Movies like The Bride!

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The Bride! (2026)
The Bride! (2026)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them imagined.
Style: tense, romantic, retro, noir, melancholic, psychological thriller, dark comedy, moody, tragic, period drama
Plot: frankenstein, laboratory, resurrection, reanimation, mad scientist, fiancee, urban, identity, haunting, forbidden romance, depression era, grief, civil unrest, mafia, violence, police investigation, crime scene, police chase, murder, back from the dead, murder of a woman, female scientist, companion, psychological drama
Time: 1930s
Place: chicago

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Most similar movies to The Bride!

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, tense and gothic films with plots about obsession, murder, laboratory, mad scientist, grief, revenge and supernatural mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like The Bride!: Loop (2020), Fingernails (2023), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002), One and the Same (2021), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Loop (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After his girlfriend's murder, Daniel, a physics student becomes obsessed with the idea of going back in time to stop the tragedy. He lets himself be consumed by his own obsession until after years of isolation, he finds the solution. Daniel ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, serious, suspense, emotional ...
Plot: time travel, invention, relationships, travel, grief, obsession, time loop, nothing goes right, brother sister relationship, love, investigation, suicide attempt ...
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 5.8
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Fingernails (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Anna and Ryan have found true love together. It's been proven by a controversial test. There's just one problem: Anna still isn't sure. Then she meets Amir.
Style: romantic drama, captivating, thrilling, psychological, art house ...
Plot: male female relationship, female protagonist, life is a bitch, love affair, relationships, relationship problems, secret, married couple, long term relationship, character study, intimacy, experimental technology ...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Straight to video version of the classic story
Style: suspense, psychological horror, dark, grim, psychological thriller ...
Plot: murder, alter ego, split personality, laboratory, serum, obsession, transformation, repression, mad scientist, scientific experiment, identity crisis, moral corruption ...
Time: victorian era, 1900s, 20th century
Place: london
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79%
A Dream of Color in Black and White (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A writer investigates the suspicious death of his sister at an old Victorian mansion inhabited by her widowed scientist husband on the verge of a breakthrough in dream traveling, an ex-lover from his past, and the doctor she is now in a relationship ...
Style: psychological thriller, suspenseful, atmospheric, noir, gothic ...
Plot: investigation, secrets, obsession, mansion, haunting, family drama, slow burn, memory, identity, conspiracy, love triangle, experimental technology ...
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One and the Same (2021)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a young woman, Lola, is invited to a secret facility, she discovers an experiment beyond space and time. After uncovering her own past life as a teenage boy named Robbie, she embarks on a malevolent path for justice against the ex-con who ...
Style: serious, captivating, disturbing, unusual plot structure, tense ...
Plot: revenge, reincarnation, murder, experiment, time travel, travel, vengeance, rebel, teenager, friendship, regret, loss of family member ...
Similarity:
76%
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, gothic horror, scary, medical horror, costume drama ...
Plot: frankenstein, experiment gone awry, death, mad scientist, monster, vengeance, supernatural, frankenstein's monster, obsession, hanged woman, experiment, macabre ...
Time: 19th century, 90s, georgian era, 1790s, 1900s ...
Place: central europe, switzerland, germany, geneva switzerland, swiss alps
Similarity:
67%
Doctor Franken (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Manhattan surgeon Franken rebuilds the broken body of a John Doe patient with spare parts.
Style: medical horror, suspenseful, tense, medical drama, independent film ...
Plot: transplant, mad scientist, reanimation, body horror, ethical dilemma, macabre, moral ambiguity, obsession, taboo, gory, identity crisis, isolation ...
Place: manhattan new york city
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 4.5
 30
...in furs (2016)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story: IN FURS is a tale of loss and the lengths that some will go to gain control.
Style: independent film, psychological thriller, emotional, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot: loss, obsession, loss of control, grief, control, power struggle, manipulation, mature, identity, intimate, unsettling, revenge ...
Similarity:
58%
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 5.3
 173
Firefly (2005)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Following an incident on Halloween, the lives of a roofer, waitress, romantic rookie, and mysterious clairvoyant converge due to an undiscovered connection.
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, dark, suspense ...
Plot: christmas eve, trauma, memory loss, investigation, grief, suspicion, holiday, guilt, mysterious stranger, small town, redemption, survival ...
Place: minnesota
Similarity:
51%
After Midnight (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Dealing with a girlfriend suddenly leaving is tough enough. But for Hank, heartbreak couldn’t have come at a worse time. There’s also a monster trying to break through his front door every night.
Style: scary, mumblecore, suspense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: supernatural, monster, creature, evil, devil, danger, ghost, death, demon, haunted house, spirit, curses spells and rituals ...
Place: florida
Similarity:
48%
 5.3
 112
Toni (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: No overview found
Style: crime drama, tense, melancholic, noir, atmospheric ...
Plot: hitman, organized crime, mafia, gangster, betrayal, violence, loneliness, tragic romance, character study, italian immigrant, urban, moral ambiguity ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france
Similarity:
48%
 3.0
 513
Necessary Evil (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A scientist is testing a demonic drug on people in his secret lab. A cop and a female reporter try to stop him.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, scary ...
Plot: investigation, conspiracy, uncover truth, mental institution, rivalry, good versus evil, dishonesty, mentally unstable, laboratory, life is a bitch, secret, mad scientist ...
Place: usa
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 5.5
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Dead Lover (2025)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, ...
Style: melancholic, dark comedy, atmospheric, gothic, surreal ...
Plot: resurrection, grief, tragic love, cemetery, mourning, macabre, reanimation, obsessive love, loneliness, obsession, body horror, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
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Redemption of a Broken Mind (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Fausto is destined to live the suicide of his beloved wife. After this tragic event, he’s inexplicably given the opportunity to travel back in time and change the faith of the woman who he loves.
