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

1. Alien (1979)

R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 950,182 | Gross: $78.90M

2. Aliens (1986)

R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser

Votes: 762,816 | Gross: $85.16M

3. Alchemy of Souls (2022– )

TV-14 | 80 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Set in a fictional country called Daeho, it is about the love and growth of young mages as they overcome their twisted fates due to a forbidden magic spell known as the "alchemy of souls", which allows souls to switch bodies.

Stars: Lee Jae-wook, Hwang Min-hyun, Yoo Joon-sang, Oh Na-ra

Votes: 17,288

4. Venom (2018)

PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A failed reporter is bonded to an alien entity, one of many symbiotes who have invaded Earth. But the being takes a liking to Earth and decides to protect it.

Director: Ruben Fleischer | Stars: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze

Votes: 538,122 | Gross: $213.52M

5. Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Eddie Brock attempts to reignite his career by interviewing serial killer Cletus Kasady, who becomes the host of the symbiote Carnage and escapes prison after a failed execution.

Director: Andy Serkis | Stars: Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris

Votes: 258,909 | Gross: $213.55M

6. Men in Black: International (2019)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The MIB tackle a mole in their organization.

Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rebecca Ferguson

Votes: 146,985 | Gross: $80.00M

7. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

PG-13 | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Diana must contend with a work colleague, and with a businessman whose desire for extreme wealth sends the world down a path of destruction, after an ancient artifact that grants wishes goes missing.

Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal

Votes: 291,721 | Gross: $46.37M

8. The 5th Wave (2016)

PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth in ruin. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother.

Director: J Blakeson | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez, Bailey Anne Borders

Votes: 117,248 | Gross: $34.92M

9. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

R | 123 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce

Votes: 59,319 | Gross: $22.01M

10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

PG | 115 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 69,825 | Gross: $24.95M

11. The Host (2013)

PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie Stryder risks everything to protect the people she cares about.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, Jake Abel, Diane Kruger

Votes: 118,564 | Gross: $26.63M

12. The Hidden (1987)

R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A cop and an FBI agent race for answers after law abiding people suddenly become violent criminals.

Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian, Clarence Felder

Votes: 22,596 | Gross: $9.75M

13. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson

Votes: 53,238 | Gross: $4.36M

14. Self/less (2015)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A dying real estate mogul transfers his consciousness into a healthy young body, but soon finds that neither the procedure nor the company that performed it are quite what they seem.

Director: Tarsem Singh | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode, Ben Kingsley

Votes: 103,911 | Gross: $12.28M

15. Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004 Video)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's loved/reviled sci-fi film, a group of troopers taking refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait.

Director: Phil Tippett | Stars: Billy Brown, Richard Burgi, Kelly Carlson, Cy Carter

Votes: 24,470

16. Body Snatchers (1993)

R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly, Terry Kinney, Reilly Murphy

Votes: 21,250 | Gross: $0.43M

17. Freejack (1992)

R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

Bounty hunters from the future transport a doomed race car driver to New York City in 2009, where his mind will be replaced with that of a dead billionaire.

Director: Geoff Murphy | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins

Votes: 17,459 | Gross: $17.13M

18. Honeymoon (2014)

R | 87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A newlywed couple finds their lake-country honeymoon descend into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night.

Director: Leigh Janiak | Stars: Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway, Ben Huber, Hanna Brown

Votes: 27,489 | Gross: $0.01M

19. The Inventor (2023)

PG | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Inventing flying contraptions, war machines and studying cadavers, Leonardo da Vinci tackles the meaning of life itself with the help of French princess Marguerite de Nevarre.

Directors: Jim Capobianco, Pierre-Luc Granjon | Stars: Matt Berry, Daisy Ridley, Marion Cotillard, Stephen Fry

Votes: 526

20. Nekromantik 2 (1991)

Not Rated | 104 min | Horror

A female nurse desperately tries to hide her feelings of necrophilia from her new boyfriend, but still has pieces of the corpse of the first movie's hero in her possession.

