Movies like The Card Player
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The Card Player (2003)
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Original name: Il cartaio
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John Brennan to find out the identity of the murderer.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, psychological, rough, disturbing, suspense, detective, grindhouse, cult horror, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
master criminal, serial killer, dangerous attraction, gambling, homicidal maniac, murder, vengeance, woman in danger, police investigation, rivalry, law enforcement, murderer, poker, fear, psycho, desire, sexual attraction, mistreatment, maniac, police, technology, card playing, investigation, whodunit, stalking ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
rome italy, europe
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Most similar movies to The Card Player
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, slasher, scary and serious films with plots about serial killer, murder, psychopath, deadly, murderer, blood and danger mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Card Player: The New York Ripper (1982), Death Smiles on a Murderer (1973), Tenebrae (1982), The Stendhal Syndrome (1996), Sleepless (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, grindhouse, dark, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, nudity, sex, jack the ripper, erotica, brutality, violence against women, female victim, sex worker, sexual cruelty, sex scene, killer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A man discovers an ancient Incan formula for raising the dead, and uses it for a series of revenge murders.
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, slasher, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
reanimation, killer, bare chested male, murder, necrophilia, obsession, lesbian sex, anger, fear, death, rage, confusion ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Style:
slasher, creepy, dark, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, lesbian, dog attack, gory, writers, blood, murder mystery, investigation, obsession, female nudity, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
rome italy, italy, rhode island, new york, new york state ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Style:
surreal, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, memory loss, sadistic psychopath, art, murder, killer, psycho killer, surrealism, obsession, vengeance, rape, violent ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, florence
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
Style:
gothic, slasher, detective, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, psycho killer, murder, sadism, police investigation, maniac, police, sleeping, gory, insomnia, midget ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, turin italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a ...
Style:
gothic, slasher, creepy, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, violence, inheritance, gory, fear, obsession, squid, serial murder, lake, hanged woman, voyeur, sex ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
europe, italy, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A reporter and a blind retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
Style:
slasher, suspense, perverse, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
serial killer, blind man, murder, voyeurism, woman strangled to death, investigation, stalking, twists and turns, chase, gory, amateur detective, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, turin italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, slasher, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, maniac, police detective, investigation, female psychopath, psychopath, voyeurism, attempted murder, amateur detective, murder, killer ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when ...
Style:
psychological, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psycho killer, rain, murder, investigation, amateur detective, female killer, female serial killer, kidnapping, journalism, gory, danger, teenage life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
minneapolis minnesota
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
No one is safe when a killer, wielding the deadly contents of his toolbox, methodically stalks his prey.
Style:
slasher, slasher horror, grindhouse, disturbing, bloody ...
Plot:
masked killer, masked man, homicidal maniac, serial killer, held captive, maniac, exploitation, murder, gory, killer, murderer, fashion model ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, year 1967
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a fashion model dies during an abortion, a series of murders begins, starting with her doctor. The next victims are connected to the modeling agency where she worked, Albatross, run by a hard edged and jealous bi-sexual, Gisella, married to a ...
Style:
erotic, slasher, sexual, grindhouse, controversial ...
Plot:
lust, erotica, lesbian sex, model, voyeur, sexual fantasy, serial killer, female serial killer, sexuality, unwanted pregnancy, licking, lesbian couple ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style:
slasher, suspense, classic horror, cult classic, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, maniac, camp, gory, summer camp, revenge, psycho killer, teenager, disturbed individual, summer, blood ...
Time:
1950s, 80s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, psychopath, danger, violence spree, woman in danger, who done it, summer camp, haunted by the past, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, horror musical, metafiction ...
Plot:
voyeurism, nudity, female killer, voyeur, female nudity, serial killer, stalker, psychopath, transvestism, obsession, gory, murder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tuscany
Similarity:
100%
47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style:
suspense, gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, gory, murder, psychopath, manic, intrigue, murder mystery, female serial killer, danger, haunted by the past, amateur detective, darkness ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, canary islands, lebanon ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As a night out on the town turns into a nightmare, six young college students must fight for their lives as a killer hunts them down.
