Brain movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant brain movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense and surreal films and TV shows about / with brain, murder, scientist, danger, transformation, supernatural, doctor, mad scientist, hospital and dialogue plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Comedy genres shot in USA, South Korea, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as brain: Vanishing Waves (2012), Frankenstein vs. The Mummy (2015), Re-Animator (1985), Hypnotic (2021), Thoughtcrimes (2003), Young Frankenstein (1974), Beyond Skyline (2017), The Man with Two Brains (1983), Algorithm: BLISS (2020), Brain Damage (1988).
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Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Lithuania, France, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Lucas is a scientist who works near the European experimental project that focus on advanced ‘human neuron research’. The project is to transfer neuron information from one human mind to another. Lukas is chosen to connect his mind with a ...
Style:
mind bending, psychological, serious, futuristic, sensual ...
Plot:
impossible love, experiment, coma, imaginary, brain, danger, murder, male pubic hair, orgy, cognitive science, spirituality, survival ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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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:
gothic, psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
mummy, brain, creature feature, scientist, frankenstein, monster, vengeance, supernatural, murder, reincarnation, chase, freak ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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, bloody, black comedy, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
violence, mad scientist, zombie, insanity, reanimated corpse, female nudity, dark humor, overdose, gory, laboratory, hospital, evil scientist ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, europe, austria, zurich switzerland
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22K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young woman seeking self-improvement enlists the help of a renowned hypnotist but, after a handful of intense sessions, discovers unexpected and deadly consequences.
Style:
suspense, psychological, enigmatic, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
brain, spell, hypnosis, murder, restraining order, memory loss, memory, anxiety, tragedy, doctor, stillbirth, psychologist ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freya McAllister suddenly starts hearing voices in her head on the night of her High School Prom. One night Dr Michael Welles arrives telling Freya that she isn't crazy but that her voices are the thoughts of everyone around her. He teaches her ...
Style:
exciting, psychological, rough, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot:
mind reading, danger, government agency, special agent, chases and races, manipulation, supernatural power, female protagonist, fight, brain, gang, schizophrenia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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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, horror comedy, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
mad scientist, castle, frankenstein, monster, experiment, satire, frankenstein's monster, farce, laboratory, hunchback, sex scene, blindness ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1974, near future ...
Place:
transylvania, arizona, europe, usa, seattle
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a platoon of masked soldiers and dragged into a hidden continent in the center of the Earth. There, they discover that surviving Nazi soldiers are plotting an invasion of Earth to revive the Third ...
Style:
rough, serious, scary, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nazi zombie, nazi, swastika, survival, danger, supernatural, profanity, confined, isolation, female nudity, brain, zombie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
antarctica, antarctic
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Indonesia, UK, China, Singapore
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing, smart ...
Plot:
alien, rescue, alien technology, spaceship, brutality, alien invasion, invasion, evil alien, monster, abduction, police officer, alien creature ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
laos, southeast asia, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A story about a brain surgeon who tries to end his unhappy marriage to spend more time with a disembodied brain.
Style:
spoof, black comedy, funny, parody, dark comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hospital, mad scientist, marriage, murder, lust, inheritance, elevator, satire, femme fatale, sexual frustration, lethal injection, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, austria, usa, vienna
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Vic Beckett, a brilliant researcher, creates the ultimate App that taps into the pleasure center of the brain and transmits a feeling of nirvana to the user.
Style:
unusual plot structure, psychological, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot:
scientist, brain, science, research, psychology, society, pleasure, internet, escapades, youth, male protagonist, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A normal, average guy who lives in New York City becomes dependent on an evil, disembodied brain.
Style:
bloody, splatter, surreal, cult classic, scary ...
Plot:
body horror, dark humor, addiction, hallucination, drug abuse, parasite, gory, creature, monster, exploitation, slime, murder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
"I have a gift for disaster," says John Morlar (Ricard Burton). Morlar is cursed with a unique telekinesis power that only seems to cause disaster.
Style:
psychological, retro, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychic, disaster, psychic power, brain, supernatural power, mental disorder, investigation, psychopath, mind power, psychokinesis, psychiatrist, childhood memory ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, scotland yard
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As a young man's life spirals out of control, he tries to regain focus by seeking out an offbeat hypnosis treatment. Things take a turn when the girl from his dreams starts to appear in real life. While he tries to unlock the mystery of who she ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, sentimental, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
memory, magic realism, hospital, brain, life, couples, love, secret, doctor, identity, hypnosis, relationships ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An anthology featuring four tales inspired by the Frankenstein legend.
Style:
absurd, psychotronic, dark, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Plot:
frankenstein, frankenstein's monster, brain, one man army, deadly creature, tough guy, dark humor, transformation, monster, creature feature, genetically altered, mad scientist ...
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Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The story takes place five decades from now, when brain scanners have been perfected to the point that the government can retrieve up to five years' worth of memories from people's minds — even if they are dead. The investigators of the ...
