Movies like Greta, the Mad Butcher (1977)
The best movies like Greta, the Mad Butcher (1977) are Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976), Eugenie... The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (1970) and Sexy Sisters (1977). If Greta, the Mad Butcher hooked you with its horror and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSuspiria (1977)7.5/10 from 3,321 votes
- NewestThe Surrender (2025)Released 2025
- In GermanSexy Sisters (1977)Also in German
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEugenie... The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (1970)
A young woman is lured to an island paradise, where she is drawn into a dark world of pleasure, pain, and murder under the control of a sinister figure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSexy Sisters (1977)
Edna keeps her younger sister Millie drugged and chained to her bed. The drugs have made Millie a nymphomaniac whose endless supply of men that Edna providers her cannot satisfy her and seeing her sister unsatisfied gets Edna off. But Edna's main plan from all of this is to inherit her deceased parents' fortune which is supposed to all go to Millie on her 21st birthday, so if she can prove Millie insane she will get the fortune. But when one of the men appears to satisfy Millie, Millie discovers the outside world and the two will try to stop Edna's evil plans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
The Death King (1990)
Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRepulsion (1965)
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHow to Seduce a Virgin (1974)
Martine Bressac is released from a psychiatric clinic after a year's treatment and is driven home by her chauffeur, Mathias. She is welcomed by the demented hunchbacked gardener Malou and the mute servant girl Adèle, and impatiently demands the key to her mysterious private chamber. There, set out like exhibits in a waxwork, are the bodies of beautiful girls frozen in postures of terror on the point of death. With Mathias' help, Martine has just added another girl, a prostitute, to her collection when her husband and accomplice, Charles, arrives home with slides of a further prospective victim: Cécile the virginal daughter of a diplomat...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Females (1970)
A young woman joins an exclusive health clinic and discovers that the town is populated almost entirely by women, and they have surprising intentions for any male tourists who visit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrustration (1971)
A sexually frustrated woman, living with her sister and brother-in-law, is tormented by bizarre nightmares and violent erotic fantasies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Alucarda (1977)
After the death of her parents, young Justine is sent to live in a convent, where she meets and falls in love with the mysterious and macabre Alucarda. However, Alucarda has friends in low places... very low places. And a blood pact has just granted them entry to the church.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Blood Spattered Bride (1972)
A young newlywed woman begins to have disturbing nightmares just after settling into the old mansion that has belonged to her husband's family for centuries. When her sinister dreams come true, the innocent bride is caught in a maddening maze of unspeakable horrors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDay of the Woman (1978)
A young, beautiful career woman rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVampyros Lesbos (1971)
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisIn My Skin (2002)
After a disfiguring leg injury, a young woman develops an unsettling secret relationship with her own body in which pain is pleasure, mutilation is love and hungers of the flesh have a mind of their own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEugenie de Sade (1973)
Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in stories of erotica. One day she happens to read one of his "erotic" books and its power so affects her that begins to find herself sexually attracted to her stepfather. He notices this, and eventually brings her into his dark world of sexual perversion and murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSuspiria (1977)
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBeautiful Teacher in Torture Hell (1985)
A female teacher who is skilled in kendo is assigned to a rural high school in a beautiful remote valley. But she is soon trapped in a wide conspiracy of lust and perversion by those around her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSanta Sangre (1989)
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWho Can Kill a Child? (1976)
A couple of English tourists arrive at the island of Almanzora, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, where they discover that there are no adults in a small fishing village, only some children who stare at them and smile mysteriously.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDaddy's Deadly Darling (1973)
The owner of a roadside diner and his new helper kill people and feed them to pigs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDon't Look Now (1973)
While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAntichrist (2009)
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShe Killed in Ecstasy (1971)
A vengeful widow seduces and murders the men and women responsible for her husband’s suicide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Transfiguration (2016)
When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo's fantasy into reality.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaged (2021)
An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSavaged (2014)
After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Surrender (2025)
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCorridors of Blood (1958)
In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton [Boris Karloff] dares to dream the unthinkable: experimenting with anesthesia gases to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to his own chemical experiments and gets involved with a criminal gang led by Black Ben [Francis de Wolff], and a ruthless killer Resurrection Joe [Christopher Lee]. Unfortunately, this shady partnership leads Dr. Bolton to further ruin, culminating in his unwitting participation in murder — for which he becomes the first victim of a blackmail scheme.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Devil's Rejects (2005)
The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Greta, the Mad Butcher?
The closest matches to Greta, the Mad Butcher are Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976), Eugenie... The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (1970) and Sexy Sisters (1977). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Greta, the Mad Butcher?
People who watched Greta, the Mad Butcher most often go on to Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976), Eugenie... The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (1970) and Sexy Sisters (1977).
What is the highest-rated movie like Greta, the Mad Butcher?
Suspiria (1977), rated 7.5/10 by 3,321 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Greta, the Mad Butcher?
The Surrender (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there German movies like Greta, the Mad Butcher?
Yes: Sexy Sisters (1977), The Death King (1990) and The Females (1970).
How are movies similar to Greta, the Mad Butcher chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Greta, the Mad Butcher, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.