20 movies like Crack in the World, ordered by similarity : Tarantula(1955), The Return of Swamp Thing(1989), Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome(2013), The Neptune Factor(1973), The White King(2016), Scanners(1981), Back to the Future(1985), Robinson Crusoe on Mars(1964), The Martian(2015), The Man With the X-Ray Eyes(1963), Prospect(2018), Target Earth(1955) ...
Sci-Fi
USA
1965
96 Minutes
Dana Andrews Janette Scott Kieron Moore Alexander Knox Peter Damon Gary Lasdun Mike Steen Todd Martin Jim Gillen
scientist terminally ill person geologist doctor ambassador dying person outlandish engaging suspenseful tense striking intense africa scientific experiments geology science fiction science gone awry doomsday device apocalypse discovery
A dying scientist pushes forward his project to tap through to the Earth's magma layer, with results that threaten to destroy the Earth as we know it.
Sci-Fi
USA
1955
80 Minutes
John Agar Mara Corday Leo G. Carroll Nestor Paiva Ross Elliot Edwin Rand Raymond Bailey Hank Patterson Bert Holland Steve Darrell Ed Parker
professor scientist spider monster victim animal shocking fascinating suspenseful engaging thrilling intense desert city village science science fiction animal attack giant animals animals attacking
A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
USA
1989
88 Minutes
Louis Jourdan Heather Locklear Sarah Douglas Dick Durock Ace Mask Joey Sagal Monique Gabrielle
doctor scientist mad scientist monster beautiful woman human fascinating amusing suspenseful engaging hilarious marsh human-monster relations science fiction science science gone awry relationships adventure discovery love
In this tongue-in-cheek sequel, the benevolent bog creature falls for the vegetarian, plant-loving daughter of the evil scientist who created him.
Sci-Fi, Adventure
Canada
2013
94 Minutes
Luke Pasqualino Ben Cotton Lili Bordán Jill Teed John Pyper-Ferguson Brian Markinson Karen LeBlanc Sebastian Spence
pilot woman mysterious woman intense suspenseful tense spectacular cyberspace future space battlefield mission war rescue rescue quest mystery future
Prior to 1973, Satan seemed all but dead and gone, the causality of a modernist mindset. But with Linda Blair's disturbing performance in The Exorcist, Satan returned with a vengeance and ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
Canada
1973
98 Minutes
Ben Gazzara Yvette Mimieux Walter Pidgeon Ernest Borgnine Chris Wiggins Donnelly Rhodes Ed McGibbon Michael J. Reynolds David Yorston Mark Walker Ken Pogue
commander scientist diver doctor creature scuba diver incredible suspenseful tense intense under the sea submarine ocean floor underwater research base atlantic ocean ship aquatic life expedition dangerous mission deep-sea diving
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
Sci-Fi, Drama
UK|Germany|Sweden|Hungary
2016
89 Minutes
Jörg Tittel
young boy father guard mother colonel general tense chilling engaging intense gripping emotional fictional city dystopia dictatorship dystopia saving the day father/son relationship missing father search
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
Canada
1981
102 Minutes
Stephen Lack Jennifer O'Neill Patrick McGoohan Lawrence Dane Adam Ludwig Michael Ironside Victor Desy Mavor Moore Robert A. Silverman
psychic brother girlfriend doctor scientist killer dark intense spectacular passionate canada shopping mall farm corporate headquarters doctor's office street psychic phenomena science corporate greed secret society
A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him.
Sci-Fi, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
USA
1985
116 Minutes
Michael J. Fox Christopher Lloyd Crispin Glover Lea Thompson Wendie Jo Sperber Marc McClure Claudia Wells Thomas F. Wilson James Tolkan Casey Siemaszko Billy Zane
son mother father scientist teenager bully endearing engaging incredible california small town hill valley time travel daunting task romance weird science experiments family history adventure discovery
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.
