50 Best Deadly Insects/Bugs Movies That You Need To Watch

We have all been ‘bugged’ by insects at least once in our lives, whether they are bees or ants. People often find bugs and insects disgusting and dangerous, but there are some people who think that they are pretty interesting creatures, so they watch movies about them. With the wide variety of movies available on the internet about bugs and insects, I would be interested in watching some of them too.

So, if you are someone who has watched Starship Troopers or any other insect-related movies and is looking for some similar recommendations, or if you are someone who is in the mood to watch horror movies, then look no further because we have curated the perfect list of deadly insects/bugs movies that are going to keep you awake at night.

1. Starship Troopers (1997)

Starship Trooper is a science fiction action movie set in the 23rd century when the Earth is on the brink of extinction, so humans start colonizing other planets. This captures the attention of a species called ‘Arachnids,’ which are typical ‘bugs,’ and they start to attack the citizens of Earth. Johnny Rico is a teenager who gets enlisted as a mobile infantryman so that he can stay close to his girlfriend and pilot, Carmen.

Still from Starship Troopers

The rest of the film follows Johnny as Carmen breaks up with him, and he gets promoted to squad leader and helps the government in beating the Arachnids who have killed millions of people. Starship Troopers stars Casper Van Dien, Jake Busey, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, and others.

• Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
• IMDb rating: 7.3
• Where to watch: Disney Plus , Netflix

2. Mimic (1997)

Mimic is a science fiction horror film set in New York City, which is plagued by a disease called ‘Strickler’ caused due to cockroaches and has killed a lot of children. Dr. Peter Mann contacts Dr. Susan Tyler after he is unable to make a vaccine to cure the disease.

Susan creates ‘Judas Breed,’ which is a hybrid of Mantis and termites that acts as a cure for the disease. Thinking that they have gotten rid of the disease, Peter and Susan get married and lead a peaceful life, but three years later, they realize that ‘Judas Breed’ has backfired and made the cockroaches the size of human beings.

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The rest of the film follows Peter, Susan, and several other people as they try to fight off this newfound threat to humanity before it can spread throughout the country. Mimic stars Jeremy Northam, Mira Sorvino, Josh Brolin, Alexander Goodwin, and others.

• Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
• Rating: 6
• Where to watch: Prime Video, Hulu

3. The Nest (1987)

The Nest is a science fiction horror film about a small island called North Port which experiences several strange incidents. Richard, who is the sheriff of the town, finds several cockroaches in his house, the bindings of every book are ruined, and a lot of dogs have died.

To find out what caused the deaths of the dogs, Dr. Morgan arrives in town and finds out that the cockroaches are the cause of the dead animals and that they can reproduce asexually. She also finds out that cockroaches can only be killed by someone, but the amount required to kill them can also be harmful to human beings.

Still from The Nest

The rest of the film follows the chaos around town and among people as the cockroaches start attacking humans and killing them while Richard tries to find a way to put an end to the cockroaches. The Nest stars Lisa Langlois, Robert Lansing, Terri Treas, Franc Luz, and others.

• Directed by: Terence H. Winkless
• IMDb rating: 5.3
• Where to watch: Roku channel , Prime Video

4. Them! (1954)

Them! is a black-and-white science fiction horror film about a police sergeant, Ben Peterson, and trooper Ed Blackburn as they find a little girl wandering around a desert. They bring her to a trailer which turns out to be her parents, who had come there on a family vacation but were now missing.

Ben and Ed take the girl to a hospital before going to a general store, where they find the owner of the store dead. Later it is revealed that the reason for all the deaths is giant 8-foot-tall ants that have made a colony near Alamogordo.

Still from Them!

The rest of the film follows Ben and Ed as they kill the ant colony and go inside it to make sure that they have killed all the ants, but they find out that queen ants have escaped and are making a new colony elsewhere. Them! Stars Edmund Gwenn, James Whitmore, Joan Weldon, James Arness, and others.

• Directed by: Gordon Douglas
• IMDb rating: 7.2
• Where to watch: Roku, Apple TV

5. Tarantula (1955)

Tarantula! is a science fiction monster film about Dr. Matt Hastings as he is called by the sheriff to study a dead body that he found in the desert. The body turns out to be Matt’s acquaintance Eric Jacob’s. Dr. Gerald Deemer, who was Jacob’s colleague, tells Matt that he died due to acromegaly, but Matt doesn’t believe him. Gerald goes back to his research lab, where he is attacked by his assistant Paul, and they get into a fight, accidentally causing a tarantula the size of a Labrador to escape the lab.

Still from Tarantula

The rest of the film follows Matt as he comes to know about several deaths that are occurring in the town while the tarantula grows rapidly in size, ultimately becoming as big as a house and causing chaos. Tarantula! Stars John Agar, Leo G. Carroll, Mara Corday, and others.

• Directed by: Jack Arnold
• IMDb rating: 6.4
• Where to watch: Prime Video, Vudu, Apple TV

6. The Bug (1975)

The bug is a horror movie about mutant cockroaches that escape from the Earth’s surface during an earthquake. The cockroaches can produce fire by rubbing together their cerci and kill several animals and people of the town before they are discovered by Dr. James Parmiter, who takes an interest in them.

He discovers that the bugs cannot survive in the Earth’s atmospheric pressure and keeps one of them in a tank. He mates the cockroach with a normal one which procreates a different and more intelligent species of cockroach.

Still from Bug

The rest of the film follows the insects as they cause havoc around town by setting people and houses on fire. Bug stars Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Jamie Smith Jackson, and others.

• Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc
• IMDb rating: 5.2
• Where to watch: Redbox, Vudu, Apple TV

7. The Mist (2007)

The Mist is a science fiction horror film based on a novel of the same name by Stephen King. The film is about a town named Bridgton, Maine, as it is hit by a thunderstorm which leaves the town covered with a mysterious mist.

David Drayton, his son Billy and their neighbor Brent Norton leave for a supermarket to get some supplies, where they get locked in after a civil alert siren goes off. Brent leaves the store to fix something on the outside and gets captured by a tentacle that comes out of the Mist. David and the others soon find out that several large insects and bugs are attacking humans.

Still from The Mist

The rest of the film follows David and the others as they try to escape from the dangerous insects. The Mist stars Marcia Gay Harden, Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones, and others.

• Directed by: Frank Darabont
• IMDb rating: 7.1
• Where to watch: Netflix

8. The Fly (1986)

The Fly is a horror science fiction film about an eccentric scientist Seth Brundle as he meets science journalist Ronnie at an event and shows her his latest invention, which is teleportation pods that can transport an inanimate object but not something that has tissues.

As Seth experiments on the pods and tries to transport alive things, he begins a relationship with Ronnie. When he is successful in sending a baboon through the pods, he goes to celebrate with Ronnie, but she leaves to meet her ex-boyfriend Stathis.

Still from The Fly

Seth gets drunk and tries to transport himself through the pods, but a fly gets through the pod with him, and the machine confuses the DNA of two living things and makes a hybrid of both. Seth thought that the machine has purified his body after he gained more strength and stamina, but slowly, he began to crave sugar and had weird hair growing from the wound on his back.

The rest of the film follows Seth’s transformation into a humanoid fly as he loses his sanity while Ronnie becomes pregnant with his child and wants to abort it, thinking that the baby might be a hybrid like Seth too. The Fly stars Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, and others.

• Directed by: David Cronenberg
• IMDb rating: 7.6
• Where to watch: Hulu

9. Infestation (2009)

Infestation is a horror comedy film about Cooper as he wakes up from a deep slumber one day covered in webbing and feeling weak and nauseous. He escapes from the webbing but is met with a 3-foot-tall beetle-like creature who attacks him.

Cooper manages to eliminate the bug and help her colleague Maureen escape from the same type of webbing. The two escape the building together and help other humans escape from a cocoon of webbing that they had been held in.

Still from Infestation

The rest of the film follows Cooper and the others as they try to escape these huge creatures and find a safe place for them. Will they manage to escape or be eaten by a bug one by one? Infestation stars Chris Marquette, Brooke Nevin, E. Quincy Sloane, and others.

• Directed by: Kyle Rankin
• IMDb rating: 5.8
• Where to watch: Vudu, Tubi, Prime Video

10. Damnation Alley (1997)

Damnation Alley is a post-apocalyptic film about two men as they fight for the government in World War III, which leaves the country in ruins. Lieutenant Jake Tanner and Major Eugene Denton decide to head to New York, where a single radio transmission has been heard since the war began, but they get attacked by mutated scorpions that have increased in size due to the radiation of nuclear weapons. They manage to escape and make their way toward New York City.

