Highest-Rated Movies about 'Scientific Experiment'

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), The Thing (1982), Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978), Dark Matter (2007), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), Primer (2004), Altered States (1980), The Quiet Earth (1985) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Scientific Experiment movies.

#1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

Storyline: Scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll (John Barrymore) is intelligent and diligent, but also uptight and extremely serious about his work. When his friend, Sir George Carew (Brandon Hurst), takes him to a show featuring the sensual Miss Gina (Nita Naldi), an aroused Jekyll sets out on a quest to separate man's saintly and sinful sides. His experiments succeed, and his evil alter ego, Mr. Hyde, is created. As the doctor uncontrollably alternates between Jekyll and Hyde, danger looms.

Plot Keywords: gothic horror, psychological thriller, dual identity, classic adaptation, black and white film, moral dilemma, scientific experiment ...

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#2. The Thing (1982)

Storyline: In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot (Kurt Russell) and the camp doctor (Richard Dysart) lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, horror, mystery, alien creature, isolated setting, paranoia, survival ...

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#4. Dark Matter (2007)

Storyline: Jorge is a 25-year old janitor who desperately tries to find himself a new, and especially, better, job. This undertaking is complicated by the fact he takes care of his handicapped father who had a hart infarct seven years earlier. His soon-to-be-released brother Antonio finds a girlfriend (Paula) in jail who wants to get pregnant. When Antonio finds out he's infertile, Jorge is asked to make Paula pregnant. To make the dilemma even heavier, Jorge's childhood sweetheart Natalia returns after many years. Meanwhile, Jorge's best friend Israel (nicknamed Sean) secretly photographs men visiting an erotic masseur to find out something he didn't bargain for.—Marco van Hoof <k_luifje7@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, physics, scientist, identity crisis, supernatural ...

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#6. Primer (2004)

Storyline: Engineers Aaron, Abe, Robert and Phillip are working on an invention, the prototype being built in Aaron's garage. This project is beyond their day jobs. The project truly does belong to Aaron and Abe, as they use all their free time working on it, primarily trying to overcome the many engineering related problems they've encountered. It is during one of his tests with the invention running that Abe discovers that a protein inside the main unit has multiplied much more rapidly than it could in nature. Rather than the invention being a protein super incubator, Abe, using himself as a guinea pig, and a very meticulous one at that, discovers that the invention can be used as a time machine. In his self experiment, Abe was especially careful not to interfere with his own self in that time warp. Abe passes along this discovery to Aaron, who he expects will tell his wife Kara in what is the sanctity of their marriage, but he doesn't want to tell either Robert or Phillip. Much to Abe's ...

Plot Keywords: science fiction, independent film, low budget, time travel, complex narrative, nonlinear storytelling, mystery ...

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#7. Altered States (1980)

Storyline: It's the late 1960's. Just for a lark, graduate student Eddie Jessup, known for being unconventional, brilliant and slightly mad, conducts experiments with an isolation chamber, using himself as the subject. His experiences in the chamber cause him to hallucinate, much of the imagery being religious-based despite he not being a religious man. Seven years later, he is a respected full professor in the Harvard Medical School. Believing he has lost his edge and has fallen into an unwanted state of respectability, Eddie decides to resume his work with sensory deprivation, this time using hallucinogens, specifically untested ones used in mystical Mexican rituals, to enhance the experience of being in the isolation tank. After initial tests, he claims he entered an alternate physical and mental state. Although unbelieving of Eddie's claims, his colleagues Arthur Rosenberg and Mason Parrish, as well as Eddie's wife, Emily, who is in her own right a respected academic, are concerned for ...

Plot Keywords: science fiction, horror, psychological thriller, experimental, psychedelic, surrealism, evolution ...

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#8. The Quiet Earth (1985)

Storyline: A man wakes up to find himself literally alone in the world, and goes about trying to find other survivors, as well as to find out what happened. He suspects that a government research project he was involved in had something to do with the disappearance of everyone. Eventually he finds several other people, and once they begin to trust each other they try to figure out why they were left on earth.

