Movies Like American Rickshaw (1989)

American Rickshaw is a 1989 action, horror, thriller film from Sergio Martino with a MovieMagicScore of 4.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Skincare and Empire of Passion.

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Skincare

2024

Famed aesthetician Hope Goldman is about to take her career to the next level by launching her very own skin care line. However, she soon faces a new challenge when a rival opens a boutique directly across from her store. Suspecting that someone is trying to sabotage her, she embarks on a quest to unravel the mystery of who's trying to destroy her life.

6.1

MagicScore

Empire of Passion

1978

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

6.9

MagicScore

Sleep

2020

Mona’s days are filled with concern for her mother, a woman broken by her belief that her nightmares are real. In search of answers, Mona arrives in a village where she encounters an old family curse in a strange hotel.

5.4

MagicScore

The Rickshaw Man

1958

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

7.2

MagicScore

Alpha

2018

In the prehistoric past, Keda, a young and inexperienced hunter, struggles to return home after being separated from his tribe when bison hunting goes awry. On his way back he will find an unexpected ally.

6.5

MagicScore

X

2022

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

6.7

MagicScore

MaXXXine

2024

In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.

6.3

MagicScore

Happy Hell Night

1992

25 years ago at Winfield College, psycho-priest Zachary Malius murdered seven frat boys and was put away in the local asylum. Now, however, the same fraternity stages a prank from which Malius is inadvertently set free and returns to the house to repeat his crime...

4.7

MagicScore

Bordello of Blood

1996

Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current.

5.9

MagicScore

#10

Bottom of the World

2017

On their road trip through the southwestern desert, Alex and his girlfriend Scarlett arrive in a town in the middle of nowhere and take a room in a mysterious hotel so that Scarlett, who is feeling increasingly ill, can get some rest.

5.3

MagicScore

#11

The Deep End

2001

With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?

6.2

MagicScore

#12

Ragini MMS

2011

Out to relax and have fun at a farmhouse, a couple experience horror at the hands of an unknown entity

4.6

MagicScore

#13

The Loop

2020

A seeming coincidence makes the paths of a police officer Daniel and two twin brothers from Ukraine cross. Thanks to the information acquired from Zenia and Alex and their contacts with the local underworld, the young policeman is quickly promoted and becomes an officer of the Central Anticorruption Bureau.

3.8

MagicScore

#14

Apocalypse in the Tropics

2025

When does a democracy end and a theocracy begin? In Apocalypse in the Tropics, Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful grip Christian evangelical leaders hold over politics in Brazil. She gains extraordinary access to the country’s top political leaders, including President Lula and former president Bolsonaro, as well as to Brazil’s most famous televangelist: a magnetic pastor who aspires to play puppet master to the far-right leader.

7.5

MagicScore

#15

Spin

1995

Pirated satellite feeds revealing U.S. media personalities’ contempt for their viewers come full circle in Spin. TV out-takes appropriated from network satellite feeds unravel the tightly-spun fabric of television—a system that silences public debate and enforces the exclusion of anyone outside the pack of journalists, politicians, spin doctors, and televangelists who manufacture the news. Spin moves through the L.A. riots and the floating TV talk-show called the 1992 U.S. presidential election.

7.0

MagicScore

#16

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

2021

From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.

6.5

MagicScore

#17

Fletch Lives

1989

Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.

6.0

MagicScore

#18

Ludo

2020

Ludo is about the butterfly effect and how, despite all the chaos and crowd of the world, all our lives are inextricably connected. From a resurfaced sex tape to a rogue suitcase of money, four wildly different stories overlap at the whims of fate, chance and one eccentric criminal.

7.2

MagicScore

#19

Road Trip

2000

After an Ithaca College student films his one-night stand with a beautiful sorority girl, he discovers one of his friends has accidentally mailed the homemade sex tape to his girlfriend in Austin. In a frenzy, he must borrow a car and hit the road in a desperate bid to intercept the tape.

6.2

MagicScore

#20

Horrible Bosses 2

2014

Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.

6.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like American Rickshaw?

The top films similar to American Rickshaw by MovieMagicScore are Skincare (6.1), Empire of Passion (6.9), Sleep (5.4). Each shares action/horror/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is American Rickshaw worth watching?

American Rickshaw holds a MovieMagicScore of 4.3/10 from 21 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is American Rickshaw?

American Rickshaw (1989) is a action, horror, thriller film directed by Sergio Martino, starring Mitch Gaylord, Donald Pleasence, Victoria Prouty.

Where can I find more recommendations like American Rickshaw?

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About movies like American Rickshaw

This ranked list pairs American Rickshaw (1989), a action and horror and thriller film from Sergio Martino, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Mitch Gaylord take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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