Movies like The Brain 1962

If you like "The Brain" you are looking for psychotronic, noir and medical horror movies about / with telepathy, monster, scientist, bomb, killer, businessman and experiment themes of Crime, Horror and Drama genre shot in UK or West Germany.
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The Brain (1962)
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The Brain (1962)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer
Style: psychotronic, noir, medical horror
Plot: telepathy, monster, scientist, bomb, killer, businessman, experiment, murder, priest, doctor, medical, brain, actor, murder mystery, newscaster, mortician, cure, airplane crash, air disaster, explosion, gun, tape recorder, shot to death, shot through a window, intercom ...

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Most similar movies to The Brain

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychotronic, suspenseful, scary and independent film films with plots about monster, scientist, murder, experiment, supernatural, doctor and mad scientist mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like The Brain: Frankenstein: The True Story (1973), Night of the Bloody Apes (1969), The Henderson Monster (1980), The Darker Side of Terror (1979), The Doctor and the Devils (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
Night of the Bloody Apes (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.
Style: psychotronic, terrifying, grindhouse, natural horror, cult classic ...
Plot: wrestling, rape, female wrestler, mad scientist, monkey, monster, exploitation, gorilla, heart transplant, hospital, creature feature, medical ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
The Henderson Monster (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discover a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the creation of new life.
Plot: mad scientist, new world, experiment, genetics, ethics, doctor, small town, ethical dilemma, research, scientist, college, monster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Darker Side of Terror (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a scientist at a research lab is passed over for a promotion, he creates a clone of himself to attempt to seduce the wife of the man who got the job.
Style: psychotronic, medical horror, spooky
Plot: clone, cybernetics, experiment, scientist, maniac, multiple murder, science, cat, woman strangled to death, attempted murder, bigotry, eye ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Grave robbers supply a doctor with bodies to test on.
Style: gothic, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, medical horror ...
Plot: murder, scientist, obsession, corpse, supernatural, investigation, criminal heroes, power relations, society, grave robbing, hospital, medical ...
Time: 19th century, year 1985, 1800s, 18th century, victorian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Cannibal in the Jungle (2015)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An American scientist who was convicted of killing and cannibalizing two colleagues in the jungles of Flores, Indonesia in 1977. Branded "The American Cannibal" by the press during his trial, Dr. Timothy Darrow defended himself by ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, enigmatic, suspense
Plot: cannibal, cannibalism, anthropology, scientist, anthropologist, convict, legends and myths, murder mystery, murder, murder investigation, evil being, creature ...
Time: year 1977, 2000s, 70s, year 2003
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This is the story of two apprentices who know more than their mentors. One is Kasper, who discovers the Hidan of Maukbeiangjow, to where six girls have been abducted. He is apprentice to Sam Trowel, whom Fred refers to as "private pig," an ...
Style: spoof, psychotronic, independent film, mystic, bizarre
Plot: telepathy, ufo, zombie, alien, couples, suffocation, autumn, mansion, abduction, occult, apprentice, christianity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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 ⇓
64%
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Rejuvenator (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A rich actress who has gotten too old for leading roles employs a scientist who is working on a formula for eternal youth. The formula involves withdrawing certain fluids from the human brain. She takes the serum, but its unforeseen side effects ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: body horror, creature feature, monster, mutation, fountain of youth, experiment, scientist, rejuvenation, drug, transformation, actress, gore
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: US Navy battles monsters unearthed from the frozen arctic.
Style: retro, suspense, natural horror, psychotronic, independent film ...
Plot: monster, creature feature, u.s. navy, man eating plant, giant monster, creature, sea, winter, scientist, tropical island, navy, airplane crash ...
Time: year 1966
Place: antarctica
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64%
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Dark Sun (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
Style: psychotronic, modern day adaptation
Plot: female terrorist, science, shooting, terrorism, terrorist, science gone wrong, scientific discovery, scientist, explosive, gunshot
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: frankenstein, rape, monster, supernatural, mad doctor, frankenstein's monster, macabre, living dead, sexual abuse, wedding, sex crime, european ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Spider in the Attic (2021)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A deadly nest of spiders lurk in the attic - And the nest is about to be awoken by a news reporter and her colleagues
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating
