Movies like Awakening of the Beast

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Awakening of the Beast (1970)
 5.9
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Awakening of the Beast (1970)
Original name: O Despertar da Besta
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Psychiatrist experiments LSD on 4 volunteers, to investigate Coffin Joe's influence over them. Each patient presents a different reaction, involving sex, perversion and sadism.
Style: disturbing, controversial, psychological, offbeat, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, sexual ...
Plot: exploitation, lsd, monster, perversion, surrealism, drug, dark humor, hippie, cinema, demon, experiment, psychiatric ward, madness, addiction, terrorism, life is a bitch, dangerous animal, sexual relations, journalism, mate swapping, society, drug dealing, sexual content, juvenile delinquency, doctors and patients ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: brazil

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Most similar movies to Awakening of the Beast

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, disturbing, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about life is a bitch, deadly, female nudity, nudity, surrealism, exploitation and murder mostly in Drama, Horror and Comedy genres. Some movies like Awakening of the Beast: Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969), Hellish Flesh (1977), End of Man (1971), Dark Places (2005), Cookers (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min.
Story: After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.
Style: erotic, disturbing, experimental, sexual, controversial ...
Plot: prostitute, exploitation, suicide, pink film, sexual abuse, juvenile delinquency, violence spree, mentally unstable, vengeance, coming of age, serial killer, teenager ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century, 70s, future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind (1978)
Genre: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A psychiatric doctor is driven insane plagued by nightmarish visions of Zé do Caixão's (Coffin Joe) subterranean world of bizarre horror. Under analysis it is discovered that he has a pathological fear that Zé has sexual designs on his ...
Style: controversial, scary, surreal, serious, offbeat
Plot: nightmare, losing-it hero, surrealism, hallucination, doctor, dream, demon
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967)
Genre: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Coffin Joe is still looking for the perfect woman to give birth to a son of his, and, cleared of the past crimes in the first film (At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul), keeps terrorizing the people in his small town with his iconoclast and ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, controversial, serious, surreal ...
Plot: serial killer, monster, surrealism, arthouse horror, love letter, witchcraft, supernatural horror, virus, violent, supernatural power, exploitation, killer ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.4
 267
Hellish Flesh (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Dr. George Medeiros is a brilliant scientist who does not find timr for beautiful wife Rachel. She falls in love with Oliver, the best friend of her husband, and soon after the two plan to kill George and inherit his fortune. Benefiting from the ...
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: infidelity, gambling, exploitation, revenge, acid, disfigurement, mad doctor, sexual content, violent content, nudity, betrayal, vengeance ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)
Genre: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Coffin Joe terrorizes a small peasant community in his search for the perfect woman to bear him a child.
Style: scary, black and white, psychotronic, splatter, grindhouse ...
Plot: monster, exploitation, swamp, day of the dead, violent, sexism, supernatural power, virus, good guys win, murder, mortician, witch ...
Time: 60s
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.7
 413
End of Man (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Brazil
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Stark naked man comes out from the sea and begins to walk the streets, interfering in daily episodes, always in search of justice. He names himself Finis Hominis (The End of Man, in latin), and soon becomes sort of a modern Messiah, capable of ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: nudity, lsd, exploitation, adultery, sex, youth, hippie, righting the wronged, miraculous event, supernatural, supernatural ability, imaginary ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 3.3
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Dark Places (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Keri Walker is a drug-addicted prostitute who ends up killing her latest john in self-defense. She finds shelter at a place run by a couple who find pleasure in others' pain. The haven house turns into a hell house and Keri must do whatever she ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: prostitute, murder, life is a bitch, danger, addiction, drug abuse, couples, gory, sexual relations, gay, freak, death ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.7
 868
Cookers (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After stealing a huge stash of drugs, speed freaks Hector and Dorena plan to cook up an enormous batch of crystal meth and get rich quick. Hector's old buddy Merle has the perfect hideout/meth lab: an old, abandoned farmhouse in the woods where ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: hallucination, old dark house, addiction, drug abuse, supernatural, ghost, couples, life is a bitch, drug dealing, woods, experiment, evil ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Nails (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A professional hit man retires to his colorless apartment but soon starts to suffer from horrible headaches and hears voices. In order to cure himself, he hammers a nail into his skull.
Style: disturbing, surreal, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: hitman, masochist, psychopath, addiction, life is a bitch, danger, gory, self mutilation, violence, murder, body horror, surrealism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Embodiment of Evil (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After 30 years in a cell for the mentally ill, Coffin Joe is finally freed. Back on the streets, the sadistic gravedigger is set on fulfilling that for which he was imprisoned: find the woman who can give him the perfect child. During his wanderings ...
Style: disturbing, scary, rough, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: woman in danger, curses spells and rituals, gory, danger, vengeance, supernatural, obsession, violence against women, disorder, kidnapping, obsessive quest, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, sao paulo, brazil, brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
China White Serpentine (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Dave's brother Trent was enticed by dark forces and entrapped in a lair of sin. Trent was under the control of Tracey, the drug-dealing seductress who had spun this web of wrongdoing. It was a world of erotic indulgence, frequent drug use, and ...
Style: suspense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, controversial ...
Plot: femme fatale, dangerous attraction, investigation, mind game, obsession, haunted by the past, couples, danger, supernatural, life is a bitch, survival, drug abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.4
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Pop Skull (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Addled prescription drug addict Daniel finds himself unraveling further under the stress of a recent breakup. Worse yet, he lives in a house haunted by nightmarish events from the past, images of which torment him in terrifying dreams. This ...
Style: suspense, psychological, mumblecore, tense, captivating ...
Plot: haunted house, addiction, ghost, drug abuse, supernatural, crumbling marriage, danger, couples, teenage life, breakup, gory, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Bog of Beasts (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
