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Plot Summary:
Follows the Swedish serial killer and bank robber John Ausonius, nicknamed "Lasermannen", because he used a red laser aiming for his rifle.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like The Laser Man (2005):
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Clark (2022)
Plot Summary:
This is the incredible story behind Sweden's most notorious gangster, Clark Olofsson, whose infamous crimes gave rise to the term "Stockholm Syndrome".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 362 min
Plot tags:
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Lucan (2013)
Plot Summary:
Drama about infamous aristocrat Lord Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974 after being accused of murdering his children's nanny.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, serious, captivating, detective, stylized
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Small Sacrifices (1989)
Plot Summary:
Based on the best-selling true crime book by Ann Rule, the film is about Diane Downs and the attempted murder of her three children.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, talky
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The Perfect Patient (2019)
Plot Summary:
A true and captivating story about the biggest legal scandal in Swedish history, the story about the reporter who questioned an entire legal system. Hannes Råstam was dedicated to proving the innocence of Thomas Quick and unmask the legal chaos which sentenced Quick to a life in psychiatric prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Belgium
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, scary, bleak
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The Stockholm Syndrome (2003)
Plot Summary:
This is the true story of the failed bank robbery-cum-hostage taking in a bank at the square Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in September 1973. The Stockholm Syndrome is named after this incident.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing
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Bonnie & Clyde (2013)
Plot Summary:
Bonnie and Clyde is a two-part film about two Depression-era outlaws, starring Emile Hirsch as Clyde Barrow and Holliday Grainger as Bonnie Parker. It is based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two embark on one one of most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: stylized, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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Deceit (2021)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a controversial honeytrap at the heart of the 1992 police investigation into the murder of a young mother in London. Examining the complicated and toxic sexual politics of the early ‘90s and the police’s obsession with the wrong man, Deceit enters a dysfunctional world, where a female undercover officer, codename ‘Lizzie James’, is asked to become sexual bait for a suspected killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Sandhamn Murders (2010)
Plot Summary:
Viveca Stens popular novels come to life in "The Sandhamn Murders", a perfect mix of Nordic crime & the beautiful surroundings of the outer Stockholm archipelago.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending, disturbing, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense
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Death of a Pilgrim (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Nordic crime mini-series on the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and the fall of the welfare state.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 233 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, detective
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This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (2000)
Plot Summary:
This is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Strangled (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1960s socialist Hungary, a serial killer targeting young women torments a small town and the determined detective on his trail. Based on true events.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: rough, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, detective, detective series
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The Widower (2014)
Plot Summary:
Over a thirteen year period, a seemingly mild‐mannered male nurse, Malcolm Webster, set about poisoning and murdering his first wife, attempting to do the same to his second wife and moving on to a further scheme to deceive his third fiancée.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, detective, serious, realistic
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Fatal Vision (1984)
Plot Summary:
A retiree spends nine years relentlessly seeking to prove that his son-in-law, a former Green Beret Army doctor, murdered his pregnant wife and two children.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Murders at White House Farm (2020)
Plot Summary:
Factual drama based on the notorious Whitehouse Farm murders, and the ensuing police investigation and court case.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 277 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, crime drama
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Code of a Killer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1984, Code of a Killer is a true story which tells of the discovery of DNA fingerprinting. Detective David Baker leads an investigation of the vicious murders of the two Leicestershire schoolgirls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth. Alec Jeffreys at the time was an ambitious scientist who uncovered a remarkable method to read each individual's unique DNA finger print. Convinced the murderer was local, Baker approached Jeffreys to utilise his newly discovered scientific technique as a way to solve the murders. The first ever DNA manhunt and blood testing of many men followed - all in the aid of catching the killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, exciting, thought provoking, disturbing, detective, crime drama, realistic, suspenseful
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The Pembrokeshire Murders (2021)
Plot Summary:
Detective superintendent reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, psychological, detective
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The Monster of Florence (2009)
Plot Summary:
The miniseries tells the eight double murders committed from 1968 to 1985, in the Florentine countryside, where young couples who were massacred appartavano in their cars looking for intimacy. It particularly emphasizes the personal battle of Renzo Rontini, father of Pia killed with her boyfriend Claudio Stefanacci in Vicchio, in Mugello (29 July 1984), in the search for the culprit of the death of his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord (2012)
Plot Summary:
Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal is a 2012 Colombian television series produced and broadcast on Caracol TV, about the life of Pablo Escobar. It is only available in Spanish. There is a version available with English subtitles.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, stylized, novela, telenovela
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Rillington Place (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine. The police also believed that he had killed his wife Beryl. But to his final moments Evans protested his innocence. Three years later, a gruesome discovery at 10 Rillington Place revealed that his neighbour - star prosecution witness John Reginald Christie knew much more about the sinister goings on in the house. Set in the dark confines of Christie's home, this powerful drama imagines the relationships between Christie, his wife Ethel and the innocent young Evans couple. What twisted influence did Christie hold over the young newly-weds Timothy and Beryl? And how was he able to trick both judge and jury into sending an innocent man to the executioner?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, dark, melancholic, realistic, detective, costume drama, historical drama
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Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. (2018)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the two major police investigations by LAPD Detective Greg Kading into the deaths of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, factual, captivating, suspense, detective, anthology
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The Unlikely Murderer (2021)
Plot Summary:
After the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, Stig Engström managed to elude justice right up to his death through a combination of audacity, luck, and a perplexed police force.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 228 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Des (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of one of the most infamous cases in UK criminal history, that of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Told through the prism of three men, the series explores the personal and professional consequences of coming into contact with a man like Nilsen.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: tense, detective, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, thrilling, contemplative, moody
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The Capture of the Green River Killer (2008)
Plot Summary:
A pair of girls seeking adventure beyond the their Western Washington trailer park encounter the area's most ruthless serial killer. Based on Sheriff David Reichert's book, "Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak
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Murder in the Heartland (1993)
Plot Summary:
A wanna-be tough guy and his 14-year-old girlfriend go on a murder spree.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags:
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Manhunt (2019)
Plot Summary:
The true story of London Metropolitan police detective Colin Sutton's manhunt for serial killer Levi Bellfield.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, suspense, rough, captivating, disturbing, crime drama
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American Crime Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminals.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: anthology, realistic, serious, psychological, feel good, political, suspense, entertaining, detective, mind blowing
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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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Black Bird (2022)
Plot Summary:
As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 347 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, thrilling, detective, masterpiece
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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
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Love & Death (2023)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore – two churchgoing couples enjoying their small town Texas life… until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 378 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller