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Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
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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. Barry Nyle. If she hopes to escape, she must journey through the darkest reaches of The Institute, but Nyle wonʼt easily part with his most gifted and dangerous creation.
Style:
surreal, psychological, psychedelic, atmospheric, stylized, futuristic, art house, mind bending, experimental, dark ...
Plot:
suspense, mad scientist, exploitation, captivity, behavior control, confined, power relations, hospital, human experiment, telepathy, distopia, trippy, existentialism, macabre, nightmare, post apocalypse, psychology, mental disorder, hypnosis, goth, parallel universe, cult, entity, body horror, space ...
Time:
80s, year 1966, 20th century, 60s, year 1983, 1960s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, weird, atmospheric and scary films with plots about blood, suspense, violence, brutality, surrealism, murder and macabre mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Beyond the Black Rainbow: Videodrome (1983), The Cell (2000), Scanners (1981), The Void (2016), Gothika (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, disturbing, psychological, psychedelic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hallucination, cyberpunk, insanity, television, paranoia, body horror, mind control, surrealism, satire, suicide, cult, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
canada, pittsburgh, toronto ontario canada, usa, malaysia ...
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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:
psychological, surreal, psychedelic, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
serial killer, surrealism, race against time, coma, psychiatrist, virtual reality, psychopath, macabre, mind game, fbi, suspense, investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
california
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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 ...
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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
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and ...
Style:
dark, stylized, surreal, scary, splatter ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
body horror, monster, hospital, insanity, another dimension, human experiment, cosmic horror, murder, mutation, macabre, cult, small town ...
Time:
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Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mental institution, mind game, hospital, crazy, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.
Style:
psychological, serious, bleak, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
mind control, supernatural, mental illness, mental institution, hospital, psychic, mind game, suicide attempt, doctors and patients, psychopath, misfit, supernatural ability ...
Time:
80s, year 1965
Place:
los angeles
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100%
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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:
atmospheric, slasher, dark, scary, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
body horror, suspense, sociopath, murder, assassination attempt, injection, mind control, brutality, corporation, loss of girlfriend, graphic violence, sadism ...
Time:
near future
Place:
canada
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, scary, sexy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, ship, psychopath, isolation, ocean, woman in danger, maniac, obsession, yacht, suspense, survival, female nudity ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, california, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Pacific Northwest. 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey ...
Style:
suspenseful, surreal, satanic, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
revenge, lumberjack, cult leader, surrealism, chainsaw, cult, kidnapping, vengeance, mysticism, rage, brutality, nightmare ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, twist ending ...
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, suicide, medical student, near death experience, experiment gone awry, obsession, medical experiment, memory, manipulation, hallucination, nightmare ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago illinois
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style:
psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, isolation, trapped, psychology, trap, mathematics, escape, maze, claustrophobia, group of strangers, survival horror, death ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
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24%
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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, psychological, mind bending, atmospheric, cerebral ...
Plot:
mathematics, insanity, conspiracy, paranoia, obsession, computer, surrealism, cyberpunk, rabbi, torah, psychology, mental illness ...
Time:
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Place:
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23%
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:
surreal, disturbing, psychotronic, experimental, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, body horror, surrealism, transformation, very little dialogue, distopia, metamorphosis, sex, hit and run, businessman, apocalypse, macabre ...
Time:
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Place:
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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, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
body horror, transformation, supernatural, monster, surrealism, murder, macabre, suspense, experiment gone awry, mental illness, killer child, cult ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, France
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, mind bending, psychological, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, alternate reality, twists and turns, distopia, plot twist, technology, video game, genetics, chase, escape from reality, cyberspace ...
Time:
future, near future
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The sequel to the low budget first film ‘Cube.’ This time the prisoners find them selves in a more advanced cube environment that they must escape from before they are killed. A science fiction film where space and time have more than one path.
Style:
psychological, scary, surprise ending, futuristic, clever ...
Plot:
maze, claustrophobia, group of strangers, confined, survival, locked in a room, suspense, trapped, mathematics, parallel universe, time travel, survival horror ...
Time:
21st century
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canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
monster, alien, survival, isolation, fear, paranoia, creature, supernatural, snow, suspense, scientist, death ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
antarctica, south pole
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21%
Movie in collections
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
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scary, sexy, disturbing, sexual, rough ...
Plot:
parasite, body horror, zombie, sex maniac, exploitation, mad scientist, infected, sexuality, rape, violence, insanity, sexually transmitted disease ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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.
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surreal, art house, experimental, psychological, avant garde ...
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Time:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: Sister, Brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed ...
Style:
mind bending, surreal, atmospheric, experimental, psychological ...
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
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scary, suspenseful, sexy, surreal, intense ...
Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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surreal, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, hallucination, nightmare, paranoia, experiment, insanity, experiment gone awry, delusion, psychiatrist, surrealism, corporation, obsession ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Movie in collections
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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, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
suspense, experiment, scientist, mad scientist, body horror, science, mutant, transformation, macabre, mutation, teleportation, genetics ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric ...
Style:
scary, dark, surreal, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
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Plot:
supernatural, monster, demon, survival, insanity, macabre, torture, mysterious place, supernatural horror, ghost, evil, ghost town ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, usa, west virginia
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19%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style:
surreal, scary, bleak, twist ending, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After becoming infected with the virus that killed superstar Hannah Geist, Syd March must unravel the mystery surrounding her death to save his own life .
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, surreal, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
obsession, infection, celebrity, distopia, uncover truth, social decay, society, celebrity culture, body horror, infected, hidden truth, existentialism ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada, california
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A woman vanishes. Her husband inquires into the strange circumstances of her disappearance. Did she leave him? Is she dead? As he goes along searching, he plunges into a world of nightmare and violence...
Style:
surreal, mind bending, stylized, experimental, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
belgium, brussels
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19%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Style:
suspenseful, thought provoking, tricky, enigmatic, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
time travel, time loop, suspense, plot twist, time machine, mysterious character, twists and turns, threat, time, surrealism, disorder, distopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
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