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The rest of the film follows the journey of Jake, Eugene, and several others as they come across several mutated bugs and insects while also saving other survivors along the way. Do you think they will make it out alive or get killed by one of the giant bugs? Damnation Alley stars Jan Michael Vincent, Dominique Sanda, George Peppard, Paul Winfield, and others.

• Directed by: Jack Smight
• IMDb rating: 5.2
• Where to watch: Vudu, Redbox, Apple TV

11. The Deadly Mantis (1957)

The Deadly Mantis is a science fiction horror film about a volcanic eruption that causes the North Pole icebergs to shift, which awakens a 200-foot-long sleeping mantis. When a military station named Red Eagle One doesn’t get a reply from one of its other stations, they send Colonel Joe Parkman to investigate, who finds out that the station has been destroyed and the people have been killed. He also finds a big scratch on the ice, which leads him to believe that something deafly has been released from the ice.

Still from the Deadly Mantis

The rest of the film follows the Mantis as it causes havoc and kills several people while other military stations try to find a way to kill the monstrous Mantis. The Deadly Mantis stars Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alic Talton, and others.

• Directed by: Nathan H. Juran
• IMDb rating: 5.1
• Where to watch: Fawesome

12. The Black Scorpion (1957)

The Black Scorpion is a black and white Mexican American horror film that follows the story of two geologists, Dr. Hank Scitt and Dr. Arturo Ramos, as they find out about a new volcano in San Lorenzo and travel there to study it. On their way, they come across a destroyed house, an abandoned infant, and a dead body. They take the infant to San Lorenzo and give it to the friends of the deceased.

They visit the ones who let them know of the mysterious killings of the animals in that town, which doesn’t interest the two geologists, and they head to the site of the volcano. As the volcano erupts, they see giant prehistoric scorpions that have been killing the animals of the town. Soon, they find out that other prehistoric creatures also exist underground and can attack the people of San Lorenzo at any time.

Still from the Black Scorpion

The rest of the film follows Hank and Arturo as they try to find a way to get rid of the giant prehistoric insects so that they can’t kill any more animals or people. The Black Scorpions stars Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Mario Navarro, Carlos Rivas, and others.

• Directed by: Edward Ludwig
• IMDb rating: 5.4
• Where to watch: Pluto TV, Vudu, Apple TV

13. Eight-Legged Freaks (2002)

Eight Legged Freaks is a monster comedy film about Joshua Taft, who is a spider farmer, as he captures crickets from a pond that had been contaminated with some chemicals due to an accident. He shows his collection to a local boy named Mike Parker, and after he leaves, Joshua gets bitten by a tarantula. He accidentally knocks over the container that had spiders that escape and kill him.

After that, the spiders that were fed the contaminated crickets start growing in size and wreck the place. During a town meeting, Mike exits the hall and decides to visit Joshua, but upon arriving there, he finds Joshua’s dead body and the whole house covered in webbings. He tells Chris about the giant spiders lurking in his mine, but he doesn’t believe Mike.

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The rest of the movie follows Mike as he tries to alert everyone about the giant spiders which are attacking and killing people around town. Eight-Legged Freaks stars David Arquette, Scott Terra, Kari Wuhrer, Scarlett Johansson , and others.

• Directed by: Ellory Elkayem
• IMDb rating: 5.5
• Where to watch: Prime Video

14. Larva (2005)

The Larva is a science fiction horror film set in Host, Missouri. Dr. Eli Rudkus is a veterinarian who is called by a farmer to check on one of his cows. Eli discovers that the cow has been infected by a parasite that is eating the animal from the inside, causing it to fall sick and eventually die. Soon, the parasite starts affecting more animals and people, which becomes a major cause of concern for Eli.

Still from Larva

The rest of the film follows Eli as he tries to find out the origin of the parasite and a cure to put an end to the deadly virus. Larva stars Vincent Ventresca, Rachel Hunter, Dabid Shelby, William Forsythe, and others.

• Directed by: Tim Cox
• IMDb rating: 4.5
• Where to watch: Tubi TV

15. Tremors (1990)

Tremors is a monster comedy film about two handymen, Valentine McKee and Earl Bassett, as they quit their boring job and decide to visit the nearest town named Bixby. On their way, they come across various mysterious deaths that leave them astonished.

Soon, they find out that a giant worm-like creature is the cause of the deaths which have escaped from the Earth’s surface after an earthquake. Valentine and Earl take the help of a seismology student and find out about 3 other worms that are lurking around town.

Still from Tremors

The rest of the film follows the duo as they kill the giant worms one by one before they can cause more destruction and finally manage to leave the city. Tremors stars Kevin Bacon , Fred Ward, Michael Gross, Finn Carter, and others.

• Directed by: Ron Underwood
• IMDb rating: 7.1
• Where to watch: Prime Video

16. Snakes on a Plane (2006)

Snakes on a Plane is an action film about Sean Jones as he is escorted by FBI agents Neville Flynn and John Sanders to Los Angeles because he is a prime witness of a murder and has to be present at court. Eddie Kim, who is a gang boss and the person who ordered the murder, orders his men to place a cargo filled with venomous snakes on the plane and makes sure that they attack the passengers at a certain time.

Mid-flight, the snakes make their way through the cabin and kill a couple having sex in the bathroom and a man who was in another bathroom. Slowly, the snakes spread out and started killing more passengers. The surviving passengers, including both the agents and Sean, go upstairs to the first class and block the gate with luggage.

Still from Snakes on a Plane

The rest of the film follows the tragic events that happen on the plane as the snakes kill the pilot and bite the co-pilot. What will happen to Sean and the remaining passengers? Will they die, or will they be saved by Neville and John? Snakes on a Plane star Samuel L. Jackson, Nathan Phillips , Julianna Margulies, Bobby Cannavale, and others.

• Directed by: David R. Ellis
• IMDb rating: 5.5
• Where to watch: Apple TV, Vudu, Redbox

17. Slither (2006)

Slither is a black comedy horror film about a town named Wheelsy in South Carolina as an extraterrestrial life crash land there and attacks a wealthy man named Grant before taking over his mind. He controls Grant and abducts a woman named Brenda to act as a breeder for his larvae.

Grant’s wife, Starla, gets suspicious of her husband and calls the police, who rescue Starla while Grant flees. The police find Brenda, who blows up, and the slug-like larva attacks everybody in town, taking over their minds which are being controlled by Grant. The only survivors are Starla, Jack, Bill, and Kylie.

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The rest of the film follows Grant as he tries to reunite with his wife Starla, whom he still loves, and the four survivors as they try to find a way to kill grant, which might kill the other people corrupted by his larvae. Slither stars Nathan Fillion , Elizabeth Banks , Tania Saulnier, Gregg Henry, and others.

• Directed by: James Gunn
• IMDb rating: 6.4
• Where to watch: Netflix, Vudu

18. Phase IV (1974)

Phase IV is a science fiction horror film about two scientists James R. Lesko and Ernest D. Hubbs, as they set up a computerized lab among ant towers created by ants after a cosmic event causes them to grow in intelligence.

Lesko and Ernest are among the few humans who have decided to stay in Arizona, as the rest of the humans ran away after finding the ants behaving strangely. The ants have become immune to every chemical that Lesko used to kill them and infiltrate their lab. The ants ruin their equipment and computers.

Still from Phase IV

The rest of the film follows Ernest as he tries to communicate with the ants while Hubbs makes a plan to move the tower where the queen ant is living, but he gets stung by an ant before he can kill them. Phase IV stars Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick, Nigel Davenport, and others.

• Directed by: Saul Bass
• IMDb rating: 6.4
• Where to watch: Vudu, Movieland

19. The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)

The Monster that Challenged the World is a black and white science fiction monster film about the Salton Sea as an earthquake causes several monsters to escape the crevice of the Earth. The prehistoric monsters, which look like caterpillars known as Mollusks, start killing divers and other people who arrive at the lake.

When a patrol boat sent to retrieve a man who jumped in the lake during rescue training doesn’t come back, commander John Twillinger decides to head towards the lake and find out what happened to the patrol boat. John finds the boat covered with a slime-like thing and takes a sample of it back to his lab and also finds the body of one of the rescuers floating on the water.

Still from the Monster that Challenged the World

The rest of the film follows John and others as they find out that the slime came from a giant mollusk that is attacking and eating any human that dares to swim in the sea. The Monster That Challenged the World stars Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Mimi Gibson, Hans Conried, and others.

• Directed by: Arnold Laven
• IMDb rating: 5.7
• Where to watch: Roku, Prime Video, Apple TV

20. Ticks (1993)

Ticks is a horror film about Jarvis Taner, who is a drug dealer. He uses steroids to increase the growth rate of his marijuana plants which attracts the attention of ticks that consume the plants and start mutating. Jarvis goes camping with his friends, where the dog of one of his friends named Panic suddenly dies, which upsets him. Jarvis takes the dog to a veterinarian, who finds the tick inside the dog, which is still alive, and kills it.

Still from Ticks

The rest of the film follows Jarvis and his friends as they are attacked by a number of ticks while they try to escape them. Ticks stars Peter Scolari, Seth Green, Ami Dolenz, Rosalind Allen, and others.

• Directed by: Tony Randel
• IMDb rating: 5.5
• Where to watch: Prime Video

21. Creepshow (1982)

Creepshow is a comedy horror anthology film about Billy Hopkins, who is a young boy with an abusive father as he reads Creepshow is a horror comic. After his father finds him reading the comic, he punishes him and throws away the comic book, not wanting his son to be exposed to the comic’s violent content. Billy goes to his bedroom, wishing that his father goes to hell.

Still from Creepshow

A knock on his bedroom window catches his attention, after which the film shows five different anthologies about a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crates occupant, and a plague of cockroaches. Creepshow stars Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielson, and others.

• Directed by: George A. Romero
• IMDb rating: 6.8
• Where to watch: Prime Video

22. Empire of the Ants (1977)

Empire of the Ants is a horror film about a land developer named Marilyn Fryser as she takes some clients to a beachfront property on a nearby island which in reality is worthless. On their way, they come across a lair of large ants who take notice of them and starts chasing them throughout the jungle.

The ants end up killing some of the clients while the others reach the property, where they notice that the ants have attacked a sugar factory and are feeding on the sugar while the humans stand by doing nothing. The queen ants have gotten the humans under her control by releasing pheromones.

Still from Empire of the Ants

The rest of the film follows the surviving group as they try to blow up the factory and the ant lair to put an end to the ants. Empire of the Ants stars Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John Carson, and others.

• Directed by: Bert I. Gordon
• IMDb rating:4.2
• Where to watch: Roku, Vudu

23. Swarmed (2005)

Swarmed is a science fiction film about Kent Horvath, who is a scientist who successfully creates a pesticide for yellow jacket wasps and experiments with it on a group of eight yellow jacket wasps. Six wasps die, but the remaining two wasps mutate and become highly aggressive and venomous.

That same night, a janitor accidentally frees the two wasps, which kill him, and escapes. The next morning, the janitor is taken to the morgue, where the mortician hears a buzzing sound coming from the janitor’s mouth and opens it to reveal the wasps, which kill the mortician.

Still from Swarmed

The rest of the film follows an entomologist, Christina Brown, and Kent as they find out that Kent’s friend Q has used the pesticide created by him on a nest of wasps which become deadly and start attacking people in the town. Swarmed stars Michael Shanks, Carol Alt, Richard Chevolleau, Booth Savage, and others.

• Directed by: Paul Ziller
• IMDb rating: 3.9
• Where to watch: Tubi TV, Prime Video

24. Bug Buster (1998)

Bug Buster is a comedy horror film about a town named Mountview in California as the mayor of the town uses a dangerous substance to protect the local plantation, which causes a swarm of cockroaches to mutate and grow in size. Now plagued by dangerous cockroaches, the mayor of the town contacts an eccentric bug exterminator George S. Merlin to get rid of the bugs.

Still from Bug Buster

The rest of the film follows the bugs as they reproduce and grow in numbers creating a large family of 10 feet long cockroaches to roam around the town, killing people while George uses his over-the-top techniques to control them and kill them. Bug Buster stars Randy Quaid, Brenda Epperson, Doumani, Katherine Heigl, and others.

• Directed by: Lorenzo Doumani
• IMDb rating: 3.8
• Where to watch: Roku, Prime Video

25. Deadly Spawn (1983)

The Deadly Spawn is a science fiction horror film about two campers who witness a meteor crash near them, and as they go to investigate the meteor, they are eaten by a mysterious creature. There was a house near the crash site where the alien creature decided to stay.

The house owner, Sam and Barb, and their kids, Pete and Charles, are set to venture out into town when a rainstorm comes. Sam goes to the basement to make sure that the house isn’t flooding and is eaten by the creature. Barn goes down to make sure her husband is alright and gets eaten by the monster creature too.

Still from The Deadly Spawn

The rest of the film follows the creature as it spreads out throughout the town with its slug-like companions and starts eating people. Deadly Spawn stars Charles George, Hilderbrandt, Tom Defranco, Richard Lee Porter, and others.

• Directed by: Douglas Mckeown
• IMDb rating: 5.9
• Where to watch: Spectrum TV

26. Food of the Gods (1976)

Food of the Gods is a science fiction thriller film about Mr. and Mrs. Skinner as they find a substance on the floor one day and feed it to their chickens, thinking that it’s a gift from god. The chickens, rats, and any other bugs that consumed the substance grew in size.

A rat kills Mr. Skinner after his car breaks down in the middle of a forest. Morgan, who is a football player, and his friends have come to the island on a hunting trip. Morgan burns a nest of giant wasps after it stings one of his friends, who then dies.

Still from Food of the Gods

The rest of the film follows Morgan and some other people as they get stuck at the skinner farm while trying to hide from a group of giant rats and how they escape them. Food of the Gods stars Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, John Cypher, and others.

• Directed by: Bert I. Gordon
• IMDb rating: 4.5
• Where to watch: Fubo TV, Hoopla

27. Slugs (1988)

Slugs is an American/Spanish horror film about a town it is plagued by black slugs. Mike Brady, who is a health inspector, finds out that the people of his town are dying mysteriously, but after he puts forward his theory of deadly slugs, nobody believes him. When dead bodies start piling up, experts start taking his story into account and start an investigation to find out where the slugs came from and how the people can be saved from them.

Still from Slugs

The rest of the film follows Mike as he helps the experts in finding information about the slugs while trying to find a way to protect the people from being killed. Slugs stars Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Alicia Moro, Philip MacHale, and others.

• Directed by: Juan Piquer Simon
• IMDb rating: 5.3
• Where to watch: Netflix, Disney Plus

28. Mongolian Death Worm (2010)

Mongolian Death Worms is a horror film about an American corporation they are trying to find shale oil, but their operations get delayed due to a mechanical failure. It is later revealed that their drilling machines have disturbed a group of Mongolian death worms, which are very dangerous and produce electromagnetic fields that interfere with equipment. The death worms emerge from their underground tunnels and start killing people.

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Meanwhile, in a Mongolian village, people are falling sick because the water has been infected with worms. A group of medical workers arrives in the village to try to cure people and protect others from getting infected. Mongolian Death Worm stars Victoria Pratt, Sean Patrick Flanery, George Cheung, and others.

• Directed by: Steven R. Monroe
• IMDb rating: 3.4
• Where to watch: Tubi TV

29. Anaconda (1997)

Steven gets stung by a wasp, and Paul saves him before taking over their boat and reveals his true motive behind helping them, which was capturing a giant green anaconda that killed his friend Mateo while they were hunting.

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The rest of the film follows the crew’s adventure as they help Palu in capturing the anaconda, which strikes back and kills several of the crew members. Anaconda stars Jennifer Lopez , Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, and others.

• Directed by: Luis Llosa
• IMDb rating: 4.8
• Where to watch: Vudu, Apple TV

30. Star Runners (2009)

Star Runners is a science fiction film about Tycho Johns and Lei Chen as they transfer a girl under the orders of Colonel Bishop, but their ship gets attacked by terrorists causing them to crash land on an unknown planet. They take shelter in an old military facility and see various mutated bugs there.

They learn that the girl has psychic powers after she picks up a girl and has a vision of the person who held the gun before her. Lei finds out that due to a solar storm, the bugs decide to take cover under the solar flare shields, which protect them from being burnt.

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The rest of the film follows Tycho and Lei as they find out more secret powers of the mysterious girl while they try to defeat the Bugs who have attacked them and killed a few of them. Star Runners stars Connor Trinneer, James Kyson Lee, Toni Trucks, Aja Evans, Michael Kulkin, and others.

• Directed by: Mat King
• IMDb rating: 4.2
• Where to watch: Roku

31. Blue Monkey (1987)

Blue Monkey is a Canadian Horror film about a woman named Marwellia Harbison who owns a greenhouse. Fred Adams, who is a handyman, noticed that one of her plants which she got from a newly formed volcanic island, was drooping. Marwellia doesn’t know the reason behind the plant’s condition.

Fred hurts his finger and says he felt like a thorn pricked his finger, but the plant had no thorns. He faints after a little while and is rushed to the hospital, where he vomits an insect’s pupa and seems okay after that. While keeping both Fred and the pupa under observation, Dr. Rachel Carson tends to other patients.

