Movies like Lament of the Lamb
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Lament of the Lamb (2001)
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Original name: 羊のうた
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Ever since his mother died, Kazuna Takashiro has been living under the roof of Mr. And Mrs. Eda, who are his father's friends. One day, he passes out while working as a model in an art class. Repeated nightmarish imageries invade his mind, and, without even knowing, he heads toward his old home. Once he gets there, he is reunited with his older sister, Chizuna, who tells him about the secret of the grave "illness" that runs in their family. An illness that make them overcome with a desire for blood of others. When Kazuna's symptoms are all apparent with shivering fit and all, Chizuna tries to give him her own blood, and remarks that nothing can be done about it...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, bleak, melancholic, dark fantasy, psychological horror, gothic, surreal, noir, seinen
Plot:
supernatural, brother sister relationship, vampire, angst, vampirism, life is a bitch, outcast, family secret, problem, family problems, terminal illness, family reunited, family curse, bloodlust, nightmare, forbidden love, obsession, taboo, isolation, identity crisis, sexual tension, tragic romance, violence, coming of age, body horror ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Lament of the Lamb
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, melancholic and disturbing films with plots about isolation, coming of age, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, identity crisis and obsession mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Lament of the Lamb: Girls' Encounter (2017), A Blue Automobile (2004), At River's Edge (2011), Dead Run (2005), Demented (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
School girl Miyuri Obara is bullied mercilessly but finds relief in an unexpected friendship with Tsumugi. Yet even as Miyuri's life turns around there's a lingering suggestion that something is not quite right.
Style:
psychological, teen, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
bullying, girl, school, loneliness, outcast, friendship, female friendship, japanese school, friendship between girls, relationships, social problems, relationship problems ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Richio, a young DJ, is as emotionally non-existent as no other man on the planet. He uses his tough exterior to avoid attachments to people and society.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
love triangle, trauma, character study, relationships, romantic relationship, love affair, love story, physical appearance, male female relationship, relationship problems, social problems, love interest ...
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90%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister. As a loyal samurai he has to accept the mission even though he has inner conflicts.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
samurai, moral dilemma, honor, loyalty, duty, conflict, sibling relationship, medieval, battles, samurai era, fight, murderer ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, melancholic ...
Plot:
male female relationship, problem, brothers, relationships, family relations, brother brother relationship, priest, life is a bitch, faith, brother, small town, coming of age ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
61%
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351
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
It’s summer and the beginning of the long vacation period for eleven-year-old Martin, who lives on a farm, and, at a loss, observes his family’s disintegration : his mother lives locked-up in her room ; his older brother, who he adores, drowns ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, family drama, gay, kids and family, unhappy marriage, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, social problems, parents and children, father son relationship, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Alma lives a humble and secluded life behind the walls of a contemporary Catholic convent in Denmark. As she prepares for her perpetual vows as a nun, her older brother Erik unexpectedly shows up. He is a recovering alcoholic and clearly depressed, ...
Style:
religious drama, disturbing, suspenseful, dramatic, serious ...
Plot:
family secret, family tragedy, brother sister relationship, convent, alcoholic, catholic, siblings, catholicism, nun, undercover, monastery, brother ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A high-school girl who lives in a rural town in Japan struggles to define her own way in life. To help her impoverished family she works as a video fetish performer which leads to problems for her and her family with a criminal underworld.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, desperation, high school, poverty, problem, teenage life, life is a bitch, social problems, teenager, money problems, japanese girl, female protagonist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A young woman's birthright hides a dark secret.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, independent film, suspense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, secret, dark secret, secrets, seduction, seductress, lifestyle, life philosophy, identity, family secret, revelation, identity crisis ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In an impoverished neighborhood, the son of a swordsman falls in love with the daughter of a wedding singer — a taboo match in a traditional society.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, independent film, tense ...
Plot:
death sentence, social realism, family problems, relationships, problem, couple relations, male female relationship, love story, life is a bitch, family relations, love affair, money problems ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, France, Croatia, Luxembourg, Qatar
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Belgrade, 1996. During the student demonstrations against the Milosevic regime, 15-year-old Stefan leads his own revolution in the heat of events: accepting the unacceptable, seeing his mother as an accomplice in the crime and finding, despite the ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
boy, family secret, coming of age, moral dilemma, conscience, loss of innocence, family conflict, murder mystery, hidden truth, uncover truth, parent child relationship, secret ...
Place:
belgrade
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, surreal, emotional ...
Plot:
hypnotist, female protagonist, illusionist, ambition, actress, illusion, mental illness, disturbed individual, mentally unstable, social problems, psychological manipulation, life is a bitch ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Colombian director Víctor Gaviria melds stark realism with nail-biting thrills in this story about a teenage girl who is kidnapped and forced into marriage with a ferocious shantytown thug.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
rape, forced marriage, domestic abuse, family relations, relationships, violence, relationship problems, male female relationship, violent, life is a bitch, forbidden love, family problems ...
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An execution scheduled to be carried out in 12 years creates a hostile and stifling atmosphere among guards in one jail. This has profound effects on the dehumanization of Jae-kyoung, a young, newly appointed guard who nonetheless happens to find ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
prison, security guard, prison warden, execution, coworker, prison life, workplace situations, death penalty, workplace, life is a bitch, problem, dehumanization ...
