Movies like Human
If you like "Human" you are looking for tension and suspense movies about / with sea, yacht, boat, stranded, ship, fight and ocean themes of Drama genre shot in Japan.
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Human (1962)
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Original name: 人間
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
Style:
tension, suspense
Plot:
sea, yacht, boat, stranded, ship, fight, ocean, food, shipwreck, storm, water, murder, cannibalism, suicide, hunger, rain, captain, guilty conscience, thirst, rice, guilt, selfishness, malnutrition, drifting, drinking water ...
Most similar movies to Human
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and atmospheric films with plots about boat, sea, murder, water, death, suicide and female nudity mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Human: The Black Cat (1968), Devil Woman (1964), The Belly of the Sea (2021), A Story Written with Water (1965), Irezumi (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, serious, scary, gothic ...
Plot:
samurai, ghost, murder, supernatural, vengeance, japanese mythology, folk horror, rape, revenge, black cat, rape and revenge, curse ...
Time:
year 1968, 12th century, middle ages
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In medieval times, on a remote plain, a widow and her mother-in-law kill wandering samurai, put their bodies in a hole in the ground and sell their armour and valuables, until the daughter-in-law falls in love with one of their intended victims.
Style:
black and white, surreal, scary, art house, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
samurai, folk horror, murder, swamp, witch, sexuality, sex, survival, danger, vengeance, medieval, japanese history ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, 14th century
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
June, 1816. A French navy frigate ran aground on a sandbar off the coast of Senegal. Attempts to free the board were futile - the crew had no choice but to abandon ship. Since the available boats were not enough to accommodate the entire crew, the ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
shipwreck, ocean, sea, raft, struggle for survival, storm at sea, survival, drowning, madness, male pubic hair, death, captain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.
Plot:
geisha, mother son relationship, car crash, flashback, loss of father, surrealism, wedding, marriage, extramarital affair, suicide, illness, dream ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In this elegant proto-feminist shocker from Yasuzo Masumuro, a woman forced into prostitution wreaks her spidery revenge. A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman's back. She and her lover are ...
Style:
thought provoking, masterpiece
Plot:
samurai, female nudity, yakuza, femme fatale, girl, prostitution, forced prostitution, vengeance, strangulation, kidnapping, prostitute, adultery ...
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 200 min.
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Story:
Filmed on South Australia's glorious River Murray, this television mini-series is set during the 1920s and tells of the story of a runaway who escapes to the river to work on a paddle-boat steamer and his friendship with an old salt captain ...
Plot:
boat, yacht, television, river, young man, runaway, ship, captain, water, riverboat, steam, river boat
Time:
1920s
Place:
australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Plot:
boat, disaster, die hard, shipwreck, survival, lifeboat, sea, sinking ship
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies. Notwithstanding her healthy distrust of all ...
Style:
erotic
Plot:
mistreatment, stealing, cutting one's own hair, female fight, strangulation, theft, pilgrim, beach, rain, food, flashback, torture ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, atmospheric
Plot:
sea, killer animal, animal, creature, water, nature, elderly, fish, fisherman, obsessive quest, survival, lone wolves ...
Time:
80s
Place:
caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious ...
Style:
historical drama
Plot:
yacht, girl, boat, love, widow, priest
Time:
18th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a ...
Style:
enigmatic, captivating, psychological, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
self discovery, starting over, human nature, social relations, hopes, crimes of passion, haunted by the past, murder, suicide attempt, prison, adultery, obsession ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 80s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A married couple from Germany, middle-aged Manfred and his much younger wife Meyra, who are originally from Zagreb, spend their vacation on the island Hvar. They are staying at Ms. Marija's house. Ms. Marija's son and Meyra feel an erotic ...
Style:
sexual, tension
Plot:
vacation, female pubic hair, cuckolded husband, sex scene, older man younger woman marriage, woman seduces a man, female nudity, forbidden love, sea, brother sister sex, nudity, man hits a woman ...
Place:
former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The crew on board the fishing vessel Undercurrent RE 29 has become uncomfortably numb with its never ending routine of week long tours at sea. Then, during one dark and dreary night this routine is shaken to its foundation when one of the most solid ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
ship, ocean, workplace, power relations, isolation, human nature, confined, search and rescue, sailing, under the surface, mental disorder, quarrel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, europe, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
Plot:
blackmail, erotic scene, mental disorder, sex scene, sea, adultery, passionate kiss, photographer, female nudity, extramarital affair, voyeurism, body double ...
