Movies like Flatliners
If you like "Flatliners" you are looking for scary, disturbing and psychological movies about / with afterlife, near death experience, supernatural, hallucination, nightmare, medical student and medical school themes of Drama, Horror and Sci-Fi genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Flatliners (1990)
98K
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 star studded cast.
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, cult classic, medical horror, psychological thriller, sexy, dark, creepy, visually stunning ...
Plot:
afterlife, near death experience, supernatural, hallucination, nightmare, medical student, medical school, memory, suicide, paranoia, childhood memory, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, experiment gone awry, obsession, bullying, guilt, manipulation, out of body experience, medical, death, medical experiment, occult, friendship, bully ...
Time:
80s, 90s, distant future, 20th century, 70s, future, 1990s
Place:
chicago
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Flatliners
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, suspenseful, suspense and serious films with plots about death, macabre, murder, nightmare, danger, storytelling and blood mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Flatliners: Altered States (1980), The Cell (2000), Stir of Echoes (1999), Videodrome (1983), Doctor Sleep (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, scary ...
Plot:
drug, science, surrealism, obsession, experiment gone awry, male nudity, hallucination, body horror, transformation, psychology, mad scientist, insanity ...
Time:
20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s ...
Place:
harvard university, bronx new york city, san francisco, california, boston ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment. By stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience. As the ...
Style:
disturbing, medical horror, serious, surprise ending, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hospital, haunted by the past, medical experiment, friendship, redemption, guilt, death, near death experience, afterlife, medical student, medical, obsession ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 2000s
Similarity:
80%
115K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Style:
surreal, psychological, scary, psychedelic, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, surrealism, psychopath, coma, mind game, investigation, race against time, sadomasochism, virtual reality, fbi, psychiatrist, traumatic childhood ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Style:
psychological, sexy, twist ending, dark, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, hypnosis, murder, afterlife, supernatural, murder mystery, haunted, psychic, supernatural horror, paranoia, disappearance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
112K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
Similarity:
100%
243K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off people like them in order to remain immortal.
Style:
disturbing, dark fantasy, twist ending, psychological, enigmatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, stephen king, psychic power, psychic, supernatural, disappearance, haunted house, supernatural power, nightmare, doctor, death, haunted hotel ...
Time:
year 2019, 20th century, year 1980, 80s, 2010s ...
Place:
ohio, new jersey, colorado, iowa, florida ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and ...
Style:
mind bending, surreal, psychological, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
nightmare, doppelganger, dream, broken mirror, fear, murder of a nude woman, murder, investigation, haunted by the past, danger, sex, embassy ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, sexy, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
insanity, body horror, drug addiction, obsession, identical twins, losing-it hero, twins, mistaken identity, brother brother relationship, love triangle, addiction, schizophrenia ...
Time:
20th century, year 1954, 1950s, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.
Style:
creepy, suspense, light, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, ghost story, supernatural, life & death, vengeance, guilt, death, small town, snow, sex scene, murder ...
Time:
1930s, 80s, 20th century, year 1931
Place:
new england, usa, new york, miami, england
Similarity:
100%
192K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, mind bending, cerebral, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mathematics, insanity, obsession, paranoia, computer, conspiracy, surrealism, alienation, psychology, eye, cyberpunk, mental illness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1998, future
Place:
new york, america, middle east, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew ...
Style:
scary, rough, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
supernatural, stephen king, psychic power, psychic, experiment gone awry, creepy child, little girl, father daughter relationship, evil child, mind control, pyrokinesis, on the run ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, vermont
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation!
Style:
surreal, medical horror, psychological, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
nightmare, hallucination, mental illness, psychiatrist, surrealism, experiment, insanity, body horror, delusion, experiment gone awry, corporation, doctors and patients ...
Time:
80s, 90s, year 1989
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, suspense, philosophical, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, twists and turns, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, psychology, mind control, alternate reality, changing the past or future, destiny, memory loss, time ...
