Movies like The Monster of Blackwood Castle
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The Monster of Blackwood Castle (1968)
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Original name: Der Hund von Blackwood Castle
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, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy, detective, classic horror, period piece, slasher
Audience:
adult
Plot:
swamp, castle, hound dog, murder investigation, animal attack, isolation, old mansion, cat and mouse, police procedural, serial killer, twists and turns, conspiracy, male protagonist, transformation, family curse, inheritance, fog, secret laboratory, mad scientist, dog, murder, sexism, death of father, private investigator, heiress ...
Place:
scotland yard
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Most similar movies to The Monster of Blackwood Castle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, tense, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about murder, serial killer, investigation, conspiracy, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity and murder investigation mostly in Crime, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like The Monster of Blackwood Castle: The Hunchback of Soho (1966), The Squeaker (1963), The Zombie Walks (1968), Room 13 (1964), Dead Eyes of London (1961). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.
Plot:
conspiracy, serial killer, woman, fraud, police officer, police, female police officer, dead brother, murder, death, inheritance, reverend ...
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
95%
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:
92%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring.
Style:
detective, suspense, creepy, atmospheric, sinister ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, whodunit, investigation, masked villain, macabre, poison, cat and mouse, vengeance, manor, living dead, twists and turns, conspiracy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
82%
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:
81%
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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:
79%
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:
detective, dark, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, vigilante, hanging, conspiracy, vigilante justice, investigation, execution, female victim, police procedural, decapitation, violent, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle ...
Style:
suspense, tense, sinister, atmospheric, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lawyer, serial killer, whodunit, murder, castle, strangulation, isolation, greed, killer, inheritance, secrets, betrayal ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
70%
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:
63%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.
Style:
slasher, detective, grindhouse, serious, tense ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, snake, characters murdered one by one, mental disorder, twins, psychopath, stalker, twin brother, whodunit, violent content, siblings relations ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas
Style:
slasher, splatter, independent film, eurospy
Plot:
serial killer, mystery killer, unknown killer, twists and turns, conspiracy, monk, girls' boarding school, hired killer, girl man relationship, murder, crazy, man kills a woman ...
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
61%
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:
45%
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:
42%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.
Style:
classic horror, suspense, gothic horror, black and white
Plot:
serial killer, murder, male female relationship, murder investigation, police detective, old dark house, underground, multiple murder, masked killer, dark secret, haunted by the past, castle ...
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture ...
Style:
black and white, detective
Plot:
murder, disguise, mastermind, crime investigation, submarine, magic, twists and turns, conspiracy, brothel, inspector, clerk, airport ...
Place:
australia, london, britain, scotland yard, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a black market for human organs, while across town a ...
Style:
slasher, crime drama, dark, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, organ trafficking, murder investigation, family crisis, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, man on a mission, body horror, underworld, male protagonist, urban decay, investigative journalism ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.
Style:
suspense, crime drama, tense, black and white, atmospheric ...
Plot:
extortion, organized crime, criminal, gangster, rivalry, gang war, criminal underworld, betrayal, cat and mouse, police investigation, moral ambiguity, violent ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london, chicago, scotland yard
Similarity:
38%
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:
murder mystery, crime investigation, survival, cat and mouse, police procedural, isolation, female victim, claustrophobia, supernatural, family drama, moral ambiguity
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A murder investigation takes detective Christer Wijk to a small village, where he needs to separate rumors and facts to trail the murderer.
Style:
suspenseful, detective, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder investigation, murder, police detective, whodunit, church, winter, priest, christmas eve, crime investigation, storytelling, husband wife relationship, danger ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A security guard, trapped in a run-down inner-city medical clinic, is terrorized by supernatural forces which threaten to overtake her.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, creepy, suspense, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
medical clinic, security guard, clinic, assignment, blood, little girl, paranormal activity, supernatural, haunted house, ghost, abandoned building, woman in danger ...
Similarity:
33%
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:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An ecological pharmacist uses ancient Celtic techniques to murder industrial magnates whose practices harm the planet.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
killing spree, murder investigation, serial killer, environmentalist, murder, murderer, environmentalism, criminal, investigation, enemy, unlikely friendships, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
poetic realism
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute (including female staff members) in order to complete his own evil mind-control ray. Dr. Mabuse has this impressive and horribly scarred man-monster ...
Style:
detective, suspenseful, dark, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mind control, kidnapping, mad scientist, cat and mouse, laboratory, police procedural, violent, rescue mission, revenge, police chase, conspiracy, obsession ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder.
Style:
atmospheric, demonic, tense, supernatural thriller, creepy ...
Plot:
occult, serial killer, supernatural, possession, murder, exorcism, fear, evil, childhood trauma, paranormal investigation, haunting, religious conflict ...
Place:
rhode island, new england
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
An innocent family's youngest brother is accused of local mass murders. Someone must step in to solve this mystery and stop this lunatic. Who will it be? Watch and find out!
Style:
tense, suspense, atmospheric, psychological, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, suspicion, investigation, paranoia, falsely accused, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, small town, haunting, obsession, stalker, home invasion ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
murder, ex convict, investigation, secret, who done it, uncover truth, murderer, murder mystery, crime solving, homicide detective, sleuth, murder investigation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, detective, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
snake, idol, secret society, investigation, ritual, conspiracy, occult, murder, world domination, group of criminals, underworld, smuggling ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Shortly after police discovers the murder of three friends, police inspector Wallander finds his friend and colleague Svedberg dead. First, it is believed that Svedberg killed himself but Wallander soon discovers links between Svedberg, the three ...
Style:
detective, dark, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
murder, police procedural, investigation, slow burn, mental illness, grief, suspicion, obsession, trauma, moral ambiguity, cold case, isolation ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A serial killer escapes from a mental hospital and hides out in a small town. A local cop must catch him before he starts on another killing spree.
Style:
slasher, dark, tense, psychological thriller, sinister ...
Plot:
serial killer, stalking, escape, mental institution, sanitarium, manhunt, obsession, jealous lover, killing spree, cat and mouse, small town, paranoia ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
30%
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:
29%
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
What is meant to be a pleasure cruise becomes a nightmare as murder follows murder on a small ship. With tension mounting, passengers and the crew turn on each other in a desperate attempt to identify the killer.
Style:
slasher, tension, suspense, psychological thriller, retro ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
whodunit, murder mystery, paranoia, claustrophobia, isolation, ship, cat and mouse, locked room, investigation, journey, sea, survival ...
Similarity:
29%
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