Movies like Strange Experiment (1937)
The best movies like Strange Experiment (1937) are Johnny Handsome (1989), Control (2004) and Black Friday (1940). If Strange Experiment hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Strange Experiment
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- Highest ratedCatch Me If You Can (2002)8.0/10 from 17,854 votes
- NewestThe Unforgivable (2021)Released 2021
Johnny Handsome (1989)
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisControl (2004)
Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlack Friday (1940)
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKiss of Death (1947)
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSaw III (2006)
Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Raven (1935)
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFrankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFace/Off (1997)
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPhenomenon (1996)
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIncident On and Off a Mountain Road (2005)
While driving at night on a mountain road, Ellen gets distracted and hits an abandoned car. When she tries to get help, she is attacked by a backwoods killer and must fight to stay alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDead End (1937)
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPossessor (2020)
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDonovan's Brain (1953)
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHollow Triumph (1948)
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCriminal (2016)
CIA Agent Bill Pope is on a mission to track down a shadowy hacker named 'The Dutchman'. When he gets mysteriously killed, an experimental procedure transfers his memories into a dangerous ex-convict. When he wakes up Pope's memories, his mission is to eliminate The Dutchman before the hacker launches ICBMs and starts World War III.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Unforgivable (2021)
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPromising Young Woman (2020)
A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAmerican Mary (2013)
A young medical student struggling to pay tuition is drawn into the shady world of underground body-modification.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCatch Me If You Can (2002)
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Strange Experiment?
The closest matches to Strange Experiment are Johnny Handsome (1989), Control (2004) and Black Friday (1940). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Strange Experiment?
Start with Johnny Handsome (1989), the closest match to Strange Experiment.
What is the highest-rated movie like Strange Experiment?
Catch Me If You Can (2002), rated 8.0/10 by 17,854 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Strange Experiment?
The Unforgivable (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Strange Experiment?
Yes: Johnny Handsome (1989), Control (2004) and Black Friday (1940).
How are movies similar to Strange Experiment chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Strange Experiment, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.