Director: Jörg Buttgereit | Stars: Monika M., Mark Reeder, Simone Spörl, Beatrice Manowski

Votes: 4,177

21. National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011)

130 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the Creature determines to track down his creator.

Directors: Danny Boyle, Tim Van Someren | Stars: Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andreea Paduraru, Ella Smith

Votes: 4,229 | Gross: $0.42M

22. Decoys 2: Alien Seduction (2007 Video)

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

Sam, a college student in a small Northwestern town, reluctantly joins his roommates in a contest to see who can hook up with the most gorgeous co-eds by the end of the semester. But when men slowly start disappearing around town, he and his friends learn that when it comes to beautiful women, it's what's inside that really matters.

Director: Jeffery Scott Lando | Stars: Corey Sevier, Tyler Johnston, Kailin See, Kim Poirier

Votes: 2,577

23. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Passed | 77 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh

Votes: 6,832

24. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

Passed | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis, May Robson

Votes: 2,238

25. White Zombie (1932)

Passed | 69 min | Horror

A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.

Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer

Votes: 11,652

26. Contamination (1980)

R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch

Votes: 5,296

27. The House of Fear (1945)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Dennis Hoey

Votes: 5,533

28. The Oblong Box (1969)

R | 96 min | Horror

Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Sir Edward occasionally escapes and causes havoc around the town.

Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Vincent Price, Alister Williamson, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies

Votes: 3,927

29. Alien Raiders (2008)

R | 85 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A group enters a supermarket at closing time, shoots around and takes hostages. They believe aliens have arrived there then. Cops arrive outside.

Director: Ben Rock | Stars: Carlos Bernard, Mathew St. Patrick, Rockmond Dunbar, Courtney Ford

Votes: 9,083

30. Infested (2002)

R | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A funeral for one becomes a deathtrap for many when five old friend are held hostage at a remote summer home infested with killer flies.

Director: Josh Olson | Stars: Zach Galligan, Lisa Ann Hadley, Daniel Jenkins, Amy Jo Johnson

Votes: 1,431

31. Top of the Food Chain (1999)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Something is eating the residents of Exceptional Vista!

Director: John Paizs | Stars: Robert Bockstael, Lorry Ayers, Ron Gabriel, Bernard Behrens

Votes: 1,035

32. Midnight Manhunt (1945)

Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A gem heist gone wrong leaves a wanted man dead. A female reporter finds his body and, to claim the reward, hides the body in a wax museum. When the body vanishes, the hunt is on.

Director: William C. Thomas | Stars: William Gargan, Ann Savage, Leo Gorcey, George Zucco

Votes: 477

33. Habeas Corpus (1928)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy

Loony scientist (Carle) hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies for his experiments.

Directors: James Parrott, Leo McCarey | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Carle, Charley Rogers

Votes: 901

34. Artifact (2013)

Action, Adventure, Drama

Human's struggle to obtain ancient Artifacts that have been scattered throughout space.

Stars: Cesar D' La Torre, Rich Finley, Ksenia Valenti, Daniel Begus

Votes: 55

35. I'll Bury You Tomorrow (2002)

119 min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Is there love after death? The small rural community of Port Oram can answer that. When deranged young Dolores Finley (Zoë Daelman Chlanda) appears out of nowhere to begin work at the ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Rowe Kelly | Stars: Zoe Daelman Chlanda, Bill Corry, Katherine O'Sullivan, Jerry Murdock

Votes: 282

36. Silent Storm (2003)

90 min | Documentary, History

In 2001 tons of ashed human bones were found in Melbourne, contaminated by Strontium 90, a toxic residue of nuclear weapon tests in Australia and around the world.

Director: Peter Butt | Stars: Paula Arundell, Bille Brown, Penny Brabin, Peter Burns

Votes: 20

37. No Survivors, Please (1964)

93 min | Crime, Sci-Fi

Aliens attempt to take over the Earth by taking over the bodies of humans at the moment of their death, and using them as tools for their invasion plans.

