Movies like It Came from Outer Space: 20 to watch next
If you loved It Came from Outer Space (1953) — a science fiction and horror film directed by Jack Arnold — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of It Came from Outer Space most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like spacecraft, small town and arizona. 8 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Fire in the Sky 1993★ 6.7
Shares: Science Fiction
After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no-one believes their story and his disappearance is treated as murder.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Monolith Monsters 1957★ 6.5
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956★ 7.5
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Tarantula 1955★ 6.5
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new female assistant, they discover that something is devouring local cattle and humans in increasingly large quantities.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Car 1977★ 6.4
Shares: Horror
The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined to stop the murderous driver.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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65 2023★ 5.9
Shares: Science Fiction
65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, Sony Liv, Sony Pictures Amazon Channel
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Invaders from Mars 1953★ 5.9
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Arrival 1996★ 6.0
Shares: Science Fiction
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
Stream in India on Movie Sphere+
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The Quatermass Xperiment 1955★ 6.5
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The rocket is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Disclosure Day 2026★ 7.4
Shares: Science Fiction
A cybersecurity expert becomes a whistleblower after uncovering secrets about aliens, putting him on the run from a corporation. Meanwhile, a meteorologist experiencing strange phenomena joins forces with him to prove there's life beyond our understanding.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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The Blob 1958★ 6.2
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Quatermass and the Pit 1967★ 6.7
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London Underground station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Quatermass 2 1957★ 6.4
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Stream in India on Artiflix, Plex
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Knowing 2009★ 6.3
Shares: Science Fiction
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Phase IV 1974★ 6.3
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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This Island Earth 1955★ 6.0
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Moonfall 2022★ 6.3
Shares: Science Fiction
A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.
Stream in India on Lionsgate Play, Lionsgate Play Apple TV Channel, Lionsgate Play Amazon Channel
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The Stepford Wives 1975★ 6.7
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
Joanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Stream in India on Tubi TV
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Cosmos 2019★ 6.0
Shares: Science Fiction
Three astronomers accidentally intercept what they believe to be a signal from a distant alien civilization, but the truth is even more incredible than any of them could have imagined.
Stream in India on Tubi TV
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It! The Terror from Beyond Space 1958★ 5.8
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now