Style: emotional, melancholic, dark, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot: grief, loss, redemption, guilt, regret, mourning, suicide, travel, tragic romance, fate, second chance, haunting ...
Similarity:
46%
Frankenstein's Bloody Nightmare (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Brilliant young Victor Karlstein finds himself lost in an abyss of personal turmoil and professional stress after the woman he most likely seemed to love dies while under the care of his own mysterious medical facility. Determined to keep her alive, ...
Style: dark, medical horror, disturbing, gothic, creepy ...
Plot: mad scientist, murder, body horror, resurrection, gory, reanimation, graphic violence, macabre, obsession, taboo, monster, grave robbing ...
Similarity:
46%
 2.7
 409
Of Silence (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An ailing former scuba diver, who faces extremely tough times, begins experiencing otherworldly incidents.
Style: mind bending, tense, scary, psychological, serious ...
Plot: mentally unstable, haunted by the past, dealing with death, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, scuba diver, isolation, haunting, supernatural, grief, trauma, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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45%
La marca del muerto (1961)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.
Style: classic horror, horror comedy, black and white, psychological horror, gothic ...
Plot: laboratory, mad scientist, immortality, resurrection, monster, frankenstein, reanimation, macabre, madness, science gone wrong, grandfather grandson relationship, dark humor ...
Time: year 1962
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Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
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
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44%
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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, 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
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The Awakening of Lilith (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A woman finds herself in the midst of a dark mystery after the unexplained loss of a loved one. Her mind begins to unravel as her sense of reality begins to slip away.
Style: bleak, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot: isolation, survival horror, survival, death of loved one, trauma, female protagonist, loss, grief, death, danger, mind game, trap ...
Place: usa
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 5.4
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The Bride (1985)
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
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 2.8
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Studio 666 (2005)
Genre: Horror, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Cassidy, the lead singer of a band, lives with her boyfriend and band member, Neal. Cassidy records the torment of her silent pain and suffering in a private journal. Thinking Neal does not love her, Cassidy is devastated and commits suicide. Neal, ...
Style: psychological horror, scary, suspense, slasher, tension ...
Audience: adult
Plot: possession, revenge, suicide, death, supernatural, ghost, psychic, tarot card, haunting, musician, loss, murder ...
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 6.5
 40
Tinsman Road (2025)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In the backwoods of New Jersey a young man navigates the serpentine mystery surrounding his long-missing sister and their family home.
Style: creepy, psychological thriller, suspenseful, emotional, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: missing person, found footage, investigation, haunting, grief, trauma, family home, family drama, cold case, isolation, obsession, small town ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new jersey
Similarity:
41%
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Terror of Frankenstein (1977)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: serious, scary, gothic, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: frankenstein, frankenstein's monster, scientist, paranormal, mad doctor, mad scientist, obsession, literary, disorder, mutant, escapades, danger ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
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 3.1
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Serum (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While searching for a "cure all" serum, Dr. Edward Kanopolus, "Dr. K", is being pressured for results by the pharmaceutical company funding the project. With time running out, tragedy and desperation drive him to make decisions ...
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: mutant, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, deadly creature, chaos, danger, laboratory, supernatural, doctors and patients, violence, disorder, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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39%
Rostro infernal (1963)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Investigating a series of kidnappings leads a police inspector to confront a scientist trying to gain immortality.
Style: suspense, tension, medical horror, gothic, psychological horror ...
Plot: mad scientist, immortality, life & death, madness, macabre, police investigation, body horror, obsession, laboratory, revenge, gory, escape ...
Time: 60s
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 6.8
 39
One Take (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Life is a one take proposition. In ONE TAKE, Kevin never stopped loving Jessie even though she left him years ago and is reported to be dead. When Kevin, out-of-the-blue, receives a card in the mail - an old photo of the two of them with a ...
Style: romantic drama, independent film, melancholic, existential, twist ending ...
Plot: loss, grief, character study, loneliness, obsession, sacrifice, imagination, relationships, family secret, memory, revelation, haunting ...
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's ...
Style: gothic, medical horror, scary, suspenseful, gothic horror ...
Plot: mad scientist, frankenstein, supernatural, monster, psychopath, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, danger, violence, murder, frankenstein's monster, psychiatric ward ...
Time: 19th century, 1930s, 1800s
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38%
The Absence of Light (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: suspenseful, tense, dark, philosophical, existential ...
Audience: adult
Plot: conspiracy, scientist, secret project, surveillance, paranoia, cat and mouse, research facility, assassin, laboratory, espionage, protection, ethical dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
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The Shade (2023)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Twenty-year-old Ryan struggles with a debilitating anxiety disorder following his father's death. Together with his two brothers, he must fight to break the destructive cycle threatening their family as ancient darkness closes in on them.
Style: tense, psychological thriller, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: family drama, family relations, supernatural horror, grief, eccentric family, relationships, bereavement, family problems, problem, dysfunctional family, loss of father, haunting ...
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