Movies like The Terminal Man
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The Terminal Man (1974)
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 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. The procedure is not entirely successful.
Style:
futuristic, depressing, scary, exciting, rough, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, experimental, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space and aliens, home invasion, serial killer, cyberpunk, human experiment, night, computer, mind control, evil computer, murder, experiment gone awry, medical, time travel, psychopath, life is a bitch, chaos, disorder, technophobia, technology gone awry, computers and web, robot, sniper, chess, police officer, police ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
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Most similar movies to The Terminal Man
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, cult film and scary films with plots about danger, murder, death, suspense, corpse, violence and fear mostly in Thriller, Horror and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Terminal Man: The Puppet Masters (1994), Spontaneous Combustion (1989), Looker (1981), Ghost in the Machine (1993), Futureworld (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Earth is invaded by alien parasites aka "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds. A trio of American government agents attempt to thwart this.
Style:
scary, futuristic, visually appealing, allegory, thought provoking ...
Plot:
alien, evil alien, alien contact, alien invasion, mind control, space and aliens, monster, deadly creature, suspense, brutality, justice, space ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iowa, usa, washington d.c.
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100%
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:
suspenseful, rough, gothic, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, experiment gone awry, supernatural ability, government agency, body horror, secret past, monster, murder, exploitation, scientist, conspiracy, burned alive ...
Time:
50s, 90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1955
Place:
california
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72%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and ...
Style:
suspenseful, sexy, futuristic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
murder, plastic surgeon, serial killer, suspense, obsession, murder mystery, model, greed, computer, technology gone awry, amateur detective, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
california, beverly hills, los angeles, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Karl, a technician in a computer shop, is also the "Address Book Killer," who obtains the names of his victims from stolen address books. Terry and her son Josh come into the store to price software, and a salesman uses Terry's ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, futuristic, sinister ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, computer, hospital, cyberpunk, virtual reality, murder, androids and robots, cybersecurity, hacker, internet, death, suspense ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
ohio, midwest, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, futuristic, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
androids and robots, conspiracy, robot, robot as menace, reporter, journalist, cloning, investigation, man versus machine, society, chaos, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Movies similar to Split
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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:
scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, supernatural, suspense, vengeance, government agency, chase, family relations, rescue, visceral, paranoia, parents and children, secret government organization ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1977, year 1978
Place:
middle east, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
scientist, telekinesis, suspense, violence, exploitation, cult, murder, body horror, mind reading, supernatural ability, investigation, misfit ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.
Style:
slasher, bloody, suspenseful, visually appealing, buddy movie ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, murder, monster, chase, mad scientist, serial killer, survival, hospital, small town, fight, home invasion, suspense ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unknow to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
creature feature, suspense, monster, dog, laboratory, genetic mutation, creature, experiment gone awry, survival, genetic engineering, mad scientist, on the run ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, chase, car chase, fbi, buddy cop, suspense, twists and turns, mind control, violence, revenge, monster, space and aliens ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Event Horizon related movies
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After being driven to extinction, great bloodthirsty dinosaurs come back to life with the assistance of a demented genetic scientist. She plans to replace the human race with a super-race of dinosaurs who will not pollute the planet.
Style:
scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, dinosaur, mad scientist, mutant, virus, genetics, chaos, deadly creature, disorder, dangerous animal, extinction, kaiju ...
Time:
90s, prehistory, prehistoric times, jurassic
Place:
washington d.c., nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, alien, suspense, evil alien, survival, small town, space and aliens, quarantine, body horror, cheerleading, cheerleader, teenager ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, murder, body horror, vengeance, criminal psychologist, mind game, surgery, supernatural, death row, amputation, medical ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After losing his brother in combat, Jacob Singer returns home from Afghanistan -- only to be pulled into a mind-twisting state of paranoia. Singer soon realizes that his sibling is alive but life is not what it seems.
Style:
psychological, dark, sexual, psychotronic, gothic ...
Plot:
african american, suspense, getting home, death, brother, life & death, war, macabre, twists and turns, home invasion, violence, city ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, atlanta georgia, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research ...
