Tattoo movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant tattoo movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, suspense, realistic, serious, disturbing and tense films and TV shows about / with tattoo, female nudity, blood, male nudity, nude, nudity, bare chested male, violence, sex and murder plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as tattoo: Perfect Skin (2018), Shisei: The Tattooer (2006), The Tattooist (2007), Tattoo (1981), An Adolescent (2001), Tattoo (2002), Tattoo Bar (2000), Anarchy Parlor (2015), The Illustrated Man (1969), Our Kind of Traitor (2016).
Best films
New films
| Alpha (2025) | 5.9 | |
| The Bad Guys 2 (2025) | 7.0 | |
| The Rip (2026) | 6.8 | |
| The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) | 5.8 | |
| Safe House (2025) | 5.4 |
List of tattoo movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Katia, a young Polish woman adrift in London, meets Bob, an American tattoo artist. Katia is drawn to his mysterious aura and the taboo culture of body modification, but Bob has a dark, secret desire to leave his mark on the world and little does ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
tattoo, captivity, tattoo artist, sadism, danger, fear, darkness, kidnapped woman, piercing, homicide, cell, body mutilation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Seizou, a tattoo artist, dreams of creating lasting works of art that exist long after he passes. One day, he sees the perfect canvas: the unblemished back of a female grad student. A genius in color theory, the young woman studies and experiments ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
tattoo, obsession, confined, odd couple, abduction, sexuality, captivity, coercion, art, violence, exploitation, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, Netherlands, Singapore
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his tattoo designs. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoo (tatau), and, in a ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, erotic ...
Plot:
tattoo, tattoo artist, mysticism, ghost, tradition, shame, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power, curse, blood ...
Place:
new zealand, singapore
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Karl Kinsky, an unbalanced tattoo artist, becomes obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he is hired to body-paint several women for a photo shoot, making the women look like they have large tattoos. As Kinsky grows more obsessed with Maddy, he ...
Style:
tense, psychological, slasher, neo noir, realistic ...
Plot:
obsession, kidnapping, tattoo, mentally unstable, danger, bondage, masturbation, dating, nude women, fashion model, prison, nudity ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Tomokawa is a tough guy turned bored cop who spends much of his time sating lonely housewives and looking after retarded teen Sukemasa. One day while hanging out at a bar, he is approached by a 15-year-old enjo kosai named Yoko, offering a round of ...
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, realistic
Plot:
teenage girl, forced sex, tattoo, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, introspection, tough heroes, teenage life, society, youth, love and romance, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief Inspector Minks. The victim is a naked young woman with the skin stripped off her back, killed as she ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
tattoo, psychopath, reluctant partners, serial killer, art collector, body horror, master criminal, mind game, police investigation, law enforcement, murder, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Although she's still hung up on the man who broke her heart (Miguel Molina), club dancer Simona (Mercedes Ortega) pledges to eradicate all memories of him by removing the tattoos he put on her body. Complicating matters is Mariel (Alexis ...
Style:
independent film, sensual, erotic drama, dark
Plot:
tattoo, female protagonist, heartbreak, obsession, jealousy, obsessive love, desire, urban, character study, unrequited love, nightclub, betrayal ...
Place:
barcelona
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
One evening, Princess Sakura (Kyoko Hinami) is attacked by a man. At that time, the Princess could not see his face. and only sees a tattoo on his body. Because of that that night, Princess Sakura falls in love with the man. In order to find the man ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, erotic
Plot:
rape turns to consensual sex, rape, sex scene, vengeance, prostitute, princess, tattoo, sexual fantasy, brothel, secret identity, criminal, secret ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Horror
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Six young college hopefuls vacationing and partying in Lithuania get more than they bargained for when they unwittingly get caught up in a maniacal tattoo artist's fiendish side business.
Style:
suspense, scary, surprise ending, slasher, perverse ...
Plot:
torture, tattoo, male bondage, danger, murder, rivalry, violence, club, blood, captive, friendship, family secret ...
Place:
lithuania
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him with the "skin illustrations". Each tattoo reveals a bizarre story, which is experienced by staring at the scene depicted. When the ...
Style:
anthology, dark fantasy, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
tattoo, hallucination, end of the world, dystopia, hypnosis, psychedelia, femme fatale, flashback, storytelling, surrealism, skinny dipping, drifter ...
Time:
future, medieval times, year 1969, distant future, 1930s ...
Place:
africa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday on Antigua. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, intense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
assassination, tennis, russian mafia, corrupt politician, espionage, teacher, corruption, birthday party, politician, friendship, informant, bank ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, morocco, alps, london, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, art house, surreal, non-linear ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nudity, model, lovers, obsession, male nudity, art, geisha, sex, artist, book, homosexual, exhibitionist ...
Time:
year 1996, 10th century, middle ages
Place:
japan, california, tokyo, asia, shanghai ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the ...
Style:
cult classic, controversial, suspense, disturbing, queer horror ...