Style:
anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
police, secret service, top secret, investigation, subconscious, moral dilemma, privacy, bio weapon, corruption, revenge, secret, conspiracy ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Lost on a train of thought tunneling through the dark night of his unconscious, a former rabbinical student struggles to resolve a paralyzing conflict between his mind and his body.
Style:
surreal, neo noir, disturbing, captivating, existential ...
Plot:
investigation, surrealism, mysticism, murder, burial, brain, rabbi, identity, identity crisis, stream of consciousness, isolation, alienation ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Bumbling supervillain Megamind finally defeats his nemesis, the superhero Metro Man. But without a hero, he loses all purpose and must find new meaning to his life.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, witty, computer animated, cute ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, preschool
Plot:
superhero, villain, mad scientist, good versus evil, villain turns good, superhuman powers, prison, escapades, anti hero, talking animal, super villain, reporter ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, north america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Dexter's controlled life gets thrown into confusion when a girl appears on his work that looks exactly like his girlfriend Stella. At home his beloved Stella doesn't understand what's going on and she starts questioning their ...
Style:
psychological, touching, atmospheric, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot:
disability, life turned upside down, fall in love, emotionless, nursing, mental illness, life is a bitch, love and romance, disorder, brain, bittersweet, pets ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, holland, rotterdam netherlands
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
Yumi is a 30-year old, ordinary woman who struggles with expressing her feelings. Told from the perspective of the many brain cells in her head, she experiences growth in both her love life, her career, and finds happiness in the small joys of ...
Style:
psychological, satirical, romantic comedy, light hearted, captivating ...
Plot:
slice of life, personal growth, female protagonist, career woman, friendship, workplace, office worker, working woman, brain, self discovery, lifestyle, human brain ...
Is relevant?
244K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Teenager Riley's mind headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, ...
Style:
3d animation, computer animated, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
joy, puberty, coming of age, anxiety, anger, teenager, 13 year old, sadness, mind, friendship, memory, fear ...
Place:
san francisco, california
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
An emotional journey that follows a brain scientist who is obsessive about figuring out new technologies to access the consciousness and memories of the brain. His life goes sideways when his family falls victim to a mysterious accident, and he ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
genius, family tragedy, memories, experiment, scientific experiment, grief, neuroscience, brain, human brain, tragic event, family problems, crime investigation ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico, Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The lives of two sisters change dramatically, since they were hypnotized by a mystical vinyl record from the 1970s.
Style:
suspense, thrilling, tense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
hypnosis, psychological manipulation, psychology, psychiatric ward, sister, mentally unstable, changing lives, losing-it hero, waking up, insomnia, phobia, mysterious character ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Brain is a 2011 South Korean medical drama, starring Shin Ha-kyun, Choi Jung-won, Jung Jin-young and Jo Dong-hyuk. The series revolves around a top neurosurgeon who is obsessed with success and dreams of becoming the hospital director, then finds ...
Style:
medical drama, thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
hospital, medical, surgeon, nurse, doctor, physician, brain, workplace, doctors and patients, love affair, human brain, medicine ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
seoul, korea
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Two ill-fated men become a comic duo to investigate criminal cases involving a rare brain disease together.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, detective, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
investigation, teamwork, psychology, neuroscience, relationships, criminal, brain, team, private detective, counselor, love affair, crime investigation ...
Place:
seoul
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Somebody’s brain is living inside of me. Medical thriller based on the novel by Keigo Higashino which has sold over 1,250,000 copies.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, serious, detective, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
brain transplant, violent man, doctor, nurse, patient, metamorphosis, hospital, surgery, identity crisis, character study, human brain, transplant ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: China
TV show
Story:
A seemingly ordinary traffic accident led to multiple forces being involved. While everyone rushed to investigate the truth a series of unexpected situations broke out. The crisis hidden behind the unsettled case exceeded everybody's ...
Style:
suspenseful, 3d animation, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
evolution, gate, humanity, philosophy, black, scientific discovery, neuroscience, bus accident, human brain, bus, brain, virtual reality ...
Time:
near future
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21K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Weird yummy goo erupts from the earth and is discovered by a couple of miners. They taste it and decide to market it because it tastes so good. The American public literally eats up the new dessert sensation now known as the Stuff but, ...
Style:
black comedy, satirical, cult horror, slasher, absurd ...
Plot:
addiction, conspiracy, zombie, satire, small town, consumerism, ghost town, body horror, ice cream, boy, infiltration, supermarket ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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224K
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a ...
Style:
anime, futuristic, surreal, adult animation, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, motorcycle, teenager, protest, dystopia, body horror, psychic power, military, experiment, hallucination ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, 2010s, 80s ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Earth is invaded by alien parasites aka "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds. A trio of American government agents attempt to thwart this.
Style:
scary, cerebral, suspense, futuristic, epic ...
Plot:
alien invasion, evil alien, alien, alien contact, mind control, ufo, deadly creature, space and aliens, monster, brutality, justice, parasite ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
iowa, usa, washington d.c.
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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:
light, humorous, slapstick comedy, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult, preschool
Plot:
muppets, puppet, friendship, rescue, mad scientist, benign alien, space, alien, friendly alien, flying saucer, unlikely friendships, secrets ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
canada
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