Movies like Nightwatch 1997

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Nightwatch (1997)
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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, neo noir, detective, suspenseful, psychological thriller, surreal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, murder, protagonist as suspect, police detective, danger, riddles and clues, dead prostitute, slow burn, student, scared, who done it, witnessing a crime, prostitution, paranoia, mind game, killer, murderer, supernatural, crime investigation, killing, law, frame up, morgue, corpse ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
Keyword: doctors

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Most similar movies to Nightwatch

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and psychological films with plots about serial killer, murder, deadly, danger, psychopath, killer and mind game mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Nightwatch: The Zodiac (2005), Resurrection (1999), Memory (2006), Bloody Murder (2000), The Hand (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Zodiac (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Style: rough, psychological, bleak, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, psychopath, murder, police detective, obsession, killing spree, mind game, gory, family conflict, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 2005
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa
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Nightwatch (1994)
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 ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, tense, psychological, creepy ...
Plot: psychopath, night watchman, serial killer, doctor, murder, bet, brutality, danger, investigation, oral sex, perversion, murder mystery ...
Time: 90s
Place: scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 11K
Resurrection (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of Judas.
Style: scary, detective, serious, tense, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, violence, race against time, brutality, religion, death of son, killer, police partner, easter, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 2K
Memory (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, uncover truth, investigation, gory, who done it, police detective, mind game, mysterious character, experiment gone awry, murder, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2006
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Bloody Murder (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Julie McConnell is one of a dozen camp counselors working to re-open a summer camp when a series of murders and disappearances begin commited by a hockey masked killer who may be the urban legend killer Trevor Moorehouse. When Julie looks into the ...
Style: slasher, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, teenage life, vengeance, danger, mind game, rivalry, survival, lake, murderer, isolation ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 7K
The Hand (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
Style: suspense, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, obsession, vengeance, comic book, brutality, midlife crisis, hallucination, family in danger, rivalry, cartoonist, christmas ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, hitchhiker, mind game, on the road, woman in danger, survival, law enforcement, danger, vengeance, police investigation, murder ...
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 14K
Anatomy (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Medical student Paula Henning wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot: gory, serial killer, medical school, murder, medical, university, amateur detective, woman in danger, teenage life, death, secret society, professor ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Lost Angel (2005)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
Style: suspense, scary, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, crucifix, law enforcement, danger, investigation, murder, dealing with death, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, who done it, female pubic hair, church ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 415
Perfect Prey (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A former Texas Ranger is recruited by a Houston police captain to assist a homicide detective in the search for an elusive serial killer who collects antique dolls.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot: serial killer, psychologist, texas ranger, serial murder, psychopath, police detective, law enforcement, police investigation, obsession, danger, chases and races, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 11K
Lost Souls (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A small group of Catholics led by an ailing priest believe that Satan intends to become man, just as God did in the person of Jesus. The writings of a possessed mental patient lead them to Peter Kelson, a writer who studies serial killers. They ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, satanic ...
Plot: devil, supernatural, antichrist, serial killer, curses spells and rituals, religion, satanism, devil worship, religions or cults, supernatural ability, exorcism, reincarnation ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 137K
Saw V (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Detective Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, he must go on the hunt to eliminate all the loose ends.
Style: scary, bloody, suspense, psychological, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, torture, game of death, trap, psychopath, mind game, violent, kidnapping, blood, gory, vigilante, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 374
Relative Fear (1994)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and abused by the kids of the neighborhood and his grandpa . When several people around ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense ...
Plot: murder, killer child, suspicion, psychopath, therapist, boy, mischievous children, social misfits, danger, family life, investigation, serial killer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.9
 492
Asylum (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Robert Patrick stars as a private investigator traumatized by his father's suicide who goes undercover in a mental institution to uncover the murderer of his psychiatrist.
Style: independent film, mind bending, scary, serious, realistic ...