Sci-Fi
USA
1964
109 Minutes
astronaut space traveler alien slave monkey commander chilling creative dark engaging tense suspenseful mars mars stranded alien attack human-animal friendship survival space exploration quest
Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama
UK|USA|Hungary|Jordan
2015
142 Minutes
Matt Damon Jessica Chastain Kristen Wiig Jeff Daniels Michael Peña Kate Mara Sean Bean Sebastian Stan Aksel Hennie Donald Glover Mackenzie Davis
astronaut survivor president scientist wife crew member brooding emotional intense tense dark nasa facility camp mars spacecraft space station control room space travel stranded mars
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Sci-Fi
UK|USA
1963
79 Minutes
Ray Milland Diana Van der Vlis Harold J. Stone John Hoyt Don Rickles Morris Ankrum Lorie Summers Dick Miller Kathryn Hart Jonathan Haze John Dierkes
scientist friend colleague pastor murderer creepy dark laboratory carnival church casino science experiments alienation madness sight discovery transformation fall 1960s
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
Canada|USA
2018
98 Minutes
Pedro Pascal Chris Caldwell Sophie Thatcher Jay Duplass Andre Royo Sheila Vand Anwan Glover Trick Danneker Luke Pitzrick Doug Dawson Arthur Deranleau
teen girl father space traveler prospector hostage mercenary thrilling intense engaging uneasy striking gripping alien planet greed survival father/daughter relationship space exploration prospecting science fiction adventure
A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive. Forced to contend not only with the forest's other ruthless inhabitants, but with her own ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
USA
1955
75 Minutes
suicidal person stranger lieutenant robot drunk psychopath striking frightening frightful outlandish tense suspenseful chicago robots invasion alien attack survival evacuation abandoned spaces discovery
Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are strangers Frank and Nora.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Action
USA
2001
91 Minutes
Sam Neill William H. Macy Tea Leoni Alessandro Nivola Trevor Morgan Michael Jeter John Diehl Bruce A. Young Laura Dern Taylor Nichols Mark Harelik
father scientist mercenary guide son dinosaur suspenseful frenetic intense thrilling engaging island jungle aviary compound airplane wilderness dinosaurs animal attack plane crash
A decidedly odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Grant to go to Isla Sorna for a holiday, but their unexpected landing startles the island's new inhabitants.
Sci-Fi
1963
93 Minutes
Howard Keel Nicole Maurey Janette Scott Kieron Moore Mervyn Johns Janina Faye Alison Leggatt Ewan Roberts Collette Wilde Carol Ann Ford Geoffrey Matthews
military officer scientist wife young girl creature campy suspenseful engaging london hospital france island alien invasion scientific experiments resistance survival blindness plants quest pursuit
A Navy officer (Howard Keel) and others (Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott) not blinded by meteorites seek a way to stop cosmic plants from killing people.
Sci-Fi, Drama
Germany
1927
123 Minutes
Brigitte Helm Alfred Abel Gustav Fröhlich Rudolf Klein-Rogge Fritz Rasp Theodor Loos Erwin Biswanger Heinrich George Olaf Storm Hanns Leo Reich Heinrich Gotho
leader son rebel teacher worker android bleak dark melodramatic tense metropolis class distinctions social change social standing kidnapping quest discovery metamorphosis 21st century
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
USA
2008
112 Minutes
Edward Norton Liv Tyler Tim Roth William Hurt Tim Blake Nelson Ty Burrell Christina Cabot Peter Mensah Paul Soles Débora Nascimento
scientist soldier monster villain suspenseful laboratory new york city guatemala brazil waterfall factory experiments destruction military science rivalry superheroes adventure revenge rescue
Bruce Banner, a scientist on the run from the U.S. Government, must find a cure for the monster he turns into whenever he loses his temper.
Sci-Fi
USA
1957
71 Minutes
Jim Davis Robert Griffin Joel Fluellen Barbara Turner Edward Ciannelli Vladimir Sokoloff Tim Huntley LaVerne Jones Frederic Potler
scientist mutant tense thrilling rousing melodramatic frightening engaging chilling africa united states science gone awry experiments space radiation expedition science fiction metamorphosis pursuit 1950s
A scientific expedition in Africa investigates wasps that have been exposed to radiation and mutated into giant, killing monsters.
Sci-Fi
USA
1957
81 Minutes
Grant Williams Randy Stuart April Kent Paul Langton William Schallert Billy Curtis Diana Darrin Helene Marshall
husband wife doctor dwarf spider cat fascinating emotional campy dark boat house doctor's office circus dollhouse basement science radiation marriage mutation
When Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
Horror, Sci-Fi
USA|UK|Canada
1986
95 Minutes
Jeff Goldblum Geena Davis John Getz Joy Boushel Leslie Carlson George Chuvalo Michael Copeman David Cronenberg Carol Lazare Shawn Hewitt
scientist girlfriend reporter editor mutant creepy tense thrilling laboratory apartment clinic teleportation experiments mutation abortion relationships failure quest love fall
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Action
USA
1993
126 Minutes
Sam Neill Laura Dern Jeff Goldblum Richard Attenborough Bob Peck Martin Ferrero BD Wong Joseph Mazzello Ariana Richards Samuel L. Jackson Wayne Knight
paleontologist mathematician billionaire grandchild grandfather employee engaging thrilling frightening intense island theme park isla nublar jurassic park wilderness jungle dinosaurs survival scientific experiments man vs. nature
A pragmatic paleontologist visiting an almost complete theme park is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.