Place:
tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The struggle between a father and son at odds over the youths career choice. The 18 years old James Pfeiffer quits college and decides to become a fisherman like his father. Margaret and Russell are very upset with their son's decision. They ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Plot:
family relations, ship, youth, hopes, danger, coming of age, escapades, follow your dream, small town, college dropout, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, contemplative, slow cinema, retro ...
Plot:
suicide, stepbrother stepsister relationship, death, self discovery, arranged marriage, train, memory, drinking, water, asian, meditation, mental disorder ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s
Place:
japan, venice, asia, europe, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
The pages that whisper through this brooding, beautiful tone poem are from nineteenth-century Russian literature, primarily Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a ...
Style:
spiritual, contemplative, poetic, existential, avant garde
Plot:
crime and punishment, existentialism, alienation, solitude, spirituality, underground, atheist, poverty, religion, lion, humiliation, faith ...
Place:
soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Katsu, a fugitive youth on the run from the yakuza, returns to his birthplace and begins an affair with the cinema owner.
Style:
erotic
Plot:
erotica, rape, female nudity, rain, cycling, nudity, fight, bare breasts, harmonica, rainstorm, bicycle, infidelity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A documentary from Nick Peterson.
Plot:
hell, purgatory, fish, rainbow, isolation, sea, alter ego, underwater, ocean, murder, underwater scene
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A group of friends in their early twenties re-consider their boring lives in a sleepy fishing village in the Netherlands.
Style:
masterpiece
Plot:
village life, skinny dipping, male nudity, funeral, suicide, drowning, gas station, rain, hare, shipyard, stepfather, rescue attempt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Adapted from Peyami Safa’s novel Selma and Her Shadow, the movie tells the story of Selma. Selma (Görkem Yeltan) is the ultimate femme fatale whose alluring and seductive nature and irresistible charms exude an aura of death for men.
Style:
neo noir
Plot:
femme fatale, poem, love, suicide, cigarette smoking, murder, woman smoker
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Ali, a fisherman, devoted his life to his young son, Efe. Efe was the only son of Ali who was in this life. Efe is different from other children. Efe, who has a communication problem, is not a child who can laugh and play and react to what he hears. ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
love, father son relationship, ship, sea, summer, family relations, youth, couples, suicide, death of mother, piano, understanding ...
Place:
turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
obsession, parents and children, family relations, society, tragic hero, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, ambition, hopes, racism, rivalry, gambling ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo, first of all to advise him regarding the acquisition of a sailing boat. After a thorough inspection of a prospective vessel, the "Dragoon", Cournot reports his ...
Plot:
boat, yacht, police officer, police, murder, ex husband, wound, diving, sailor, captain, sailboat, arms smuggling ...
Place:
france, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young girl's view on belonging and loss.
Plot:
bicycle, female nudity, friendship, book, mother daughter relationship, bare breasts, priest, hotel, small town, police, coastal town, sea ...
Place:
south australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
Style:
touching, psychological, weird
Plot:
suicide, surrealism, revolt, exploitation, communist, sex scene, rape, female nudity, police, student, university, breaking the fourth wall ...
Place:
tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jason Priestley (TV's "Beverly Hills, 90210") and Andrea Roth star in this inspirational adventure story about courage, love and the power of family. Aspiring author Robert (Priestly) organizes a quick getaway with his wife and ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
survival, wilderness, island, forces of nature, escapades, danger, human spirit, shipwreck, isolation, family relations, storm, spirituality ...
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho"s depression becomes ...
Style:
bleak, psychological, serious, existential, realistic ...
Plot:
suicide, loneliness, haunted by the past, politics, destiny, regret, mental disorder, society, boat, tragedy, murder mystery, alienation ...
Time:
90s, year 1980, year 1987, year 1984, year 1994 ...
Place:
south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Through her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in providing a man ...
Plot:
cancer, arrest, accidental death, son murders father, river, actor, spa, accidental killing, geisha, terminal illness, skiing, police ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When their yacht capsizes during a storm; four men face almost certain death.
Style:
suspense, exciting, intense, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
sea, lost at sea, ship, desert island, death, fear, storm, courage, survival, boat, sailing, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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