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Plot Summary:
Denise Dobkin is a struggling, opportunistic freelance columnist who escapes her debtors and competitors by fast-tracking her new romance with older piano teacher Chris Schaefer. Yet as she comes to learn something very disturbing about Chris, she may have stumbled upon the scoop of a lifetime, a scoop that may cost the lives of many young women, including herself.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sadistic, psychological, tense, suspense, slasher, detective, psychological thriller, black comedy, tension, freeze frame
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Best tv shows and movies like Clever Girl (2015):
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The Resolve (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Resolve centers around Mike Patterson (Russ Cootey), a beleaguered man, gripped by O.C.D. issues with humanity, unleashed by fiery clashes on others. He explains to his therapist Sean Miller (Alex Ballar - War Wolves) how he has found a way to deal with his compulsion, which is to kill those who he believes are responsible for the misalignment in humanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Love Me If You Dare (2015)
Plot Summary:
Getting inside the head of a violent criminal is not easy. But Simon Bo, a brilliant criminal psychologist, has the ability to get into the minds of even the most mysterious and violent criminals. He’s a professor at The University of Maryland and works as an analyst and advisor on the police department’s most violent or difficult cases. With the help of his young assistant, Jenny Jian, Simon delves into the thoughts and intentions of the criminal mind. As the daughter of a veteran police investigator with a deep sense of justice, can Jenny help Simon open up emotionally as they work together to solve crimes?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, disturbing, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, ambiguous ending
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Mantis in Lace (1968)
Plot Summary:
A topless dancer attracts, seduces, then murders the men she sleeps with. She does it with a twist, however; she kills them with garden tools.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, grindhouse, slasher, psycho sexual, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror, hot, cult film
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75 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A car crash victim, humiliated housewife and two repressed teens are connected by their relationships with hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin distribution in the Cincinnati area.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, depressing, dark, sad, ambiguous ending, crying, tragic ending, independent film
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Call-center (2020)
Plot Summary:
Moscow. High rise. Here, on the 12th floor, is the office of the call center "Online Store for Adults". One morning, twelve people who are in the office suddenly find out that there is a bomb in the room. The voices of the unknowns who introduced themselves as Dad and Mom threaten to blow it up at any time if the hostages do not follow their instructions. While the countdown is going on, they will have to experience the absolute power of invisible sadists and learn something about each other’s life that they did not even suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tension, sadistic, psychological thriller, surprise ending, suspense
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The First Deadly Sin (1980)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, neo noir, surprise ending, slasher, independent film, detective
Similar in 82%
Dance Macabre (1992)
Plot Summary:
A dance instructor brings his dance troupe to Russia for training. What his dancers don't know, however, is that he has a dual personality--and his hidden personality is a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: horror musical, gothic, slasher, sadistic, psychotronic, independent film, slasher horror
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Halloween (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. This film, the 11th film in the "Halloween" series, will ignore the events of all previous sequels, picking up 40 years after the events of the original film.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, tense, spooky, retro
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974)
Plot Summary:
Police investigate apparent suicide of teen girl and uncover details of a teenage prostitution racket. They go on the hunt for a motorcycle riding killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, poliziottesco, psychological thriller, sadistic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, creepy, erotic
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The Glove (1979)
Plot Summary:
In this actioner, a bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steal. Rock'em sock'em mayhem ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, slasher, sadistic, independent film, grindhouse
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Too Scared to Scream (1984)
Plot Summary:
A killer of young women is loose in an exclusive apartment complex and a detective is out to stop him. The chief suspect is a Shakespeare-spouting doorman who lives with his invalid mother. Meanwhile, an undercover cop moves into the apartment house. This move is complicated by her relationship with the detective.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, bloody, independent film, sexy, mind bending, serious
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10 to Midnight (1983)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police detective Leo Kessler (Charles Bronson) is convinced of Stacey’s guilt and, over the objections of his partner, plants evidence to get him behind bars. When Stacey is released on a technicality, he threatens to go after Kessler and his family, leaving Kessler to defend himself against a killer with little help from the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, scary, psychological, retro
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Natural Born Killers (1994)
Plot Summary:
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 247000
Genere: Action, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: controversial, atmospheric, brutal, sadistic, disturbing, surreal, road movie, black comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy
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Dark Heart (2016)
Plot Summary:
Detective Inspector William Wagstaffe and his team investigate a string of horrifyingly brutal murders during an August heat wave in London.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, hardboiled detective, detective series
