Movies like The Sacrifice 2 (1986)
The best movies like The Sacrifice 2 (1986) are Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979), Shades of Desire (2023) and Succubus (2024). If The Sacrifice 2 hooked you with its thriller and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSuccubus (2024)8.3/10 from 279 votes
- NewestThe Other (2025)Released 2025
- In JapaneseStar of David: Beauty Hunting (1979)Also in Japanese
Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979)
The life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper yet mysterious descent, whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShades of Desire (2023)
After her twin sister Aubrey goes missing, Jennifer uncovers the scandalous, secret double-life that Aubrey leads - and that has put both of them in danger.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSuccubus (2024)
A new father going through a marital separation joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman... whose powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he could have ever imagined.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDaddy's Little Girl (2014)
After the police find Derek’s daughter brutally murdered on the beach, he vows to make the culprit suffer for his actions, even if that person is ‘part of the family.’ With careful research into the history of torture, Derek prepares himself and his basement for a week of brutal tactics that will make his daughter’s killer feel the pain that he has inflicted upon so many others. In a time when stranger danger is ever present, a single father learns that it’s the ones you trust most who have to be watched the closest.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDangerous Game: The Legacy Murders (2022)
A family reunion at a remote mansion takes a lethal turn when they are trapped inside and forced to play a deadly survival game where only one will make it out alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDead of Winter (1987)
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhisper (2007)
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrank and Penelope (2022)
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDeath Game (1977)
George Manning is a well-to-do businessman, husband, and father. While his family is away on his birthday, he invites a pair of rain-soaked young women into his house to wait out an evening thunderstorm. The two girls seduce Manning and ultimately kidnap and torture him in his own home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlood Punch (2014)
Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabin the woods, Milton finds himself drawn into a dangerous love triangle gone haywire. The couple's deadpan half-truths spin around Milton like a song on repeat. They seem to read him like an open book, until a mysterious message opens his eyes to his cursed existence. With unlimited ammunition, any hunting tool they could desire, and an ever-growing body count, for what did Milton really sign up?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Possessed (2021)
A man with the ability to exorcise demons fights to protect his loved ones after a sudden surge in demonic possessions. After discovering his nephew's girlfriend has the same supernatural gift, they join forces for the ultimate confrontation. Inspired by actual events.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Other (2025)
Unable to conceive, a couple seeks to build a family with a young orphan, survivor of tragic childhood. But their act of love turns to horror when they realize the violence in their foster's past has returned to destroy the new family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last Breath (2024)
A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white sharks.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Deliverance (2024)
Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEradication (2022)
When an unknown disease wipes out most of the world’s population, a man with unique blood is isolated for study. Fearing for his wife’s safety, he breaks his quarantine – into a world overrun by monstrous Infected and a shadowy agency hunting them down.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisImprint (2006)
An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHider in the House (1989)
A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBad Sister (2015)
As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a fatal attraction to Zoe's brother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnderworld U.S.A. (1961)
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYôen: Niku shibari (1987)
A woman accidentally kills her husband during S&M play.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Erotic Ghost Story: Female Ghost in Heat (1995)
Yuichi and Akie Kanzaki have decided to follow in their father's footsteps and open a hospital. They are excited to start their new life together, but on the night they move in, a beautiful female ghost appears and violently rapes Yuichi and sucks the life out of him while Akie is tied up. After that, the ghost appears day and night. One day, Akie hears a terrible story. What is the purpose of the ghost?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Silip (2007)
Small-town waitress Tess is swept off her feet by dashing salesman Rico, who marries her and takes her to live on his isolated farm. When Rico goes on a sales trip and leaves her all alone, Tess fights off loneliness by befriending Celia. Suspicions that Celia may be having an affair with her husband soon creep into Tess's mind and threaten her sanity.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
The Slit-Mouthed Woman: Chapter 2 (2021)
The Slit-Mouthed Woman returns.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Labyrinth of Roses (2014)
A mockumentary-style horror film about two sisters in Tokyo, where one becomes involved with a mysterious psychic, leading to a descent into paranoia and a confrontation involving a hidden camera.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Sex Spirit Hunter (2019)
A house infested with ghosts. 25-year-old Reiko is toyed with by an evil spirit every night and ascends to heaven. She requests an exorcism investigation and meets a woman. The exorcism hunter is led to the room where the ghost is found, where she encounters something unexpected. Then the blue man's arm suddenly disappears. When she sees him again, an abnormal sensation of a mixture of fear and pleasure awaits... A sex spirit is coming to violate me! What is the secret of the horrifying sex ghost...?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
MR★Lady Assassin Group (1991)
A mysterious transgender murder group wearing black dresses appears. It is a brutal method in which the targeted man are raped and then killed. Ohara is asked to investigate and discovers the existence of a gay man named Shimizu. However, Ohara, who has always been interested in relationships between men, ends up having an affair with Shimizu...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
A Chinese Torture Chamber Story II (1998)
A pair of country thieves make friends with a general rising within the imperial army. After the general finds himself falling in love with the beautiful sister of one of the thieves (who is the fiancee of the other) he decides to do whatever it takes to get rid of the competition and have her for himself.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
A Girl (2014)
Pearl is a seemingly "normal" young woman who lives a reclusive lifestyle. She struggles between her sexual desires and society's "acceptable" behavior. One day she hears a voice claiming to be Jesus talking to her through the radio. Pearl communicates with him in what appears to be waking consciousness, as well as in her dreams, and he slowly takes over her mind, manipulating and tormenting her as she is pulled between sexual desire and sexual guilt.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Morbus (1983)
A prostitute aspiring to be an author, a secret satanic sect, and a scientist who has discovered a potion that reanimates the dead intersect in unexpected and comedic ways.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Sacrifice 2?
The closest matches to The Sacrifice 2 are Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979), Shades of Desire (2023) and Succubus (2024). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Sacrifice 2?
Start with Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979), the closest match to The Sacrifice 2.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Sacrifice 2?
Succubus (2024), rated 8.3/10 by 279 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Sacrifice 2?
The Other (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like The Sacrifice 2?
Yes: Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979), Imprint (2006) and Yôen: Niku shibari (1987).
How are movies similar to The Sacrifice 2 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Sacrifice 2, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.