Time:
year 2004, 2010s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a disturbed and beautiful girl is held captive by a doctor in search of inner peace. Her mind controlled by a sinister technology. Silently, she waits for her next session with deranged therapist Dr. ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, retro, suspense, futuristic ...
Plot:
exploitation, cosmic horror, escape, behavior control, trippy, mad scientist, captivity, power relations, confined, hospital, maniac, surrealism ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 1966, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
vancouver, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The story concerns Dr James Xavier, ably portrayed by Ray Milland. He has invented a serum for improving human vision. When his funding is cut he proceeds to experiment on himself -- with horrifying results. From the director who gave you Swamp ...
Style:
medical horror, psychological, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mad scientist, hospital, macabre, monkey, experiment, visceral, insanity, death, scientist, surgery, supernatural ability, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
california, usa, las vegas
Similarity:
100%
119K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
Style:
gothic, teen, dark, satanic, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, teen fantasy, girls' night ...
Plot:
witch, supernatural, magic, high school, curses spells and rituals, witchcraft, bullying, black magic, goth, revenge, coming of age, supernatural ability ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, los angeles, seattle, san francisco
Similarity:
50%
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, atmospheric, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mad scientist, frankenstein's monster, storytelling, monster, fire, love, flashback, blind man, butterfly, captain, ship, north pole ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, victorian era, 1810s
Place:
edinburgh scotland, vienna, london
Similarity:
100%
32K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.
Style:
scary, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hacker, ghost, college, paranoia, supernatural horror, suicide, internet, apocalypse, afterlife, danger, college life, computers and web ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006
Place:
ohio
Similarity:
50%
Movie in collections
102K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind ...
Style:
scary, cult classic, creepy, suspense, classic horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
car, obsession, killer car, violence, classic car, vengeance, stephen king, objects come to life, evil spirit, macabre, murder, bullying ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1957, year 1978, 1950s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, southern california, detroit
Similarity:
22%
1.2M
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style:
psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
isolation, hotel, insanity, supernatural, psychopath, stephen king, ghost, snow, imaginary friend, danger, evil, haunting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
colorado, denver colorado, persia, usa, miami ...
Similarity:
22%
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:
suspense, suspenseful, creepy, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
monkey, revenge, murder, bare chested male, vengeance, macabre, dangerous animal, animal attack, possessiveness, nudity, experiment, rage ...
Time:
80s
Place:
pittsburgh
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Style:
medical horror, suspenseful, rough, gothic, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, experiment gone awry, danger, supernatural ability, government agency, body horror, secret past, monster, burned alive, conspiracy, exploitation, scientist ...
Time:
90s, 50s, 80s, 20th century, year 1955 ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, surprise ending, twist ending ...
Plot:
mental illness, tragedy, suicide, death, ghost, children, hallucination, stepmother, twists and turns, evil stepmother, guilt, haunted house ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, korea, asia, japan
Similarity:
21%
Movie in collections
371K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style:
twist ending, psychological, bad ending, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, twists and turns, survival horror, cosmic horror, chaos and mayhem, death ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, distant future, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid.
Style:
slasher, suspense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stephen king, ghost, supernatural, high school, monster, haunted by the past, murder, family in danger, childhood, investigation, youth, vengeance ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire ...
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, sexy, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, couple relations, supernatural horror, woman in danger, danger, haunted by the past, infidelity, supernatural, couples, adultery, psychology ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
vermont, persia, usa, boston
Similarity:
21%
123K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At ...
Style:
scary, tense, frightening, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, macabre, stephen king, indian burial ground, supernatural horror, grave robbing, killer child, cemetery, back from the dead, death, creepy child, ghost ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa, chicago, new england
Similarity:
50%
538K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
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, frightening, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
distant future, year 2003, near future, year 2000, year 2002 ...
Place:
london, england, bolivia, britain, europe ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing ...
Style:
scary, dark, spooky, demonic, satanic ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
demon, devil, supernatural, religion, courtroom, exorcism, supernatural horror, demonic possession, priest, courtroom drama, life & death, evil force ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
illinois, usa
Similarity:
21%
Related movie lists
