Movies like Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
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Original name: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style:
controversial, disgusting, erotic, extreme horror, psychological, art house, brutal, bleak, frightening, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot:
torture, atrocity, sexual perversion, sex, fascism, sexual abuse, sexual torture, sadism, brutality, rape, libertine, captivity, violence, kidnapping, psychopath, hardcore, bdsm, world war two, italian fascism, cruelty, sodomy, perversion, extreme, abuse, violence spree ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 20th century, year 1943, year 1944, 18th century, 40s
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
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Most similar movies to Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, disturbing, controversial and serious films with plots about female nudity, violence, blood, sadism, male nudity, nude and rape mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom: Salon Kitty (1976), In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971), Irreversible (2002), Caligula (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, disturbing, controversial, sexual ...
Plot:
exploitation, lust, orgy, world war two, gynecological exam, female orgasm, forbidden love, sex, ss, depravity, third reich, oral sex ...
Time:
1940s, year 1939, 1930s
Place:
germany, italy, europe, paris france, naples italy ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself.
Style:
sexy, controversial, erotic, sexual, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, sex scene, passion, jealousy, sex, lust, bdsm, sexual relations, sexual perversion, sensuality, sexuality, asian sex ...
Time:
1930s, pre world war two, year 1976, 20th century, year 1936
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, tokyo, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Style:
mondo, grindhouse, sexual, creepy, black comedy ...
Plot:
plantation, black slave, transgression, time travel, extreme, slavery, african, racial discrimination, blaxploitation, human exploitation, racial prejudice, mass murder ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1850s, 1830s, 70s ...
Place:
mississippi, detroit, memphis, virginia, africa
Similarity:
89%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring ...
Style:
art house, sexy, bleak, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, sadism, rape and revenge, sexualized violence, brutality, anal rape, sexual perversion, rape victim ...
Time:
year 2002, turn of the century, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
87%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sexual, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ancient rome, incest, sex, sexual perversion, sexploitation, explicit sex, brutality, ancient world, brother sister sex, sex scene, unsimulated sex, roman empire ...
Time:
ancient times, 1st century, year 1979, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
rome italy, italy, greece
Similarity:
79%
122K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family ...
Style:
disturbing, black comedy, sexy, psychological, art house ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
incest, dysfunctional family, isolated house, brother sister incest, paranoia, sadism, brother sister sex, child abuse, overprotective father, eccentric family, abuse, isolation ...
Time:
2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe
Similarity:
89%
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, bloody, controversial, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, gory, torture, violence, macabre, sadism, incest, perversion, controversy, insanity, murder ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
serbia, former yugoslavia, europe
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, erotic, dark comedy, semi serious ...
Plot:
rock, punk, nihilism, strong sexual content, male rape, misogynist, homosexual, erotic scene, transgression, making love, extreme, homosexual rape ...
Time:
near future, 21st century
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, mockumentary, humorous, brutal ...
Plot:
serial killer, brutality, macabre, rape, violent, found footage, gory, satire, sadistic psychopath, visceral, art, dark humor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
europe, brussels, belgium, brussels belgium
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Manu has lived a difficult life. Abused and violently raped, she sets off to find herself only to meet Nadine, a prostitute who has encountered one too many injustices in the world. Angry at the world, they embark on a twisted, rage-filled road ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, perverse, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
strong sexual content, rape and revenge, sex, explicit sex, femme fatale, murder, misandry, violence against women, depravity, violent sex, violence, nihilism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A Nazi doctor who had a fetish for young boys feels guilt after torturing and murdering his latest victim, and throws himself off a roof. Some years later, the doctor, confined to an iron lung, accepts as his nurse a boy who secretly witnessed that ...
Style:
sexy, extreme horror, art house, controversial, suspense ...
Plot:
pedophile, serial child killer, pedophilia, sadism, insomnia, sexual abuse, extreme, rape, abuse, murder of a boy, child abuse, child rape ...
Time:
80s
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Liechtenstein, West Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman named Justine is (willingly) used and abused by all manner of perverts, freaks and sexual deviants.
Style:
sensual, suspense, sexual, naughty, twisted ...
Plot:
nun, sexual abuse, perversion, sexual relations, masochism, sexploitation, female pubic hair, erotica, exploitation, prostitution, prison, fatal love ...
Time:
1780s, 17th century, 18th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ilsa is a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners. Ilsa's goal is to prove that woman can withstand more pain and suffering than men and should be allowed to fight on the front lines
Style:
grindhouse, erotic, controversial, sexy, rough ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
rape, female prisoner, sexploitation, captivity, violence, swastika, women in prison, prison, ss, nazi, sex scene, gang rape ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
germany, canada
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Style:
disturbing, lgbt cinema, depressing, independent film, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, child abuse, gay, sexual abuse, pedophilia, homosexuality, homosexual, child molestation, lgbtq, male rape, homosexual rape, youth ...
