Movies like Frankenstein
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Frankenstein (2025)
261K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, dark, psychological, atmospheric, grim, bleak, melancholic, suspenseful, gothic horror ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mad scientist, frankenstein's monster, storytelling, monster, love, wolf, ship, forest, wedding, snow, expedition, ice, arctic, north pole, fire, aristocracy, blind man, forgiveness, captain, tower, baron, wolf attack, corporal punishment, flashback, butterfly ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, victorian era, 1810s
Place:
edinburgh scotland, london, vienna
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Most similar movies to Frankenstein
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense and psychotronic films with plots about supernatural, monster, death, blood, brutality, murder and violence mostly in Horror, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Frankenstein: Crimson Peak (2015), Queen of the Damned (2002), The Woman in Black (2012), Dracula Untold (2014), The Company of Wolves (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
168K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and ...
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, incest, murder, female protagonist, betrayal, macabre, brother sister incest, old mansion, estate, ghost story ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1900s, year 2015, 1800s ...
Place:
england, america, europe, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal ...
Style:
gothic, sexy, atmospheric, suspenseful, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, goth, rock star, brutality, fatal attraction, vampirism, vampire human love, supernatural, immortality, love triangle, vengeance, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
2000s, y2k, year 2002, 1780s, 18th century
Place:
new orleans, america, california, usa, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, dark, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, estate, isolation, afterlife, revenge, old dark house, curses spells and rituals, supernatural horror, supernatural, folk horror, ghost child ...
Time:
victorian era, 1910s, 1900s, year 2012, edwardian era ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, including Vlad's son, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to ...
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, scary, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, dracula, medieval, legends and myths, immortality, vampirism, immortal, monster, mythology, bloodlust, fight scenes ...
Time:
15th century, medieval times, year 2014, year 2000, 19th century ...
Place:
romania, transylvania, london, ottoman empire
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into ...
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, sexy, cult classic, dark ...
Plot:
werewolf, surrealism, little red riding hood, legends and myths, grandmother, woman in danger, wolf, dangerous animal, coming of age, girl, folk horror, beast ...
Time:
18th century, year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and ...
Style:
gothic
Plot:
live performance, frankenstein, scientist, monster as victim, monster, stage play, obsession, ethics, man with no name, theater, adaptation, rape ...
Time:
1810s
Place:
swiss alps, geneva switzerland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.
Style:
gothic, stylized, medical horror, scary, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
frankenstein, supernatural, gargoyle, immortality, deadly creature, frankenstein's monster, medieval, immortal, superhero, monster, demon, save the world ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 1790s, 21st century
Place:
melbourne
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Because every 27 years evil revisits the town of Derry, Maine, it chapter two brings the chapters - who've long since gone their separate ways - back together as adults, nearly three decades after the events of the first film.
Style:
slasher, scary, spooky, epic, psychological horror ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
clown, killer clown, stephen king, evil clown, fear, asthma, group of friends, supernatural horror, villain, evil, carnival, panic ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2019, 80s, 2010s, year 2016
Place:
maine, los angeles, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After losing his father, 10-year-old Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucia School, which shelters orphans of the Republican militia and politicians, and is taken in by the steely headmistress, Carmen, and the kindly professor, Casares. Soon after his ...
Style:
suspense, gothic, dark, sexy, horrifying ...
Plot:
ghost, revenge, orphan, spanish civil war, disappearance, child abuse, gold, boarding school, haunted, coming of age, supernatural, orphanage ...
Time:
1930s, year 2001, year 2000, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
portugal, south america, spain, europe, madrid ...
Similarity:
100%
23K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his ...
Style:
anthology, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
samurai, ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, marriage, folk horror, macabre, japanese mythology, naval battle, promise, visceral, snow ...
Time:
19th century, 17th century, 13th century, 11th century, 12th century ...
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
651K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Style:
suspense, scary, disturbing, visually stunning, frightening ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
creature, post apocalypse, sign language, monster, survival, creature feature, silence, survival horror, deafness, fear, alien invasion, self sacrifice ...
Time:
2010s, near future, distant future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york state
Similarity:
100%
59K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to ...
Style:
suspense, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Plot:
insect, cockroach, virus, giant insect, disease, tunnel, eaten alive, entomologist, experiment gone awry, monster, creature, epidemic ...
Time:
90s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
10K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, sexy, gothic horror, creepy ...
Plot:
insanity, demon, surrealism, mad scientist, seance, goth, mind game, obsession, drug, haunted house, hallucination, writers ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, regency period
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Robert Morgan is the last man on earth, as far as he can tell. A plague killed everyone else on the planet several years ago. He was immune to it, and can only guess why. Vampires that were formerly human attack Morgan's home every night
Style:
gothic, grindhouse, scary, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, horror for children
Plot:
post apocalypse, vampire, dystopia, virus, disease, zombie, cemetery, chase, dracula, distopia, monster, disaster ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1965, year 1968, 60s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
100%
36K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
isolation, imagination, heroin, mental illness, drug addiction, surrealism, addiction, abandoned house, imaginary friend, mentally challenged, death by overdose, talking doll ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, austin texas, texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, ...
