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Tenebrae (1982)
31K
Original name: Tenebre
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Style:
slasher, creepy, dark, scary, psychological, grindhouse, disturbing, erotic, surreal, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, lesbian, dog attack, gory, writers, murder mystery, blood, investigation, obsession, female nudity, voyeurism, violent, animal attack, shoplifter, murderer, plot twist, violence against women, police investigation, psychopath, murder, chase, misogynist, exploitation, novelist ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
rome italy, italy, new york, rhode island, new york state, europe, american
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, slasher and serious films with plots about murder, psychopath, serial killer, violence, blood, gore and murderer mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Tenebrae: Suspiria (2018), Deep Red (1975), The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007), House on the Edge of the Park (1980), From Hell (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, dark, sinister, avant garde ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
ritual sacrifice, dead woman, curse, witchcraft, secret, paranormal phenomena, mysterious event, corporal punishment, occult, good versus evil, spiritualism, witch ...
Time:
year 1977, year 1948, 70s, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, italy, ohio, east berlin
Similarity:
100%
47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style:
suspense, gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, gory, murder, psychopath, manic, intrigue, murder mystery, female serial killer, danger, haunted by the past, amateur detective, darkness ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, canary islands, lebanon ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever ...
Style:
disturbing, mockumentary, sadistic, slasher, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, serial killer, murder, psychopath, torture, macabre, violence, psycho killer, maniac, psycho, sadism, captive ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
usa, new york state, pennsylvania, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alex (David Hess) is a darkly sinister thug driving around New York City at night when he spots a young woman (Karoline Mardeck) driving alongside him. He follows the woman to a nearby park where he cuts her off, gets out of his car, and runs into ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, sexual, grindhouse, surprise ending ...
Plot:
home invasion, rape, rape and revenge, torture, violence, sadist, cruelty, violence against women, serial killer, psychopath, revenge, exploitation ...
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usa, new jersey, new york
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100%
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Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, jack the ripper, freemason, conspiracy, graphic violence, a vision, police investigation, murder of a prostitute, violent, prostitution, who done it, life is a bitch ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1880s, year 2001, 1800s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, ireland, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, slasher, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, maniac, police detective, investigation, female psychopath, psychopath, voyeurism, attempted murder, amateur detective, murder, killer ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, erotica, strangulation, interracial lesbian sex, voyeur, strangled to death, murder, voyeurism, male nudity, bisexual, threesome ...
Time:
20th century, year 2016, 70s, year 1972
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy, rome italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Style:
surreal, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, memory loss, sadistic psychopath, art, murder, killer, psycho killer, surrealism, obsession, vengeance, rape, violent ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, florence
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry ...
Style:
slasher, scary, intense, stylized, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
miner, serial killer, mine, valentine's day, gory, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unknown killer, mining town, strong violent content, killer, mysterious villain, psycho killer ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
14K
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, disturbing, suspense, grindhouse, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, gory, chainsaw, exploitation, danger, stalking, sexual repression, blood, male nudity, trauma, dismemberment ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, year 1942, year 1982
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
Style:
gothic, slasher, detective, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, psycho killer, murder, sadism, police investigation, maniac, police, sleeping, gory, insomnia, midget ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, turin italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
master criminal, serial killer, dangerous attraction, gambling, homicidal maniac, murder, vengeance, woman in danger, police investigation, law enforcement, rivalry, murderer ...
Place:
rome italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail begins with the mysterious death of a millionaire and spirals into the murder of his suddenly rich wife, which draws the attention of a dogged investigator, who follows a trail of blood to the bitter end.
Style:
slasher, suspense, erotic, slasher horror, twisted ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
greece, europe, london, england, athens greece ...
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290K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, whodunit, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, investigation, motel, murder, mental disorder, split personality, mental illness ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, florida, nevada
Similarity:
100%
709
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Traumatized after witnessing her jealous husband kill her adulterous lover and then himself, an unbalanced, nymphomaniac young woman finds herself stalked by an unknown assailant, but she cannot make anyone believe her desperate situation.
Style:
erotic, detective, queer horror, independent film
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian erotica, making love, stalker, erotica, outdoor sex, serial killer, sex scene, female protagonist, adultery, desire, infidelity ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, grindhouse, dark, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, nudity, sex, jack the ripper, erotica, brutality, violence against women, female victim, sex worker, sexual cruelty, sex scene, killer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Style:
slasher, creepy, suspense, visually stunning, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, psycho killer, nude girl, female nudity, torture, voyeur, obsession, nudity, bare breasts, nude, evil man, masked villain ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A reporter and a blind retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
Style:
slasher, suspense, perverse, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
serial killer, blind man, murder, voyeurism, woman strangled to death, investigation, stalking, twists and turns, chase, gory, amateur detective, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, turin italy
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Style:
surreal, creepy, scary, slasher horror, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
supernatural, chimpanzee, telepathy, psychic power, teenage girl, serial killer, killer, mysticism, insect, female psychopath, investigation, violent woman ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
europe, switzerland, zurich switzerland, alps, munich germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she ...
Style:
bloody, splatter, suspense, slasher, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, photographer, gory, psychopath, violence, violent, train, twists and turns, butcher, blood, subway, torture ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, america
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when ...
Style:
psychological, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psycho killer, rain, murder, investigation, amateur detective, female killer, female serial killer, kidnapping, journalism, gory, danger, teenage life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
minneapolis minnesota
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, grindhouse, suspenseful, brutal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, psycho killer, gory, maniac, friday the 13th, masked man, serial murder, stalking, blood, murder of a nude woman ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style:
slasher, suspense, classic horror, cult classic, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, maniac, camp, gory, summer camp, revenge, psycho killer, teenager, disturbed individual, summer, blood ...
Time:
1950s, 80s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Style:
christmas horror, slasher, sexy, suspense, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, serial killer, holiday horror, telephone call, holiday, killer, violence, sorority, murder, mental illness, serial murder, maniac ...
Time:
70s, near future, year 1974, 20th century, 80s
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, torture, home invasion, trap, psychopath, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, terror, psycho killer ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that's rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.
Style:
psychological, slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
murder, sexual attraction, sex, amateur detective, serial killer, loss of virginity, lynch mob, voyeurism, brutality, death, pervert, evil priest ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
southern italy, europe, italy, milan italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In Torino, Celine, an American model, is abducted by a taxi driver while en route home to meet her sister Linda, visiting at her apartment. The next morning, Linda reports that Celine is missing - the sergeant in charge directs her to F.B.I. agent ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, fear, inspector, police investigation, maniac, missing sister, rescue, mysterious character, murder, taxi, police detective, psychopath ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a fatal mining disaster occurred on Valentine's Day while some of the crew was decorating for a party. The sole survivor of the accident killed the remaining crewmembers and warned ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
valentine's day, serial killer, revenge, miner, masked killer, killing spree, killer, masked man, gory, sadistic psychopath, canuxploitation, maniac ...
Time:
80s, year 1960, year 1980
Place:
nova scotia, canada, nova scotia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, horror musical, metafiction ...
Plot:
voyeurism, nudity, female killer, voyeur, female nudity, serial killer, stalker, psychopath, transvestism, obsession, gory, murder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tuscany
Similarity:
100%
124K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, murder, mental illness, mind game, supernatural, insanity, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural horror, rape, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
Similarity:
100%
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