Movies like Amuck! (1972)
The best movies like Amuck! (1972) are A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971), The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971) and Eyeball (1975). If Amuck! hooked you with its mystery and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDeep Red (1975)7.7/10 from 1,661 votes
- NewestOpera (1987)Released 1987
- In ItalianA Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)Also in Italian
A 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 · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971)
A rich, mentally-unstable man with a penchant for playing deadly S&M games with women who resemble his dead wife, sparks off a chain of bizarre events after getting remarried.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEyeball (1975)
A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of its victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police trying to deduce which one of them is the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisTorso (1973)
A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlue Eyes of the Broken Doll (1974)
An ex-convict, troubled by dreams that he strangles women, is hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three very strange sisters. Soon after his arrival, a serial killer begins slaughtering blonde, blue-eyed women - and leaving their eyeballs in a bowl of water.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisExposé (1976)
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite him and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDeep Red (1975)
An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970)
The wife of a financially struggling businessman is blackmailed by a mysterious man into having a sadistic relationship with him, or he will release damning evidence that suggests that her husband is a murderer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dead Are Alive (1972)
A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Psychic (1977)
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFour Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)
A high-rise apartment populated by models, nightclub dancers and call girls becomes the focus of a mysterious serial killer. When a young model named Jennifer and her friend Marilyn move into one of the victims' former apartments, Jennifer becomes the next target and the pair try to identify the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFive Women for the Killer (1974)
Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
The Laughing Woman (1969)
Beautiful PR woman, Maria finds herself trapped in the home of the sinister and troubled Dr. Sayer, where she is subjected to a series of increasingly bizarre, terrifying, and degrading sex games. Sayer admits that he has murdered several women after the same ordeal, always killing them at the point of orgasm. But all is not what it seems, and through a series of twists and turns, the whole situation is slowly turned on its head.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeath Walks at Midnight (1972)
Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll the Colours of the Dark (1972)
After a car accident that caused the loss of her baby, Jane experiences an increasing amount of nightmares that shake her to her core. After seeking professional help, her haunting visions turn into an even more frightening reality, one full of black magic, blood orgies, and murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAutopsy (1975)
A series of random suicides in Rome, Italy are attributed to a heatwave, but a young pathologist named Simona—who is working on a thesis about murders disguised as suicides—suspects otherwise. When a young girl associated with Simona's playboy father ends up dead in another supposed suicide, Simona teams up with the girl's priest brother to prove she was murdered and track down the unknown serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)
When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWatch Me When I Kill (1977)
A pharmacist is murdered, and a woman happens to see the culprit leave the scene. She soon finds herself being stalked by the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhat Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne on Top of the Other (1969)
A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTenebre (1982)
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOpera (1987)
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSeven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
A maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the Half-Moon Killer. The mysterious half-moon lockets he leaves with his victims could be the only key to unraveling his sinister motives, but will that be enough before he completes his ice-cold plot to claim his intended seven victims?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat the Peeper Saw (1972)
A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSchizo (1976)
A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Venus in Furs (1969)
After a jazz musician finds a woman's corpse washed up on the beach and remembers that he witnessed her murder at a party the previous night, a woman who bears a strong resemblance to her begins to exact revenge on the murderers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisRider on the Rain (1970)
Melancolie Mau is a lonely woman on the French seaside who falls victim to a horrific rape, but she manages to turn the tables and kill her attacker. She chooses not to tell anyone and dumps the body, but it comes back to haunt her when a U.S. colonel arrives, mysteriously armed with full knowledge about her ordeal. However, he seems to have his own agenda, and it may concern Melancolie's absent husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Amuck!?
The closest matches to Amuck! are A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971), The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971) and Eyeball (1975). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Amuck!?
People who watched Amuck! most often go on to A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971), The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971) and Eyeball (1975).
What is the highest-rated movie like Amuck!?
Deep Red (1975), rated 7.7/10 by 1,661 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Amuck!?
Opera (1987) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Amuck!?
Yes: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971), The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971) and Eyeball (1975).
How are movies similar to Amuck! chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Amuck!, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.