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The Mad Executioners (1963)
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Original name: Der Henker von London
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a subplot about another murderer. Surprise ending.
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, suspenseful, detective, atmospheric, grim, creepy, noir, gothic ...
Plot:
serial killer, vigilante, hanging, conspiracy, vigilante justice, investigation, execution, manhunt, decapitation, police procedural, moral ambiguity, female victim, violent, claustrophobia, urban, evidence, forensic, cold case, rape, death, murder, serial murder, amusement park, law and order, evil man ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
scotland yard, london
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Most similar movies to The Mad Executioners
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, noir, tense and dark films with plots about investigation, murder, serial killer, police procedural, moral ambiguity, urban and cat and mouse mostly in Crime, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Mad Executioners: The Squeaker (1963), The Monster of London City (1964), Room 13 (1964), The Gorilla Gang (1968), Dead Eyes of London (1961). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.
Style:
detective, suspense, grim, twisted, period piece ...
Plot:
conspiracy, murder, investigation, poisoning, whodunit, police procedural, underworld, master criminal, cat and mouse, urban, serial killer, cold case ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This is a Jack the Ripper film. Jack is very much alive in 1960s London as a series of brutal slayings by the Monster of London City has Scotland Yard baffled. In a macabre coincidence, a new play about the famous murderer is about to become a major ...
Style:
detective
Plot:
serial killer, hooker, street life, plot twist, strangulation, jealousy, dead woman, hate, insanity, maid, dead prostitute, prostitution ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
95%
620
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Denmark, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again...
Style:
crime thriller, dark, detective, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, conspiracy, murder investigation, nightclub, whodunit, female victim, suspicion, peril, urban, police procedural, stalking, gangster ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, creepy, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
swamp, castle, hound dog, animal attack, murder investigation, isolation, old mansion, cat and mouse, police procedural, twists and turns, serial killer, conspiracy ...
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In this German detective thriller, swindlers using a false charity as a front send a hit man around London to murder wealthy people whose deaths can benefit the organization. This film is one of a very large number of German Scotland-Yard thrillers ...
Style:
detective, crime thriller, tense, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, police procedural, gang, urban, organized crime, insurance fraud, underworld, suspicion, evidence, drowning, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.
Style:
detective, gothic, suspense, mind bending, scary ...
Plot:
blind man, serial killer, murder, nurse, blindness and impaired vision, danger, amateur detective, investigation, criminal heroes, dishonesty, clergy, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place:
london, united kingdom, britain, scotland yard, england
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, dark, thrilling, atmospheric ...
Plot:
locked door, kidnapping, crazy, secrets, locked room, inheritance, isolation, psychopath, treasure hunt, investigation, claustrophobia, torture chamber ...
Time:
60s
Place:
europe, scotland yard
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A psycho-killer is on the loose targeting only young women. Grisly deaths pile up, one after another. The real problem is not finding out who he is, but instead, how to stop him.
Style:
slasher, crime thriller, psychological thriller, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, cat and mouse, stalker, homicide, psychopath, investigation, police procedural, violent, manhunt, obsession, urban, gory ...
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Horror
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
When a chilling pattern emerges, Vaishnavi's relentless pursuit of justice leads her to uncover a sinister pattern connecting the seemingly unrelated murders. Anonymous Warnings As the investigation intensifies, Vaishnavi receives another ...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, tense, dark, detective ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, conspiracy, female protagonist, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, police procedural, urban, corruption, claustrophobia, small town
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.
Style:
crime drama, tense, psychological thriller, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, strangler, investigation, serial murder, police procedural, urban, manhunt, violent, female victim, law enforcement, cat and mouse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Based on true events, the story revolves around the murder of four young women in Northern California in the late 1990s and the subsequent criminal investigation. The film follows the story of a tortured ex-soldier, now police detective, as he and ...
Style:
crime drama, detective, psychological thriller, dark, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, police procedural, murder mystery, investigation, disappearance, female victim, violent, cold case, haunting, psychological trauma, mature, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
northern california, california
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A plan to steal a valuable work of art leads to murder.
Style:
crime thriller, dark, suspense, tense, mysterious ...
Plot:
art theft, forgery, murder, heist, deception, greed, betrayal, moral ambiguity, investigation, conspiracy, obsession, violence ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After Akira Ninomiya miraculously survives a brutal attack by an unknown assailant wearing a "monster mask," he becomes fixated on finding the attacker and getting revenge.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, semi serious, thrilling, crime thriller ...
Plot:
revenge, masked killer, serial killer, violence, murderer, attempted murder, murder, problem, criminal's revenge, advocate, vengeance, obsession ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, War
Country: Spain, East Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Some deeds done by a Nazi in France during World War II lead to more killings in the present. Are they revenge, or is there another motive? Both civilians and police tries to solve the mystery.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
revenge, murder investigation, murder mystery, war crime, serial killer, police procedural, dark past, moral ambiguity, cold case, violence, trauma, killer ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The Bonesetter was a child-murderer long thought destroyed. Little do the people who killed him realize..he's back to set things wrong.
Style:
suspense, slasher, dark, psychological horror, tense ...