Style:
slasher, suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, stalking, youth, danger, woman in danger, gory, murder, mystery killer, dark secret, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, violence, characters killed one by one ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids have kept their involvement a secret, ...
Style:
slasher, sexy, perverse, teen, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, high school, teenager, revenge, prom, masked killer, high school prom, masked man, chase, stalking, teenage sex, murder ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1980, year 2016, 20th century ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
33K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
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, creepy, scary, slasher horror, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
supernatural, chimpanzee, telepathy, psychic power, teenage girl, serial killer, killer, mysticism, insect, female psychopath, investigation, violent woman ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
europe, switzerland, zurich switzerland, alps, munich germany
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Newly married to an older man, Julie returns to Vienna, where a razor wielding slasher is killing women. Jean, her cruel and sadistic former lover, immediately contacts her, certain that only he can satisfy her strange vice. But she rejects him. She ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, slasher, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, lovers, voyeurism, mystery killer, perversion, reckless driving, threatening telephone call, extramarital affair, serial murder, female friendship, obsession, murder ...
Time:
20th century, year 2016, 70s, year 1971
Place:
europe, spain, austria, turin italy, sicily ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.
Style:
psychological, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, mind game, police investigation, evil wins, on the run, danger, chase, law enforcement, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
100%
31K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Five friends are stalked and murdered by a masked assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, valentine's day, revenge, murder, woman in danger, mystery killer, gory, masked killer, violence against women, danger, death of friend, school ...
Time:
year 2001, 80s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, erotica, strangulation, interracial lesbian sex, voyeur, strangled to death, murder, voyeurism, male nudity, bisexual, threesome ...
Time:
20th century, year 2016, 70s, year 1972
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy, rome italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mystery killer, masked killer, masked man, psychopath, serial killer, scuba diving, psycho killer, psycho terror, homicidal maniac, investigation, mind game, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, holland, netherlands, amsterdam
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginable brutal death--and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced, and stabbed, Claire awakens at work--where it ...
Style:
scary, slasher, mind bending, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
time loop, psychopath, serial killer, danger, destiny, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, dying repeatedly, murder, time travel, woman in danger, vengeance ...
Place:
ohio
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood... and smiled.
Style:
christmas horror, psychological thriller
Plot:
serial killer, christmas, xmas, boy, parents, night, police officer, matricide, patricide, murder, male nudity, police ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Detective Raymond Pope is a detective of questionable morals, searching for his missing wife. His investigation leads him to the wealthy estate of the enigmatic Elizabeth Kane and her young maid Irina. Under Elizabeth's fascinating looks and ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
lesbian, vampire, dangerous attraction, sex horror, female nudity, lesbianism, nudity, woman seduces a man, lesbian love, serial killer, female vampire, countess ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
canada, montreal, venice, italy, rome italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The plot involves the murder of a prostitute in a Paris brothel (run by early 60's sex symbol Anita Ekberg). It's blamed on a jealous client, but the lead detective ("Bogey")suspects otherwise. And when the murders continue after ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, scary, sexy, mind bending ...
Plot:
woman strangled to death, serial killer, male nudity, psychopath, cat, female pubic hair, nudity, sex scene, exhibitionism, female nudity, bare breasts, hysteria ...
Time:
70s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by a person dubbed "The Half-Moon Killer" by the police, and her husband must find the connecting thread between herself, six other women, and the killer before the killer strikes at her again.
Style:
slasher, suspense, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
dead prostitute, police, amateur detective, police detective, dead girl, law enforcement, police investigation, woman in danger, prostitute, danger, stalking, woman strangled to death ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
Style:
grindhouse, erotic, slasher, psychotronic, sexual ...
Plot:
female nudity, tarantula, serial killer, lesbianism, dysfunctional marriage, woman in jeopardy, sadistic psychopath, serial murder, whodunit, psychopath, obsession, maniac ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In Torino, Celine, an American model, is abducted by a taxi driver while en route home to meet her sister Linda, visiting at her apartment. The next morning, Linda reports that Celine is missing - the sergeant in charge directs her to F.B.I. agent ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, fear, inspector, police investigation, maniac, missing sister, rescue, mysterious character, murder, taxi, police detective, psychopath ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
25%
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