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Parasite Eve (1997)
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Parasite Eve (1997)
Original name: パラサイト・イヴ
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Toshiaki Nagashima is a biologist who is doing major research on mitochondria. When his beautiful young wife is tragically involved in a car accident which leaves her brain dead, in desperation he steals her liver from her body in order to recieve the mitochondria from it to resurrect his wife from the dead. The killer mitochondria takes the form of his assistant.
Style: bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, creepy, cult classic, natural horror, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: interspecies sex, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, mutant, supernatural, danger, police investigation, criminal's revenge, wedding, murder, zombie, alien, killer animal, invasion, superpower, scientist, parasite, curse, biology, back from the dead, heroes, plague, reincarnation, life is a bitch, chase ...
Time: 90s

Most similar movies to Parasite Eve

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and scary films with plots about danger, supernatural, deadly, blood, murder, death and monster mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Parasite Eve: Crossfire (2000), Phantoms (1998), Angel Dust (1994), They Crawl (2001), Monkey Shines (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Crossfire (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anything at will. Junko is secretly in love with Kazuki, a young man who works with her. His sister is killed and a boy named Masaki suspected but the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, action thriller
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, gang, supernatural, vengeance, good versus evil, supernatural ability, danger, superhero, master villain, psychic power, telekinesis, psychic ...
Time: 90s
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Phantoms (1998)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, small town, monster, military, gory, hotel, survival, extinction, creature feature, good versus evil, danger, disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Angel Dust (1994)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to help the police solve an ongoing case of female-centric serial murder in the local subway system. Her investigation leads to her former mentor and lover, who becomes the prime suspect in the case.
Style: psychological, retro, dark, cult classic, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, brainwashing, sex crime, urban legend, murder, rivalry, manipulation, rottweiler, curse, religions or cults, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Isola: Multiple Personality Girl (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped
Style: suspenseful, bleak, rough, scary, suspense ...
Plot: zoophilia, revenge, psychiatrist, murder, love, friendship, prisoner, transformation, reincarnation, self discovery, subconscious, love triangle ...
Place: southern usa, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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They Crawl (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, deadly creature, plague, danger, murder, rivalry, supernatural, monster, mutant, creature feature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.2
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Monkey Shines (1988)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: monkey, zombie, revenge, murder, disability, experiment, rage, macabre, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, animal attack, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During WWII, a human heart taken from Dr. Frankenstein's lab and is kept in Japan where it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing of Hiroshima. The heart grows in size, mutates and eventually becomes an indestuctable humanoid. Later, a ...
Style: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, daikaiju ...
Plot: frankenstein, giant monster, godzilla, world war two, scientist, false accusation, kaiju, mutant, rescue, deadly creature, supernatural, experiment gone awry ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s, 60s
Place: japan, germany, hiroshima japan, tokyo, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA with horrific results.
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, cult classic, medical horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: genetics, mad scientist, experiment, island, mutation, chaos and mayhem, dangerous animal, survival, mutant, experiment gone awry, stranded, brutality ...
Time: 90s, year 2010, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: indonesia, fictional island, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Movie in collections
 7.2
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The Dead Zone (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, dark hero, serial killer, supernatural ability, coma, car accident, destiny, macabre, investigation, premonition, murder ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s
Place: maine, usa, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 7.0
 22K
The Hidden (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, car chase, buddy cop, fbi, chase, mind control, violence, alien invasion, revenge, monster, space and aliens, twists and turns ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Tell-Tale (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate befalls him.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, supernatural, obsessive quest, vengeance, couples, haunted by the past, parents and children, couple relations, escapades, edgar allan poe, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Terminal Man (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, medical horror, cult classic, depressing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space and aliens, cyberpunk, home invasion, serial killer, murder, human experiment, cognitive science, machine, paranoid, evil computer, computer, medicine ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Alive (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, rough, serious, weird
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: death row, survival, experiment, vengeance, confined, danger, martial arts, prison life, imaginary, human experiment, electric chair, space and aliens ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, gothic, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: time travel, mad scientist, frankenstein, supernatural, destiny, murder, mutant, deadly creature, vengeance, save the world, chaos, disorder ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, 19th century, 2030s ...
Place: geneva switzerland, switzerland, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Firestarter (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has ...
Style: suspense, action adventure, psychotronic, crying, neo noir ...
