Movies like Battle Royale

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Battle Royale (2000)
 7.5
 194K
Battle Royale (2000)
Original name: バトル・ロワイアル
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, bloody, exciting, psychological, splatter, epic, futuristic, harsh ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: game of death, survival, death, dystopia, suicide, gory, desperation, cruelty, social commentary, school class, dystopian future, contests and competitions, jungle, island, game, teacher, children, violent, massacre, teenager, satire, adolescence, friendship, murder, school ...
Time: future, year 2000, distant future, 2000s, near future
Place: japan, asia, east asia, india, tokyo
Keyword: reboot, retrospective, disgust, gangsters, twilight, dutch, superior, attack, short shorts, challenge

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Most similar movies to Battle Royale

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and suspense films with plots about murder, death, danger, violence, blood, survival and rivalry mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Battle Royale: The Hunger Games (2012), Squid Game (2021), As the Gods Will (2014), The Condemned (2007), Confessions (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 155 min.
Story: It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several ...
Style: suspense, controversial, splatter, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, kidnapping, dystopian future, revenge, game of death, betrayal, violent, fight scenes, gunfight, master villain, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 2000s
Place: japan, asia, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Hunger Games (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, family outing
Plot: survival, female protagonist, distopia, death, game of death, contests and competitions, competition, youth, danger, heroine, society, rivalry ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 8.0
 532K
Squid Game (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min.
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Story: "Round Six" is a story of people who fail at life for various reasons, but suddenly receive a mysterious invitation to participate in a survival game to win ten million US dollars. The game takes place at an unknown location, and the ...
Style: suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: survival, game of death, prize, brutality, violence, cruelty, game, most dangerous game, sole survivor, contests and competitions, poverty, graphic violence ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
As the Gods Will (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. He and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind, the only thing Shun ...
Style: surreal, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: game of death, game, school, death, heroes, high school student, isolation, nightmare, superhero, chaos, fight scenes, murder ...
Time: year 2014
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Movie in collections
 6.0
 54K
The Condemned (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from ...
Style: exciting, action packed, intense, harsh, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: island, brutality, last man standing, death row, chase, jungle, battles, revenge, survival, contests and competitions, danger, rivalry ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Katniss Everdeen reluctantly becomes the symbol of a mass rebellion against the autocratic Capitol.
Style: futuristic, suspense, entertaining, teen, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot: distopia, female protagonist, survival, rebellion, strong female character, society, teenager, game, youth, dystopian future, fighting the system, dystopia ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.7
 42K
Confessions (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.
Style: unusual plot structure, twisted, disturbing, visually appealing, mind twisting ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: vengeance, revenge, teachers and students, grief, japanese schoolgirl, dead daughter, teenage murderer, twists and turns, bullying, child murder, extreme, asian ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's ...
Style: futuristic, captivating, cliffhanger, teen, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, family outing
Plot: female protagonist, survival, distopia, competition, post apocalypse, dystopian future, young heroes, dictator, fight, fight scenes, resistance, anti heroine ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, near future
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Movie in collections
 6.6
 166K
The Running Man (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, serious, rough, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: dystopian future, distopia, chase, cyberpunk, chases and races, dystopic future, danger, prison, prison escape, tough heroes, stephen king, game of death ...
Time: future, 80s, 20th century, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 36K
The Tournament (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Bahrain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Every ten or seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1, which itself ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, intense, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, chase, martial arts, hitman, tournament, competition, game of death, female fighter, female martial artist, fight, fight to the death, assassin ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: england, britain, miami, united kingdom, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.5
 128K
The Hunt (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is ...
Style: dark comedy, disturbing, horror comedy, surprise ending, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: manhunt, murder, game of death, strong female lead, survival, female protagonist, hunter, massacre, danger, pursuit, characters killed one by one, satire ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: vermont, croatia, mississippi, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 4.9
 127
Death Tube 2 (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The sequel to the exciting terror film! 'Death Tube,' the website where murders are streamed live in real time, is back online with a new generation of challengers / victims! Who will escape and what will be left of them? The real killer ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, exciting, slasher, scary ...
Plot: internet, torture, murder, violence, chase, escape attempt, terrorizing, psychopath, characters killed one by one, sadism, brutality, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Ellie Linton, a teen from an Australian coastal town, leads her friends on an excursion to a camp deep in the woods, dubbed "Hell." Upon their return, the youths find that their town has been overrun by an enemy army, and their friends and ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, exciting, serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: invasion, military, wartime life, survival, young heroes, danger, life is a bitch, youth, society, resistance, teenager, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lord of the Flies (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when the they split into two separate camps -- one led ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, black and white, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: wilderness, island, survival, bullying, innocence lost, children, coming of age, isolation, youth, desert island, childhood, human nature ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century, future, near future