Still from Blue Monkey

The rest of the film follows Fred as he has a cardiac arrest which leads to his chest bursting while the insect is set free by some children, which ends up killing a few people. Blue Monkey stars Steve Railsback, Don Lake, Gwynyth Walsh, Sandy Webster, and others.

• Directed by: William Fruet
• IMDb rating: 4.8
• Where to watch: Vudu, Netflix, Roku

32. The Naked Jungle (1954)

The Naked Jungle is an adventure film about Joanna, who is a widow and has just gotten married to a cocoa plantation owner named Christopher Leiningen. The marriage had been arranged by Christopher’s brother, who lives in New Orleans. Christopher wishes for a virgin, but instead, she gets married to a widow, which is why he treats her coldly when she arrives from New Orleans.

Joanna tries to strike a friendship between them but fails miserably when Christopher doesn’t reciprocate her friendship and plans on sending her back to New Orleans. As Christopher and Joanna wait for the boat that’s going to take her back to the United States, Christopher learns about the army of ants that are going to arrive in their town soon, and both of them decide to stay together and fight back.

Still from The Naked Jungle

The rest of the film follows Joanna and Christopher as they bond together while preparing to fight deadly ants that have taken the world by storm. The Naked Jungle stars Eleanor Parker, Charlton Heston, Abraham Sofaer, and others.

• Directed by: Byron Haskin
• IMDb rating: 6.7
• Where to watch: Vudu, Apple TV

33. Phenomena (1985)

Phenomena is a supernatural horror film about Jennifer Corvino, who is the daughter of a famous American actor, as she arrives at the Swiss Richard Wagner academy for girls chaperoned by Frau Bruckner.

On her first night in the school, Jennifer sleepwalks and witnesses a student being murdered, which wakes her up. She runs into the forest, where she meets a chimpanzee Inga who leads her to her owner and an entomologist John McGregor.

John finds out that Jennifer has a telepathic link with the insects and sends her back to her school. The next day, Jennifer’s roommate Sophie gets murdered by someone assuming that she is Jennifer since she wore the same sweater that Jennifer had worn the previous night while witnessing the murder of the student.

Still from Phenomena

The rest of the film follows John as he tries to use Jennifer’s telepathic power to find out who is killing the young girls but ends up getting himself killed. Phenomena stars Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Patrick Bauchau, and others.

• Directed by: Dario Argento
• IMDb rating: 6.7
• Where to watch: Vudu, Roku, Apple TV

34. Ants! (1977)

Ants! is a science fiction horror film about Ethel Adams, who is the owner of the Lakewood Hotel, and her daughter Valerie as they are visited by real estate magnate Anthony Fleming and his partner/lover Gloria who wants to turn the hotel into a casino.

Valerie’s boyfriend and foreman, Mike Carr, finds the body of two men buried in the sand. They discover that the cause of their death is venomous ants, and soon the ants start to attack more people of Lakewood, including the cook.

Still from Ants!

The rest of the film follows the Lakewood people as they try to kill the ants but later discover that the ants are immune to all pesticides and water while trying to steer clear of the ant’s way. Ants! Stars Robert Foxworth, Lynda Day George, Bernie Casey, Barry Van Dyke, and others.

• Directed by: Robert Scheerer
• IMDb rating: 4.9
• Where to watch: YouTube

35. The Wasp Woman (1959)

The Wasp Woman is a science fiction horror film about a woman named Janice Starlin, who is the owner of a large cosmetics company. She suffers from public backlash after they get angry at her for her false claims.

Dr. Eric Zinthrop is a scientist who was sacked from his job for experimenting on wasps but has now found an enzyme in the queen wasps’ jelly that can reverse the aging process. He joins hands with Janice, who funds his research and applies the serum he created by him.

Still from The Wasp Woman

The rest of the film follows Janice as she uses too much of the serum because of it is working slowly in the absence of Eric, who forgot to tell her that the wasps were becoming too aggressive and about the consequences of using the serum too much. Eric goes missing after an accident, and Janice starts to turn into a wasp after her overdose on the serum. The Wasp Woman stars Susan Cabot, Fred Eisley, Barboura Morris, and others.

• Directed by: Roger Corman
• IMDb rating: 4.8
• Where to watch: Prime Video

36. Mosquito (1994)

Mosquito is a science fiction horror movie that follows the story of two lovers, Megan and Ray, who are driving to the summer camp in a park and accidentally hit something, which turns out to be a giant mosquito.

The same night, a spacecraft crash-landed in that park, killing the extraterrestrial driving the spacecraft. Several mosquitos suck the blood of the alien, causing them to increase in size. The mosquito stars kill people visiting the park.

Two Park rangers who were fishing were also caught and killed by the mosquitoes. The next morning, Ray and Megan arrive in the park with a meteorologist named Parks, who is searching for a meteor that had crash-landed on Earth the previous night and found the bodies of the park rangers and other people visiting the park.

Still from Mosquito

The rest of the film follows Parks, Ray, Megan, and others as they try to escape the park as a swarm of giant killer mosquitoes tries to kill them repeatedly. Mosquito stars Gunnar Hansen, Ron Asheton, Josh Becker, Steve Dixon, and others.

• Directed by: Gary Jones
• IMDb rating: 4.4
• Where to watch: Roku, Spectrum TV

37. Beginning of the End (1957)

The Beginning of the end is a science fiction film about photojournalist Audrey Aimes as she comes across a town that has been destroyed, and the 150 people who lived there have died. After visiting the town’s fields, she comes to know that they are wrecked too.

She goes to the nearby United States Department of Agriculture to find out more about the town and meets Dr. Ed Wainwright, who is a scientist conducting experiments on fruits and vegetables to make them grow in size and erase the world’s hunger.

He tells her that locusts have eaten all the radioactive grains and have grown as big as a bus. Ed and Audrey start tracking down a series of mysterious events happening around town and find the giant locust eating humans after the crops come to an end.

Still, from the Beginning of the End

The rest of the film follows Ed and Audrey as they try to find a way to kill the giant locust and save the surviving humans. Beginning of the End stars Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum, Than Wyenn, and others.

• Directed by: Bert I. Gordon
• IMDb rating: 3.9
• Where to watch: Pluto TV

38. The Strange World of Planet X (1958)

The Strange World of Planet X is a science fiction horror movie that follows the story of a physicist Dr. Laird who is conducting dangerous experiments related to magnetic fields accompanied by Gilbert Graham. An accident occurs, which injures Gilbert, so Dr. Laird requests the Military of Defense for a replacement.

They send Brigadier Cartwright and a computer expert Michele Dupont to investigate. Michele fixes Laird’s power problem, thus making the experiment flawless, which results in Cartwright informing the authorities that they should make Laird’s project a top priority.

Still from Strange World of Planet X

As more people start working on the project to make it a success, repercussions of using the magnetic fields start showing around town. The animals and insects start mutating and growing in size, and a threat looms over the protective layer of the Earth, which protects it from the sun’s harmful rays.

The rest of the movie follows a series of chaotic event that occurs after Laird refuses to stop his experiment, and the insects start attacking people, killing several of them. The Strange World of Planet X stars Forrest Tucker, Martin Benson, Gaby Andre, and others.

• Directed by: Gilbert Gunn
• IMDb rating: 4.8
• Where to watch: Prime Video

39. Arachnid (2001)

Arachnid is a Spanish horror film about Joli Mercer, a test plane pilot who comes across a spaceship and chases it, but due to a malfunction in his plane, he lands on a nearby island where he is killed by a giant spider.

Ten months later, Loren Mercer, Joli’s sister, pilots a plane and leads Dr. Samuel Leon and his assistant Susana Gabriel on a medical expedition, and they land on the same island that Joel’s brother had landed on.

Still from Arachnid

Loren, Samuel, Susana, and their team venture into the village to find it deserted and ruined. They soon find out that the island is filled with mutated insects and bugs that have grown in size, which attack them, and soon their team members start to die one by one.

Loren tries to find her brother but soon discovers that he has been killed by a giant spider, and the rest of the film follows the others as they try to escape from the deadly insects and flee from the island, which is harder than they thought. Arachnid stars Chris Potter, Jose Sancho, Alex Reid, Neus Asensi, and others.

• Directed by: Jack Sholder
• IMDb rating: 3.9
• Where to watch: Tubi TV, Roku

40. Silent Predators (1999)

Silent Predators is an American horror film that follows the story of a town named San Vicente as it is attacked by a new species of rattlesnakes who escaped into the wild 20 years ago after the truck carrying them had crashed. The snakes start killing people in the town, and local fire chief Vic Rondelli is aware of the government of the city about the deadly snakes and the deaths caused by them.

Still from Silent Predators

The rest of the film follows Vic as he tries to convince the government to evacuate everyone from the town, while Max Farrington, who is a land developer, opposes the idea because he wants to finish his work. Silent Predators stars Harry Hamlin, Shannon Sturges, David Spielberg, Patty McCormack, and others.

• Directed by: Noel Nosseck
• IMDb rating: 4.3
• Where to watch: Plex, Vudu

41. The Bone Snatcher (2003)

The Bone Snatcher is a British Canadian horror film starring Rachel Shelley, Scott Bairstow, Adrienne Pearce, and others. The film follows the story of a group of people that had gone to a South African mine during a diamond expedition.

The researchers never made it back, and so Dr. Zack Straker and a search team are sent to find the missing group. Zack is unable to find the group of missing researchers but soon finds their bones in the desert, which leads them to believe that a best is eating people alive in the desert.

Still from The Bone Snatcher

The rest of the film follows Zack as he finds out that a swarm of ants-like creatures are eating humans and are controlled by a queen ant, so he tries to find their colony and destroy them but loses most of his team during the process.

• Directed by: Jason Wulfsohn
• IMDb rating: 4.4
• Where to watch: Prime Video, Vudu

42. Arachnophobia (1990)

Arachnophobia is a comedy horror film about Ross Jennings, who is a physicist and suffers from arachnophobia which is a phobia of spiders and scorpions. As he moves to Canaima from San Francisco along with his family after he learns that the town doctor is retiring. Jerry Manley, who used to be a nature photographer, had been bitten by a spider and died, after which his body was sent to his hometown Canaima in a coffin.

The coffin also had the spider who had bitten him, which mates with a local spider and creates lots of offspring that go around town biting and killing people. Soon, Ross learns of the spiders and takes help from an entomologist who sends his assistant, Chris, to Canaima to investigate.

Still from Arachnophobia

The rest of the film follows Ross, Chris, and several other people as they try to find the one spider who is creating these crossbreeds of spiders by finding their Nest and killing them before they can kill any more people with their lethal bite. Arachnophobia stars Jeff Daniels, Julian Sands, John Goodman, Harkey Jane Kozak, and others.

• Directed by: Frank Marshall
• IMDb rating: 6.5
• Where to watch: Roku, Vudu, Redbox, Apple TV

43. Dragon Wasps (2012)

Dragon Wasps is a science fiction horror film about Gina Humphries as she decides to go on an expedition along with her friend Rhonda to look for her father, who had gotten lost in the jungles of Belize.

Gina convinces John Hammond, who was a part of the military, to help them find her father after she gets caught in the jungles while driving her jeep. Soon, the military and both entomologists Gina and Rhonda find out that the jungle is filled with mutated, fire-spitting, bloodthirsty wasps who are killing humans.

Still from Dragon Wasps

The rest of the film follows Gina and Rhonda as they search for Dr. Humphries while also becoming a part of a guerilla war between the military and the wasp. Will Gina find her father and make it out alive in the jungle? Dragon Wasps stars Corin Nemec, Dominika Juillet, Nikolette Noel, Gildon Roland, and others.

• Directed by: Joe Knee
• IMDb rating: 3.1
• Where to watch: Tubi TV

44. Return of the Fly (1959)

Return of the Fly is a science fiction horror film that follows the story of Phillipe Delambre as he tries to fix his father’s transportation machine but runs out of funds. He asks his uncle Francois to fund his experiment, but he declines, so Phillipe blackmails him by saying that he will sell his half of Delambre Frere, which gets Francois to agree, and he funds Phillipe’s experiment.

Phillipe successfully fixes the teleportation device, which stores a certain thing or animal before materializing through the transporter. Alan Hinds, whom Phillipe had hired to help with his experiment, turns out to be a spy named Ronald Holmes who sells the information about the transportation device to a cohort Max.

Still from Return of the Fly

The rest of the film follows a struggle between Ronald and Phillipe as he finds out about Ronald’s betrayal and tries to stop him from selling his machine’s paper to Max, which results in Phillipe turning into a fly and killing Max and Ronald. Return of the Fly stars Vincent Prince, Brett Halsey, David Frankham, John Sutton, and others.

• Directed by: Edward Bernds
• IMDb rating: 5.7
• Where to watch: Vudu, Roku

45. The Thaw (2009)

The Thaw is a science fiction horror film that shows a video documentary of Dr. David Kruipen, who was a research scientist and a virus that had killed 400 people while infecting 10,000 people. This is followed by a flashback to when David found the remains of a mammoth and tranquilized a polar bear.

David transports the polar bear to his research station and tries to convince his daughter to come down to the station. Several other people join his research team and come to the station. David’s research team starts to feel sick and later starts to die one by one.

Still from The Thaw

The rest of the film follows Jennifer and the research team as they come across several deadly bugs that can kill humans with their bites and as they try to escape them. The Thaw stars Val Kilmer, Martha MacIssac, Kyle Schmid, Steph Song, and others.

• Directed by: Mark A. Lewis
• IMDb rating: 5.2
• Where to watch: Prime Video, Roku

46. The Savage Bees (1976)

The Savage Bees is a horror television film that follows the story of a town in New Orleans as they are preparing to celebrate their annual Mardi Gras festival and find out that a swarm of deadly African bees is headed their way.

A bee expert named Dr. Jeff Rurand is called to consult on this, and he suggests stopping the festival, but the people disagree since they don’t want to cancel the festival. When the bees finally arrive, they attack a young girl in a red dress.

The Savage Bees Poster

Jeff realizes that the bees attack those people who are wearing red color and making loud noises, and thus uses this information to his benefit and kills the bees. The Savage Bees stars Ben Johnson, Michael Parks, Paul Hecht, Gretchen Corbett, Bruce French, and others.

• Directed by: Guerdon Trueblood
• IMDb rating: 5.1
• Where to watch: Prime Video

47. The Birds (1963)

The Birds is a horror thriller film about Melanie Daniels as she goes to a pet store and comes across Mitch Brenner, who recognizes her and plays a prank on her by acting to mistake her for one of the store employees and asking her questions about birds but when she is unable to answer, he laughs and reveals that he was joking.

Melanie buys lovebirds for Mitch because she finds him attractive and goes to his house in Bodega Bay to give him the birds. Upon arriving, she is told that he went to his family’s farm for the weekend. She books a boat and goes to his family’s farm while Mitch waits on the dock to meet her, but Melanie gets attacked by a gull of birds and is injured.

Still from The Birds

The rest of the film follows Melanie as she is constantly attacked by birds, along with all the people of the town who are being attacked and killed by birds, and Mitch tries to keep his family and Melanie safe from the birds. The Birds stars Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, and others.

• Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
• IMDb rating: 7.6
• Where to watch: Prime Video, Roku

48. Night of the Creeps (1986)

Night of the Creeps is a science fiction horror film that tells the story of a college man as he takes his date to a parking spot where they witness a shooting star and decide to investigate it.

The shooting star turns out to be a canister that opens, and a slug-like creature escapes it, which goes into the mouth of the college guy. On the same night, a mental criminal had also escaped from prison with an axe in hand and also reached the spot where the shooting star had fallen, which was, in reality, a canister of an extraterrestrial.

Still from Night of the Creeps

Twenty-seven years later, Chris Romero joins a sorority to impress a girl named Cynthia, where he is tasked to steal a cadaver from the university’s medical center. While searching for the cadaver, Chris comes across a corpse that was kept in the secret room, but when he takes a closer look, the corpse moves. The corpse was of the same boy who had taken his lover to the parking lot.

The rest of the film follows several dead bodies becoming alive after several slug-like creatures invade the corpses and cause chaos in the city and the school. Night of the Creeps stars Jason Lively, Tom Atkins, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow, and others.

• Directed by: Fred Dekker
• IMDb rating: 6.7
• Where to watch: Vudu, Apple TV

49. Sssssss (1973)

Sssssss is a horror film about David Blake, who is a college student. As he becomes a herpetologist, Dr. Carl Stoner’s assistant. Carl injects David with an injection that he claims will protect him from snakes.

David’s skin starts to peel, and he goes into a coma for a few days. After he wakes up, he begins to lose weight and voices his concerns to Carl, who tells him that these are side effects of the venom and keeps injecting David with it.

Still from Sssssss

The rest of the film follows David as he fully transforms into a snake and Carl as he attempts to kill Dr. Daniels, who had come to his lab for inspection and ends up seeing David’s current state. Sssssss stars Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies, Tim O’Connor, and others.

• Directed by: Bernard L. Kowalski
• IMDb rating: 5.4
• Where to watch: Vudu

50. Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)

Kingdom of the Spiders is a science fiction horror film about Dr. Robert Hansen, as he is called by a farmer, Walter Colby, who claims that his calf is sick. Hansen examines the calf but is unable to find the reason for its sickness, after which it dies. Hansen sends a blood sample of the calf to a university lab that sends Diane Ashley, an arachnologist, with the reports.

