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The Spreading Ground (2000)
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The Spreading Ground (2000)
Original name: Spreading Ground
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Veteran Detective Ed Delopre (Dennis Hopper) and partner Mike McGivern (Fredric Forrest) have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five dead bodies already on his record. The mayor, in a rush to see peace restored in her city, makes a deal with the mob instead of waiting for Delopre and McGivern's results. Now that both sides of the law are involved in the killer's capture, the city is turned upside down.
Style: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, detective, mind bending, realistic
Plot: psychopath, investigation, rivalry, law enforcement, riddles and clues, gangster, dishonesty, killer, serial killer, kidnapping, american football, parents and children, police detective, estrangement, cons and scams, football, murderer, police, murder, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, old age, peace, elderly, mayor ...
Time: 90s
Keyword: gangsters, irish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about deadly, murder, law enforcement, serial killer, investigation, danger and psychopath mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Spreading Ground: The Detective 2 (2011), The Prophet's Game (2000), Bone Daddy (1998), Double Bang (2001), Slice (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Detective 2 (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mysteries keep revolving around Tam’s life.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: law enforcement, police detective, investigation, police investigation, danger, private detective, murder, riddles and clues, serial killer, killer, violent content, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, china, thailand
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95%
The Prophet's Game (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground... Los Angeles. It has taken an innocent childhood game and twisted it into a deadly match of wits, where the only prize is survival. Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: murder, riddles and clues, investigation, chases and races, vengeance, danger, obsession, death of daughter, uncover truth, ex cop, judiciary, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Bone Daddy (1998)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Doctor Palmer, a former pathologist, wrote a fictional book based on his real cases. In the book, the madman gets caught, but in reality he is still uncaught. After the book is released, Palmer's editor is kidnapped. Palmer soon is sent a ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, perverse ...
Plot: serial killer, kidnapping, pathologist, writer's life, danger, law enforcement, gory, parents and children, corpse, medicine, medical examiner, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 4.9
 464
Double Bang (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, investigation, undercover, hidden identity, working undercover, dishonesty, law enforcement, fighting crime, police corruption, master criminal, vengeance, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Slice (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A serial killer is preying on the rich and influential, exposing their sexual proclivities, dismembering them and dumping them and their severed body parts in various locations around Thailand. The police officer on the case is not even close to ...
Style: rough, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, neo noir ...
Plot: killer, serial killer, pedophile, psychopath, police detective, life is a bitch, riddles and clues, danger, false accusation, stalking, dangerous attraction, hitman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
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The Gunman (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Detective Ben Simm's wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, vigilante, investigation, vengeance, police detective, haunted by the past, serial killer, law enforcement, danger, psychopath, murder, who done it ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Son of Sam (2008)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: This chilling tale recounts the late 70's in New York City, when a serial killer on the loose dubbed "Son of Sam" creates havoc. When arrested, "Son of Sam" tells police he was influenced by a satanic cult. New York would ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, investigation, danger, law enforcement, police investigation, mind game, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, murderer, tough guy ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, new york
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71%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Slow Burn (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The murder of the ex-wife of Doctor Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam Grier) to uncover a series of women's murders somehow linked to a big pharmaceutical company.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroes, murder, psychopath, female detective, reluctant partners, law enforcement, police investigation, who done it, partner, dishonesty, life is a bitch, partners against crime ...
Time: 90s
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69%
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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 ⇓
69%
 3.5
 606
Jack Rises (2013)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A London detective tracking a serial killer finds the killers "truth or die" methods take him to New York to solve the case.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, who done it, law enforcement, riddles and clues, murder, private detective, amateur detective, dishonesty, danger, murderous pair, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 5.3
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After Alice (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A washed-up detective discovers his own psychic ability when assigned to investigate a serial murder case. The killer has a deranged obsession with the novel "Alice in Wonderland." As the psychopath's bloody reign of terror continues, ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, surprise ending ...
Plot: serial killer, psychic, psychopath, riddles and clues, supernatural ability, police investigation, mind game, murder, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, killer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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 ⇓
66%
 6.0
 118
Bloodlines (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: After Elaine Hopkin is found dead, apparent an OD suicide, her firstborn Mark wouldn't even inform his dad James Hopkin, who was locked up for murder. Kid sister Justine, a cocky uniformed cop, goes visit him, only to learn he was just ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot: investigation, murder, dishonesty, intrigue, rivalry, law enforcement, danger, righting the wronged, parents and children, police, family relations, ritual ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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
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66%
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The Keeper (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When an apparently exemplary cop abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful dancer, a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues.