Place: britain, fictional island, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Lord of the Flies (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style: psychological, captivating, rough, scenic, brutal ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: island, coming of age, survival, bullying, stranded, isolation, innocence lost, death, childhood, distopia, literature, brutality ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
 504K
The Maze Runner (2014)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, boys' night
Plot: survival, memory loss, maze, apocalypse, teenager, distopia, trapped, fantasy world, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, youth ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.1
 246K
Cube (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style: psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, mathematics, maze, escape, group of strangers, survival horror, death, game of death ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Canada, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens, she has no memory of who she is, nor does ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspense, enigmatic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, female protagonist, cyborgs, distopia, strong female lead, post apocalypse, female warrior, danger, tough girl, woman fights a man, martial arts, adaptation ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2019
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.9
 4K
Turkey Shoot (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul, one of the newest prisoners, is determined not to go down as quietly as the others.
Style: grindhouse, apocalyptic, cult classic, psychotronic, dark comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rape, manhunt, torture, sadism, brutality, dystopia, lesbian rape, violence, prisoner, sex, distopia, most dangerous game ...
Time: future, year 1982, 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 216K
The Raid (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under ...
Style: brutal, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, fight, swat, survival, trapped, kung fu, gunfight, death, fistfight, warrior, gang, swat team ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: middle east, east asia, indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale, Finnick, and Peeta – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 ...
Style: exciting, teen, futuristic, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: distopia, strong female lead, rebellion, resistance, dystopia, chase, teenager, chosen one, revolution, good versus evil, tough girl, love triangle ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, future, near future, year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.6
 43K
Cube Zero (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Cube Zero is the third film in the trilogy yet this time instead of a film about people trapped in a deadly cube trying to get out we see it from the eyes of someone who is controlling the cube and the torture of the victims inside. When the nerd ...
Style: clever, surreal, scary, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: trap, parallel world, mathematics, torture, isolation, survival, escape room, rescue, claustrophobia, riddles and clues, danger, captivity ...
Time: future, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 206K
Hanna (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A 16-year-old girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe. Tracked by a ruthless operatives, she faces startling revelations about her existence and questions about her humanity.
Style: suspense, fairy tale, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: teenage girl, spy, hitman, assassin, vengeance, chase, female warrior, strong female lead, cia, female protagonist, espionage, woman with a gun ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: finland, berlin germany, germany, europe, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 8.2
 130K
Yojimbo (1961)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant ...
Style: black and white, visually stunning, visual, black comedy, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, sword fight, small town, ronin, martial arts, gangster, one against many, swordsman, gang war, mercenary, medieval, gang ...
Time: 19th century, year 1961, 1800s, future, 1860s
Place: japan, persia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.8
 145K
I Saw the Devil (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, ...
Style: bleak, psychological, disturbing, dark, tense ...
Audience: date night, manly, adult
Plot: serial killer, revenge, vengeance, murder, psychopath, violence, macabre, extreme violence, gory, mercilessness, brutality, torture ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
Style: exciting, bleak, suspense, breathtaking, intense ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: post apocalypse, ape, planet of the apes, monkey, colony, dystopia, end of the world, deadly virus, animal attack, gorilla, post apocalyptic, dystopian future ...
Time: year 2014, future, 2020s, 2010s, 2030s ...
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.2
 253K
The Road (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the ...
Style: bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, father son relationship, cannibalism, end of the world, dystopia, starvation, on the road, catastrophe ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.5
 83K
Funny Games (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Style: disturbing, bleak, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, sadism, bad guy wins, torment, torture, home invasion, kidnapping, murder, family in danger, evil wins, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997, near future
Place: austria, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.7
 15K
Azumi (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ...
Style: intense, breathtaking, realistic, epic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, samurai, ninja, brutality, gory, good versus evil, vengeance, storytelling, kung fu, sword, heroes, medieval ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, ancient china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.4
 363K
The Expendables (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert, heavy weapons specialist, demolitionist, and a loose-cannon sniper. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church ...
Style: exciting, bloody, brutal, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: gunfight, martial arts, tough guy, mercenary, sniper, chase, machismo, assassin, showdown, military, fistfight, shootout ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: latin america, new orleans, somalia, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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