Movies like Beauty and the Beast 1978
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Beauty and the Beast (1978)
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Original name: Panna a netvor
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begins to fall in love with Julie, he must suppress his beastly urge to kill her.
Style:
fairy tale, gothic horror, atmospheric, romantic, dark fantasy, bleak, suspenseful, gothic, dark, slasher ...
Plot:
beauty and the beast, monster, curse, loneliness, ruins, father, mansion, daughter, sister, maiden, father daughter relationship, strong female character, stockholm syndrome, castle, beast, beauty, transformation, sister sister relationship, creature, vampire, horse, young woman, true love, picture, gargoyle ...
Place:
eastern europe, czech republic, czechoslovakia, europe, central europe
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Most similar movies to Beauty and the Beast
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out gothic, fairy tale, atmospheric and psychotronic films with plots about supernatural, danger, female nudity, monster, folk horror, father daughter relationship and curse mostly in Fantasy, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Beauty and the Beast: The Company of Wolves (1984), Red Riding Hood (2011), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Wild Flowers (2000), Morgiana (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into ...
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, sexy, cult classic, dark ...
Plot:
werewolf, surrealism, little red riding hood, legends and myths, grandmother, woman in danger, wolf, dangerous animal, coming of age, girl, folk horror, beast ...
Time:
18th century, year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man – who is wealthy. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older ...
Style:
fairy tale, gothic, dark fantasy, gothic horror, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen fantasy, adult
Plot:
werewolf, supernatural, medieval, legends and myths, dangerous attraction, danger, animal attack, curse, supernatural power, village life, fall in love, supernatural romance ...
Time:
middle ages, year 2011, medieval times, 2010s, year 2000
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker -- the spitting image of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta -- obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.
Style:
gothic, scary, gothic horror, dark fantasy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, monster, goth, dangerous attraction, dracula, victorian england, legends and myths, bloodsucker, death, blood, vampire bite ...
Time:
middle ages, victorian era, 90s, 15th century, 1800s ...
Place:
london, transylvania, england, britain, ottoman empire ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.
Style:
gothic horror, serious, dark, fairy tale, atmospheric ...
Plot:
folklore, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, folk horror, surrealism, religions or cults, magic, ghost, romanticism, danger, mythology, church ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, ...
Style:
dark comedy, gothic horror, black comedy, gothic, phantasmagoric ...
Plot:
murder, sister sister relationship, sister, sibling rivalry, nudity, female nudity, jealousy, poison, inheritance, terror, folk horror, renaissance ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, czech republic
Similarity:
100%
487
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Described as "Angela Carter rewriting La Belle et la Bête as an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer", the story follows, through a tapestry of dreamlike images, a girl (Sarah Livingston Evans) and her three friends—the characters' ...
Style:
suspenseful, gothic, fairy tale, serious, surreal ...
Plot:
obsession, impossible love, deadly creature, danger, love and romance, supernatural, tragic love, dangerous attraction, stalking, lesbian, beauty and the beast, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Family, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at first, the prince is enchanted with her lovely ...
Style:
fairy tale, dark, psychotronic, costume drama, beautiful
Plot:
mermaid, forbidden love, tragic romance, love, female nudity, self sacrifice, underwater, aquatic humanoid, interspecies romance, mute girl, love interest, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Sting is Doctor Frankenstein in this remake of the old classic film Bride of Frankenstein. After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".
Style:
psychotronic, gothic horror, gothic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
frankenstein, obsession, laboratory, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, supernatural, danger, dangerous attraction, deadly creature, zombie, friendship, human experiment ...
Time:
year 1985
Place:
budapest
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
82K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A curse transforms a handsome and arrogant young man into everything he detests in this contemporary retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Wealthy Kyle Kingson has everything a teenager could want in life, but he still gets off on humiliating the ...
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, modern fairy tale, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen fantasy, date night ...
Plot:
high school, love, teenage love, love story, love and romance, unlikely couple, true love, teen romance, fall in love, curses spells and rituals, beauty and the beast, witch ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.
Style:
fairy tale, psychotronic, gothic, mystical, grim ...
Plot:
beauty and the beast, prince, beauty, sacrifice, castle, transformation, disfigurement, curse, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, arranged marriage, heroine ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In the late nineteenth century, brutal land baron Seamus Laurent slaughters a Roma clan, unleashing a curse on his family and village. In the days that follow, the townspeople are plagued by nightmares, Seamus’s son Edward goes missing, and a boy ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, disturbing ...
Plot:
werewolf, creature, gypsy, cursed, supernatural, folk horror, scarecrow, curse, revenge from beyond the grave, violence, paranormal phenomena, monster ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 2020s
Place:
france, rome italy
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Czech television production of Dracula that is very faithful to Bram Stoker's novel.
Style:
gothic horror, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dracula, vampire, castle, supernatural, haunting, macabre, literary, isolation, tragic villain, slow burn, female vampire, aristocrat ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
transylvania
Similarity:
43%
410K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
Style:
gothic, dark, scary, atmospheric, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick, teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, witch, ghost, murder, investigation, supernatural horror, magical, witchcraft, small town, horseman, goth, legends and myths ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century, 90s, year 1999 ...