Ashley tells Hansen that the calf died due to a high dose of venom . Soon, Colby’s dog also dies due to venom, after which Colby tells Robert and Ashley that there is a spider hill in the back of his farmland. After inspection, Robert finds a hill of tarantulas that are killing animals for survival and decides to burn their hill.

Still from Kingdom of the Spiders

The rest of the film follows Robert and Ashley as they discover that the spiders have escaped and are now killing people around town, starting with Colby, who was found covered in spider webs. Kingdom of the Spiders stars William Shatner, Woody Strode, Tiffany Bolling, Altovise Davis, and others.

• Directed by: John “Bud” Cardos
• IMDb rating: 5.7
• Where to watch: Prime Video, Roku

Looking for anime like Lycoris Recoil? You are at the right place. Girls with Gun, a sub-genre when it comes to animation is a genre where the lead protagonist is female in a strong role with a modern setting or, one might even say, context. As the name suggests, these types of animes involve action, gunplay, along with strong scenes. Lycoris Recoil is one such anime that has not only girls with guns but also a great storyline.

Lycoris Recoil follows the story of a syndicate called Direct Attack (DA), an organization that raises orphan girls as assassins. Among all these assassins, Takina Inoue is one of their best Lycoris, who has a strong sense of perfection.

But, due to some circumstances, she gets transferred out of DA, where she meets Chisato Nishikigi, with who she ends up spending every day. At the new base, she finds out how things work for them.

Here are 43 best anime like Lycoris Recoil

This slice-of-life thriller, action-packed yet comedy anime will definitely have you intrigued enough to check it out. Some might say that this anime was too short, so we have compiled some animes that you must watch if you liked Lycoris Recoil .

1. Spy X Family

This recent anime is about Loid Forger, a spy who spends his life-fighting crime so everyone can live peacefully. He receives a mission for which he has to depend on others to fulfill it. A mission where he has to stop a school principal who is a criminal in reality, for which he needs a child to make them enter the prestigious school.

Spy X Family poster credits: IMDb

He adopts Anya, who can read minds, from an orphanage and makes a contract with Yor, who is an assassin, to be his wife. These three mysterious people live together and realize what it’s like to be a real family. Spy X Family hasn’t been aired for too long, and its increasing popularity only means this show will go to higher places.

• IMDb ranking: 8.5/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll and Netflix.

2.Ranma ½

This classic anime is not something you would have expected on this list. Ranma ½ is pretty hilarious, with its main theme being a story about our protagonist, Ranma, a man who is cursed into becoming a woman whenever he touches cold water. It is a pretty funny story when you watch and see how Ranma exchanges between being a woman and a man while the story moves forward.

Ranma ½ Poster Credits: IMDb

This anime is one of the most talked about anime from that time that gets talked about even to this day, for its unique storyline and strong relationship between the main characters of the story.

• IMDb ranking: 7.9/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Hulu.

3. Tokyo Ghoul

A story about a teenage boy called “ Kaneki ” who ends up becoming a human-ghoul hybrid after a date with a woman who revealed herself being a ghoul, a powerful human who feeds on human flesh to survive. Kaneki comes to know that he was saved after this incident because the said ghoul date, Rize Kamishiro, ends up saving his life by giving her ghoul body organs to save his life; it was why he became the hybrid.

Tokyo Ghoul poster credits: IMDb

We follow along with his story as he deals with becoming a human-ghoul hybrid and decides never to eat flesh among all his struggles to stay connected with his humanity as he sees the government hunt these new monsters.

• IMDb ranking: 7.8/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll and Netflix.

4. Princess Principal

This action-packed anime is similar to Lycoris Recoil, too, with cute girls who are working for organizations undercover. We follow along with the main characters who attend this prestigious school called Queen’s Mayfaire school and go undercover under the disguise of schoolgirls while they work as spies for the commonwealth of Albion.

Princess Principal Poster Credits: IMDb

This anime was set in the 19 th century, and our main characters are tasked to complete their mission while London is at war as it has been divided into East and West via a wall.

• IMDb ranking: 7.3/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

5. Log Horizon

This isekai genre anime is about a world where people are taken away from their world into this game called Elder Tale, where after the latest update of the game, players are unable to log out. Among all the people is our protagonist, Shiroe, who is confused for a while before he understands where he actually is as he is a veteran player of the said game.

Log Horizon Poster Credits: IMDb

Amidst exploring the game, or one would rather say his new reality, he realizes that he must learn to live in this world now that they are stuck here and that he needs to start working around with the “natives” of the game. We follow along with his story to see how he works around this new world and everything that comes after it.

• IMDb ranking: 7.6/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

6.Prima Doll

Just like Lycoris Recoil, Prima Doll too has cute girls in it, but the only difference between both of those anime is the fact Lycoris Recoil focuses more on the spy theme of the anime, whereas Prima: Doll focuses more on war and its aftermaths.

Prima: Doll Poster Credits: IMDb

In this anime, we follow along the story where after the war, mechanical dolls named automata which were used for the war, are now considered useless. The few dolls left are working in cafes to still preserve their purpose.

Our main character, Haizakura, is an Automata, too but what’s shocking is that she sings. Now, we continue watching to see if she ends up finding her life’s purpose and remembering her identity or not.

• IMDb ranking: 6.6/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on HiDive.

7. Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Although the anime has cute girls, it is a dark anime that follow the stories of these two high school girls who are faced with this weird creature who offers to grant any wish of these girls, Madoka and Sayaka, if they accept to become magical girls.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica Poster Credits: IMDb

Thankfully, they refuse this offer of being tipped by other girls . Not long after, these girls get a tour of this magical world where they realize and get to know how horrible and scary the world really is.

• IMDb ranking: 8.2/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

8. Assault Lily Bouquet

Unlike Lycoris Recoil, there is no secret organization in this anime, but we do follow along the story of cute girls who fight the monsters named “huge” with the help of their special tools called Charms. This teenage girl who fights these monsters is called “Lilies.” If cute girls killing monsters is your type of thing, Assault Lily is just for you.

Assault Lily Poster Credits: IMDb

• IMDb ranking: 6.3/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

9. Jujutsu Kaisen

If you are an anime lover, you most definitely have heard of Jujutsu Kaisen or JJK for short. This is an anime about this average high school boy, naked Itadori, who wants to find meaning in his life and ends up fighting and getting attacked by this ghost when he goes to save his club-mates. Itadori ends up getting saved by another boy his age named Megumi, who is a jujutsu sorcerer.

Jujutsu Kaisen Poster Credits: Anime Planet

Amidst this fight, there many complicated things happen, due to which Itadori gets recruited to become a Jujutsu sorcerer . We follow along his story and how he deals with everything that happens and will happen in his life that suddenly got turned around.

• IMDb ranking: 8.6/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll and Netflix .

10. The Millionaire Detective-Balance: Unlimited

Have you ever wondered what you would do if you suddenly had a lot of money? If not, maybe try watching this anime and get some ideas. We follow the story of our main character, Daisuke, who gets a job of being a detective at Modern Crime Prevention Headquarters.

The Millionaire Detective-Balance: Unlimited Poster Credits: IMDb

Here we see Daisuke and Haru, his colleague, who ends up partnering together to solve crimes together. Just like Lycoris Recoil, two characters whose views, Daisuke, who solves cases via money, and Haru, who does it using his brain, do not match, are paired together and need to work together.

• IMDb ranking: 7.3/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

11. Warlords of Sigrdrifa

What can we even say about this anime, Warlords of Sigrdrifa is similar to Lycoris Recoil. Want to see trained and skilled female characters on adventures? Watch this. This slice-of-life genre anime is about a world where Valkyries are in a battle with aliens called Pillars, and when their top fighter is killed in the fight, Claudia, Europe’s top fighter, is sent in to help them in Tokyo.

Warlords of Sigrdrifa Poster Credits: IMDb

Things get more complicated when it is noticed that only Claudia returns from every mission and every fight. But we see throughout this anime how Claudia changes everyone’s thoughts in regard to her. Just like Lycoris Recoil, this is about cute girls fighting to save the world from problems and disasters.

• IMDb ranking: 6.2/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

12. Cowboy Bebop

This 90s anime is about a group of bounty hunters with skilled comrades who are on an adventure all across the solar system to capture all types of criminals as the human race here has spread all over the solar system. This story is set in a faraway future. Throughout the story, many comrades join them in this mission, and we follow along with them. This anime was one of the first series that introduced anime to the world.

• IMDb ranking: 8.9/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Netflix.

