Best movies like Tropic of Cancer
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies similar to Tropic of Cancer? Leverage your knowledge to navigate others toward films and tv series you've seen that might interest them as well. Aid in increasing the network of individuals proposing videos to each other. We welcome your participation!
Plot Summary:
A couple on holiday in Haiti become involved in a series of savage murders linked to a doctors a new invention, a drug with extreme side effects.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Haiti
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like Tropic of Cancer (1972):
Similar in 75%
Momentos de Prazer e Agonia (1983)
Plot Summary:
A small-town school teacher leads an apparently normal life, including a longtime boyfriend. But she secretly has several lesbian affairs until the women in her life start being brutally murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 81%
Oasis of Fear (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two young sexually free hippies, Dick and Ingrid, finance their travels by selling naked snaps of Ingrid until their plan is brought to an abrupt end by the Police. Forced on the run the two seek refuge at a seemingly empty isolated large villa. As it turns out the house is inhabited by the middle-aged Barbara who invites them in for some potential three-way hanky-panky that soon locks them into something far more twisted and chilling!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, cult classic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 80%
Behind the Mirror (2016)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration:
Plot tags:
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 80%
Obsession: A Taste for Fear (1987)
Plot Summary:
Diane is a photographer of the ultimate in trendy soft core. Her ex, George, who makes bondage films, hooks Diane up with the muscular Teagan in exchange for a favor with a well-heeled client. Diane asks Teagan to model in her next shoot. When Teagan turns up bound, gagged, and dead, a rough policeman, Lt. Arnold, focuses his suspicions on George. When a second model dies and video disks show up depicting the murders, Arnold is certain he has his man - except that the killer we see in the videos is a red-headed woman. Diane's assistant, Valerie, can't keep her eyes off Diane, and Diane's mixer, Paul, also tries to be her protector. Do the cops have the wrong person?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mysterious, detective, weird, sexploitation film
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 90%
Mortal Sins (1989)
Plot Summary:
A PI hired to find a killer is led to a corrupt televangelist.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: detective
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 78%
Death Carries a Cane (1973)
Plot Summary:
Ketty,a photographer living in Rome,accidentally witnesses the murder of a young woman at the hands of a razor-wielding black-gloved killer.Ketty and her fiance,Alberto,go to the police-only to learn that two other witnesses to the crime have been slashed to death.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, slasher horror, cult film
Similar in 85%
The Monster of Venice (1965)
Plot Summary:
A mad killer is loose in Venice's catacombs. He attacks the beautiful women, releasing them into the underworld, kill them and then stop them and add them to his "collection".
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, grindhouse, slasher, psychotronic
Similar in 90%
Crazy Desires of a Murderer (1977)
Plot Summary:
A group of hip friends gather at a Gothic castle owned by a wheelchair- bound older relative of one of the girls. One couple in the group, unbeknownst to the others, is smuggling heroin in some Chinese artifacts the protagonist has brought back from the Orient to give to her elderly relative. Meanwhile the deranged uncle of the protagonist, who supposedly killed the protagonist's mother (his own sister) and cut out her eyes, is wandering the catacombs spying on everyone. When one of the guests is murdered and her eyes subsequently disappear, suspicion naturally falls on the mad uncle. But is he being set up?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 80%
Sex of the Witch (1973)
Plot Summary:
An old man dies and as his relatives await their dosh they start getting killed, sort of by a witch!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: naughty, gothic, sexploitation film
Similar in 90%
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (1971)
Plot Summary:
In Dublin, a young woman is brutally murdered in her home by a maniac that throws acid in her face and then slits her throat with a razor. Her mangled body is later discovered in the boot of a limousine owned by the Swiss Ambassador Sobiesky. The Ambassador, who was the dead woman's lover, refuses to cooperate with the police due to his diplomatic immunity. John Norton, an ex-cop famed for his brutal working methods, is brought in to help and gets too deeply involved when he stars an affair with the Ambassador's beautiful step-daughter, Helen. Meanwhile, the brutal killings continue.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Switzerland, Ireland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic, psychological thriller, surprise ending, independent film, detective, cult film
Similar in 87%
The Monster of Florence (1986)
Plot Summary:
A string of sex murders has been plaguing Florence for almost 15 years, in which a serial killer brutally murders couples who are sneaking "a quickie" in public areas. A writer who is doing research for a book about the crimes sets out to uncover the identity of the killer, aided by his beautiful girlfriend. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 77%
Lust for Vengeance (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five women obsessed with sex & drugs pay for their sins.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, surprise ending, slasher, independent film, detective, grindhouse
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 89%
Evil Eye (1975)
Plot Summary:
People around Peter Crane begin dying in mysterious fashion. How is Playboy Peter involved in this? He begins having nightmares dealing with murder...His psychiatrist has no idea of what Peter is suffering from. Even the police are in danger as they start investigating the case. What is the secret of the "Magic Circle"?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: detective, crying, poliziottesco, vintage, urban fantasy
Similar in 83%
Glass (2015)
Plot Summary:
The next experience in experimental giallo & film noir, inspired by the sensual and violent world of the Italian giallo film, Glass tells the tale of a young Canadian couple, Mike and Zarana, who decide to cut themselves off from social media and remain in their glass-walled apartment overlooking the waters running through their city. Anxiety, paranoia, violence, and murder follows. Sex, conspiracy and violence explode in GLASS, the second instalment of Vince D'Amato's neo-giallo series. Tirra Dent plays Zarana, a woman consumed by paranoia and rabid nightmares after she finds herself relentlessly stalked by the enigmatic killer. Set in the "glass jungle" of Vancouver's gentrified neighbourhoods, Glass is a scathing critique of social media and the society of middle and lower classes.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 90%
