Movies like Doctor Franken

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Doctor Franken (1980)
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Doctor Franken (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Manhattan surgeon Franken rebuilds the broken body of a John Doe patient with spare parts.
Plot: murder, frankenstein, hospital, surgery, heart transplant, corpse, transplant, frankenstein's monster, medical research, heart surgery, failed pilot

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, psychotronic, scary and suspenseful films with plots about frankenstein, frankenstein's monster, monster, murder, mad scientist, experiment gone awry and disorder mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like Doctor Franken: Frankenstein (1984), Terror of Frankenstein (1977), The Prometheus Project (2010), Frankenstein '80 (1972), Frankenstein (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Frankenstein (1984)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
Style: gothic horror
Plot: frankenstein, mad doctor, monster, voice over narration, superpower, playing god, boy, revenge, corpse, father, fire, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Terror of Frankenstein (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: serious, gothic, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: frankenstein, frankenstein's monster, scientist, paranormal, mad doctor, obsession, mad scientist, literary, mutant, disorder, supernatural, vengeance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Prometheus Project (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Young Scientists Elizabeth Burns explores the impact on the human body stem cells. A specific feature of these cells to interact with dead flesh has been subjected to blackmail heroine is forced to continue chilling experiments. Once she recovers ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, independent film ...
Plot: zombie, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, danger, mad scientist, laboratory, supernatural, gory, captivity, frankenstein's monster, hospital, frankenstein ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Frankenstein '80 (1972)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A mad scientist creates a monster called "Mosaico," who breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women.
Style: suspense, fairy tale, psychotronic
Plot: frankenstein, mad doctor, frankenstein's monster, murder, hospital, laboratory, prostitute, organ transplant, surgery, stripper, mad scientist, female nudity ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Frankenstein (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Frankenstein is a 2007 British television film produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. It was written and directed by Jed Mercurio, adapted from Mary Shelley's original novel to a present-day setting. Dr. Victoria Frankenstein, a female ...
Style: suspense
Plot: frankenstein, science runs amok, frankenstein's monster, ex husband ex wife relationship, death of son, monster
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Frankenstein Theory (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: From the makers of The Last Exorcism comes a boldly original vision of horror. What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based on a true account of a horrific experiment gone awry? When he is suspended from his university job for his ...
Style: scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, mockumentary ...
Plot: found footage, wilderness, frankenstein, snow, obsessive quest, deadly creature, danger, escapades, supernatural, mutant, experiment gone awry, frankenstein's monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Frankenstein Reborn (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The latest psychiatrist assigned to assess whether inmate Victor Frank is mentally fit to stand trial for murder gives up in frustration and so the asylum head Dr Robert Walton steps in to do the job. Frank tells Walton his story. He was a scientist ...
Style: suspense, modern day adaptation
Plot: frankenstein, blood, love, female nudity, sex, lesbianism, monster, madness, frankenstein's monster, sex scene, insanity, lesbian sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Victor Frankenstein, descendant of the infamous scientist, Baron Von Frankenstein, follows in his experimental footsteps. Initially his success involves the resuscitation of a tortoise and progressing onto more ambitious projects, including creating ...
Style: gothic horror, suspenseful, gothic, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: frankenstein, mad scientist, frankenstein's monster, laboratory, supernatural, monster, castle, doctor frankenstein, grave robbing, experiment gone awry, gory, escapades ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Frankenstein General Hospital (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mad doctor puts together a new body by using body parts he steals from a mortuary at the hospital where he works.
Style: independent film, spoof, slapstick, slapstick comedy, psychotronic ...
Plot: frankenstein, frankenstein's monster, fetish, organ theft, coworker relationship, female rapist, doctor frankenstein, sexy nurse, male rape victim, science project, blind character, humanoid robot ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's ...
Style: gothic, bleak, scary, suspenseful, gothic horror ...
Plot: frankenstein, mad scientist, supernatural, monster, mental institution, psychopath, experiment gone awry, danger, zombie, deadly creature, violence, murder ...
Time: 19th century, 1930s, 1800s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Frankenstein Island (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A hot air balloon crew and a dog find themselves on an island with scantily-clad part-alien women, zombies, and other monsters.
Style: slasher, funny, medical horror, independent film
Plot: zombie, frankenstein, monster, frankenstein's monster, exploitation, creature, lost soul, alien, invasion, desert island, jungle, dracula ...
Time: year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: frankenstein, mad scientist, monster, mad doctor, murder, supernatural, decapitation, guillotine, frankenstein's monster, occult, living dead, woman with a gun ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dr. Frankenstein is left for dead in the woods. His daughter, Dr. Vera Frankenstein, hunts for his attacker: Dr. Cagliostro, a mad scientist who’s created a race of human-animal hybrids.
Style: gothic horror, grindhouse, sexy, suspense, classic horror ...
Plot: frankenstein, frankenstein's monster, night, torture, kidnapping, female scientist, decapitation, human experiment, orgy, sex horror, nudity, sex scene ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Black Frankenstein (1973)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with Eddie's fiance) switches ...
