Movies like In a Glass Cage

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In a Glass Cage (1986)
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In a Glass Cage (1986)
Original name: Tras el cristal
Genre: Drama, Horror
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 killing.
Style: controversial, art house, disturbing, suspense, extreme horror, atmospheric, serious, psychological thriller, sexy, creepy ...
Plot: pedophile, pedophilia, sadism, serial child killer, sexual abuse, extreme, torture, child rape, isolation, child abuse, murder of a boy, lgbt, violent, war criminal, world war two, revenge, boy, maniac, military, macabre, religion, hostage, house, suicide, captive ...
Time: 80s
Place: spain, europe
Keyword: disgust

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Most similar movies to In a Glass Cage

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, controversial, serious and weird films with plots about extreme, violence, blood, gore, murder, violent and female nudity mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like In a Glass Cage: The House That Jack Built (2018), The Ordeal (2004), Tony (2009), Michael (2011), Singapore Sling (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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82%
The House That Jack Built (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A depiction of a serial killer's 12 years' worth of murders and how it shaped his prime intelligence.
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, cruelty, sadistic psychopath, sadism, psychopath as protagonist, psycho killer, obsessive compulsive disorder, extreme violence, disturbed individual, serial killer as protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, 70s, 80s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
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The Ordeal (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège, his van conked out. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog leads Marc to a shuttered inn...
Style: disturbing, surreal, psychological, christmas horror, atmospheric ...
Plot: rape, psychopath, surrealism, gory, village, extreme, mentally unstable, danger, isolation, backwoods, redneck, christmas ...
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 4K
Tony (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, loneliness, isolation, police, violence, killer, social realism, murderer, killing, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Michael (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Although to the outside world he seems like the a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy, Wolfgang locked in a room in his soundproof basement.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, bleak, sexy ...
Plot: pedophilia, pedophile, child abuse, boy, life is a bitch, child molestation, kidnapping, child rape, isolation, gay, basement, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, austria, europe, central europe
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100%
Singapore Sling (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Singapore Sling is chasing after Laura, a romantic memory from his past. One night he finds himself in a mysterious villa, watching two women bury a body. He falls into their trap and, in an atmosphere of isolation and decadence, the trio act out ...
Style: disturbing, neo noir, black and white, surreal, controversial ...
Plot: hostage, torture, bondage, sex slave, rape, kidnapping, female pubic hair, mother daughter relationship, sex, corpse, violence, death of girlfriend ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: greece, hellas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.2
 6K
In My Skin (2002)
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 ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: mental illness, self mutilation, mutilation, body horror, insanity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, obsession, extreme, self discovery, skin, women, paranoia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, paris france, middle east, milan italy, rome italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.2
 13K
Fear (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
Style: disturbing, atmospheric, psychological, controversial, slasher ...
Plot: home invasion, psychopath, maniac, serial killer, psycho killer, violence, mental illness, dehumanization, prison, danger, confined, violence spree ...
Time: year 1983, 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Ab-normal Beauty (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Jiney, an art and photography student, but despite winning an award, she remains unhappy with the work. After photographing the aftermath of a fatal car accident she finds herself obsessed with death. She begins to talk about suicide, and suffers ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, extreme horror ...
Plot: death wish, stalker, dangerous attraction, obsession, sexual abuse, psychopath, danger, gory, teenage life, haunted by the past, extreme, serial killer ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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 ⇓
37%
 7.0
 105K
Martyrs (2008)
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, bloody, scary, brutal, splatter ...
Plot: torture, child abuse, violence, gory, kidnapping, brutality, revenge, afterlife, torment, fear, torture chamber, home invasion ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 2000s, year 1971, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.7
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Inside (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Style: disturbing, christmas horror, suspense, slasher, brutal ...
Plot: blood, gory, pregnancy, serial killer, home invasion, female psychopath, danger, survival, torture, murder, insanity, extreme ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.0
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The Woman (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
Style: disturbing, bleak, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: torture, revenge, sexual abuse, husband wife relationship, sadism, incestuous relationship, sexploitation, rape and revenge, captivity, sexual assault, suffering, gory ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.5
