Movies like The Last Circus
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The Last Circus (2010)
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Original name: Balada triste de trompeta
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, War
Country: Spain, France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.
Style:
disturbing, dark comedy, sexy, rough, psychological, surreal, romantic drama, suspense, serious, horror comedy ...
Plot:
clown, circus, dark humor, sadism, killer clown, rivalry, life is a bitch, performer's life, uninhibited rivalry, evil clown, revenge, graphic violence, revenge motive, violent content, spanish civil war, civil war, dancer, hot and sexy, unsettling, amusement park, narcissism, violence, self harm, serial killer as protagonist, outdoor sex ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 70s, 20th century, year 1937, 1930s, year 1973
Place:
europe, spain, madrid
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Most similar movies to The Last Circus
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, crying, scary and dark comedy films with plots about death, violence, murder, corpse, screaming, bare chested male and dead body mostly in Horror, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Last Circus: Common Wealth (2000), Fade to Black (1980), Teddy (2020), May (2002), Aquaslash (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Julia finds 300 million pesetas hidden in a dead man's house while selling an apartment. She's a 40-ish real estate agent now forced to face the wrath of a very peculiar community (of neighbors), headed by an unscrupulous administrator. ...
Style:
black comedy, humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
dark humor, real estate agent, greed, neighbor, murder, fish out of water, dishonesty, conflict, conspiracy, female protagonist, violence, money ...
Time:
90s
Place:
spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, latin america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eric Binford watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies. In doing so, he manages to involve his enemies and the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, horror comedy, suspense ...
Plot:
obsession, loner, psychopath, nerd, blonde, serial killer, insanity, paraplegic, murder, mentally unstable, fan culture, danger ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
France, Pyrénées. Twentysomething Teddy lives in a foster home and works as a temp in a massage parlor. Rebecca, his girlfriend, will soon graduate. A scorching hot summer begins. But Teddy is scratched by a beast in the woods: the wolf that ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
werewolf, monster, female boss, high school student, supernatural, older woman younger man relationship, chase, death, violence, massacre, strange behavior, peril ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
28%
44K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
Style:
psychological, gothic, creepy, bloody, dark ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, imaginary friend, psychopath, female psychopath, childhood trauma, insanity, dangerous attraction, violence, dark humor, murder, doll ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
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25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
To celebrate their graduation, the teenagers from Valley Hills High School have organized an ’80s-themed party in an old water park. Things grow gruesome when it turns out that a mysterious maniac has inserted giant razor blades into the water ...
Style:
slasher, rough, suspenseful, scary, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
female nudity, sex scene, lifeguard, murder, violence, psychopath, party, blood, youth, survival, student life, swimming ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 80s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror, War
Country: Poland, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Summer of 1945. A temporary orphanage is established in an abandoned palace surrounded by forests for the eight children liberated from the Gross-Rosen camp. Hanka, also a former inmate, becomes their guardian. After the atrocities of the camp, the ...
Style:
perverse, thought provoking, psychological, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
concentration camp, bully, world war two, dog, holocaust, killed by a dog, dog training, escape, bullying, soldier, escape attempt, rape ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
europe, central europe, germany, poland
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This horror story involves a woman hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station with the loot from a heist while her boy friend does prison time. A meteorite crashes near the station transforming the woman into an alien being ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, scary, dark comedy ...
Plot:
desert, space and aliens, dark humor, nun, male to female cross dressing, female nudity, prison, deadly creature, mutant, sex with alien, monster, gay ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
24%
25K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Beverly Hills teen (Billy Warlock) discovers his parents are part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
Style:
horror comedy, creepy, dark comedy, surreal, homoerotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
body horror, conspiracy, surrealism, secret society, dark humor, cannibalism, cheerleader, paranoia, transformation, satire, black magic, making love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, Austria, Monaco
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds ...
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse, scary, serious ...
Plot:
cannibalism, serial killer, butcher, human flesh, macabre, maniac, murderer, mental patient, psychopath, dark humor, mental institution, murder ...
Time:
70s, 1930s
Place:
austria, europe, central europe, vienna
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's friends.
Style:
slasher, bloody, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot:
taxi, voyeur, serial killer, horniness, bare chested male, fetishist, male masturbation, stalker, mental disorder, teenager, driver, hysteria ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
france, europe, usa, new york, cannes
Similarity:
23%
14K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Martin sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and cousin in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic ...
Style:
surreal, cult horror, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, serial killer, female pubic hair, curse, murder, shyness, hidden identity, mental disorder, teenage life, zombie, socially awkward ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century, 80s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, romania
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A depiction of a serial killer's 12 years' worth of murders and how it shaped his prime intelligence.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, sadism, cruelty, psychopath as protagonist, sadistic psychopath, maniac, disturbed individual, murder, extreme violence, photograph, hunting ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 80s
Place:
berlin germany, washington d.c.
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a young peasant in the Lot region is refused permission to join the French Resistance. Instead, the opposing "French Gestapo" obtain from him information about an underground leader and recruit him into their ...
Style:
anthology, art house, postmodern, visual, controversial ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
world war two, french resistance, occupation, gestapo, nazi occupation, children in wartime, resistance, resistance movement, nazi, wartime life, world war, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s, year 1974, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
vichy, france, israel, europe, germany
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, bloody, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, insanity, sociopath, satire, violence, dark humor, psycho killer, materialism, yuppie, nihilism, millionaire ...
