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MK Ultra (2022)
9K
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set during the true and unconscionable Central Intelligence Agency MK ULTRA drug experimentations in the early 1960s. The journey of Ford Strauss, a brilliant psychiatrist, whose moral and scientific boundaries are pushed to the limit as he is recruited to run a subsect of the program in a rural Mississippi Mental Hospital.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, f word
Plot:
conspiracy, secret laboratory, psycho killer, mad doctor, experiment, mental institution, psychology, cia, doctor, scientific experiment, mental illness, research laboratory, evil doctor, drug, psycho, human experiment, psychiatrist, psychiatry, medical experiment, drugs, doctors
Time:
60s, 1960s
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Most similar movies to MK Ultra
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspenseful, tense and psychological films with plots about moral ambiguity, female protagonist, investigation, survival, threat, conspiracy and betrayal mostly in Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like MK Ultra: Fixation (2022), The Reading (2023), Night Sweats (2019), Grandma Dearest (2020), The Passage (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Dora, a young woman at the center of an unusual murder trial, is subjected to a psychiatric evaluation, and as the tests become more personal — and frightening — she begins to question the true motives of her doctor and is forced to live through ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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79%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After the death of his girlfriend Tracy, the American Luke travels to Morocco with his British friend Adam to spend vacation and recover his loss. While in Medina, Luke meets the gorgeous Moroccan nurse Zahra and he offers to walk her home. However, ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
couples, danger, tunnel, hotel, conspiracy, deception, cultural difference, tourist, love story, twists and turns, best friend, mountain ...
Time:
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Place:
morocco, north africa
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
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58%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, tense, psychological
Plot:
investigation, female protagonist, crime solving, murder, uncover truth, suspicion, murder investigation, murder suspect, crime investigation, murder mystery, suspicion of adultery, secret ...
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57%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An obsessive psychologist attempts to reprogramme her subconscious mind, but when her actions become increasingly uncharacteristic she fears her experiment is dangerously out of control.
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psychological thriller, disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
subconscious, psychologist, experiment, experiment gone awry, human experiment, psychological manipulation, medical experiment, paranoia, character study, moral ambiguity, manipulation, claustrophobia ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a young couple makes a surprise visit to Mom, they get an even bigger surprise themselves from an old family friend who plans to steal Mom’s valuable jewelry while she is out of town. But when the “easy peasy” robbery goes wrong, ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, suspense ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
52%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Years after the tragic death of his sister, Zach returns to his childhood home. There he finds an old toy phone he used to "talk" to his dead sister, setting off a series of terrifying events, making him question what, and who, is real.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, mystical ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
51%
661
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A teenage boy is gunned down outside a nightclub and a young girl dies in a hit and run in two seemingly unrelated deaths. Deeva Jani, returns home to clear her brother Vipon of the shooting and soon discovers a much deeper conspiracy.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, thrilling, multicultural
Plot:
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50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Russian researchers in the late 1940s keep five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental stimulant. Based on the popular internet horror story (Creepypasta) “The Russian Sleep Experiment”.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspense, psychological horror, dark ...
Plot:
scientific experiment, psychological torment, sleep deprivation, paranoia, insanity, isolation, experiment gone awry, threat, experiment, victim, ward, science runs amok ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
While investigating the disappearance of several high school girls, an undercover cop posing as a student finds herself fighting for her life.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
47%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Deep in the woods, a lost hiker stumbles upon the cabin of an erratic and reclusive old man. What starts off as cordial conversation soon turns dangerous as it becomes clear that one or both of them might be hiding a terrifying secret.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
47%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A rebellious teen becomes embroiled in a dark conspiracy that involves her late father, after everyone thinks she drowned while vacationing with her estranged stepmother on an island.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
46%
836
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A teenage girl's wilderness hike with friends spirals after they stumble upon a crashed drug plane, forcing her to outwit a ruthless gang and face an enemy far worse than drug smugglers.
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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The Yellow Wallpaper (Motion Picture) is an "Origins Myth"... rather than a direct adaptation of the famous Charlotte Perkins Gilman story. Drawing from the original short story and a number of Gilmans' other gothic works (The Giant ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, psychological thriller ...
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Country: Canada
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
For three US Border Patrol agents, the contents of one car reveal an insidious plot within their own ranks. The next 24 hours may cost them their lives.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
36%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A psychopath uses a family's high tech security system with a ticking time bomb to terrorize them for 90 minutes demanding an answer to his question; 'WHO AM I?'
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
terrorist, psycho killer, phone terror, bomb, security system, terrorizing, threatening telephone call, race against time, mentally unstable, terrorism, anonymous telephone call, psychopath ...
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Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Political thriller about an Iraq war veteran seeking the truth about his brother's death.
Style:
political thriller, psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Everyone's favorite doctor is back! Dr. Albert Beck seems to get what he wished for as the jury finds him not guilty for the kidnapping and attempted murder of a former patient , so he then lands a teaching job at a prestigious Arizona medical ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After getting hired to probe a suspicious death in the small town of Wander, a mentally unstable private investigator becomes convinced the case is linked to the same 'conspiracy cover up' that caused the death of his daughter.
Style:
suspense, intellectual, disturbing, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
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