Movies Like The Brain-Stealers

If you liked The Brain-Stealers (1968), a science fiction and thriller movie directed by Umetsugu Inoue, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Limitless (2011)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller and science fiction
The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that…
2
Impostor (2001)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thriller
A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
3
Scanners (1981)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.
4
Prodigy (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and science fiction
Jimmy is a committed child psychologist who uses his own playbook, but when he is brought in to work with Ellie, he is completely unprepared for his subject—a 9-year-old psychopathic genius with nothing to lose. As he…
5
Darkman (1990)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and thriller
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental…
6
Gemini Man (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and science fiction
Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict…
7
The Machine (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and thriller
Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a…
8
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in…
9
From Beyond (1986)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction
The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she…
10
Paycheck (2003)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and thriller
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the…
11
Bloodshot (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction
After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine—'Bloodshot'. As Ray first trains with…
12
Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and thriller
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
13
Hollow Man (2000)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and thriller
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 next phase — using himself as the…
14
Off the Grid (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
After a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a strike force to find him, they make their…
15
Lucy (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
16
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and thriller
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
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Monsters of Man (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing…
18
Igor (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
A cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science community.
19
Disclosure Day (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also science fiction and thriller
A cybersecurity expert becomes a whistleblower after uncovering secrets about aliens, putting him on the run from a corporation. Meanwhile, a meteorologist experiencing strange phenomena joins forces with him to prove…
20
Cosmos (2019)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
Three astronomers accidentally intercept what they believe to be a signal from a distant alien civilization, but the truth is even more incredible than any of them could have imagined.