Movies Like Strange Experiment

If you liked Strange Experiment (1937), a movie directed by Albert Parker, 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
Johnny Handsome (1989)
★ 6.3/10
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his…
2
Kiss of Death (1947)
★ 7.1/10
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
3
Control (2004)
★ 6.1/10
Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.
4
Saw III (2006)
★ 6.4/10
Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While…
5
Black Friday (1940)
★ 6/10
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and…
6
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
★ 7.1/10
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his…
7
Hollow Triumph (1948)
★ 6.6/10
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
8
Face/Off (1997)
★ 7.1/10
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
9
Phenomenon (1996)
★ 6.5/10
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
10
The Raven (1935)
★ 6.6/10
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to…
11
Possessor (2020)
★ 6.4/10
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 latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped…
12
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
★ 6.1/10
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…
13
Dead End (1937)
★ 7.1/10
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
14
Criminal (2016)
★ 6.2/10
CIA Agent Bill Pope is on a mission to track down a shadowy hacker named 'The Dutchman'. When he gets mysteriously killed, an experimental procedure transfers his memories into a dangerous ex-convict. When he wakes up…
15
The Unforgivable (2021)
★ 7.4/10
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
16
Jamesy Boy (2014)
★ 6.4/10
Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected…
17
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
★ 8/10
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him…
18
Promising Young Woman (2020)
★ 7.4/10
A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
19
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
★ 6.8/10
In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true…
20
Body Parts (1991)
★ 5.9/10
A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing…