Movies like Man from Deep River (1972)
The best movies like Man from Deep River (1972) are Last Cannibal World (1977), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977). If Man from Deep River hooked you with its adventure and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedFitzcarraldo (1982)7.6/10 from 939 votes
- NewestBeware Boiúna (2026)Released 2026
- In ItalianLast Cannibal World (1977)Also in Italian
Last Cannibal World (1977)
An oil prospector escapes from capture by a primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippine rain forest and heads out to locate his missing companion and their plane to return home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSlave of the Cannibal God (1978)
A woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & horror
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 · both adventure & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMassacre in Dinosaur Valley (1985)
A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, and its passengers must battle their way through cannibals, slave traders, wild animals and murderous piranha fish to safety.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Green Inferno (2014)
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & horror
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 · both adventure & horror
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 · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnthropophagous (1980)
Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCut 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 · both adventure & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDoctor Butcher M.D. (1980)
After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisRoar (1981)
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisGrizzly (1976)
An eighteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into the area.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisEmanuelle Around the World (1977)
The increasingly politicised Emanuelle gets deeper into fighting an international trade composed of sex, violence and high profile players.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFitzcarraldo (1982)
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPrey (2007)
An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDark Age (1987)
In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace..
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
A scientific expedition sets out for Borneo to seek a flower called the Blood Orchid, which could grant extended life. Meanwhile, they run afoul of snakes and each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & horror
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 · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKings of the Sun (1963)
In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into conflict with a tribe of Native Americans led by their chief, Black Eagle, while both Balam and Black Eagle fall in love the beautiful Mayan princess Ixchel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisProphecy (1979)
When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Verne and his wife, Maggie, are sent in to mediate. Chief John Hawks insists the loggers are poisoning the water supply, and, though company man Isley denies it, the Vernes can't ignore the strangely mutated wildlife roaming the woods. Robert captures a bear cub for testing and soon finds himself the target of an angry mutant grizzly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Black Cat (1981)
Townspeople of a small English village begin to die in a series of horrible accidents, and a Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate a mysterious local medium who records conversations with the dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisÆnigma (1987)
The spirit of a comatose teenage girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls' boarding school in order to enact bloody revenge against the elitist, lingerie-clad coeds responsible for her condition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Valley (1972)
Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en route to "La Vallée": The Valley, high in the Guinean mountains, is shown on maps as 'obscured by clouds' and is beyond their previous experiences. Viviane joins their trek to find rare feathers and soon becomes entwined in their journey. Their extended stay with the Mapuga tribe brings a denouement between western and indigenous values before their final quest toward the 'Valley of the Gods'.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
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
SnoozefestMovies like thisPrimeval (2007)
A news team is sent to Burundi to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Descent: Part 2 (2009)
Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRiver of Blood (2024)
Four kayakers take the wrong river into a jungle inhabited by a tribe of merciless cannibals.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Devil's Mouth (2026)
A group of college friends' Thailand adventure turns deadly when they become trapped in submerged caves with a dangerous predator. As oxygen runs low, past conflicts emerge in their desperate fight for survival.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeware Boiúna (2026)
A medical mission deep in the Amazon becomes a desperate fight for survival when a colossal ancient predator awakens, turning the jungle into a deadly battleground where nature decides who lives and dies.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Man from Deep River?
The closest matches to Man from Deep River are Last Cannibal World (1977), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Man from Deep River?
People who watched Man from Deep River most often go on to Last Cannibal World (1977), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977).
What is the highest-rated movie like Man from Deep River?
Fitzcarraldo (1982), rated 7.6/10 by 939 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Man from Deep River?
Beware Boiúna (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Man from Deep River?
Yes: Last Cannibal World (1977), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977).
How are movies similar to Man from Deep River chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Man from Deep River, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.