20 best movies like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

List of the best movies like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994): Victor Frankenstein, The Bride, The Divide, Parasite Eve, National Theatre Live: Frankenstein, After Midnight, Algorithm: BLISS, The Perfect Guy, The Bad Batch, The Phantom of the Opera.

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Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:52

    Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:58

    Sting is Doctor Frankenstein in this remake of the old classic film Bride of Frankenstein. After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
    Duration02:02

    Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryJapan

    Toshiaki Nagashima is a biologist who is doing major research on mitochondria. When his beautiful young wife is tragically involved in a car accident which leaves her brain dead, in desperation he steals her liver from her body in order to recieve the mitochondria from it to resurrect his wife from the dead. The killer mitochondria takes the form of his assistant.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:50

    Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing tale.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Dealing with a girlfriend suddenly leaving is tough enough. But for Hank, heartbreak couldn’t have come at a worse time. There’s also a monster trying to break through his front door every night.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    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.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

    After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:11

    In a desert wasteland in Texas, a muscled cannibal breaks one important rule: don’t play with your food.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Hungary
    Duration01:33

    A darker version of the classic Gaston Leroux novel. A young soprano becomes the obsession of a horribly disfigured composer who has plans for those oppose himself or the young singer.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    In this rock opera hybrid of Phantom of the Opera and Faust, fledgling singer-songwriter Winslow Leach finds himself double-crossed by the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both his music and the girl Leach wants to sing it, Phoenix, for the grand opening of his rock palace, The Paradise. After Swan sends Leach to prison for trespassing, Leach endures a freak accident which leaves him disfigured and plans his revenge on both Swan and The Paradise, becoming the Phantom of the Paradise.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A painter's life is forever changed when a mythical and deadly spirit from Celtic lore – a Leannán Sí – becomes his muse and lover.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryDenmark, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Japan, USA, Spain, Canada, France, Netherlands
    Duration01:44

    The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star, Elena, are about to sign divorce papers when they realise that, in spite of everything happening around them, their love is worth fighting for. It's All About Love is a fresh take on modern love and future life as two lovers struggle in a conspiracy of epic proportions.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:31

    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.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:10

    Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:31

    In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:29

      On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada, France

      Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:03

        The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        When a scientist at a research lab is passed over for a promotion, he creates a clone of himself to attempt to seduce the wife of the man who got the job.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:52

        An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg
        Duration01:48

          A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
          CountryNorway, France, Denmark, Sweden
          Duration02:16

          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.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, family
          CountryUSA, Japan
          Duration01:20

          Flight 7500 departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. As the overnight flight makes its way over the Pacific Ocean during its ten-hour course, the passengers encounter what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin.

          Markimdb: 3.9
          Genrehorror, melodrama, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local girl, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Their relationship ignites the wrath of the girl's father, who holds the key to the dreadful truth Carmilla is seeking. Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's famed Gothic novella.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic
          CountryUSA

          Young Scientists Elizabeth Burns explores the impact on the human body stem cells. A specific feature of these cells to interact with dead flesh has been subjected to blackmail heroine is forced to continue chilling experiments. Once she recovers just killed a man and begins a nightmare, whose name is Frankenstein Syndrome ..

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, music
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

          Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness, and has his face etched with acid. Soon, mysterious crimes plague the Paris Opera House, blamed on a legendary "phantom".

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her seductive and highly volatile sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, she threatens Djuna's new relationship, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:36

          A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.

          Markimdb: 4.9
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          A clan of evil rats overtakes a Manhattan department store and threatens to overrun the city.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:44

          Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          Scientific whiz-kid Paul moves to a new town to study artificial intelligence at the local university. One of Paul's high-tech inventions is a growly-voiced robot named BeeBee, and one of his new friends is the lovely girl next door, Samantha. When tragic events take both BeeBee and Samantha from him, the boy genius desperately sets out to restore the love he lost — and, like a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein, discovers too late that he has created a rampaging monster.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          In the aftermath of a hurricane the Florida Park Ranger and his family deal with strange occurrences, including luminescent creatures in the water. People in the town start to act different, who can you trust?

          Markimdb: 8
          Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:06

          In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrehorror, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:49

          Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA, Germany
          Duration02:22

          On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrehorror, fantastic, melodrama
          CountryUSA

          A surreal sci-fi romance wherein a beautiful young woman and strange metaphysical forces threaten the reality of a reclusive video arcade technician, resulting in bizarre biomechanical mutations and a shocking self-realization.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:28

          MIDNIGHT SON is the story of Jacob, a young man confined to a life of isolation, due to a rare skin disorder that prevents him from being exposed to sunlight. His world opens up when he meets Mary, a local bartender, and falls in love. Tragically, Jacob’s actions become increasingly bizarre as he struggles to cope with the effects of his worsening condition. Forced by the disease to drink human blood for sustenance, he must control his increasingly violent tendencies as local law enforcement narrow their focus on him as a suspect in a series of grisly murders.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrehorror, melodrama, drama, history
          CountryFrance, Italy
          Duration01:45

          Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:27

          The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in a frenzy of shocking lunacy. Horrifying visions invade the castle - realizations of Byron's fear of leeches, Shelley's fear of premature burial, Mary's fear of birthing a stillborn child - all brought forth in a bizarre dreamscape. They share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night. The events of that night later inspired Mary Shelley to write the classic "Frankenstein" and Dr. Polidori to pen "The Vampyre," which became the basis for the creation of Dracula..




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