Movies like Karla

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Karla (2006)
 5.4
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Karla (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
Style: psychological, rough, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, psychological thriller, sexy, suspense, controversial ...
Plot: serial killer, rape, abusive husband, domestic violence, kidnapping, sister sister relationship, murder, true crime, rough sex, rape victim, incest rape, courtroom drama, lesbian rape, psychopath, destructive relationship, obsession, life is a bitch, fall in love, rivalry, society, woman in danger, couple relations, violence, oral sex, physical abuse ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 1990s
Place: ontario canada, canada
Keyword: propaganda film, video, bias

Most similar movies to Karla

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about murder, deadly, serial killer, psychopath, killer, true crime and female nudity mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Karla: The Hillside Strangler (2004), Monster (2003), Cargo 200 (2007), I Accuse (2003), Blink (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Hillside Strangler (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarted. He moves to California to live with his cousin Angelo and dates a string of women, becoming increasingly preoccupied with sex. Eventually the ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, rough, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, strangulation, rape, prostitute, murder, police investigation, psychopath, murderous pair, violence, sexual abuse, death, hidden identity ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, oregon, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Kenneth Bianchi, one of the two serial rapists and killers who terrorized the Los Angeles area in the late 1970s, is giving police station interviews to psychiatrist Samantha Stone, who has disquieting lifestyle issues of her own. It falls to her to ...
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, mind game, police investigation, who done it, mental illness, life is a bitch, killer, misogynist, serial rapist, strangler ...
Time: 70s, year 1978
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 161K
Monster (2003)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
Style: bleak, disturbing, psychological, depressing, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, lesbian, homeless, prostitute, lesbian love, mental illness, rape, female serial killer, murder, borderline personality disorder, gay, couples ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 80s, 2000s, 90s
Place: florida, usa, michigan, miami, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 11K
Cargo 200 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad.
Style: rough, bleak, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, sadism, sexual abuse, murder, rape victim, sexual perversion, life is a bitch, psychopath, perversion, rape, teenage rape, psycho killer ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 90s, 20th century
Place: afghanistan, soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.5
 1K
I Accuse (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A chilling tale based on a real event in which a doctor stepped out of line and sexually assaulted a patient when drugged.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: rapist, courtroom drama, small town, mind game, life is a bitch, obsession, society, fighting the system, private detective, murder, rape victim, legal ...
⇓ 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%
 6.5
 13K
Hounds of Love (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, sexual torture, teenage girl, abduction, husband wife relationship, murderous pair, danger, domestic violence, murder, extreme, survival ...
Time: year 2016, 80s
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Cleveland Abduction (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, true crime, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, rape, missing person, cruelty, abduction ...
Time: 2010s, year 2002, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 5.1
 2K
Sweet Karma (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A mute Russian girl infiltrates Toronto's underground sex trade to avenge the death of her sister.
Style: serious, rough, bleak, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sexploitation, woman fights a man, sex trafficking, rape and revenge, strip club, russian mafia, vigilante, vengeance, mute, life is a bitch, voyeur, mute or deaf ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 3K
The Lost (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations.
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, drug use, police investigation, youth, rivalry, lesbian, violence, male female relationship, sexploitation, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.6
 12K
Dahmer (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, slasher, stylized ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, rape, gay club, biopic, gay, torture, violence, necrophilia, blood, killer, serial murder ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 2002, 90s
Place: ohio, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.9
 2K
The Riverman (2004)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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.
Style: serious, psychological, rough, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, profiler, mind game, life is a bitch, true crime, police detective, woman in danger, killer, murder, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, florida, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 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.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: murder, serial killer, two killers, true crime, psychopath, criminal, killer, violent, police detective, homicide, strangler, cousin ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.7
 58K
Kalifornia (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
Style: neo noir, bleak, road movie, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, road trip, lovers on the run, journalist, redneck, on the road, mental illness, insanity, journalism, ex convict, motel ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, pittsburgh, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.8
 8K
Ted Bundy (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970's (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered). Set from his college student years, to his first victims, his capture, ...
Style: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, controversial ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, sexual predator, necrophilia, electric chair, kidnapping, misogyny, violence against women, masturbation, murder, execution, rapist ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, utah, colorado, seattle, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.7
 41K
Summer of Sam (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, killer, murder, psychopath, punk, infidelity, true crime, lust, dark humor, punk rock, drug, profanity ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1999, year 1977, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, harlem, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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 ...
Plot: serial killer, wannabe, murder, mind game, police investigation, police detective, obsession, danger, rivalry, master criminal, psychopath, gory ...
Time: 2000s
Place: bay area, usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Alone with Her (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The harrowing story of a disturbed young man's attempts to win the affections of an unsuspecting young woman. When Doug first sees Amy, he instantly falls for her and begins to watch her every move, going so far as to set up spy cameras in her ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: obsession, stalker, found footage, sexual dysfunction, pervert, female masturbation, hidden camera, topless woman, masturbation, murder, danger, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.6
 3K
Lipstick (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But justice will be served.
Style: grindhouse, controversial, disturbing, slasher, action thriller ...
Plot: rape, rape and revenge, sexual abuse, teenage rape, fashion model, rape victim, vigilantism, fashion, female nudity, female warrior, nudity, revenge ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Pretty When You Cry (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A wife is caught in a web of sex and violence.
Style: erotic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: murder, investigation, femme fatale, woman in danger, serial killer, dishonesty, betrayal, law enforcement, obsession, dangerous attraction, legal, couples ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Style: psychological, disturbing, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, psychopath, manipulation, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, mind game, rivalry, dishonesty, killer clown, gay, true crime ...
Time: 90s, year 1978, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Girl Next Door (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that ...
Style: scary, disturbing, bleak, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: torture, child abuse, rape, sexual abuse, victim, cruelty, helplessness, child molestation, suffering, childhood, violence, abuse ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 2007, year 1958
Place: new jersey, new york, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.0
 3K
Chained Heat (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after drink driving and killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling ...
Style: sexy, grindhouse, psychotronic, erotic, neo noir ...
Plot: women in prison, prison, rape, rape and revenge, women's prison, sexual abuse, big breasts, sadism, prison rape, female prisoner, sex, voyeur ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Nightmare in Columbia County (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina in the 1980's. Southern beauty pageant winner Dawn Smith is targeted by a sadistic stalker whose obsession with her leads him to kidnap her younger ...
Style: tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, kidnapping, child abuse, love, murder, beauty pageant, law enforcement, psychopath, small town, riddles and clues, small town life, woman in danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.6
 2K
Three Way (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Lew is a small time loser with a troubled past and a very big secret. Overhearing a couple plan a kidnapping, Lew is tempted to come up with a scheme of his own. He decides to get to the victim first and then blackmail the real criminals. His plan ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, crime gone awry, nude girl, kidnapping, betrayal, who done it, debauchery, dishonesty, manipulation, voyeur, disorder, rivalry ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.2
 19K
Eye for an Eye (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: rape, obsession, murder, vigilante, revenge, vengeance, psychopath, vigilantism, rape and murder, women, haunted by the past, loss of daughter ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: persia, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Frozen Ground (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, factual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, winter, police investigation, kidnapping, murder investigation, investigation, manhunt, sexual predator, drug overdose, rape and murder, rape ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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