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Der Todesking: The Death King (1990)
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Original name: Der Todesking
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
Style:
anthology, disturbing, splatter, crying, controversial, psychological, offbeat, bloody, dark, art house ...
Plot:
sadism, suicide, cruelty, brutality, castration, skeleton, mutilation, death, murder, dismemberment, corpse, skull, nudity, extreme, torture, revelation, solitude, voyeurism, disturbed person, depression, violent, surrealism, loneliness, violence, book ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, bloody, controversial and weird films with plots about gore, violence, extreme, violent, insanity, blood and insane mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Der Todesking: The Death King: Nekromantik (1988), Angst (1983), Eat (2014), Philosophy of a Knife (2008), Naked Blood: Megyaku (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.
Style:
disturbing, bloody, controversial, scary, sexy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
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Duration: 87 min.
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Lothar Schramm is a simple man with complex problems, yet he seems like such a nice guy. He works as a taxi driver and lives by himself where he is happy to answer his door to strangers and kill them outright. As with many shy loner types he has a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 266 min.
Story:
The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of many of the Japanese doctors from Unit 731. The facts are told, and previously unknown evidence is ...
Style:
disturbing, extreme horror, rough, realistic, serious ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Style:
extreme horror, bloody, erotic, disturbing, slasher ...
Plot:
extreme, violent, body horror, violence, porn, bdsm, supernatural, gory, exploitation, hardcore, cannibalism, sexual attraction ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Esther, a self-conscious young woman who works for a public relations firm. One night at a party with her friend Sandrine, Esther wanders into the backyard and stumbles, scratching her leg on a piece of scrap metal. She goes back to the party, and ...
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Plot:
self mutilation, body horror, wound, mental illness, mutilation, extreme, skin, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, insanity, obsession, self discovery, women ...
Time:
turn of the century, 21st century
Place:
japan, lisbon portugal, tokyo, milan italy, paris france ...
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27%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
21st century
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity peaked, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the ...
Style:
brutal, disturbing, suspense, controversial, rough ...
Plot:
degradation, found footage, extreme, torture, murder, serial killer, violent, exploitation, gory, identical twins, rape, blood ...
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25%
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:
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Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
germany, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, europe, west germany ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style:
psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark, sexy, disturbing, scary, rough ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
An artist finds and rescues a mermaid in a sewer. He takes her home with him and she develops sores all over her body that begin to pustulate and bleed. He uses what oozes from her sores to paint her portrait. When he can no longer handle it anymore ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, rough, bleak, bloody ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Greece
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Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
anthology, crying, suspense, dark fairy tale, grindhouse ...
Plot:
sadism, torture, sexual torture, cruelty, decapitation, violence, female nudity, flagellation, execution, exploitation, brother sister relationship, kidnapping ...
Time:
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Place:
japan
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Genre: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, horrifying ...
Plot:
cannibalism, sadistic horror, psychopath, torture, cruelty, human monster, gory, macabre, survival, insanity, butcher, sadism ...
Time:
year 2007, turn of the century, 21st century
Place:
europe, paris france, france
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
As a child, Donald was tormented by his mother who used fire as a punishment. Now a deranged adult, Donald stalks women at clubs, then takes them home where he kills them with a flamethrower.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, scary, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, sadism, burned alive, abusive mother, obsession, loss of control, murder, burn victim, exploitation, child abuse, maniac, deeply disturbed person ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new jersey, new york
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A woman and her childhood friend seek out revenge on those who victimized and abused them.
Style:
bloody, brutal, disturbing, suspense, slasher ...
Plot:
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Time:
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