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

1. Life (I) (2017)

R | 104 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.

Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada

Votes: 254,358 | Gross: $30.23M

2. The Thing from Another World (1951)

Approved | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.

Directors: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks | Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness, Robert Cornthwaite

Votes: 33,449

3. Galaxy of Terror (1981)

R | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A ragtag spaceship crew sent on a rescue mission encounter a formidable enemy, their worst fears projected by their own imaginations.

Director: Bruce D. Clark | Stars: Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston, Bernard Behrens

Votes: 8,933

4. Puss in Boots (2011)

PG | 90 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

An outlaw cat, his childhood egg-friend, and a seductive thief kitty set out in search for the eggs of the fabled Golden Goose to clear his name, restore his lost honor, and regain the trust of his mother and town.

Director: Chris Miller | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton

Votes: 192,699 | Gross: $149.26M

5. 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: 46,147 | Gross: $3.91M

6. Sputnik (2020)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.

Director: Egor Abramenko | Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anton Vasilev

Votes: 27,324

7. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

Approved | 98 min | Horror

Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Neil McCallum, Ursula Howells

Votes: 7,515

8. Village of the Damned (1960)

Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.

Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn

Votes: 19,159

9. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean

Votes: 7,188

10. Embryo (1976)

PG | 104 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A scientist (Rock Hudson) doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days. All is not well though as the child begins to exhibit some horrific tendencies.

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 1,733

11. The Devil Bat (1940)

Approved | 68 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien, Guy Usher

Votes: 3,457

12. Living Hell (2008 TV Movie)

R | 92 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

A mild-mannered teacher and a hazmat specialist have to figure out how to stop an unstoppable creature who feeds on light and energy, and moves with exponential speed, before it destroys everything in its path.

Director: Richard Jefferies | Stars: Johnathon Schaech, Erica Leerhsen, James McDaniel, Jason Wiles

Votes: 2,299

13. Some More of Samoa (1941)

17 min | Comedy, Short

The stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree.... See full summary »

Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Mary Ainslee

Votes: 426

14. Heir Bear (1953)

Passed | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Barney inherited a map to treasure buried in his backyard, but his digging doesn't square with the plans of the gopher sleeping on the treasure.

Director: Dick Lundy | Star: Paul Frees

Votes: 150

15. King-Size Canary (1947)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

A mangy cat on the verge of starvation finds a tiny canary and a bottle of 'Jumbo-Gro' fertilizer, which gives him an idea that leads to giant cats, dogs, mice and canaries chasing each other round Lilliputian towns and cities...

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Pinto Colvig, Frank Graham

Votes: 1,834

16. Life in a Day (1999 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 89 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A scientific experiment in rapid-cell growth goes awry when a lab assistant steals the developed serum and injects it into his pregnant girl friend. The result is a child that grows through... See full summary »

Director: Eleanore Lindo | Stars: Michael A. Goorjian, Chandra West, Linda Kash, Wayne Best

Votes: 277

17. Nasty Quacks (1945)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

A pet duckling grows up to be Daffy. His antics soon grate on the family, culminating in a fencing match at the breakfast table fought with butter knives. But the daughter defends Daffy.

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Robert C. Bruce

Votes: 552

18. Kawao tee Bangpleng (1994)

120 min | Sci-Fi

An entire village meets a bizarre fate when all of its female inhabitants become pregnant at the same time, impregnated seemingly by an unknown force.

Director: Nirattisai Kaljareuk | Stars: Hattaya Gatesung, Surattana Khongtrakul, Passawut Maytanee, Ruj Ronapop

Votes: 52

19. Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode: Similitude (2003)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Archer decides to make a fast-growing clone of Trip to help save his life while Enterprise is stranded in a dangerous field with nucleonic particles.

Director: LeVar Burton | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating

Votes: 2,119

20. The Genie from Down Under (1996–1998)
Episode: A Tale of Two Cities (1996)

22 min | Family, Comedy, Romance

Conrad figures out that Bruce and Baz are magical genies, so he decides to work on Baz by taking him to a place where any kid would want to go, an amusement park. When Conrad takes the opal, Baz helps Penelope get it back.

