Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "unethical-experiment"

1. Old (2021)

PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A vacationing family discovers that the secluded beach where they're relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Alex Wolff

Votes: 161,117 | Gross: $48.28M

2. Three Identical Strangers (2018)

PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.

Director: Tim Wardle | Stars: Robert Shafran, Michael Domnitz, Howard Schneider, Ellen Cervone

Votes: 39,890 | Gross: $12.32M

3. Homecoming (2018–2020)

TV-MA | 30 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An anthology series centered around the mysterious Geist Group, an unconventional wellness company and their equally unorthodox program, the Homecoming Initiative.

Stars: Stephan James, Bobby Cannavale, Hong Chau, Alex Karpovsky

Votes: 27,475

4. Return of the Living Dead III (1993)

R | 97 min | Horror

Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught youth performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.

Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: J. Trevor Edmond, Melinda Clarke, Kent McCord, James T. Callahan

Votes: 16,751 | Gross: $0.05M

5. The Experiment (2001)

R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller

For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring

Votes: 96,132 | Gross: $0.14M

6. Limetown (2019)

TV-14 | 30 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Follows Lia Haddock, a journalist for American Public Radio (APR), as she unravels the mystery behind the disappearance of over 300 people at a neuroscience research facility in Tennessee.

Stars: Jessica Biel, Sherri Saum, Stanley Tucci, Omar Elba

Votes: 3,270

7. Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

After regaining consciousness following an injury sustained in World War II, legendary American commando, B.J. Blazkowicz, awakens from a coma in a dystopian Nazi dominated world of 1960s. He tries to locate the remnants of the resistance.

Director: Jens Matthies | Stars: Brian Bloom, Alicja Bachleda, Gideon Emery, A.J. Trauth

Votes: 6,603

8. Call of Duty: Black Ops III (2015 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Horror

The third installment of the Call of Duty: Black Ops franchise brings the player to a dark twisted future with a built-up war storyline.

Director: Jason Blundell | Stars: Omid Abtahi, Orion Acaba, Abdul Alvi, Ike Amadi

Votes: 8,107

9. The Capture (2017)

78 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

A group of scientists discover a soul guide and perform an experiment on her even though such ungodly act could cause space and time to bend and alter the very fabric of the universe.

Director: Jim Agnew | Stars: Jonathan Howard, Nora-Jane Noone, Jordan Tisdale, Annie Monroe

Votes: 6,864

10. The Marijuana Conspiracy (2020)

124 min | Drama

In 1972, young women looking for a fresh start in life endure isolated captivity in a true 98-day human experiment studying the effects of marijuana on females.

Director: Craig Pryce | Stars: Julia Sarah Stone, Hannah Vandenbygaart, Daniel DeSanto, Craig Burnatowski

Votes: 206

11. Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)

Unrated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting; reviving the dead.

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter, Kenneth J. Warren

Votes: 1,064

12. Patient 001 (2018)

Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A desperate wife agrees to have a baby cloned from her comatose husband's DNA. However, the husband gets better and they get rid of the baby - until the past comes calling decades later in a mix of mystery, lust and violence.

Director: Katie Fleischer | Stars: Rosie Fellner, Michael Hayden, Noah Fleiss, Michel Gill

Votes: 201

13. Made in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of Block 10 (2019)

72 min | Documentary, History, War

This chilling documentary uses intimate survivor testimonies, archival footage and legal records to tell the story of the over 400 young women who underwent medical experimentation in ... See full summary »

Directors: Sylvia Nagel, Sonya Winterberg | Stars: Leny Adelaar, Carl Clauberg, Renée Duering, Eva Golgevit

Votes: 90

14. DC Showcase: Sgt. Rock (2019)

15 min | Animation, Short, Action

Just after recovering from losing his entire unit in battle, Sgt. Rock leads a special army of commandos against a Nazi secret research base.

Director: Bruce Timm | Stars: Karl Urban, Keith Ferguson, William Salyers, Audrey Wasilewski

Votes: 1,449

15. The Invisible Man (1984)

165 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A scientist named Griffin invents a way to change his body's refractive index and thus becomes invisible. He uses the opportunity to carry out random acts of violence.