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, new zealand film, isolation, survival, psychological thriller, mystery ...

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#9. The Island (2005)

Storyline: Set in a dystopian future, a group of people work in a facility, essentially as slaves. They do have an incentive though - a regular lottery is held and one of them gets to leave the facility and its restrictions and move to The Island, a paradise. Lincoln Six Echo is one of the workers in the facility and he is infatuated with Jordan Two Delta. His life is fairly uneventful and mundane until Jordan Two Delta gets selected to go to The Island. Then Lincoln starts to discover the truth about the facility and The Island.

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, action, thriller, cloning, dystopian, escape, conspiracy ...

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#10. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

Storyline: A research team is sent to an island eighty-seven miles away from the previous home of Jurassic Park, to document and photograph the now liberated dinosaurs. However, InGen the BioEngineering company has sent another larger team to the same island to catch, sedate, and transport some dinosaurs to San Diego where they will be used in a new Jurassic Park location. But life always finds a way. Will both teams return to the mainland with successful findings? Or will another tragedy occur?

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, adventure, action, sequel, island, survival, thriller ...

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#11. Phenomenon (1996)

Storyline: John Travolta plays George Malley, who owns the local auto repair shop in a small California town. After celebrating his birthday with friends at the local bar/hang-out, George heads for home. He pauses to watch a strange light in the sky, then collapses for a few seconds in the middle of the deserted street. In the days and weeks that follow, George finds his IQ and consciousness expanding dramatically, and develops telekinetic abilities. Despite his attempts to explain what has happened to him, with just a very few exceptions, most of the local townspeople treat the "new" George as a freak. His state of isolation becomes even more pronounced when his new-found abilities allow him to correctly predict an earthquake, and outside authorities become interested in what's happened to him.

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, drama, romance, supernatural, mystery, fantasy, human nature ...

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#12. Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)

Storyline: A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British scientist John Kane via spaceship to explore the other planet. After a disastrous crash-landing Ross awakes to learn that Kane lies near death and that they apparently have returned to Earth, as evidenced by the presence of the Council director and his staff. Released to the custody of his wife, he soon learns things are not as they seem.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>

Plot Keywords: science fiction, adventure, space, parallel universe, astronaut, mystery, exploration ...

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#13. Man in the Moon (1961)

Storyline: William Blood makes his living as a guinea-pig helping medical research into ailments such as the common cold. This is great for him as his carefree attitude means he never succumbs to the illnesses being tested. Because of this, scientists training the first group of UK astronauts recruit him so he can be the first to check out the moon, much to the annoyance of the rest of the more macho team. However, William's life may be becoming more complicated after he meets the stunning Polly, so his defence against germs could be in jeopardy.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: science fiction, adventure, space, moon, cold war, astronaut, alien creature ...

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#14. Senseless (1998)

Storyline: Darryl Witherspoon is a young black college student who wants to win annual junior analyst competition, which can land him a job in a big brokerage company. He becomes a guinea pig for the drug developed at the college which is promised to heighten all senses by ten times.

Plot Keywords: comedy, humor, usa, 1990s, campus, experiment, sci-fi elements ...

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#15. The Whip Hand (1951)

Storyline: Matt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota, and stumbles across a lake in which all the fish have mysteriously died. The locals are tight-lipped about it, but Corbin learns that a group of former-Nazis-turned-Communists have purchased a lodge on an island in the middle of the fish-killing lake, and have built some kind of laboratory. Never one to pass up a chance to sell a story to a magazine, Matt decides to investigate. His only ally is Janet Keller, the sister of the local doctor who has been caught up in whatever those nefarious Commie-Nazis are up to. What they are up to, with Soviet financing, is the development of diseases to use in bacteriological warfare against the United States, starting right there in Minnesota.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net

Plot Keywords: thriller, spy, cold war, mystery, film noir, crime, conspiracy ...

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