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

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: 205,208 | Gross: $376.85M

2. 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: 679,520 | Gross: $652.27M

3. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

PG-13 | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.

Director: J.A. Bayona | Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith

Votes: 343,949 | Gross: $417.72M

4. 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: 323,266 | Gross: $12.34M

5. The Giver (2014)

PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

In a seemingly perfect community without war, pain, suffering, differences or choices, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man, the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift

Votes: 125,634 | Gross: $45.09M

6. Rampage (2018)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist team up to stop them from destroying Chicago.

Director: Brad Peyton | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Votes: 184,966 | Gross: $101.03M

7. 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: 278,591 | Gross: $132.18M

8. Three Identical Strangers (2018)

PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.

Director: Tim Wardle | Stars: Robert Shafran, Michael Domnitz, Howard Schneider, Ellen Cervone

Votes: 39,767 | Gross: $12.32M

9. Inferno (I) (2016)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks and they race across Europe together against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Ben Foster

Votes: 189,755 | Gross: $34.34M

10. They Cloned Tyrone (2023)

R | 122 min | Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.

Director: Juel Taylor | Stars: John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris, Kiefer Sutherland

Votes: 40,497

11. The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Henry DeTamble, a librarian, possesses a unique gene that lets him involuntarily travel through time. His wife, Claire Abshire, finds it difficult to cope with it.

Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston, Michelle Nolden

Votes: 157,922 | Gross: $63.41M

12. The Bourne Legacy (2012)

PG-13 | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.

Director: Tony Gilroy | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Scott Glenn

Votes: 315,608 | Gross: $113.20M

13. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Kimberly Elise

Votes: 116,636 | Gross: $65.96M

14. Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)

R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

Director: Aleksander Bach | Stars: Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 95,678 | Gross: $22.47M

15. Morgan (2016)

R | 92 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A corporate risk-management consultant must decide whether or not to terminate an artificially created humanoid being.

Director: Luke Scott | Stars: Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rose Leslie, Michael Yare

Votes: 46,112 | Gross: $3.91M

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. The Relic (1997)

R | 110 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore

Votes: 30,190 | Gross: $33.96M

18. 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: 6,296

19. Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)

R | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A powerful cosmic force is turning Earth women into queen bees who kill men by wearing them out sexually.

Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: William Smith, Anitra Ford, Victoria Vetri, Cliff Osmond

Votes: 3,185

20. What Lies Below (2020)

TV-MA | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A 16-year-old girl returns home from camp and learns that her mother has a new boyfriend, one she intends to marry. A man whose charm, intelligence and beauty make him look like he's not human at all.

Director: Braden R. Duemmler | Stars: Ema Horvath, Troy Iwata, Danny Corbo, Mena Suvari

Votes: 8,497

21. Men & Chicken (2015)

Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Through getting to know their unknown family, two outcast brothers discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen | Stars: David Dencik, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Søren Malling

Votes: 14,540 | Gross: $0.03M

22. The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

Approved | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A scientist captures the Creature and turns him into an air-breather, only for him to escape and start killing.

Director: John Sherwood | Stars: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden, Gregg Palmer

Votes: 4,019

23. The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)

GP | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Two journalists try to solve a series of murders connected to a pharmaceutical company's secret experiments, becoming targets of the killer themselves.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Pier Paolo Capponi

Votes: 13,028

24. Devil Fish (1984)

Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.

Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Gianni Garko, William Berger

Votes: 3,754

25. Defying Gravity (2009)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Eight astronauts living aboard an international spacecraft on a mission through the solar system, as the world watches from billions of kilometers away.

Stars: Ron Livingston, Malik Yoba, Andrew Airlie, Paula Garcés

Votes: 10,059

26. The German Doctor (2013)

PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The story of an Argentine family who lived with Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of a girl who fell in love with one of the biggest criminals of all time.

Director: Lucía Puenzo | Stars: Alex Brendemühl, Diego Peretti, Guillermo Pfening, Alan Daicz

Votes: 7,783 | Gross: $0.41M

27. Sexmission (1984)

122 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Two scientists are placed into a 3-year hibernation, but when they wake up, it turns out to have been 50 years, and they are the only two males in a new underground society composed exclusively of women.

Director: Juliusz Machulski | Stars: Wieslaw Michnikowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Dorota Stalinska

Votes: 14,426

28. The Escape (VI) (2016)

Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Action, Drama

In this homage to the 15th anniversary of the original series of BMW short films, The Driver is hired to deliver a living human clone.

Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Clive Owen, Jon Bernthal, Dakota Fanning, Vera Farmiga

Votes: 1,669

29. Decoding Annie Parker (2013)

R | 91 min | Drama

Love, science, sex, infidelity, disease and comedy, the wild, mostly true story of the irrepressible Annie Parker and the almost discovery of a cure for cancer.

Director: Steven Bernstein | Stars: Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul, Rashida Jones

Votes: 3,314 | Gross: $0.04M

30. The Twilight of the Golds (1996)

PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Romance

When Suzanne Stein has a genetic analysis done on her unborn child, she discovers that although she has a healthy baby, the child will most likely be born gay, like her brother, David. She ... See full summary »

Director: Ross Kagan Marks | Stars: Garry Marshall, Faye Dunaway, Jill Bernstein, Mark Shunkey

Votes: 1,188

31. Ripper (1996 Video Game)

M | Adventure, Crime, Horror

Cyberpunk FMV adventure set in 2040. NYC reporter Jake Quinlan investigates a cyber serial killer inspired by Jack the Ripper. The game's three acts lead to an explosive climax in cyber space and four possible endings.

