Movies like Grotesque
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Grotesque (2009)
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Original name: グロテスク
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
An unnamed doctor has always had everything he's ever wanted, but that has only made him develop more extreme and depraved needs. He kidnaps a young couple in the prime of their life together and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.
Style:
disturbing, brutal, controversial, splatter, slasher, rough, bloody, scary, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
torture, sadism, sexual abuse, psychopath, violence, held captive, captivity, brutality, kidnapping, violent death, sexual perversion, perversion, mysterious character, pain, strong sexual content, violent, chainsaw, sexual torture, cruelty, maniac, serial killer, porn, misfit, suspense, medical ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
japan, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, scary, bloody and slasher films with plots about torture, violence, gore, blood, murder, serial killer and brutality mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Grotesque: A Serbian Film (2010), Martyrs (2008), No One Lives (2012), Snuff 102 (2007), The Tortured (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
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Audience:
adult
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Time:
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Place:
serbia, europe
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Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
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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.
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disturbing, scary, twist ending, brutal, splatter ...
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torture, cult, kidnapping, violence, child abuse, brutality, revenge, death, afterlife, torment, vengeance, torture chamber ...
Time:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A gang of ruthless highway killers kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they seem.
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scary, psychological, slasher, splatter, dark ...
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kidnapping, psychopath, serial killer, strong violent content, serial murder, hunt down, massacre, murder, trap, woman in danger, gang, captivity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young Argentinian reporter is writing an article about snuff films - which depict real torture, rape and murder of people. But seeking the films and those behind them might backfire. She herself is in danger of becoming one of the suffering.
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disturbing, brutal, bloody, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
torture, violence, murder, physical torture, rape, brutality, violent, sexual cruelty, suspense, mockery, attempted rape, sexualized violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.
Style:
disturbing, sadistic, tense, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
torture, kidnapping, sadism, bloody violence, child murder, revenge, child killer, violence, psychopath, confined, death of son, twists and turns ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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, husband wife relationship, sadism, sexual abuse, incestuous relationship, captivity, suffering, twists and turns, sexual assault, cannibal, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
Style:
rough, disturbing, psychological, controversial, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
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100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, 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:
disturbing, sadistic, brutal, scary, controversial ...
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teens
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torture, macabre, psychopath, serial killer, sexual abuse, bad guy wins, pervert, mad scientist, sadism, sexual sadism, violence, violent death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, sadistic, slasher, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, serial killer, torture, macabre, murder, psychopath, maniac, investigation, violence, sadism, torment, suffering ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, brutal, rough ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
rape, torture, vengeance, rape and revenge, kidnapping, psychopath, violence, serial killer, murder, woman in danger, violence against women, sadism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in ...
Style:
brutal, disturbing, scary, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
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vengeance, rape and revenge, torture, rape, violence, serial killer, sexual abuse, revenge, rape revenge, brutality, woman in danger, rapist ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their ...
Style:
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Plot:
female prisoner, murder, erotica, sadism, prison, torture, women's prison, misogynist, violence, psychopath, prison escape, captivity ...
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Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mum and Dad, and their 'adopted' children, Birdie & Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the ...
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38%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills ...
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teens
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Genre: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
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Plot:
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Country: USA, France, Morocco
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Story:
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Audience:
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desert, torture, cannibalism, survival, rape, fear, human monster, stranded, victim, kidnapping, trapped, massacre ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina, and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they encounter the site’s most infamous local, the last ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, torture, sadistic horror, killing spree, violence, escape attempt, chase, tourist, deathtrap, decapitation, strong violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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:
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Plot:
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Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.
Style:
scary, disturbing, slasher, brutal, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
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torture, kidnapping, macabre, suspense, sadism, serial killer, murder, sadistic violence, survival, revenge, violent, hunting ...
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las vegas, usa, nevada
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive
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Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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:
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Plot:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.
Style:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Seasoning House - where young girls are prostituted to the military. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, planning her escape. Planning her ingenious and brutal revenge.
Style:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
usa, europe
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33%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young ...
Style:
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Audience:
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supernatural, ghost, child in peril, suburbs, human monster, brutality, missing child, investigation, serial killer, child abuse, domestic violence, suspense ...
Time:
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Place:
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32%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mysterious new girl arrives in posh suburban neighborhood and quickly sets out to terrorize the town. As she starts breaking into homes and torturing the occupants, they begin to realize that she isn't just another girl next door.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Rome, in 73 B.C. Spartacus led the rebellion of 200 gladiators wich saw them opposed to the inhumanity which Rome had forced them into. During the riot they resisted for a long time against the roman soldiers. Few against a whole army. Some of them ...
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