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can't just show up, apologize, and hope that makes himself a grown man.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, melancholic
Plot:
drunken man, drunk, male nudity, humiliation, disgraced, fatherhood, family drama, tradition, life is a bitch, relationship problems, family problems, infamy ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Mishima Kiko was exploited by her own family. When she was little, her mother neglected her. After her mother remarried, Kiko was abused mentally and physically by her mother, stepfather, and younger stepbrother. She didn't belong to this ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
domestic abuse, abuse, trauma, domestic violence, neglect, bullying, dysfunctional family, social problems, life is a bitch, traumatic past, violence, family problems ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, semi autobiographical ...
Plot:
violence, delinquent, identity, accused of murder, murder, accusation, framed for murder, bandit, criminal, competitor, hooliganism, assault ...
Place:
japan
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Departing for college, Abbie leaves her parents and brother who has autism and is non-verbal. As she explores her independence and sexuality, she's torn between her new life and her love for her brother.
Style:
lgbt cinema, disturbing, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
lgbt, sexual desire, relationships, relationship problems, family relations, family problems, female protagonist, life is a bitch, love affair, brother sister relationship, forbidden love, woman ...
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38%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A writer's creations step out of his stories, haunting his reality and demanding justice. As fiction and truth collide, he becomes a prisoner in a terrifying narrative beyond his control.
Style:
psychological horror, psychological thriller, metafiction, mind bending, tense ...
Plot:
obsession, paranoia, mental breakdown, haunting, supernatural, identity crisis, claustrophobia, magic realism, creative block, urban, unreliable narrator
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, disturbing, serious, manga
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school life, society, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, high school, gang, friendship, life is a bitch, teenage life, youth, school, asian ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A successful, young writer's first pregnancy is overshadowed by her complicated relationship with reality.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, tense, existential ...
Plot:
pregnancy, female protagonist, pregnancy and birth, writers, lifestyle, social climber, unplanned pregnancy, problem, male female relationship, family relations, writer's life, mental health ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Amamiya Brothers, Masaki (Takahiro) and Hiroto (Hiroomi Tosaka), keep looking for their older brother Takeru (Takumi Saito) who disappeared one year ago. The three Amamiya brothers lost their parents when they were young. Since then, they relied ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot:
brothers, high school student, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, missing person, loss, grief, brotherhood, siblings, fight, brother, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness ...
Style:
tension, psychological, atmospheric, melancholic, art house
Plot:
coming of age, island, wedding, fire, lighthouse, sexual awakening, obsession, jealousy, loneliness, character study, sexual tension, isolation ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After being sexually assaulted by an acquainted and incapable of dealing with the situation, a woman leaves her whole life behind and hides herself away in an isolated cabin in the mountains.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, sexualized violence, rape victim, violence against women, shame, guilt, traumatic past, tragic past, violence, psychological trauma, rape, troubled past ...
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of a small, simple and happy family in which a boy, a manipulator, violently enters, which distorts the life of this wonderful fifteen-year-old and makes her a nightmare.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychological manipulation, family drama, emotional manipulation, problem, male female relationship, relationships, life is a bitch, manipulation, manipulative behavior, relationship problems, changing lives, couple relations ...
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A 30-something Gundam fan and engineer is forced to live with his recluse brother Maury and younger sister Lisa to take care of their Japanese grandmother after their mother's funeral.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
slice of life, character study, family drama, dysfunctional family, changing lives, socially awkward, brother sister relationship, brother brother relationship, family relations, brothers, social problems, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
35%
211
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
'Duffer' (1971) is a rarely seen cult British movie that has languished in the vaults of the British Film Institute for the best part of forty years until they decided to release it on DVD/BluRay for the first time last month. It's a ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, atmospheric, tension, disturbing ...
Plot:
gay interest, abuse, obsession, adolescence, manipulation, sadism, male nudity, taboo, sexual awakening, sex worker, identity crisis, macabre ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Yuri and Takumi are brother and sister who faced unusually harsh treatment by their father. An act of brutality keeps them extremely close together until an older couple occupy the house where their secret was buried.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, tense, sincere
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family problems, brother sister relationship, family relations, male female relationship, life is a bitch, tragic past, tragic love, family secret, relationship problems, confronting the past, brother sister incest ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mexico City, 1960. Aurelia lives happily with her family. Just before the birth of her third daughter, her husband dies in an accident. Years later, Leonor, the oldest daughter, has quit her studies to help her mother support the household. Beatriz, ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, captivating, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
alienation, surrealism, family drama, grief, family problems, family relations, estrangement, family life, kids and family, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
17 year-old Hiruma is desperate to get laid and takes out his sexual urges on Anpai, a fat boy who has "boobs." His classmate Tomono, a sickly loner, is in a serious relationship with their married teacher.
Style:
independent film, captivating, dramatic, sincere, controversial ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, teenage sexuality, boy, mature, sexual abuse, high school, teacher student relationship, school, sex, teenage angst, teenage sex ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss of his wife, travels to rural Maine to seek answers from his estranged mother-in-law, who is herself confronting guilt and grief over her daughter's death.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
grief, guilt, mother-in-law, family problems, loss, mourning, character study, bereavement, loss of daughter, mother in law, countryside, loss of wife ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
33%
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