Movies like The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
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The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)
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Original name: Die unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse
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 an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
secret agents, secret agent, mental institution, scientist, investigation, hotel, obsession, kidnapping, neo noir, impersonation, theater, laboratory, dancer, fbi agent, invisible man, fire, self sacrifice, murder, impostor, car accident, disfigurement, police inspector, secret formula, stage play
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychotronic, suspenseful, serious and scary films with plots about murder, danger, investigation, deadly, crimes, mystery and serial killer mostly in Mystery, Crime and Horror genres. Some movies like The Invisible Dr. Mabuse: The Terror of Doctor Mabuse (1962), The Sinister Monk (1965), Curse of the Fly (1965), The Brain (1962), Target for Killing (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor ...
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
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Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur.
Style:
cult film, psychotronic
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Remember that scientist that was trying to perfect a matter transportation machine but got fused with a fly when one of the little critters got into the transporter with him? Well, this story is about three of his descendents (a son, Henri Delambre, ...
Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 98 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:
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps.
Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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