Movies like Meat (2010)
The best movies like Meat (2010) are Caged (2011), Stricken (2009) and Nude Area (2014). If Meat hooked you with its thriller and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedHunting Season (2025)7.4/10 from 486 votes
- NewestHunting Season (2025)Released 2025
Caged (2011)
After years of suppressing her desires, Stella finds she can no longer ignore her deep-rooted longings. Breaking out of her cage and starting a secret double-life, Stella transforms into a "unicorn", a nickname for single women who indulge in a hedonistic lifestyle, visiting sex clubs and erotic parties, and flourishing with all the new attention. Even as her husband uncovers his Stella's secret life, he can't do much more than give her the freedom that she obviously needs, in the hope it's all just a phase. Then one day she finds herself lying unconscious in a basement cell, with no idea how she arrived there. Days go by when an other woman is brought into her cell. Christine, a woman about the same age. In the following days they reveal their life stories to one other. Christine is convinced that the reason for their captivity lies in Stella's lifestyle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisStricken (2009)
Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even fatherhood and a move to the boring country go well, until Carmen gets breast cancer. Now their lives are turned upside-down, maybe wrecked
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNude Area (2014)
Naomi, a fifteen year-old Dutch girl from South-Amsterdam, develops a crush on a beautiful Arabic girl of the same age living in the poor quarters of Amsterdam West. During one magical summer in Amsterdam, the two girls play an emotional chess game of love, seduction and attraction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Business Is Business (1971)
Dutch prostitutes Greta and Nel cruise the Amsterdam red light district, seeking clients to involve in their elaborately staged fetish fantasies, be it disciplinarian headmistresses, surgeons cutting open a willing patient, or even dressing up as chickens, the duo show their expertise in role-playing again and again and again. In reality, Nel is trapped in an abusive marriage and Greta is forever in the middle of their confrontations but her life takes a positive upturn when she becomes involved with a client.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisTurkish Delight (1973)
Gifted but hot-headed sculptor Eric has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGuernsey (2005)
Guernsey is the story of a woman who suddenly looks at her own life and wonders how she became miles apart from the people she is closest to.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
De Dominee (2004)
Amsterdam, 1970s. A wealthy grammar school student Klaas and his friend start trafficking hash and become entangled in the brutal criminal scene.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Reckless (2014)
This stylish, sexually charged thriller revolves around two men who kidnap a woman and chain her to a bed as they await the ransom money. As the clock ticks, the woman discovers that she may have a relationship with one of the kidnappers that she never expected...and that the two men may have a relationship with each other that no one could have expected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Tricked (2012)
During his 50th birthday party thrown by his wife, Remco's life takes a turn for the worse. His business partners are scheming behind his back to sell him and his former mistress shows up pregnant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGooische Vrouwen (2011)
Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, where life always seems to run smoothly, but dark clouds are gathering on the horizon. A flight seems the only way out…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ardennes (2015)
A brutal home-jacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much has changed. Dave has his life back on track and is trying to help Kenneth however possible, but is witnessing how the highly strung Kenneth tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Sylvie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Paradise Suite (2015)
The lives of six people, who seem to have nothing more in common than their faraway homelands, become inextricably linked in Amsterdam, the city they have chosen as their new home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Dinner (2013)
Two brothers and their wives have dinner in a fancy restaurant to discuss their teenage children's misdeeds. An excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Manyak (2023)
Desire and her boyfriend, Adam, stay at her sister's house while they are on vacation. Things turn chaotic when a mysterious man intrudes the house and rapes her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Bo (2010)
Fifteen year old Deborah meets Jennifer who steers her into a career as an escort. Under the alias Bo she begins a new life that she cannot handle and starts a downward spiral that only she can end.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Nina (2004)
After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Expensive Candy (2022)
Candy is a sex worker. A poor teacher, Toto, falls in love with her and she becomes his motivation to work hard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Girl and Death (2012)
A chance meeting between Nicolai and Nina, a friend from the past, makes Nicolai return to an abandoned hotel in which, many years ago, he experienced his only love, full of tragedy and an overwhelming feeling.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Silent Fear (2015)
Sabine is looking for the truth behind the disappearance of her best friend twenty years ago. An encounter with the handsome Olaf, a man she remembers from her teenage years, and the announcement of a high school reunion turn her life upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Code 37 (2011)
A famous writer is violated in a sex-movie-theatre. He had a date with Roos, a young student who works also as a prostitute. Quickly it becomes clear that more students are active in the prostitution. Enough reason for Hannah and her team to go undercover in club Sin City, a port for everyone who avoids the daylight and for girls who pick up their customers. When Hannah and her team investigate that the owner of both the sex-theatre as Sin City are Roos' uncle, the whole case takes a personal turn. In the first place for Hannah, because she knows as no-one else how heavy family secrets can weigh....
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Init (2024)
When a young barrio lass moves in to the city to study, she lives in a boarding house with other college students. Unknown to them, behind her shy and timid personality is a woman with insatiable hunger for sex.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Soldier of Orange (1977)
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVicious (2019)
A girls weekend in a remote cottage in the Ardennes. Relationships are put into focus - do the four girls know everything about each other? The filming of the 'best youth book' of 2012 written by Mel Wallis de Vries.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisYoung & Beautiful (2013)
Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOffline (2012)
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Rogue Agent (2022)
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHunting Season (2025)
When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Dry White Season (1989)
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Experiment (2010)
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Good Neighbor (2022)
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Meat?
The closest matches to Meat are Caged (2011), Stricken (2009) and Nude Area (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Meat?
People who watched Meat most often go on to Caged (2011), Stricken (2009) and Nude Area (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Meat?
Hunting Season (2025), rated 7.4/10 by 486 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Meat?
Hunting Season (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Meat chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Meat, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.