Scientist movies and TV shows – page 3

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 7.9
 3K
ReGenesis (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC, a fictional organization with a lab ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: epidemic, scientist, infection, disease, investigation, virus, save the world, inventions and discoveries, heroes, global effort, plague, genetic engineering ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, usa, latin america, mexico
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 6.6
 251K
Life (2017)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style: suspense, scary, apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: space travel, space, mars, outer space, monster, alien, space station, astronaut, survival horror, alien life-form, extraterrestrial life, first contact ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, near future
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Frankenstein vs. The Mummy (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The mummy of a cursed pharaoh and a reanimated corpse terrorize a medical university. Only an Egyptologist and a college professor, the deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may be able to stop the creatures before it's too late.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, bleak, gothic ...
Plot: mummy, frankenstein, creature feature, brain, scientist, monster, violence, revenge, immortality, murder, supernatural, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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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 ...
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 7.7
 582K
Ex Machina (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds ...
Style: psychological, futuristic, philosophical, twist ending, mind bending ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, existentialism, technology, cyberpunk, isolation, cyborgs, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, psychology ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014, year 2016 ...
Place: england
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 5.2
 13K
The Thaw (2009)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: parasite, quarantine, plague, expedition, infected, deadly creature, scientist, beast, disaster, danger, epidemic, infection ...
Time: prehistory, 21st century
Place: canada
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The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Style: suspense, lovecraft, apocalyptic, space horror, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: trapped in space, space station, alternate dimension, alien, space, alternate reality, scientist, parallel universe, giant monster, monster, multiverse, alternate world ...
Time: 2010s, future, 2000s, near future, 2020s
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Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Predominantly set during World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, ...
Style: exciting, heroic, psychotronic, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, boys' night, chick flick, teens ...
Plot: superhero, heroism, heroes, mad scientist, world war two, soldier, superhuman powers, heroic mission, courage, nazi, danger, bravery ...
Time: year 2011, future, year 1942, 20th century, 2010s ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new jersey, europe ...
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Young Frankenstein (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, black and white, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: castle, monster, mad scientist, frankenstein, experiment, supernatural, satire, frankenstein's monster, scientist, laboratory, hunchback, electricity ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 1974, 20th century, near future ...
Place: arizona, transylvania, europe, usa
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 7.3
 23K
Sanctuary (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population called Abnormals - a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans. ...
Style: atmospheric, exciting, stylized, thrilling, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, secret organization, werewolf, vampire, experiment, female scientist, research, magic, scientist, mutant, transformation, fate of humanity ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Super-Hero partners Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne, along with with Hope's parents Janet van Dyne and Hank Pym, and Scott's daughter Cassie Lang, find themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and ...
Style: psychotronic, entertaining, humorous, captivating, tense ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: superhero, female warrior, scientist, villain, superhero team, multiverse, husband wife relationship, pizza, empire, bartender, rescue, old friend ...
Time: 2020s, 19th century, 21st century
Place: san francisco
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 6.9
 382
Professor T. (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
TV show
Story: Jasper Teerlinck, an eccentric professor, is an adviser to the police.
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful
Plot: prodigy, mastermind, scientist, eccentricity, investigation, mind game, riddles and clues, murder mystery, forensics, murder, heroes, evidence ...
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 6.5
 23K
Ammonite (2020)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 1840s England, an infamous fossil hunter and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Style: psychological, intellectual, realistic, contemplative, disturbing ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lesbian love, lesbian sex, lesbianism, lesbian couple, female scientist, older woman younger woman sex, female protagonist, scientist ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era, 2020s, ancient times ...
Place: london
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Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Canada, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens, she has no memory of who she is, nor does ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspense, enigmatic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, female protagonist, cyborgs, distopia, strong female lead, post apocalypse, female warrior, danger, tough girl, woman fights a man, martial arts, adaptation ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2019
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 5.5
 41K
Whiteout (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is ...
Style: suspense, serious, scenic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: investigation, isolation, murder, winter, twists and turns, doctor, snow, scientist, uncover truth, serial killer, plane crash, snowstorm ...
Time: year 2009, year 1957, 1950s, 21st century
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
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Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Style: factual, suspense, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, nuclear bomb, atomic bomb, scientist, military, biopic, idealism, politics, scientific research, nuclear, ego clash, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place: usa, new mexico, bay area
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 6.7
 86K
Terra Nova (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: time travel, dinosaur, post apocalypse, survival, human existence, extinction, danger, changing the past or future, experiment, dangerous animal, imaginary, research ...
