Movies like Martyrs

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Martyrs (2008)
 7.0
 105K
Martyrs (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style: disturbing, bloody, scary, brutal, splatter, creepy, sadistic, dark, suspense, sinister ...
Plot: torture, child abuse, violence, gory, kidnapping, brutality, revenge, afterlife, torment, fear, torture chamber, home invasion, life is a bitch, hardcore, violence against women, sadistic horror, death, captivity, plot twist, disturbed individual, held captive, lesbian, abused woman, extreme, graphic violence ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 2000s, year 1971, 21st century, contemporary
Keyword: disgust, french, reboot, new age, creep, challenge

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Most similar movies to Martyrs

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, bloody, suspense and splatter films with plots about violence, torture, extreme, blood, gore, brutality and violent mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Martyrs: Frontier(s) (2007), Hostel (2005), The Tortured (2010), The Collector (2009), I Spit on Your Grave (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.2
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Frontier(s) (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: cannibalism, psychopath, sadistic horror, macabre, torture, survival, human monster, gory, cruelty, sadism, insanity, butcher ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: europe, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 5.9
 190K
Hostel (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, torture, psychopath, survival, danger, sadistic horror, captivity, dismemberment, violence, torment, strong violent content, sadistic psychopath ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, slovakia, europe, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 5.4
 8K
The Tortured (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.
Style: sadistic, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot: torture, kidnapping, bloody violence, child murder, gory, revenge, sadism, child killer, psychopath, homicidal maniac, death of son, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.3
 72K
The Collector (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a ...
Style: brutal, suspense, bloody, splatter, creepy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: kidnapping, mad scientist, insanity, violence, body horror, victim, experiment gone awry, surgery, confined, evil doctor, psychopath, sadism ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, bloody, rough, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, vengeance, rape and revenge, rape, brutality, sex, sexual abuse, macabre, psychopath, cruelty, sadism, serial killer ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, england, europe, germany, new york state ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
August Underground's Mordum (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Two deranged friends bring along another guy to go on a random murder rampage. They kidnapped lesbian lovers, couples and they torture them in any way that the viewer can imagine. Your worst fears will come true in this shocking account of a killing ...
Style: disturbing, extreme horror, bleak, realistic, scary ...
Plot: found footage, strong violent content, violence spree, serial killer, kidnapping, gory, life is a bitch, violent, extreme, friends, brother sister sex, strong sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
Style: sadistic, disturbing, scary, controversial, bad ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: torture, psychopath, macabre, serial killer, gory, violence against women, sexual abuse, bad guy wins, brutality, mad scientist, sadism, pervert ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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The Girl Next Door (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that ...
Style: scary, disturbing, bleak, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: torture, child abuse, rape, sexual abuse, victim, cruelty, helplessness, child molestation, suffering, childhood, violence, abuse ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 2007, year 1958
Place: new jersey, new york, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 6.7
 77K
High Tension (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, ...
Style: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, gory, macabre, home invasion, psycho killer, kidnapping, torture, insanity, survival, killing spree, disturbed individual, murder ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, y2k, 21st century
Place: france, south of france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Hostel: Part II (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three young American women are lured into a hostel by a handsome young man who sells them to the twisted masters, ties them up and brings upon an unthinkable world of pain.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, controversial, brutal ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: torture, gory, psychopath, murder, sadistic horror, travel, kidnapping, castration, violence, tourist, sadism, killed by a dog ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: europe, rome italy, slovakia, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.7
 44K
Inside (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Style: disturbing, christmas horror, suspense, slasher, brutal ...
Plot: blood, gory, pregnancy, serial killer, home invasion, female psychopath, danger, survival, torture, murder, insanity, extreme ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
August Underground's Penance (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: "August Underground's Penance" is basically the personal home video of two sociopathic killers on murder spree.Again two nameless butchers played by Fred Vogel and Cristie Whiles videotape their bloodthirsty madness,but ...
Style: extreme horror, disturbing, controversial, bloody, splatter ...
Plot: found footage, torture, serial killer, violence, psycho killer, extreme, violent, maniac, death, brutality, evil, sadism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
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A Serbian Film (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Milos, a retired porn star, leads a normal family life trying to make ends meet. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to financially support his family for the rest of their lives, Milos must participate in one last mysterious film. From ...
