Movies like Bacurau

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Bacurau (2019)
 7.3
 30K
Bacurau (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
Style: suspense, sincere, serious, captivating, disturbing, stylized, scary, political, dark, art house ...
Plot: revenge, village, funeral, manhunt, resistance, murder, drone, flying saucer, life is a bitch, survival, distopia, fight, women, lgbt, corruption, society, adaptation, dishonesty, hopes, catastrophe, danger, transsexuality, politics, time travel, past ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, near future, contemporary
Place: brazil, northeast brazil
Keyword: portuguese, twilight, matriarch, latin

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, weird, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about blood, murder, violence, fear, death, knife and blood splatter mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Bacurau: Blindness (2008), Antebellum (2020), The Lodge (2019), Assassination Nation (2018), Battle Royale (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Blindness (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Canada, Japan, UK, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
Style: apocalyptic, bleak, disturbing, intense, depressing ...
Plot: post apocalypse, plague, survival, epidemic, blindness, distopia, apocalypse, dystopia, virus, post apocalyptic, disability, pandemic ...
Time: distant future, year 2008, 21st century
Place: portugal, sao paulo brazil
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Antebellum (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Successful author Veronica finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Style: brutal, psychological thriller, slasher, suspense, rough ...
Plot: slavery, racism, plantation, brutality, captivity, freedom, humanity, writers, black, racial slur, african american, female warrior ...
Time: 2020s, future, 19th century, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., north carolina, louisiana, new orleans, virginia
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The Lodge (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two siblings spend the night alone with their new stepmother. Stuck in a remote mountain cabin, the trio are terrorised by a supernatural force.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stepmother, winter, suicide, cult leader, snow, murder, mass suicide, nudity, religious cult, vacation gone wrong, female nudity, destiny ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Assassination Nation (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: High school senior Lily and her group of friends live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies and chats just like the rest of the world. So, when an anonymous hacker starts posting details from the private lives of everyone in their small town, the ...
Style: suspense, brutal, emotional, exciting, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: murder, school, high school, hacker, social satire, murderer, violence, society, friends, police, female protagonist, feminist ...
Time: 2010s
Place: salem massachusetts, usa
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36%
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Battle Royale (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, bloody, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: game of death, survival, death, dystopia, suicide, gory, desperation, cruelty, social commentary, school class, dystopian future, contests and competitions ...
Time: future, year 2000, distant future, 2000s, near future
Place: japan, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, sexy, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, kidnapping, twists and turns, rape, skin, revenge, isolation, insanity, sexual perversion, gender bending, abuse, plastic surgery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 21st century
Place: spain, ancient greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Revenge (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jen is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly — and viciously — intensifies, ...
Style: suspense, tense, bloody, minimal cast, post-horror ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: revenge, survival, rape, strong female character, rape and revenge, manhunt, female protagonist, desert, chase, danger, brutality, female vigilante ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.3
 373K
Hereditary (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style: psychological horror, spooky, disturbing, satanic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fear, supernatural horror, dysfunctional family, ghost, grief, demon, seance, supernatural, evil spirit, possession, secret society, funeral ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: utah, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Hunt (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is ...
Style: dark comedy, disturbing, horror comedy, surprise ending, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: manhunt, murder, game of death, strong female lead, survival, female protagonist, hunter, massacre, danger, pursuit, characters killed one by one, satire ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: vermont, croatia, mississippi, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.3
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The Island (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats. He runs ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, cult classic ...
Plot: island, survival, pirate, kidnapping, rescue, insanity, ship, father son relationship, brainwashing, violence, supernatural, ocean ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: caribbean, miami, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Tom at the Farm (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, male homosexuality, family problems, gays and lesbians, closeted homosexual, manipulation, farm, grief, chase, psychopath, lgbt teen ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 1997, 21st century
Place: quebec, canada, montreal
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34%
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 5K
Diablo (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: murderer, mental illness, kidnapping, chase, rescue, death, fear, showdown, pursuit, evil, split personality, hunt down ...
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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X (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.
Style: slasher, suspense, disturbing, psychological, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: elderly couple, serial killer, adult filmmaking, van, husband wife relationship, characters murdered one by one, lust, televangelist, old woman, farmhouse, old age, farmer ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, year 1979, 20th century, 1910s ...
Place: texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Purge: Election Year (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge. On ...
Style: suspense, brutal, intense, psychological, bloody ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, distopia, election, politics, survival, vigilante, revenge, social decay, class differences, fighting the system, gunfight, death ...
Time: near future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: washington d.c., florida
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34%
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Suspiria (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Style: suspense, dark, suspenseful, twisted, scary ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: good versus evil, ritual sacrifice, dead woman, witchcraft, mysterious event, paranormal phenomena, telepathy, curse, occult, spiritualism, abuse of power, corporal punishment ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, year 1943, year 1948, post world war two
Place: berlin germany, italy, west berlin west germany, east berlin, ohio
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Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 142 min.
