Social experiment movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant social experiment movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, disturbing and philosophical films and TV shows about / with social experiment, survival, murder, society, brutality, experiment, storytelling, distopia, death and manipulation plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as social experiment: The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015), The Belko Experiment (2016), The Experiment (2001), The Wave (2008), Circle (2015), After the Dark (2013), The Box (2009), Experimenter (2015), Swap Meet at the Love Shack (1973), Await Further Instructions (2018).
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
psychology, prison, social experiment, human experiment, human nature, university, prison life, experiment, teachers and students, prison escape, character study, student ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 2010s
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a twisted social experiment, a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be ...
Style:
suspense, dark comedy, slasher, psychological thriller, bloody ...
Plot:
game of death, social experiment, killing spree, office, trapped in a building, last man standing, cruelty, human experiment, murder, mass murder, corporation, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence—a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, thought provoking, rough, tense ...
Plot:
prison, experiment, torture, abuse, social experiment, aggression, prison escape, disorder, degradation, warden, psychology, violence ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
germany, canada
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121K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily ...
Style:
philosophical, political, disturbing, suspense, educational ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
fascism, nazism, suicide, dictator, experiment, bullying, teacher, teachers and students, high school, fanaticism, dictatorship, against humanity ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 2011
Place:
germany, middle east, israel, europe, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.
Style:
psychological, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, morality, execution, life & death, prejudice, game of death, plot twist, stranger, death, sole survivor, struggle for survival, twists and turns ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Indonesia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.
Style:
psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, captivating, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, teacher, teachers and students, disorder, human nature, social experiment, experiment gone awry, survival, love and romance, danger, bunker, philosophy ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
indonesia, asia, tokyo
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98K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million ...
Style:
suspense, mind bending, enigmatic, suspenseful, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
moral dilemma, life & death, husband murders wife, experiment, psychology, supernatural, decision, research, mysterious character, gift, mind control, social experiment ...
Time:
70s, year 2009, 20th century
Place:
usa, langley virginia, richmond virginia, virginia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his ...
Style:
political, philosophical, cerebral, disturbing, factual ...
Plot:
psychology, science, biopic, social experiment, electric shock, scientist, insanity, experiment, manipulation, couple relations, workplace, inventions and discoveries ...
Time:
60s, year 1961, year 2015, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
usa, yale university, connecticut
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The film Liebesmarkt featuring a cute blonde Ingrid Steeger, not only became a cult actress stupidity of German youth who watched only American cinema. Ingrid was a true nudist and undressed in front of the camera without any pose. She wore a gold ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, slapstick comedy, slapstick
Plot:
female nudity, naturist, countryside, caught having sex, female voyeur, nude model, cousin cousin relationship, damsel in distress, masturbation, swinger couple, sex game, swinger party ...
Place:
central europe, munich germany, europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A dysfunctional family awake on Christmas morning to discover they’re sealed inside their house by a mysterious black substance. On television, a single line of text reads: “Stay Indoors and Await Further Instructions.”
Style:
christmas horror, scary, suspense, psychological horror, dark ...
Plot:
christmas, survival horror, darkness, paranoia, holiday horror, body horror, fight, social experiment, mental disorder, cosmic horror, brutality, isolation ...
Place:
britain, new england, united kingdom
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130K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, South Africa, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Style:
thought provoking, futuristic, philosophical, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, family friendly, family outing
Plot:
distopia, dystopia, dystopian future, youth, community, utopia, destiny, society, danger, humanity, rebelliousness, runaway ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2014, 2040s, 2010s
Place:
peru
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661K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Style:
neo noir, psychological, disturbing, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
character study, sociopath, journalism, obsession, cynicism, psychopath, manipulation, morality, journalist, violence, deception, ethics ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, venice beach california, america ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A behavioral experiment treating humans like animals goes awry when a University Student manipulates the research with deadly results.
Style:
bloody, psychological horror, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
dehumanization, experiment, social experiment, survival horror, problem, woman in a cage, prisoner, cell, confined, experiment gone awry, human experiment, locked in a cage ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, satirical ...
Plot:
guru, sex scene, battle of the sexes, woman urinating, religion, adultery, female nudity, brainwashing, strong sexual content, psychology, tourist, female pubic hair ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
australia, india, delhi, sydney australia, asia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hippie, commune, friendship, utopia, idealism, gay, lesbian, loneliness, domestic violence, homosexual, coming of age, ideology ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Based on true accounts, a Las Vegas escort is recognized by her sister in a viral social experiment video. Looking to reunite the sisters, and secretly motivated to capture the reunion on camera, Joey Salads and his apprehensive crew are thrown into ...