Stars: Pip Donaghy, Lila Kaye, David Gwillim, Ron Pember

Votes: 224

16. Habeas Corpus (1928)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy

Loony scientist (Carle) hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies for his experiments.

Directors: James Parrott, Leo McCarey | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Carle, Charley Rogers

Votes: 904

17. The Sugar Experiment (2023)

92 min | Biography, Drama, History

The film is inspired by a controversial experiment that took place in Sweden in 1948.

Director: John Tornblad | Stars: Amanda Malmberg, Isak Bruno, Elisabeth Ehde Torbjörnsdotter, Henrik Norman

Votes: 263

18. All Souls (2001)

60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Dr. Mitchell Grace joins the staff of Boston's All Souls Hospital only to realize that the place is haunted and that some of his colleagues there may be as dangerous as the ghosts.

Stars: Adam Rodriguez, Christian Tessier, Daniel Cosgrove, Irma P. Hall

Votes: 107

19. Man (2012 Video)

4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

500,000 years ago, the modern man appears. He treats the animals and nature as a consumer, with frivolity and cruelty, and pridefully turns the world into a dumpster. However, someone is watching.

Director: Steve Cutts

Votes: 1,152

20. The Island of Doctor Agor (1971)

Animation, Short, Horror

An adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells story "The Island of Doctor Moreau".

Director: Tim Burton | Star: Tim Burton

Votes: 267

21. Target: St. Louis (2018)

Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary

The secret history of U.S. Army aerosol radiation tests in segregated neighborhoods of North St. Louis during the Cold War.

Director: Sean Slater | Stars: Reese Archibald, James Baldwin, Sarah M. Barnes, Karl Brandt

Votes: 11

22. The U.S. Syphilis Experiment (2021)

5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

Afflicting nearly 1 in 10 Americans, syphilis was ravaging the U.S. in the 1930s. Many doctors believed syphilis affected Black and white patients differently, and the Public Health Service... See full summary »

Directors: Rikke Alma Krogshave Planeta, Philip Piaget | Star: Christina Greer

23. Synnergist (1996 Video Game)

M | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Journalist Tim Machin finds work with a sleazy tabloid. He's to cover a bizarre murder case. This takes him to a bar, where he meets a nice girl. However, he then receives visions of another reality and soon becomes the murder suspect.

Director: Karthik Bala | Stars: Jeff Baskin, Ross Goldenberg, Ken Klam, Guha Bala

24. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Rise of the Cybermen (2006)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The TARDIS crash lands in London on a parallel world, where Rose's dad is still alive, people are disappearing off the streets and one of the Doctor's deadliest enemies is about to be reborn.

Director: Graeme Harper | Stars: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Noel Clarke

Votes: 7,576

25. Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode: Sense and Antisense (1997)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Frank, who has a new stalker, helps the Group locate a raving lunatic on the run who might be infected with a pathogen. He reveals a conspiracy involving the Human Genome Project, experiments on the homeless and the genocide in Rwanda.

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Stephen J. Lang

Votes: 329

26. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: Stressed Environment (1990)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A female scientist who spent 12 years raising rats in a stressed environment in the hopes of evolving their intelligence faces the terrifying results of her experiment.

Director: Jeffrey Wolf | Stars: Carol Lynley, Victor Raider-Wexler, Scott Weir, Kathleen McCall

Votes: 102

27. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: Blank Slate (1999)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Hope Wilson knows there's something different about the man who stumbles into the homeless shelter that she works at. The well-manicured man is being chased by somebody and is apparently carrying all of his memories in a box.

Director: Lou Diamond Phillips | Stars: Dale Midkiff, Robbi Chong, Larry Musser, Brian Jensen

Votes: 200

28. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Regeneration (2000)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

The team's former female colleague has secretly created a clone of Lindsay that possess rapid healing. Connor reappears and warns the team that the clone is actually a highly unstable and dangerous human-alien hybrid.

