects.

Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Sam Neill

Votes: 205,091 | Gross: $376.85M

2. Spider-Man (2002)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After being bitten by a genetically-modified spider, a shy teenager gains spider-like abilities that he uses to fight injustice as a masked superhero and face a vengeful enemy.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe, James Franco

Votes: 879,768 | Gross: $403.71M

3. Jurassic World (2015)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.

Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Judy Greer

Votes: 679,446 | Gross: $652.27M

4. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to save the city from the machinations of a mysterious reptilian foe.

Director: Marc Webb | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Irrfan Khan

Votes: 702,309 | Gross: $262.03M

5. Mission: Impossible II (2000)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

IMF agent Ethan Hunt is sent to Sydney to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called "Chimera".

Director: John Woo | Stars: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton, Ving Rhames

Votes: 377,704 | Gross: $215.41M

6. Gattaca (1997)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal

Votes: 323,225 | Gross: $12.34M

7. Dark Angel (2000–2002)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A group of genetically-enhanced children escape from a lab project. Years later we meet Max, one of the escapees who now works for a messenger service in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest.

Stars: Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherly, Richard Gunn, J.C. MacKenzie

Votes: 34,598

8. Mimic (1997)

R | 105 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Three years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Giancarlo Giannini

Votes: 55,667 | Gross: $25.48M

9. Hulk (2003)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers an accident that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas

Votes: 278,574 | Gross: $132.18M

10. Doom (2005)

R | 105 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.

Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak | Stars: Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Dwayne Johnson, Deobia Oparei

Votes: 118,721 | Gross: $28.21M

11. Leviathan (1989)

R | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

Perched on the hull of a wrecked Soviet freighter, a team of deep-sea miners led by head oceanographer Steven Beck comes face to face with a mutant creature that's the product of a failed genetic experiment.

Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern

Votes: 23,787 | Gross: $15.70M

12. Okja (2017)

TV-MA | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Ahn Seo-hyun, Jake Gyllenhaal

Votes: 132,160

13. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Cortez siblings set out for a mysterious island, where they encounter a genetic scientist and a set of rival spy kids.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Alexa PenaVega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino

Votes: 73,750 | Gross: $85.85M

14. Species II (1998)

R | 93 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

An astronaut gets infected with alien DNA during the first mission on Mars and runs amok on earth. Preston and Laura team up with a peaceful, genetically re-engineered Sil to track the monster down.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger, Mykelti Williamson

Votes: 31,322 | Gross: $19.17M

15. Altered States (1980)

R | 102 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.

Director: Ken Russell | Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid

Votes: 38,637 | Gross: $19.85M

16. Mutant X (2001–2004)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A fugitive geneticist and four of his "creations" search for others of their kind while attempting to stay a step ahead of a morally ambiguous government agent.

Stars: Victoria Pratt, Forbes March, Victor Webster, John Shea

Votes: 4,642

17. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998)

G | 96 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Scientists genetically create a new Pokémon, Mewtwo, but the results are horrific and disastrous.

Director: Kunihiko Yuyama | Stars: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Rica Matsumoto

Votes: 46,050 | Gross: $85.74M

18. Brain Freeze (I) (2021)

91 min | Comedy, Horror

A fertilizer used in a rich gated community becomes the source of a genetic mutation that transforms its residents into zombies. Can a teenager and his baby sister break free from the quarantined island before turning into grass?

Director: Julien Knafo | Stars: Iani Bédard, Roy Dupuis, Marianne Fortier, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé

Votes: 788

19. Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018 Video)

R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A brilliant billionaire creates five genetically altered bull sharks, which proceed to wreak havoc for a group of scientists on an isolated research facility.

Director: Darin Scott | Stars: Danielle Savre, Rob Mayes, Michael Beach, Nathan Lynn

Votes: 8,319

20. Rogue Trooper

Animation, Action, Sci-Fi | Post-production

Based on the science fiction strip in the British comic 2000 AD, It follows the adventures of Rogue, a "Genetic Infantryman" a genetically engineered, blue-skinned, super soldier and his three comrades' search for the Traitor General.

Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Matt Berry, Hayley Atwell, Asa Butterfield, Sean Bean

21. Forbidden World (1982)

R | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.

Director: Allan Holzman | Stars: Don Olivera, Jesse Vint, June Chadwick, Linden Chiles

Votes: 6,295

22. The Titan (2018)

TV-MA | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A military family takes part in a ground-breaking experiment of genetic evolution and space exploration.

