Best movies like Julia
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Plot Summary:
After suffering a brutal trauma, Julia uses an unorthodox form of therapy to restore herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, disturbing, creepy, twisted, neo noir, independent film
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The Beasts (1980)
Plot Summary:
A father seeks revenge from a gang of thugs who raped his daughter and murdered his son.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial
Similar in 86%
Submission of a Woman (1992)
Plot Summary:
Giallo tinged home invasion movie full of tension. Luisa's home is invaded one night by a crazed admirer who thinks he has the right to take sexual advantage of her because of her occupation as a nude model. Directed by experienced film editor Alessandro Lucidi.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Strip Club Massacre (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman starting a new life is forced to take extreme measures against those around her after things go violently awry.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, suspense, slasher
Similar in 77%
Savage Encounter (1980)
Plot Summary:
A honeymooning couple take a vacation in a remote country bungalow. Before long, they’re visited by two backwoods psychos. Terror, assault, and rape are inevitable. The U.S. video release from Genesis (released in 1988 under the title DEMON LUST) is missing ten minutes.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Axe (1977)
Plot Summary:
A group of three criminals on the run from the law, go about terrorizing the local townsfolk of a small community, before descending on an isolated farm which is home to a young girl named Lisa and her paralyzed grandfather. After being sexually assaulted by two of the gangsters, she retaliates using an axe and a razor blade.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, psychological, controversial, southern gothic, cult classic, terrifying, independent film, scary
Similar in 82%
Savage Vengeance (1993)
Plot Summary:
A woman is brutally raped by four men, and she plans to seek vengeance. After five years, she hasn't gotten over it yet, and she and her friend are again raped by four men. This time, she tracks them down and finally has her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, low-budget
Similar in 90%
Tomboys (2009)
Plot Summary:
Five girls kidnap a serial rapist... to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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The Ladies Club (1985)
Plot Summary:
A raped policewoman forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men whom have committed repeated violations of women, and got away with it through legal technicalities.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, independent film
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We Are Monsters (2015)
Plot Summary:
Emma is kidnapped and imprisoned by a trio of psychopaths.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychological, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, retro, suspense
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M.F.A. (2017)
Plot Summary:
An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist. An unlikely vigilante emerges, set out to avenge college girls whose attackers walked free- all the while fueling a vivid thesis exhibition.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: crying, detective, psychological, suspense, independent film, disturbing, rough, bloody, slasher, crime drama
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Shallow Ground (2004)
Plot Summary:
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, disturbing, scary, spooky, surprise ending
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The Captives (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sandy has stumbled onto a lair of torture and humiliation. She was abducted and brought to this pit of pain as the next intended victim. But Sandy overthrows her captor and kills him. Does she release the other prisoners? Does she call the police? No. Her mind snaps and she assumes control over the prisoners, taking them as her own playtoys. Naked bodies writhe in ecstasy as blood runs down the walls in this chilling tale of madness and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: sadistic, explicit, rough, retro, bloody, slasher, controversial, perverse, erotic, independent film
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Girls Against Boys (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a series of bad experiences with men, Shae teams up with her co-worker, Lu, who has a simple, deadly way of dealing with the opposite sex.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, slasher, sexual, profound, independent film, sexy
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Grindhouse (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 191 min
Plot tags: rough, offbeat, suspense, tense, exciting, dark comedy, brutal, bloody, entertaining, surreal
Similar in 86%
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Plot Summary:
Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, his childhood trauma materializes once again.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, slasher, scary, grindhouse, suspenseful, rough, bloody, psychotronic, psychological, controversial
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Chaos (2005)
Plot Summary:
Emily and her friend Angelica go to a rave in the woods, and when they arrive, they meet a stranger called Swan that promises some Exstasy for the girls. They follow him to a cabin into the forest where they meet the sadistic gang leaded by the psychotic Chaos. The girls are abused, tortured and raped in a night of nightmare and murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: rough, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, suspense, dark, controversial, cult classic
Similar in 75%
Planet Terror (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 221000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bloody, black comedy, grindhouse, splatter, exciting, scary, parody, horror comedy, cult classic, action packed
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The Executioners (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four female friends spend the night in a mansion. Their joy is quickly shattered when three men break in and cruelly attack them. As the night takes a darker turn, they find themselves relishing in the violence they had once suffered.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, surprise ending, disturbing
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I Spit on Your Grave 3: Vengeance is Mine (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer Hills is still tormented by the brutal sexual assault she endured years ago. She’s changed identities and cities, reluctantly joining a support group where she begins to piece together a new life. But when her new friend’s murderer goes free and the tales of serial rapists haunt her, Jennifer will hunt down the men responsible and do what the system won’t – make them pay for their crimes in the most horrific ways imaginable. Only this time, no jury may be able to save her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, bleak, psychotronic, slasher, scary, funny, retro, bloody
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Run! Bitch Run! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Things go horribly wrong when Catherine and Rebecca, two Catholic School girls, knock on the wrong door while selling Religious paraphernalia.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, grindhouse, brutal, suspense, slasher, psychological, psychological thriller
Similar in 75%
I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following her rape, Jennifer Hills wrote a bestselling account of her ordeal and of the controversial trial in which she was accused of taking the law into her own hands and brutally killing her assailants. In the small town where the rape and revenge took place, the relatives of the four rapists she killed are furious that the court declared her not guilty and resolve to take justice into their own hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: sexual, psychotronic, psychological, retro, bloody, slasher, disturbing, splatter, sensual, sexy
Similar in 76%
I'll Never Die Alone (2008)
Plot Summary:
A violent thriller set in the outback of remote La Plata region, I'LL NEVER DIE ALONE (aka NO MORIRE SOLA) is a tough and pounding story of revenge for rape, mercilessly carried out by a group of women intent on pursuing their attackers to the bitter end.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, suspenseful, twisted, realistic, retro, depressing, controversial, serious, splatter
Similar in 90%
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, psychological, disturbing, rough, bloody, independent film, bleak, splatter, slasher
Similar in 81%
Hostel: Part II (2007)
Plot Summary:
Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three young American women are lured into a hostel by a handsome young man who sells them to the twisted masters, ties them up and brings upon an unthinkable world of pain.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, controversial, brutal, splatter, disturbing, psychological, suspense, sexy
Similar in 82%
High Tension (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, slaughters Alexia's family--including their dog--and kidnaps Alexia. Marie hides from the criminal and tries to help the hysterical and frightened Alexia, chase the maniac, and disclose his identity in the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, intense
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Hush (2016)
Plot Summary:
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 150000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, suspenseful, dark, psychological, tense, disturbing, twist ending, psychological thriller
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American Mary (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young med student struggling with her tuition fees is drawn into the shady world of underground body modification.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, sexy, dark, slasher, brutal, suspense, rough, bloody, atmospheric
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Plot Summary:
An assassin is shot at the altar by her ruthless employer, Bill and other members of their assassination circle – but 'The Bride' lives to plot her vengeance. Setting out for some payback, she makes a death list and hunts down those who wronged her, saving Bill for last.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: bloody, non-linear, tense, suspense, visually appealing, visual, visually stunning, grindhouse, cult classic, action packed
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The Last House on the Left (2009)
Plot Summary:
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 horrible revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, grindhouse
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I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Plot Summary:
A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals led by Johnny, the town's service station owner, his two co-workers, Andy and Stanley, who along with their socially and mentally challenged friend Matthew, set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: brutal, disturbing, psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, splatter, bloody, controversial, harsh