Movies like Nightwatch 1994

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Nightwatch (1994)
 7.2
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Nightwatch (1994)
Original name: Nattevagten
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In order to finance his law studies, Martin starts as a night watchman in a mortuary. When the victims of a serial killer of prostitutes are deposited there, scary things begin to happen. Therefore and because of a strange bet with his fellow student Jens, the police begins to think he is the murderer. Police detective Wormer wants to help him but Martin is more and more suspected.
Style: suspenseful, scary, tense, psychological, disturbing, creepy, ironic, slasher, neo noir, psychological thriller ...
Plot: psychopath, night watchman, serial killer, doctor, murder, bet, brutality, danger, investigation, oral sex, perversion, murder mystery, student, european, nordic, morgue, violence, death, hospital, male nudity, chase, mentor, manipulation, police investigation, vampire ...
Time: 90s
Place: scandinavia
Keyword: doctors, crawling, visit, outburst, superior

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Most similar movies to Nightwatch

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, psychological, serious and suspense films with plots about murder, serial killer, violence, investigation, police investigation, police officer and dead body mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Nightwatch: Thesis (1996), 10 to Midnight (1983), Frenzy (1972), The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015), Straight on Till Morning (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Thesis (1996)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story: While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, suspense, intense ...
Plot: serial killer, macabre, murder, investigation, violent, death, voyeurism, loser, videotaping, scared, killing, terror ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
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Nightwatch (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, psychological, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, murder, protagonist as suspect, police detective, danger, riddles and clues, dead prostitute, slow burn, student, scared, witnessing a crime ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
10 to Midnight (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, male nudity, murder, serial killer, revenge, sex maniac, red light district, serial rape, criminal, vigilantism, psychopath, nudity ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 49K
Frenzy (1972)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, detective, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, rape, strangulation, truck, murder, psychopath, police, mistaken identity, dark humor, sexual perversion, man kills a woman, murder of a nude woman ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 60s
Place: london, britain, england, europe, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Anna Fritz is a beautiful and famous actress. Suddenly her body is found in a hotel and the news of her death goes around the planet. The young, shy caretaker Pau works at the hospital where they carried the body of Anna Fritz. He and his friends ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, harsh, enigmatic ...
Plot: necrophilia, hospital, female nudity, fandom, corpse, raped woman, morgue, murder, death, fear, blood, presumed dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Straight on Till Morning (1972)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Brenda moved to London to begin living those intoxicated fantasies that all young women imagine city life to offer. Soon after her arrival she begins a relationship with Peter with whom she is tremendously happy. When she becomes pregnant ...
Style: psychotronic, noir, independent film, psychological thriller, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, female psychopath, castle, dog, woman in danger, psychopath, nudity, murder of a nude woman, female nudity, kidnapping, pregnancy ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom, liverpool
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26%
 4.7
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Fatal Charm (1990)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Valerie's (Amanda Peterson) prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam (Christopher Atkins), an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six women. But he's so charming that the teenage Valerie just can't believe he really did it, ...
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, serious, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, cheerleader, murder, forbidden love, high school, fetishist, masochist, erotic dream, violent content, righting the wronged, parents and children, false accusation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Hide and Go Shriek (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of teenagers spends the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts to hunt them down and kill them off.
Style: slasher, cult classic, bloody, independent film, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, teenager, high school, psychopath, hide and seek, elevator, gay, graduation, home invasion, isolation, celebration ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Black Serenade (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the killings; it seems as if the killer strikes regularly after ...
Style: slasher, bleak, psychological, suspense, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, unfaithful wife, religion, terror, mutilation, urban legend, college, university, voyeur, blood, fight, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young woman is accused of murdering her debauched neighbor after dreaming it. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
Style: slasher, psychosexual thriller, grindhouse, surprise ending, spooky ...
Plot: lesbian lover, nightmare, erotic dream, murder, lesbian, female nudity, serial killer, glamour, female psychopath, plot twist, acid trip, mysticism ...
Time: 70s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Deliver Us from Evil (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In search of a new lifestyle, Johannes and his wife Pernille leave the city and move with their two children to Johannes’ childhood town in the country. When Johannes’ drunken brother Lars accidently runs over Anna, a local, and plants false ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: xenophobia, immigrant, small town, family in danger, human nature, rivalry, social relations, false accusation, social differences, vengeance, countryside, children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.3
 1K
Murder 101 (1991)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Charles Lattimore, an author of a book about a famous murder trial, arranges to meet with one of his students one night. When the student is found murdered and Lattimore has no alibi, he suspects he is being framed by the subject of his book.
Style: realistic, psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: murder, police investigation, dishonesty, uncover truth, frame up, who done it, police corruption, protagonist as suspect, mind game, law enforcement, amateur detective, false accusation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.7
 18K
The Stepfather (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A seemingly mild mannered man -- who has just murdered his entire family -- quickly adopts a new identity and leaves town. After building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter, he struggles to hide his true identity and maintain a ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, maniac, murder of family, fake identity, new identity, killer, macabre, mental illness, murderer, psycho killer ...
Time: 80s
Place: turkey, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor (Fabio Testi) who is involved with a student becomes a suspect, along with several other male and female teachers.
