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The Man with the Rubber Head

Movies Like The Man with the Rubber Head (1901)

The Man with the Rubber Head is a 1901 comedy, fantasy film from Georges Méliès with a MovieMagicScore of 7.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Four Troublesome Heads and The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

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The Four Troublesome Heads

1898

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.

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The Brain That Wouldn't Die

1962

Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.

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A Trip to Mars

1910

A certain professor of chemistry discovers two substances that, combined, make it possible to contravene the laws of gravity, a discovery that will have unexpected consequences for him.

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The Mysterious Knight

1899

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

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Young Frankenstein

1974

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.

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Re-Animator

1985

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

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Bride of Re-Animator

1990

Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life – starting with the heart of his young protégé Dan's dearly deceased Meg Halsey.

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Dr. Cyclops

1940

Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.

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The Evil of Frankenstein

1964

Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?

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Man-Made Monster

1941

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

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The Man Who Changed His Mind

1936

Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable...

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The Mad Ghoul

1943

A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.

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The Horror of Frankenstein

1970

Young Victor Frankenstein returns from medical school with a depraved taste for beautiful women and fiendish experiments.

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Blood of the Vampire

1958

A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his crippled assistant Carl, the 'anemic' Mad Scientist, believed to be a vampire, conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of a prison hospital for the criminally insane to sustain his return to life.

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The Monster and the Girl

1941

After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.

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House of Dracula

1945

A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.

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Lady Frankenstein

1971

When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant continue his experiments.

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The Neanderthal Man

1953

A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.

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Zaat

1971

A mad scientist unleashes his master plan: to transform himself into a mutated walking catfish, and gain revenge on those who have spurned him. His plans go wrong, and he becomes tempted to kidnap a nubile young woman to similarly transform her so that he can breed.

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The Madness of Dr. Tube

1915

A wacky scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect, he tries it out on his boy assistant, his pets, his nieces, and their beaus. But, chaos ensues as his nieces don't find their appearances as funny as the rest, so Doctor Tube tries to find a way to make things right.

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Man with the Rubber Head?

The top films similar to The Man with the Rubber Head by MovieMagicScore are The Four Troublesome Heads (7.2), The Brain That Wouldn't Die (4.7), A Trip to Mars (6.2). Each shares comedy/fantasy themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Man with the Rubber Head worth watching?

The Man with the Rubber Head holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.2/10 from 161 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is The Man with the Rubber Head?

The Man with the Rubber Head (1901) is a comedy, fantasy film directed by Georges Méliès, starring Georges Méliès.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Man with the Rubber Head?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more comedy recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Man with the Rubber Head

This ranked list pairs The Man with the Rubber Head (1901), a comedy and fantasy film from Georges Méliès, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Georges Méliès take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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