Plot: psychic, stephen king, fear, superpower, telepathy, pyrokinesis, fire, supernatural, evil, white supremacy, wife, loss of mother ...
Time: 2020s
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Fury (1978)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A government agent is determined to come to his son's rescue, when a sinister official kidnaps him to harness his extremely powerful psychic abilities.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, supernatural, vengeance, telekinesis, chase, rescue, family relations, visceral, danger, espionage, parents and children, secret government organization ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1978, year 1977
Place: chicago, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Unforgettable (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, memory, vengeance, justice, false accusation, race against time, conspiracy theory, haunted by the past, police detective, danger ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Wolf (1994)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job.
Style: gothic, suspense, romantic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, transformation, workplace, monster, deadly creature, dangerous attraction, betrayal, police investigation, hunting, blood, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: manhattan new york city, vermont, new york, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, stylized, light, serious ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: monster, mad scientist, frankenstein, hunchback, frankenstein's monster, friendship, experiment gone awry, scientist, experiment, obsession, escapades, steampunk ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, future, 21st century
Place: scotland, england, scotland yard, usa, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Village of the Damned (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspense, serious, tense ...
Plot: creepy child, alien, space and aliens, pregnancy, small town, mother daughter relationship, genetics, mind game, supernatural ability, babies and infants, danger, evil child ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
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45%
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Parasite (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dystopian future, deadly creature, parasite, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, save the world, monster, survival, dystopia, alien, bio weapon, danger ...
Time: future, year 1982, year 1992, 90s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Vindicator (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An employee of a secret company operation becomes the victim of the company's special weapons project. He is transformed into a robotic killing machine that, because of his programming must destroy anything that comes near him.
Style: grindhouse, retro, independent film, serious, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robot, cyberpunk, terminator, profanity, laboratory, experiment gone awry, killer robot, danger, mad scientist, cybernetics, violence, brain ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
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44%
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Dreamcatcher (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, dark, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama
Plot: alien invasion, stephen king, alien, supernatural, virus, first contact, supernatural ability, alien encounter, mind control, danger, transformation, cabin in the woods ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: colorado, usa, boston, massachusetts, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Flatliners (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a ...
Style: scary, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, medical student, near death experience, hallucination, suicide, medical experiment, experiment gone awry, obsession, bullying, manipulation, memory ...
Time: 80s, 90s, distant future, 20th century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Alien Predator (1986)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 3 young friends are on vacation in Spain, until weird things begin to occur and then a man from NASA tells them what's really going on: Dangerous Alien Organisms from the Apollo 14 Moon Mission, which was tested on animals on SkyLab. But then ...
Style: serious, rough, scary, apocalyptic, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: evil alien, parasite, nasa, scientist, love triangle, alien, experiment gone awry, heroic mission, mad scientist, supernatural, deadly creature, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Day of Resurrection (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
Style: retro, cult classic, serious, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: pandemic, apocalypse, disaster, epidemic, virus, submarine, post apocalypse, deadly virus, biohazard, nuclear holocaust, infection, dystopian future ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, year 1988, year 1982, year 1983 ...
Place: antarctica, new york, london, tokyo, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His ...
Style: gothic, scary, gothic horror, costume drama, stylized ...
Plot: frankenstein, mad scientist, supernatural, monster, obsession, frankenstein's monster, experiment gone awry, science, macabre, justice, rescue, death ...
Time: 19th century, 90s, georgian era, victorian era, 1900s ...
Place: germany, geneva switzerland, swiss alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.5
 442K
28 Days Later (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalypse, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, rage ...
Time: year 2002, year 2000, year 2003, distant future, near future ...
Place: london, britain, england, bolivia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.1
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Proteus (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Group of heroin smugglers finds shelter on abandoned oil rig after their ship had exploded. Soon they find that the oil rig was just cover for biological experiment. One of the results is Charlie - shape-shifting monster with ability to absorb the ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, bleak, scary, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, mutant, laboratory, gang, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, mad scientist, danger, ocean, drug dealing, creature feature, alien ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Earth vs. the Spider (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A shy comic book fan is injected with an experimental serum and starts turning into a spider. When web covered bodies start appearing a policeman starts to investigate the strange case.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, tense, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: superhuman powers, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, deadly creature, danger, supernatural, heroes, good versus evil, laboratory, disorder, spider, monster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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