Movies like I Stand Alone

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I Stand Alone (1998)
 7.3
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I Stand Alone (1998)
Original name: Seul contre tous
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 moves to Lille suburbs with his mistress. She promised him a new butcher shop. She lied. The butcher decides to go back to Paris and find his daughter.
Style: depressing, disturbing, psychological, bleak, controversial, art house, psychological thriller, rough, realistic, philosophical ...
Audience: adult
Plot: loneliness, incest, butcher, revenge, violence, alienation, nihilism, insanity, existentialism, macabre, violent, obsession, suicide, mistress, father daughter relationship, misfit, character on the edge, mother in law, incestuous desire, social misfits, gory, rape and revenge, mental illness, visceral, extreme ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 80s, contemporary
Place: paris france, france, europe
Keyword: gangsters, avant-garde, disgust

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Most similar movies to I Stand Alone

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, weird, disturbing and dark films with plots about violence, murder, macabre, violent, death, mental disorder and extreme mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like I Stand Alone: The Machinist (2004), Falling Down (1993), Irreversible (2002), Hate (1995), Taxi Driver (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Machinist (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, surreal, mind bending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insomnia, insanity, obsession, mysterious character, losing-it hero, paranoia, hallucination, life is a bitch, uncover truth, schizophrenia, secrets, mental illness ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: persia, america, usa, los angeles
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 7.6
 205K
Falling Down (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: On the day of his daughter's birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster is trying to get to the home of his estranged ex-wife to see his daughter. His car breaks down, so he leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. ...
Style: psychological, rough, suspense, disturbing, black comedy ...
Audience: manly, date night
Plot: rage, vigilante, anger, violence, midlife crisis, alienation, heat wave, social commentary, character study, traffic jam, urban decay, obsession ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
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Irreversible (2002)
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, bleak, disturbing, surreal, offbeat ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, rape and revenge, vengeance, brutality, sex, sexual perversion, sadism, vigilante ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 8.1
 194K
Hate (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social ...
Style: bleak, black and white, art house, disturbing, hood ...
Audience: teens
Plot: racism, rebel, ghetto, poverty, skinhead, youth, police brutality, police, friendship, rebellion, drug, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: paris france, france, middle east, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Taxi Driver (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style: psychological, neo noir, bleak, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, character study, loner, alienation, obsession, vigilantism, violence, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, depression ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.3
 15K
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force ...
Style: disturbing, surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, art house ...
Plot: incest, self discovery, mother son incest, sex with mother, dark humor, torture, captivity, mistaken identity, life is a bitch, sexual harassment, family problems, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 161K
Monster (2003)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
Style: bleak, disturbing, psychological, depressing, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, lesbian, homeless, prostitute, lesbian love, mental illness, rape, female serial killer, murder, borderline personality disorder, gay, couples ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 80s, 2000s, 90s
Place: florida, usa, michigan, miami, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.3
 630K
Oldboy (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style: bleak, twist ending, intense, psychological, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, incest, vengeance, older man younger woman relationship, psychopath, hypnosis, mind game, psychological torture, kidnapping, plot twist, confined, torture ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, distant future, y2k, near future ...
Place: south korea, korea, persia, oceania, east asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.5
 136K
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 ⇓
100%
 7.2
 87K
Enter the Void (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story: This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, afterlife, trippy, stripper, hallucination, drug trip, life after death, lsd, male nudity, youth, incest, abortion ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
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: erotic, controversial, disturbing, psychological, disgusting ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: torture, sex, fascism, atrocity, sexual perversion, brutality, libertine, rape, world war two, kidnapping, sexual abuse, bdsm ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, USA, UK, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, surreal, depressing, heartbreaking ...
Plot: factory worker, life is a bitch, blindness, death sentence, immigrant, destiny, murder, tragedy, secret, hanging, tragic hero, dancing ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1964, 2000s
Place: nebraska, usa, washington d.c., washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 7K
Lux Æterna (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 51 min.
Story: Two actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling stories about witches. A vibrant essay on respect for beliefs, the actor’s craft, and the art of filmmaking.
