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Plot Summary:
An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychological horror, psychotronic
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Frustrated (2013)
Plot Summary:
Constant humiliation from society and a long drift into solitude slowly turn murder fantasies of Fabrice Lombard into an irrepressible impulse and Fabrice Lombard into a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Head Cases: Serial Killers in the Delaware Valley (2013)
Plot Summary:
A documentary of serial killer Wayne Montgomery and his followers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, disturbing, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
A Dark Foe (2020)
Plot Summary:
The plot follows a tortured FBI agent suffering from an irrational fear of darkness, as he investigates a mysterious former prostitute in order to catch a vicious serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective
Similar in 88%
Joel (2018)
Plot Summary:
The shocking story of Joel Rifkin, a troubled young man whose hidden fantasies of power and control combined with his obsessive dedication to prostitutes led him to embark on one of the New York area’s most notorious murder sprees, claiming seventeen victims in the late eighties and early nineties.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
Imaikkaa Nodigal (2018)
Plot Summary:
A CBI officer goes in search of a ruthless serial killer. Things get worse when the murderer targets the former and her family.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, bleak, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 76%
Hole (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ed Kunkle is a convicted felon tormented by his own demons. Eve Adams is a single woman trying to cope with a tragic loss. Bodie Jameson is the detective looking for answers. All 3 lives intertwine with horrific consequences when their fears come upon them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, spiritual, cult film
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Blue Call (2021)
Plot Summary:
Haylee, a local EMT suffering from PTSD, spends her days making split second decisions with lives that hang in the balance. One night on a routine call, she is faced with a moral decision, taking matters into her own hands and mercy kills a young woman. Now, falling deeper into a rabbit hole, she gets caught up in a world of underground drugs and a sadistic killer who’s made her his next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, slasher, psychotronic, psychological, medical horror
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Chop Chop (2020)
Plot Summary:
A night of chaos ensues when a murderous psychopath targets a loving young couple who might be harboring a secret of their own.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 79%
Penance (2023)
Plot Summary:
Blood drenched terror grips the beautiful city of San Diego as mutilated bodies begin to surface. Lead Homicide Detective Mason "Nostradamus" Brannigan believes it to be the signature of methodical killer Dante: The Inferno Killer who murders his victims according to the 9 Circles of Hell. As Brannigan delves deeper into the case, dark secrets are revealed and the evidence begins to state that this is not MURDER, this is REVENGE.
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Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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The Chase (2017)
Plot Summary:
After people in his town start turning up dead, a grumpy landlord is visited by a man who recounts an unsolved serial murder case from 30 years ago that may hold the clue to what is happening now.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Slumber Party Slaughter (2012)
Plot Summary:
On a secretive outing to a bizarre strip club, Tom Kingsford, (Tom Sizemore) is unaware that his life is about to take a dramatic turn. Club owner and real estate mogul, William O'Toole (Ryan O'Neal) is a sadistic voyeur whose desire for fear and torture is put to the test as the night's dirty deeds return to haunt him. Things quickly turn dark when, what seems like an innocent shortcut through a haunted cemetery is actually a set up, and the group is placed in the middle of an existing crime scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
Freeway Killer (2010)
Plot Summary:
For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer easily avoided police at first. But as police closed in and the killer’s pattern grew more erratic, the only question was how many more will die?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending, realistic
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Zodiac Killer (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young man who works at a nursing home uses the legendary Zodiac killer's M.O. to kill people who neglect their elderly relatives.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak
Similar in 87%
The Boston Strangler (1968)
Plot Summary:
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, disturbing, rough, suspense, detective, suspenseful, slasher, psychosexual thriller, retro
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Awakening the Zodiac (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a down-on-their-luck couple who discovers a serial killer's film reels. They decide to take the law into their own hands, risking everything for the chance at a $100,000 reward. It isn't long until they find themselves in the killer's lethal cross-hairs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense
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The Sovereign (2008)
Plot Summary:
For two months a serial killer has been terrorizing the city of St. Petersburg. Every Wednesday a girl between 9 and 12 years old is the victim. The brutality of the maniac plunges city residents into horror. Parents are afraid of leaving their children alone on the street. The press reinforces the atmosphere of fear and hysteria.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, detective
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Bundy and the Green River Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
A police detective consults with incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy to help him catch The Green River Killer. Based on terrifying true life elements which inspired Silence of the Lambs. In 1984, police in Washington State are investigating a spate of serial murders committed by a mysterious man known as The Green River Killer. With no leads to go on, the detective in charge of the case consults with psychologists in an attempt to get inside the mind of the killer. But when that doesn't produce a positive result and the killings continue, the detective realizes that the only way to understand what makes a serial killer tick is to meet one. So he visits the imprisoned Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychological, atmospheric, clever, suspense, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful
Similar in 83%
Sorrow (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple of depraved killers find themselves in a different situation when the survivor takes matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 88%
Chikatilo (2021)
Plot Summary:
The history of the hunt for the worst serial killer in the USSR.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic
Similar in 78%
The Hunter (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a debilitating accident, a member of one of the security services is deemed unfit for duty and gets fired. But when his former colleagues confront a puzzling case, they are forced to call upon him to help solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, detective
Similar in 82%
Blood Prism (2017)
Plot Summary:
A successful art gallery coordinator, living a double life as a serial killer, preys on the hopeless as she attempts to find meaning behind the voices she hears. When she believes she is falling in love with a depressed comic book artist; she struggles between what her heart is telling her to do about him... and what the voices are telling her to do about him.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, independent film
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Gone but Not Forgotten (2005)
Plot Summary:
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has entered a web of duplicity revenge & multiple murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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The Watcher (2000)
Plot Summary:
FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse. Taunting Joel with photographs of his intended victims and leaving his crime scenes meticulously free of clues in order to keep the police at bay, Griffin derives as much pleasure out of watching Joel react to every movement as watching his victims die. But when Griffin moves into Joel's inner circle, Joel must quickly find some way to stop him before someone close to him becomes the next one to die.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Vietnam
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, rough, slasher, serious, realistic, neo noir, independent film
Similar in 84%
The Riverman (2004)
Plot Summary:
A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing Seattle.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, mystical, detective, realistic, suspense
Similar in 88%
The Zodiac (2005)
Plot Summary:
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: rough, psychological, bleak, scary, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, detective, independent film, realistic
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Zodiac (2007)
Plot Summary:
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 584000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, tense, neo noir, stylized, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, rough, detective
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In Plain Sight (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of Lanarkshire detective William Muncie’s quest to bring to justice notorious Scottish killer Peter Manuel.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: detective, captivating, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, historical drama, contemplative
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The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
Plot Summary:
The true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killing cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022)
Plot Summary:
Across more than a decade, 17 teen boys and young men were murdered by convicted killer Jeffrey Dahmer. How did he evade arrest for so long?.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 534 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, slasher, sexual, historical drama, thrilling, psychological thriller