Movies like Cannibal Ferox (1981)
The best movies like Cannibal Ferox (1981) are Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), Cut and Run (1985) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977). If Cannibal Ferox 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 ratedThe Descent (2005)7.0/10 from 4,671 votes
- NewestThe Green Inferno (2014)Released 2014
- In ItalianSlave of the Cannibal God (1978)Also in Italian
Slave 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 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 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 thisLast 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 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 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 · 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 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 · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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 · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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 · both horror
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 · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRituals (1977)
Five doctors go camping in the remote woods of Northern Ontario. When their boots are stolen they begin to suspect they are being stalked.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Long Island Cannibal Massacre (1980)
A series of horrible murders prompts a massive police investigation. Inspector James Cameron, a two-fisted roughneck with his own philosophy on handling crime, heads the investigation. A group of lepers living in the Long Island wastelands have created a terror network, killing and feeding off the flesh of innocent victims. Their leader has mutated into an invulnerable monster; he intends to propagate and strengthen his stronghold. Aided by his son Jack and a couple of motorcycle freaks, food is supplied to the clan via murder. As the authorities close in on the cannibal killers, an all-out bloodbath ensues.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
House 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 · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisZombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
After an abandoned boat sails into New York harbor with a zombie aboard, a reporter teams up with the daughter of the boat's missing captain to investigate the island where he was last seen conducting research—the site of an alleged zombie outbreak.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStage Fright (1987)
While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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 horror
SnoozefestMovies 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisCannibal Girls (1973)
A young couple spend the night in a restaurant, only to find out that it is haunted by three dead women who hunger for human flesh.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisInbred (2011)
Four young offenders and their workers spend a weekend in the remote Yorkshire village of Mortlake, which prides on keeping itself to itself. A minor incident with locals rapidly escalates into a blood-soaked, deliriously warped nightmare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisIsland of the Fishmen (1979)
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNight of the Zombies (1980)
A rat causes a chemical leak at a Papua New Guinea research facility, leading a group of eco-terrorists to demand the closure of all facilities. When a team of Interpol commandos are enlisted to eliminate the terrorists, they find themselves embroiled in a zombie outbreak.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Beyond (1981)
New Yorker Liza Merril inherits an old hotel in Louisiana and invests her savings to reopen the place, unaware that the hotel houses the body of a dead painter murdered decades earlier, and that the location is about to become a gateway to Hell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisThe Descent (2005)
After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep underground, their adventure turns into a nightmare. As they search for a way out, the group discovers they are not alone—lurking in the darkness are savage, cave-dwelling creatures. With rising tension and dwindling trust, the women must fight to survive against both the predators and each other.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Cannibal Ferox?
The closest matches to Cannibal Ferox are Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), Cut and Run (1985) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Cannibal Ferox?
People who watched Cannibal Ferox most often go on to Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), Cut and Run (1985) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977).
What is the highest-rated movie like Cannibal Ferox?
The Descent (2005), rated 7.0/10 by 4,671 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Cannibal Ferox?
The Green Inferno (2014) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Cannibal Ferox?
Yes: Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), Cut and Run (1985) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977).
How are movies similar to Cannibal Ferox chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Cannibal Ferox, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.