Movies like Monster 2003
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Monster (2003)
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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, emotional, harsh, depressing, brutal, heartbreaking, sad, rough ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
serial killer, lesbian, prostitute, lesbian love, mental illness, rape, murder, gay, female serial killer, vengeance, destructive relationship, female killer, tragic love, sexual abuse, prostitution, homeless, borderline personality disorder, lesbianism, women, obsession, misfit, gender, character on the edge, misanthrope, love and romance ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 1990s
Place:
florida, usa, michigan, miami, ohio
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Most similar movies to Monster
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, disturbing, realistic and psychological films with plots about violence, murder, brutality, violent, vengeance, death and runaway mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Monster: Boys Don't Cry (1999), Eye for an Eye (1996), Heavenly Creatures (1994), An American Crime (2007), Ms .45 (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, touching, thought provoking, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
gender, transsexual, lesbian, rape, sexuality, small town, brutality, gay slur, violence, prejudice, hidden identity, lesbian love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
nebraska, usa
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83%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry: "the guy next door" and the serial killer.
Style:
disturbing, scary, controversial, realistic, sadistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, insanity, rape, extreme violence, psychology, incest, killing spree, violent, violence, merciless ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, midwest, chicago illinois
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100%
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, rough ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
rape, obsession, revenge, murder, psychopath, vigilante, vigilantism, rape and murder, vengeance, women, haunted by the past, loss of daughter ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline's mother when she tries to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, enigmatic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, obsession, friendship, murder, coming of age, lesbian romance, teenager, insanity, women, lgbtq, lgbt, sexuality ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1954, post world war two, year 1953
Place:
new zealand, australia, canada, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, rough, serious, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
child abuse, torture, court, confined, dysfunctional family, mentally unstable, murder, captivity, true crime, family problems, domestic violence, threat ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Se7en
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress with her attacker's gun strapped to her garter belt, blowing away any man who tries to pick ...
Style:
disturbing, neo noir, controversial, bloody, tense ...
Plot:
rape, revenge, murder, sexual abuse, vengeance, vigilante, rape and revenge, serial killer, femme fatale, killing spree, one woman army, violence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
201K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, neo noir ...
Plot:
rape, family in danger, lawyer, fear, serial killer, dangerous attraction, revenge, psychology, prison, suspense, rapist, torture ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, psychological, controversial, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, home invasion, rape, small town, violent, rape and revenge, revenge, murder, female nudity, sexual desire, brutality, sexual assault ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, cornwall, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, female protagonist, coming of age, insanity, suicide attempt, psychiatrist, teenage girl, psychology, borderline personality disorder, psychiatric ward, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and ...
Style:
depressing, psychological, disturbing, controversial, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
incest, alienation, butcher, loneliness, insanity, revenge, nihilism, violent, obsession, existentialism, misfit, character on the edge ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, bleak, rough, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, serial murder, maniac, violence, killer as protagonist, murder, suspense, police investigation, serial killer as protagonist, prison, prisoner, psychopath ...
Time:
70s, year 1989, year 1974, year 1975, year 1976 ...
Place:
usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, rape, gay club, gay, torture, violence, necrophilia, killer, serial murder, macabre, obsession ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
464K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style:
psychological, depressing, emotional, twist ending, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
vengeance, loss of child, murder, suspense, sexual abuse, childhood, murder mystery, investigation, police investigation, child abuse, death in the family, revenge ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, bad ending, depressing ...
Plot:
missing person, murder, serial killer, investigation, prostitute, uncover truth, life is a bitch, family relations, dead girl, promiscuous daughter, child abuse, parents and children ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
240K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style:
mind bending, emotional, psychological, depressing, gloomy ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, guilt, drugs, drug addiction, multiple storylines, loneliness, suspense, grief, death, mathematician, tragedy, drug addict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Style:
emotional, rough, realistic, serious, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, drug overdose, drug addiction, drugs, teenager, sport ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
new york, new jersey, california, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's ...
Style:
disturbing, unusual plot structure, melancholic, bloody, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, death row, prison rape, prison, murder, killer, death sentence, true crime, violence, gangsters, greed, guilt ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
israel, new jersey, california, minnesota, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, realistic, controversial, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, bullying, revenge, teenager, drugs, rape, rivalry, murder, youth, bully, male nudity, teenage sex ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Style:
disturbing, sadistic, suspenseful, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
lawyer, child abuse, childhood, vengeance, rape, courtroom drama, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, pedophilia, friendship, revenge, murder trial ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, new york yankees, manhattan new york city
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75%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the ...
Style:
disturbing, harsh, serious, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
kidnapping, gang, sex scene, gangsters, drug dealer, true crime, youth, nude, society, male nudity, crime gone awry, culture clash ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2005, year 2003
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, palm springs california, albuquerque new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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:
disturbing, bleak, road movie, tense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, journalism, journalist, lovers on the run, suspense, road trip, writers, obsession, on the road, cross country, violence spree ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, pittsburgh, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, 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, disturbing, suspenseful, factual, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, psychopath, kidnapping, winter, murder investigation, sexual predator, drug overdose, manhunt, rape and murder, suspense, rape ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, year 1983
Place:
alaska, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, realistic, rough, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, rape, abusive husband, kidnapping, sister sister relationship, domestic violence, murder, lesbian rape, incest rape, female rapist, courtroom drama, psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot ...
Style:
clever, disturbing, sexy, surreal, art film ...
Plot:
art, artist, lesbian, women, feminist, writers, lgbt, true crime, feminism, gay, painter, obsession ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, true crime, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, confined, rape, abduction, survival ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2013, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like No Country for Old Men
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
Style:
surreal, stylized, brutal, harsh, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, brutality, social misfits, mental illness, violence, gangsters, male nudity, prison life, violence spree, society, jail, fistfight ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, year 1974
Place:
england, london, europe, united kingdom
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100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, violence, psychopath, gang, gay rape, male rape victim, torture, suspicion, murder, manipulation, killer, mother's boyfriend ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 1998
Place:
australia, south australia, adelaide south australia, oceania
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100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, France, Slovakia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and social conventions. With her Louise Brooks-like tomboyish looks she drags herself, chain-smoking, from one job to another until she appears to find her niche as a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, realistic, serious, art house ...
Plot:
socially awkward, true crime, court, lesbian, mental illness, murder, dysfunctional family, lgbt, paranoia, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, sociopath ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, psychological, serious, controversial ...
Plot:
prison, torture, court, brutality, injustice, escape, lawyer, suspense, prison escape, drugs, escape attempt, jail ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1972, year 1975 ...
Place:
turkey, brooklyn new york city, istanbul turkey, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, bleak, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
murder, gay bashing, gay, politics, gay slur, gay interest, violence, hypocrisy, sin, lgbt, life is a bitch, lesbian ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 21st century
Place:
usa, wyoming, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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