Movies like Under the Skin
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Under the Skin (2013)
169K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style:
surreal, creepy, dark, cult classic, atmospheric, sexy, art film, art house, cerebral, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, human prey, disguise, femme fatale, nudity, seduction, nightclub, creature, deformity, arthouse horror, female nudity, desire, death of family, eroticism, very little dialogue, human alien, male nudity, erection, trap, deadly creature, rape, drowning, fog, surrealism ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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Most similar movies to Under the Skin
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, disturbing, dark and psychological films with plots about surrealism, insanity, blood, macabre, storytelling, psychology and murder mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Under the Skin: Videodrome (1983), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), Donnie Darko (2001), Antichrist (2009), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
112K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, ...
Style:
cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, male nudity, very little dialogue, mutilation, gay subtext, fetishist, transformation, sex, rape, extreme ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
905K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, imaginary friend, schizophrenia, psychology, time travel, insanity, parallel universe, suburbs, surrealism, time loop, trippy, schizophrenic ...
Time:
80s, year 2001, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, america, usa, virginia, harvard university
Similarity:
100%
144K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Style:
disturbing, sexy, dark, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insanity, depression, cruelty, guilt, controversy, fear, violence, woods, female nudity, nudity, black magic, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style:
surreal, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, incest, investigation, surrealism, small town life, murder, rape, double life, small town, mental illness, sexual abuse, teenage girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
surreal, psychological, neo noir, art house, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, obsession, dream, alternate reality, parallel universe, hollywood, filmmaking, lesbian sex, nightmare ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, usa, california, mulholland drive
Similarity:
100%
98K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Style:
psychological thriller, scary, tense, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
torture, femme fatale, sadism, extreme, violent, psychopath, murder, psychotic woman, sex, widower, twists and turns, revenge ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Style:
surreal, psychological, mind bending, experimental, art house ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
love affair, brainwashing, parasite, existentialism, drugged, tragic love, memory loss, haunted by the past, identity crisis, trippy, parallel universe, revenge ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hypnotic, perturbing, and utterly enthralling, The Untamed combines a suspenseful family drama with truly bizarre elements of science fiction and horror. Desperate to flee but consumed by fear, Alejandra, a young mother and working housewife, is ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, psychological horror, sensual, eros ...
Plot:
creature, interspecies sex, alien, unhappy marriage, sex with alien, animal sex, sex scene, masturbation, adultery, horniness, fetish, female nudity ...
Time:
distant future, 21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
100%
155K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded ...
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
stalker, post apocalypse, dystopian future, surrealism, psychokinesis, dog, wish come true, trippy, human nature, distopia, escapades, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1979, near future
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
Similarity:
100%
91K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, erotic, scary, sexual ...
Audience:
boys' night, toddlers, adult
Plot:
genetic engineering, cocoon, nudity, alien, deadly creature, monster, genetics, dna, femme fatale, interspecies sex, danger, cloning ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, jurassic, 20th century, year 1993
Place:
los angeles, usa, santa monica california, utah
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, tense, philosophical, homoerotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, obsession, dysfunctional family, mysterious stranger, husband wife relationship, recovering alcoholic, surgeon, psychopath, blackmail, desperation, dead father, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
ancient greece, ireland, columbus ohio
Similarity:
100%
633K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds ...
Style:
psychological, futuristic, twist ending, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, androids, technology, existentialism, cyborgs, cyberpunk, isolation, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, consciousness ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014 ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
71%
236K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style:
surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doppelganger, obsession, mental illness, symbolism, paranoia, nightmare, lookalikes, infidelity, disturbed individual, spider, surrealism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
80%
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:
sexy, twist ending, erotic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drowning, sex scene, blindness, serial killer, haunted by the past, hallucination, death of daughter, supernatural, psychic, grief, loss of child, marriage ...
Time:
70s, near future, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
italy, venice, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, scary ...
Plot:
drug, science, surrealism, obsession, experiment gone awry, male nudity, hallucination, body horror, transformation, psychology, mad scientist, insanity ...
Time:
20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s ...
Place:
harvard university, bronx new york city, san francisco, california, boston ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style:
twist ending, disturbing, surreal, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot:
nightmare, paranoia, delusion, memory, hallucination, twists and turns, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, dealing with death, soldier, macabre ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
392K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, suspense, futuristic, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
isolation, moon, loneliness, space travel, outer space, astronaut, space, twists and turns, solitude, space and aliens, human clone, cloning ...
Time:
future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, y2k ...
Place:
hawaii, mexico
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Style:
art house, sexy, disturbing, dark, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
fashion, teenage girl, cannibalism, model, beauty, lesbian, obsession, jealousy, murder, rivalry, fashion model, surrealism ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, pasadena california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style:
surreal, controversial, demonic, mind bending, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, occult, insanity, obsession, body horror, cosmic horror, possession, supernatural power, private detective, supernatural horror, berlin wall, sex ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
germany, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, europe, west germany ...
Similarity:
100%
448K
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, satanic, psychological, demonic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, fear, supernatural horror, supernatural, occult, demon, grief, trauma, seance, ghost, attic, possession ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
utah, america
Similarity:
100%
260K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style:
psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, group of strangers, mathematics, maze, survival horror, death, fear, game of death ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
167K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, survival, isolation, creature, outer space, danger, survival horror, deadly creature, spacecraft, post apocalypse, spaceship, monster ...
Time:
future, year 2009, year 1969
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
Style:
psychedelic, surreal, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, clown, psychology, killer clown, extreme, blood, art, magic realism, funeral ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
mexico city, mexico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
Style:
surreal, psychological, avant garde, confusing, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, nightmare, macabre, curse, danger, couples, violence, alternate reality, abusive husband, insanity, doppelganger, mysticism ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
poland, los angeles, europe, california, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
65K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Following a series of unexplained crimes, a former firefighter is reunited with his son who has been missing for 10 years.
Style:
cerebral, tense, surreal, scary, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female serial killer, body horror, serial killer, violence, psycho killer, party, car accident, cutting one's own hair, pretending to be someone else, childbirth, father son relationship, delusional man ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
142K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Style:
surreal, psychological, avant garde, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
surrealism, baby, existentialism, nightmare, insanity, psychology, dream, loneliness, psychosis, factory, dark humor, eccentricity ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place:
america, philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft. A British science-fiction film from director Nicolas ...
Style:
atmospheric, cult classic, surreal, cerebral, erotic ...
Plot:
space and aliens, alien invasion, surrealism, alien, sex scene, satire, female nudity, dystopia, nudity, alien life-form, hallucination, scientist ...
Time:
20th century, year 1976, distant future, 70s
Place:
usa, new mexico, new york
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Ruth and Harry decide to take a romantic backpacking trip through the Pacific Northwest, but amongst the beautiful scenery, Ruth makes an unexpected discovery that sets her off on a strange, frightening new path. The couple aren't alone in the ...
Style:
horror comedy, apocalyptic, supernatural thriller
Plot:
camping, marriage proposal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, shapeshifter, panic attack, forest, hiking, open ending, love, vacation gone wrong, shark attack, anxiety ...
Similarity:
100%
266K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, twisted, mysterious, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vandalism, symbolism, pregnant woman, surrealism, cannibalism, uninvited guest, nightmare, supernatural horror, death, riot, sex, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
america
Similarity:
100%
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