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The Method (2015)
Plot Summary:
The main character is an extraordinary and mysterious person, at the same time, he (Rodion Meglin) is an outstanding inspector. Rodion is used to work alone in order to keep the secrecy of his unusual method. Young graduate Esenya Steklova is eager to get the internship with the glorious investigator but she could hardly expect the challenges she would face while working with Rodion. Together they investigate the cruelest crimes that took place in the history of Russian criminality.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller, rough
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Darkness: Those Who Kill (2019)
Plot Summary:
Investigator Jan and profiler Louise constantly move around in the thrilling periphery of a murderer's view as they link a series of killings.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating
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Flower of Evil (2020)
Plot Summary:
Baik Hee Sung, an ordinary family man, is actually a psychopath whose past is dotted with crime and violence. His hopeless life changes completely after he meets his wife. He had to falsify everything about himself to marry her. His wife, Cha Ji Won, starts to doubt her husband as a suspect of a murder case. She becomes emotionally overwhelmed with betrayal, and rages as secrets behind his husband reveal. The story will draw faith and truth between a man and woman who trusted the most and loved each other.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, detective, tense, unusual plot structure, tear jerker, suspense, romantic
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Jack the Ripper (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jack the Ripper was a 1988 two-part television movie/mini-series portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack The Ripper, the killer responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The series coincided with the 100th anniversary of the murders. Using historical characters involved in the genuine 1888 hunt for the killer, the film was written by Derek Marlowe and David Wickes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, tense, suspenseful, detective, realistic, costume drama, suspense, slasher, disturbing
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He Knows You're Alone (1980)
Plot Summary:
A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is too late. Meanwhile, the bride has to figure out if it is all in her imagination or not, aided by her ex-boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychological thriller, disturbing, bloody
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Henry II: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1996)
Plot Summary:
Henry has wandered into a small town looking for work and a place to stay. He gets a job delivering and cleaning porto-potties and moves in with a co-worker until he gets his feet off of the ground. Henry and his new friend soon start to kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychological, terrifying, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Last House on the Left (1972)
Plot Summary:
Mari and Phyllis go to the "big city" to see their favorite band BloodLust. Along the way they meet up with newly escaped convict Krug and his gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, scary, grindhouse, sadistic, bleak, psychological, creepy, cult classic, bloody
Similar in 83%
YOU (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a brilliant bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring writer, he uses the internet and social media to gather the most intimate of details and get close to her. A charming and awkward crush quickly becomes obsession as he quietly and strategically removes every obstacle - and person - in his way.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 289000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, disturbing, tense, dark, thrilling, captivating, suspense, erotic, surprise ending, atmospheric
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Kalifornia (1993)
Plot Summary:
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neo noir, bleak, road movie, tense, psychological thriller, sexy, suspense, cult classic, rough, disturbing
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I Saw the Devil (2010)
Plot Summary:
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Soo-hyun, a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 143000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, bloody, suspense, serious, twist ending, rough
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Cape Fear (1991)
Plot Summary:
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 212000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, scary, intense, creepy
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The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Theodore Robert Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, cult film
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Plot Summary:
The series follows Las Vegas criminalists working for the Las Vegas Police Department as they use physical evidence to solve grisly murders in this unusually graphic drama, which has inspired a host of other cop-show "procedurals". The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter and character-driven drama. The network later added spin-offs CSI: Miami and CSI: NY, which have both been cancelled after ten and nine seasons respectively.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, detective, psychological, suspenseful, rough, realistic, suspense, dramatic, exciting, funny
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Hannibal (2013)
Plot Summary:
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 271000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1680 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, stylized, rough, psychological thriller, detective
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Se7en (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 18000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, detective, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, suspense, scary, tense, bad ending, atmospheric
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Dexter (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dexter is an American television drama series. The series centers on Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for 'Miami Metro Police Department' who also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 753000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 5076 min
Plot tags: captivating, clever, serious, stylized, tense, atmospheric, disturbing, bloody, suspenseful, offbeat