Style: psychotronic, independent film, black cinema
Plot: blaxploitation, frankenstein, exploitation, black, african american, monster, experiment, vietnam veteran, laboratory, american horror, meme, vietnam war ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Last Man (2008)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on a novel by Mary Shelley
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure
Plot: post apocalypse, pandemic, epidemic, disease, virus, apocalypse, bio weapon, survival, cannibalism, isolation, plague, nuclear ...
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48%
Project: Metalbeast (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: With the medical breakthrough of a metal-based synthetic skin called "bio-ferron" the prospect for pioneering surgeries for burn victims and cancer patients seems set to occur but for the warped head scientist in charge...it's a ...
Style: captivating, exciting, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychotronic ...
Plot: werewolf, transformation, scientist, monster, medical research, trapped, murder, secret, cover up, experiment gone awry, beast, creature feature ...
Time: jurassic, year 1994, year 1974
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and ...
Style: gothic
Plot: frankenstein, live performance, monster as victim, monster, stage play, scientist, obsession, theater, adaptation, rape, sexual abuse, boy strangling ...
Time: 1810s
Place: geneva switzerland, swiss alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dr. Roger Girard is a rich scientist conducting experiments on head transplantation. His caretaker has a son, Danny, who, although fully grown, has the mind of child. One day an escaped psycho-killer invades Girard's home, killing Danny's ...
Style: scary, disturbing, tense, absurd, grindhouse ...
Plot: mutant, experiment gone awry, disorder, psychopath, misfit, danger, mentally challenged, mental illness, rivalry, countryside, murder, chase ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Cardiac Arrest (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a black market for human organs, while across town a ...
Style: slasher, detective, independent film
Plot: killer, hospital, murder, investigation, serial killer, surgery, heart, heart transplant, body part
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness dallies with the ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, sexy, scary, grindhouse ...
Plot: zombie, sex horror, frankenstein, male pubic hair, nudity, female pubic hair, public nudity, laboratory, male nudity, mad scientist, gay, gory ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 19th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Frankenstein (2015)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After he is artificially created, then left for dead by a husband-and-wife team of eccentric scientists, Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him. This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come ...
Style: bloody, medical horror, disturbing, suspense
Plot: frankenstein, scientist, reanimated corpse, laboratory, beast, medical, monster, wedding, father child relationship, hotel room, prostitute, security guard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 185 min.
Story: This much-requested, made-for-TV adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel stars Michael Sarrazin as the creature given life by Victor Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting), who witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his ...
Style: gothic horror, gothic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: frankenstein, mad doctor, blind man, monster, reanimation, scientist, doctor, murder, mad scientist, supernatural, deadly creature, danger ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Frankenstein's Bloody Nightmare (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Brilliant young Victor Karlstein finds himself lost in an abyss of personal turmoil and professional stress after the woman he most likely seemed to love dies while under the care of his own mysterious medical facility. Determined to keep her alive, ...
Style: suspense, art house, independent film, psychedelic, expressionism ...
Plot: insanity, mad scientist, nightmare, experiment, frankenstein, brain transplant, surrealism, blood, murder, frankenstein's monster, madness, body part
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
Style: serious, scary, grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, dracula, vampire, frankenstein, mad scientist, missing person, laboratory, frankenstein's monster, experiment gone awry, investigation, rivalry, hidden identity ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: california, las vegas, venice california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Man with Two Heads (1972)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Horror remake of "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde".
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Plot: decapitation, dismemberment, jekyll and hyde, blood, scientist, body mutilation, seductive behavior, lecturer, violence, visitor, scientific experiment, lecture ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tony Todd (Clive Barker's Candyman, Final Destination 2) is Dr. Henry Jekyll in this blood-drenched, modern adaptation of the macabre classic. Part crime thriller, part psychological horror, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde takes ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: split personality, mad scientist, transformation, mental illness, murder, violence spree, jekyll and hyde, paranoid schizophrenia, mad doctor, mythical creature, macabre, mutant ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space ...
Style: grindhouse, retro, freeze frame, fast, scary ...
Plot: monster, martian, frankenstein, nasa, brain damage, alien monster, alien, alien invasion, mars, space monster, frankenstein's monster, spacesuit ...
Place: puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Sawbones (1995)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An edgy, terrifying tale about an intern who failed medical school... but never gave up surgery.
Style: independent film, slasher
Plot: serial killer, medical, mad doctor, surgeon, blood, psychopath, hospital, murder, police, investigation, surgery, latex gloves ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Frankenstein (1992)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein (Patrick Bergin, Sleeping with the Enemy) discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect man – powerful, intelligent and immune to disease. But something goes wrong in the laboratory and the ...
Style: fairy tale, scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: frankenstein, monster, mad doctor, experiment, mutant, disorder, technology gone awry, physical appearance, countryside, cloning, experiment gone awry, reincarnation ...
Time: 90s, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Army of Frankensteins (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young man travels back in time, finding himself entrenched in the Civil War with an army of Frankensteins.
Style: mockbuster
Plot: civil war, frankenstein, american civil war, monster, mutant, nazi zombie, time travel, abraham lincoln, frankenstein's monster, union soldier, time portal, army ...
Place: virginia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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