Movies like Brain Dead
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Brain Dead (1990)
6K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation!
Style:
surreal, medical horror, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, black comedy, psychological thriller, clever ...
Plot:
nightmare, hallucination, mental illness, psychiatrist, surrealism, experiment, insanity, body horror, experiment gone awry, delusion, corporation, obsession, murder, doctors and patients, haunted by the past, twists and turns, paranoia, schizophrenia, businessman, sex scene, mental institution, mental patient, jealousy, dream, homeless man ...
Time:
80s, 90s, year 1989
Place:
indonesia
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Most similar movies to Brain Dead
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, suspenseful, suspense and serious films with plots about murder, deadly, danger, blood, mental illness, hospital and insanity mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Brain Dead: Flatliners (1990), The Jacket (2005), Altered States (1980), Gothika (2003), Possessor (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, disturbing, psychological, cult classic, medical horror ...
Plot:
afterlife, near death experience, supernatural, nightmare, hallucination, medical student, medical school, memory, suicide, paranoia, childhood memory, childhood trauma ...
Time:
80s, 90s, distant future, 20th century, 70s ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
100%
124K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, enigmatic, tricky ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, psychology, mental institution, time loop, amnesia, supernatural, hallucination, destiny, memory loss, disorder, haunted by the past, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place:
vermont, iraq
Similarity:
100%
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:
atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, scary ...
Plot:
drug, science, surrealism, obsession, experiment gone awry, male nudity, hallucination, body horror, transformation, psychology, mad scientist, insanity ...
Time:
20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s ...
Place:
harvard university, bronx new york city, san francisco, california, boston ...
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50%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, murder, mental illness, mind game, supernatural, insanity, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural horror, rape, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
Similarity:
68%
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53K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, Australia
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:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, tech noir, psychological, creepy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
body horror, murder, brutality, mind control, transgression, assassin, assassination attempt, sociopath, serial killer, assassination, food, blood ...
Time:
near future, 2020s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, mind twisting ...
Plot:
nightmare, insomnia, police, professor, uncover truth, obsession, hallucination, sleeping, murder, haunted by the past, missing person, teacher ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
65%
23K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is ...
Style:
psychological horror, disturbing, detective, grindhouse, psychological ...
Plot:
private detective, twins, amateur detective, reporter, mental illness, bakery, twin sister, witness, neighbor, hallucination, murder mystery, freakshow ...
Time:
year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, canada, quebec, tokyo
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, suspenseful, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
mental institution, paranoia, losing-it hero, mental illness, mentally unstable, investigation, murder, hospital, stalking, uncover truth, obsession, mind game ...
Similarity:
65%
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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. ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, retro, suspense, futuristic ...
Plot:
exploitation, cosmic horror, escape, behavior control, trippy, mad scientist, captivity, power relations, confined, hospital, maniac, surrealism ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 1966, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
vancouver, seattle
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, demon, insanity, supernatural, twists and turns, mental disorder, obsession, paranoia, friendship, illness, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Similarity:
65%
39K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural horror, murder, psychiatrist, twists and turns, doctors and patients, split personality, voodoo, child in peril, witch doctor, demon, female psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 1910s, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young woman with a troubled past takes a job at recently closed down hospital. Working the night shift alone she begins to experience a series of unsettling events that lead her to believe that the hospital may be connected to a number of recent ...
Style:
scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, demonic ...
Plot:
hospital, murder, haunted by the past, terror, mentally unstable, danger, serial killer, psychiatric ward, perversion, haunted, haunted house, blood ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
memory loss, nightmare, time loop, paranoia, hospital, murder, uncover truth, mental disorder, dishonesty, puzzle, investigation, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, year 2002, year 2000
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, atmospheric, gothic, lovecraft ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, insanity, supernatural horror, book, paranoia, ghost town, investigation, hallucination, gory, novelist, writers, american horror ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, distant future
Place:
new england, new hampshire, manhattan new york city, england, europe ...
