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Q (1982)
 6.0
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Q (1982)
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: New York police are bemused by reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, until the lizard starts to eat people. An out-of-work ex-con is the only person who knows the location of the monster's nest and is determined to turn the knowledge to his advantage, but will his gamble pay off or will he end up as lizard food?
Style: detective, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful, independent film, splatter, cult classic, cult horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, anti hero, giant monster, police investigation, kaiju, blood, skyscraper, thief, transformation, creature feature, amateur detective, deadly creature, violence spree, psychopath, danger, curses spells and rituals, criminal, robbery, voyeur, museum, decapitation, attic, eaten alive, human sacrifice, giant bird ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, new jersey
Keyword: gangsters, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and rough films with plots about deadly, blood, murder, monster, supernatural, danger and gore mostly in Horror, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like Q: Maniac Cop (1988), God Told Me To (1976), The Crater Lake Monster (1977), Maniac Cop 2 (1990), Deliver Us from Evil (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Maniac Cop (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In New York, people are slain and strangled to death brutally on the open street. All witnesses agree that the murderer was in a cop's uniform. Soon the police searches and finds a suspect in its own ranks: Jack Forrest, turned in by his own ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, police, violence, false accusation, police corruption, vengeance, unlikely criminals, danger, couple relations, stalking ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
God Told Me To (1976)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
Style: suspenseful, enigmatic, rough, grindhouse, slasher ...
Plot: occult, police investigation, alien, murder, macabre, life & death, introspection, mysterious character, supernatural, psychopath, law enforcement, serial killer ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Crater Lake Monster (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The heat of a meteor crashing into the lake incubates a prehistoric egg, which grows into a plesiosaur-like monster that terrifies the community.
Style: scary, suspense, grindhouse, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: giant monster, dinosaur, monster, meteorite, mutant, dangerous animal, kaiju, chaos, vengeance, supernatural, danger, deadly creature ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.9
 9K
Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.
Style: slasher, christian film, christmas horror, classic horror, bloody ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, cop, zombie, monster, exploitation, supernatural horror, killer, car chase, police, strip club, guy, underground ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Deliver Us from Evil (2014)
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest, Mendoza ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspense, mystical, suspenseful ...
Plot: exorcism, demonic possession, supernatural, occult, curses spells and rituals, supernatural horror, catholic, partner, possessed, demon, bible, police investigation ...
Time: year 2014, year 2000, year 2010, year 2013, 21st century
Place: iraq, new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.6
 31K
Psycho II (1983)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, splatter ...
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, insanity, murder, mother daughter relationship, characters murdered one by one, psychiatrist, psycho, mental illness, employer employee relationship, female nudity, police station ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.6
 2K
The Boneyard (1991)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Children turned into zombies wreak havoc in a coroner's building with just a burned-out psychic, an experienced cop and two coroners to stop the madness.
Style: detective, retro, cult classic, independent film, scary ...
Plot: zombie, living dead, giant monster, creature, epidemic, creature feature, infected, evil child, villain, apocalypse, monster, coroner ...
Time: 80s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cynicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them.
Style: suspense, scary, rough, disturbing, cult classic ...
Plot: island, mutant, rescue, survival, isolation, mind game, investigation, danger, experiment gone awry, murder, monster, body horror ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: cuba, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 5.8
 30K
The Relic (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover ...
Style: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, splatter ...
Plot: monster, creature feature, human versus monster, supernatural, museum, deadly creature, gory, beast, creature, violence, fear, police investigation ...
Time: 90s, jurassic
Place: chicago, brazil, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Hellraiser: Inferno (2000)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A shady police detective becomes embroiled in a strange world of murder, sadism and madness after being assigned a murder investigation against a madman known only as "The Engineer".
Style: psychological, detective, scary, slasher, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nightmare, murder, supernatural, serial killer, torture, police detective, hellraiser, chase, police investigation, psychopath, danger, escapades ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007)
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Eight years have passed since Sara Wolfe and Eddie Baker escaped the House on Haunted Hill. Now the kidnapped Ariel, Sara's sister, goes inside the house with a group of treasure hunters to find the statue of Baphomet, worth millions and ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, splatter, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, murder, evil, haunted house, uncover truth, survival, deadly creature, vengeance, supernatural ability, danger, death in the family ...
Time: 1930s
Place: europe, britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.9
 18K
The Stuff (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Weird yummy goo erupts from the earth and is discovered by a couple of miners. They taste it and decide to market it because it tastes so good. The American public literally eats up the new dessert sensation now known as the Stuff but, ...
Style: slasher, satirical, absurd, suspenseful, humorous ...