Style:
crime drama, controversial, crime thriller, psychotronic, high tension
Plot:
social experiment, human trafficking, trauma, danger, exploitation, victimization, surveillance, investigation, rescue mission, voyeurism, controversy, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A census-taker (Sisto) is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, twisted, scary, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
brainwashing, small town life, religions or cults, isolation, danger, small town, curses spells and rituals, hanged woman, religious fundamentalism, conspiracy, sect, social experiment ...
Time:
year 2000
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Denmark, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A ship carrying settlers to a new home in Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.
Style:
philosophical, tragic ending, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
trapped in space, orgy, spaceship, depression, tragedy, space, existentialism, female protagonist, illusion, life philosophy, distopia, introspection ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Portugal
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A reality show on an inhabited island where eight contestants must fight for their survival becomes more than it appears to be. Solum is not just a game -- it's a test, a selection process, and a mirror that confronts the truth of Nature, with ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, remote island, social experiment, game of death, stranded on an island, mortal combat, death match, competitor, struggle for survival, most dangerous game, isolation, human nature ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government issues death messages, or "ikigami", informing them that they have only 24 hours left to live. The film follows a young man tasked with ...
Style:
tense, philosophical, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
social experiment, social commentary, dystopia, death sentence, life & death, society, legal, social problems, law and order, murder, social relations, legislation ...
Time:
near future
Place:
japan, east asia
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744K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
"Round Six" is a story of people who fail at life for various reasons, but suddenly receive a mysterious invitation to participate in a survival game to win ten million US dollars. The game takes place at an unknown location, and the ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, saga, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, game of death, cruelty, prize, brutality, game, sole survivor, contests and competitions, graphic violence, violence, violent man, most dangerous game ...
Time:
2020s, 80s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
What if it made perfect sense for ordinary people to kill each other for money? Better than slow grinding financial ruin and misery, and all done according to a strict code by consenting adults. This is Trading.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
social experiment, hitman, murder, killing, suicide, social misfits, murderer, money problems, attempted murder, deal, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, UK, Malta, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of people are plunged into a dark, claustrophobic maze, where they must fight to survive, as the outside world watches.
Style:
suspense, intense, exciting, brutal, dark ...
Plot:
claustrophobia, amnesia, confined, social experiment, fight, battles, survival, surveillance, dystopia, escape, technology, memory loss ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Five beautiful but mysterious women move in with unsuccessful novelist Shin, who manages their odd household in exchange for a tidy monthly sum.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense, enigmatic ...
Plot:
writers, harem, social experiment, secrets, satire, women, neighbor, secret, character study, cohabitation, manipulation, identity ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo, indiana
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
What would you choose: be a little rich now, or wait ten years and be filthy rich? Could you wait this long? Why? And most importantly, could you come to terms with your life partner? The protagonists will have to choose between the possibility of ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, feel good, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
satire, social experiment, moral dilemma, money falling through the air, money, friends, life, friendship, experiment, social issues, character study, human nature ...
Place:
spain, catalonia
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Chile, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A strange disease kills off some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. First it was the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires and so on progressively... Then it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune. With the ...
Style:
apocalyptic, dark comedy, action thriller, political drama
Plot:
dystopia, social experiment, family drama, class struggle, pandemic, social commentary, moral dilemma, human nature, cautionary tale, moral ambiguity, panic, greed ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Six strangers are invited to a dinner party by a charming and enigmatic host, lured by the promise of substantial financial reward if they last the whole evening. However, all is not what it seems as the host reveals the dangerous and ultimately ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, captivating, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
dinner party, social experiment, female nudity, dinner, psychological manipulation, blood, mansion, murder, party, valentine's day, death, killing ...
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776
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The year is 2140. Society has undergone profound change and is now run as a matriarchy, thus removing its reliance on men. Two Hills is one of the communities founded by this new order. It is a place of perfection, where there is harmony rather than ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
social experiment, dystopia, science, matriarchy, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, women, virus, deadly virus, female protagonist, strong female presence, woman ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Three college students set out to document what other people dread most.
Style:
disturbing, psychological horror, psychological, scary, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
fear, torture, nightmare, cruelty, psychopath, manipulation, college student, childhood trauma, held captive, violence, mind game, murder ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In a world where death is finally conquered and people can live forever, a cop (Darius, 120yo) and a young woman (Christa, 24yo) must investigate the mysterious suicide of seven teenagers. With the promise of eternal youth, why would a group of ...
Style:
philosophical, anthology, contemplative, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
police detective, murder investigation, terrorist group, identity crisis, twists and turns, society, danger, social experiment, rapid aging, distopia, nudity, cognitive science ...
Time:
near future
Place:
france
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