IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God runs on rise-and-fall tragedy, wonder and awe, and slow unraveling. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Apocalypse Now
1979
Fitzcarraldo
1982
The Sword of Doom
1966
Waiting for the Barbarians
2020
Cobra Verde
1987
The Settlers
2023
The Red and the White
1967
On the Silver Globe
1989
Sebastiane
1976
Fires on the Plain
1959
Hard to Be a God
2014
Heart of Darkness
1993
Valhalla Rising
2009
Black Robe
1991
Cabeza de Vaca
1991
Silence
2016
Silence
1971
Tenchu!
1969
Assassination
1964
Burn!
1969
Embrace of the Serpent
2015
And God Said to Cain
1970
There Will Be Blood
2007
Sword of the Beast
1965