Plot:
sadomasochism, injection, sexual torture, samurai, chastity belt, tattoo, torture, tattoo artist, sexploitation, lesbian sex, exploitation, nudity ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When Jade, a web-cam girl, visits Takeko's tattoo studio she becomes entranced with the image of the spider lily and with Takeko as well. In order to get closer to the object of her desire, Jade asks Takeko to give her the same lily tattoo, ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
lesbian, asian lgbt, lesbian interest, girl girl kiss, asian lesbian, femme fatale, introspection, haunted by the past, tattoo, power relations, lifestyle, lesbian love ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
taiwan, indiana, asia, taipei
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Six people bound together by a traumatic experience decide to round off a year of group therapy in style. They join each other once more, traveling up to the Scottish Lowlands for a reunion weekend in a 1970s holiday let. Soon a number of mysterious ...
Style:
scary, suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
family in danger, trapped in a building, machine, parents and children, ghost story, confined, inheritance, gory, creature, survival, ghost, death ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
Style:
depressing, medical drama
Plot:
tattoo, body horror, mother daughter relationship, illness, abandoned hospital, uncle niece relationship, bus, 13 year old, school, brother sister relationship, female protagonist, drug addict ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Narvel Roth is a meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When she demands that he take on her wayward and troubled niece, it unlocks ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic
Plot:
gardener, tattoo, racist, gardening, garden, employer employee relationship, relationships, job, widow, workplace, mentor protege relationship, witness protection ...
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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
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Style:
thought provoking, f word
Plot:
tattoo, airport, korean american, baby, hospital, father daughter relationship, motorcycle, robbery, husband wife relationship, theft, court, cancer ...
Time:
year 2006, year 1986, year 1988, year 1998, year 1975 ...
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Cibrâil, a young policeman, is living happily with his girlfriend in Berlin. He is well integrated in society despite his Turkish background. One day his girlfriend's cousin comes to stay and Cibrâil's life is turned upside down.
Style:
lgbt cinema, psychological, sexy, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay lead character, gay relationship, male nudity, sexual attraction, male pubic hair, nudity, swimming, hugging, tattoo, police officer, lgbt ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, central europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
Style:
sexy, erotic, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, lesbian, older man younger woman relationship, obsession, dangerous attraction, nymphet, teenage girl, adultery, teenage life, seduction, fatal attraction, high school ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
seattle
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66K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Corky, a tough female ex con and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caesar.
Style:
sexy, neo noir, erotic, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
lesbian, mafia, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbianism, femme fatale, seduction, sapphic, lesbian sex, gangster, female criminal, sex ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
usa, idaho, indiana, chicago
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253K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style:
mind bending, clever, gloomy, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, tragedy, drug addiction, drug addict, life is a bitch, multiple storylines, grief, redemption, drug, loneliness, drug abuse, loss ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico, persia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Denmark, France, Norway, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish ...
Style:
sexual, atmospheric, dark comedy, black comedy, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lesbian, sex scene, sexuality, christmas, unfaithfulness, female nudity, nude, pregnant girlfriend, new year, lgbt, porn, female pubic hair ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
reykjavik iceland, iceland, europe
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.
Style:
heartbreaking, touching, sad, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
love story, musician, grief, terminal illness, love, depression, atheism, relationships, coping, cancer, passion, child cancer ...
Time:
year 2012, near future, 90s, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place:
belgium, scandinavia, europe, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Like many adolescent boys, Roy Darpinian had the hots for movie divas, and one in particular was his wet dream as half of America's in the 1950s: Marilyn Monroe. The difference is, one summer holiday he actually decided to enlist his spineless ...
Style:
crying, road movie, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids
Plot:
hollywood, coming of age, friendship, on the road, obsession, childhood friend, road trip, teenage boy, small town, flashback, college student, skinny dipping ...
Time:
year 1962, year 1993, 60s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious ...
Style:
humorous, psychological, funny, ironic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
slacker, tattoo artist, arrested development, re-education, stoner, traumatized man, fear of commitment, adhd, coming of age, tattoo, jealousy, meditation ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york, hawaii, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, tense, serious, intense ...
Plot:
rape, murder, russian mafia, gangster, mob boss, prostitution, twists and turns, male nudity, organized crime, violent, death in childbirth, child prostitute ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, st. petersburg russia, europe, scotland yard ...
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386K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a "nobody." When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch's unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and propels him on a brutal path that will uncover dark ...
Style:
brutal, suspense, entertaining, funny, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
one man army, tough guy, secret identity, retribution, revenge, martial arts, one against many, home invasion, twists and turns, vigilante, chase, vengeance ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
america, usa, pentagon
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, France, China, Cambodia, USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Based on the true life experience of Billy Moore who survived his Thai prison ordeal by becoming a Muay Thai boxing champion.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
boxing, prison, brutality, prison rape, tattoo, violence, male rape, boxing match, friendship, drug addict, muay thai, martial arts ...
Time:
2000s, year 2017, year 2010
Place:
bangkok thailand, thailand
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