Movies like The Experiment 2001

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The Experiment (2001)
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The Experiment (2001)
Original name: Das Experiment
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence—a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted prematurely when the experimenters lost control.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, rough, suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful, cerebral, intense ...
Plot: experiment, prison, torture, aggression, psychology, social experiment, isolation, degradation, abuse, sociology, violence, survival, prison life, warden, rape, human experiment, twists and turns, brutality, rivalry, power relations, female nudity, psychological torture, character study, prisoner, jail ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, year 2002, 21st century, contemporary
Place: germany, canada
Keyword: german, life lessons, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, tense, psychological and realistic films with plots about psychology, blood, murder, death, violence, flashback and twists and turns mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Experiment: The Wave (2008), The Lives of Others (2006), Exam (2009), Edmond (2005), Parasite (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Wave (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily ...
Style: philosophical, political, disturbing, thought provoking, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: fascism, experiment, suicide, nazism, teacher, bullying, teachers and students, high school, dictatorship, dictator, fanaticism, education ...
Time: year 2008, year 2011, 20th century
Place: germany, middle east, israel, europe
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The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: psychology, prison, experiment, human experiment, social experiment, human nature, university, prison escape, teachers and students, character study, student, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 2010s
Place: usa
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The Experiment (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Style: psychological, rough, tense, disturbing, visually appealing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, prison life, psychology, confined, experiment gone awry, bullying, violence, brutality, gay rape, moral ambiguity, greed, justice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Lives of Others (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style: political thriller, gloomy, political, sincere, suspense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surveillance, cold war, berlin wall, spy, stasi, communism, iron curtain, secrets, loneliness, voyeurism, politics, suicide ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, year 1984 ...
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Exam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: mind game, survival, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, surveillance, confinement indoors, psychologist, ambition, intrigue, rivalry, pandemic ...
Time: year 2009, future
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 6.2
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Edmond (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encounters with strangers and unsavory people weaken the barriers ...
Style: psychological, bleak, disturbing, intense, stylized ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, murder, midlife crisis, oral sex, redemption, starting over, prison, society, unlikely criminals, self control, sodomy, character study ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 942K
Parasite (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story: All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Style: suspense, black comedy, dark comedy, psychological thriller, exciting ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, wealth, basement, scam, tutor, poor family, plot twist, unemployment ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: south korea, east asia, seoul, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 447K
Room (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
Style: sentimental, heartbreaking, suspense, psychological, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: kidnapping, isolation, captive, kidnapped, mother son relationship, escape, rape, room, child born of rape, abduction, survival, imprisonment ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ireland, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.4
 37K
Compliance (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sandra is the manager at a fast-food restaurant, and Becky is her teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day, a police officer telephones and accuses Becky of stealing money from a customer’s purse, which Becky vehemently ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, sexy, brutal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: manipulation, psychology, twists and turns, false accusation, police investigation, human nature, moral dilemma, power relations, blonde, confined, workplace situations, obsession ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.6
 13K
Dread (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three college students set out to document what other people dread most.
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: fear, torture, violence, cruelty, held captive, college student, psychopath, mind game, childhood trauma, social relations, human nature, nightmare ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.8
 2.3M
Fight Club (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style: surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, psychology, fight, plot twist, schizophrenia, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, losing-it hero, against the rules, nihilism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2013
Place: delaware, america, los angeles, iran, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 8.7
 106K
Oz (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
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Story: The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.
Style: rough, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison life, prison, life is a bitch, confined, violence spree, rape, homosexual rape, gay, rapist, strong sexual content, gang violence, racism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 168K
Buried (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, trapped, buried alive, confined, isolation, claustrophobia, terrorist, captivity, twists and turns, panic, desperation, race against time ...
Time: year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, year 2006, 2000s ...
Place: iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
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Changing Lanes (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two ...
Style: psychological, harsh, realistic, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: lawyer, revenge, legal, court, courtroom, justice, drug addict, custody battle, business, corruption, brutality, character study ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 58K
Rendition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside ...
Style: serious, rough, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, conspiracy, terrorist, war on terror, kidnapping, cia, islamic terrorism, espionage, torture, islam, spy ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, washington d.c., illinois, chicago ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 413K
The Machinist (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, surreal, mind bending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insomnia, insanity, obsession, mysterious character, losing-it hero, paranoia, hallucination, life is a bitch, uncover truth, schizophrenia, secrets, mental illness ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: persia, america, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.5
 103K
Funny Games (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the ...
Style: psychological, scary, disturbing, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, hostage, torture, psychopath, home invasion, murder, danger, bad guy wins, maniac, brutality, kidnapping, torment ...
Time: year 2007, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 8.3
 630K
Oldboy (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style: bleak, twist ending, intense, psychological, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, incest, vengeance, older man younger woman relationship, psychopath, hypnosis, mind game, psychological torture, kidnapping, plot twist, confined, torture ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, distant future, y2k, near future ...
Place: south korea, korea, persia, oceania, east asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 7.0
 92K
Unthinkable (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: terrorism, counter terrorism, nuclear bomb, investigation, fbi, violence, terrorist, cia, politics, spy, manipulation, interrogation ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Midnight Express (1978)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, suspense, depressing, psychological ...
Plot: prison, torture, brutality, injustice, lawyer, escape, drug, court, escape attempt, trial, prison break, jail ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978, year 1972, year 1975 ...
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, brooklyn new york city, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.5
 83K
Funny Games (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Style: disturbing, bleak, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, sadism, bad guy wins, torment, torture, home invasion, kidnapping, murder, family in danger, evil wins, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997, near future
Place: austria, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.2
 48K
The Hole (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Style: psychological, scary, twist ending, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: claustrophobia, obsession, survival, psychology, school, bunker, underground bunker, twists and turns, danger, youth, trapped, male nudity ...
Time: year 2001
Place: wales, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, sexy, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, kidnapping, twists and turns, rape, skin, revenge, isolation, insanity, sexual perversion, gender bending, abuse, plastic surgery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 21st century
Place: spain, ancient greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 7.6
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Cell 211 (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, intense, tricky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, survival, prison life, confined, prison guard, prison riot, hidden identity, hostage, manipulation, pretense, protest, warden ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
13%
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, twists and turns, murder investigation, cannibal, mind game ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: pittsburgh, baltimore, madagascar, persia, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.9
 212K
Enemy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style: surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doppelganger, infidelity, symbolism, paranoia, mental illness, lookalikes, obsession, nightmare, surrealism, disturbed individual, actor, existentialism ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.3
 147K
Irreversible (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring ...
Style: art house, bleak, disturbing, surreal, offbeat ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, rape and revenge, vengeance, brutality, sex, sexual perversion, sadism, vigilante ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.5
 34K
Instinct (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything -- even put his ...
Style: philosophical, psychological, suspense, emotional, touching ...
Plot: prison, murder, estrangement, psychologist, redemption, violence, insanity, greed, survival, corruption, doctors and patients, human animal relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, africa, florida, rwanda, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 8.1
 130K
Persona (1966)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually ...
Style: minimal cast, psychological, surreal, sexual, atmospheric ...
Plot: existentialism, surrealism, medical, actress, mute character, dream, patient, silence, art, insanity, alienation, nurse ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.7
 426K
The Game (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, game, uncover truth, life turned upside down, existentialism, scheme, disorder, life & death, surveillance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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