Plot: mental illness, psychology, clinic, working undercover, murder, mental institution, hospital, cons and scams, power relations, investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 109K
The Cell (2000)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Style: psychological, surreal, psychedelic, scary, mind bending ...
Plot: serial killer, surrealism, psychopath, race against time, coma, psychiatrist, virtual reality, mind game, fbi, investigation, schizophrenia, dream ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.0
 855
Rough Draft (1998)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A struggling freelance writer, while investigating the transvestite night life, stumbles across a serial killer in action. The two then strike up a bizarre partnership to document the killer's motives and handiwork as a possessed detective ...
Style: independent film, tense, scary, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, killer, nypd, serial murder, sociopath, stalking, transvestism, murder, harassment, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.4
 10K
Anamorph (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, psychopath, investigation, law enforcement, murder, police station, uncover truth, supernatural, life is a bitch, who done it, danger ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
Style: bleak, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, jack the ripper, murder, maniac, psychopath, woman in danger, who done it, danger, police investigation, gory, mind game, killer ...
Time: victorian era, 70s, 19th century, 1880s
Place: england, london, europe, scotland, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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When the Bough Breaks (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A police detective investigates the apparent serial killing of several children which is linked to an institutionalized, autistic child.
Style: scary, rough, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, missing person, murder, investigation, mentally unstable, witnessing a crime, female police officer, police investigation, woman in danger, police detective, mind game ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Horrible Way to Die (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, kidnapping, woman in danger, revenge, violence spree, small town, haunted by the past, remorse, fanatic, female psychopath ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 2.5
 722
San Franpsycho (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two detectives hunt a serial killer who is sending cryptic messages about his crimes to a local reporter.
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, who done it, danger, psychopath, journalism, stalking, maniac, murderer, killer, clergy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 3.9
 986
Gut (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around ...
Style: psychological, tense, serious, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, voyeurism, haunted by the past, best friend, losing-it hero, danger, serial killer, violence, killer, violent content, disorder, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 2.8
 5K
Choke (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: The lines between reality and fiction, and good and bad blur when both a nihilistic detective and a serial killer's affairs with a mysterious girl overlap.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, graphic violence, danger, partner, death, violence, murder, chase, law enforcement, police detective, vengeance, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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B.T.K. Killer (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Veteran Boogey Man and Zodiac Killer director Ulli Lommel continues his long tradition of delivering tense thrills with this relentless look at the life of the elusive, Kansas-based serial killer known to authorities only as "B.T.K." ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murderer, psychopath, investigation, life is a bitch, chase, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, danger, serial murder, violence ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.2
 904
Long Distance (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, profiler, murder, psychopath, danger, stalking, phone terror, violent content, sexual content, profanity, killer, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa
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20%
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The Ugly (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, creepy ...
Plot: serial killer, mental institution, murder, psychologist, psychopath, mind game, investigation, mysterious character, haunted by the past, doctors and patients, killer, surrealism ...
Time: 90s
Place: new zealand, oceania
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19%
 3.0
 606
Kemper (2008)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
Style: slasher, serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, violence spree, murder, investigation, police detective, law enforcement, danger, woman in danger, stalking, true crime, blood, killer ...
Time: 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Little Erin Merryweather (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Once upon a time, death preyed upon a New England college campus. Rumors swirl that "if you see a flash of red, you're dead!" Local golden boy, Peter Bloom (David Morwick) investigates the grisly killings until the stakes grow higher ...
Style: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, college, investigation, mind game, amateur detective, danger, survival, journalism, stalking, youth, rivalry, psychopath ...
Place: new england, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.2
 858
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 ⇓
100%
 4.8
 41K
The Roommate (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Sara, a young design student from Iowa, arrives for college in Los Angeles, she is eager to fit in and get to know the big city. Her wealthy roommate, Rebecca, is more than eager to take Sara under her wing and show her the ropes. The two ...
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, intense, harsh ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: obsession, female psychopath, college, stalker, mind game, fraternity, mentally unstable, obsessive love, bad girl, murder, lesbian, female stalker ...
Time: year 2000, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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100%
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