 23K
Santa Sangre (1989)
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: surreal, disturbing, dark, psychedelic, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, psychology, clown, extreme, art, magic realism, schizophrenia, macabre, funeral ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, sexy, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, kidnapping, twists and turns, rape, skin, revenge, isolation, insanity, sexual perversion, gender bending, abuse, plastic surgery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 21st century
Place: spain, ancient greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
35%
 5.0
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A Serbian Film (2010)
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, controversial, rough, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, gory, violence, psychopath, incest, macabre, torture, sexual perversion, insanity, perversion, murder ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: serbia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Shogun's Sadism (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1. During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as her ...
Style: disturbing, bloody, depressing, extreme horror, anthology ...
Plot: tortured to death, extreme, violent, exploitation, execution, sadism, torture, unsettling, religion, brothel, punishment, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Men Behind the Sun (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, Horror, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, extreme horror, bleak, rough ...
Plot: dehumanization, world war two, gory, laboratory, japanese history, torture, violence, violent, extreme, hardcore, sino japanese war, experiment ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: china, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Conqueror Worm (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, gothic, rough ...
Plot: witch, folk horror, inquisition, torture, rape, murder, witch hunt, vengeance, burned alive, violence, exploitation, macabre ...
Time: 17th century, year 1968
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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 ⇓
35%
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, depressing ...
Plot: child abuse, pedophile, rape, sex, child molester, sexual abuse, child rape, coming of age, police, psychologist, child molestation, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2004
Place: tennessee, indiana, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Der Todesking: The Death King (1990)
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 ...
Plot: suicide, cruelty, torture, extreme, depression, mutilation, solitude, castration, skeleton, revelation, brutality, sadism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Girl Next Door (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that ...
Style: scary, disturbing, bleak, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: torture, child abuse, rape, sexual abuse, victim, cruelty, helplessness, child molestation, suffering, childhood, violence, abuse ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 2007, year 1958
Place: new jersey, new york, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Trouble Every Day (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Scientist Shane Brown neglects his new bride, instead spending their honeymoon searching for an old colleague who disappeared after a research paper he had written was discredited by the medical community. It turns out that Dr. Semeneau is living in ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological, bloody ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cannibal, cannibalism, vampire, violence, gory, murder, rape, macabre, honeymoon, serial killer, dangerous attraction, danger ...
Time: year 2001
Place: paris france, france, europe, ghana
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Boy Meets Girl (1994)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman picks a man up in a bar and takes him back to her place. He thinks he is going to get laid, she has over plans. She proceeds to drug him and incarcerate him in a chair in her basement before torturing him, physically and phycologically. It ...
Style: controversial, sexy, independent film, serious, erotic ...
Plot: feminism, serial killer, female psychopath, torture, smoking, video surveillance, sexism, one night stand, strong female presence, danger, gender, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Murder-Set-Pieces (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set against Sin City, Las Vegas, "Murder-Set-Pieces" tells the story of a fashion photographer whose vocation is murder - a voyeuristic nightmare of blood, sex and brutality.
Style: disturbing, extreme horror, controversial, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: rape and murder, psycho killer, serial killer, strong sexual content, psychopath, gory, extreme, danger, murder, sexual abuse, hardcore, rape ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Slaughtered Vomit Dolls (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 71 min.
Story: The gruesome tapestry of psychological manifestations of a nineteen year old bulimic runaway stripper-turned prostitute as she descends into a hellish pit of satanic nightmares and hallucinations.
Style: disturbing, extreme horror, satanic, psychological, rough ...
Plot: prostitute, gory, violence, torture, stripper, murder, rape, extreme, life is a bitch, blood, mental illness, suffocation ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.3
 17K
Bedevilled (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.
Style: disturbing, tense, serious, bleak, slasher ...
Plot: revenge, rape, rape and revenge, mental illness, island, murder, woman in danger, isolation, friendship, slavery, social decay, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Strange Circus (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
Style: disturbing, psychological, surreal, suspense, scary ...
Plot: incest, child abuse, surrealism, violence, incest rape, father daughter incest, dysfunctional family, prostitute, identity crisis, revenge, writers, extreme ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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