Movies like Grimm 2003

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Grimm (2003)
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Grimm (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 103 min.
Story: One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out-of-work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle is dead. Marie meets Diego, a wealthy charming Spanish surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his sick, domineering sister, Teresa. To Jacob's astonishment, Marie wants to marry Diego. Even after the wedding has taken place, jealous Jacob tries to get his sister away from Diego. When this doesn't succeed, Jacob starts to provoke his brother-in-law. It soon transpires that no-one will go unpunished for this.
Style: atmospheric, surreal, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, fairy tale, slasher, disturbing, deep, offbeat ...
Plot: woods, parents and children, family life, forced sexual contact, survival, escape, surrealism, dark humor, family relations, homeless, female rapist, rottweiler, female on male rape, incest, couples, siblings relations, couple relations, sex, dog, dancing, rape, fight, money, abduction, police officer ...
Time: contemporary
Place: spain, europe
Keyword: dutch, abductor, visit, outburst

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, crying, dark comedy and semi serious films with plots about bare chested male, nudity, female nudity, male objectification, murder, violence and family relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Grimm: Little Sister (1995), The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001), Big Bad Wolf (2006), 100 Bloody Acres (2012), The Dress (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Little Sister (1995)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After several years without contact, Martijn visits his sister Daantje, who just started to live on her own in Amsterdam. He tells her he is going to make a documentary from her life, and enters her home life with a video camera.
Style: erotic, sexual, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: incest, found footage, sex with brother, brother sister sex, sex with sister, forbidden sex, children, love and romance, sex scene, making love, erotica, family affairs ...
Time: 90s
Place: amsterdam
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78%
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a ...
Style: surreal, humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, dark ...
Plot: surrealism, suicide, absurdism, zombie, parents and children, family life, resort, nothing goes right, murder, husband wife relationship, mountain, solar eclipse ...
Time: year 2001
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Big Bad Wolf (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In Cameron, a group of hunters is attacked by a wild animal, and Charlie Cowley survives, but sees his brother Scott dying. Seven years later, his teenage nephew Derek Cowley steals the key of his stepfather's cabin in the isolated Fire Road ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, dangerous animal, supernatural, lycanthropy, deadly creature, serial killer, gory, teenage life, stalking, adventurer, survival, stepfather stepson relationship ...
Place: europe, england, london, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
100 Bloody Acres (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Reg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret ingredient" to process through the meat grinder. Reg comes across two guys and a girl with a broken-down vehicle on their way to a music festival.
Style: humorous, suspenseful, horror comedy, slasher, dark comedy ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, family business, brother, murder, countryside, incest, murderous pair, secret, dark humor, characters killed one by one, survival, socially awkward ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Dress (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story of a summer dress and those who have to do with it, especially the train conductor (played by van Warmerdam, the director). The dress functions as catalyst for the whimsical events, which turns out to be either tragic or hilarious.
Style: dark comedy, slasher, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: fashion, female nudity, bare breasts, rape, sodomy, striptease, surrealism, sex crime, sensuality, home invasion, bare butt, nudity ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Borgman (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Borgman is the central character of this dark, malevolent fable. Is he a dream or a demon, a twisted allegory or an all-too-real embodiment of our fears? Borgman is a sinister arrival in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia. His presence ...
Style: surreal, psychological, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: nightmare, dog, home invasion, family crisis, surrealism, good versus evil, manipulation, hidden identity, life turned upside down, supernatural, family problems, terrorizing ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him ...
Style: retro, independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: kidnapping, older woman younger man relationship, motorcycle, older woman younger man, age-gap relationship, mine, family relations, missing person, dysfunctional family, kidnapper, friends, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Bunker (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A student moves in with a family that lives in an underground house in the middle of the forest, far from civilization. His hopes of peace and quiet are soon shattered, when it becomes apparent that both the parents and their son have a screw loose.
Style: surreal, semi serious, atmospheric, horror comedy, underground film ...