Director: Lennart Ruff | Stars: Sam Worthington, Taylor Schilling, Tom Wilkinson, Agyness Deyn

Votes: 33,456

23. Silent Rage (1982)

R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Horror

A sheriff tries to stop the killing spree of a silent maniacal murderer who, as the result of secret genetic experimentation by an unethical scientist, has the ability to self-heal.

Director: Michael Miller | Stars: Chuck Norris, Ron Silver, Steven Keats, Toni Kalem

Votes: 6,705 | Gross: $10.49M

24. Black Sheep (2006)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into bloodthirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.

Director: Jonathan King | Stars: Oliver Driver, Nathan Meister, Tammy Davis, Matthew Chamberlain

Votes: 42,101 | Gross: $0.08M

25. Little Joe (2019)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. Against company policy, she takes one home as a gift for her teenage son and names it after him but soon starts fearing it.

Director: Jessica Hausner | Stars: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor

Votes: 9,343

26. Babylon A.D. (2008)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Veteran-turned-mercenary Toorop takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to America. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Gérard Depardieu

Votes: 98,465 | Gross: $22.53M

27. Island of Lost Souls (1932)

Passed | 70 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Sci-Fi

A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams

Votes: 10,905

28. Watchers (1988)

R | 91 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A boy takes in a stray dog, later discovering that it is an ultra-intelligent runaway being stalked by a dangerous creature from the same genetic research lab.

Director: Jon Hess | Stars: Corey Haim, Michael Ironside, Christopher Cary, Graeme Campbell

Votes: 4,699 | Gross: $0.94M

29. Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020 Video)

R | 100 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Studying the effects of climate change off the coast of Mozambique, a marine biologist and her team confront three genetically enhanced bull sharks. Now, a new bloodbath is waiting to happen in the name of science. Will humans never learn?

Director: John Pogue | Stars: Tania Raymonde, Nathaniel Buzolic, Emerson Brooks, Bren Foster

Votes: 7,290

30. Extraordinary Measures (2010)

PG | 106 min | Drama

A drama centered on the efforts of John and Aileen Crowley to find a researcher who might have a cure for their two children's rare genetic disorder.

Director: Tom Vaughan | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell, Harrison Ford, Meredith Droeger

Votes: 17,809 | Gross: $11.85M

31. Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)

PG | 104 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

Desolate by the loss of his daughter, a geneticist creates a monstrous new mutation.

Directors: Kazuki Ômori, Koji Hashimoto, Kenjirô Ohmori | Stars: Kunihiko Mitamura, Yoshiko Tanaka, Masanobu Takashima, Kôji Takahashi

Votes: 6,778

32. Man's Best Friend (1993)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A genetically engineered dog escapes from the science facility where it was created. A family takes it in unaware of its deadly instincts which soon emerge. The scientist who created the dog tries to find it before its too late.

Director: John Lafia | Stars: Ally Sheedy, Lance Henriksen, Robert Costanzo, Fredric Lehne

Votes: 4,889 | Gross: $12.97M

33. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)

R | 114 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

John looks to take down Luc Deveraux after a home invasion claims his wife and daughter. The fight pits John against Andrew Scott and an army of genetically enhanced warriors; meanwhile, he must contend with a UniSol in relentless pursuit.

Director: John Hyams | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Scott Adkins, Mariah Bonner

Votes: 21,392 | Gross: $0.01M

34. Brave New World (1998 TV Movie)

87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In a futuristic totalitarian utopian society, babies are created through genetic engineering, everyone has a predestined place in society and their minds are conditioned to follow the rules. A tragic outsider jeopardizes the status quo.

Directors: Leslie Libman, Larry Williams | Stars: Peter Gallagher, Leonard Nimoy, Tim Guinee, Rya Kihlstedt

Votes: 2,147

35. Immortal (2004)

R | 103 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In the distant future, Earth is occupied by ancient gods and genetically altered humans. When a god is sentenced to death he seeks a new human host and a woman to bear his child.

Director: Enki Bilal | Stars: Linda Hardy, Thomas Kretschmann, Charlotte Rampling, Yann Collette

Votes: 21,779

36. Mutant Hunt (1987 Video)

Not Rated | 75 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Z, a vicious genetic scientist, discovers a way to alter harmless humanoid androids called 'Cyborgs' into becoming killing machines, which he plans to use for his own gain.