Style:
slasher, scary, sexy, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
space, serial killer, suspense, murder, monster, masked killer, psychopath, survival, space travel, violent, scientist, good versus evil ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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:
psychedelic, atmospheric, psychological, scary, surreal ...
Plot:
drugs, science, hallucination, experiment gone awry, surrealism, obsession, suspense, transformation, isolation, macabre, university, psychology ...
Time:
20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
harvard university, new york, africa, california, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Logan Burnhardt is the ego-king of the airwaves, but his unflappable persona is put to the test when a terrorist bio-attack unleashes a plague of flesh-ripping maniacs on Los Angeles.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, scary
Plot:
zombie, terrorism, survival, home invasion, suspense, infection, virus, chaos, plague, isolation, confined, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
Style:
scary, tense, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
home invasion, survival, self defense, violence spree, family in danger, society, distopia, suspense, social decay, killing spree, security system, chaos ...
Time:
future, near future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, natural horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, military, natural disaster, race against time, panic, survival, small town, suspense, bee, monster, antidote, plague ...
Time:
70s
Place:
texas, houston texas, austin texas, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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, twist ending, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, supernatural, small town, military, apocalypse, suspense, hotel, survival, extinction, good versus evil, creature feature, disaster ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, surprise ending, thought provoking, futuristic ...
Plot:
dream, psychic, conspiracy, nightmare, lucid dream, assassin, nuclear holocaust, train, scientist, monster, surrealism, psychopath ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
washington d.c., illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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, campy, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, genetics, experiment, mutant, rebellion, chaos and mayhem, mutation, survival, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, stranded, monster ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, future, 21st century
Place:
indonesia, pacific ocean, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This high-tech, psychological thriller is set in the shadowy world of the Internet. Sondra Brummel is recovering from a skiing accident in her boyfriend's mansion, and accidently contacts a possible killer in an Internet chatroom. She and her ...
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, erotic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, amateur detective, woman in danger, rivalry, mind game, mentally unstable, confined, female protagonist, cyberpunk, internet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode continues in the next thrilling chapter of the Halloween series.
Style:
slasher, scary, atmospheric, intense, bloody ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, killing spree, masked killer, psycho, halloween, violence, evil, suspense, massacre, maniac, house fire ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, year 1978, 21st century
Place:
illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cocky researcher, Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible and he's so confident he's found the right formula that he tests it on himself and soon begins to vanish. The only problem is – no-one can ...
Style:
scary, sexy, suspenseful, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
invisible man, invisibility, experiment, psychopath, suspense, rape, scientist, mad scientist, monster, transformation, voyeurism, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, future, 90s, 2000s
Place:
washington d.c., usa, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Movies similar to Alien: Covenant
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Currently unknown.
Style:
scary, surprise ending, disturbing, slasher, gothic ...
Plot:
twists and turns, domestic violence, stalker, invisibility, stalking, abusive boyfriend, suspense, homicidal maniac, home invasion, murder, sadist, suicide ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, space and aliens, pregnancy, small town, alien life-form, genetics, husband wife relationship, suspense, mind game, supernatural ability, babies and infants, small town life ...
Time:
90s, 60s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both ...
Style:
gloomy, suspenseful, psychotronic, affectionate, allegory ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
computer, artificial intelligence, cold war, scientist, evil computer, cyberpunk, disaster, distopia, human versus computer, science runs amok, talking computer, cyborgs ...
Time:
future, 70s, 20th century
Place:
canada, washington d.c., moscow russia, rome italy, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Fifteen years ago, a group of men's lives were forever changed by a strange occurrence. Now, the same group of men will spend a night together ... in terror.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien, abduction, alien abduction, revenge, mind control, creature, hysteria, supernatural, haunted by the past, friendship, race against time, infection ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A slasher finds the hospital where a TV newswoman is recovering from his attack.
Style:
slasher, serious, disturbing, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, stalking, psychopath, murder, woman in danger, journalism, investigation, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, violence, cruelty, suspense ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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