Movies like Videodrome

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Videodrome (1983)
 7.2
 102K
Videodrome (1983)
Genre: 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, psychedelic, disturbing, psychological, cerebral, dark, mindfuck, cyber, art house, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, body horror, hallucination, surrealism, television, mind control, virtual reality, insanity, suicide, brainwashing, dystopia, mind game, bdsm, manipulation, paranoia, conspiracy, assassination, satire, violent, investigation, sex, perversion, masochism, brain tumor, trippy ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, toronto ontario canada, usa, malaysia, canada, brazil
Keyword: reboot, avant-garde, disgust, video, challenge, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychedelic, surreal, disturbing and suspense films with plots about surrealism, murder, trippy, blood, macabre, nightmare and gore mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Videodrome: Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989), The Brood (1979), The Fly (1986), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, ...
Style: psychedelic, psychotronic, surreal, experimental, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, very little dialogue, metamorphosis, sex, hit and run, businessman, mutilation, apocalypse, transformation, distopia ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 34K
The Brood (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Style: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher, creepy ...
Plot: body horror, killer child, murder, creepy child, transformation, supernatural, child abuse, psychiatrist, mental illness, strangulation, monster, surrealism ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 200K
The Fly (1986)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: experiment, mad scientist, body horror, transformation, science, mutation, mutant, gory, teleportation, creature, laboratory, scientist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
Style: surreal, psychological, lovecraft, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: insanity, investigation, hallucination, paranoia, gory, supernatural, small town, mind game, mental illness, writers, fear, monster ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, distant future
Place: new england, new hampshire, england, europe, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
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, psychological, stylized, suspense, futuristic ...
Plot: mad scientist, exploitation, captivity, behavior control, trippy, power relations, confined, hospital, human experiment, maniac, cosmic horror, telepathy ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, year 1966, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 136K
Antichrist (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, depression, cruelty, violence, fear, controversy, woods, masturbation, real sex, witchcraft, nudity, surrealism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 644K
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style: psychological, surreal, twist ending, non-linear, atmospheric ...
Plot: time travel, insanity, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, virus, time loop, post apocalypse, paranoia, psychology, end of the world, twists and turns, epidemic ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, distant future ...
Place: philadelphia, maryland, baltimore, usa, pennsylvania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 45K
Possessor (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A thriller about an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to enable its operatives to inhabit other people's bodies, ultimately driving them to carry out assassinations for high-paying clients.
Style: tech noir, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, slasher ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body horror, sociopath, murder, brutality, corporation, hallucination, mind control, virtual reality, sadism, technology, assassination attempt, suicide by cop ...
Time: 2020s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.8
 107K
eXistenZ (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Style: surreal, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Plot: virtual reality, cyberpunk, alternate reality, twists and turns, cyberspace, dystopia, distopia, escape from reality, dystopian future, conspiracy, video game, parallel world ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1999, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.3
 157K
Under the Skin (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style: surreal, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, dark ...
Audience: adult
Plot: alien, femme fatale, extraterrestrial, human prey, nudity, disguise, female nudity, desire, nightclub, seduction, deformity, male nudity ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 42K
Possession (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, surrealism, insanity, occult, hysteria, supernatural, monster, body horror, serial killer, existentialism, possession, cosmic horror ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany, west berlin west germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 152K
Lost Highway (1997)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Style: surreal, neo noir, mind bending, atmospheric, confusing ...
Plot: insanity, surrealism, murder, doppelganger, parallel universe, transformation, graphic violence, hallucination, dream, time loop, erotica, art ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997, near future
Place: los angeles, persia, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 38K
Altered States (1980)
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, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: surrealism, science, drug, experiment gone awry, obsession, hallucination, transformation, isolation, trippy, university, body horror, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s
Place: harvard university, san francisco, california, new york, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.7
 61K
Scanners (1981)
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, intense, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: body horror, scientist, psychic power, investigation, exploitation, violence, telekinesis, human experiment, murder, mind reading, supernatural ability, misfit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.3
 126K
Eraserhead (1977)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Style: surreal, avant garde, art house, psychological, experimental ...
Plot: surrealism, nightmare, insanity, existentialism, baby, psychology, art, dream, psychosis, eccentricity, factory, electricity ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.2
 144K
They Live (1988)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No ...
Style: exciting, allegory, political, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: conspiracy, alien, alien invasion, distopia, dystopia, mind control, ufo, anti conformity, invasion, evil alien, monster, uncover truth ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style: surreal, psychological, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, investigation, incest, surrealism, murder, small town life, small town, mental illness, double life, rape, supernatural, violence ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place: washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 845K
Donnie Darko (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, independent film ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, time travel, psychology, imaginary friend, insanity, schizophrenia, parallel universe, surrealism, suburbs, time loop, social misfits, youth ...
Time: year 2001, 80s, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place: virginia, america, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Martyrs (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style: disturbing, bloody, scary, brutal, splatter ...
Plot: torture, child abuse, violence, gory, kidnapping, brutality, revenge, afterlife, torment, fear, torture chamber, home invasion ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 2000s, year 1971, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 103K
The Neon Demon (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Belgium, Denmark, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Style: art house, neo noir, psychological, disturbing, dark ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: fashion, teenage girl, cannibalism, obsession, model, murder, lesbian, beauty, jealousy, 16 year old, surrealism, rape ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 56K
Naked Lunch (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, neo noir, philosophical ...
Plot: hallucination, surrealism, drug addiction, paranoia, addiction, exterminator, insect, homosexuality, beat generation, giant insect, cockroach, secret agent ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, 50s ...
Place: north africa, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel ...
Style: mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, neo noir, atmospheric ...
Plot: virtual reality, alternate reality, cyberpunk, time travel, cyberspace, computer system, parallel universe, twists and turns, artificial intelligence, parallel world, consciousness, imaginary ...
Time: future, 90s, 1930s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 23K
Santa Sangre (1989)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, dark, psychedelic, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, psychology, clown, extreme, art, magic realism, schizophrenia, macabre, funeral ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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One Point O (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the ...
Style: surreal, enigmatic, psychological, cerebral, confusing ...
Plot: cyberpunk, paranoia, mind control, computer, technology, distopia, existentialism, hacking, neighbor, investigation, hacker, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
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, philosophical, suspense, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: time travel, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, memory loss, twists and turns, alternate reality, psychology, time traveler, changing the past or future, mind control, destiny ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 13K
Brainscan (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the ...
Style: scary, disturbing, twist ending, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: virtual reality, murder, computer, macabre, video game, experiment gone awry, cyberpunk, mentor, transformation, technology gone awry, hypnosis, technophobia ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Friend of the World (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
Style: suspense, postmodern, independent film, black and white, dark comedy ...
Plot: body horror, military, absurdism, surrealism, parasite, post apocalypse, fight, murder, violence, filmmaker, zombie, survival horror ...
Time: 2020s, future, near future, 21st century
⇓ 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 ⇓
100%
 6.9
 13K
Gozu (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, enigmatic, dark comedy ...
Plot: yakuza, gangster, surrealism, obsession, murder, nightmare, extreme, hitman, mission of murder, mental illness, danger, lactation ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, psychology, surrealism, gang, dystopia, rape, violent, controversy, violence, psychopath, brutality, sociopath ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1971, year 1995, 70s ...
Place: britain, london, england, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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