Cowboy Bebop Poster Credits: Netflix

13. Engage Kiss

This recent anime is just like Lycoris Recoil, following the story of Shuu and Kisara, the main characters of this anime, who work undercover to defeat every demon and protect everyone from them. This anime is just like Lycoris Recoil, with cute main female characters who are just fighting monsters throughout this anime.

• IMDb ranking: 6.4/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

Engage Kiss Poster Credits: IMDb

14. Release the Spyce

Momo Minamoto, the main character of this anime, is an aspiring police officer who wants to follow in her father’s footsteps. But something is different about Momo, who can tell what a person is feeling with just one lick, her unique ability.

Release the Spyce Poster Credits: IMDb

The interesting part of this anime begins when Momo gets recruited to become a spy for a secret agency by Yuki Hanzoumom to keep her city safe and fight all the bad people. If you are also a music enjoyer, you may like the opening song of this anime as that is a banger if I say so myself.

• IMDb ranking: 6.6/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on HiDive.

15. Under the Dog

This anime is set in the year 2025, 5 years since the terrorist attack that took place in 2020 at the Tokyo Olympics Games. Teenagers under this organization that is formed by United Nation have special abilities and are known as Flowers.

Seven of these teenagers are present at the former Olympic site and are sent to assassin other teenagers who have the same abilities as them. Flowers have no choice but to follow whatever they are asked to do if they want to make sure their family survives, as the United Nations has taken hostage of their said families.

Under the Dog Poster Credits: IMDb

Hana Togetsu is one of the seven teenagers who are sent in to retrieve Shunichi Nanase. Just before Hana can complete her mission, the American military arrives to look for another man who ends up disrupting her mission, and soon things turn south and bloody.

• IMDb ranking: 5.7/10

16. Gunslinger Girl

This psychological anime doesn’t just feature cute girls who work as assassins but also technologies that are used to enhance these said girls’ bodies. They are said to be recruited for a second chance, but that doesn’t end up being the case as these girls are brainwashed and forced by the Social Welfare Agencies to carry out all their dirty work in their country.

Gunslinger Girl Poster Credits: IMDb

However, our protagonist, Henrietta, an elite girl who kills without any care, is suddenly torn between her love for her partner and her love for her work.

• IMDb ranking: 7.4/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

17. Canaan

This action-packed anime with a female lead is similar to Lycoris Recoil. Girls with guns, filled with action featuring girl’s love too. This mysterious yet action anime centers around our skilled, more solid named Canaan, who can use all of her five senses at the same time, which makes her quite powerful. We follow along to see her get through various obstacles like terrorism, a killer virus, and violent groups, along with people from her past.

Canaan Poster Credits: IMDb

• IMDb ranking: 6.8/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on HiDive.

18. Date a Bullet: Dead or Bullet

Our main character, Kurumi Tokisaki, suddenly falls into a new unknown world where he takes an interest in this one white cat, but to his disappointment, they end up parting ways.

Date a Bullet: Dead or Bullet Poster Credits: IMDb

Later we see him meeting Hibiki Higoromo, a white-haired spirit who tells him that they are in between a killing game and only the survivor of that match will end up getting their wish granted. This makes both Kurumi and Hibiki team up, a temporary alliance one might even say to win.

• IMDb ranking: 7.6/10

19. Psycho-Pass

This dystopic anime features our protagonist, Akane Tsunemori, who begins her career as a police officer in a world where all the job fields are based on aptitude tests. Akane is a specialized officer that focuses on stopping criminals before they even happen.

Psycho-Pass Poster Credits: IMDb

But the difference here is that not all of the criminals are executed or jailed away, as there is a possibility of them joining police forces to work as reading the minds of other criminals. We follow along with her story to see how things work out for Akane as she starts questioning the good and evil of her world.

• IMDb ranking: 8.3/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Amazon Prime and Netflix.

20. Riddle Story of Devil

Just like in Lycoris Recoil, the theme of our protagonist being a girl who knows how to fight is present here too. The only difference here is that Tokaku Azuma, the protagonist, along with 11 more girls, are transferred to this boarding school, where they are asked to kill our second main character, Haru Ichinose.

Riddle Story of Devil Credits: IMDb

Whoever kills Haru will get any one of their desire or wishes fulfilled, but the tricky complication is that you get only one chance to do so, and if you fail to do so, you will be expelled. However, Tokaku ends up getting drawn towards Haru, the girl she is technically supposed to kill, and ends up vowing not to let her friend die and promises that she will protect Haru from this.

• IMDb ranking: 6.2/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

21. The Executioner and Her Way of Life

We can connect this anime with Lycoris Recoil for its dark themes along with the great chemistry among the protagonists. The main character of this anime, Menou, is assigned to kill Akari, one of the lost ones when she realizes that Akari just cannot be killed.

The Executioner and Her Way of Life Poster Credits: IMDb

But since Menou is assigned the task, she starts finding a way to kill Akari and end her immortality. We follow along with this anime to find out what exactly happens. Does Menou end up killing Akari or not?

• IMDb ranking: 6.2/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on HiDive.

22. Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

Our main character, Tsunayoshi Sawada, is just another boy who is clumsy and not very talented. He is also in love with his school idol Kyouko Sasagawa, a girl who is way out of his league. But one day, his uninteresting life takes an unexpected twist when he finds a Reborn who is a hitman, shockingly a baby.

Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Poster Credits: IMDb

This Reborn is sent from the Mafia family in Italy for a mission where the Reborn has to prepare a middle schooler to become the ninth boss of the mafia as the current one is on the brink of retirement. And maybe, this clumsy boy can maybe achieve greatness too.

IMDb ranking: 7.7/10

Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

23. A Certain Scientific Railgun

In this entire world, there are only seven espers, a special group of people who learn how the Academy City works. This city is a place where science and technological innovations are very common. There are only 5 Esper titles and people who are powerful enough to bear that level 5 title.

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One of those people is our protagonist Mikoto Misaka who is a middle schooler with control over the electricity. We follow along to see a group of cute young girls fighting with these powers.

• IMDb ranking: 7.5/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

24. Aria of The Scarlet Ammo

The main character of this show, Aria, is insanely skilled with guns and works under an organization that defends the population, just like in Lycoris Recoil. Aria ends up working together with her partner Kinji who she saves when the boy becomes Butei Killer’s next victim.

Aria of The Scarlet Ammo Poster Credits: IMDb

Kinji uses his special power, which flares up when he gets aroused despite not wanting to do it as he only wants to live a simple peaceful life, but things turn for him, and he now has to work with Aria.

• IMDb ranking: 6.5/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

25. The Detective Is Already Dead

Our protagonist, Kimizuka Kimihiko, is always found at the crime scenes. He never stops getting caught up in bad events, and this time he had to carry a package on a flight by criminals; he is forced to do this, and he ends up encountering the legendary detective, Siesta.

The Detective Is Already Dead Poster Credits: IMDb

When he gets to know that she is hunting this mysterious organization on her telling him, he joins her and becomes her assistant. Years later, when Siesta dies, Kimizuka thinks he has lost his purpose, but then he meets the girl who ends up getting Siesta’s heart which ends up leading him back to his mystery-solving days.

• IMDb ranking: 5.9/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

26. Terror in Resonance

After this one terrorist attack, the Japanese nuclear facility is paralyzed. After a while of searching for the people who were responsible for the same, two boys in a video are caught known as Sphinx, who also takes the credit for being responsible for the same, but they plead that they never willingly killed anyone and beg to be let go.

Terror in Resonance Poster Credits: IMDb

This anime talks about a different perspective than what we may be used to, and it talks about terrorists’ perspective with its own slice-of-life moments.

• IMDb ranking: 7.8/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

27. Eden of The East

Japan was hit with numerous series of missiles under a terrorist attack that thankfully did not end up harming anymore. But months later, people forget about this, but our protagonist, Saki Morimi, goes on this trip to America where she ends up getting into trouble with this man called Akira, that appears naked in front of her, and this ends up changing her life.

Eden of The East Poster Credits: IMDb

This anime is both cute and mysterious. It will get you all intrigued to know what exactly is happening in the show and will make you want to watch the next episode instantly.

• IMDb ranking: 7.5/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

28. Steins; Gate

Both of these series, Lycoris Recoil and Steins Gate , start off with their characters being silly. In this anime, there is a mad scientist who, with his assistants, is working on some weird so-called future gadgets that can do various things.

Steins; Gate Poster Credits: IMDb

One of their most successful inventions is a phone microwave that turns bananas into a gel. Despite all this silly stuff, we notice how the story gets complex as things start getting revealed, and soon enough, you will be in your conspiracy mode.

• IMDb ranking: 8.8/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

29. Mai-Hime

This anime is more supernatural-themed, with magical elements in it. We follow along with our main character, Mai Tokiha, who somehow ends up getting entangled in this battle between two other girls with supernatural abilities when she gets a scholarship with her brother to the Fuuka Academy. As we continue to watch this anime, we see what follows after.