Director: Will Dixon | Stars: Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Joanne Vannicola, Colin Fox

Votes: 18

29. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: School of Thought (1999)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

After a shop teacher is almost killed by a car with no engine, the OSIR investigates antisocial teens with telekinetic powers in a high school for troubled youth. Also, the team's personal lives get more complicated.

Director: John Bell | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 16

30. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode: Nothing Human (1998)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When an alien parasitically latches onto B'Elanna for survival, the Doctor calls upon a holographic Cardassian doctor for assistance, unaware he's a war criminal, thereby creating an ethical quandary.

Director: David Livingston | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill

Votes: 1,901

31. Strange World (1999–2002)
Episode: Lullaby (1999)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cassandra Tyson is a naive pregnant woman, who believes that someone is trying to kill her baby. Turner discovers that there is no baby and that she's unknowingly a part of a lucrative revolutionary cloning experiment.

Director: Joseph L. Scanlan | Stars: Tim Guinee, Sandra Quarterman, Vivian Wu, Kristin Lehman

Votes: 7

32. Strange World (1999–2002)
Episode: Skin (2000)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sidney investigates a strange skin disease that her homeless patient has. Turner discovers that it's got something to do with an experimental skin grafting technique. Someone tries to kill Sydney over this. Mysterious ally helps her.

Director: Brett Dowler | Stars: Tim Guinee, Sandra Quarterman, Vivian Wu, Kristin Lehman

33. Science! (2019)
Episode: Put a Lil' Demon in It (2019)

Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

Dr. Linda Moog dramatically unveils her latest breakthrough - a transdimensional window. What's on the other side is anybody's guess.

Director: Neal Holman | Stars: Cree Summer, Betsy Sodaro, Jeremy Bent, Hollie Harper

34. Torchwood (2006–2011)
Episode: Reset (2008)

TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Jack calls in his old friend Martha Jones, now a doctor at UNIT, to investigate mysterious deaths. When the trail leads to a medical research facility known as "The Pharm", Martha must go undercover to discover the truth.

Director: Ashley Way | Stars: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori

Votes: 1,099

35. The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (1995–2002)
Episode: Bayou on the Half Shell/Seeing Double (1999)

TV-G | 11 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A giant crawfish attacks New Orleans so Granny and the local army dog trainer must stop it. / A mysterious voice hires Granny to investigate a pet resort run by a shady company suspected of performing mysterious unethical experiments.

Directors: Karl Toerge, Charles Visser | Stars: Joe Alaskey, June Foray, Frank Welker, Michelle Blakely

Votes: 27

36. Day 5 (2016–2017)
Episode: Wide Awake (2016)

47 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

In the season finale, alliances at Dr. Abrams' facility are pushed to a breaking point; Ellis' group puts their theory to the test.

Director: Todd McMullen | Stars: Jesse C. Boyd, Walker Satterwhite, Stephanie Drapeau, Davi Jay

Votes: 54

37. Dimension 404 (2017)
Episode: Matchmaker (2017)

TV-14 | 39 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A finicky music blogger finally meets the girl of his dreams through the cutting-edge online dating site Make-A-Match, but their chemistry seems too good to be true.

Directors: Stephen Cedars, Benji Kleiman | Stars: Robert Buckley, Lea Michele, Matt Jones, Joel McHale

Votes: 578

38. Room 104 (2017–2020)
Episode: Artificial (2018)

TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A reporter looks to uncover the truth about a woman who claims to be a hybrid robot warning of an impending AI takeover.

Director: Natalie Morales | Stars: Katie Aselton, Julian Grant, Sheaun McKinney, Eric Wentz

Votes: 295

39. The Order (2019–2020)
Episode: Undeclared, Part Two (2019)

TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Alyssa helps the Knights search for Randall and stumbles upon a doctor's twisted experiment. Edward is visited by the Vade Maecum's previous owner.

Director: Rachel Leiterman | Stars: Jake Manley, Sarah Grey, Max Martini, Adam DiMarco

Votes: 577