Movies like Cannibal 2006

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Cannibal (2006)
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Cannibal (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Cannibal is based on the true-crime story of Armin Meiwes, the "Rotenburg Cannibal" who posted an online ad searching for someone to volunteer to be mutilated and eaten. Unlikely as it may seem, someone actually replied. The film shows a fictional portrayal of the meeting between the cannibal and his victim/participant, their homosexual relationship, and the eventual mutilation and murder of said victim.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, controversial, bloody, cult horror, intense, extreme horror, devastating ...
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, obsession, gory, homosexual, male nudity, internet, sadism, psychopath, danger, sexual fantasy, violent, computers and web, extreme, serial killer, true crime, gay sex, stalker, underground, hardcore, unsettling, nihilism, friendship, gays and lesbians, love affair ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: germany, europe
Keyword: german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, rough and disturbing films with plots about deadly, serial killer, psychopath, murder, killer, true crime and danger mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Cannibal: The Angels' Melancholia (2009), The Deathmaker (1995), Bundy: An American Icon (2009), Grimm Love (2006), The Gray Man (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Angels' Melancholia (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 158 min.
Story: A dark secret connects Katze and Brauth, two middle aged men. Katze has the clue that his end is near. The two friends meet again after years to share their last days in the old house where everything happened a long time ago. With three women they ...
Style: disturbing, extreme horror, controversial, devastating, disgusting ...
Plot: surrealism, extreme, violent, male nudity, religion, masochism, hardcore, violence, sisters, unsettling, gory, death ...
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Deathmaker (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fritz Haarmann, who has killed at least 27 boys, is questioned by a psychology professor in order to find out whether he is sane and can be held responsible for his crimes. During this interrogation Haarmann reveals his motives and his killing ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, investigation, society, courtroom drama, mental institution, confined, cannibalism, gay, killer, dismemberment ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bundy: An American Icon (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bundy, starring Corin Nemec in the title role and co-starring Kane Hodder, details the dark psyche and previously unexplored motivations of the man who became known as one of the most notorious serial killers to leave behind a legacy of evil.
Style: serious, slasher, rough, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, obsession, psychopath, woman in danger, violence spree, gory, biopic, killer, true crime, ted bundy, villain ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 4K
Grimm Love (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In Germany, as graduate student Katie Armstrong researches cannibal killer Oliver Hagen for her thesis, she becomes obsessed with her subject and ultimately plunges into a lifestyle similar to Hagen's and the thousands of people like him.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, rough, controversial ...
Plot: cannibal, cannibalism, mental illness, gory, murder, obsession, psychopath, dangerous attraction, self discovery, uncover truth, danger, life is a bitch ...
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Gray Man (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Early 20th century. Albert Fish, a seemingly benevolent father and grandfather who reared his family by himself after his wife deserted them, turns out to be a serial child molester and murderer. Based on a true story.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, child murder, cannibalism, cannibal, investigation, police detective, psychopath, danger, obsession, kidnapping, killer, true crime ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Zodiac Killer (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A young man who works at a nursing home uses the legendary Zodiac killer's M.O. to kill people who neglect their elderly relatives.
Style: slasher, serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, wannabe, murder, mind game, police investigation, police detective, obsession, danger, rivalry, master criminal, psychopath, gory ...
Time: 2000s
Place: bay area, usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Cannibal Man (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, terrifying, dark drama ...
Plot: cannibal, serial killer, exploitation, murder, gay, taxi, macabre, killer, freak, misfit, 666, extreme ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw ...
Style: disturbing, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, law enforcement, police investigation, violence spree, psychopath, stalking, mind game, danger, killer, true crime, criminal ...
Time: 50s
Place: usa, wisconsin, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 6.8
 292K
Hannibal (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, cannibalism, psychopath, cannibal, mind game, fbi, master criminal, psychiatrist, villain played by lead actor, torment, police, homicidal maniac ...
Time: year 2001, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florence, italy, venice, europe, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Manson Family (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jim Van Bebber's "The Manson Family" is an extremely violent and bloody horror film that reconstructs the early activities of the Family and their descent into the Tate-LaBianca killings.Van Bebber mixes this with a contemporary sub ...
Style: disturbing, terrifying, art house, psychological, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, charles manson, true crime, exploitation, gory, hippie, killer, biopic, erotica, criminal, misfit, freak ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 60s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.9
 3K
Sweeney Todd (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.
Style: gothic, stylized, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cannibalism, serial killer, obsession, vengeance, haunted by the past, cannibal, murder, murder mystery, prison, revenge, goth, mental health ...
