Movies like Tetsuo: The Iron Man
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
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Original name: 鉄男
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. Revolving around the transformation of people into grotesque hybrids of flesh and metal, Tetsuo is above all an overwhelming audiovisual experience, set to a brain-pounding score by Chu Ishikawa and complemented by suitably exaggerated sound effects.
Style:
cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, disturbing, splatter, black and white, atmospheric, psychedelic, art house, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, male nudity, very little dialogue, fetishist, gay subtext, mutilation, transformation, sex, rape, extreme, hit and run, violent, apocalypse, blood, outdoor sex, biopunk, technology, businessman, anal rape, metamorphosis, arthouse horror, mental disorder, macabre ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Most similar movies to Tetsuo: The Iron Man
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, disturbing, controversial and surreal films with plots about surrealism, extreme, gore, body horror, violence, macabre and trippy mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Tetsuo: The Iron Man: Videodrome (1983), Eraserhead (1977), Screams of Blasphemy (1991), Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992), Meatball Machine (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, psychological, avant garde, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
surrealism, baby, existentialism, nightmare, insanity, psychology, dream, loneliness, psychosis, factory, dark humor, eccentricity ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place:
america, philadelphia
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96%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Pinocchio 964 is a memory-wiped sex slave who is thrown out by his owners for failure to maintain an erection. It is unclear in what ways he has been modified beyond having no memory and being unable to communicate. He is discovered by Himiko while ...
Style:
cyber, futuristic, disturbing, surreal, experimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer is a 1992 Japanese science fiction/horror film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is a bigger-budget reworking of the same director's 1989 movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man, utilizing similar themes and ideas to the earlier film ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, cyber, surreal, extreme horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, kidnapping, body horror, violence, cyborgs, kaiju, androids and robots, superhuman powers, surrealism, male nudity, sex scene, abduction ...
Time:
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Place:
tokyo, asia, japan
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100%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even ...
Style:
splatter, suspenseful, serious, scary, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
transformation, parasite, cyberpunk, alien, body horror, dark humor, monster, invasion, deadly creature, danger, chaos, love affair ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
67K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style:
bloody, tense, cerebral, cult classic, cult horror ...
Plot:
body horror, exploitation, psychic power, conspiracy, investigation, scientist, murder, supernatural ability, social misfits, misfit, pregnant woman, telekinesis ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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, controversial, demonic, mind bending, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, occult, insanity, obsession, body horror, cosmic horror, possession, supernatural power, private detective, supernatural horror, berlin wall, sex ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
germany, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, europe, west germany ...
Similarity:
100%
31K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, scary, dark, creepy ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
internet, afterlife, supernatural, ghost, suicide, missing person, haunting, depression, college student, technology, lifestyle, confined ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, asia, japan, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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192K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, mind bending, cerebral, cult classic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
mathematics, insanity, obsession, paranoia, computer, conspiracy, surrealism, alienation, psychology, eye, cyberpunk, mental illness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1998, future
Place:
new york, america, middle east, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
98K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological thriller, scary, tense, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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:
100%
213K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, scary, lovecraft, spooky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, outer space, spaceship, cosmic horror, space station, trapped in space, insanity, space and aliens, violence, supernatural, hallucination, nightmare ...
Time:
future, 2040s, 90s, year 1997, 21st century
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 51 min.
Story:
A dwarf scientist has his dreams frustrated when his sister becomes seriously ill. Determined to find a way to preserve the essence of his sister after the death, the scientist begins to use humans as guinea pigs in a bizarre experiment.
Style:
extreme horror, controversial, perverse, psychedelic, bloody ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
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surreal, atmospheric, avant garde, experimental, independent film ...
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Audience:
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Place:
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, scary ...
Plot:
drug, science, surrealism, obsession, experiment gone awry, male nudity, hallucination, body horror, transformation, psychology, mad scientist, insanity ...
Time:
20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s ...
Place:
harvard university, bronx new york city, san francisco, california, boston ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
An American named Anthony is living and working in Tokyo and married to a Japanese woman. When their son is killed by the same driver who creates the Tetsuos in previous films, he makes the transformation into Tetsuo.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, tech noir, controversial ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
body horror, cyberpunk, uncover truth, androids and robots, super weapon, superhuman powers, escapades, good versus evil, danger, uncontrollable, chaos, hidden truth ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Tajuki, on the subway. Tajuki is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Tajuki might be having an affair with his fiance Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins ...
Style:
disturbing, cult classic, surreal, stylized, deep ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, surreal, psychological, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot:
couple relations, dysfunctional marriage, power relations, stalking, sexual relations, female masturbation, sex, surrealism, erotica, photograph, sexual blackmail, pink film ...
Place:
japan, europe, asia, italy, tokyo ...
Similarity:
100%
53K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A thriller about an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to enable its operatives to inhabit other people's bodies, ultimately driving them to carry out assassinations for high-paying clients.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, tech noir, psychological, creepy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
body horror, murder, brutality, mind control, transgression, assassin, assassination attempt, sociopath, serial killer, assassination, food, blood ...
Time:
near future, 2020s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
51K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country's Astro-Investigation and ...
Style:
grindhouse, humorous, dark comedy, surreal, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gory, alien invasion, violent, space and aliens, ufo, food, extreme, exploitation, small town, alien, chainsaw, stoned ...
Time:
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Place:
new zealand, pacific ocean, oceania
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Style:
scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
transformation, mad scientist, science, body horror, mutation, teleportation, laboratory, mutant, experiment gone awry, insect, tragic love, experiment ...
Time:
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Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, disturbing, psychedelic ...
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, twists and turns, alternate reality, dystopia, cyberspace, bodyguard, parallel world, distopia, escape from reality, dystopian future, conspiracy ...
Time:
future, 90s, year 1999, near future
Place:
canada
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A powerful and secretive corporation is conducting underground psychic experiments utilizing Digital Direct Drive, otherwise known as DDD. While under the influence of the drug ether, the human subjects are outfitted in rubber suits and bombarded ...
Style:
cyber, black and white, disturbing, psychedelic, controversial ...
Plot:
fetish, surrealism, cyberpunk, extreme, madness, brutality, metamorphosis, human guinea pig, body horror, human experiment, violence, sex ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style:
surreal, creepy, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, human prey, disguise, femme fatale, nudity, seduction, nightclub, creature, deformity, arthouse horror, female nudity ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
Style:
psychedelic, surreal, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, clown, psychology, killer clown, extreme, blood, art, magic realism, funeral ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
mexico city, mexico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man (Shinya Tsukamoto) becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
Style:
black and white, neo noir, deep, cult classic, art house ...
Plot:
mental disorder, suicide, violence spree, samurai, extreme, cyberpunk, mental health, big city, nihilism, gang, punk rock, revenge ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Style:
allegory, surreal, philosophical, black and white, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
incest, disfigured face, brother sister incest, philosophy, new identity, existentialism, face, plastic surgery, plastic surgeon, disfigured, surgery, body horror ...
Time:
year 1966, distant future, 60s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
39K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A girl invites her six friends to spend summer vacation with her at her aunt’s house in the countryside. However, the girls don’t know the aunt’s secret......
Style:
psychedelic, surreal, horror comedy, creepy, experimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cat, surrealism, ghost, haunted house, evil wins, possession, skeleton, kung fu, white cat, coming of age, characters murdered one by one, piano ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia
Similarity:
100%
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