Story: In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
Style: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, period piece, gothic horror ...
Plot: werewolf, martial arts, supernatural, beast, conspiracy, murder, investigation, legends and myths, animal attack, good versus evil, sword fight, monster ...
Time: 18th century, year 2001, 19th century, 2000s
Place: france, europe, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.0
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Relic (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Edna, the elderly and widowed matriarch of the family, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam travel to their remote family home to find her. Soon after her return, they start to discover a sinister presence haunting the house and ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mystical, scary ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, dementia, missing person, haunted house, grandmother, women, supernatural, mother, granddaughter, anxiety, family relations, old man ...
Time: 2020s
Place: oceania, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: France, Mexico, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and ...
Style: emotional, realistic, intense, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, vengeance, desert, revenge, small town, cowboy, justice, murder, promise, loss of friend, racial slur, on the road ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: texas, mexico, austin texas, midwest, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Unsane (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution amid uncertainty as to whether her greatest fear is real or delusional.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, mental institution, stalking, psychopath, mental illness, maniac, mental patient, murder, stalker, psychiatric ward, sexual assault, fear ...
Time: 2010s
Place: boston, portugal, pennsylvania
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34%
The Ornithologist (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal, France, Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, a hunky ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.
Style: suspense, avant garde, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, bondage, ornithologist, lgbt, forest, male nudity, public nudity, river, bare chested male, naked in public, gay erotica, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portugal
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34%
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Blooded (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: IF YOU HUNT, YOU'RE FAIR GAME... In October 2005, five young people were kidnapped in the Highlands of Scotland by the militant Real Animal League. Stripped and abandoned in the wilderness, never for one moment did the friends know what was ...
Style: scary, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, mockumentary ...
Plot: manhunt, kidnapping, danger, chases and races, wilderness, violence, storytelling, trapped, hunting, fight, human nature, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, europe
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100%
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The Running Man (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, serious, rough, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: dystopian future, distopia, chase, cyberpunk, chases and races, dystopic future, danger, prison, prison escape, tough heroes, stephen king, game of death ...
Time: future, 80s, 20th century, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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Annihilation (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Style: suspense, psychedelic, psychological, disturbing, lovecraft ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, creature, dna, mutation, scientist, expedition, research, genetic mutation, terror, biologist, transformation, mission ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: chicago, florida, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story: During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. One of the villagers takes care of him in prison. One day they both disappear – only the spear of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the ...
Style: scary, suspense, brutal, bleak, dark ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: wilderness, violent, cannibalism, rescue, brutality, native american, survival, blood, murder, cannibal, macabre, violence ...
Time: year 2015, 19th century, 2010s, year 2016
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.1
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Don't Look Now (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, drowning, serial killer, blindness, psychic, haunted by the past, grief, sex scene, hallucination, twists and turns, death of daughter, marriage ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, near future, 20th century
Place: italy, venice, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.9
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The Black Phone (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices ...
Style: suspense, captivating, slasher horror, slasher, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, kidnapping, child abduction, struggle for survival, basement, serial child killer, victim, phone terror, locked in a basement, homicidal maniac, kidnapped, masked killer ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 2020s, 20th century
Place: colorado, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Devil's Backbone (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After losing his father, 10-year-old Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucia School, which shelters orphans of the Republican militia and politicians, and is taken in by the steely headmistress, Carmen, and the kindly professor, Casares. Soon after his ...
Style: suspense, gothic, dark, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, spanish civil war, orphan, child abuse, boarding school, orphanage, supernatural, revenge, children, coming of age, civil war, republican ...
Time: 1930s, year 2001, year 2000, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: spain, portugal, europe, andalusia, madrid ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.9
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The Wild Bunch (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Aging outlaw Pike Bishop (William Holden) prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, which includes Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine) and brothers Lyle (Warren Oates) and Tector Gorch (Ben Johnson), Bishop discovers the heist is ...
Style: controversial, cult classic, intense, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, gunfight, robbery, gang, on the run, violent, heist, friendship, cowboy, wild west, bounty hunter, civil war ...
Time: year 1969, 1910s, 19th century, 20th century
Place: texas, america, persia, mexico, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.0
 92K
Pearl (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations and repressions ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, female protagonist, farm, murder, mental illness, world war one, domineering mother, female serial killer, rural setting, murder confession, farmhouse, female nudity ...
Time: 1910s, 2020s, year 1918, 20th century
Place: texas, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.7
 71K
Mother (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, disturbing ...
Plot: investigation, murder, revenge, family relations, determination, amateur detective, uncover truth, murder mystery, asian, mother, mentally challenged, character study ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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