Place:
new york, new york state, britain, america, madagascar
Similarity:
42%
348K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style:
dark, atmospheric, disturbing, scary, satanic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
witch, supernatural, folk horror, curses spells and rituals, witchcraft, religion, wilderness, black magic, paganism, family bonds, isolation, sacrifice ...
Time:
17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place:
new england, america, new hampshire, usa, canada
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
Style:
dark, fairy tale, dark fantasy, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
witch, witchcraft, folk horror, old dark house, forest, danger, woods, good versus evil, black magic, medieval, supernatural power, blood ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
41%
12K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Set in 1913 England, the bloodsucking, but handsome, charming and seductive, Count Dracula seeks an immortal bride.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, sexy, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
vampire, dracula, supernatural, macabre, female vampire, blood, nobleman, vampire human love, countryside, gangster, betrayal, greed ...
Time:
19th century, edwardian era, 1910s, year 1979, 1800s ...
Place:
cornwall, europe, united kingdom, england, yorkshire
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Catherine Bomarzini returns to the family castle in Italy after her father's death and gets caught in the web of a mysterious love triangle: a man who is at times repulsive, at others enchanting; and a creature of the night whose gentle eyes ...
Style:
gothic, sexy, atmospheric, suspenseful, fairy tale ...
Plot:
curse, werewolf, transformation, rape, true love, female nudity, castle, dangerous attraction, raped by monster, afterlife, ghost, beauty and the beast ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
50%
23K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. ...
Style:
suspense, lovecraft, surprise ending, atmospheric, satanic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nightmare, cthulhu, body horror, small town, curses spells and rituals, chase, monster, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, supernatural, ritual, sea, sacrifice ...
Place:
spain, galicia, europe
Similarity:
41%
Movie in collections
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A Brother Grimm's Horror Version of the Classic Fairytale.
Style:
fairy tale, dark fairy tale, dark fantasy, grim, sinister ...
Plot:
beast, wolf, folklore, werewolf, forest, macabre, adaptation, folk horror, violent, female protagonist, supernatural, female nudity ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.
Style:
fairy tale, dark fantasy, disturbing, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
witch, medieval, beautiful scenery, magic, violence, castle, fantasy world, ogre, brutality, fight scenes, monster, circus ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
italy, southern italy
Similarity:
41%
260
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A strange nobleman returning after years abroad to a small Bohemian village in the beginning of 19th century. The nobleman feels closer to animals despite looking like a human.
Style:
enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, dark comedy ...
Plot:
loneliness, collector, tragic romance, priest in love, unrequited love, secret, fish out of water, love triangle, supernatural power, mythology, murder, hiding place ...
Time:
1830s, 19th century
Place:
central europe, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, gothic horror, captivating ...
Plot:
folk horror, black magic, occult, pagan cult, curses spells and rituals, pagan, family secret, priest, sleepwalking, superstition, human sacrifice, black mass ...
Time:
year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place:
france, london, paris france, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a ...
Style:
fairy tale, allegory, surreal, sexual, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
innocence, teenage girl, folk horror, wedding night, surrealism, menstruation, folklore, magic realism, older man younger woman relationship, supernatural, female protagonist, vampire ...
Time:
19th century, year 1970, near future
Place:
central europe, eastern europe, europe, czech republic
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
Style:
gothic, parody, gothic horror, creepy, scary ...
Plot:
vampire, dracula, supernatural, vampire slayer, winter, nothing goes right, castle, undead, vampire hunter, countryside, snow, rescue ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 19th century, 1800s, 60s
Place:
europe, eastern europe, transylvania, former yugoslavia, central europe ...
Similarity:
40%
17K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.
Style:
gothic, surreal, gothic horror, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, demon, ss, magic, supernatural, monster, surrealism, fortress, jewish man, vampire, devil ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, 80s
Place:
germany, romania, transylvania, black sea, bucharest ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Desperate Cinderella summons her fairy godmother from an ancient flesh-bound book, seeking revenge on her evil stepmother and stepsisters who abuse and torment her daily.
Style:
fairy tale, dark fantasy, atmospheric, grim, sinister ...
Plot:
revenge, supernatural horror, vengeance, curse, supernatural, mature, book of magic, fairy godmother, haunting, moral ambiguity, ritual, folk horror ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, sweet, touching, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
beauty and the beast, happy ending, magic, love story, beast, opposites attract, true love, fantasy world, prince, heroine, spell, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
18th century, 2010s, year 2017
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Once upon a time, a miller attempted to marry his daughter off to the King by promising she could spin straw into gold. With the help of a demonic imp, she completes the task, but the King becomes greedy and wants more. So, she promises the imp her ...
Style:
fairy tale, sinister, dark fantasy, demonic, folk tale ...
Plot:
deal with the devil, supernatural, sacrifice, motherhood, curse, deception, greed, supernatural horror, medieval, moral dilemma, loss of innocence, king ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that ...
Style:
sexy, serious, atmospheric, stylized, controversial ...
Plot:
werewolf, rape, surrealism, bestiality, erotica, zoophilia, nudity, sodomy, female masturbation, orgasm, bare breasts, sexual desire ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
eastern europe, france
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a ...
Style:
anthology, scary, gothic, gothic horror, dark fairy tale ...
Plot:
curse, eternal youth, rejuvenation, passionate kiss, experiment, tomb, poison, mad doctor, gym, father, omnibus, murder ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Similarity:
39%
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