Dehumanization movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant dehumanization movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out bleak, tense, disturbing, art house, serious and psychological films and TV shows about / with dehumanization, brutality, survival, isolation, psychological drama, violence, sadism, nudity, murder and death plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dehumanization: The Pet (2006), Like Dogs (2021), Martyrs (2008), Promised Land (2004), Redo of Healer (2021), Urotsukidôji IV (1993), Universal Soldier (1992), Deadgirl (2008), The Seasoning House (2012), Albatross (1996).
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young woman in dire financial straights accepts an offer to be a wealthy aristocrat's human "pet" for six months. Then ruthless modern "pet-nappers" kidnap the woman to sell her on the GSM (Global Slave Market).
Style:
sexy, psychological, disturbing, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
bdsm, slave auction, sexual abuse, fetish, slave trader, female pubic hair, making love, captivity, alternative lifestyle, power relations, confined, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A behavioral experiment treating humans like animals goes awry when a University Student manipulates the research with deadly results.
Style:
bloody, psychological horror, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
dehumanization, experiment, social experiment, survival horror, problem, woman in a cage, prisoner, cell, confined, experiment gone awry, human experiment, locked in a cage ...
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119K
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style:
disturbing, creepy, brutal, bloody, extreme horror ...
Plot:
torture, violence, revenge, child abuse, kidnapping, gory, brutality, death, abuse, torment, violent, hardcore ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, turn of the century, 2000s, year 1971 ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and of their initiation into this trade of flesh, and finally of the accidental freeing of ...
Style:
bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative, disturbing ...
Plot:
sexual content, innocence lost, human trafficking, prostitute, prostitution, life is a bitch, social decay, solace, human nature, trafficking, violent, exploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In a world of monsters, adventurers and magic, some of the most gifted healers are subjugated to brute force. Keyaru gains the ability to rewind time and turns the tables on those who’ve exploited him in this dark fantasy tale of vengeance and ...
Style:
anime, ecchi, dark fantasy, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
magic, magical power, harem, sexual perversion, rape, magical, fantasy world, depravity, wizards and magicians, magician, perversion, sex ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
France. A near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, captivating, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
chastity, forbidden love, distopia, feminism, dystopia, totalitarian regime, sexism, matriarchy, self sacrifice, male female relationship, love, political repression ...
Time:
future
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
It is the age of the Overfiend, and flesh-hungry monsters rule the Earth. Immortal half-demon Amano Jyaku travels the wasteland, witness to the rape and torture of the human race. The last hope for humanity is the demonic Lord of Chaos, the ...
Style:
adult anime, hentai, surreal, anime, splatter ...
Plot:
sadism, sex, fictional war, teenage love, dehumanization, female victim, defloration, sexual torture, sexual sadism, rape, surrealism, demon ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, cult classic, intense, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, androids and robots, one man army, cyberpunk, vietnam war, soldier, rescue mission, amnesia, mind control, reporter, cyborgs, top secret ...
Time:
year 1969, 90s, 20th century, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
vietnam, louisiana, new orleans, nevada, arizona ...
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21K
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
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Seasoning House - where young girls are prostituted to the military. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, planning her escape. Planning her ingenious and brutal revenge.
Style:
spooky, rough, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, rapist, rape and revenge, sexual abuse, confinement indoors, strong violent content, rape, vengeance, male nudity, gang bang, danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
balkan, europe
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Genre: Drama, Action
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A mixed group of prisoners in a concentration camp in North Korea struggle for survival and dignity as best the can, enduring the cruelty of the guards and of their fellow inmates.
Style:
bleak, tense, intense, emotional, period piece
Plot:
humiliation, dehumanization, oppression, suffering, concentration camp, survival, totalitarianism, desperation, abuse of power, forced labor, brutality, trauma ...
Place:
north korea
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Concentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and unwillingly rises to a privileged position at the camp. His anger over the death of ...
Style:
bleak, grim, tense, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
boxing, concentration camp, world war two, boxer, survival, oppression, holocaust, tragedy, dehumanization, violence, forced labor, morality ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Alpha Male Smith and his Beta, Keith, move to take over a local community. They hook up with restless Female, Denise, igniting a deadly feud in which emotions run high and deep-seated grudges resurface amongst the tribe. Are we not men? Or are we ...
Style:
disturbing, experimental, art house, absurd, surreal ...
Plot:
dehumanization, alpha male, machismo, power struggle, unsettling, community, jealousy, grudge, violent, ritual, visionary, claustrophobia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK
Duration: 442 min.
Story:
Documentary film that examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich, incorporating puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a singular epic vision. The director, who grew up under Nazi tyranny, ruminates on good and evil and the ...
Style:
art house, political, surreal, spiritual, visual ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, holocaust, dehumanization, hitler, puppet, existentialism, nazi occultism, world history, spirituality, megalomaniac, anti semitism ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, bavaria, prussia, east germany
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327
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and ...
Style:
experimental, harsh, political, existential, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
discipline, prison, military, marines, violence, dehumanization, military prison, degradation, abuse, realism, power, psychological torment ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, History, Horror, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments ...
Style:
extreme horror, controversial, bleak, brutal, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, gory, torture, japanese history, dehumanization, extreme, violence, violent, experiment, hardcore, chinese history, sino japanese war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
china, asia, japan, korea, russia ...
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Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Once a rich and an abundant planet, La Maetel was now a cold, barren wasteland after it had changed its original orbit around the sun. The only way to survive was to get machine bodies. Hardgear, a mad cyborg scientist, transforms the queen and her ...
Style:
anime, disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
survival, post apocalyptic, destiny, cyborgs, moral dilemma, dehumanization, life, outer space, androids, fate of humanity, planet, fantasy world ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An extended sequence in which a man tortures a woman psychologically, physically and sexually. The woman is bound and restrained throughout and the man in question is in a position of absolute power and control over her. The man tortures the woman ...
Style:
psychological horror, intense, art house, erotic
Plot:
physical torture, psychological torture, sexual abuse, trauma, abduction, dehumanization, captivity, female victim, sadism, survival, hostage situation, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Kazakhstan. 1954. Copper mines. Concentration camp. In the center of the plot - a revolt which prisoners raised in protest against the inhuman treatment.
Style:
historical drama, serious, period piece, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
prison, revolt, concentration camp, oppression, escape, brutality, resistance, gulag, dehumanization, injustice, forced labor, political repression ...
Time:
year 1954, 1950s
Place:
kazakhstan, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime.
Style:
bleak, psychological, grim, historical drama, existential ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, prison, stalinism, perestroika, brutality, gay, torture, sadism, trauma, survival, violence, authoritarianism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young man who has been beaten, abused, humiliated and laughed at all his life finds that he has an unusual empathy with snakes. He can talk to them and they understand him, and eventually he finds that he can get them to do his bidding. He decides ...
Style:
dark, tense, psychological horror, sinister, disturbing ...
Plot:
snake, revenge, animal attack, obsession, vengeance, dehumanization, creature feature, exploitation, supernatural ability, isolation, sexual abuse, claustrophobia ...
Time:
70s
Place:
east asia
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Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could play on the accordion the title melody.
Style:
intense, emotional, bleak, dark, melancholic ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, survival, nazi germany, auschwitz, oppression, loss, suffering, dehumanization, resilience, trauma ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
Style:
thought provoking, satirical, melancholic, tragicomedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
electric chair, office, existential crisis, social satire, dehumanization, bureaucracy, alienation, identity crisis, isolation, absurdism, office politics, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, tense, intense, tragic
Plot:
mole, factory, psychological manipulation, betrayal, surveillance, moral ambiguity, dehumanization, alienation, social realism, class struggle, oppression, blue collar ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An execution scheduled to be carried out in 12 years creates a hostile and stifling atmosphere among guards in one jail. This has profound effects on the dehumanization of Jae-kyoung, a young, newly appointed guard who nonetheless happens to find ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
prison, security guard, prison warden, execution, coworker, prison life, workplace situations, death penalty, workplace, life is a bitch, problem, dehumanization ...
Place:
korea, south korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Story:
Eva auditions for a role in an obscure art-house film. An anonymous, masked director creates an intimidating atmosphere. He dominates and humiliates Eva, forcing her into prostitution. She sleeps with a Jewish film producer named Josh. When he ...
Style:
art house, disturbing, bleak, dark, tense ...
Plot:
manipulation, exploitation, control, abuse of power, humiliation, dehumanization, female protagonist, blackmail, sexploitation, intimidation, coercion, film industry ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Portugal
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Aurora, a Portuguese migrant, works as an order picker in a warehouse in Edinburgh, Scotland. Caught between the walls of a huge distribution centre and the solitude of her own room, Aurora tries to seize every opportunity to resist the alienation ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, reflective ...
Plot:
female protagonist, character study, alienation, warehouse, isolation, migrant worker, loneliness, workplace situations, life is a bitch, workplace, identity crisis, social realism ...
Place:
edinburgh scotland, portugal
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Park Goo mutates into a man-fish due to side effects from an experimental drug. He receives heavy publicity and becomes a star. A conspiracy by a pharmaceutical company leads Park Goo to being possibly expelled from the world.
Style:
entertaining, light, captivating, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
mutation, human experiment, mutant, pharmaceutical company, social commentary, satire, experiment gone awry, humour, experiment, turned into an animal, medical experiment, surrealism ...
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159
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia, Belarus, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Israel, Ukraine
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film tells about the history of the Holocaust through the stories of its unwitting Witnesses.
Style:
tense, thought provoking, bleak, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss officer, concentration camp, anti war, witness, war crime, genocide, atrocity, memory, anti semitism, auschwitz ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Nazi occupied Poland, during the World War II. Hans, a former brilliant student, has become an SS officer stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. When he is commissioned by his superior officer to build an efficient gas chamber, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, historical drama, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss officer, nazi, auschwitz, nazi officer, nazism, nazi germany, genocide, war crime, anti semitism, wartime ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, germany
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