Time:
year 2000, 80s, 2000s, year 1987, y2k ...
Place:
new york, yale university, manhattan new york city, america, seattle ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Drama students decide to pay tribute to their favorite horror star by stealing his body from his crypt for a farewell party. They fail to realize their violation of the tomb has triggered powerful black magic, and Conrad hasn't taken his final ...
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, grindhouse, retro, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, exploitation, survival, cemetery, teenager, spiritualist, paranormal, dead, living dead, cannibal, mental disorder, undead ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When high school misfits Rickie and JT decide to ditch school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospital, they come face-to-face with a gruesome discovery: a body of a woman stripped naked, chained to a table ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, sexy, creepy, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, necrophilia, zombie, sexual abuse, high school, violent, moral dilemma, best friend, depravity, mentally unstable, rape, bullying ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, year 2008, 80s, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
21%
483K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: New Zealand, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must ...
Style:
black comedy, cute, sad, dark comedy, funny ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, boy, nazi, satire, jewish girl, coming of age, nazism, first love, hitler youth, hitler, imaginary friend ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, year 1945, year 2019, year 1944
Place:
germany, los angeles, central europe, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him ...
Style:
retro, independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot:
kidnapping, older woman younger man relationship, kidnapper, age-gap relationship, motorcycle, mine, family relations, dysfunctional family, missing person, buddies, youth, family problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Caroll Baker stars in this psychedelic shocker about a mysterious witch who casts a spell over attractive, youthful fashion photographer Valentina Rosselli (Isabelle De Funes). Thrust into a world of sadism, Valentina must figure out whether the ...
Style:
sexy, scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
witch, curse, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, male star appears nude, male nudity, woman in danger, occult, danger, magic, woods, psychopath ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, milan italy, rome italy
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
French cybernetics genius Victor Frankenstein carries on the work of his notorious ancestor and creates a monster, albeit one with a penchant for philosophy, etiquette and occasional bouts of murderous rage. But when the creature develops a hunger ...
Style:
parody, horror comedy, dark comedy, detective, freeze frame ...
Plot:
frankenstein, frankenstein's monster, cybernetics, exhumation, genius, macabre, obsession, female pubic hair, dead body, bare chested male, car crash, nudity ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A playboy has the tables turned on him when he finds himself being used as a plaything by an undesirable woman in this black comedy from Spain.
Style:
sexy, humorous, dark comedy, surreal, black comedy ...
Plot:
murder, satire, perfect crime, store, shopping, rivalry, character study, salesman, dangerous attraction, dysfunctional family, couples, blackmail ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
madrid, europe, spain
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Reg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret ingredient" to process through the meat grinder. Reg comes across two guys and a girl with a broken-down vehicle on their way to a music festival.
Style:
horror comedy, humorous, suspenseful, slasher, dark comedy ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, dark humor, family business, male nudity, brother, murder, countryside, murderous pair, kidnapping, marijuana, secret, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A disturbed boy kills his father with his farm tractor and his arm is mangled in the process. He's taken to a mental hospital where he's outfitted with a hook to replace his lost hand and, years later, he's eventually released from ...
Style:
grindhouse, cult classic, disturbing, controversial, independent film ...
Plot:
oedipus complex, kidnapped woman, exploitation, serial killer, mental illness, mental institution, home invasion, psycho, sadistic psychopath, serial killer as protagonist, teenage protagonist, damsel in distress ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Belgium, UK, Slovenia, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
Style:
black comedy, sexy, harsh, bleak, political ...
Plot:
anti war, politics, soldier, civil war, military, intrigue, bosnian war, satire, un, wartime, dark humor, balkan war ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 2001, year 1993, 2000s
Place:
bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, serbia, former yugoslavia, balkan ...
Similarity:
20%
27K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by ...
Style:
medical horror, surreal, sexy, scary, tense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
social outcast, body horror, dysfunctional family, surgeon, losing-it hero, surgical operation, sister sister relationship, high school, gory, mentally unstable protagonist, social relations, teacher ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa, seattle
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Angela Baker, a psychotic transsexual, escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a ...
Style:
slasher, scary, slasher horror, bloody, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
summer camp, serial killer, camp, teenager, gory, rivalry, decapitation, tragic villain, blonde, murder, camping, camp counselor ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Maimed by bullies at a California high school, a new student (Derrel Maury) engineers acts of revenge.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, cult horror, perverse, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, threesome, teenage murderer, murder of a nude woman, female pubic hair, nudity, rape, bullying, revenge, female nudity, murder, gym ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman goes to previously all-male boarding school on a scholarship. She begins to separate herself from her boyfriend in order to devote more time to her new environment...
Style:
cult classic, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, violence, conspiracy, college, high school, old man, motorcycle, abduction, car chase, death, police, car accident ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
usa, virginia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In a future world ruled by good-looking people, a terrorist group of mutants led by Ramon Yarritu kidnap the daughter of Orujo, a rich businessman, to claim for the rights of the ugly people. Escaping from the police in their spaceship, Ramon try to ...
Style:
not serious, exciting, humorous, dark comedy, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
surrealism, gang, kidnapping, hostage, rescue, danger, woman in danger, physical appearance, ransom, terrorism, rape, businessman ...
Time:
future
Place:
basque country, europe, spain
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a ...
Style:
gothic, black comedy, cult classic, sexy, creepy ...
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, male nudity, insanity, erotica, prostitute, grave digger, graphic violence, living dead, death, violent, undead ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
19%
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