Plot:
supernatural power, ghost, child murder, serial killer, revenge, dark past, psychological manipulation, haunting, paranoia, guilt, cat and mouse, retribution ...
Similarity:
45%
2K
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Three girls move into a building for rent. Some souls appear there.They girls are killed by some one. Police will start an enquiry. Vikram goes to rent the same house with family. The owner that house is dharma and has wife suma neeluhe maid of the ...
Style:
creepy, suspenseful, tense, sinister, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A pool-hall is used as the front for a white slavery ring.
Style:
detective, dark, suspense, tension, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, investigation, white slavery, whodunit, suspect, group of criminals, theater, human trafficking, suspicion, underworld, poisoning ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only able to confirm the corpse's identity by his talisman: a small, white spider. However, soon, there are more corpses walking around than at a ...
Style:
suspense, detective, tense, crime drama, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, investigation, mascot, insurance fraud, whodunit, symbolism, suspicion, motive, moral ambiguity, urban, conspiracy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Horror
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The police are holding their heads without knowing why they are committing mass murders in the city, A police officer and a detective are looking for who is doing the murders, They find a lamp as a clue and how they catch the murderer.
Style:
tension, suspense, detective, dark, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
clue, investigation, urban, law enforcement, crime scene, serial killer, suspicion, evidence, city, mass murder, police procedural, haunting ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When three childhood friends are brought back together after years apart, a string of mysterious and brutal "Jack The Ripper" inspired murders erupt, pitting friends against foe in this 80's-style police thriller.
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, enigmatic, mysterious, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, police, old friend, murder mystery, serial killer, puzzle, friends, murder investigation, reunited friends, murder, uncover truth, riddles and clues ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Year 1942 in Mexico City, Goyo Cárdenas studies biology and has a beautiful girlfriend, but Goyo also has some contained violence about to explode on the brink of World War II.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, dark, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, fear, mature, psychopath, investigation, obsession, paranoia, violent, secrets, urban, male protagonist ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Adventure, Crime
Country: Italy, West Germany, Egypt
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Shot on location in Egypt, the story unfurls like an Italian Giallo as a group of people meet under strange circumstances, and one by one they are murdered. Gold is missing so you suspect a thief is trying to cover up his crime but that might be too ...
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, sinister ...
Plot:
murder, treasure hunt, whodunit, murder mystery, sphinx, deception, red herring, betrayal, conspiracy, investigation, scheming, suspicion ...
Time:
60s
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A seemingly ordinary car accident turns out to be a murder investigation...
Style:
detective, suspense, tense, dark, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, car accident, investigation, evidence, interrogation, suspect, police procedural, motive, moral ambiguity, suspicion, corruption, courtroom ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, eastern europe, ussr
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Madrid, summer of 2010. Commissioner María Ruiz investigates the sinister crime of a young man. With no visible identity and no clues or apparent motive, María will begin an investigation that will become more and more complicated.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, detective, tense ...
Plot:
investigation, sleuth, uncover truth, crime solving, murder investigation, female protagonist, crime investigation, police procedural, suspicion, urban, commissioner, motive ...
Place:
madrid, spain
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When an unknown assailant viciously murders the participants in a bank robbery and murder case, it could be a case of vigilante justice - that is, if the two cases are connected. That's for the police to decide - and it's a puzzle that ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, detective, tense, dark ...
Plot:
murder, law enforcement, bank robbery, investigation, crime investigation, justice, vigilante justice, police procedural, courtroom, suspect, revenge, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Adapted from a novel by Norway's justice minister Anne Holt. Lesbian policewoman Hanne Wilhelmsen (Kjersti Elvik), who has a live-in lover, tools about Oslo on her Harley-Davidson. After a number of women vanish, police find blood but no ...
Style:
detective, dark, suspenseful, tense, grim ...
Plot:
police procedural, investigation, serial killer, rape, female detective, suspicion, violent, lesbian, adaptation, summer, cat and mouse, lesbianism ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A detective investigates a number of both recent and cold case killings; is there a connection?
Style:
detective, anthology, thrilling, suspense, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, uncover truth, crime solving, sleuth, killing spree, serial murder, murderer, murder mystery, crime investigation, murder investigation ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A chilling tale of a city being tormented by a mysterious killer. Everywhere the citizens turn, they uncover more body parts. The only ones who can possibly capture the demented madman are a pair of homicide cops who play by their own rules.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime thriller, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, investigation, killing, serial murder, psycho killer, homicidal maniac, murder, murderer, killing spree, police procedural, crime scene ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The film is based on the figure of the police inspector Simon Polt of the Austrian author Alfred Komarek.
Style:
detective, atmospheric, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, police procedural, justice, suspicion, character study, literary, whodunit, slow burn, moral ambiguity, murder, wine, obsession ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
He called himself the Angel of death but when the police department discovered that he was involved in over 40 deaths his name soon became Killer nurse in the beginning it was his story against theirs. Soon he gave up his version of the events and ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, killer, killing spree, mentally unstable, haunted by the past, law enforcement, hospital, investigation, death, police procedural, mature ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
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