Movies Like The Demon of the Andes (2014)

The Demon of the Andes is a 2014 horror film from Palito Ortega Matute with a MovieMagicScore of 6.7/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Touching the Void and Triple Frontier.

Horror

Touching the Void

2003

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

7.6

MagicScore

Triple Frontier

2019

Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.

6.3

MagicScore

My Partner

1982

The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.

8.9

MagicScore

Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains

2008

The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who managed to survive for 72 days, at an altitude of almost 4,000 meters, in the heart of the Andes Mountains, after their plane, en route to Chile, crashed there on October 13, 1972.

8.2

MagicScore

Society of the Snow

2023

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

8.0

MagicScore

Only Angels Have Wings

1939

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.

7.3

MagicScore

The Cordillera of Dreams

2019

"In Chile, when the sun rises, it had to climb hills, walls and tops before reaching the last stone of the Cordillera. In my country, the Cordillera is everywhere. But for the Chilean citizens, it is an unknown territory. After going North for Nostalgia for the Light and South for The Pearl Button, I now feel ready to shoot this immense spine to explore its mysteries, powerful revelations of Chile’s past and present history." Patricio Guzmán

7.2

MagicScore

Alive

1993

The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.

6.9

MagicScore

In Search of the Castaways

1962

Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.

6.4

MagicScore

#10

Survive!

1976

A Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Andes Mountains and has to survive the extremely cold temperatures and rough climate. As some of the people die, the survivors are forced to make a terrible decision between starvation and cannibalism.

5.8

MagicScore

#11

Contrary Condor

1944

Donald is trying to collect a condor's egg when the condor returns. He hides inside an empty egg and regrets this when the large, warm mother returns. He regrets it even more when he "hatches" and mama encourages him to fly. And mama proves to be even more protective than Donald would like.

5.7

MagicScore

#12

Dr. Cyclops

1940

Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.

6.2

MagicScore

#13

Munchies

1987

Simon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the "Munchies" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food entrepreneur, kidnaps the creature. What Cecil does not know is that the creature, when chopped up, regenerates into many new creatures and are they mean!

4.8

MagicScore

#14

Fréwaka

2025

Care worker Shoo, who is haunted by a personal tragedy, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman, who fears both her neighbours and the Na Sídhe – sinister folkloric entities she believes abducted her decades before.

7.4

MagicScore

#15

The Apostle

2012

A recently escaped convict seeks to recover a treasure he hid years ago in a small, secluded Galician village. However once there, he finds out that in the village there is an even worse sentence than the one he fled from.

7.3

MagicScore

#16

November

2017

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

7.0

MagicScore

#17

Cat People

1942

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.

6.9

MagicScore

#18

Noroi: The Curse

2005

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."

6.9

MagicScore

#19

The White Reindeer

1952

A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.

6.6

MagicScore

#20

Bulbbul

2020

A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her village.

6.6

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Demon of the Andes?

The top films similar to The Demon of the Andes by MovieMagicScore are Touching the Void (7.6), Triple Frontier (6.3), My Partner (8.9). Each shares horror themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Demon of the Andes worth watching?

The Demon of the Andes holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.7/10 from 23 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Demon of the Andes?

The Demon of the Andes (2014) is a horror film directed by Palito Ortega Matute, starring Nelba Acuña, Alessandra Denegri, Irvin Gonzáles.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Demon of the Andes?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more horror recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Demon of the Andes

This ranked list pairs The Demon of the Andes (2014), a horror film from Palito Ortega Matute, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Nelba Acuña 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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