Directors: Hans Albin, Peter Berneis | Stars: Maria Perschy, Uwe Friedrichsen, Robert Cunningham, Karen Blanguernon

Votes: 71

38. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode: The McGregor Affair (1964)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

In Georgian Scotland, a simple and unhappily-married man (Andrew Duggan) is employed to deliver "supplies" to anatomy professor Dr. Robert Knox of the Edinburgh Medical College, but, is ... See full summary »

Director: David Friedkin | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Andrew Duggan, Elsa Lanchester, William Smith

Votes: 351

39. Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Episode: The Thirteenth Reunion (1980)

TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Ruth, A reporter for the women's section of the newspaper, participates in a weight-loss course with a hidden secret behind it.

Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Julia Foster, Dinah Sheridan, Richard Pearson, Norman Bird

Votes: 709

40. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Parts (2005)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When the head of a woman is found with traces of semen on it, the detectives suspect they have a necrophiliac. But they learn that they're dealing with a black market organ ring. John ... See full summary »

Director: Matt Earl Beesley | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal

Votes: 1,052

41. Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode: The Catafalque (1971)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

In one of the IMF's most audacious plans yet, the team blatantly frames their victim and attempts to snatch the body of a deceased leader literally from under the noses of the honor guards.... See full summary »

Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris

Votes: 148

42. Water Rats (1996–2001)
Episode: Lazarus (2000)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

While recovering from a gunshot wound, Reilly finds his missing wheelchair occupied by a mummified body.

Director: Ray Quint | Stars: Steve Bisley, Dee Smart, Aaron Pedersen, Brett Partridge

Votes: 11

43. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Fresh Bones (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The death of a Marine, who allegedly committed suicide, unearths a disturbing truth at a Haitian refugee camp.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Bruce A. Young, Daniel Benzali

Votes: 4,433

44. Becoming Evil: Sisterhood of Murder (2019– )
Episode: The Second Wave: America's Most Notorious Serial Killers (2019)

TV-14 | 57 min | Documentary, Crime

We profile some of America's most notorious serial killers including the Boston strangler, the Dating Game killer who murdered over 130 people, the notorious buddy killers and the Iceman murdered.

Director: Ron Meyer | Stars: Kirk Gill, Dirk Duran-Gibson, Frederic Reamer, Steven A. Egger

Votes: 19

45. Artifact (2013)
Episode: CruxEnigma (2017)

Action, Adventure, Drama

In a Stroy by Allan Linder, a fallen Astronaut searches the unknown for a way home. What he finds will change the future of humanity forever.

Votes: 22

46. Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets (2020– )
Episode: Episode #2.5 (2020)

47 min | Documentary, History

In a Bristol graveyard, the team investigate the grisly discovery of sliced-open human skulls and explore their connection with a local hospital, a celebrated surgeon, and the crime of body-snatching

Director: Jane Magowan | Stars: Victoria Herridge, Raksha Dave, Carla Valentine

47. The Casual Criminalist (2020– )
70 - Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2022 Podcast Episode)

86 min | Crime

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Star: Simon Whistler

48. Artifact (2013)
Episode: First Contact (Pilot) (2013)

Action, Adventure, Drama

An excavation team's Captain must save his crew from being consumed and driven mad by a recovered artifact.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Daniel Begus, Cesar D' La Torre, David Fichtenmayer, Rich Finley

Votes: 28

49. Artifact (2013)
Episode: Dissimulation (2015)

Action, Adventure, Drama

A Captain searching for an Artifact on a desolate planet, exposes the truths of his mission.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel

Votes: 27

50. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode: Ben Franklin's Bones (2015)

TV-14 | 58 min | Documentary, History, War

Why were skeletons found in the basement of Ben Franklin's home in England? Scientists investigate the people who lived at the house at the time, including a professor of medicine.

Director: Kate Thomas-Couth | Stars: Márcia Balisciano, Simon Chaplin, Lindsey Fitzharris, Melissa Hewson

Votes: 57