Style: suspense, bleak, psychotronic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: actress, movie actress, character change, witchcraft, character study, myth, research, legends and myths, deadly creature, actor's life, urban legend, riddles and clues ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Fight Club (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style: surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, psychology, fight, plot twist, schizophrenia, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, losing-it hero, against the rules, nihilism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2013
Place: delaware, america, los angeles, iran, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Element of Crime (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the ...
Style: surreal, bleak, neo noir, art house, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, hypnosis, police investigation, surrealism, mentor, dystopia, society, memory loss, distopia, dialogue, psychoanalysis ...
Time: future
Place: middle east, cairo egypt, europe, egypt, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 47K
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
Style: neo noir, independent film, disturbing, detective, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: gambling, redemption, police, rape, corruption, drug addiction, masturbation, baseball, police corruption, heroin, police lieutenant, nun ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 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 ⇓
35%
Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A soldier returns home to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his dimwitted brother while he was away.
Style: disturbing, tense, bleak, rough, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, bullying, brutality, vengeance, mental illness, great ending, justice, cruelty, humiliation, execution, drug abuse, heroes ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 7.5
 86K
Lady Vengeance (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 6 year old boy, beautiful Lee Guem-ja starts seeking revenge on the man that was really responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, bloody, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly
Plot: vengeance, revenge, serial killer, violence, prison, vigilantism, torture, murder, female vigilante, violent, female protagonist, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.5
 103K
Funny Games (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the ...
Style: psychological, scary, disturbing, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, hostage, torture, psychopath, home invasion, murder, danger, bad guy wins, maniac, brutality, kidnapping, torment ...
Time: year 2007, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.1
 78K
Blue Ruin (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Style: neo noir, independent film, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: vengeance, revenge, vigilante, violence, vigilantism, murder, brutality, violent, storytelling, haunted by the past, car, disorder ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: virginia, ethiopia, usa, delaware
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34%
 7.3
 18K
13 (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, black and white, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: overdose, murder, life is a bitch, depression, visceral, reward, contests and competitions, danger, fish out of water, social decay, profanity, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu's boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychological, bloody, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, revenge, organ donation, gory, violent, suicide, transplant, vigilante, mute or deaf, rape and revenge, vengeance, ransom ...
Time: 2000s, y2k, year 2003, 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry: "the guy next door" and the serial killer.
Style: scary, disturbing, realistic, independent film, sadistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, insanity, gory, maniac, rape, killing spree, incest, violent, true crime, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.8
 600K
Nightcrawler (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Style: neo noir, psychological, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: character study, journalism, sociopath, obsession, journalist, cynicism, psychopath, morality, violence, manipulation, capitalism, employer employee relationship ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, persia, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 8.6
 1.8M
Se7en (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style: detective, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, mind game, murder, insanity, police investigation, macabre, maniac ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles, america, iran, persia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Clean, Shaven (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. He attempts to function in a world that, for him, is filled with strange voices, electrical noise, disconcerting images, and jarringly ...
Style: disturbing, serious, art house, controversial, psychological thriller ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, mental disorder, illness, serial killer, insanity, mental health, murder, adoption, investigation, obsession, psychopath ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, serious, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: hitman, psychopath, shooting, desert, serial killer, peril, greed, brutality, human nature, sheriff, death, murder ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: texas, el paso texas, mexico, austin texas, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.2
 109K
Dogtooth (2009)
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, art house, black comedy, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: incest, dysfunctional family, isolated house, cat, child abuse, brother sister incest, eccentric family, overprotective father, confined, sexual awakening, perversion, greek ...
Time: 2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.9
 79K
Climax (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Young dancers gather in a remote and empty school building to rehearse on a cold and wintry night. The all-night celebration soon turns into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn that their sangria is laced with LSD.
Style: disturbing, sexy, atmospheric, art house, mind bending ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dancing, lsd, youth, hallucination, paranoia, insanity, brutality, pregnancy, snow, death, lesbian, little boy ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, year 2019, year 1996
Place: usa, new york, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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