Top 20 movies like Branded to Kill
Top 20 Movies like Branded to Kill
- 1. Be with Me
- 2. The Lighthouse Keepers
- 3. Pistol Opera
- 4. The Embryo Hunts in Secret
- 5. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
- 6. Romance Doll
- 7. Gate of Flesh
- 8. Fedora
- 9. Paris Blues
- 10. Pastoral: To Die in the Country
- 11. Most Beautiful Island
- 12. Casque d'Or
- 13. A Man for All Seasons
- 14. The Age of Shadows
- 15. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- 16. The Silence
- 17. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
- 18. The Birth of a Nation
- 19. The Young Karl Marx
- 20. Elevator to the Gallows
1. Be with Me (Be with Me)
Three tales of love wrap around the true story of a blind and deaf woman named Theresa Chan. In the first an elderly shopkeeper is devoted to his sick wife. In the second, two teenage girls become soul mates and lovers. In the third a chubby security guard tries to find the courage to woo a beautiful woman who works in his building.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
2. The Lighthouse Keepers (Gardiens de phare)
In a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, a young man slowly goes mad following a bite by a rabid dog while his father looks on helplessly. Thwarted by a raging sea, they are prisoners of the lighthouse. In a rustic Brittany village, a young bride waits, unaware of the tragedy.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
3. Pistol Opera (ピストルオペラ)
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
4. The Embryo Hunts in Secret (胎児が密猟する時)
A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
5. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
6. Romance Doll (ロマンスドール)
It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife no questions asked. All is well then. Well, perhaps not. Each holds a secret that even the binds of matrimony cannot untie. Sonoko does not know that Tetsuo makes sex dolls or Dutch wives. Sonoko has a secret too. She is about to tell Tetsuo what she has been hiding. Their marriage is already sexless. Will they make it?
It has an average vote of 5.543 on TMDB.
7. Gate of Flesh (肉体の門)
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. With Gate of Flesh, visionary director Seijun Suzuki delivers a whirlwind of social critique and pulp drama, shot through with brilliant colors and raw emotions.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
8. Fedora
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
It has an average vote of 6.733 on TMDB.
9. Paris Blues
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
10. Pastoral: To Die in the Country (田園に死す)
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
It has an average vote of 7.467 on TMDB.
11. Most Beautiful Island
Chronicling one harrowing day in the life of Luciana, a young woman struggling to make ends meet while striving to escape her past. As Luciana’s day unfolds, she is whisked, physically and emotionally, through a series of troublesome, unforeseeable extremes.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
12. Casque d'Or (Casque d'Or)
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
It has an average vote of 7.32 on TMDB.
13. A Man for All Seasons
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
It has an average vote of 7.36 on TMDB.
14. The Age of Shadows (밀정)
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.
It has an average vote of 7.25 on TMDB.
15. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters)
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
16. The Silence (Tystnaden)
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.
It has an average vote of 7.496 on TMDB.
17. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (三大怪獣 地球最大の決戦)
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
It has an average vote of 7.041 on TMDB.
18. The Birth of a Nation
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
19. The Young Karl Marx (Le Jeune Karl Marx)
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
It has an average vote of 6.839 on TMDB.
20. Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
It has an average vote of 7.605 on TMDB.
