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Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)
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Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's" Leatherface, the story of real life serial killer Ed Gein is told once again. Nicknamed "The Butcher Of Plainfield," Gein was responsible for a rash of gory murders that sent shock waves through his rural Wisconsin town, and across America, in the late 1950's. Prepare to enter the evil mind and twisted world of "The Butcher Of Plainfield."
Style: disturbing, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, law enforcement, police investigation, violence spree, stalking, danger, mind game, killer, true crime, cannibal, criminal, cannibalism, killing, biopic, pig killer, rivalry, who done it, figment, death, mother, grave robbing, woman in danger, grave robber ...
Time: 50s
Place: usa, wisconsin, texas

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, rough and realistic films with plots about deadly, serial killer, psychopath, murder, law enforcement, danger and killer mostly in Thriller, Crime and Horror genres. Some movies like Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield: The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976), Pavement (2002), The Prodigy (2005), Freeway Killer (2010), Bundy: An American Icon (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of a small town, set in 1946 Arkansas. Loosely based on a true story.
Style: slasher, scary, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, masked killer, stalking, killer, mystery killer, unknown killer, murder, maniac, human monster, police investigation, true crime ...
Time: 1940s, year 1976, post world war two, year 1946
Place: texas, arkansas, usa
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Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A horror film based on a real-life mass murder that took place in 1966. Richard Franklin Speck was a mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966.
Style: slasher, tense, rough, disturbing, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, sexual abuse, murder, psychopath, violence spree, confined, hostage, journalism, maniac, misogynist, brutality, psychiatrist ...
Time: 60s, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place: chicago, usa, dallas texas, texas
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Pavement (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, vengeance, animal life, amateur detective, obsessive quest, police investigation, danger, psychopath, law enforcement, haunted by the past ...
Place: south africa, usa, san francisco, alaska, africa
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The Prodigy (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: "The Prodigy" tells the story of small-time enforcer Truman Fisher's vicious conflict with a sadistic assassin who has chosen the unwilling Truman to be his successor. The assassin, who goes by the alias Rains and whose exploits have ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, riddles and clues, law enforcement, gang, danger, police investigation, rivalry, psychopath, murder, assassin, martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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Freeway Killer (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, rape and murder, who done it, strong violent content, police detective, law enforcement, life is a bitch, stalking, danger, physical appearance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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Bundy: An American Icon (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bundy, starring Corin Nemec in the title role and co-starring Kane Hodder, details the dark psyche and previously unexplored motivations of the man who became known as one of the most notorious serial killers to leave behind a legacy of evil.
Style: serious, slasher, rough, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, obsession, psychopath, woman in danger, violence spree, gory, biopic, killer, true crime, ted bundy, villain ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa
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Night Game (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins
Style: slasher, detective, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, baseball, murder, nudity, psychopath, police detective, violent content, who done it, woman in danger, danger, law enforcement, police investigation ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, houston texas
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Gacy (2003)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house which he shared with his family.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, killer clown, psychopath, true crime, biopic, clown, evil clown, police investigation, obsession, sexual abuse, police detective, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s, 50s
Place: illinois, usa, chicago, wisconsin
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Boston Strangler: The Untold Story (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston ...
Style: scary, psychological, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, prison life, confined, law enforcement, prison, danger, killer, biopic, manipulation, rivalry, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston
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Zodiac Killer (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: 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.
Style: slasher, serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful ...
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Place: bay area, usa, los angeles, california
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Kemper (2008)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
Style: slasher, serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, violence spree, murder, investigation, police detective, law enforcement, danger, woman in danger, stalking, true crime, blood, killer ...
Time: 70s
Place: california, usa
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B.T.K. (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak ...
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Nightstalker (2002)
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: suspense, slasher, serious, scary, disturbing ...
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
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Time: 70s
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
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Son of Sam (2008)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: This chilling tale recounts the late 70's in New York City, when a serial killer on the loose dubbed "Son of Sam" creates havoc. When arrested, "Son of Sam" tells police he was influenced by a satanic cult. New York would ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
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Time: 70s
Place: usa, new york
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34%
The Hunt for the BTK Killer (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
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Style: scary, rough, serious, psychological, tense ...
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The Gray Man (2007)
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Style: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
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Black Dahlia (2006)
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Horror master Ulli Lommel is back with a terrifying tale of a copycat killer in Los Angeles. A young rookie cop and his team discover dismembered female bodies in L.A. similar to the Black Dahlia cold case from 1947. A serial killer seems to be ...
Style: scary, rough, slasher, serious, psychological ...
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Duration: 92 min.
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Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, suspense ...
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213 (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: slasher, serious, scary, rough, realistic ...
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Time: 21st century
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The Boston Strangler (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, rough, suspense, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, strangulation, split personality, murder, double life, police investigation, serial rapist, psychopath, police detective, obsession, manhunt ...
Time: 20th century, year 1968, 60s, year 1963
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts, new england
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Mummy Maniac (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Based on true events, tells how a serial murderer, kidnaps and tortures then bandaging girls like mummies.
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Place: usa, new york
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23%
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San Franpsycho (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two detectives hunt a serial killer who is sending cryptic messages about his crimes to a local reporter.
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
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American Crime (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes. This might just be the career opportunity, which she has hoped for. When she herself becomes a target and suddenly disappears, the ...
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Long Distance (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, profiler, murder, psychopath, danger, stalking, phone terror, violent content, sexual content, profanity, killer, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa
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