Time: 18th century, victorian era
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killing cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: murder, serial killer, two killers, true crime, psychopath, criminal, killer, violent, police detective, homicide, strangler, cousin ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Story of a gay serial killer who murders young boys so he can serve them as dinner to his circle of fellow cannibals.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, gothic, tense, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, serial child killer, cannibal, gay, cannibalism, secret, psychopath, boy, danger, male pubic hair, black market ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: germany, europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.6
 12K
Dahmer (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, slasher, stylized ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, rape, gay club, biopic, gay, torture, violence, necrophilia, blood, killer, serial murder ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 2002, 90s
Place: ohio, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.7
 270
Zee-Oui (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In 1946 a young man from China named Zee-Oui immigrated to Thailand in hope of a better life. His only possession was the knife inherited from his mother. However, everything did not turn out as he had thought. He was bullied and humiliated from ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, cannibalism, child killer, mental illness, immigrant, society, cannibal, killer, journalism, rural setting, village, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.8
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The Lost (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations.
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, drug use, police investigation, youth, rivalry, lesbian, violence, male female relationship, sexploitation, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.4
 6K
Karla (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, rape, abusive husband, domestic violence, kidnapping, sister sister relationship, murder, true crime, rape victim, rough sex, incest rape, courtroom drama ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.3
 7K
The Zodiac (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Style: rough, psychological, bleak, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, psychopath, murder, police detective, obsession, killing spree, mind game, gory, family conflict, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 2005
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Freeway Killer (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, rape and murder, who done it, strong violent content, police detective, law enforcement, life is a bitch, stalking, danger, physical appearance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Nightmare in Columbia County (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina in the 1980's. Southern beauty pageant winner Dawn Smith is targeted by a sadistic stalker whose obsession with her leads him to kidnap her younger ...
Style: tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, kidnapping, child abuse, love, murder, beauty pageant, law enforcement, psychopath, small town, riddles and clues, small town life, woman in danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
I Can Make You Love Me (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Laura Black has got it. She has got her master in computer science and she has got that great job in Silicon Valley. Time to say 'bye bye' to mom and dad and to leave Virginia. Everything seems to be fine with one exception. That guy ...
Style: slasher, creepy, sad, realistic, serious ...
Plot: stalker, obsession, harassment, psychopath, serial killer, hostage, fatal attraction, wandering, killings, dangerous attraction, mentally unstable, stalking ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Funny Games (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the ...
Style: psychological, scary, disturbing, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, hostage, torture, psychopath, home invasion, murder, danger, bad guy wins, maniac, brutality, kidnapping, torment ...
Time: year 2007, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Ladies Night (2005)
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Insurance investigators track a serial killer who seduces women with access to big bucks, convinces them to embezzle, then kills them.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, cynical, realistic
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, psychopath, dangerous attraction, police investigation, father son relationship, female nudity, voyeurism, false identity, male nudity, insurance investigator ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 7.5
 83K
Funny Games (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Style: disturbing, bleak, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, sadism, bad guy wins, torment, torture, home invasion, kidnapping, murder, family in danger, evil wins, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997, near future
Place: austria, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.8
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The Chaser (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, investigation, race against time, revenge, anti hero, police detective, murder, brutality, missing person, violent ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, seoul, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Style: psychological, disturbing, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, psychopath, manipulation, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, mind game, rivalry, dishonesty, killer clown, gay, true crime ...
Time: 90s, year 1978, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Diary of a Cannibal (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: They met on the Internet. They fell in love. They drove to the desert and stopped at an abandoned warehouse. They wandered inside. Inside they found unspeakable horror. Only one of them survived the ordeal of CANNIBAL. From a hospital bed, an ...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: human flesh, psychopath, destructive relationship, gory, death wish, computers and web, violence, cannibalism, love, dismemberment, internet, blood ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.3
 26K
I Stand Alone (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, psychological, bleak, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: loneliness, incest, butcher, revenge, violence, alienation, nihilism, insanity, existentialism, macabre, violent, obsession ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.7
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Senseless (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Elliott Gast (Jason Behr) is quickly climbing the corporate ladder of international commerce, negotiating deals to generate large fortunes for giant corporations. His success makes him the target for political extremists who kidnap him and broadcast ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, intelligent ...
Plot: confined, missing person, danger, captivity, isolation, terrorism, prison life, internet, unsettling, confined space, extreme, torture ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Who Killed Atlanta's Children? (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: From 1979 to 1981, 29 African-American males, mostly children, were either missing or found murdered in metro Atlanta. The cases plagued the city until 1982, when Wayne Wiiliams was convicted of the murders of two adult men. Authorities then ...
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, journalism, investigation, murder, uncover truth, psychopath, who done it, legal, law enforcement, manhunt, child murder investigation, true crime ...
Time: 80s
Place: georgia, atlanta georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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