Brain scan movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant brain scan movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending and exciting films and TV shows about / with brain scan, death, doctor, flashback, murder, hospital, bare chested male, danger, violence and husband wife relationship plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as brain scan: Last Holiday (2006), Concussion (2015), The Ten (2007), Thelma (2017), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Fortress (1992), Flight of the Navigator (1986), The Exorcist (1973), Trance (2013), Infinite (2021).

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 6.6
 36K
Last Holiday (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After she's diagnosed with a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to take a European vacation.
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: holiday, terminal illness, vacation, hotel, female protagonist, cooking, human nature, food, love and romance, black woman, restaurant, snow ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, europe, indiana, czech republic, central europe ...
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 7.1
 100K
Concussion (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought ...
Style: inspirational, medical drama, captivating, realistic, compassionate ...
Plot: american football, doctor, professional sports, autopsy, football, sports injury, research, football player, brain damage, uncover truth, investigation, biopic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, washington d.c., usa, pennsylvania
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 4.9
 17K
The Ten (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
Style: cynical, not serious, witty, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot: nudist, atheism, insanity, farce, screwball, brutality, human nature, moral dilemma, dark humor, love and romance, multiple storylines, satire ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., mexico, st. louis missouri
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 7.0
 36K
Thelma (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, twisted ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, university, bird, teenage girl, faith, supernatural power, female student, hysteria, lesbian attraction, lesbian relationship ...
Time: year 2017, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, indiana, oslo norway, eastern europe
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Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Style: ironic, talky, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, thanksgiving, sisters, dysfunctional family, family relations, writers, audition, opera, midlife crisis, love, artist, hypochondriac ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new york, usa
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 5.9
 30K
Fortress (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of the movie. The prison is a futuristic one run by a private ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, cyber, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, mind control, dystopia, isolation, overpopulation, maximum security prison, androids and robots, prison escape, dystopian future, escape, heroes, prison life ...
Time: future, near future, year 1992, year 2017
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Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This 1986 Disney adventure tells the story of 12-year-old David who lives with his family in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he awakens from being accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, he finds that eight years have passed. His family is ...
Style: feel good, futuristic, entertaining, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama, preschool
Plot: time travel, ufo, nasa, benign alien, space and aliens, space travel, outer space, flying saucer, robot, alien, getting home, young heroes ...
Time: year 1978, year 1986, 80s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: florida, miami, miami beach, japan, texas ...
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 8.1
 452K
The Exorcist (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: 12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to ...
Style: scary, suspense, satanic, demonic, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: religion, supernatural, demon, exorcism, devil, priest, macabre, possession, demonic possession, occult, exorcist, supernatural horror ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: persia, usa, washington d.c., asia, new york ...
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 6.9
 117K
Trance (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, neo noir, twist ending, clever ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: hypnosis, memory loss, heist, twists and turns, manipulation, amnesia, art thief, plot twist, art theft, dishonesty, torture, mind control ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, england
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Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, entertaining, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: travel, self discovery, life, psychiatrist, life philosophy, relationships, existentialism, introspection, happiness, teaching the ways of the world, friendship, loneliness ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: africa, china, tibet, england, london ...
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 5.5
 60K
Infinite (2021)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Evan McCauley has skills he never learned and memories of places he has never visited. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves “Infinites” come to his rescue, revealing that his memories are ...
Style: suspense, spiritual, captivating, tense, philosophical ...
Plot: reincarnation, schizophrenia, struggle, final battle, destruction, russian roulette, secret, back from the dead, final showdown, anti heroine, dark hero, jet plane ...
Time: 2020s, year 1985, 80s
Place: north america, new york, scotland, himalaya, mexico city ...
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 4.1
 729
Painkillers (2015)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Led by Major John Cafferty, a squad of US soldiers are sent on a mission,deep into the mountainous regions of Afghanistan with orders to extract a mysterious top secret package. Now they are back home in a military hospital because they have no ...
Style: suspense
Plot: amnesia, survival, woman with a gun, future war, star wars, secret mission, military operation, trapdoor, sniper, strangulation, ak 47, brain tumor ...
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The Black Box (2005)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An accident survivor wakes from a coma and confronts old, uncomfortable memories.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: hospital, haunted by the past, memory loss, unfulfillment, investigation, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, heroes, danger, crime investigation, twists and turns, parallel universe ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france, texas
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 5.7
 84K
Bloodshot (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine - Bloodshot. As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot ...
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, psychological, anime ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: superhero, nanotechnology, regeneration, rescue, cyberpunk, superhuman powers, one man army, virtual reality, hi-tech, supernatural power, super soldier, superhuman ...
Time: 2020s, future, near future
Place: hungary, london, budapest, england, italy
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Assassin's Creed (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France, UK, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malta, Spain, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Through unlocked genetic memories that allow him to relive the adventures of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he's a descendant of the secret 'Assassins' society. After gaining incredible knowledge and ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: assassin, time travel, imaginary, brotherhood, one against many, murder, chase, changing the past or future, secret society, secret identity, warrior, assassination ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, middle ages, 15th century, near future ...
