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Theme: Brainwashing

1984 (1956)

13 January 201413 May 2024

Rating: ★★½

Dystopia

Director: Michael Anderson
Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling, David Kossoff, …
Category: Science Fiction

Agency (1979)

8 June 19997 May 2024

Rating: ★★

Subliminal Advertising Brainwashing Thriller

Director: George Kaczender
Actors: Lee Majors, Robert Mitchum, Valerie Perrine, Saul Rubinek, …
Category: Science Fiction

Antisocial (2013)

13 October 201313 March 2025

Rating: ★★

Zombie Apocalypse Via Social Media

Director: Cody Calahan
Actors: Michelle Mylett, Adam Christie, Ry Barrett, Charlie Hamilton
Category: Horror

Batman: Bad Blood (2016)

25 April 201615 May 2020

Rating: ★★½

Comic-Book Superhero/Animation

Director: Jay Oliva
Actors: Jason O'Mara, Yvonne Strahovski, Sean Maher, Stuart Allan, …
Category: Fantasy

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

14 May 201625 April 2025

Rating: ★★★½

War Between Comic-Book Superheroes

Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Actors: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr, Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson, …
Category: Science Fiction

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

3 May 200124 July 2021

Rating: ★★★★½

Future Thugs/Brainwashing

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Warren Clarke, Michael Bates, …
Category: Science Fiction

Conspiracy Theory (1997)

9 September 200710 May 2020

Rating: ★

Flaky Conspiracy Theorist Comedy/Thriller

Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart
Category: Science Fiction

Cypher (2002)

16 December 20035 June 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Brainwashing Reality Bender

Director: Vincenzo Natali
Actors: Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu, Nigel Bennett, Timothy Webber, …
Category: Science Fiction

Death Warmed Up (1984)

3 July 20022 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Mad Scientist/Zombie Splatter

Director: David Blyth
Actors: Michael Hurst, Margaret Umbers, Gary Day, William Upjohn, …
Category: Horror

Disturbing Behavior (1998)

2 July 200516 August 2020

Rating: ★★½

High School Mind Control Experiments

Director: David Nutter
Actors: James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Bruce Greenwood, …
Category: Science Fiction

Dr M (1990)

18 April 201012 September 2023

Rating: ★

Mind-Controlling Criminal Mastermind

Director: Claude Chabrol
Actors: Jennifer Beals, Alan Bates, Jan Niklas, Benoit Regent, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Electronic Monster (1960)

28 June 200217 June 2025

Rating: ★

Sinister Dream-Programming Institute

Director: Montgomery Tully
Actors: Rod Cameron, Peter Illing, Mary Murphy, Kay Callard, …
Category: Science Fiction

Final Mission (1994)

21 October 200021 November 2021

Rating: ★★

Virtual Reality Brainwashing of Pilots

Director: Lee Redmond
Actors: Billy Wirth, Elizabeth Gracen, Corbin Bernsen, Steve Railsback, …
Category: Science Fiction

Girl Next (2021)

9 May 20229 May 2022

Rating: 0­

Imprisonment Thriller/Mad Science

Director: Larry Wade Carrell
Actors: Lacey Cofran, Marcus Jean Pirae, Rachel Alig, Paula Macenaro Solinger, …
Category: Horror

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014)

22 November 201410 January 2024

Rating: ★★

Future Social Revolution

Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (2015)

28 November 201510 January 2024

Rating: ★★½

Future Social Revolution

Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Donald Sutherland, …
Category: Science Fiction

In Like Flint (1967)

1 May 200025 November 2023

Rating: ★★

Spy Film

Director: Gordon Douglas
Actors: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Andrew Duggan, Steve Ihnat, …
Category: Science Fiction

Interstella 5555 (2003)

19 April 200410 November 2021

Rating: ★★

Anime/Intergalactic Rock Band

Director: Kazuhisa Takenuchi
Category: Science Fiction

Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

15 April 200121 December 2021

Rating: ★★

Girl Rock Group’s Adventures/Cartoon in Live Action

Director: Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan
Actors: Rachel Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Alan Cumming, …
Category: Science Fiction

Killer Tomatoes Strike Back! (1991)

2 August 200220 December 2024

Rating: ★★

Genre Spoof

Director: John De Bello
Actors: Rick Rockwell, John Astin, Crystal Carson, Steve Lundquist, …
Category: Science Fiction

