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2017 · Movie · R · your starting pointIf The Killing of a Sacred Deer is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like The Killing of a Sacred Deer, ranked
1. The Hunt (2012)
Yorgos Lanthimos directs both films as claustrophobic examinations of how fragile social standing becomes when a community turns predatory, trapping ordinary men in nightmarish scenarios they cannot escape or rationalize.
2. The Little Things (2021)
Denzel Washington and Rami Malek navigate a morally murky investigation where guilt becomes as suffocating as Yorgos Lanthimos's methodical dread, trapping both men in a web of their own complicity.
3. A Killer Among Friends (2025)
Yorgos Lanthimos's precise control of dread through mundane family routines reappears here as the documentary methodically unravels how intimacy breeds vulnerability, trapping ordinary people in moral quandaries they never imagined facing.
4. A History of Violence (2005)
Yorgos Lanthimos and David Cronenberg both construct slow-burn threats that invade the sanctuary of family life, where a man's hidden past or moral debt inevitably poisons everything he's built.
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