Place: spain, london, madrid, texas
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The Stone Killer (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Style: retro, hood, detective, grindhouse, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, tough guy, war veteran, surveillance, showdown, vigilante, ghetto, cosa nostra, gang, brainwashing, gunfight ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa, vietnam, asia, mojave desert ...
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 5.2
 51K
Flatliners (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment. By stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience. As the ...
Style: serious, disturbing, psychological horror, surprise ending, teen horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: medical experiment, hospital, haunted by the past, afterlife, experiment, friendship, hallucination, death, medical student, near death experience, medical, supernatural ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 2000s
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The Brain Man (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A seemingly random series of bombings in a provincial city. The latest target is a public bus route. Detective Chaya chased terrorists and arrested a mysterious man with keen intelligence and physical power. The psychologist in charge of evaluating ...
Style: sadistic, rough, exciting, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: genius, psychopath, chaos, police, psychologist, fear, prisoner, criminal, psychology, bomb, one against many, terrorism ...
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The Clone Returns Home (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Kohei Takahara, an astronaut who dies in the line of duty, is legally resurrected as a clone: however, contrary to the scientists’ expectations, he reverts to his childhood memories when his twin brother drowned sacrificing his life for Kohei. ...
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, art house, psychological, philosophical ...
Plot: cloning, twins, astronaut, homecoming, professor, accident, doctor, obsession, society, hi-tech, reflection, love ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: japan
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 6.3
 18K
Dreamscape (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in ...
Style: surreal, psychological, cult classic, futuristic, suspense ...
Plot: dream, psychic, psychic power, conspiracy, nightmare, lucid dream, nuclear holocaust, scientist, train, monster, surrealism, u.s. president ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: washington d.c., illinois
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style: psychological, surreal, melancholic, romantic, mind bending ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: memory, surrealism, dream, love, love story, memory loss, existentialism, loneliness, couples, amnesia, relationships, introspection ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, future, year 2003, 21st century
Place: persia, america, usa, new york
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Sins of the mind (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A typical American family - photographer father, two talented daughters, Michelle an accomplished commercial artist with a clear upward career path. Then she has an auto accident, and the head trauma leaves behavioral changes. The part of the brain ...
Style: erotic
Plot: car accident, nymphomania, brain damage, father daughter relationship, psychiatrist, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, photographer, mother daughter relationship, family relations, sex addict, promiscuous woman ...
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 4.6
 425
Dimension 5 (1966)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An American intelligence agent, aided by a Chinese-American female agent, uses a time-travel belt to thwart Chinese operatives who are attempting to import to Los Angeles the materials to make an atomic bomb.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: time travel, woman with a gun, espionage, agent, airport, spy, torture, car chase, military police, martial arts, hidden camera, helicopter ...
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 3.9
 796
Ecstasy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: ECSTASY is a contemporary and relevant film about how drugs transcend all borders of society and affect every facet of our lives. But when it leaves it takes away your soul. A new party drug arrives on the rave scene in a college town and is ...
Style: touching, cerebral, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: lifestyle, depression, college, sexual promiscuity, drug abuse, youth, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, sex, drug addiction, drug ...
Time: 21st century
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Superman vs. The Elite (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: The Man of Steel finds himself outshone by a new team of ruthless superheroes who hold his idealism in contempt.
Style: entertaining, light, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, superman, justice, superhero team, comic book, superpower, lone hero, good versus evil, anti hero, heroes, imaginary, escapades ...
Time: 2010s
Place: england, paris france, london, kansas, tokyo ...
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The Lazarus Effect (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, experiment, death, macabre, demon, science, gory, laboratory, danger, disorder, inventions and discoveries ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.5
 104K
Self/less (2015)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, philosophical, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: immortality, body swapping, life philosophy, cloning, soul transference, technology, twists and turns, uncover truth, chase, disorder, moral dilemma, billionaire ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future, year 2015, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa, peru, new york, caribbean ...
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 5.8
 43K
The Gunman (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his ...
Style: intense, suspense, exciting, rough, fast paced ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, chase, hitman, agent as target, gangster, gunfight, undercover, danger, conspiracy, home invasion, betrayal, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2006, year 2014, 21st century
Place: south africa, europe, barcelona, london, africa
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Style: entertaining, exciting, action packed, surreal, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, robot, androids and robots, alien invasion, transforming robot, battles, shapeshifting, artificial intelligence, giant robot, evil robot, transformation, androids ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, near future, 18th century, stone age ...
Place: egypt, new york, washington d.c., virginia, philadelphia ...
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 6.6
 54K
THX 1138 (1971)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the ...
Style: bleak, mindfuck, philosophical, futuristic, thought provoking ...
Plot: distopia, totalitarianism, dystopian future, cyberpunk, dystopia, prison, brainwashing, androids and robots, utopia, fighting the system, robot, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 1971, distant future
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