Movies like The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy in the Store (1994)
The best movies like The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy in the Store (1994) are Maniac (1963), Grip of the Strangler (1958) and The Glass Key (1942). If The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy in the Store 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 ratedPickup on South Street (1953)7.4/10 from 342 votes
- NewestOscar Shaw (2026)Released 2026
Maniac (1963)
When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrip of the Strangler (1958)
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Glass Key (1942)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night Stalker (1972)
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIndemnity (2022)
An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRace with the Devil (1975)
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dark Mirror (1946)
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Blue Lamp (1950)
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnion Station (1950)
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mirror Crack'd (1980)
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOscar Shaw (2026)
After retiring from the police force, a relentless detective haunted by the tragic loss of his closest friend sets out on a perilous quest for vengeance, seeking redemption and fighting to restore justice to the streets he once swore to protect.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night Strangler (1973)
After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he’s on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every 21 years, for the past century, a killer murders a certain number of people, drains them of their blood, and then disappears into the night. Kolchak is on his trail, but can he stop him?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZ (2019)
A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMurder! (1930)
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisLady in the Lake (1946)
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night Walker (1964)
A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSide Street (1950)
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000. When he decides to return the money, things go wrong - and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHe Ran All the Way (1951)
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSilent Zone (2025)
In a zombie-ravaged world, a resourceful teen and her protector fight for survival, facing relentless dangers and testing the limits of hope and loyalty.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPickup on South Street (1953)
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAnthropophagous 2000 (1999)
The millionaire Nikos Karamanlis (Andreas Schnaas) and his family are on a boat trip, when they get into a storm, in which the daughter dies and the yacht sinks. After days without food on a life raft, Nikos needs to eat the corpse of his wife and daughter or die. Later, a group of vacationers arrive at a remote island where Niko had made his home. Now insane and craving flesh, Niko Begins to pick them off, and a few of the survivors try to fight back.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror & crime
Bloody Hell (2020)
A man with a mysterious past flees the country to escape his own personal hell... only to arrive somewhere much worse. In an effort to survive this new horror, he turns to his personified conscience.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bad Batch (2017)
After being exiled to a fenced-off wasteland, Arlen is kidnapped by a group of cannibals and goes on a journey to reunite a missing girl with her father.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisGhoul (2015)
A small group of Americans travel to Ukraine to film a documentary about the cannibalism epidemic that swept through the country during the famine of 1932. After being lured deep into the Ukrainian forest for an interview with one of the last known survivors, they quickly find themselves trapped in a supernatural hunting ground.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Invitation (2020)
The world-renowned Birkenholz AG invites young project developer Tom Renner to an interview. The meeting develops promisingly, but nothing is as it seems to be. And the hope for a little glamour and glory turns into Renner's nightmare.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror & thriller
Death Ranch (2020)
In 1970s America, three African-American siblings on the run from the police take refuge at an abandoned Tennessee Ranch, unaware their hideout is on the hunting grounds of a cannibalistic Ku Klux Klan cult. Trapped and tortured, the three must fight tooth and nail to escape alive and take down the bloodthirsty Klan.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror & thriller
Bleeders (1997)
A man with an unknown disease travels to an island with his girlfriend where his relatives once lived, hoping to find a cure to his illness. Although his relatives were all thought to be dead, he finds them living underground.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCannibal Girls (1973)
A young couple spend the night in a restaurant, only to find out that it is haunted by three dead women who hunger for human flesh.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHansel Vs. Gretel (2015)
When Gretel falls under a dark spell and organizes a coven of witches, Hansel must find the courage to fight his twin sister and the sinister forces controlling her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Last Night (2024)
A man's desire for a beautiful stranger leads him down a dark and dangerous path, where he discovers a terrifying secret lurking beneath the surface as he searches for the woman who stole his heart.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy in the Store?
The closest matches to The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy in the Store are Maniac (1963), Grip of the Strangler (1958) and The Glass Key (1942). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy in the Store?
Start with Maniac (1963), the closest match to The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy in the Store.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy in the Store?
Pickup on South Street (1953), rated 7.4/10 by 342 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy in the Store?
Oscar Shaw (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy in the Store?
Yes: Maniac (1963), Grip of the Strangler (1958) and The Glass Key (1942).
How are movies similar to The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy in the Store chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy in the Store, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.