Movies like Manaos
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Manaos (1979)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy, Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants have other plans...
Style:
tense, intense, grim, historical drama, bleak, suspenseful, period piece, art house, surreal
Audience:
adult
Plot:
exploitation, rebellion, jungle, amazon, oppression, rain forest, escape, survival, brutality, resistance, social injustice, class conflict, isolation, human rights, colonialism, man versus nature, moral ambiguity, rape, female nudity, bare chested male, colonization, slavery, skinny dipping, jungle adventure, village ...
Place:
brazil
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Most similar movies to Manaos
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, period piece, bleak and suspenseful films with plots about survival, isolation, moral ambiguity, revenge, violence, female nudity and escape mostly in Drama, Adventure and Western genres. Some movies like Manaos: Mistress of the Apes (1979), Slavers (1977), Tarzana, the Wild Woman (1969), The Sin of Adam and Eve (1969), Hotel Paradise (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jenny Neumann takes a group of men into the jungles of Kenya to look for her husband, and instead finds a tribe of caveman-looking "Near-Men" who all seem terribly attracted to her beautiful blond hair.
Style:
grindhouse, retro, erotic, period piece, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
jungle, exploitation, jungle adventure, sexploitation, female sexuality, camp, voyeur, nudity, female nudity, ape, rape, missing husband ...
Time:
70s
Place:
africa, kenya
Similarity:
100%
196
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love.
Plot:
slave trade, colonialism, black slave, blaxploitation, civil war, human exploitation, nude black woman, female nudity, drowning, waterfall, nudity, profit ...
Time:
year 1978, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The daughter of Sir Donovan is believed dead with her mother and other relatives in a plane crash in the African jungle. Fifteen years later, vague reports arrive in Europe that a Kenyan tribe has elected a white woman as their queen, Tarzana ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
jungle girl, female nudity, jungle adventure, nudity, exploitation, sword and sorcery, sorcery, tarzan, jungle, bare butt, pretty woman, sexy woman ...
Place:
kenya
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Absurd retelling of the story of Adam and Eve, this was the first of several biblical movies by director Miguel Zacarías that were intended to inspire the faithful but only inspired laughter instead. This film gained much notoriety due to the ...
Style:
biblical, controversial, absurd, allegory, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
old testament, bible, nudity, insubordination, religious, eroticism, temptation, satan, bare chested male, male objectification, biblical stories, satire ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
At a female prison located deep within the deadly South American jungles, a group of woman are forced to mine for valuable emeralds for the local corrupt government. A group of new prisoners on the way to the jail are ambushed and are convinced to ...
Style:
sensual, scenic, sexploitation film
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, jungle, escape, death, torture, slavery, sexual intercourse, intercourse, lesbian interest, male nudity, exploitation ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The true story of Canadian Mountie Dan Candy's pursuit of a Native American that killed his partner.
Style:
historical drama, realistic, tense, melancholic, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racial injustice, colonialism, manhunt, racial tension, moral ambiguity, cultural conflict, escape, poverty, desperation, hunger, isolation, vigilantism ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
An escaped prisoner flees to the South American jungle, where he must survive not only wild animals and disease but also a ferocious Indian tribe.
Style:
intense, tense, suspenseful, retro, atmospheric ...
Plot:
jungle, survival, escaped prisoner, native tribe, danger, man versus nature, escape, threat, isolation, pursuit, disease, violence ...
Place:
south america
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Black Horses is a film about the destiny of Serbian people who are forced to endure the "rule from the North" against their will. The empress Maria Theresia has designated their region of Banat to be the dungeon for insubordinate citizens ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
national identity, social injustice, identity crisis, moral dilemma, oppression, occupation, nationalism, ethnic conflict, class conflict, resistance, betrayal, revenge
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany, Italy, Spain, Monaco, Bulgaria
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Peru, the land of the Incas, the Indian pin their hopes on Jaucarapora. They want to him as their king who could drive back the white conquistador. A stranger appears in Lima who risks his life to rescue the president from a charging wildcat. ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, suspenseful, tense, epic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rebellion, legacy, wrongful accusation, treasure hunter, royalty, justice, sacrifice, betrayal, tragedy, political intrigue, assassination, colonialism ...
Time:
1800s, 19th century
Place:
peru
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation-owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of them heaving no other choice but to rebel. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old slave Tom plays a central role in this tragedy.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
slavery, racism, slave, black slave, civil war, oppression, social injustice, interracial relations, plantation, sadism, brutality, violence ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
kentucky
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
During the American Gold Rush era, an orphaned boy and his wild dog who must battle against the Yukon wilderness and human greed to help save a frontier town.
Style:
spaghetti western, period piece, heroic, historical drama, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
gold rush, boy and dog, wilderness, mining town, loyalty, man versus nature, bonding, coming of age, survival, friendship, bravery, frontier town ...
Time:
19th century, year 1975
Place:
yukon, alaska
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two men who have robbed a bank end up in a deadly pursuit of one another after one of them kills an innocent victim in attempt to steal the other's half.
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, crime thriller, dark ...
Plot:
coming of age, bank robbery, murder, revenge, chase, betrayal, violent, cat and mouse, escape, fugitive, survival, manhunt ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mexico, 1978
Style:
grim, bleak, art house, tragic, period drama
Plot:
apache, massacre, revenge, racism, injustice, oppression, colonialism, ethnic conflict, vengeance, survival, brutality, violent ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
new mexico, arizona, mexico
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Kazakhstan. 1954. Copper mines. Concentration camp. In the center of the plot - a revolt which prisoners raised in protest against the inhuman treatment.
