Movies Similar to Cruel Summer

The Fox With Nine Tails(1968)

Tobimaru is the young emperor of Japan. He meets a mysterious woman named Tomamo. After successfully seducing Tobimaru, she brings great misfortune onto the land. Tobimaru soon discovers that Tomamo is actually a kitsune, and now has the task to unmask and kill her to save his land. (currently a lost media)

HYPERSONIC Music Club(2023)

In 2017, a short anime film called Hypersonic Music Club was produced in Japan. It was directed and written by Osamu Kobayashi, a veteran of the industry who passed away in April 2021. For various reasons, this short anime was never released. It was made public on August 1, 2023.

Bosko's Garden(1932)

Bosko works as a gardener.

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project(2019)

Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to seek the truth, and she believed that a comprehensive archive of the media would be invaluable for future generations. Her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, but now her 70,000 VHS tapes are being digitized and they'll be searchable online.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood(2007)

An adaptation of the original five volume arc of the popular JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, covering the Phantom Blood chapters. Jonathan Joestar is an aristocratic boy whose life is suddenly turned upside down by a mysterious new boy who arrives, Dio Brando. Dio has a connection to his father, and over time, a rivalry forms as Dio becomes obsessed with a mysterious, ancient, and mystical stone mask that Jonathan's father keeps. This film has not been publicly released outside of its original limited run in Japanese theaters and is considered virtually lost.

Pixel Rot

Pixel Rot is a lo-fi horror short shot on a 3DS. What starts as casual footage slowly unravels into something broken—glitches that shouldn't be there, moments that were never filmed. The camera remembers more than it should.

All American Massacre(1998)

Unreleased Texas Chainsaw Massacre spin-off revolving around the character Chop-Top. The film acts as both a prequel and a sequel to the first and second films. Shelved because of a copyright dispute regarding who owns the rights to the series.

Heartbeat in the Brain(1970)

A documentary produced and directed by Amanda Feilding, an advocate of trepanation. In the film, Feilding, a 27-year-old student at the time, drills a hole in her forehead with a dentist's drill. In the documentary, surgical scenes alternate with motion studies of Feilding's pet pigeon Birdie.

The Square Root(1969)

Photographer Peter Christiansen, University of Miami student, does a picture story at an LSD party on the beach.

Kansas City Blender Massacre(1986)

Lost Todd Sheets short about a killer using a blender.

The Bannfoot Ferry(2024)

A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television’s archives, and the rediscovery of the first locally-produced network drama, Boatman Do Not Tarry.

Episódios Perdidos: Uma História

El Chavo, El Chapulin Colorado, Chespirito: The biggest phenomenon of Latin American comedy in 50 years. Behind the success, there is a mystery that has never been solved: the lost episodes.

A Frontier Scene(1895)

A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.

The Hanging of William Carr(1897)

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

Cletaraxia(2009)

In the 20th century they called it avant-garde cinema, expanded cinema, kitsch cinema, structural cinema, psychotronic cinema, underground cinema, experimental cinema, kinoeye, cult cinema, lysergic cinema, bizarre cinema, Ahora lo llaman cine de DDLM´S.

What Happened to Crow 64?(2020)

A documentary about a long lost N64 game.

Фарс с Зимовым — «Русским Поксоном»(1915)

Golden King(1976)

The plot of Golden King is not currently known, which is partially because the film's poster describes the plot only as "Hot stunt action! Heart-wrenching plot!! Innovative ideas! Fantastic story!!" with not even a basic synopsis of the plot included.

Something in the Basement(1986)

A youth waits for his brother to return home from a bloody war. He encounters something very nasty and evil in the basement of his house, claiming his older brother has in fact died.

Gehenna(2025)

In this recently found and restored banned underground classic from 1984, four girls go into a bathroom to hide in the middle of a war and, after an impulsive act by one of them, they find themselves trapped there. As panic gives way to despair, tragedy approaches.