Insect movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant insect movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, serious, scary, psychotronic and natural horror films and TV shows about / with insect, monster, creature feature, danger, creature, deadly, escapades, killer animal, survival and animal horror plots mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, Japan and other countries.
573
TOP 10 movies tagged as insect: Bite (2015), The Swarm (2020), They Nest (2000), Infestation (2009), Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012), Mimic (1997), Black Swarm (2007), The Nest (1987), Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005), Deadly Swarm (2003).
Best films
New films
List of insect movies
6K
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
While on her bachelorette party getaway, Casey, the bride to be, gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect. After returning home with cold feet, Casey tries to call off her wedding but before she's able to, she starts exhibiting ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
body horror, infection, infected, mutation, vacation, transformation, female protagonist, insect, swat team, wedding, cocoon, broken engagement ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
costa rica
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Virginie lives on a farm with her children Laura (15) and Gaston (7) and raises locusts as a high-protein crop. Life is hard: money worries and practical problems are piling up, tensions with her kids and neighbors are running high. But everything ...
Style:
suspense, tense, perverse, atmospheric, psychological horror ...
Plot:
insect, grasshopper, climate change, survival horror, single mother, farm, creature, monster, family business, dog, boat, farmer ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
france
Is relevant?
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After freezing up under pressure in the emergency room, Dr. Cahill decides to spend a few months unwinding on a little Maine island where he immediately gets off on the wrong foot with the locals. Meanwhile, a body has washed up on shore infested ...
Style:
scary, surprise ending, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
insect, island, cockroach, surgeon, mutation, investigation, small town, autopsy, recovering alcoholic, sheriff, rescue, doctor ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, boston, new england, atlantic ocean, maine
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Our hero, Cooper, awakes to find himself nauseous, weak and covered in webbing, hanging from the ceiling of an office where, just minutes ago, he started his new job. As he struggles out of his slimy prison he comes face to face with his opponent - ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
evil alien, insect, cocoon, giant insect, attempted seduction, monster, double barreled shotgun, father son relationship, eaten alive, deafness, transformation, creature feature ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A distant Federation outpost Fort Casey comes under attack by bugs. The team on the fast attack ship Alesia is assigned to help the Starship John A. Warden stationed in Fort Casey evacuate along with the survivors and bring military intelligence ...
Style:
sexy, adult animation, anime, computer animated, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
creature, military, infantry, insect, danger, heroes, space wars, alien invasion, soldier, death, daring rescue, space travel ...
Time:
future, year 2012, 2010s, 23rd century
Is relevant?
59K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to ...
Style:
suspense, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Plot:
insect, cockroach, virus, giant insect, disease, tunnel, eaten alive, entomologist, experiment gone awry, monster, creature, epidemic ...
Time:
90s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The widow, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from Manhattan to Black Stone, New York, with her daughter Kelsey Kozik. There she expects to find a safe place to live. The day after moving, a homeless man is found dead in the tool shed of Jane's ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, serious, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
experiment gone awry, killer animal, mad scientist, danger, survival, bio weapon, deadly creature, investigation, escapades, graphic violence, violent content, insect ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york state
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cockroach, insect, mutant, island, killer animal, experiment, creature, scientist, monster, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new england, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of scientists try to stop a swarm of flesh-eating locusts that escape from a top secret government lab in the USA Midwest.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
locust, insect, experiment gone awry, save the day, dangerous animal, race against time, danger, killer animal, entomologist, creature feature, animal attack, creature ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Seeking out a cure for his wife's serious illness, scientist Dr. Schroeder (McCormack) heads deep into a forbidden jungle in Guatemala, trapping thousands of killer wasps. Working with secret military backing, it is Schroeder's contention ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror
Plot:
insect, survival, deadly creature, supernatural, isolation, journalism, escapades, danger, rivalry, experiment gone awry, mutant, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
At a climate research station in the Alps, the scientists are stunned as the nearby melting glacier is leaking a red liquid. It quickly turns to be very special juice — with unexpected genetic effects on the local wildlife.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, slasher ...
Plot:
mutant animal, deadly creature, scientist, creature feature, mountain, survival, danger, isolation, supernatural, insect, dog, snow ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alps, austria, germany, europe
Is relevant?
222K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Style:
scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
transformation, mad scientist, science, body horror, mutation, teleportation, laboratory, mutant, experiment gone awry, insect, tragic love, experiment ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Police lieutenant detective Thomas 'Thom' Randall's steady girl-friend, Dr. Jennifer 'Jen' Allen, is Dr. Aaron Michaels's main assistant on his pharmaceutical firm Bellion's research program to cure the highly ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mosquito, insect, experiment gone awry, supernatural, danger, swat, body horror, transformation, virus, escaped prisoner, creature feature, genetic engineering ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
415K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the ...
Style:
gothic, black comedy, surreal, witty, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
haunted house, afterlife, ghost, supernatural, surrealism, dark humor, goth, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, seance, able to see the dead, haunted ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
america, usa, new england, connecticut
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Neil Agar, a security agent with the State Department, is dispatched to Peckham, California to investigate the death of a bacteriologist working at government-sponsored Brandt Research. His investigation is soon complicated by a growing number of ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, grindhouse, captivating ...
Plot:
exploitation, seduction, small town, lesbian, bee, outdoor sex, passionate kiss, attempted rape, scientist, gang rape, insect, murder ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an ...
Style:
futuristic, stylized, sexy, exciting, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
alien invasion, military, space travel, monster, space and aliens, creature, soldier, space wars, alien, satire, fictional war, space battle ...
Time:
future, 23rd century, year 1997, 90s, jurassic ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina, space western, argentina
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Belize
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting, natural horror ...
Plot:
giant insect, insect, wasp, rescue, deadly creature, mutant, danger, soldier, giant monster, mutation, scientist, loss of father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, South Korea, Canada
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
The adventures of 13-year-old, self-centered Anne Boonchuy who is magically transported to the fictitious world of Amphibia, a rural marshland full of frog-people. With the help of an excitable young frog named Sprig, Anne will transform into a hero ...
Style:
funny, feel good, captivating, enigmatic, satirical ...
Audience:
kids, teen fantasy, pre-teens
Plot:
frog, animal that acts human, friendship, danger, magic, 13 year old, human animal relationship, giant bird, teenage girl, insect, swamp, sword ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
fictional island, los angeles
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!
Style:
scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
giant insect, ant, supernatural, disaster, giant monster, technology, real estate, deadly creature, danger, dangerous animal, toxic, cons and scams ...
Time:
70s
Place:
florida, everglades, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After an airplane crash during a school trip, Oribe Mutsumi and her classmates were stranded on a seemingly deserted island. Mutsumi found the other survivors, and used her wilderness knowledge to help them. She expects that they will be rescued in ...
Style:
anime, ecchi, suspense, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
survivor, insect, female nudity, island, teenager, lesbian, desert island, characters in danger, stranded, danger, life & death, monster ...
Is relevant?
2K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A lakeside resort comes under attack by a seemingly infinite hoard of flesh-eating ants.
Style:
natural horror, psychotronic, suspense, slasher, serious ...
Plot:
ant, insect, disaster, killer animal, creature feature, investigation, hotel, animal attack, boy, tiny, occult, 666 ...
Time:
70s
Is relevant?
898
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A cop on the track of a criminal finds himself in the midst of an unfinished subway tunnel, when his flashlight reveals a startling discovery: a three metre long scorpion-like Bug. With one slice of its massive tail the bug fells the man and devours ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror ...
Plot:
monster, insect, creature, dangerous animal, danger, race against time, deadly creature, chaos, special agent, swat, killer animal, violence ...
Is relevant?
245
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A swarm of locusts appears on the horizon near a Midwestern town, and the inhabitants must find a way to destroy or divert them before the insects devour the area's valuable crops
Style:
tension, suspense, period piece, sinister, dark ...
Plot:
insect, disaster, man versus nature, food shortage, desperation, panic, prairie, survival, natural disaster, locust, farmer, evacuation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
midwest
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Katy Caterpillar lives in a cherry tree deep in the forest, but she longs to see the wide world. When she finally gets her chance, she meets lots of fascinating characters along the way.
Style:
anime
Plot:
insect, forest, butterfly, sibling relationship, mother nature, sister sister relationship, animal, self discovery, female protagonist, trap, nightclub, slavery ...
Time:
80s, year 1984
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, avant garde, psychological, philosophical ...
Plot:
existentialism, trapped, love affair, metaphor, escape attempt, surrealism, isolation, sun, insect, held captive, desert, male nudity ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: France, Germany, India, Canada, Australia, Spain
Duration: 13 min.
TV show
Story:
Hello everyone, I'm Maya the Bee! What do I love? Freedom! That's why I live in the meadow instead of the hive. I have a thousand and one adventures with my friends: Shelby snail, Max the worm ... and of course Willy! Willy is very lazy ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, lighthearted, colorful ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
friendship, insect, young heroes, adventurer, escapades, save the day, against the rules, animal life, heroes, danger, woods, children ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
After escaping the pound, a dog and his wisecracking flea buddy set off on an off-leash adventure in the city while searching for his family.
Style:
humorous, light, funny, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
talking animal, insect, friends, cartoon dog, dog, anthropomorphic animal, friendship, flea, animal, talking dog, friend, animal protagonist ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
Style:
scary, demonic, atmospheric, suspenseful, satanic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, twins, afterlife, possession, demonic possession, supernatural horror, brutality, insect, death, masked killer, ghost, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000
Place:
middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this horror-drama the festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.
Style:
natural horror, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
disaster, mardi gras, insect, bee, killer animal, monster, trapped, festival, killer bee, automobile, animal attack, pandemic ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, bee, race against time, panic, small town, survival, military, antidote, plague, scientist, hallucination ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
texas, houston texas, latin america, austin texas
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