Similarity:
64%
47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Style:
scary, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
mental institution, psychiatric ward, supernatural, ghost, brutality, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, haunted, mental illness, doctors and patients, murder, hospital ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2010, 2010s, 60s, 80s ...
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Trevor Blackburn is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith, in a brutal ritual. He's sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Elk, who tortures Trevor ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, psychological, lovecraft, horror comedy ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, murder, dark humor, mental institution, surgery, psychopath, supernatural, mind game, mad scientist, danger, mentally unstable, supernatural ability ...
Similarity:
64%
112K
Genre: Drama, 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, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
Similarity:
64%
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, psychic power, hospital, suicide attempt, mind game, mental institution, psychopath, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, supernatural ability, misfit ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, year 1965
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist ...
Style:
bloody, slasher, suspense, cult horror, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psycho, murder, hotel, voyeur, characters murdered one by one, domineering mother, haunted house, old dark house, insanity, motel, nun ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
64%
115K
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:
surreal, psychological, scary, psychedelic, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, surrealism, psychopath, coma, mind game, investigation, race against time, sadomasochism, virtual reality, fbi, psychiatrist, traumatic childhood ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place:
california
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Style:
sexy, cult classic, suspenseful, scary, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
brutality, zombie, violent, chaos, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, survival, danger, murder, virus, epidemic, violence spree ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself ...
Style:
independent film, suspenseful, tense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
insanity, mental institution, psychiatrist, mental illness, macabre, murder, journalism, investigation, murder mystery, voice over narration, mental breakdown, racial slur ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place:
mount fuji, america, africa, japan, usa
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Dr. Daniel Challis and Ellie Grimbridge stumble onto a gruesome murder scheme when Ellie's novelty-salesman father, Harry, is killed while in possession of a strange mask made by the Silver Shamrock mask company. The company's owner, Conal ...
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, creepy, scary, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, curfew, stonehenge, factory, holiday horror, supernatural, robot, hospital, serial killer, female nudity, bad guys win, witch ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
northern california, california, los angeles, seattle, new york
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, twist ending, futuristic, non-linear ...
Plot:
time travel, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, insanity, virus, post apocalypse, time loop, paranoia, end of the world, psychology, mental institution, dystopia ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1990, year 1996, 90s ...
Place:
philadelphia, maryland, pennsylvania, california, baltimore ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Col. Vincent Kane is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle. Among Kane's many eccentric patients is Capt. Billy Cutshaw, a troubled astronaut in the midst of an existential crisis. ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, philosophical, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
astronaut, atheism, mental illness, insanity, therapy, psychotherapy, nervous breakdown, nightmare, psychiatric hospital, castle, religion, insane asylum ...
Time:
year 1980, year 2016, 80s
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man (Christopher Denham) must use his newfound intellect to stop a brutal series of murders.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, obsession, who done it, danger, supernatural, brother brother relationship, psychopath, woman in danger, gory, siblings relations, clergy ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is again released from the mental hospital he was placed in at the end of Psycho III after serving another few years and is apparently rehabiliated for the second time. Norman is now married to a young nurse named Connie and is ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, cult horror, suspense ...
Plot:
voyeur, split personality, childhood trauma, psycho killer, psychopath, double murder, poisoning, incestuous desire, schizophrenia, matricide, child abuse, oedipus complex ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 80s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, sexy, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
insanity, body horror, drug addiction, obsession, identical twins, losing-it hero, twins, mistaken identity, brother brother relationship, love triangle, addiction, schizophrenia ...
Time:
20th century, year 1954, 1950s, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
62%
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.
Style:
lovecraft, scary, sexy, demonic, homoerotic ...
Plot:
mad scientist, body horror, monster, transformation, alternate dimension, mutant, insanity, parallel world, decapitation, cthulhu, gory, cannibalism ...
Time:
year 2016, 80s
Similarity:
62%
35K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, suspense, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, insanity, psychopath, psychiatrist, murder, psycho killer, psycho, revenge, homicidal maniac, male victim, swamp, waitress ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
62%
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