Movies like Q
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Q (1982)
11K
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
New York police are bemused by reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, until the lizard starts to eat people. An out-of-work ex-con is the only person who knows the location of the monster's nest and is determined to turn the knowledge to his advantage, but will his gamble pay off or will he end up as lizard food?
Style:
cult horror, independent film, scary, detective, atmospheric, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful, splatter, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, monster, anti hero, giant bird, giant monster, insanity, blood, thief, masked man, eaten alive, police investigation, skyscraper, amateur detective, criminal, robbery, voyeur, museum, decapitation, attic, stupidity, human sacrifice, transformation, deadly creature, violence spree, creature feature ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, new jersey
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Most similar movies to Q
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and suspense films with plots about murder, deadly, blood, danger, death, gory and gore mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Q: Maniac Cop (1988), God Told Me To (1976), Maniac Cop 2 (1990), The Crater Lake Monster (1977), Psycho II (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In New York, people are slain and strangled to death brutally on the open street. All witnesses agree that the murderer was in a cop's uniform. Soon the police searches and finds a suspect in its own ranks: Jack Forrest, turned in by his own ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, violence, murder, police investigation, stalking, st. patrick's day, false accusation, police corruption, vengeance, danger, unlikely criminals, couple relations ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
Style:
suspenseful, creepy, enigmatic, rough, grindhouse ...
Plot:
occult, police investigation, macabre, alien, murder, life & death, introspection, mysterious character, st. patrick's day, supernatural, psychopath, law enforcement ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
christmas horror, slasher, classic horror, psychological thriller, dark ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, cop, monster, exploitation, killer, supernatural horror, car chase, police, strip club, female nudity, living dead, christmas ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The heat of a meteor crashing into the lake incubates a prehistoric egg, which grows into a plesiosaur-like monster that terrifies the community.
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Plot:
dinosaur, monster, meteorite, mutant, dangerous animal, kaiju, chaos, deadly creature, danger, vengeance, supernatural, animal attack ...
Time:
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, suspense, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, insanity, psychopath, psychiatrist, murder, psycho killer, psycho, revenge, homicidal maniac, male victim, swamp, waitress ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover ...
Style:
scary, exciting, serious, splatter, suspenseful ...
Plot:
monster, human versus monster, museum, violence, deadly creature, gory, creature feature, fear, creature, police detective, superstition, police investigation ...
Time:
90s, jurassic
Place:
chicago, brazil, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Children turned into zombies wreak havoc in a coroner's building with just a burned-out psychic, an experienced cop and two coroners to stop the madness.
Style:
detective, cult classic, independent film, scary, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s, 90s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Eight years have passed since Sara Wolfe and Eddie Baker escaped the House on Haunted Hill. Now the kidnapped Ariel, Sara's sister, goes inside the house with a group of treasure hunters to find the statue of Baphomet, worth millions and ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, perverse, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, evil, female mercenary, murder, trapped, survival, uncover truth, danger, deadly creature, supernatural ability, vengeance ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
europe, united kingdom, britain
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cynicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them.
Style:
medical horror, suspense, scary, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
island, mutant, rescue, survival, isolation, investigation, danger, mind game, murder, experiment gone awry, monster, body horror ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
cuba, florida
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, bleak, demonic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
supernatural, curse, monster, scarecrow, mind control, demon, folk horror, legend, loss of son, deadly creature, danger, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
80s, year 2016
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A shady police detective becomes embroiled in a strange world of murder, sadism and madness after being assigned a murder investigation against a madman known only as "The Engineer".
Style:
detective, scary, psychological, slasher, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, torture, police detective, nightmare, supernatural, serial killer, police investigation, hellraiser, chase, psychopath, mind game, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
At the risk of her group's safety, a young woman travels into a National Forest where her sister has become trapped in a multi-dimensional world of monsters.
Style:
scary, captivating, suspense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
creature, forest, supernatural, survival, sister, murder, supernatural horror, danger, isolation, imaginary, deadly creature, characters killed one by one ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment. Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense ...
Plot:
danger, losing-it hero, home invasion, stalking, obsession, investigation, dangerous attraction, mentally unstable, dishonesty, vengeance, gory, serial killer ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, hostage, masked killer, woman in danger, gory, criminal heroes, confined, on the run, violence spree, backwoods, kidnapping, old dark house ...
Time:
year 2003, year 1989, 80s, year 1999, 90s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, satanic, bloody ...
Plot:
voodoo, ritual, supernatural, satanic cult, child in peril, brutality, violent, religion, murder, female nudity, animal sacrifice, folk horror ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, minneapolis minnesota, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
21%
101K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, neo noir, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, good versus evil, supernatural, twists and turns, devil, police detective, possession, curse, violence, psychic, demonic possession ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, philadelphia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two investigative reporters for a tabloid magazine track down across country "The Night Flier", a serial killer who travels by private plane stalking victims in rural airports. One of the reporters, Richard Dees, begins to suspect that ...
Style:
scary, suspense, splatter, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
new york state, maryland
Similarity:
20%
15K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, ...
Style:
slasher, scary, grindhouse, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, toxic, police investigation, gory, creature feature, experiment gone awry, survival, danger, murder, exploitation, creature, violence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jason Voorhees, the living, breathing essence of evil, is back for one fierce, final fling! Tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, everyone now assumes that he's finally dead. But everybody assumes wrong. Jason has been ...
Style:
slasher, sexy, scary, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, gory, friday the 13th, violent, murder, murder of a nude woman, masked man, masked killer, police officer, male victim, blood, sex ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003
Place:
new jersey, ohio
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, police investigation, mind game, policewoman, police, murder investigation, death, twists and turns, murder mystery, race against time ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, persia, grand central station manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
101K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is ...
Style:
psychological thriller, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, psychopath, murder investigation, murder mystery, dangerous attraction, fatal attraction, tough girl, female agent, strong female character, police investigation, strong female lead ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 80s, year 1983, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada, montreal, pennsylvania
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The bizarre found footage from an investigation into a true crime murder. An unemployed man's curiosity about his neighbor's murder warps into a conspiratorial obsession.
Style:
mockumentary, psychological, scary, psychotronic, suspense ...
Plot:
found footage, true crime, conspiracy theory, parapsychology, driven mad, mental illness, murder, society, vengeance, cruelty, violence, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Toulon, a puppet maker, discovers an ancient Egyptian potion and uses it to bring his creations to life. His puppets become murderous little demons and escape. Distraught, the master takes his life. Years later, psychics tune into the existence of ...
Style:
demonic, suspense, scary, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
puppet, evil doll, murder, violence, supernatural, doll, deadly creature, killer doll, female nudity, time machine, transformation, puppet master ...
Time:
80s, year 1939, 1930s
Place:
new york, yale university, pacific ocean, california
Similarity:
20%
Movie in collections
2.0M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style:
suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective, bad ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, psychology, mind game, police investigation, police, police detective, sin, maniac, murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, usa, persia, iran, america ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young man comes to possess a supernatural notebook, the Death Note, that grants him the power to kill any person simply by writing down their name on the pages. He then decides to use the notebook to kill criminals and change the world, but an ...
Style:
suspense, anime, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
death, deity, notebook, adaptation, violence, police, murder, revenge, mass suicide, betrayal, chase, fbi ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
seattle, usa, new york state, tokyo
Similarity:
20%
24K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The sought-after images of top model, Jennifer, adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a charity event, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, and ...
Style:
scary, psychological, disturbing, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
kidnapping, torture, stalking, violence, serial killer, psychopath, brutality, hostage, captivity, voyeur, stereotypes, isolation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A college-age brother and sister get more than they bargained for on their road trip home from spring break. When the bickering siblings witness a creepy truck driver tossing body bags into a sewer near an abandoned church, they investigate. Bad ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, creepy, dark ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, macabre, death, serial killer, supernatural, scared, characters murdered one by one, demon, dead teenager, halloween, destiny, scarecrow ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
florida
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, demonic, suspense ...
Plot:
stephen king, small town, sheriff, curses spells and rituals, survival, mine, murder, supernatural, mysterious character, danger, family in danger, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, salt lake city utah, vietnam, nevada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A tough police detective escapes from custody handcuffed to a foul-mouthed car thief after being framed for the murder of his ex-wife. He must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.
Style:
neo noir, tricky, suspenseful, detective, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, mafia, chase, police investigation, vengeance, frame up, stalking, vigilantism, juvenile delinquent, female serial killer, false accusation, femme fatale ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A man conjures up a gigantic vengeance demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy the teenagers who accidentally killed his son.
Style:
slasher, atmospheric, scary, melancholic, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, demon, witch, vengeance, macabre, murder, revenge, creature, father son relationship, death in the family, supernatural ability, dealing with death ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Similarity:
19%
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