Movies like Monster 2003

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Monster (2003)
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Monster (2003)
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, depressing, emotional, harsh, heartbreaking, sad, rough, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, lesbian, homeless, prostitute, lesbian love, mental illness, rape, female serial killer, murder, borderline personality disorder, gay, couples, destructive relationship, female killer, tragic love, lgbtqi, biopic, sexual abuse, prostitution, lesbianism, women, true crime, obsession, misfit, character on the edge ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, 20th century, 2000s, 90s, 1990s
Place: florida, usa, michigan, miami, ohio
Keyword: gangsters, feminist film, disgust, eye candy

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Most similar movies to Monster

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and dark films with plots about murder, violence, serial killer, death, rape, cigarette smoking and police officer mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Monster: Boys Don't Cry (1999), Dahmer (2002), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Eye for an Eye (1996), An American Crime (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Boys Don't Cry (1999)
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, independent film, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, gender, rape, transgender, transsexual, violence, prejudice, lgbt, tragic love, small town, gay slur, lgbtq ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: nebraska, texas, usa
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86%
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 12K
Dahmer (2002)
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, slasher, stylized ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, rape, gay club, biopic, gay, torture, violence, necrophilia, blood, killer, serial murder ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 2002, 90s
Place: ohio, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
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, teenager, murder, coming of age, lesbian romance, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, insanity, lgbtq, sexuality ...
Time: 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, 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, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, maniac, serial murder, death penalty, violence, killer as protagonist, ted bundy, murder, police investigation, serial killer as protagonist, prison, true crime ...
Time: 70s, year 2019, 80s, year 1969, year 1978 ...
Place: usa, seattle, cincinnati ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 6.2
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Eye for an Eye (1996)
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, psychological thriller ...
Plot: rape, obsession, murder, vigilante, revenge, vengeance, psychopath, vigilantism, rape and murder, women, haunted by the past, loss of daughter ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: persia, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
An American Crime (2007)
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, harsh, serious, bleak, brutal ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: child abuse, true crime, torture, dysfunctional family, murder, captivity, courtroom drama, family problems, domestic violence, court, trial, mistreatment ...
Time: 60s, year 2007, 20th century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 12K
Ms .45 (1981)
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: neo noir, disturbing, grindhouse, controversial, bloody ...
Plot: rape, revenge, vigilante, femme fatale, rape and revenge, murder, sexual abuse, serial killer, one woman army, female vigilante, vigilantism, killing spree ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 6K
Karla (2006)
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, rough, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, rape, abusive husband, domestic violence, kidnapping, sister sister relationship, murder, true crime, rape victim, rough sex, incest rape, courtroom drama ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.3
 215K
Cape Fear (1991)
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, neo noir, tense, suspense ...
Plot: rape, fear, lawyer, family in danger, psychology, violence, serial killer, dangerous attraction, revenge, prison, rapist, psychopath ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place: north carolina, georgia, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
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, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, junkie, drug addiction, drug overdose, teenager, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995, near future, 60s
Place: new york, seattle, boston, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
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, depressing, serious, crying, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, suicide, insanity, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder, female protagonist, psychiatric ward, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.3
 26K
I Stand Alone (1998)
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, disturbing, psychological, bleak, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: loneliness, incest, butcher, revenge, violence, alienation, nihilism, insanity, existentialism, macabre, violent, obsession ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
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: scary, disturbing, realistic, independent film, sadistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, insanity, gory, maniac, rape, killing spree, incest, violent, true crime, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)
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, realistic, disturbing, serious, art house ...
Plot: socially awkward, true crime, lesbian, mental illness, murder, dysfunctional family, lgbt, mother daughter relationship, paranoia, trial, teenage girl, sociopath ...
Time: 90s, year 1975, 70s
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 483K
Mystic River (2003)
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, suspense, emotional, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: vengeance, police investigation, murder, sexual abuse, murder mystery, investigation, death in the family, child abuse, loss of child, revenge, tragic event, grief ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 9K
Lizzie (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young woman goes on a notorious ax-murdering rampage in Massachusetts at the turn of the century.
Style: suspense, queer horror, historical drama, tense, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, last will and testament, lesbian sex, lizzie borden, father daughter relationship, friendship, employer employee relationship, murder, lesbian love, oppression, double murder ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 245K
21 Grams (2003)
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, bleak, gloomy, depressing ...
Plot: life is a bitch, guilt, tragedy, grief, drug addiction, multiple storylines, drug addict, drug, loneliness, loss, mathematician, hit and run ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)
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, serious, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, death row, prison rape, prison, murder, killer, true crime, drinking, prisoner, corruption, chase, brutality ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: rhode island, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Hillside Strangler (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarted. He moves to California to live with his cousin Angelo and dates a string of women, becoming increasingly preoccupied with sex. Eventually the ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, rough, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, strangulation, rape, prostitute, murder, police investigation, psychopath, murderous pair, violence, sexual abuse, death, hidden identity ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, oregon, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 16K
The Dead Girl (2006)
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, depressing, atmospheric ...
Plot: missing person, murder, serial killer, investigation, prostitute, uncover truth, life is a bitch, family relations, promiscuous daughter, child abuse, loss of daughter, parents and children ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 40K
Bully (2001)
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, teen drama, adult
Plot: bullying, sexual abuse, rape, teenager, murder, nudity, sex, drug, rivalry, revenge, youth, teenage sex ...
Time: year 2001, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, bronx new york city, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.5
 237K
Sleepers (1996)
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, harsh, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, courtroom drama, child abuse, vengeance, friendship, childhood, rape, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, pedophilia, pedophile, murder trial ...
Time: 90s, 60s, 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.4
 64K
Straw Dogs (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
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: controversial, bleak, psychological, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexual abuse, home invasion, rape, rape and revenge, violent, revenge, murder, small town, vigilante, sexual assault, sex, rape turns to consensual sex ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: england, cornwall, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 6.7
 58K
Kalifornia (1993)
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: neo noir, bleak, road movie, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, road trip, lovers on the run, journalist, redneck, on the road, mental illness, insanity, journalism, ex convict, motel ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, pittsburgh, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Cleveland Abduction (2015)
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, true crime, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, rape, missing person, cruelty, abduction ...
Time: 2010s, year 2002, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Frozen Ground (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, 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, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, factual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, winter, police investigation, kidnapping, murder investigation, investigation, manhunt, sexual predator, drug overdose, rape and murder, rape ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 108K
Alpha Dog (2006)
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, serious, rough, teen, harsh ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: kidnapping, gang, true crime, sex scene, youth, friendship, culture clash, crime gone awry, gangster, unlikely friendships, revenge, loss of virginity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2005, year 2003
Place: los angeles, usa, california, albuquerque new mexico, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 60K
Bound (1996)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Corky, a tough female ex con and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caesar.
Style: sexy, neo noir, erotic, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbianism, ex convict, mafia, seduction, femme fatale, heist, lesbian sex, female criminal, sex ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: usa, idaho, indiana, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 171K
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the ...
Style: road movie, sexy, touching, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: road trip, friendship, feminism, female friendship, on the road, fugitives, rape, female bonding, gender, escapades, lovers on the run, attempted rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1991, 90s
Place: arizona, southern usa, oklahoma, bolivia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
A History of Violence (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
Style: neo noir, harsh, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Audience: date night, manly
Plot: gangster, self defense, revenge, sex scene, violent, small town, mobster, mafia, attempted robbery, organized crime, redemption, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: indiana, philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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