Movies like Frailty

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Frailty (2001)
 7.2
 90K
Frailty (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."
Style: psychological, surprise ending, scary, twisted, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, mindfuck ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, twists and turns, insanity, religious fanatic, childhood, plot twist, father son relationship, punishment, demon, child abuse, single father, fbi agent, guilt, supernatural, dream, brother brother relationship, parents and children, family relations, torture, investigation, religion, mental illness, sheriff ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, year 2000, year 1979, 20th century, contemporary
Place: texas, usa
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Most similar movies to Frailty

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, psychological and serious films with plots about murder, killer, psychopath, blood, serial killer, death and violence mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Frailty: Surveillance (2008), Mr. Brooks (2007), The Devil All the Time (2020), Se7en (1995), Funny Games (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.3
 18K
Surveillance (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, stylized, rough, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, surveillance, investigation, murder, twists and turns, police corruption, sadism, hidden identity, mass murder, dishonesty, police, dirty cop ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: nebraska, new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
The Devil All the Time (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In the 1960s after World War II in Southern Ohio, bizarre, compelling and mentally disturbed people suffer from the war's psychological damages.
Style: suspense, neo noir, gothic, southern gothic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, post war, murder, stepbrother stepsister relationship, psycho, small town, sheriff, violence, boy, reverend, suicide, world war two ...
Time: year 1957, 2020s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: west virginia, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
77%
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 6.5
 103K
Funny Games (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the ...
Style: psychological, scary, disturbing, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, hostage, torture, psychopath, home invasion, murder, danger, bad guy wins, maniac, brutality, kidnapping, torment ...
Time: year 2007, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, serious, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: hitman, psychopath, shooting, desert, serial killer, peril, greed, brutality, human nature, sheriff, death, murder ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: texas, el paso texas, mexico, austin texas, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 83K
Funny Games (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Style: disturbing, bleak, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, sadism, bad guy wins, torment, torture, home invasion, kidnapping, murder, family in danger, evil wins, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997, near future
Place: austria, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 218K
Fracture (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of ...
Style: suspense, psychological, intellectual, twist ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot: twists and turns, courtroom drama, lawyer, murder, adultery, manipulation, investigation, murder mystery, mind game, obsession, perfect crime, police investigation ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.2
 92K
Arlington Road (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. But all that takes ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night
Plot: terrorism, conspiracy, twists and turns, murder, evil wins, professor, terrorist, paranoia, uncover truth, fbi, plot twist, danger ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa, washington d.c., virginia, kansas, west virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 292K
Hannibal (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, cannibalism, psychopath, cannibal, mind game, fbi, master criminal, psychiatrist, villain played by lead actor, torment, police, homicidal maniac ...
Time: year 2001, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florence, italy, venice, europe, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 76K
A Simple Plan (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA, Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: greed, snow, small town, betrayal, fbi, bag of money, heist, winter, twists and turns, character study, moral ambiguity, redemption ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: minnesota, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 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%
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley ...
Style: suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, enigmatic, cerebral ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: obsession, manipulation, serial killer, psychopath, secret identity, gay, homosexuality, envy, murder, bisexuality, murder mystery, literary ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 90s, year 1999, year 1959 ...
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, america, mediterranean sea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 28K
The Watcher (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Vietnam
Duration: 97 min.
Story: FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, rough, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, fbi, psychopath, psychiatrist, obsession, serial murder, chase, mind game, race against time, police investigation, killer ...
Time: y2k, year 2000, 90s
Place: chicago, los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 9K
Antibodies (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, psychopath, murder, danger, gay, family life, mind game, lust, sadist, small town, killer ...
Time: year 2005, year 1996
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The House That Jack Built (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A depiction of a serial killer's 12 years' worth of murders and how it shaped his prime intelligence.
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, cruelty, sadistic psychopath, sadism, psychopath as protagonist, psycho killer, obsessive compulsive disorder, extreme violence, disturbed individual, serial killer as protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, 70s, 80s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.5
 180K
A Time to Kill (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Style: sincere, suspense, serious, thought provoking, political ...
Audience: date night
Plot: courtroom drama, racism, court, justice, lawyer, courtroom, murder, trial, small town, rape, injustice, revenge ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, america, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bless the Child (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new ...
Style: demonic, suspense, satanic, intense, psychological ...
Plot: good versus evil, supernatural, demon, murder, kidnapping, chase, evil child, satanism, religious, apocalypse, custody, religions or cults ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, year 1999
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 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 ⇓
67%
 7.4
 117K
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style: surreal, twist ending, disturbing, bleak, scary ...
Plot: nightmare, paranoia, hallucination, memory, delusion, mental illness, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, psychology, dealing with death, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Golden Glove (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Style: bleak, disturbing, controversial, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, murder of a prostitute, mentally unstable, macabre, murderer, brutality, sex crime, alcoholic, loser, misfit, loner ...
Time: 70s, year 2019, 20th century, year 1974, year 1970
Place: hamburg germany, germany, northern germany, west germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 600K
Nightcrawler (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Style: neo noir, psychological, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: character study, journalism, sociopath, obsession, journalist, cynicism, psychopath, morality, violence, manipulation, capitalism, employer employee relationship ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, persia, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, twists and turns, murder investigation, cannibal, mind game ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: pittsburgh, baltimore, madagascar, persia, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
11%
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 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 ⇓
21%
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an ...
Style: neo noir, surprise ending, twist ending, clever, confusing ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, heist, master criminal, organized crime, criminal, manipulation, gangster, great ending, interrogation, murder mystery, whodunit ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 80s, 90s, year 1981
Place: new york, los angeles, hungary, turkey, north america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.5
 209K
Secret Window (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, dark ...
Plot: psychology, insanity, twists and turns, split personality, stephen king, losing-it hero, isolation, paranoia, macabre, murder, mental illness, plot twist ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.4
 212K
The Number 23 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, twists and turns, obsession, murder, losing-it hero, a vision, escape from reality, plot twist, investigation, psychology, uncover truth, riddles and clues ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: los angeles, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.7
 593K
Zodiac (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, murder mystery, maniac, journalism, mind game, journalist, paranoia, killings, killer, true crime ...
Time: 70s, year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1970 ...
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 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 ⇓
20%
 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 ⇓
20%
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