Looker (1981)

5 August 199931 December 2024

Rating: ★★½

Virtual Models

Director: Michael Crichton
Actors: Albert Finney, Susan Dey, James Coburn, Leigh Taylor-Young
Category: Science Fiction

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

9 July 20005 January 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Brainwashed Assassin/Political Satire

Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury, James Gregory, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Mind Benders (1962)

20 March 200910 July 2024

Rating: ★★½

Brainwashing Thriller

Director: Basil Dearden
Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig
Category: Science Fiction

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

8 May 20021 May 2024

Rating: ★★★★★

Dystopia

Director: Michael Radford
Actors: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack
Category: Science Fiction

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

28 October 20014 January 2022

Rating: ★★★½

James Bond Film

Director: Peter Hunt
Actors: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, …
Category: Science Fiction

Project X (1968)

30 November 200014 February 2025

Rating: ★★

Future Mental Probing/Reality Simulations

Director: William Castle
Actors: Christopher George, Monte Markham, Henry Jones, Harold Gould, …
Category: Science Fiction

Radio Free Albemuth (2014)

30 November 20148 August 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Philip K. Dick Adaptation/Possible Messages from Aliens

Director: John Alan Simon
Actors: Jonathan Scarfe, Shea Whigham, Alanis Morissette, Katheryn Winnick, …
Category: Science Fiction

Scanner Cop (1994)

5 May 200322 December 2021

Rating: ★★

Psychic Powers

Director: Pierre David
Actors: Daniel Quinn, Richard Lynch, Richard Grove, Darlanne Fluegel, …
Category: Science Fiction

Simon (1980)

5 July 20012 November 2023

Rating: ★★½

Fake Alien Comedy

Director: Marshall Brickman
Actors: Alan Arkin, Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton, Judy Graubart, …
Category: Science Fiction

Soldier (1998)

29 April 199919 March 2025

Rating: ★★

Programmed Soldier Becomes Self-Aware

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Actors: Kurt Russell, Sean Pertwee, Jason Isaacs, Connie Nielsen, …
Category: Science Fiction

Strange Behavior (1981)

14 April 200111 August 2021

Rating: ★★★

Mad Scientist/Mind Control Experiments

Director: Michael Laughlin
Actors: Michael Murphy, Fiona Lewis, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor, …
Category: Horror

Subliminal Seduction (1996)

24 March 20107 September 2022

Rating: ★½

Sinister Brainwashing Plot

Director: Andrew Stevens
Actors: Ian Ziering, Dee Wallace, Andrew Stevens, Griffin Drew
Category: Science Fiction

Submerged (2005)

29 March 20083 July 2025

Rating: ★★

Action Film/Mind Control

Director: Anthony Hickox
Actors: Steven Seagal, Vinnie Jones, Nick Brimble, William Hope, …
Category: Science Fiction

They Live (1988)

6 July 200111 April 2025

Rating: ★★★

Reality-Manipulating Aliens

Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, Peter Jason
Category: Science Fiction

Timebomb (1991)

23 March 20015 July 2022

Rating: ★★★

Brainwashing/Action

Director: Avi Nesher
Actors: Michael Biehn, Patsy Kensit, Richard Jordan, Robert Culp, …
Category: Science Fiction

Zeta One (1969)

16 March 201630 April 2021

Rating: ★★

Softcore Spy Film/Invading Alien Women

Director: Michael Cort
Actors: Robin Hawdon, James Robertson Justice, Yutte Stensgaard, Charles Hawtrey, …
Category: Science Fiction

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Theme Essays

  • Films About Atlantis
  • Werewolf Films
  • Virtual Reality
  • Imprisonment Thrillers
  • Films Depicting NASA and the Space Program
  • Human Bloodsports and Death Games
  • Animals Attack Films
  • Films About Plague and Pandemic
  • Disaster Movies
  • Steampunk Films
  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • Films About Imaginary and Magical Lands
  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
  • Jekyll and Hyde Films
  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being True Stories
  • Coming of Age Stories in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Cryogenics and Suspended Animation
  • Alternate History Films
  • Disturbed Psychology as Portrayed on Film
  • Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema
  • Weird Westerns
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