Play Motel (1979)
Plot Summary:
The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, disturbing, erotic, sexy, sex comedy, psycho sexual, detective
Similar in 80%
Trhauma (1980)
Plot Summary:
A couple invites some friends to spend a weekend together in an isolated cabin surrounded by woods and fields. But... there's a killer lurking around.... And... someone is monitoring him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 85%
The Killer Is Still Among Us (1986)
Plot Summary:
Forensic student Christina Marelli decide to write about a mysterious serial killer who kills couple in love. The killer shows up just when the little lovebirds sitting in their cars and have a cozy time. He shoots them to death and then uses her knife to mutilate women.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 89%
Eyeball (1975)
Plot Summary:
A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of his victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police trying to deduce which one of them is the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 80%
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse (1975)
Plot Summary:
A killer is cleaning up the streets of Milan by murdering those considered as deviant. An ornamental dragonfly, soaked in the blood of the victim, is left on each body.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 88%
Five Women for the Killer (1974)
Plot Summary:
Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult film
Similar in 82%
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (1974)
Plot Summary:
A rich man gathers together friends and relatives at the abandoned theatre he owns, but the party isn't fun for long since apparently one of them is a murderer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 978
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, psychological thriller, suspense, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
Similar in 84%
The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy surgeon Andreas Valenti accidentally kills one of his lovers, Daniella, with an unusual objet d'arte and covers it up by dismembering and disposing of the body never realizing he's being watched by a stalker the entire time. Daniella's half-sister, Evelyne, knows he is somehow responsible for the girl's disappearance and enlists the aid of Inspector Garrano to help prove it. They discover the good doctor had a rich young wife who went insane on her wedding night and was committed to a lunatic asylum; later pronounced cured, she had vanished upon release. Andreas, now being blackmailed with photos of his cover-up crime, also finds himself framed when the flower with petals of steel that did Daniella in is used to murder Evelyne. Having fallen for the dead woman, the Insector won't stop until he gets to the bottom of the disappearances and deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, cult film
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 89%
The Crimes of the Black Cat (1972)
Plot Summary:
A blind pianist tries to figure out who is responsible for a string of murders using a black cat with its caws dipped in curare.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, erotic, scary, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
Similar in 85%
Reflections in Black (1975)
Plot Summary:
A woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom one of the girls worked as a secretary, and it turns out that all the victims were friends of lawyer's wife Leonora.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, cult film
![blank](http://wpfc.ml/b.gif)
Similar in 86%
The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful young model Jennifer Lansbury and her goofy friend Marilyn Ricci move into a swanky high-rise apartment after the previous tenant gets brutally murdered. Pretty soon Jennifer is being stalked by the mysterious killer. Probable suspects include a predatory lesbian neighbor, a weird old woman and her deformed son, and even the building's handsome architect who suffers from a severe blood phobia.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, grindhouse, stylized
Similar in 85%
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971)
Plot Summary:
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail begins with the mysterious death of a millionaire and spirals into the murder of his suddenly rich wife, which draws the attention of a dogged investigator, who follows a trail of blood to the bitter end.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, erotic, detective, grindhouse, poliziottesco, cult classic, suspense thriller, twisted, scary
Similar in 78%
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy English lord is suffering a mental breakdown following the death of his red-headed wife, Evelyn, whom he feared was cheating on him. He tours local bars and dives, scouring for lovely red-heads willing to come back to his decaying castle in the country, where he seduces them, then tortures and kills them. His friend the doctor talks him into marrying again to help heal his slowly-rotting mind, which he does--but are the doctor's orders really what he needs?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: gothic, slasher, suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological thriller, classic horror, grindhouse, erotic, suspense
Similar in 81%
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
Plot Summary:
A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by a person dubbed "The Half-Moon Killer" by the police, and her husband must find the connecting thread between herself, six other women, and the killer before the killer strikes at her again.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, atmospheric, realistic, serious, tense, disturbing, spooky, twisted, scary
Similar in 76%
Giallo a Venezia (1979)
Plot Summary:
A couple is found dead in mysterious circumstances – there are some puzzling details concerning their murder. The detective inspector in charge of the case (Inspector DePaul – Jeff Blynn) is trying hard to understand the motives and, most of all, the strange modus operandi of the killer. The only lead he has is a photo displaying the couple together with some friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, sexy, detective, suspense, controversial, cult classic, weird, bizarre, sexploitation film, hot
Similar in 83%
Nine Guests for a Crime (1977)
Plot Summary:
Nine members of the same family go to an island, where nobody lives - but the head of the family owns a nice house there. Problem is that he and his three sons keep a dark secret, and this dark secret begins to haunt them as soon as they are on the island. One by one falls victim to a mysterious killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending