Movies like The Power of the Dog
Discover a curated list of captivating movies similar to The Power of the Dog. Explore films such as Nightmare Alley, A Clockwork Orange, and The Voyeur, around the themes of 20th century, brother, cowboy. Other notable keywords include 1920s and based on novel.
#1
Nightmare Alley
Synopsis:
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
Starring:
Bradley Cooper,
Rooney Mara,
David Strathairn
#2
A Clockwork Orange
Synopsis:
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity…
Starring:
Malcolm McDowell,
Patrick Magee,
Adrienne Corri
#3
The Voyeur
Synopsis:
At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him for a ride home and seduces the lucky man, but still he wonders about his wife and her lover.
Starring:
Katarina Vasilissa,
Francesco Casale,
Cristina Garavaglia
#4
The Revenant
Synopsis:
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
Starring:
Domhnall Gleeson,
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Forrest Goodluck
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#5
The Platform
Synopsis:
A mysterious place, an indescribable prison, a deep hole. An unknown number of levels. Two inmates living on each level. A descending platform containing food for all of them. An inhuman fight for survival, but also an opportunity for solidarity.
Starring:
Iván Massagué,
Antonia San Juan,
Zorion Eguileor
Plot:
hunger,
prison,
cannibalism,
inmate,
male rear nudity,
feast,
hole,
murder,
shaving,
book
...
#6
The Lost City of Z
Synopsis:
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
Starring:
Sienna Miller,
Tom Holland,
Angus Macfadyen
Plot:
jungle,
based on true story,
based on book,
explorer,
journey,
raft,
archaeology,
husband wife relationship,
travel,
tribe
...
#7
Swap Meet at the Love Shack
Synopsis:
The film Liebesmarkt featuring a cute blonde Ingrid Steeger, not only became a cult actress stupidity of German youth who watched only American cinema. Ingrid was a true nudist and undressed in front of the camera without any pose. She wore a gold chain around the waist and a bracelet on his left ankle. Her walk was easy and graceful gestures. Actress she was so-so. But the beautiful graceful lit…
Starring:
Ingrid Steeger,
Monica Marc,
Michael Maien
#8
Forrest Gump
Synopsis:
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
Starring:
Robin Wright,
Tom Hanks,
Mykelti Williamson
Plot:
vietnam war,
amputee,
war hero,
based on book,
based on novel,
vietnam,
ping pong,
mother,
journey,
bully
...
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#9
Django Unchained
Synopsis:
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Starring:
Christoph Waltz,
Walton Goggins,
Samuel L. Jackson
Plot:
slavery,
one against many,
sadism,
n word,
torture,
ku klux klan,
historically inaccurate,
racial slur,
revenge,
slave
...
#10
The American
Synopsis:
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
Starring:
Violante Placido,
George Clooney,
Paolo Bonacelli
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#11
Shutter Island
Synopsis:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Starring:
Mark Ruffalo,
Jackie Earle Haley,
Ben Kingsley
Plot:
surprise ending,
neo noir,
mental asylum,
cave,
memory,
filicide,
plot twist,
psycho thriller,
delusion,
containment
...
#12
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Synopsis:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Starring:
Paolo Bonacelli,
Giorgio Cataldi,
Umberto P. Quintavalle
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#13
Polar
Synopsis:
When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.
Starring:
Matt Lucas,
Ruby O. Fee,
Vanessa Hudgens
#14
Hacksaw Ridge
Synopsis:
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Starring:
Sam Worthington,
Teresa Palmer,
Hugo Weaving
Plot:
world war two,
conscientious objector,
soldier,
medic,
1940s,
okinawa,
combat,
battle of okinawa,
bible,
mother son relationship
...
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#15
Gone Girl
Synopsis:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Starring:
Rosamund Pike,
Ben Affleck,
Boyd Holbrook
#16
Cowboys & Aliens
Synopsis:
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
Starring:
Clancy Brown,
Harrison Ford,
Daniel Craig
#17
Cannibal Holocaust
Synopsis:
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Starring:
Paolo Paoloni,
Robert Kerman,
Francesca Ciardi
#18
Braveheart
Synopsis:
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Starring:
Brendan Gleeson,
Mel Gibson,
Catherine McCormack
Plot:
scotland,
revolt,
legend,
based on true story,
tyranny,
england,
death of wife,
idealism,
battle,
epic
...
#19
Boxing Helena
Synopsis:
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once rebuffed him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but a horrific accident leaves her at his mercy.
Starring:
Bill Paxton,
Kurtwood Smith,
Art Garfunkel
#20
8MM
Synopsis:
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.
Starring:
Nicolas Cage,
Peter Stormare,
Chris Bauer