Style: slasher, detective, grindhouse, suspense, deep ...
Plot: serial killer, voyeurism, murder, obsession, sexual obsession, psycho killer, murder of a nude woman, infidelity, misogynist, lust, voyeur, brutality ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.2
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Hangman (2001)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Death by noose. A nasty way to die if you're not dropped from a length, but instead just had the support kicked from beneath you. A series of murders like this is taking place, linked to a net-based game of 'Hangman', the words of ...
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, mind game, mysterious character, psychopath, police detective, danger, dangerous attraction, false accusation, frame up, murder, villain ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.6
 9K
StageFright (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything seems to be as it should until one of the cast members turns up dead. In a panic, the others try to get out, only to find they are now locked in the ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, intense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, psychopath, survival, theater, blood, woman in danger, macabre, mental institution, rehearsal, theatre group ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 6.0
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Pieces (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, disturbing, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, chainsaw, college, psychopath, danger, exploitation, stalking, sexual repression, male nudity, investigation ...
Time: 80s, 1940s, year 1982, year 1942
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.4
 26K
Bad Samaritan (2018)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A thieve makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are not longer how he expected.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, home invasion, captive, investigation, violence, sadism, psycho killer, obsession, held captive, murder, sadist ...
Place: portland oregon, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Sexy Killer: You'll Die for Her (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In medical school of an elite university, campus starts sown with corpses. The police have no clue who is responsible for the carnage. Nobody suspected Barbara, a beautiful young innocent looking whose only concern seems to be the fashion. However, ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: female assassin, serial killer, murder, psychopath, sex addict, danger, amateur detective, violence spree, obsession, teachers and students, gory, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.6
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The Body (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Style: surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder, investigation, uncover truth, missing person, adulterous husband, car accident, mistress, morgue, vengeance, adultery, haunted by the past ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
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19%
 5.2
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Scorned (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.
Style: erotic, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: femme fatale, erotica, sexual relations, female rapist, dysfunctional family, first sexual experience, lesbian seduction, seduction, lesbianism, female villain, mother son conflict, lesbian sex ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Like.Share.Follow. (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Garrett is a rising YouTube star. Shell is a deeply emotional fan. When they begin a romantic relationship, he's forced to question whether opening your life to strangers online is an invitation to community and rescue... or to stalking, ...
Style: cyber, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: fan, male rape victim, obsession, love story, danger, teenage boy, meeting, stalker, stalking, serial killer, mental disorder, technology ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.5
 16K
Don't Hang Up (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An evening of drunken prank calls becomes a nightmare for a pair of teenagers when a mysterious stranger turns their own game against them.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prank, telephone call, home invasion, mysterious stranger, teenager, stalker, murder, terror, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death threat, threat ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Stolen Identity 2 (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A couple of months have passed since the serial murder case. A new dead body is found in the same area. Detective Manabu Kagaya tries to find the truth. He goes to see serial killer Yoshiharu Urano in prison.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, corpse, police investigation, law enforcement, police officer, police detective, uncover truth, violent, maniac, danger, killing spree, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Bedroom Window (1987)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Terry Lambert is sleeping with Sylvia, the wife of his boss. One night, while in Terry's apartment, Sylvia witnesses a man assault a young woman, Denise, on the road below. Not wanting to reveal her affair with Terry, she keeps quiet. Terry ...
Style: suspenseful, neo noir, tense, intense, psychological ...
Plot: legal, femme fatale, serial killer, rapist, false accusation, murder, obsession, revenge, investigation, infidelity, danger, mind game ...
Time: 80s
Place: maryland, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He ...
Style: slasher, mind bending, grindhouse, creepy, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, female serial killer, closeted homosexual, murder, obsession, female psychopath, psychotic, macabre, murder mystery, gay, musician, killer ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: europe, rome italy, italy, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Student Connection (1974)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The director of a school is surprised when a student commits a murder, so there are no alternative but to also eliminate the only eyewitness
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, freeze frame ...
Plot: serial killer, boarding school, murder, child in peril, dishonesty, witnessing a crime, femme fatale, danger, couple relations, couples, power relations, teachers and students ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.5
 107K
Headhunters (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary..
Style: stylized, captivating, dark comedy, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, pre-teens
Plot: twists and turns, surveillance, art thief, chase, art theft, revenge, reputation, male star appears nude, mind game, sex, infidelity, police investigation ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, europe, oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.6
 59K
Ma (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her ...
Style: suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underage drinking, basement, revenge, mental health, psychopath, teenager, torture, twists and turns, teenage girl, female psychopath, teen drinking, social network ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Vaigai Express (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: An investigative officer takes up a case involving the deaths of three different women murdered by three different killers with varying motives.
Style: tense, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, psychological
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, murder, female victim, murder investigation, serial murder, law enforcement, manhunt, murder mystery, escapades, who done it, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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