Style: disturbing, realistic, bleak, serious, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rape, coitus, sexual torture, youth, kids in trouble, village, village life, life is a bitch, innocence lost, prostitute, voyeurism, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Without Destination (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sin Destino follows the life of a 15 year old Mexican boy, Francisco, as he struggles to survive on the streets. His primary source of income is money raised by prostituting himself to men for sex, and the film implies that this learned behaviour ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, rough, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: coming of age, kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, society, sexual abuse, drug abuse, haunted by the past, urban ghetto life, addiction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Blind Beast (1969)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A blind sculptor and his mother kidnap a young woman and use her as a model. In the darkness of an abandoned warehouse, she suffers at the hands of the artist, eventually losing both her sight and her mind as whips give way to knives and knives give ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, erotic, surreal, controversial ...
Plot: kidnapping, model, rape, sex, sexploitation, fashion, bondage, blind man, fashion model, surrealism, blindness, pink film ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Sons and Lovers (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: During a weekend in a country house, young people eager for strong emotions end up switching partners and experimenting drugs.
Style: sexual, serious, gloomy, bleak, realistic
Plot: nudity, drug abuse, twentysomething life, life is a bitch, couples, sexual relations, couple relations, public nudity, cheating girlfriend, male full rear nudity, heroin, skinny dipping ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.9
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Zooey (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Angel and Zooey are not your typical newlyweds. Zooey is a professional prostitute and Angel is a drug dealer. Yet they are not without hopes and dreams, of escaping their life in the streets and starting a new in a fresh painted cottage with picked ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy
Plot: love affair, going straight, lifestyle, addiction, drug abuse, love and romance, hopes, youth, society, life is a bitch, downfall, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.3
 1K
A New Life (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A 2002 French experimental film directed by Philippe Grandrieux and starring Zachary Knighton and Anna Mouglalis. The story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, exciting, tense ...
Plot: obsession, life is a bitch, social decay, nihilism, society, prostitute, destructive relationship, couples, dancer's life, starting over, sexual relations, courtesan ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, france, london, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 6.4
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The Addiction (1995)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.
Style: black and white, scary, psychological, art house, philosophical ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, philosophy, addiction, infection, drug abuse, transformation, lesbian vampire, female vampire, blood, existentialism, university ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.0
 3K
The Devil (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 125 min.
Story: During the Prussian army's invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of Jakub's fellow conspirators. Following his mysterious saviour across ...
Style: slasher, atmospheric, creepy, cult classic, gothic horror ...
Plot: mate swapping, serial killer, surrealism, nun, female nudity, winter, female psychopath, sex crime, mental disorder, sisters, psychedelia, undead ...
Time: 18th century, 1790s
Place: eastern europe, poland, prussia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.7
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The Entity (1982)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and ...
Style: scary, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: rape, supernatural, sexual abuse, female nudity, demon rape, paranormal phenomena, ghost, haunted, sexual assault, invisibility, torment, sex crime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.1
 5K
The Trip (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Paul Groves, a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John, a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his ...
Style: atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, grindhouse ...
Plot: lsd, hippie, drug, drug abuse, counterculture, hallucination, self discovery, drug addiction, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, estrangement, weed ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on ...
Style: disturbing, scary, realistic, suspenseful, sensual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, satanism, convent school, coming of age, murder, nun, investigation, serial killer, school, gory, curses spells and rituals, male female relationship ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Possession (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, surrealism, insanity, occult, hysteria, supernatural, monster, body horror, serial killer, existentialism, possession, cosmic horror ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany, west berlin west germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Acts of Worship (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Alix is taken in by a photographer, Digna, who despite her friends' protests, tries to help Alix piece her life back together and overcome her addictions.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, rough, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, addiction, juvenile delinquency, downfall, going straight, youth, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, destructive relationship, drug abuse, overdose, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.9
 56K
Naked Lunch (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, neo noir, philosophical ...
Plot: hallucination, surrealism, drug addiction, paranoia, addiction, exterminator, insect, homosexuality, beat generation, giant insect, cockroach, secret agent ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, 50s ...
Place: north africa, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Manson Family (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jim Van Bebber's "The Manson Family" is an extremely violent and bloody horror film that reconstructs the early activities of the Family and their descent into the Tate-LaBianca killings.Van Bebber mixes this with a contemporary sub ...
Style: disturbing, terrifying, art house, psychological, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, charles manson, true crime, exploitation, gory, hippie, killer, biopic, erotica, criminal, misfit, freak ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 60s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Bobby G. Can't Swim (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bobby G. lives life on the edge in this real, raw New York street drama. Bobby is a small-time coke dealer, always on the hustle but rarely successful. He lives in Hell's Kitchen with his Puerto Rican girlfriend Lucy, who makes ends meet as a ...
Style: independent film, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, jewish mob, prostitute, poverty, gangster, urban ghetto, society, going straight, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, redemption ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.3
 472
Pretty Dead (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: After killing and cannibalizing several men and being found unfit for trial, Regina Stevens desperately tried to convince her psychiatric caregivers that she wasn't mentally ill, but was in fact slowly becoming a real life zombie.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary ...
Plot: found footage, mental illness, parasite, custody, doctors and patients, zombie, body horror, mental institution, suicide attempt, danger, supernatural power, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 8.0
 233K
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, surreal, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: satanic cult, paranoia, devil, satanism, murder, pregnancy, supernatural, witchcraft, coven, supernatural horror, secret society, demonic possession ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1968, year 1966, year 1965
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, persia, eastern europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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