Movies like Bungo Stray Dogs on Stage: Cannibalism (2023)
The best movies like Bungo Stray Dogs on Stage: Cannibalism (2023) are Willard (1971), Willard (2003) and Resident Evil: Retribution (2012). If Bungo Stray Dogs on Stage: Cannibalism hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedJohn Wick (2014)7.5/10 from 21,619 votes
- NewestGladiator Underground (2025)Released 2025
- In Japanese20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009)Also in Japanese
Willard (1971)
A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWillard (2003)
Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from daily abuse at the hands of his bedridden mother and his father's old partner, Frank. Soon it becomes clear that the brood of rodents is ready and willing to exact a vicious, deadly revenge on anyone who dares to bully their sensitive new master.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisResident Evil: Retribution (2012)
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by new found allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like this20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009)
The final showdown, and the final reveal. Who is Friend? How can he be stopped?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOutrage (2010)
When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEquilibrium (2002)
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBen (1972)
A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisResident Evil (2002)
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisResident Evil: Damnation (2012)
U.S. federal agent Leon S. Kennedy sneaks into the "East Slavic Republic" to verify rumors that Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs) are being used in the country's civil war, which the U.S. and Russia are making preparations to jointly intervene in. Right after his infiltration, the U.S. government orders him to leave immediately. Determined to uncover the truth, Leon ignores the order and enters the battlefield to end the chain of tragedies caused by the BOWs.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYear 10 (2024)
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 5 (2014)
Convinced of the final outcome, a team of scientists travels back in time to stop the spread of a virus turning men into zombified rapists through society and causes them to finally uncover the source of the deadly disease which causes them to attempt to stop it before it happens again.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGhost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015)
When a ghost-infecting virus known as Fire-Starter begins spreading through the system resulting in the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her elite team of special operatives are called in to track down its source.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBaghead (2023)
Following the death of her estranged father, Iris learns she has inherited a run-down, centuries-old pub. She travels to Berlin to identify her father’s body and meet with The Solicitor to discuss the estate. Little does she know, when the deed is signed she will become inextricably tied to an unspeakable entity that resides in the pub’s basement – Baghead – a shape-shifting creature that can transform into the dead.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGladiator Underground (2025)
Two brothers compete in the world's deadliest underground fighting tournament, where they must decide whether to play by the rules or to cast their honor aside and team up to bring down the dark syndicate running the tournament.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like this20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)
In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in 1997, Kenji becomes a convenience store manager and leads a regular life after giving up his dreams to become a rock star. His boring life is suddenly turned upside down when his old classmate dies mysteriously and an entire family in the neighbourhood disappears. At the same time, a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend emerges and a strange chain of events duplicating exactly the events described in the Book of Prophecies follow. Is this the beginning of the end of the world? Who is Friend?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJohn Wick (2014)
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPSYCHO-PASS: The Movie (2015)
In a futuristic Japan, the Sibyl System is charged with keeping the peace. When the state of SEAUn brings the Sibyl System in to test its effectiveness, it becomes a haven of peace and safety—for a time. Eventually, terrorists from SEAUn begin appearing in Japan, somehow slipping through the System's security and attacking from within. Desperate for answers, Inspector Akane Tsunemori is sent overseas to bring the terrorists to justice. But when her investigation forces her into a standoff with an old ally, will she be able to pull the trigger?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Bay (2012)
Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnimal Farm (1954)
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like this
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What are the best movies like Bungo Stray Dogs on Stage: Cannibalism?
The closest matches to Bungo Stray Dogs on Stage: Cannibalism are Willard (1971), Willard (2003) and Resident Evil: Retribution (2012). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Bungo Stray Dogs on Stage: Cannibalism?
Start with Willard (1971), the closest match to Bungo Stray Dogs on Stage: Cannibalism.
What is the highest-rated movie like Bungo Stray Dogs on Stage: Cannibalism?
John Wick (2014), rated 7.5/10 by 21,619 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Bungo Stray Dogs on Stage: Cannibalism?
Gladiator Underground (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Bungo Stray Dogs on Stage: Cannibalism?
Yes: 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009), Outrage (2010) and Resident Evil: Damnation (2012).
How are movies similar to Bungo Stray Dogs on Stage: Cannibalism chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Bungo Stray Dogs on Stage: Cannibalism, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.