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Discover the best social experiment movies on streaming

Movies that are focused on social experiments as their main theme range from disturbing

psychological journeys to odd and quirky comedies. For example, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange is a dark ride through an experimental government treatment for a psychopath, and The Manchurian Candidate looks at the role the military plays in psychological treatment after warfare. But social experiment movies are not all doom and gloom; The Truman Show is the story of a protagonist breaking out of a social experiment, while a movie like Downsizing looks at the personal effects of a dramatic procedure that reimagines the scale of society. Other notable social experiment movies include Saw, The Lobster, The Purge, Exam, The Stanford Prison Experiment, and Oldboy.

Social experiment movies you might have missed

These social experiment movies sometimes fly under the radar. Discover The Platform and The Platform 2, which are both horror movies about an unconventional prison experiment. The first movie from filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, Dogtooth, is a social experiment thriller, while other movies in this genre include Circle, The Belko Experiment, Heretic, and The Experiment.