Time:
90s, year 2004, 2000s, near future, y2k ...
Place:
kansas, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Style:
disturbing, splatter, sexy, black comedy, frightening ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gory, violence, gang, gangster, sadism, organized crime, massacre, rage, danger, yakuza, psychopath, insanity ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Siberia 1953: Ilsa is now working in a Gulag prison camp. Her mission is to "retrain the minds" of those who don't agree with the communists.
Style:
grindhouse, suspense, queer horror, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
women in prison, gulag, prison, exploitation, sexual perversion, lesbian sex, nazi exploitation, sexual sadism, violence, erotica, canuxploitation, nihilism ...
Time:
70s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
siberia, russia, canada, montreal
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his ...
Style:
disturbing, sexual, sexy, art house, rough ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, sex, strong sexual content, explicit sex, underage sex, older woman younger man relationship, youth, incest, teenage sex, nudity, suicide, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, australia
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Style:
erotic, sexy, surreal, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
bdsm, sex, sexual relations, true love, prostitute, gangster, femdom, violent, sex toy, lesbian sex, female nudity, call girl ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, mount fuji, california
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and ...
Style:
depressing, disturbing, psychological, controversial, bloody ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, loneliness, butcher, revenge, incest, alienation, insanity, transgression, violent, existentialism, nihilism, extreme ...
Time:
turn of the century, year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bdsm, sexual perversion, sexual abuse, rape victim, nudity, sexualized violence, sadism, sex, bare breasts, sensuality, sexual cruelty, lesbianism ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, bloody, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, insanity, sociopath, satire, violence, dark humor, psycho killer, materialism, yuppie, nihilism, millionaire ...
Time:
year 2000, 80s, 2000s, year 1987, y2k ...
Place:
new york, yale university, manhattan new york city, america, seattle ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Style:
controversial, brutal, disturbing, bloody, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cannibalism, jungle, gory, torture, cannibal, rape, found footage, amazon rainforest, revenge, animal cruelty, violence, filmmaking ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place:
south america, latin america, north america, new york state, venezuela ...
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Horror, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Lise Cohen is taken to a special prisoner-of-war camp for female Jews, a camp run as a bordello to entertain the German officers and troops going in to battle. The camp is run with an iron fist by Commandant Starker and his minion Alma. Starker ...
Style:
disturbing, sensual, grindhouse, sexual, perverse ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
exploitation, nazi exploitation, nazi, group sex, orgy, female prisoner, swastika, world war two, lesbian sex, fascism, perversion, transgression ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Horror
Country: 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, brutal, disturbing, medical horror, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
torture, sadism, macabre, psychopath, violent, violence against women, serial killer, gory, sexual abuse, bad guy wins, sexual cruelty, mute ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
71%
17K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives, makes love to every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he ...
Style:
surreal, erotic, eros, allegory, disturbing ...
Plot:
lgbtq, bourgeoisie, gay, gay interest, surrealism, seduction, sex, lgbt, mysterious stranger, visitor, parable, male nudity ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
Similarity:
100%
119K
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, creepy, brutal, bloody, extreme horror ...
Plot:
torture, violence, revenge, child abuse, kidnapping, gory, brutality, death, abuse, torment, violent, hardcore ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, turn of the century, 2000s, year 1971 ...
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Marina, an upper-crust social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself when she is raped by three policemen.
Style:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot:
rape, couples, sexual cruelty, sex starved woman, love affair, sexual harassment, raped woman, loveless marriage, injustice, vengeance, society, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, sexual, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, sex, nazi, hotel, eroticism, sexual perversion, guilt, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexuality, public nudity, holocaust ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, post world war two, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
hungary, vienna, germany, frankfurt germany, italy ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alex (David Hess) is a darkly sinister thug driving around New York City at night when he spots a young woman (Karoline Mardeck) driving alongside him. He follows the woman to a nearby park where he cuts her off, gets out of his car, and runs into ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, sexual, grindhouse, surprise ending ...
Plot:
home invasion, rape, rape and revenge, torture, violence, sadist, cruelty, violence against women, serial killer, psychopath, revenge, exploitation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ...
Style:
erotic, contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
small town, sex, female nudity, female pubic hair, voyeur, orgasm, masturbation, psychiatric hospital, dead body, rape, strike, police protagonist ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
france, flanders, europe
Similarity:
100%
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