Plot: isolation, father son relationship, teacher student relationship, dark humor, abused child, eccentric family, dysfunctional family, family problems, female sexual predator, parents and children, prodigy, bunker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Darlings! (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A peaceful family-life is suddenly disturbed when the children enter puberty. The children take over the house and disrupt the lives of their parents.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, offbeat, witty, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: military base, youth, troubled relationship, older sister, bad kids, prank, coming of age, family relations, garden, house, football, tennis ...
Time: 80s
Place: netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Last Circus (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, bleak, rough, psychological ...
Plot: clown, circus, rivalry, performer's life, uninhibited rivalry, life is a bitch, evil clown, killer clown, dark humor, sadism, graphic violence, violent content ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 70s, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place: europe, spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Grimm (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a ...
Style: fairy tale, captivating, exciting, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, werewolf, legends and myths, monster, creature, supernatural ability, police detective, partners against crime, good versus evil, peril, hunt down, protector ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: portland oregon, oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Last Days of Emma Blank (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman living in a large country home drives her servants to mutiny with her outrageous demands as she waits for death to come for her.
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous, slasher ...
Plot: family relations, estate, farce, dysfunctional family, family problems, lifestyle, parents and children, terminal illness, eccentric family, power relations, dark humor, master and servant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Hotel Fear (1978)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young girl and her mother run a hotel during the war. When the mother dies, the girl finds herself at the mercy of her sex-crazed guests. Soon enough, a cloaked figure starts killing off everyone that tries to harm her.
Style: gothic, controversial, disturbing, dark, grindhouse ...
Plot: sexual assault, rape and revenge, serial killer, world war two, murderer, female psychopath, folk horror, motel, maniac, abandoned house, cruelty, false confession ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.1
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House (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Roger Cobb is a author who has just separated from his wife. He moves into a new house and tries to work on a novel based on his experiences in the Vietnam War. Strange things start happening around him; little things at first, but as they become ...
Style: scary, cult classic, horror comedy, creepy, grindhouse ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, vietnam war, zombie, monster, supernatural, missing person, house, haunted, writers, happy ending, husband murders wife ...
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Teddy (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: France, Pyrénées. Twentysomething Teddy lives in a foster home and works as a temp in a massage parlor. Rebecca, his girlfriend, will soon graduate. A scorching hot summer begins. But Teddy is scratched by a beast in the woods: the wolf that ...
Style: suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, bleak, scary ...
Plot: werewolf, monster, supernatural, high school student, female boss, massacre, chase, strange behavior, violence, death, older woman younger man relationship, exorcism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Cannibal Club (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Baking in the sun with a cocktail, a splash in the pool and the occasional chunk of human flesh. The stinking-rich Gilda and Octavio have a gruesome and kooky hobby. The Cannibal Club is a delightful dark-comic blow-up of the Brazilian super-rich ...
Style: suspense, rough, bleak, humorous, neo noir ...
Plot: cannibal, serial rapist, secret society, female rapist, secret, husband wife relationship, murder, criminal, sadism, violence, employer employee relationship, trap ...
Place: northeast brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a remote corner of England's Peak District, a mysterious skull is unearthed. But even weirder is that Lady Sylvia steals the skull for use in worshiping - very erotically - her pagan god, The White Worm, who hungers for the taste of virginal ...
Style: gothic, surreal, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, giant snake, surrealism, folk horror, dangerous attraction, archaeologist, transformation, female exploitation, obsession, temple, deadly creature ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Sneekweek (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Six friends go to party for a week during the "Sneekweek". But they are haunted by a secret from their past.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, psychotronic, humorous, slasher ...
Plot: psychopath, murder, revenge, nightmare, party, blood, masked killer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, betrayal, police, chase, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Northerners (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.
Style: dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy, slasher, art house ...
Plot: butcher, teenager, surrealism, hippie, neighbor, suburbs, neglect, couples, family relations, estrangement, social relations, dull life ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: netherlands, europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Toto the Hero (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he ...