Style:
historical drama, serious, period piece, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
prison, revolt, concentration camp, oppression, escape, brutality, resistance, gulag, dehumanization, injustice, forced labor, political repression ...
Time:
year 1954, 1950s
Place:
kazakhstan, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
24%
172
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of Cecilia is a story of the society that dominated 19th-century Cuba, a society divided between whites, blacks, and those who were mixed, the mulattos. (Since the Spanish conquistadors killed off the Indian population in Cuba not long ...
Style:
historical drama, slasher, tragic ending, tense, art house ...
Plot:
slavery, interracial relations, tragic romance, plantation, class conflict, forbidden love, courtesan, family honor, racial prejudice, domestic drama, resistance movement, gender roles ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
cuba, latin america
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A remote jail in the middle of the ocean in runned by a devil Westerner. Prisoners will have to face all kinds of public humiliations and tortures while they try to figure out how to escape from there.
Style:
bleak, grim, serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
torture, brutality, escape, violence, oppression, survival, public humiliation, claustrophobia, isolation, psychological torment, corruption, colonialism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Adventure
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a couple of political prisoners along with a dozen other women convicts, these to be sold into slavery on arrival. The woman activist frees the dozen of ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, tense, suspenseful, action drama ...
Plot:
slavery, mutiny, seafaring, survival, human trafficking, rebellion, ship, escape, brutality, storm at sea, moral dilemma, redemption ...
Time:
17th century, 18th century, year 1961
Similarity:
23%
202
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At early 16th century a priest joins the spanish conquerros in order to bring christianity to the indios. The expedition is murdered by the indios, only the priest is sparred. Santiago, the priest, first tries to continue christianization, but ...
Style:
intense, art house, road movie, period drama, tragic
Plot:
spanish conquest, missionary, children, amazon rainforest, religion, indigenous people, colonialism, christianity, identity crisis, identity, assimilation, conquering ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
venezuela
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Spain, Italy, Austria, Liechtenstein
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Seven women are the only survivors of an Apache attack on a wagon train. They must cross the desert on foot to escape the Indians who are hunting them.
Style:
spaghetti western, suspense, tense, period piece, bleak ...
Plot:
survival, wagon train, desert, journey, perseverance, isolation, resilience, revenge, female empowerment, anti heroine, ethnic conflict, mistrust ...
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film centers around a Korean family who gets on the bad side of the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II.A Korean mother and daughter are thrown into a prison run by the Japanese and a lot of surprisingly tame ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, tense, dark, art house
Plot:
female protagonist, japanese occupation, oppression, torture, mother daughter relationship, escape, survival, abuse, prisoner of war camp, social injustice, revenge, trauma ...
Similarity:
21%
150
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:
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
tense, suspense, period piece, spaghetti western
Plot:
hidden treasure, treasure hunt, map, greed, exploration, lost city, obsession, survival, hiking, rain forest, danger, ruins ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
south america
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.
Style:
grindhouse, suspense, political thriller, tension, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
escape, dog, pursuit, dog attack, violence, revenge, political oppression, authoritarianism, isolation, manhunt, paranoia, vigilante justice ...
Time:
70s
Place:
south america
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, intense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
oppression, totalitarianism, dissident, kgb, brutality, psychological torture, human rights, fear, conscience, resistance, trauma, interrogation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, ukraine
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Bruno Corazzari and his gang are in jail awaiting trial. They hire Fernando Sancho's gang to kill the only witness who then take all the passengers of a stagecoach hostage, in Richard Harrison's inn, because they are unsure which of them ...
Style:
spaghetti western, euro western, dark, tense, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stagecoach, revenge, murder, rape, vengeance, hostage, lawlessness, family tragedy, extreme violence, outlaw gang, gunfighter, vigilante justice ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
Style:
dark, emotional, bleak, intense, grim ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, runaway, loss of innocence, coming of age, youth, female protagonist, sexploitation, manipulation, street life, abuse, danger, urban ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A halfbreed seeks revenge for the death of his sister, who kills herself after being raped by an officer of the Canadian Mounted Police. He gets involved in the historical revolt of halfbreeds and Indians led by Louis Riel in 1885 against the ...
Style:
spaghetti western, period piece, historical drama, bleak, brutal ...
Plot:
revenge, racial injustice, colonialism, racial tension, vigilante justice, oppression, moral ambiguity, mounted police, violent, ethnic conflict, family tragedy, identity crisis ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
20%
229
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Portugal, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother's death. Inspired by the writings of David Henry Thoreau, he is translating 'Civil Disobedience' into Portuguese. ...
Style:
political, realistic, tense, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
anarchism, revenge, corruption, justice, civil disobedience, oppression, tyranny, political unrest, social commentary, monarchy, resistance, anarchist ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
portugal, finland
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure
Country: Peru, Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A white man searches for a legendary gold mine in the depths of the Peruvian jungle.
Style:
art house, allegory, psychological, existential, non-linear ...
Plot:
jungle, rain forest, gold mine, greed, obsession, treasure hunt, survival, moral ambiguity, man versus nature, exploration, myth, isolation ...
Place:
south america
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Czech Republic, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A small group of young women are captured and enslaved by the cruel forces who own the only source of water that is not infected by the deadly plague.
Style:
bleak, tense, suspenseful, intense, dread ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
contaminated water, survival, captivity, plague, dystopia, exploitation, desperation, enslavement, post apocalyptic, abuse of power, oppression, fight for freedom ...
Similarity:
20%
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