Movies like Righteous Kill

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Righteous Kill (2008)
 6.0
 92K
Righteous Kill (2008)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, intense, rough, serious, realistic, bad ending, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, killer, revenge, justice, vigilante, police investigation, murder, avenger, twists and turns, police, corruption, gangster, brutality, assassination, buddy cop, law enforcement, mind game, partner, fighting crime, partners against crime, buddy, investigation, police corruption, cop, plot twist ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city, harlem manhattan new york city
Keyword: gangsters, partners, buddy movie, oldies

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Most similar movies to Righteous Kill

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, serious and neo noir films with plots about investigation, murder, twists and turns, law enforcement, police investigation, deadly and killer mostly in Thriller, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Righteous Kill: Primal Fear (1996), Kiss the Girls (1997), Twisted (2004), Solace (2015), Perfect Stranger (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.7
 245K
Primal Fear (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, tense, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mental illness, twists and turns, plot twist, trial, courtroom drama, psychology, lawyer, murder, courtroom, psychopath, corruption, manipulation ...
Time: 90s, future, year 1996, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 81K
Kiss the Girls (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail ...
Style: detective, twist ending, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, kidnapping, twists and turns, woman in danger, police investigation, forensics, violence against women, investigation, killer, murder, profiler ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, north carolina, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 23K
Twisted (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Recently promoted and transferred to the homicide division, Inspector Jessica Shepard feels pressure to prove herself -- and what better way than by solving San Francisco's latest murder? However, as Shepard and her partner, Mike Delmarco, soon ...
Style: suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, intense, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder mystery, police investigation, who done it, investigation, policewoman, murder, law enforcement, dangerous attraction, who to trust, life is a bitch, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 68K
Solace (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.
Style: suspense, twist ending, surprise ending, intense, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, psychic, investigation, police investigation, psychology, murder investigation, whodunit, premonition, seeing the future, twists and turns, supernatural, brutality ...
Time: year 2015
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Perfect Stranger (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
Style: surprise ending, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending ...
Plot: investigation, twists and turns, fatal attraction, female protagonist, mind game, uncover truth, writers, obsessive love, seduction, hacking, obsession, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 66K
Magnum Force (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: "Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, intense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: police corruption, serial killer, vigilante, vigilantism, police, female nudity, police investigation, violent, police detective, murder, machismo, revenge ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 45K
Sea of Love (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to ...
Style: sexy, tense, erotic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, femme fatale, strong sexual content, erotica, police investigation, newspaper, sexual relations, police, partners against crime, law enforcement, danger, twists and turns ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bone Collector (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The ...
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, tense, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, police investigation, policewoman, mind game, murder, twists and turns, master criminal, crime scene, forensics, race against time ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, persia, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.5
 28K
Cruising (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S/M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, detective, sexual, cult classic ...
Plot: serial killer, gay, murder, police investigation, psychopath, sex, investigation, pretending to be gay, male nudity, gay sex, gays and lesbians, violence ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 800K
Prisoners (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, serial killer, twists and turns, revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, brutality, torture, police, vigilante, cop ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Striking Distance (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted to water-way duty Tom, along with new partner Jo ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, suspense, intense, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, police corruption, police, frame up, river, investigation, chase, murder mystery, plot twist, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, year 1991
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 53K
Untraceable (2008)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds ...
Style: clever, intense, twisted, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, investigation, internet, fbi, kidnapping, hacker, website, sadism, suicide, torture ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 6K
Cop (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
Style: neo noir, detective, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, cop, police corruption, vigilante, investigation, psychopath, killer, blood, police officer, vigilantism, violence ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 66K
Basic (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, twisted, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, military, army investigation, life philosophy, corruption, secrets, murder mystery, investigation, conspiracy, missing person, plot twist, police investigation ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: atlantic city, panama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 48K
Blood Work (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.
Style: suspense, tense, rough, serious, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, murder mystery, murder, conspiracy, psychopath, investigation, police investigation, revenge, brutality, redemption, fbi, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: california, los angeles, long beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 9K
Blink (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, blindness, murder, psychopath, stalking, investigation, murder mystery, police investigation, woman in danger, police detective, strong female character, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 78K
88 Minutes (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, fbi, murder, death, twists and turns, death threat, paranoia, frame up, danger, disorder, law enforcement, manipulation ...
Time: year 2007, year 1997, 90s, 21st century
Place: seattle, washington state, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.8
 137K
Saw V (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Detective Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, he must go on the hunt to eliminate all the loose ends.
Style: scary, bloody, suspense, psychological, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, torture, game of death, trap, psychopath, mind game, violent, kidnapping, blood, gory, vigilante, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.3
 18K
Misconduct (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: pharmaceutical company, criminal, police, ransom, investigation, corporation, false accusation, evidence, threat, corporate crime, cop, murder mystery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.4
 1.5M
Joker (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story: During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Style: thought provoking, suspense, atmospheric, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental disorder, villain, psycho, psychopath, loneliness, psychological trauma, character change, insanity, social problems, comedian, social decay ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, year 2019, year 1981, 20th century
Place: new york, new jersey, los angeles, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 64K
Mindhunters (2004)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Finland, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, scary, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, mind game, island, twists and turns, trap, investigation, profiler, psycho killer, murder, survival, bloody violence, killing spree ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 43K
Narc (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly ...
Style: bleak, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police corruption, investigation, drug addiction, police, murder, drug, police brutality, addiction, drug addict, drug overdose, dark humor ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.2
 317K
Insomnia (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, detective, psychological thriller ...
Plot: small town, police investigation, murder, investigator, investigation, character study, police, police corruption, insomnia, guilt, psychopath, snow ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 6.1
 86K
Snake Eyes (1998)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: All bets are off when corrupt homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend and naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, neo noir, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, assassination, conspiracy, investigation, dishonesty, twists and turns, mentor, brutality, political activism, law enforcement, assassin, conspiracy theory ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new jersey, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.5
 24K
Horsemen (2009)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Style: psychological, disturbing, detective, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, twists and turns, death, murder investigation, police, police investigation, torture, blood, psychopath, orphan, revenge ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 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 ⇓
14%
 7.3
 156K
Mr. Brooks (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
Style: psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, intense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, split personality, police investigation, murder, imaginary friend, macabre, killer, schizophrenia, maniac, murder mystery, double life ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, oregon, palo alto california, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 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 ⇓
27%
 6.4
 15K
Switchback (1997)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: FBI agent Dennis Quaid tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, intense, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, kidnapping, vengeance, murder, murder mystery, police investigation, investigation, twists and turns, missing person, beautiful scenery, loss of son, law enforcement ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.8
 120K
Street Kings (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, detective, hood, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, dirty cop, police, corruption, gunfight, violence, police investigation, ghetto, twists and turns, gangster, cop, vigilantism ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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