Mai-Hime Poster Credits: IMDb

• IMDb ranking: 7.4/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

30. Flip Flappers

Just like Lycoris Recoil, we have cute girls as our protagonists who work for mysterious organizations. Here, our main character Cocona, an average middle schooler, meets a strange girl, Papika, who invites her to join this organization called Flip Flap.

Flip Flappers Poster Credits: IMDb

We follow these girls solving missions together as they fight dangerous creatures using their crystals to further transform into magical girls. But one day, people from other organizations come and slay their creatures, and these girls realize that they need to learn to work together if they want to defeat all these dangerous creatures as well as stand a chance against their rivals.

• IMDb ranking: 7.2/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on HiDive.

31. A Place Further Than the Universe

Mari, a second-year high school student, has decided that she will not let her youth go to waste anymore. But, her fears still consume her and prevent her from letting her take the step forward she wants to. One day, she encounters a girl who has big dreams, just like Mari does.

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Shirase Kobuchizawa has been working hard to be able to gather money for her trip to Antarctica after the disappearance of her mother. She decides not to stop checking and searching for her mother in a place further than the universe and meets Mari, who instantly agrees to help her. Together, these girls go on their adventure .

• IMDb ranking: 8.2/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

32. Maid Sama

Though this anime does not have the mysterious action -packed theme of Lycoris Recoil, it does have the cute girls working in a café theme. Our anime, Maid Sama , is about the main character, Misaki Ayuzawa, who is the demon president of Seika High and of Takumi Usui, who somehow finds out that she works at a maid café.

Maid Sama Poster Credits: IMDb

Misaki was the first girl president in the previously all-boy school, where she ended up becoming the demon president with a stone heart along with her iron fist to not let the girls be bullied.

But what people did not know is that she worked at a maid café with her cheerful and sweet alter ego. Soon, Takumi finds out, and she must decide how to deal with this, to let her reputation that she worked hard for be destroyed or to spend time with the boy.

• IMDb ranking: 7.8/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

33. Sound of The Sky

Our protagonist, 15-year-old Kanata Sorami, enlisted in the 1121st Platoon of the Helvetians army in the hope of becoming a great bugle player, she accepts the tutelage of Sergent Major, who also happens to be a skilled trumpeter, and as she works alongside them, she realizes the beauty of life in Seize and the joy of community while the world around them is crumbling.

Sound of The Sky Poster Credits: IMDb

• IMDb ranking: 7/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

34. Is the Order A Rabbit?

This anime which is yet again similar to Lycoris Recoil is about cute girls who work in a café and their everyday challenges. But unlike Lycoris Recoil, this anime does not have any action or dangerous organizations. Our main character, Cocoa Hoto, is just a simple high school freshman who is looking for a boarding school and somehow stumbles upon this café called Rabbit House.

Is the Order A Rabbit? Poster Credits: IMDb

Unlike what one might expect from this café, which is rabbits, she finds out that this café is a boarding house where she could stay for the next semester, and instead of paying for her rent, she could work at the coffee shop. We follow along to see how Cocoa figures things out and makes new friends, and meets people she may even be able to call her family.

• IMDb ranking: 7/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

35. Little Witch Academia

When our main character, Akko, goes to her new school, Luna Nova Magical Academy , despite being from a non-magical background, the trip there is anything but as easy like one might expect. While on her way, she ends up befriending Lotte and Sucy. Akko also finds a chariot wand that she ends up taking as her own.

Little Witch Academia Poster Credits: IMDb

We follow along with her story as we see how Akko realizes that her time here at this academy is anything but easy and that she would need to work very hard if she does not want to stay interior with the rest of her magical background friends. Here, we also see how Akko and her friends learn what the true meaning of being a witch really is.

• IMDb ranking: 7.3/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Netflix .

36. Yuuki Yuuna Wa Yuusha De Aru

Have you heard of the saying of some people are heroes without any powers who help people out without any special abilities? This anime is a prime example of the very saying. Our protagonist, Yuuna Yuki, is a person just like that; she is a hero that does her best to make everyone smile and is also part of the hero club of her school.

Yuuki Yuuna Wa Yuusha De Aru Poster Credits: Otaku Tale

But what happens when one day she is actually offered to be a hero and to fight against monsters who are soon becoming a great threat to the safety of everyone? We follow along to see how she helps people and how she accepts her new reality while also dealing with the dark side of it. Just like Lycoris Recoil, this anime has cute girls living a double life while also fighting mysterious evil monsters.

• IMDb ranking: 6.8/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

37. Blend S

Our protagonist, Maika Sakuranomiya, a 16-year-old girl, just wants to be independent and starts applying for jobs so she can save money to be able to afford to study abroad. But the problem is that her applications keep getting rejected due to the vast difference between her pictures and when she smiles.

Blend S Poster Credits: IMDb

She somehow finds a coffee shop called Café Stile, whose store manager, Dino, becomes infatuated with her cuteness and offers her a job as a sadistic waitress, where Maika, despite her clumsiness, finds her first pair of masochist customers. We follow along the story of our tsundere protagonist as she moves forward with her position at the café.

• IMDb ranking: 6.9/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

38. The Journey of Elaina

Ever since Elaina was young, she had been interested in reading about witches that travel all around her. Eliana, too wanted to experience that very adventure and become a witch . After many trials, she finally succeeds and goes on her own adventure.

The Journey of Elaina Poster Credits: IMDb

Eliana meets many people along the way and learns a lot of new things that she never knew. There are many happy yet dark moments in her journey, and we follow the story to see all about it.

• IMDb ranking: 6.9/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Hulu.

39. Mitsuboshi Colors

Our protagonists, Sacchan, Yui, and Kotoha, are three cute girls who are here to solve all the mysteries while they battle away all the enemies with help from their friends. But their life is not all sunshine and rainbow as they fight; their arch-nemesis, Saitou, the violent police officer, meets them at every turn of their life as they solve all these cases.

Mitsuboshi Colors Poster Credits: IMDb

• IMDb ranking: 7.4/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on HiDive

40. The Fruit of Grisaia

Secret organizations, teenage girls fighting crimes, and terrorism? Count us in. Grisaia , just like Lycoris Recoil, is an anime that talks about secret organizations that only care about working in favor of the country rather than the people working.

Grisaia Poster Credits: IMDb

It’s a story about girls who are put in dangerous situations to complete missions that will benefit the company, where these girls cannot trust anyone but their own selves. This action-packed anime will keep you on the edge of your seat and make you want to watch the next episode instantly.

• IMDb ranking: 7/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

41. Dolls’ Frontline

In the world after the 3 rd world war, various military people started using combat android dolls known as the “T Dolls” that are used to maintain peace, and due to them being robots , they are superior in physical combat as well.

But these dolls are incapable of making decisions as they are only used to following orders. Here, Sangvis Ferri was the leading T Doll manufacturer, but one day these AI declared war against the remaining mankind, and suddenly we were in a robot invasion.

Dolls’ Frontline Poster Credits: IMDb

In this world where all these female androids are weapons, a squad is now tasked to hunt down all these dolls who have decided to rebel and turn against humanity. Griffin, the rookie commander, is now given her first mission to track down this and get the data before the manufacturer can get it again.

• IMDb ranking: 6.2/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

42. Noir

This anime is similar to Lycoris Recoil, with two cute girls who work under this secret organization and are amazing at what they do. One might even say that Noir is a classic anime in this genre of girls with guns.

This anime talks about our two protagonists Mireille Bouquet, from Paris, and Kirika Yuumura, from Japan, who are friends from the past that end up meeting to catch up, but things turn south when they are attacked by men who have weapons.

Noir Poster Credits: IMDb

They both realize that Kirika actually doesn’t remember her past or how she learned to fight. During this whole anime, we follow along as Mireille and Kirika come together to remember her past and their connection under their joined code name, Noir.

• IMDb ranking: 7.2/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.

43. Akiba Meido Sensou

Nagomi Wahira, our protagonist, had always admired all the cute maids that worked at the maid cafes, and she had always wanted to become one too. So to fulfill her dream of being one herself, she moved to Akihabara to work at the maid cafe present there.

Akiba Meido Sensou Poster Credits: IMDb

Although her first day seemed normal, she had to run errands with her fellow recruit, and she soon realized the dark reality of the violent maid wars when she saw her recruiter, Ranko Mannen, battle away with a gun. Nagomi realizes that this is very different from what she had expected, and now that she is stuck in it, Nagomi finds ways to survive in the harsh reality.

• IMDb ranking: 7.4/10
• Where to watch: You can watch it on Crunchyroll.