Movies like I Saw the Devil
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I Saw the Devil (2010)
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Original name: 악마를 보았다
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Soo-hyun, a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer.
Style:
psychological, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, twist ending, rough, serious, unusual plot structure, brutal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
revenge, serial killer, vengeance, murder, violence, psychopath, extreme violence, brutality, strong violent content, mercilessness, macabre, suspense, torture, cat and mouse, violent, rape and revenge, murder investigation, chase, sadism, murder of a pregnant woman, murderer, decapitation, attempted rape, twists and turns, investigation ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
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Most similar movies to I Saw the Devil
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, realistic, suspenseful and serious films with plots about murder, serial killer, violent, death, violence, suspense and blood mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like I Saw the Devil: The Chaser (2008), Ichi the Killer (2001), Oldboy (2003), Bedevilled (2010), Red Dragon (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, suspense, police investigation, race against time, investigation, interrogation, brutality, murder, revenge, missing person, violent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, seoul, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Style:
disturbing, rough, controversial, bloody, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, violence, organized crime, massacre, torture, rage, insanity, gangsters, psychopath, gang, sadism, murderer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style:
bleak, psychological, twist ending, gloomy, surprise ending ...
Plot:
revenge, incest, vengeance, older man younger woman relationship, mind game, loneliness, psychological torture, kidnapping, psychopath, confined, torture, imprisonment ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2003, year 1988 ...
Place:
south korea, korea, asia, new york, seoul ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.
Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, bleak, slasher ...
Plot:
revenge, rape, rape and revenge, mental illness, island, murder, woman in danger, isolation, friendship, slavery, social decay, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, tense, twist ending, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, cannibalism, suspense, investigation, mind game, fbi, murder, torture, split personality, profiler, reporter ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
canada, atlanta georgia, baltimore, birmingham alabama, chicago illinois ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to I Spit on Your Grave
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, tense, dark ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, suspense, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, murder investigation, mind game, brutality, fbi ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, maryland, chicago illinois, memphis, baltimore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Style:
controversial, atmospheric, disturbing, brutal, surreal ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, dark humor, violence, insanity, violent, satire, mass murder, criminal heroes, murderous pair, lovers on the run, media ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, nevada, new mexico, paris france, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, massacre, suspense, trap, deathtrap, homicidal maniac, sadistic horror, macabre, maniac ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, murder, suspense, split personality, imaginary friend, maniac, macabre, double life, investigation, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
police investigation, serial killer, police, rape, twists and turns, murder investigation, murder, unsolved crime, investigation, murder mystery, suspense, police detective ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, year 2003, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Movies like Se7en
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 6 year old boy, beautiful Lee Guem-ja starts seeking revenge on the man that was really responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, dark, cerebral, atmospheric ...
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, serial killer, violence, prison, vigilantism, justice, torture, murder, violent, suspense, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, india, korea, asia, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style:
suspenseful, surprise ending, disturbing, scary, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, insanity, police investigation, murder, suspense, killings, sin ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-Woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Heesoo, for fear that she may be cheating on ...
Style:
bleak, psychological, dark, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, suspense, gunfight, hitman, gang, revenge, organized crime, vengeance, mafia, betrayal, fall in love, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, clever, tense ...
Plot:
vengeance, prison, justice, investigation, vigilantism, suspense, master criminal, fighting the system, lawyer, murder, mind game, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
hitman, suspense, psychopath, desert, human nature, serial killer, greed, peril, brutality, sheriff, death, murderer ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
texas, el paso texas, mexico, austin texas, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Law Abiding Citizen
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
serial killer, cannibalism, psychopath, fbi, cannibal, master criminal, mind game, psychiatrist, cat and mouse, law enforcement, villain played by lead actor, homicidal maniac ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
florence, canada, italy, europe, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
Style:
rough, disturbing, psychological, controversial, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, vengeance, rape and revenge, revenge, brutality, sexual abuse, cruelty, sex, psychopath, sadism, suspense, justice ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, germany, england, europe, connecticut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu's boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, dark, harsh, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, organ donation, crime gone awry, violent, suicide, transplant, mute or deaf, rape and revenge, vengeance, ransom, black market ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she ...
Style:
bloody, scary, slasher, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, photographer, psychopath, violent, twists and turns, violence, butcher, obsession, subway, torture, crazy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save ...
Style:
tense, brutal, exciting, emotional, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
revenge, kidnapping, vengeance, cia, vigilantism, vigilante, mercenary, lone hero, justice, friendship, suspense, deception ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, mexico city, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like Prisoners
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, scary, surreal, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hitman, cult, ritual sacrifice, brutality, twists and turns, torture, violent, suspense, murder, macabre, priest, marital problem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, rough, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
serial killer, sexual pleasure, psychopath, sexual promiscuity, slutty wife, female nudity, fish, milf, sex, woman on top, sluttiness, petty criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman will go to whatever lengths necessary to obtain her dream home with a view of the sea. This includes driving down the property value and decreasing the occupancy rate by killing her potential neighbors ...
Style:
slasher, bleak, suspenseful, stylized, scary ...
Plot:
female psychopath, murder, obsession, psychopath, real estate, blind ambition, violence spree, chinese woman, murder of a pregnant woman, plan gone awry, serial killer, violence ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia, china, xian
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things goes wrong for Joey after the neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find the kid and the gun ...
Style:
twist ending, bloody, brutal, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
child abuse, gunfight, mafia, twists and turns, police corruption, undercover agent, suspense, violent, racism, police investigation, gangsters, mob boss ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Lola Stone asked Brent Mitchell to the prom, but Brent said no, and now he's screwed. What happens when Lola doesn't get what she wants? She enlists Daddy's help to throw a prom of her own, where she is queen and Brent is king -- ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, obsession, prom, kidnapping, female psychopath, survival, obsessive love, teenager, psychopath, femme fatale, teenage girl, captivity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to The Hills Have Eyes
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Forensic pathologist Kang (Seol Kyeong-gu) is assigned to examine the dismembered corpse of a female murder victim. Detective Min (Han Hye-jin) points to a fanatic environmentalist, Lee Sung-ho (Ryoo Seung-beom), as the primary suspect. But when ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, suspense, police investigation, autopsy, mind game, forensics, arrest, threat, tragic hero, daughter, regret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, brutal, rough ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
rape, torture, vengeance, rape and revenge, kidnapping, psychopath, violence, serial killer, murder, woman in danger, violence against women, sadism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young med student struggling with her tuition fees is drawn into the shady world of underground body modification.
Style:
scary, disturbing, rough, dark, brutal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, amputation, stripper, rape and revenge, surgery, rape, plastic surgery, violence, organized crime, revenge, brutality, student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, controversial, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, mentally unstable, murder of a prostitute, murder, macabre, sex crime, loser, murderer, alcoholic, brutality, misfit, loner ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1970
Place:
hamburg germany, germany, northern germany, west germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
On the day the 15-year statute of limitations expired on a high profile serial murder case that claimed the lives of 10 women, a family member of the victim throws himself off the building in front of Choi Hyeong-goo, the detective in charge of the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, rough, stylized, twisted ...
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, investigation, law enforcement, vengeance, dark humor, revenge, killer, trap, murder confession, frame up, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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