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10 Best Movies Like The Brain

If you loved The Brain, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
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Scanners

1981★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brain for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only po...

#2
Hollow Man

Hollow Man

2000★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brain for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the n...

#3
Happy Birthday to Me

Happy Birthday to Me

1981★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brain for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the on...

#4
Possessor

Possessor

2020★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brain for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

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 lates...

#5
Self/less

Self/less

2015★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brain for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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 ...

#6
Night of the Creeps

Night of the Creeps

1986★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brain for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the co...

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