The Best Movies With Beast in the Title
How many movies with beast in the title can you name? This list ranks the best movies with beast in the name, whether they're documentaries, dramas, horror movies, or any other genre of film. Do you have a favorite movie with beast in the title? Categorizing movies by words in their titles is kind of uncommon, but that's a big part of why this list is so fun to scroll through. There's probably one movie with beast in the title you think of right away, but you might be shocked to see how many others exist as well.
Notable films with beast in the title include Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast, and Sexy Beast, although there are many more examples on this list. This poll is interactive, meaning you can vote the beast movies up or down depending on how much you like them.Most divisive: The Beast Within
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- 1Tim Curry, Haley Joel Osment, Christopher LeeBeauty and the Beast is an 48-minute animated film originally released on May 4, 1992, and based on the classic fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast, by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Like all other Golden Films productions, the film featured a single theme song, "The Beauty in the Beast", written and composed by Richard Hurwitz and John Arrias. Produced by Golden Films and the American Film Investment Corporation, it was distributed to DVD in 2002 by GoodTimes Entertainment, as part of its "Collectible Classics" line.More Beauty and the Beast
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- 2Jane March, Candice Hillebrand, Justin WhalinBeauty and the Beast is a 2005 film which is based on the folktale "Beauty and the Beast" and is set during the time of the Vikings.
- 3Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard WhiteBelle (Paige O'Hara) is a bright young woman held captive in an enchanted castle by a prince transformed into a monstrous Beast (Robby Benson). With the help of the castle's magical staff, she begins to see the kind heart within the Beast. To break the curse and turn him back into a man, the Beast must learn to love and be loved before a magical rose's last petal falls.More Beauty and the Beast
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- 4Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShaneEx-villain Gal Dove (Ray Winstone) has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan (Ben Kingsley), intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job. Desperate not to sacrifice his enchanted existence, Dove is drawn into a shocking battle of wills with Logan, and takes part in a sensational underwater heist, risking everything to protect the woman he loves.
- 5Tor Johnson, Conrad Brooks, Anthony CardozaThe Beast of Yucca Flats is a B horror film released in 1961. The film stars Swedish former wrestler Tor Johnson and was both written and directed by Coleman Francis. The plot concerns a Soviet scientist, who defects and flees to a Nevada Test Site called Yucca Flats, only to be turned into a monster by radiation, who then menaces the desert. The film has very little dialogue and most of the speech is done by omniscient narration, provided by writer/director Francis. Some critics have characterized the film as one of the worst science fiction horror films made, and one of the all-time worst films of any kind, even suggesting that it may be worse than Ed Wood's legendarily bad Plan 9 from Outer Space.
- 6George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven BauerA Soviet tank unit led by Commander Daskal (George Dzundza) destroys a village in Afghanistan in 1981. Taj (Steven Bauer), a member of the village, vows revenge and pursues him, along with the mujahideen. Meanwhile, the radical Daskal turns violent against his unit when he murders the tank crewman (Erick Avari) for his Afghan ethnicity and leaves tank driver Koverchenko (Jason Patric) to be killed by the mujahideen. Taj, however, offers Koverchenko sanctuary for his assistance against the unit.
- 7Christopher Lee, Michael Hordern, Kate O'MaraBeauty and the Beast is an 48-minute animated film originally released on May 4th, 1992, and based on the classic fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast, by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Like all other Golden Films productions, the film featured a single theme song, "The Beauty in the Beast", written and composed by Richard Hurwitz and John Arrias. Produced by Golden Films and the American Film Investment Corporation, it was distributed to DVD in 2002 by GoodTimes Entertainment, as part of its "Collectible Classics" line.
- 8Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Eduardo NoriegaThe Beast of Hollow Mountain is a 1956 Weird West movie about an American cowboy living in Mexico who discovers his missing cattle are being preyed upon by an Allosaurus. The Allosaurus would later attack local villagers in a town, and eventually be destroyed by getting lured into some quicksand and drowning. The first film to show dinosaurs and cowboys in the same picture, it is notable for being based on a story idea by special effects innovator Willis O'Brien. It used a form of stop motion called replacement animation to bring the dinosaur to life. O'Brien co-wrote the script under the pseudonym El Toro Estrella; O'Brien was also to have originally done the special effects for this movie, but this did not happen for reasons unknown.
- 9Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Paul ClemensDriving near a small Mississippi town in 1964, newlyweds Eli (Ronny Cox) and Caroline (Bibi Besch) experience car trouble. When Eli goes off to look for help, Caroline gets raped and is made pregnant by a horrible creature. Years later the child, now teenager Michael (Paul Clemens), finds himself undergoing an inexplicable physical change that compels him to return to that area in Mississippi. Soon dead bodies start piling up while his desperate parents struggle to understand what's happening.
10The Magnificent Beast
The Magnificent Beast is a 1953 action film directed by Chano Urueta.- 11Sherilyn Fenn, Phil Fondacaro, Charlie SpradlingMeridian is a 1990 horror film and romance film produced and directed by Charles Band. It starred Sherilyn Fenn, Malcolm Jamieson, Hilary Mason and Charlie Spradling.
- 12Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila ParélyThe story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.
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Beauty and the Beast
Jesper Klein, Ib Tardini, Line Arlien-SøborgBeauty and the Beast is a 1983 Danish drama film written and directed by Nils Malmros. The film stars Line Arlien-Søborg as a sexually active 16-year-old and Jesper Klein as the father who struggles to accept his daughter's relationships with boys as well as his own jealousy. Malmros, who had worked with the young Arlien-Søborg on his coming-of-age drama, Tree of Knowledge, wrote the role of the daughter specifically for her. - 14Mimi Rogers, Roscoe Lee Browne, Richard KeatsThe Beast is a 1995 short sci-fi film written by Rhoderyc C. Montgomery and Terrel Miedaner and directed by Rhoderyc C. Montgomery.
- 15Fran Drescher, Timothy Dalton, Ian McNeiceAfter beauty school teacher Joy Miller (Fran Drescher) becomes a local hero by rescuing lab animals from a fire in her workplace building, she's offered a job by Ira Grushinsky (Ian McNeice), an emissary from the Eastern European nation of Slovetzia. Boris Pochenko (Timothy Dalton), the country's dictator, wants to improve his image by hiring an American tutor for his children. Mistaken for a real teacher, Joy arrives in Slovetzia and soon bumps heads with Boris while brightening up palace life.
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- 16Corin Nemec, Miriam McDonald, Daniel WislerA fisherman (Corin Nemec) and a marine biologist (Camille Sullivan) try to stop a sea monster from devouring town residents.
- 17Koyasu Taketo, Hozumi Gōda, Tetsuo KomuraBeast Wars II: Lio Convoy in Immnient Danger! is a 1998 Japanese film based on the Beast Wars II anime series, a Japan-only spinoff of the Beast Wars television show. The movie was never released outside of Japan because Beast Wars II aired only in Japan, as a filler between dubbing the first and second seasons of Beast Wars. The movie revolves around the Maximals, led by Lio Convoy, the Predacons led by Galvatron and a mysterious device that has crashed on Planet Gaea, leading to the arrival of Maximal warrior, and the main protagonist of the original Beast Wars series, Optimus Primal. Galvatron also uses the device to summon a monster Decepticon called Majin Zarak who serves as the film's main antagonist who threatens to destroy all the Maximals.
- 18Alan Ladd, Steffi Duna, Greta GranstedtHitler, Beast of Berlin was one of the most popular "hiss and boo" films of World War II era, based on the novel Goose Step by Shepard Traube. The film was the first production of Producers Releasing Corporation. It was recut and released as Beasts of Berlin the same year, having been banned in New York as too inflammatory at the time. It was also reissued in the early 1940s as Hell's Devils.
- 19Eijirō Tōno, Kunie Tanaka, Mikijiro HiraSword of the Beast is a 1965 jidaigeki film co-written and directed by Hideo Gosha. Set in 1857 at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the story follows a fugitive samurai who's killed a counselor in his clan, to a mountain where he meets another samurai who is poaching gold.
- 20Brittany Murphy, Stephen Hawking, Katey SagalIn Futurama's latest and most tentacle-packed epic, space itself rips open, revealing a gateway to another universe. But what lies beyond? Horror? Love? Or maybe both, if it happens to contain a repulsive, planet-sized monster with romantic intentions! Nothing less than the fate of human and robot-kind is at stake as the Futurama crew takes on The Beast With A Billion Backs.
- 21Dick Sargent, Chester Conklin, Paul BirchThe Beast with a Million Eyes is a science-fiction movie about an alien able to see through the eyes of the many creatures he takes control of. It was produced and directed by David Kramarsky, although some sources say that it was co-directed by Lou Place and co-produced by Roger Corman and Samuel Z. Arkoff. The film was released in 1955 by American Releasing Corporation which later became American International Pictures.
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Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete
Bob Mathias, Paul Muller, Nerio BernardiMinotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete is a 1960 historical drama film loosely based on the Greek legend of Theseus, the Athenian hero who is said to have slain a minotaur on Minoan Crete around 1500 or 1450 BC. The film was directed by Silvio Amadio and starred Bob Mathias. - 23
Man and Beast
Götz George, Aleksandar Stojkovic, Alexander AllersonMan and Beast is a 1963 CCC Film German-Yugoslavian war film directed by Edwin Zbonek. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. - 24Steven Seagal, Don Ferguson, Tom WuJake Hopper (Steven Seagal) retires from the CIA, hoping to enjoy a quiet, peaceful existence. But then the bad news hits: While hiking in Thailand, his daughter, Jessica (Sara Malakul Lane), was kidnapped by a terrorist group, Abu Karaf, a collection of Islamic fundamentalists. As the CIA initiates its official response to the abduction, Hopper goes vigilante and heads off to Thailand, where he will kill as many people as it takes to ensure his daughter's safe return.
- 25Eddie Garcia, John Ashley, Mary Charlotte WilcoxBeast of the Yellow Night is a 1971 Filipino and American horror film directed by Eddie Romero. A full length RiffTrax for the movie was released on August 8, 2014, with commentary by Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame.
- 26Bob Balaban, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Otto SanderConversation with the Beast is a 1996 film by Armin Mueller-Stahl. The film is about an American researcher, who interviews a 103-year-old man claiming to be Adolf Hitler. The film was released on September 10, 1996 and shown at over 20 film festivals worldwide, but has not been released on video.
- 27Rebecca De Mornay, John SavageBeauty and the Beast is a 1987 American/Israeli musical film, part of the 1980 film series Cannon Movie Tales. It is a contemporary version of the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast. The movie was filmed entirely in Israel, and the taglines were: "The monster they feared was the prince she loved" and "The classic fairy tale about seeing with your heart".
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Beauty and the Beast
Joyce Taylor, Eduard Franz, Michael PateBeauty and the Beast is a 1962 film directed by Edward Cahn. - 29Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace FordCapt. Jim Fitzpatrick (Walter Huston) is a principled family man, but when it comes to his job with the police in Prohibition-era Chicago, he's a vicious and violent crusader for justice. When mob boss Sam Belmonte (Jean Hersholt) beats the rap for a gangland hit, Jim risks his life and career to prove his hunch. He recruits his vice cop brother, Ed (Wallace Ford), for the case, but Ed gets mixed up in a secret romance with mob girl Daisy Stevens (Jean Harlow), leading to an epic showdown.
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