Time: prehistoric times, jurassic, near future, prehistory, 22nd century
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 7.3
 11K
Better Than Us (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Moscow in a not so distant future where human beings share their daily lives with robots. Georgy, a forensic who has a robot assistant, suddenly finds himself caught up in the first murder committed by a new kind of experimental humanoid.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, apocalyptic, sweet ...
Plot: female robot, human android relationship, humanoid robot, sentient robot, danger, society, scientist, robot human relationship, artificial intelligence, robot, family relations, life ...
Time: near future
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The Venture Bros. (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Hank and Dean Venture, with their father Doctor Venture and faithful bodyguard Brock Samson, go on wild adventures facing megalomaniacs, zombies, and suspicious ninjas, all for the glory of adventure. Or something like that.
Style: adult animation, humorous, parody, adult cartoon, witty ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: superhero, scientist, henchman, brutality, heroes, twins, save the day, goofy hero, mission, sibling relationship, robot, secret agent ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s
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 7.2
 808K
I Am Legend (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville ...
Style: scary, intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, post apocalypse, virus, infected, isolation, supernatural, plague, end of the world, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 2007, near future, jurassic, distant future ...
Place: new york, america, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont ...
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 7.2
 71K
Re-Animator (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
Style: splatter, lovecraft, black comedy, scary, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, mad scientist, guts, hospital, gory, experiment, insanity, mad doctor, overdose, reanimated corpse, female nudity, laboratory ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: zurich switzerland, massachusetts, europe, austria
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April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon VI, where scientists vanish mysteriously, a girl, Avril, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Style: anime, exciting, intellectual, stylized, funny ...
Audience: kids
Plot: steampunk, alternate history, scientist, electricity, female protagonist, alternate reality, lizard, human animal relationship, cat, serum, inventions and discoveries, pursuit ...
Time: year 1941, 2010s, 1870s, year 2001, victorian era ...
Place: paris france, france
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 5.8
 138K
Hollow Man (2000)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Cocky researcher, Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible and he's so confident he's found the right formula that he tests it on himself and soon begins to vanish. The only problem is – no-one can ...
Style: scary, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: invisible man, invisibility, psychopath, experiment, monster, rape, mad scientist, scientist, stalker, voyeur, transformation, voyeurism ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 2000s, y2k, future ...
Place: washington d.c., pentagon
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 3.6
 2K
Behemoth (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Scientists discover a giant creature under the Earth that is wrapped around the entire planet. When the creature wakes all grumpy, it causes worldwide destruction.
Style: suspenseful, serious, mysterious, apocalyptic, mockbuster ...
Plot: giant monster, dangerous animal, creature, scientist, mountain, danger, escapades, monster, geologist, creature feature, ogre, giant creature ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, stylized, epic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: good versus evil, master villain, superhuman powers, save the day, hacker, heroes, superhero, secret government organization, s.h.i.e.l.d., scientist, teamwork, team ...
Time: future, 20th century, 2010s, 1930s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.2
 130K
Penny Dreadful (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, dark fantasy, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, witch, vampire, werewolf, deadly creature, psychotherapy, lycanthropy, fear, imaginary, supernatural ability, frankenstein's monster, black magic ...
Time: victorian era, 1890s, 19th century
Place: england, london
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 7.0
 147K
9 (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their ...
Style: adult animation, surreal, suspenseful, serious, futuristic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: steampunk, apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopia, survival, danger, technology gone awry, life is a bitch, vestiges of humanity, distopia, fate of humanity, robot ...
Time: future, 1940s, year 2009
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Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel ...
Style: touching, light, melancholic, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: female scientist, scientist, nobel prize, strong female character, science, european history, female protagonist, women, radioactivity, ambitious, empowerment, female empowerment ...
Time: 90s, edwardian era
Place: stockholm sweden, poland
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 6.7
 70K
Space Force (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: On June 18, 2018 the federal government announced the creation of a 6th major division of the United States Armed Forces. The Goal of the new branch is "to defend satellites from attack" and "perform other space-related tasks." ...
Style: funny, humorous, sitcom, satirical, light ...
Plot: scientist, military, space race, space, rocket launching, satire, father daughter relationship, space mission, warlord, space marine, humour, space station ...
Time: 2020s
Place: usa, america, colorado, china
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 6.4
 135K
Daybreakers (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save ...
Style: futuristic, scary, stylized, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, epidemic, vampirism, distopia, pandemic, apocalypse, dystopian future, cure, female vampire, virus, transformation ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, year 2019, 2010s ...
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