Movies like Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
The best movies like Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971) are Cut and Run (1985), Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977). If Goodbye Uncle Tom hooked you with its drama and documentary, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDon't Torture a Duckling (1972)7.3/10 from 442 votes
- NewestThe Devil on Trial (2023)Released 2023
- In ItalianCut and Run (1985)Also in Italian
- Same seriesAfrica Blood and Guts (1966)Mondo Cane
Cut and Run (1985)
A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisCannibal Apocalypse (1980)
Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisEmanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)
Intrepid photographer Emanuelle is taken deep into the Amazonian jungle to search for a cannibalistic tribe long believed to be extinct.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Girl in Room 2A (1974)
A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult's next victim.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHitch Hike (1977)
A bickering couple driving cross-country through California pick up a psychotic hitchhiker with two million dollars who threatens to kill them unless they take him to Mexico.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHouse on the Edge of the Park (1980)
A posh couple experience car trouble on their way to a villa party and stop into a local mechanic's shop for assistance, unaware of his shady background. After he and his mentally challenged assistant fix the car, the couple invite them to the party to return the favor, leading to an evening of mayhem.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisDon't Torture a Duckling (1972)
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCannibal Holocaust (1980)
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe New York Ripper (1982)
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAfrica Blood and Guts (1966)
A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from colonial rule to other forms of government, violent political upheavals were frequent. Revolutions in Zanzibar and Kenya in which thousands were killed are shown, the violence not only political; there is also extensive footage of hunters and poachers slaughtering different types of wild animals.
Why it matches: Same series: Mondo Cane · both documentary
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last House on the Left (1972)
On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and friend Phyllis set off from her family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some drugs on the way, the pair run afoul of a group of vicious crooks, headed up by the sadistic Krug.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeyond the Darkness (1979)
A disturbed young embalmer digs the grave of his recently deceased girlfriend and brings her body to his family villa with help from his strange housekeeper. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Taking an ill-advised detour en-route to California, the Carter family soon run into trouble when their RV breaks down in the middle of the desert. Stranded, they find themselves at the mercy of monstrous cannibals lurking in the surrounding hills.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSister Emanuelle (1977)
Sister Emanuelle and Sister Nanà go to meet Mr. Cazzabriga, who has a problem: his wild-child daughter, Monica, who he wants to send to a Catholic school to remove her from temptations around the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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 drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMan from Deep River (1972)
A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisCannibal Ferox (1981)
Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisHouse of Mortal Sin (1976)
A troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlmost Human (1974)
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMacabre (1980)
A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisBorn for Hell (1976)
Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Driller Killer (1979)
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisWomen in Fury (1984)
The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in some Latin American country. In the prison she gets brutally "initiated" by the other inmates. The nice, honest and handsome prison doctor believe she's innocent and tries to help her out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLife in a Day (2011)
A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVan Gogh: Painted with Words (2010)
A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sent to his younger brother Theo, and of those around him. What emerges is a complex portrait of a sophisticated, civilised and yet tormented man.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & documentary
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Devil on Trial (2023)
Explore the first – and only – time “demonic possession” has officially been used as a defense in a U.S. murder trial. Including firsthand accounts of alleged devil possession and a shocking murder, this extraordinary story forces reflection on our fear of the unknown.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAll That Breathes (2022)
Against the darkening backdrop of New Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protecting one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaesar Must Die (2012)
Inmates at a prison in Rome rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & documentary
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Goodbye Uncle Tom?
The closest matches to Goodbye Uncle Tom are Cut and Run (1985), Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Goodbye Uncle Tom?
People who watched Goodbye Uncle Tom most often go on to Cut and Run (1985), Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977).
What is the highest-rated movie like Goodbye Uncle Tom?
Don't Torture a Duckling (1972), rated 7.3/10 by 442 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Goodbye Uncle Tom?
The Devil on Trial (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Goodbye Uncle Tom part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Mondo Cane, which includes Africa Blood and Guts (1966).
Are there Italian movies like Goodbye Uncle Tom?
Yes: Cut and Run (1985), Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977).
How are movies similar to Goodbye Uncle Tom chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Goodbye Uncle Tom, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.