Style: disturbing, brutal, controversial, rough, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, gory, violence, psychopath, incest, macabre, torture, sexual perversion, insanity, perversion, murder ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: serbia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Incident in a Ghostland (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things ...
Style: suspense, psychological, exciting, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: nightmare, home invasion, serial killer, ghost, sister sister relationship, insanity, sisters, female protagonist, doll, danger, paranoid schizophrenia, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Audition (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Style: psychological thriller, scary, disturbing, tense, dark ...
Plot: torture, femme fatale, psychopath, murder, sadism, macabre, revenge, serial killer, twists and turns, unsettling, violence, obsession ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
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American Mary (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young med student struggling with her tuition fees is drawn into the shady world of underground body modification.
Style: scary, disturbing, sexy, dark, slasher ...
Plot: torture, amputation, rape and revenge, plastic surgery, surgery, stripper, blood, gory, rape, violence, doctor, organized crime ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.6
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Saw (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, gory, macabre, serial killer, mind game, plot twist, survival horror, violent, psychopath, fear, trapped, locked in a room ...
Time: year 2004, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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 6.5
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Antichrist (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, depression, cruelty, violence, fear, controversy, woods, masturbation, real sex, witchcraft, nudity, surrealism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Grotesque (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story: An unnamed doctor has always had everything he's ever wanted, but that has only made him develop more extreme and depraved needs. He kidnaps a young couple in the prime of their life together and forces them into a game of torment that slowly ...
Style: disturbing, brutal, controversial, splatter, slasher ...
Plot: torture, sexual abuse, psychopath, sadism, kidnapping, gory, captivity, brutality, violent death, pain, perversion, strong sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Woman (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
Style: disturbing, bleak, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: torture, revenge, sexual abuse, husband wife relationship, sadism, incestuous relationship, sexploitation, rape and revenge, captivity, sexual assault, suffering, gory ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
August Underground (2001)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity peaked, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the ...
Style: brutal, disturbing, suspense, mockumentary, controversial ...
Plot: torture, degradation, found footage, serial killer, extreme, murder, violent, gory, identical twins, rape, exploitation, basement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever ...
Style: disturbing, sadistic, slasher, rough, scary ...
Plot: found footage, serial killer, psychopath, macabre, investigation, torture, murder, psycho killer, maniac, sadism, suffering, violence ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa, pennsylvania, new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, macabre, massacre, murder, chainsaw, american horror, psychopath, masked killer, cannibalism, homicidal maniac, psycho killer, danger ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1973
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 44K
The Loved Ones (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Lola Stone asked Brent Mitchell to the prom, but Brent said no, and now he's screwed. What happens when Lola doesn't get what she wants? She enlists Daddy's help to throw a prom of her own, where she is queen and Brent is king -- ...
Style: scary, bleak, intense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, torture, prom, kidnapping, female psychopath, psychopath, femme fatale, survival, teenage girl, obsessive love, gory, captivity ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.6
 83K
Cabin Fever (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, rough, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: virus, gory, infected, disease, body horror, plague, danger, fear, woods, survival, cabin in the woods, friendship ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Burning Moon (1992)
Genre: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Burning Moon centers on two bedtime stories that a delinquent brother reads his kid sister. These disturbingly morbid stories focus on a serial killing blind date and a murderous, psychotic priest.
Style: anthology, bloody, disturbing, extreme horror, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, violence, extreme, gory, rape, exploitation, killer, maniac, supernatural power, violent, supernatural being ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, scary, disturbing, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, vengeance, maniac, murder, gory, american civil war, exploitation, redneck, macabre, brutality, mayor, sadism ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: florida, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 275K
Saw II (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, bloody, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, torture, gory, trap, sadistic horror, psychopath, serial murder, hostage, mind game, brutality, violent, insanity ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Bunny Game (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A prostitute looking for her next meal hitches a ride with a trucker that leaves her praying for her next breath.
Style: disturbing, extreme horror, sadistic, controversial, black and white ...
Plot: sadism, prostitute, perversity, torture, misogyny, sexual cruelty, captivity, sex, violence, deviant sex, sexual torture, torturer ...
Time: year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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