Style: touching, epic, sad, cult classic, inspirational ...
Plot: coming of age, hide and seek, neighbor neighbor relationship, death of sister, child, youth, children, jazz, train, time travel, adolescence, inspiration ...
Time: year 1991, future, 90s
Place: france, germany, europe, dover england, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?
Style: slasher, gothic, slasher horror, freeze frame, crying ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, drifter, killing spree, love triangle, psychotic, terror, woman with a gun, female psychopath, violence, female sexist, rape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Meet the Applegates (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Giant preying mantis living in a south American jungle decide to move into suburban USA. Disguised as humans, the mantis are planning something.. Could it be connected to dad's job in the power station perhaps ?. One day the daughter mantis ...
Style: cult classic, black comedy, humorous, independent film, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: satire, interspecies sex, rain forest, cocoon, praying mantis, dysfunctional family, insect, jungle, male nudity, monster, creature, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: wisconsin, ohio, usa, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.2
 21K
Dagon (2001)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. ...
Style: lovecraft, scary, suspense, surprise ending, satanic ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, cthulhu, chase, monster, supernatural, small town, body horror, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, gory, nightmare, ritual, human sacrifice ...
Place: spain, galicia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Life After Beth (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. When she mysteriously returns, he gets a second chance at love. Soon his whole world turns upside down...
Style: scary, horror comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, bloody ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: zombie, life & death, couples, supernatural romance, death, transformation, living dead, danger, brutality, life turned upside down, couple relations, youth ...
Time: year 2014, year 2000, 21st century
Place: britain, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.5
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Winter Flies (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Slovakia, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mischievously self-assured Mára and somewhat eccentric Heduš set out into the frozen wastes in search of adventure – by car, naturally. After all, Mára’s turning fifteen soon. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in ...
Style: touching, captivating, serious, humorous, crying ...
Plot: road trip, friendship, friendship between boys, on the run, false accusation, delusion, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lie, manipulation, hitchhiking, arrest, chase ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Little Tony (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Brand, an unemployed illiterate in his fourties, lives with his wife Keet in some desolate corner of the Dutch countryside. Keet, being tired of having to read the subtitles on television out loud so Brand can understand what's going on, one ...
Style: slasher, artsy, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Plot: family relations, love triangle, murder, pregnancy, curse, breast feeding, menage a trois, lust, infidelity, female nudity, adultery, nudity ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A painter facing a creative block arranges to spend the weekend in the country at his mistress's villa. While staying there, his sanity begins to disintegrate.
Style: suspense, gothic, neorealism, grindhouse, phantasmagoric ...
Plot: ghost, painting, painter, artist, supernatural, obsession, art, mental disorder, parallel universe, biopic, folk horror, psycho ...
Time: 60s, 1940s, year 1944
Place: italy, milan italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Teen Vamp (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An unimpressive, boring high-school geek is bitten and contracts vampirical symptoms, transforming him into a confident coolio.
Style: humorous, scary, suspense, freeze frame, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, high school, cheerleader, male nudity, teenager, supernatural power, teenage boy, transformation, dark humor, research, rivalry, awkward situation ...
Time: 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Head Mistress (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A man pretends to be an imbecile so that he may work at an all girl's school.
Style: fairy tale, sensual, grindhouse, erotic, slasher ...
Plot: sexploitation, sexual humiliation, revenge, promiscuous woman, necrophilia, decapitation, bisexual woman, gang rape, lesbian sex, murder, voyeurism, sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Strigoi (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When the villagers killed Constantin Tirescu, they thought it was justice. Vlad Cozma thinks it was murder. Now, Constantin thinks pickles might go nice with blood.
Style: dark comedy, suspense, psychotronic, crying, allegory ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vampire, folk horror, zombie, supernatural being, good guys win, photography, dead body, shovel as weapon, bare chested male, rural setting, traumatic memory, vigilante justice ...
Time: 2000s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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