Plot: giant spider, monster, alien life-form, scientist, experiment, reporter, female reporter, evil, beast, attic, spider, creature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, stylized, light, serious ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: monster, mad scientist, frankenstein, hunchback, frankenstein's monster, friendship, experiment gone awry, scientist, experiment, obsession, escapades, steampunk ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, future, 21st century
Place: scotland, england, scotland yard, usa, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Fly II (1989)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
Style: scary, cult classic, splatter, bloody, psychedelic ...
Plot: monster, gory, mad scientist, body horror, creature feature, voyeur, cocoon, mutation, insect, creature, transformation, laboratory ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A doctor (Bernie Casey) in a Watts clinic takes his own medicine and becomes a monstrous white killer of hookers.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, black cinema
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, jekyll and hyde, black, monster, martial arts, mental disorder, american horror, macabre, hooker, evil doctor, rage ...
Time: year 1976
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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 ⇓
52%
Planets Around Us (1962)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An alien race sends cyborgs--made to look like the son of a famous scientist, whom they killed when he landed on their planet--to Earth to help pave the way for an invasion.
Style: mysterious, psychotronic
Plot: alien, monster, space opera, ufo, cyborgs, alien invasion, son, airplane crash, humanoid robot, spacecraft, hypnosis, alien robot ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)
Genre: Horror, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and ...
Style: action thriller, neo noir, poliziottesco, psychotronic, eurospy
Plot: invisible man, invisibility, mad doctor, secret agent, disfigurement, fbi agent, police inspector, investigation, impostor, secret formula, stage play, villain ...
Time: 60s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Cyst (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: In the 1960s, a nurse's last day on her job is ruined when a doctor inadvertently creates a cyst monster that terrorizes the office.
Style: suspenseful, unusual plot structure, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: creature, monster, body horror, doctor, xmas, man versus machine, fear, good versus evil, violence, supernatural ability, artificial intelligence, scientist ...
Time: year 1960, 60s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
49%
The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot: skeleton, monster, creature, mad scientist, reincarnation, murder, laboratory, corpse, scientist, 666, insane asylum, body horror ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 19th century, 1800s
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
49%
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Creature of Destruction (1968)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A resort hypnotist and his assistant predict murders, which she then commits as a fanged monster.
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: monster, dinosaur, octopus, reincarnation, murder, creature, hypnotist, beach, hypnosis, aquatic humanoid, animal horror
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
In the Devil's Garden (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a reporter from one of the local papers, and against the ...
Style: slasher, detective, noir, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: rape, murder, woods, serial killer, folk horror, voyeur, murder mystery, rapist, hospital, police, girls' school, rape victim ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Green Slime (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense, cult horror, medical horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space, alien invasion, alien, space opera, giant monster, monster, kaiju, ufo, exploitation, spacesuit, creature, sexy girls ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Brain (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he's not making his audience think any more independently - with the help of an alien organism he calls The ...
Style: christmas horror, scary, independent film, cult horror, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: creature, hallucination, alien, high school, monster, eaten alive, body horror, christmas, decapitation, car crash, chainsaw, murder ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is ...
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal ...
Plot: mad scientist, mad doctor, laboratory, monster, zombie, experiment, macabre, surgery, danger, experiment gone awry, woman in danger, vengeance ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Projected Man (1966)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps.
Style: cult classic, psychotronic
Plot: teleportation, blackmail, laboratory, mutant, female nudity, bare breasts, female scientist, disfigurement, sabotage, electrocution, experiment, mouse ...
Time: year 1966
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
What Waits in the Red (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The Derelicts, The Physiologist and The Salesman. All are trapped; prisoners of circumstance. The Bell. A gateway to another place; the chance to escape. But at what cost? Each must give something in return, and risk coming face to face with What ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, twisted
Plot: bonnie and clyde, faust, thrill ride, supernatural power, murder, homelessness, supernatural, control
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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