Lab rat movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant lab rat movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out weird, serious, suspenseful, clever, cult film and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with lab rat, suspense, catastrophe, murder, rat, dialogue, storytelling, life philosophy, laboratory and mentor plots mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as lab rat: MindGamers (2015), Life (2017), Sitcom (1998), Crisis (2021), Memory (2006), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Discarnate (2018), I Origins (2014), Appleseed Ex Machina (2007), Virtual Obsession (1998).

List of lab rat movies

 3.6
 1K
MindGamers (2015)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of young bio-engineers discover they can use quantum physics to transfer motor-skills between human brains. Believing this to be a first step towards a new intellectual freedom, they freely distribute the technology. But as the mysterious ...
Style: tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, weird
Plot: mind control, lab rat, virtual reality, science runs amok, scientific experiment, human experiment, experiment, hi-tech, technology, science, suspense, mind ...
Time: year 2002
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 6.6
 237K
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: scary, apocalyptic, tragic ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: space, suspense, mars, monster, space travel, space station, alien, alien life-form, astronaut, first contact, survival horror, death ...
Time: future, near future
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 6.6
 5K
Sitcom (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sado-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited ...
Style: sexy, sexual, controversial, experimental, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, incest, coming out, mother son incest, lgbt, rat, suicide attempt, paraplegic, s&m, dysfunctional family, fetish, homosexual ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, ancient greece
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 6.2
 12K
Crisis (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's ...
Style: captivating, tense, anamorphic
Plot: drug dealing, drug addiction, drugs, war on drugs, drug lord, drug smuggling, fighting crime, relationship problems, showdown, drug addict, social problems, family relations ...
Place: montreal, canada, detroit
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 5.2
 2K
Memory (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, uncover truth, psychopath, who done it, mysterious character, mind game, police detective, murder, experiment gone awry, haunted by the past, killer ...
Place: brazil, latin america
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The city needs heroes. Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and ...
Style: humorous, exciting, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, chick flick, teens, pre-teens
Plot: ninja, chase, sewer, mutant, master warrior, news reporter, supernatural, vigilante, superhero, nunchaku, heroes, martial arts ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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 4.3
 2K
Discarnate (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A neuroscientist's obsession with a drug that expands the human mind inadvertently unleashes a deadly supernatural force on his team.
Style: suspenseful, scary, ambiguous ending, sad, splatter
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drugs, supernatural, monster, experiment, fear, uncover truth, suspense, ghost, afterlife, lab rat, faith, mural ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.3
 128K
I Origins (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab ...
Style: thought provoking, mind bending, philosophical, enigmatic, spiritual ...
Plot: reincarnation, metaphysics, eye, religion, elevator, buddhism, spirituality, atheism, genetics, society, evolution, love story ...
Time: year 1998, year 2005, year 2012, year 2009, 21st century
Place: india, usa, new york, asia, delhi
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Appleseed Ex Machina (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: As members of ESWAT, the elite forces serving Olympus, Deunan and Briaereos they are deployed everywhere trouble strikes. Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack - cyborg terrorism, deadly nanotech zealots, and rioting citizens are just some of ...
Style: anime, mecha, stylized, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens
Plot: androids and robots, cyborgs, cyberpunk, terrorism, a.i., heroic mission, future dystopia, chaos and mayhem, battles, military, fight, androids ...
Time: future
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Virtual Obsession (1998)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: If you were a brilliant young scientist diagnosed with only months to live, what choices would you make? To have faith that you were taken early for a reason and go quietly, or to use cryogenics to hope you could be cured someday in the future, or ...
Plot: scientist, cyberpunk, cryogenics, computer, seduction, little boy, husband wife relationship, elevator, transhumanism, loss of daughter, autopsy, extramarital affair ...
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The Last Desperate Hours (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paolo Mancuso is a gang boss whose rivals want dead. During a failed assassination attempt, he is bitten by an infected lab rat. In the short time he has left to live, he tracks down his enemies and kills them one by one.
Plot: mafia, police, woman strangled to death, burned alive, mob boss, italian mafia, deadly virus, death of son, gang war, animal experimentation, ex husband ex wife relationship, pimp ...
Place: milan italy
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They All Died Laughing (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.
Plot: murder, gas, extramarital affair, older man younger woman relationship, university professor, lab rat, dead woman, poison, woman smoking cigarette
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 5.8
 114K
Downsizing (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
Style: melancholic, semi serious, satirical, exciting, mind bending ...
Plot: shrinking, experiment, ecology, neighbor, doctors, scientist, downsizing, divorce, laboratory, cleaning lady, poverty, journey ...
Time: future, near future
Place: istanbul turkey, new mexico, norway
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Contamination (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, space, mars, macabre, murder, investigation, good versus evil, survival, race against time, space travel, ghost ship, heroic mission ...