Director: Phil Parmet | Stars: Christopher Walken, Burgess Meredith, Karen Allen, David Patrick Kelly

Votes: 277

32. Captive Wild Woman (1943)

Passed | 61 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Corrigan

Votes: 1,038

33. Andover (2017)

TV-14 | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A genetics professor clones his dead wife, over and over, in a desperate attempt to get her back exactly as she was.

Director: Scott Perlman | Stars: Jonathan Silverman, Jennifer Finnigan, Richard Kind, Angela Kinsey

Votes: 5,064

34. Bottom Feeder (2007)

86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.

Director: Randy Daudlin | Stars: Tom Sizemore, Wendy Anderson, Richard Fitzpatrick, Amber Cull

Votes: 854

35. DNA Family Secrets (2021– )

59 min | Documentary

With the help of one of the UK's leading geneticists, Professor Turi King, Stacey Dooley helps to answer people's burning questions about their family, health or ancestry with a visit to a DNA testing clinic.

Stars: Stacey Dooley, Turi King

Votes: 73

36. Journey of Man (2003 TV Movie)

120 min | Documentary

Traces the expansion of the human race from central Africa to Asia to the edge of South America.

Director: Clive Maltby | Stars: William H. Calvin, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Nina Jablonski, Richard Klein

Votes: 240

37. Portion d'éternité (1988)

96 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A couple who are infertile, reluctantly seek the help of a scientist who works with total impunity.

Director: Robert Favreau | Stars: Danielle Proulx, Marc Messier, Patricia Nolin, Paul Savoie

Votes: 58

38. DNA vs. the Book of Mormon (2003 Video)

49 min | Documentary, History

Fundamental historical claims of the Book of Mormon are challenged by new genetic research.

Directors: Joel P. Kramer, Jeremy Reyes | Stars: John McLaughlin, Thomas W. Murphy, Denis O'Rourke, Randall Shortridge

Votes: 73

39. The Incredible Hulk (1978–1982)
Episode: Life and Death (1978)

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

David 'Barnard' subjects himself to an experimental DNA test but finds out his doctor's accomplices are gathering newborn babies for similar research.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, Julie Adams

Votes: 255

40. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997)
Episode: That Old Gang of Mine (1994)

TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A scientist who thinks he can alter human behavior using DNA creates clones of Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, and Al Capone. When Clyde shoots Clark, Clark must play dead in order to hide his dual identity.

Director: Lorraine Senna | Stars: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Justin Whalin

Votes: 325

41. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: Double Helix (1997)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Dr. Martin Nodel, a brilliant geneticist, tries a formula to advance evolution on himself with amazing and disturbing results.

Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Ron Rifkin, Ryan Reynolds, Ken Pogue, Andrew Johnston

Votes: 365

42. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode: The Throwback (1956)

30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A geneticist believes that in addition to physical traits, memories can be passed along through the genes. Examining the family history of an acquaintance, Professor Hughes is amazed by the... See full summary »

Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Truman Bradley, Peter Hansen, Ed Kemmer, Virginia Christine

Votes: 23

43. Strange World (1999–2002)
Episode: Age of Reason (2000)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Turner investigates the sudden appearance of a boy genius kidnapped six years ago, whose DNA is somehow more evolved than human DNA. Turner's illness returns and his time is up. Sidney gets betrayed by her informer.

Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Tim Guinee, Sandra Quarterman, Vivian Wu, Kristin Lehman

Votes: 10

44. Strange World (1999–2002)
Episode: Spirit Falls (1999)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Turner investigates a mass suicide in a closed religious community of Spirit Falls. He suspects that the locals may have had the Methuselah gene that slows down the aging process and someone badly wanted their genome sequence.

Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Tim Guinee, Sandra Quarterman, Vivian Wu, Kristin Lehman

Votes: 5

45. Tremors (2003)
Episode: Flora or Fauna (2003)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

After two scientists are burned by acid, Burt and the others discover a bizarre animal/plant hybrid growing in the valley and hurry to destroy it before it spreads seeds.

Director: Chuck Bowman | Stars: Victor Browne, Gladise Jiminez, Marcia Strassman, Lela Lee

Votes: 96

46. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Perestroika (1997)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A mysterious, deadly, ancient parasite that survived the Ice Age hidden in the frozen corpse of a Mylodon or giant sloth wreaks havoc at a remote Russian scientific outpost. The O.S.I.R. team is sent to help their Russian counterpart.

Director: Giles Walker | Stars: Paul Miller, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 32

47. Heroes (2006–2010)
Episode: Unaired Premiere Episode (2006)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

In New York, Peter Petrelli is the younger brother of Nathan Petrelli, an overly ambitious and unscrupulous candidate for the next New York congressman. Peter begins having strange dreams ... See full summary »

Director: David Semel | Stars: Santiago Cabrera, Tawny Cypress, Noah Gray-Cabey, Greg Grunberg

Votes: 1,019

48. The Mandalorian (2019– )
Episode: Chapter 19: The Convert (2023)

TV-PG | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

On Coruscant, former Imperials find amnesty in the New Republic.

Director: Lee Isaac Chung | Stars: Pedro Pascal, Katee Sackhoff, Omid Abtahi, Katy O'Brian

Votes: 18,994

49. The Big Questions (2007– )
Episode: Episode #14.9 (2021)

43 min | Talk-Show

The penultimate debate of the fourteenth series discusses the topics of - Is science undermining religion? and Do our genes define us?

Director: Rob Hopkin | Stars: Nicky Campbell, Christina Biggs, David Wilkinson, Helen Czerski

50. The Flash (2014–2023)
Episode: Growing Pains (2021)

TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When a mysterious ice powered enemy frames Frost for a brutal crime, she must find a way to clear her name; Barry and Iris have a surprise houseguest, and Joe continues to deal with Kristen Kramer.

Director: Alexandra La Roche | Stars: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes

Votes: 1,684