Style: psychological thriller, psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, psychopath, missing person, woman in danger, deputy sheriff, riddles and clues, isolation, who done it, captivity, serial killer, mentally unstable ...
Place: asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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The Apostate (2000)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A man of the cloth finds his faith challenged both by the death of one of his closest relatives and the aftermath of the crime in this thriller. When a man is murdered under mysterious circumstances, his brother, a Catholic priest (Richard Grieco), ...
Style: tense, bleak, mind bending, scary, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, art, priest, investigation, obsession, amateur detective, clergy, hidden identity, law enforcement, murder, painter, religion ...
Time: 90s
Place: puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Gone but Not Forgotten (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious
Plot: serial killer, danger, private detective, investigation, amateur detective, psychopath, rivalry, murder, police investigation, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, police detective ...
Place: usa, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Slaughter of the Innocents (1993)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A seasoned FBI Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic mohab nut who believes he's been chosen by god to be a new Noah.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, fbi, parents and children, investigation, law enforcement, who done it, hotshot hero, psychopath, child murder investigation, father son relationship, woman with a gun ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Spanish Judges (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A con-artist hires two low-lifes to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two dueling pistols, and one night they'll never forget
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Plot: psychopath, criminal heroes, mind game, unlikely criminals, betrayal, dishonesty, rivalry, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, heist, mentally challenged, murder ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Partners in Crime (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gene Reardon (Hauer) is a twice-divorced police detective who lives with his daughter. When a well-heeled local man is kidnapped, the FBI is called in, which introduces Longsworth (played by Paulina Porizkova). Longsworth happens to have been ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: murder, uncover truth, investigation, private detective, who done it, law enforcement, dishonesty, small town, ex husband ex wife relationship, fbi agent, frame up, nypd ...
Time: 90s
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62%
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First Degree (1995)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When prominent businessman Andrew Pyne is found shot in a New York alley, one of the NYPD's best, Rick Mallory, suspects a Galeno Mob hit. When he and his partner, Amos Turzo try to question Pyne's widow, Hadley, they are quickly ushered ...
Style: independent film, tense, mind bending, realistic, serious ...
Plot: murder, righting the wronged, power relations, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, witnessing a crime, fighting crime, police investigation, couple relations, femme fatale, amateur detective, serial killer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 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 ⇓
61%
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Freeway Killer (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, rape and murder, who done it, strong violent content, police detective, law enforcement, life is a bitch, stalking, danger, physical appearance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Man on the Balcony (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A serial-killer attacks and murders young girls in the parks of Stockholm. The police have trouble finding any evidence to find the killer. But when a newsstand is robbed in one of the parks while the murderer strikes again, police inspector Martin ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak, realistic
Plot: serial killer, child murder investigation, child murder, law enforcement, dishonesty, murder, vigilante, police, criminal heroes, dead children, sex maniac, dead child ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Class of '76 (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child."
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, amateur detective, obsession, murder, riddles and clues, law enforcement, kidnapping, mentally unstable, mystery killer, classmate, serial killer, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Out of the Darkness (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A gripping thriller telling the true story of the hunt and capture of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "Son of Sam" — the infamous serial killer who stalked New York in the 70s.
Style: detective, psychological, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, murder, killer, parent child relationship, couple relations, chases and races, tough law enforcer, danger, obsessive quest, law enforcement, fighting crime ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Dead Connection (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a series of murders in motel rooms are connected, a cop, Dickson, heads out on the trail to find a serial killer. He discovers that he signs the motel guest-books with the names of boxers, and hence gets a lead on him. However, when he just ...
Style: detective, independent film, tense, mind bending, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, interracial, police, psychopath, murder, phone sex, woman in danger, alcohol abuse, vengeance, investigation, rivalry, athlete's life ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Natural Enemy (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: William McNamara plays a young man who was given away by his mother at birth, seeking revenge on her for abandoning him.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, parents and children, danger, dishonesty, woman in danger, couples, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, obsession ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Mister Frost (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to be, but he is ...
Style: psychological, satanic, independent film, scary, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, mental institution, psychopath, murder, psychiatrist, unsettling, hell, occult, satanism, milf, puzzle, satan ...
Time: 90s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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