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: new york, usa, latin america, south america, america ...
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Children of the Damned (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Style: suspenseful, scary, tense, mind bending, psychotronic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: evil child, suspense, children, supernatural, alien, church, killer child, supernatural ability, social misfits, prodigy, moral dilemma, macabre ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, future
Place: london, tokyo, england, europe
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Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of friends head to a deserted Caribbean island for a surprise overnight bachelor party only to discover that the island isn't deserted. It's actually the home to a secret medical facility. Not only that, there's something ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: infection, virus, laboratory, zombie, quarantine, murder, pandemic, survival, apocalypse, death, race against time, contamination ...
Time: 21st century
Place: caribbean, fictional island
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Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A plane is taken over by a mysterious virus. When the plane lands it is placed under quarantine. Now a group of survivors must band together to survive the quarantine.
Style: scary, splatter, slasher, serious, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, quarantine, virus, infected, airplane, infection, plague, stewardess, zombification, airport, chaos, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, los angeles
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Unforgettable (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, memory, vengeance, justice, suspense, false accusation, race against time, conspiracy theory, woman in danger, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
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 6.2
 6K
Retroactive (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
Style: tense, road movie, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Plot: time machine, time travel, time loop, changing the past or future, serial killer, suspense, race against time, witnessing a crime, destiny, twists and turns, time, repeated event ...
Time: 20th century, future, 90s
Place: texas, usa, arizona
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One Eight Seven (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, allegory ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, high school, gang, gangsters, teenager, revenge, suspense, hip hop, mentor, vengeance, ghetto, mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, new york, new jersey, california, usa ...
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Muppets from Space (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Gonzo's breakfast cereal tells him that he's the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him kidnapped by a secret government agency, prompting the Muppets to spring into action. ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: kids, preschoolers, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: muppets, alien, space, space travel, friendship, unlikely friendships, secrets, mad scientist, heroic mission, benign alien, rescue, fish out of water ...
Place: canada
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My American Uncle (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by ...
Style: philosophical, cerebral, clever, witty, sexy ...
Plot: psychology, bittersweet, surrealism, reward, immortality, mentor, adaptation, honest, humanity, small town, life, vengeance ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979, year 1977
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
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 6.2
 26K
I.Q. (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.
Style: entertaining, feel good, sweet, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: happy ending, fall in love, mathematics, betrayal, honest, family relations, couples, opposites attract, parents and children, mechanic, dishonesty, hidden identity ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 90s, future
Place: usa, new jersey
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Getting Straight (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: vietnam war, college, anti war, counterculture, swing, revolution, african american, homosexuality, hippie, demonstration, university, student ...
Time: 60s, 70s
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 5.3
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Getting In (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Gabriel Higgs has failed to get into Johns Hopkins to study medicine. He's sixth on a list of backup candidates, and must persuade the five people ahead of him to drop out. Gabriel has a family tradition to live up to. Things don't go to ...
Style: slasher, cynical, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: medical school, murder, college, frame up, satire, computer cracker, rivalry, dishonesty, contests and competitions, youth, amateur detective, dark humor ...
Time: 90s
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 6.6
 127K
The Faculty (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet! As mind-controlling parasites rapidly begin ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, slasher, splatter, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, alien, suspense, youth, teenager, space and aliens, parasite, evil alien, teacher, alien encounter, high school, high school life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: ohio
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 4.6
 23K
Captivity (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The sought-after images of top model, Jennifer, adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a charity event, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, and ...
Style: scary, psychological, rough, disturbing, intense ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: kidnapping, torture, stalking, serial killer, survival, confined, psychopath, stereotypes, isolation, escape, violence, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
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Story: A U.S. satellite crash-lands near a small town in Utah, unleashing a deadly plague that kills virtually everyone except two survivors, who may provide clues to immunizing the population. As the military attempts to quarantine the area, a team of ...
Style: tense, serious, stylized, melancholic, harsh ...
Plot: laboratory, virus, biohazard, plague, catastrophe, bacteria, disease, deadly virus, cure, disaster, time travel, infection ...
Time: future, 70s, 21st century
Place: usa, utah, shanghai, los angeles
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 4.8
 10K
Abandon (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, tricky, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, missing person, obsession, investigation, twists and turns, student life, plot twist, police detective, uncover truth, boyfriend, paranoia, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, athens greece, cambodia, sardinia, amsterdam
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 6.0
 10K
Gigantic (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he meets at his mattress store. As their relationship flourishes, unbeknownst to them, a hitman is ...
Style: surreal, realistic, talky, stylized, touching ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: adoption, dysfunctional family, family relations, fall in love, eccentricity, loneliness, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, youth, eccentric family, homeless ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey, texas, florida, china ...
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