Style:
suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, nautical ...
Plot:
creature, infection, creature feature, ship, alien abduction, alien, winter, fishing boat, monster, body horror, sea, military ...
Time:
year 1982
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
100%
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, disturbing, psychological, cult classic, medical horror ...
Plot:
afterlife, near death experience, supernatural, nightmare, hallucination, medical student, medical school, memory, suicide, paranoia, childhood memory, childhood trauma ...
Time:
80s, 90s, distant future, 20th century, 70s ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
100%
142K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Gang-du is a dim-witted man working at his father's tiny snack bar near the Han River. One day, Gang-du's one and only daughter Hyun-seo comes back from school irritated. She is angry at her uncle, Nam-il, who visited her school as her ...
Style:
suspense, scary, dark, splatter, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, giant monster, fear, dark humor, macabre, animal attack, daughter, giant creature, environment, beast, deadly creature, creature feature ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2006, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, asia, seoul, korea ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker -- the spitting image of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta -- obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.
Style:
gothic, scary, gothic horror, dark fantasy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, monster, goth, dangerous attraction, dracula, victorian england, legends and myths, bloodsucker, death, blood, vampire bite ...
Time:
middle ages, victorian era, 90s, 15th century, 1800s ...
Place:
london, transylvania, england, britain, ottoman empire ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eternal forests and snow-capped mountains... It is the last third of the 19th century and in some valley in the north of Navarra the death throes of the last Carlist war are experienced... A projectile destroys a girls' hospice and only one ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, bleak, scary
Plot:
vampire slayer, child vampire, female vampire, folk horror, vampire bite, mother daughter relationship, church, delusion, priest, eternity, little girl, fear ...
Time:
19th century, 2020s, 1870s
Place:
spain, europe, basque country
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, dark, bleak, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, blood, castle, melancholy, plague, nosferatu, death, rat, medieval, loneliness, insanity, solitude ...
Time:
19th century, year 1979, 1850s, 1800s, 20th century ...
Place:
romania, transylvania, europe, germany, black sea ...
Similarity:
100%
137K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, melancholic, existential, action thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
shrinking, aeroplane, experiment, amputee, neighbor, divorce, environment, laboratory, new house, cleaning lady, poverty, journey ...
Time:
future, year 2017, 2010s, near future
Place:
new mexico, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
Style:
tech noir, scary, cult classic, bloody, surprise ending ...
Plot:
teleportation, mad scientist, gory, monster, body horror, cocoon, creature feature, mutation, insect, creature, transformation, laboratory ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknown to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh after government officials conduct pest control experiments using ...
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, detective, gothic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
contamination, zombie, english countryside, owl, undead, exploitation, hippie, living dead, terror, female nudity, rural setting, infected ...
Time:
70s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1974
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
44K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Iceland, Sweden, Poland, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development, and the prospects of a new ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, scary, modern fairy tale, psychedelic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parenthood, folk horror, farm, creature, body horror, grief, husband wife relationship, mountain, supernatural, dysfunctional family, parents and children, fatherhood ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor ...
Style:
creepy, gothic, cult classic, dark, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, bullying, coming of age, loneliness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, school, friendship, boy, child vampire, fall in love, new neighbor ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 2008, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
persia, united kingdom, europe, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
This much-requested, made-for-TV adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel stars Michael Sarrazin as the creature given life by Victor Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting), who witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
frankenstein, blind man, monster, reanimation, scientist, doctor, murder, supernatural, deadly creature, mad scientist, obsession, danger ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Sting is Doctor Frankenstein in this remake of the old classic film Bride of Frankenstein. After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".
Style:
psychotronic, gothic horror, gothic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
frankenstein, obsession, laboratory, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, supernatural, danger, dangerous attraction, deadly creature, zombie, friendship, human experiment ...
Time:
year 1985
Place:
budapest
Similarity:
100%
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, suspense, gothic, stylized ...
Plot:
time travel, frankenstein, mad scientist, supernatural, destiny, murder, mutant, deadly creature, vengeance, save the world, dystopian future, chaos ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 20th century, 90s, 19th century ...
Place:
los angeles, geneva switzerland, switzerland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The story of 15th century Prince Vladimir who curses God following the death of his beloved wife and is turned into a vampire. Later, in 19th century London, he discovers his wife’s doppelgänger and dooms himself by pursuing her.
Style:
gothic horror, crying
Plot:
vampire, lonely man, gargoyle, decapitation, music box, eternal love, loss of wife, supernatural horror, balloon, a vision, travel and leisure, cemetery ...
Time:
15th century, 19th century
Place:
ottoman empire, paris france, italy, india
Similarity:
75%
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