Director: Tim Kincaid | Stars: Rick Gianasi, Mary Fahey, Ron Reynaldi, Taunie Vrenon

Votes: 822

37. The Kindred (1987)

R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A geneticist takes his assistants to his old family home to locate the deadly product of his late mother's revolutionary research into rapid human evolution--his monstrous, tentacled baby brother--before a mad scientist gets to him first.

Directors: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow | Stars: Rod Steiger, Kim Hunter, David Allen Brooks, Amanda Pays

Votes: 2,502 | Gross: $2.41M

38. Jack Frost (1997 Video)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

After an accident that left murderer Jack Frost dead in genetic material the vengeful killer returns as a murderous snowman to exact his revenge on the man who sent him to be executed

Director: Michael Cooney | Stars: Scott MacDonald, Christopher Allport, Stephen Mendel, F. William Parker

Votes: 10,762

39. Alien: Covenant - Advent (2017 Video)

7 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi

Advent is a sequel to Alien: Covenant in which David sends a transmission from the Covenant to Weyland-Yutani on Earth, elaborating upon the genetic experimentation he has been conducting on Planet 4.

Director: Matthew Thorne | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace

Votes: 1,835

40. The Beast in Heat (1977)

Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, War

A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor creates a genetic, mutant human hybrid; the beast is a, squat, mongoloid hyper-sexually-driven fiend which she uses to torture and molest female prisoners while get fellow Nazis watch.

Director: Luigi Batzella | Stars: Macha Magall, Gino Turini, Edilio Kim, Xiro Papas

Votes: 1,948

41. Code 46 (2003)

R | 93 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

A futuristic Brief Encounter (1945), this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Togo Igawa

Votes: 21,132 | Gross: $0.20M

42. Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009 TV Movie)

R | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A genetically created Anaconda, cut in half, regenerates itself into two aggressive giant snakes, due to the Blood Orchid.

Director: Don E. FauntLeRoy | Stars: Crystal Allen, Linden Ashby, Danny Midwinter, Calin Stanciu Jr.

Votes: 5,730

43. Carnosaur (1993)

R | 83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A genetically manipulated and very hungry dinosaur escapes from a bioengineering company and wreaks havoc on the local desert town. A security guard and a girl environmentalist try to stop both it and the company's doomsday bioweapon.

Directors: Adam Simon, Darren Patrick Moloney | Stars: Diane Ladd, Raphael Sbarge, Jennifer Runyon, Harrison Page

Votes: 4,362 | Gross: $1.75M

44. Unnatural (2015)

R | 89 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A morally ambiguous corporation experiments with genetic modification resulting in the creation of a man hunting creature. When it escapes, a group of unsuspecting cabin dwellers become its prey in a horrifying game of cat and mouse.

Director: Hank Braxtan | Stars: James Remar, Sherilyn Fenn, Ron Carlson, Ray Wise

Votes: 2,171

45. Uninvited (1988 Video)

Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A cat infected with a genetically engineered virus escapes from a lab and goes on a killing spree, finding its way onboard a shady businessman's yacht loaded with young guests.

Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: George Kennedy, Alex Cord, Clu Gulager, Toni Hudson

Votes: 2,749

46. Plucked (1968)

86 min | Horror, Thriller

The depraved manager of a high-tech poultry factory - which is genetically engineering boneless chickens - is pulled into a love triangle with his domineering wife and her sexually-liberated cousin, leading to double-crosses and murder.

Director: Giulio Questi | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Jean Sobieski

Votes: 1,773

47. The Day of the Triffids (1981)

50 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

When a comet blinds nearly everyone in the world, a genetically-engineered species of plant takes over.

Stars: John Duttine, Emma Relph, Maurice Colbourne, Jonathan Newth

Votes: 2,438

48. Lazer Team (2015)

PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Four losers are thrust into the position of saving the world when they stumble upon a UFO crash site and become genetically equipped to the battle suit on board.

Director: Matt Hullum | Stars: Burnie Burns, Gavin Free, Michael Jones, Colton Dunn

Votes: 9,557 | Gross: $1.15M

49. Boa vs. Python (2004 Video)

R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

After a genetically-altered python escapes, a scientist is enlisted to help kill it by releasing a giant boa constrictor that he owns.

Director: David Flores | Stars: David Hewlett, Jaime Bergman, Kirk B.R. Woller, Adamo Palladino

Votes: 4,169

50. Replicant (2001)

R | 100 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Scientists create a genetic clone of a serial killer in order to help catch the killer, teaming up with two cops.

Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Rooker, Catherine Dent, Brandon James Olson

Votes: 15,714