Originally posted on r/MovieSuggestions on March 6, 2021. Changed list link to archive link due to the original link now being dead.
Inspired by a list from IMDb, curated by Dr. Unken (https://web.archive.org/web/20210306111226/https://www.imdb.com/list/ls031142976/), I am in search of other films that have a similar tone to the films in that list. You can recommend me anything, even if the film is the same from that list. They can be in any genre and the language can be English or a foreign language.
Examples of such films include:
- "Martyrs" (2008) (In French with English subtitles)
- "Funny Games" (1997) (In German with English subtitles)
- "Possessor" (2020)
- "We Need to Talk About Kevin" (2011)
- "You Were Never Really Here" (2017)
- "Dragged Across Concrete" (2018)
- "Green Room" (2015)
- "Manhunter" (1986)
- "Nightcrawler" (2014)
- "Kill List" (2011)
- "Enter the Void" (2009)
- "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father" (2008)
- "Blue Ruin" (2013)
- "Requiem for a Dream" (2000)
- "Antichrist" (2009)
Oldboy (Korean: 올드보이; RR: Oldeuboi; MR: Oldŭboi) is a 2003 South Korean neo-noir action thriller film directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook. A loose adaptation of the Japanese manga of the same name, the film follows the story of Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik), who is imprisoned in a cell which resembles a hotel room for 15 years without knowing the identity of his captor nor his captor's motives. When he is finally released, Dae-su finds himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence. (Taken from Wikipedia)
Make sure you get the original Korean movie and avoid the American remake like the plague!