Plot: addiction, zombie, conspiracy, satire, small town, monster, investigation, body horror, boy, consumerism, transformation, advertising ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.0
 92K
Fallen (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
Style: detective, twist ending, surprise ending, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, serial killer, murder, devil, psychopath, good versus evil, possession, twists and turns, police detective, psychic, demon, demonic possession ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.0
 4K
Malevolence (2003)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a ...
Style: suspense, slasher, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, hostage, psychopath, woman in danger, gory, on the run, criminal heroes, violence spree, confined, kidnapping, backwoods, old dark house ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, 90s, year 1999, year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.6
 24K
Captivity (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The sought-after images of top model, Jennifer, adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a charity event, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, and ...
Style: scary, psychological, disturbing, rough, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, stalking, torture, serial killer, survival, psychopath, hostage, stereotypes, danger, isolation, escape, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.2
 7K
Rawhead Rex (1986)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.
Style: rough, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric, cult horror ...
Plot: supernatural, monster, curse, village, folk horror, family relations, demon, legend, loss of son, deadly creature, danger, small town ...
Time: 80s, year 2016
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, torture, murder, characters killed one by one, trap, master criminal, police officer, investigation, danger, blood, violence, evil wins ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Killing Floor (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment. Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense ...
Plot: danger, stalking, obsession, losing-it hero, investigation, dangerous attraction, vengeance, dishonesty, mentally unstable, gory, home invasion, serial killer ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Night Flier (1997)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two investigative reporters for a tabloid magazine track down across country "The Night Flier", a serial killer who travels by private plane stalking victims in rural airports. One of the reporters, Richard Dees, begins to suspect that ...
Style: scary, splatter, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot: vampire, reporter, supernatural, monster, airplane, stephen king, professional rivalry, writers, macabre, murder, serial killer, zombie ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.6
 14K
C.H.U.D. (1984)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, ...
Style: slasher, scary, grindhouse, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, police investigation, toxic, gory, creature feature, experiment gone awry, danger, survival, murder, exploitation, creature, mutant ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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22%
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 64K
New Nightmare (1994)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In this meta horror film, a demonic entity uses the fictional character of Freddy Krueger to enter the real world and torment "Elm Street" heroine Heather Langenkamp and her family.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, suspense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, psychopath, filmmaking, blood, serial killer, monster, nightmare on elm street, hospital, alternate reality, supernatural horror, murder, writers ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.5
 26K
Nightbreed (1990)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.
Style: scary, dark fantasy, gothic, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: serial killer, monster, murder, afterlife, escape, obsessive quest, heroic mission, social misfits, creature, creature feature, psychiatrist, supernatural ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 8.6
 1.8M
Se7en (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: 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. ...
Style: detective, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, mind game, murder, insanity, police investigation, macabre, maniac ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles, america, iran, persia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Jeepers Creepers (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A college-age brother and sister get more than they bargained for on their road trip home from spring break. When the bickering siblings witness a creepy truck driver tossing body bags into a sewer near an abandoned church, they investigate. Bad ...
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, dark, bloody ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, macabre, supernatural, serial killer, demon, chase, scarecrow, dead teenager, deadly creature, characters murdered one by one, scared, death ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A gang of bank-robbing misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar... and crosses the wrong vampire... the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood!
Style: cult classic, suspense, stylized, mystical, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: vampire, gory, supernatural, monster, bank robbery, heist, blood, supernatural being, creature feature, bloodsucker, isolation, anti hero ...
Time: 90s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.7
 6K
The Axiom (2018)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At the risk of her group's safety, a young woman travels into a National Forest where her sister has become trapped in a multi-dimensional world of monsters.
Style: scary, captivating, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: creature, supernatural, forest, survival, sister, swamp, murder, supernatural horror, imaginary, deadly creature, danger, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Style: surreal, scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, murder, investigation, psychopath, female psychopath, chimpanzee, boarding school, telepathy, malice, psychic power, mysticism ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: switzerland, europe, alps, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Murder Death Koreatown (2020)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The bizarre found footage from an investigation into a true crime murder. An unemployed man's curiosity about his neighbor's murder warps into a conspiratorial obsession.
Style: mockumentary, psychological, suspense, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: found footage, true crime, conspiracy theory, mental illness, driven mad, parapsychology, murder, cruelty, vengeance, murderer, investigation, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 95K
Taking Lives (2004)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is ...
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, twist ending, surprise ending, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, murder investigation, psychopath, dangerous attraction, fatal attraction, murder mystery, female agent, tough girl, strong female character, strong female lead, police investigation ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, 80s, year 1983, 21st century
Place: usa, canada, montreal, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Believers (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, bloody ...
Plot: ritual, voodoo, supernatural, child in peril, religion, murder, investigation, gory, brutality, torture, ritual murder, family relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, minneapolis minnesota, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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