Experimental drug movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant experimental drug movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating and intense films and TV shows about / with experimental drug, drug, moral ambiguity, experiment, body horror, survival, isolation, conspiracy, ethical dilemma and female nudity plots mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as experimental drug: The Substance (2024), Banshee Chapter (2013), Lucy (2014), Limitless (2011), Side Effects (2013), Tell Me How I Die (2016), Maniac (2018), Limitless (2015), Shock Treatment (1964), The Facility (2012).
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402K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Style:
atmospheric, dark comedy, grim, psychological horror, absurd ...
Plot:
experimental drug, fountain of youth, body horror, celebrity, drug, disfigurement, female monster, dark secret, narcissism, moral dilemma, rivalry, fight to the death ...
Place:
california, los angeles
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer, The Silence of The Lambs -- finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government ...
Style:
scary, medical horror, spooky, disturbing, satanic ...
Plot:
found footage, missing person, drug use, desert, uncover truth, cosmic horror, experimental drug, ghost, female protagonist, drug, missing friend, journalist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa
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574K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Taiwan, Canada, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Style:
futuristic, intellectual, surreal, philosophical, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
supernatural, intelligence, superhuman powers, brain capacity, tough girl, experimental drug, supernatural ability, telekinesis, transformation, consciousness, telepathy, human brain ...
Time:
year 2014, future, stone age, 2010s, 1900s ...
Place:
france, new york, paris france, berlin germany, rome italy ...
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642K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract ...
Style:
clever, thought provoking, intellectual, philosophical, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
intelligence, success, drug, creativity, drug abuse, superhuman powers, ambition, rise to the top, rags to riches, brain capacity, experimental drug, prodigy ...
Time:
year 2011, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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204K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspense, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
mental illness, depression, psychiatrist, manipulation, murder, patient, sleepwalking, twists and turns, doctor, mental patient, mental institution, deception ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, future, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When a group of college students take part in a clinical drug trial, an unexpected side effect of the experimental medicine gives them terrifying visions of their own deaths...which begin to come true. As they scramble to escape their fate, they ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
laboratory, serial murder, college student, scientist, serum, xmas, drug, serial killer, extrasensory perception, a vision, supernatural serial murderer, pharmaceutical company ...
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92K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Two strangers find themselves caught up in a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial gone awry.
Style:
psychological, satirical, futuristic, philosophical, mysterious ...
Plot:
surrealism, psychiatric patient, computer, schizophrenia, dystopia, alternative medicine, pills, twists and turns, social decay, borderline personality disorder, society, dark humor ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
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75K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Limitless, based on the feature film, picks up where the movie left off and follows Brian Sinclair as he discovers the power of the mysterious drug NZT, and is coerced into using his newfound drug-enhanced abilities to solve weekly cases for the FBI.
Style:
intellectual, captivating, humorous, light, detective ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fbi, young man, experimental drug, intelligence, brain capacity, life & death, chase, female agent, new job, addiction, supernatural, counselor ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, offbeat, suspenseful ...
Plot:
shock treatment, danger, hypnosis, experimental drug, courtroom, psychiatrist, imposture, hidden money, decapitation, insane, mental institution, murder ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
usa, beverly hills
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A group of volunteers find themselves fighting for their lives when a drug trial goes horribly wrong.
Style:
medical horror, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
experiment gone awry, danger, isolation, found footage, medical, drug use, mind game, survival, body horror, hospital, violence, zombie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When an experimental lethal-injection has the unexpected result of making an inmate immortal, the most vicious convicts steal it to take over the prison and the world.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, dark, brutal ...
Plot:
prison, immortality, experimental drug, death penalty, jail, jail cell, immortal, prison life, criminal, violence, lethal injection, medical experiment ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dr. Jackie Stevenson is a Los Angeles based therapist and scientist who tries to invent a serum to separate the pure from the lustful side of the female psychosis. After she has an unsuccessful experiment with a female client named Martine, which ...
Style:
sexy, surprise ending
Plot:
sex with a maid, lesbian sex, female nudity, jekyll and hyde, erotica, surrealism, split personality, scientist, experimental drug, misogyny, bondage, mad scientist ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, South Korea, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Philippines
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
New CIA operative, Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
Style:
satanic, action adventure, saga, serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
cia, espionage, spy, secret service, assassin, cia agent, on the run, conspiracy, secret agent, chase, covert operation, agent ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
the philippines, maryland, virginia, usa, london ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the heat of an American desert, Captain Jean Farrell arrives at a secret military installation, run by the enigmatic Doctor Harlan Jessup. Jessup is conducting 'Operation Sandman', an experiment involving a group of soldiers who have ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
sleep deprivation, experimental drug, hallucination, human experiment, soldier, experiment, military, visual hallucination, terrorist attack, experiment gone awry, war on terror, terrorist ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When a middle aged woman tries a new unauthorized medicine, her life changes drastically.
Style:
captivating, satirical, psychological, humorous, disturbing
Plot:
female protagonist, colleague, magazine editor, coworker, escapades, male female relationship, co worker co worker relationship, satire, employer employee relationship, identity crisis, workplace situations, women ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
Prototype version of Naked Blood.
Style:
extreme horror, disturbing, psychological horror, noir, pink cinema ...
