Movies like Nekromantik 2 (1991)
The best movies like Nekromantik 2 (1991) are In My Skin (2002), The Death King (1990) and Cannibal (2006). If Nekromantik 2 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 ratedMartyrs (2008)7.3/10 from 3,202 votes
- NewestThe Surrender (2025)Released 2025
- In GermanThe Death King (1990)Also in German
In 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 thisThe 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 thisCannibal (2006)
Cannibal is based on the true-crime story of Armin Meiwes, the "Rotenburg Cannibal" who posted an online ad searching for someone to volunteer to be mutilated and eaten. Unlikely as it may seem, someone actually replied. The film shows a fictional portrayal of the meeting between the cannibal and his victim/participant, their homosexual relationship, and the eventual mutilation and murder of said victim.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmer (2009)
Ana is confronted with body and desire at three key moments of her life. As a young girl, she brings her dead grandpa back to life. In her puberty, she discovers the power of decay and sexuality. Finally, she wrestles with loss and loneliness when she returns to her parental home, now derelict.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrotesque (2009)
An unnamed doctor has always had everything he's ever wanted, but that has only made him develop more extreme and depraved needs. He kidnaps a young couple in the prime of their life together and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAudition (2000)
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMay (2003)
A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMartyrs (2008)
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisShocking Asia (1974)
High on shock and light on cultural relativism, this mondo collection of video strangeness features assorted dead (or dying) people, a sex change operation, inexplicable sex acts, and a bunch of other stuff the producers' could get the rights to cheaply.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Inside (2007)
Months after a tragic accident, Sarah, a young pregnant woman, must spend Christmas Eve alone in her house before giving birth the next day. But in the middle of the night, a creepy visitor knocks at her door willing to do anything to get what they want, setting off a night of pure terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGuinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole (1988)
An artist dealing with the grief of his wife leaving him finds solace in painting the squalor of the sewer. He discovers a trapped mermaid, whom he brings home to heal. Her condition worsens, and she asks the artist to paint her before she dies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Snake of June (2003)
Rinko, a woman in a sexless marriage, is blackmailed by a stalker with intimate photos, forcing her into a series of erotic acts that disrupt her mundane life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPerfect Skin (2019)
Katia, a young Polish woman adrift in London, meets Bob, an American tattoo artist. Katia is drawn to his mysterious aura and the taboo culture of body modification, but Bob has a dark, secret desire to leave his mark on the world and little does Katia know that her fascination with him will put her life in danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Trouble Every Day (2001)
Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane stumbles upon the story of a doctor and his flesh eating wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisExcision (2012)
Pauline, a disturbed, outcast teenager, has a fascination with surgery and experiences violent, psychosexual fantasies, all while aspiring to a career in medicine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Eyes of My Mother (2016)
A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVisitor Q (2001)
In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up, ‘Q’, a complete stranger enters the bizarre family, changing their lives for the better, finding a balance in their disturbing natures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Mary (2013)
A young medical student struggling to pay tuition is drawn into the shady world of underground body-modification.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAftermath (1994)
When the others leave for the night, the last mortician begins to fondle the corpses. He quickly moves to the corpse of a young woman who died in a car crash.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisStrange Circus (2005)
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPossession (1981)
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSombre (1998)
A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCastle Freak (1996)
John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHounds of Love (2016)
When Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple, she soon observes the dynamic between her captors and quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisReturn of the Living Dead III (1993)
Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught teenager performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & romance
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 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 thisThe Woman (2011)
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Nekromantik 2?
The closest matches to Nekromantik 2 are In My Skin (2002), The Death King (1990) and Cannibal (2006). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Nekromantik 2?
People who watched Nekromantik 2 most often go on to In My Skin (2002), The Death King (1990) and Cannibal (2006).
What is the highest-rated movie like Nekromantik 2?
Martyrs (2008), rated 7.3/10 by 3,202 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Nekromantik 2?
The Surrender (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there German movies like Nekromantik 2?
Yes: The Death King (1990), Cannibal (2006) and Shocking Asia (1974).
How are movies similar to Nekromantik 2 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Nekromantik 2, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.