Director: Jeremy Swan | Stars: Alexandra Milman, Glenn Meldrum, Rhys Muldoon, Anna Galvin

21. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode: The Abandoned (1994)

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

Odo tries to change the nature of a rapidly maturing Jem'Hadar infant Quark finds, while Sisko tries to break his son's relationship with a 20 year old Dabo girl.

Director: Avery Brooks | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Terry Farrell

Votes: 2,058

22. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: The Child (1988)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Deanna is impregnated by an unknown alien life-form, and Dr. Katherine Pulaski joins the Enterprise as the ship's new Chief Medical Officer.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,940

23. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: El Mundo Gira (1997)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A desperate illegal immigrant who can't speak any English becomes patient zero for a mysterious illness and goes on the run from INS, the FBI and his own brother who blames him for the death of his girlfriend.

Director: Tucker Gates | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Rubén Blades

Votes: 3,835

24. Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode: More Tribbles, More Troubles (1973)

TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Cyrano Jones returns, infesting the Enterprise with tribbles that now grow to monstrous size.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei

Votes: 926

25. Fringe (2008–2013)
Episode: The Same Old Story (2008)

TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A woman gives birth to a baby who ages eighty years in just a few minutes. Olivia soon finds connection between the incident and a serial killer she had been chasing.

Director: Paul A. Edwards | Stars: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Kirk Acevedo

Votes: 3,506

26. How the States Got Their Shapes (2011–2012)
Episode: Use It or Lose It (2011)

TV-14 | 41 min | Documentary, Adventure, History

If you thought our borders were set in stone, you'd be wrong. Who stole a corner of Washington, DC? Is Ohio actually a state? And why isn't St. Louis our nation's capital? One thing's for ... See full summary »

Director: David Konschnik | Stars: Brian Unger, H.W. Brands, Kevin F. Kern, Mark Stein

Votes: 34

27. Lost Girl (2010–2016)
Episode: Sleeping Beauty School (2013)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Dyson seeks an elemental Fae to save someone you love. Meanwhile, Kenzi is stuck in a job as nanny - but its likely cost can be the key to unlocking the case.

Director: Steve DiMarco | Stars: Anna Silk, Kris Holden-Ried, Ksenia Solo, Zoie Palmer

Votes: 243

28. Gilligan's Planet (1982–1983)
Episode: Amazing Colossal Gilligan (1982)

Not Rated | 23 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

Gilligan falls into a strange lake which causes him to grow 50 feet tall. He is kidnapped by P.C. Barnaby, who wants Gilligan to be the main attraction in his circus.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer

Votes: 7

29. Stranger Things (2016–2025)
Episode: Chapter Three: The Pollywog (2017)

TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Dustin adopts a strange new pet, and Eleven grows increasingly impatient. A well-meaning Bob urges Will to stand up to his fears.

Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown

Votes: 19,719

30. Stranger Things (2016–2025)
Episode: Chapter Four: Will the Wise (2017)

TV-14 | 46 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An ailing Will opens up to Joyce -- with disturbing results. While Hopper digs for the truth, Eleven unearths a surprising discovery.

Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown

Votes: 19,469

31. Stranger Things (2016–2025)
Episode: Chapter Six: The Spy (2017)

TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Will's connection to a shadowy evil grows stronger but no one's quite sure how to stop it. Elsewhere, Dustin and Steve forge an unlikely bond.

Director: Andrew Stanton | Stars: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown

Votes: 21,346

32. Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
Episode: Through the Valley of Shadows (2019)

TV-14 | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A fourth signal leads the U.S.S. Discovery to an insular world, where Pike is forced to make a life-changing choice. Burnham and Spock investigate a Section 31 ship gone rogue, leading to a discovery with catastrophic consequences.

Director: Douglas Aarniokoski | Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman

Votes: 3,338

33. Room 104 (2017–2020)
Episode: The Specimen Collector (2019)

TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

While on a layover from collecting a rare botanical specimen, a scientist wakes to find herself inside a lush, rapidly growing jungle.

Director: Mel Eslyn | Stars: Cobie Smulders, Aasif Mandvi, Ian Merrigan, Amanda Allan

Votes: 173