Plot:
female masturbation, exploitation, experimental drug, sexploitation, violence, sadism, trauma, sexual abuse, manipulation, female victim, mad scientist, body horror ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers
Style:
slasher, medical horror, psychological horror, suspense, underground horror ...
Plot:
monster, serial killer, body horror, violence, experimental drug, mad scientist, psychosis, mutation, college, obsession, torture, mind control ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a troubled model takes a new drug at a party, she suffers a shocking transformation. Pursued by authorities and a dangerous gang, she hunts for a fix to reverse these effects, only to discover her mutations could save the human race.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, intense, psychological
Plot:
transformation, genetic mutation, experimental drug, dystopia, survival, identity crisis, ethical dilemma, body horror, moral ambiguity, urban decay, visceral, corporate conspiracy ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A Blanc-Biehn production centered around the idea of a governmentally designed drug created to help correct or strategically alter perceptions gathered during times of trauma or stress. Slated as being a substance that may help solve issues with ...
Style:
psychological thriller, thought provoking, mind bending, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
trauma, experimental drug, conspiracy, paranoia, ptsd, moral ambiguity, mind control, social commentary, identity crisis, emotional manipulation, ethical dilemma, claustrophobia ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
A disgraced RAW agent Akilan (Vikram) is recalled by the agency to track down a crazy scientist and a cross dresser Love (also Vikram), who has discovered a deadly new drug ‘Speed inhaler’.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mad scientist, undercover agent, drug, experimental drug, dual role, drugged, drug overdose, criminal, drug addiction, fight, battles, conspiracy ...
Place:
india, malaysia, mumbai india
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.
Style:
suspenseful, medical horror, psychological thriller, tension, thrilling ...
Plot:
insomnia, scientific experiment, sleep deprivation, isolation, experimental drug, race against time, experiment, human experiment, problem, threat, experiment gone awry, paranoia ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Kessler's lab was created to run drug trials to determine what went wrong with a once popular mood stabilizing drug. Dr. Martin Kessler cloned his own daughter, who died from the drug. Once with ten test subjects, he and Dr Josephine Vanderhill ...
Style:
tension, suspense, intense, medical drama, emotional ...
Plot:
experiment gone awry, cloning, experimental drug, human experiment, ethical dilemma, laboratory, claustrophobia, humanity, confrontation, identity, survival, guilt ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story:
A Swedish TV Mini-series directed by Richard Hobert.
Style:
thought provoking, medical drama, suspense, intellectual
Plot:
human experiment, aging, ethical dilemma, scientific discovery, experimental drug, laboratory, moral ambiguity, obsession, clinic, paranoia, conspiracy, identity crisis ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Thriller
Country: West Germany, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wealthy, eccentric chemical company owner sends his woman to get an American writer to take a mind control drug, Kemek, to verify its potential. She accomplishes her mission, but falls totally in love with the writer. The chemical magnate, ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, crime drama, tense, dark ...
Plot:
mind control, private detective, murder, murder mystery, psychological manipulation, female protagonist, betrayal, obsession, experimental drug, moral ambiguity, investigation, revenge ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
italy, naples italy
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A scientific experiment in rapid-cell growth goes awry when a lab assistant steals the developed serum and injects it into his pregnant girl friend. The result is a child that grows through adulthood and will die within days, if a cure cannot be ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, melancholic, grim
Plot:
rapid aging, laboratory, life & death, pregnancy, tragedy, experimental drug, parent child relationship, desperation, humanity, ethical dilemma, family bonds, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A group of American students traveling in Greece find themselves accidentally involved with a new type of drug--and the gang that wants it.
Style:
crime drama, suspenseful, teen sex comedy, independent film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
espionage, experimental technology, experimental drug, spy thriller, conspiracy, college student, suspicion, escape, paranoia, cat and mouse, mediterranean, teenager ...
Time:
80s
Place:
greece
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2K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
As a result of a drug experiment, Misi will be able to travel through time, but only if he drinks from a special homemade spirit.
Style:
existential, psychological, surreal, mind bending, tense ...
Plot:
travel, experimental drug, alternate reality, character study, identity crisis, experimental narrative, coming of age, laboratory, dark humor, urban, minimalism, time travel ...
Place:
hungary
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658
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Portugal, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The young and promising genetics researcher Thomas Nielsen will stop at nothing to become the first person to identify the elements in man that trigger aggression. To achieve faster results he performs illegal tests on the convicted mass murderer ...
Style:
suspenseful, hood, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
obsession, genetics, genetically altered, experiment, ambition, genetic experiment, human experiment, scientific experiment, ambitious man, experiment gone awry, problem, experimental drug ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: China
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Qian Cheng, the boss of the pharmaceutical company, has invested in the establishment of a biopharmaceutical research laboratory located deep in the jungle. By modifying the shark gene to develop a new type of anti-cancer drug, but when the drug is ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
shark, shark attack, jungle, genetic engineering, mutation, science runs amok, science gone wrong, survival, monster, science, animal attack, killer shark ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Eight strangers go into a locked room for clinical trials on a new drug that gives them superpowers.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, twist ending ...
Plot:
locked room, human experiment, experiment, time travel, superhuman, group of strangers, super powers, scientific experiment, supernatural power, superpower, supernatural ability, experimental drug ...
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