Movies like Trauma 1993

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Trauma (1993)
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Trauma (1993)
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 it rains. The orphaned young woman and her new lover launch their own investigation and are endangered when a link is discovered with the victims and a particular operation performed years before.
Style: psychological, slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, suspense, disturbing, gothic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, rain, kidnapping, gory, journalism, female serial killer, teenage life, danger, haunted by the past, woman in danger, amateur detective, murder witness, psycho killer, fugitives, blood, surrealism, female villain, eating disorder, anorexia, mysticism, hospital, guts, exploitation ...
Time: 90s
Keyword: italian horror

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Most similar movies to Trauma

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, slasher and scary films with plots about serial killer, murder, deadly, blood, psychopath, gory and danger mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Trauma: Cherry Falls (1999), Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), Flashback (2000), The Card Player (2003), Toolbox Murders (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cherry Falls (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, high school, teenager, murder, virgin, revenge, father daughter relationship, secret, gang rape, small town, psychopath, sheriff ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
Place: usa, virginia, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country in 'Urban Legends: Final Cut', the suspenseful follow up to the smash hit 'Urban Legend'. At Alpine ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, surprise ending, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, murder, college, teenage life, gory, halloween, college life, masked killer, multiple storylines, psychopath, filmmaking ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
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Flashback (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young woman is released from an asylum where she has been since witnessing the murder of her parents, but violence continues to haunt her.
Style: serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, haunted by the past, danger, gory, woman in danger, psychiatry, education, violent content, witnessing a crime, sexual content, stabbed in the groin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Card Player (2003)
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: serial killer, investigation, psychopath, master criminal, dangerous attraction, murder, vengeance, woman in danger, homicidal maniac, gambling, police investigation, law enforcement ...
Place: rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Toolbox Murders (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, supernatural, haunted by the past, hotel, old dark house, violence, danger, neighbor, gory, woman in danger, hollywood ...
Time: year 2004
Place: usa, los angeles, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
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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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Sweet 16 (1983)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A beautiful lonely girl named Melissa tries to make new friends from a town she's currently living in. The only problem is, each of the boys that she spends time with end up brutally murdered. Her sixteenth birthday is on the way, but Melissa ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, serial killer, investigation, teenage life, gory, suburban life, teenage girl, female serial killer, american horror, exploitation, high school, dead teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Sacrifice (2000)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A convicted bank robber breaks free as he is being transported to prison after learning that his daughter has been killed by a serial killer. Determined to find her killer, he joins with a female cop who is working the case. He quickly discovers ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, manhunt, psychopath, murder, mind game, investigation, master criminal, law enforcement, danger, gory, murder of a policewoman, female serial killer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Sleepless (2001)
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, suspenseful, slasher, scary, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, murder, psycho killer, sadism, police investigation, maniac, insomnia, gory, midget, macabre, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe, turin italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 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, art, murder, sadistic psychopath, psycho killer, hallucination, surrealism, policewoman, obsession, memory loss, mental illness, rape ...
Time: 90s
Place: rome italy, florence, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.5
 42K
Deep Red (1975)
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: psychological, gothic, disturbing, slasher, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, murder mystery, psychopath, visceral, supernatural, danger, female psychopath, mental illness, intrigue, manic, haunted by the past ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, australia, lebanon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.9
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Opera (1987)
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, disturbing, suspense, scary, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, psycho killer, female nudity, voyeur, obsession, nudity, bare breasts, nude, nude girl, sadistic psychopath, cruelty, masked villain ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Genre: 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, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, voyeurism, female psychopath, maniac, attempted murder, murder, psychopath, murder mystery, police detective, female killer, danger ...
Time: 70s, year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.5
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A Bay of Blood (1971)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, inheritance, squid, violence, obsession, fear, psychopath, blood, strangulation, insanity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Giallo (2009)
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, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, maniac, fear, inspector, rescue, mysterious character, torture, murder, psychopath, missing sister, sister sister relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.0
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Shadow (1982)
Genre: Drama, 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, scary, psychological, dark, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, lesbian, dog attack, female nudity, obsession, investigation, blood, writers, plot twist, murderer, misogynist ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: rome italy, europe, italy, new york, rhode island ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
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, disturbing, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, blind man, murder, macabre, investigation, chase, gory, obsession, voyeurism, stalking, twists and turns, mind game ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: italy, europe, turin italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts ...
Style: slasher, twist ending, splatter, suspense, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, vengeance, gory, revenge, blood, holiday horror, camp, plot twist, holiday, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (1984)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A series of murders rock a dance academy in New York in which the mysterous directress, Candice, sets out to find the kiler, with a little assistance from a shady male model, named George, who has a hidden agenda for her as does she for him.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, dance studio, vengeance, investigation, gory, dancer's life, competition, female serial killer, suspicion, killer, lgbt ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In 1990, as a boy, Giulio was chased through the woods by two women after spying on them practicing witchcraft. Now a young film student in Turin, he watches his neighbors in the flats across from his third floor apartment, especially Sasha when ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, psychological, serious, slasher ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, uncover truth, investigation, woman in danger, psychopath, obsession, danger, supernatural ability, attempted murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide ...
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24%
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Autopsy (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A pathology med student and a priest team up to investigate a wave of suicides blamed on sun spots and discover a number of them to be actual murders.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, slasher, cult classic, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, psychotic, female psychopath, magic, mysticism, macabre, investigation, danger, murder, morgue, suicide, mutilation ...
Time: 70s
Place: rome italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.4
 156K
Friday the 13th (1980)
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, scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, camp, maniac, gory, murder, revenge, disturbed individual, summer, summer camp, psychopath, blood, friday the 13th ...
Time: 80s, 1950s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.6
 6K
Curtains (1983)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
Style: scary, slasher, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, supernatural, stalking, maniac, masked killer, psychopath, snow, danger, mental institution, down on your luck, killer ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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My Soul to Take (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: urban legend, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, murder, psychopath, haunted by the past, serial killer, danger, small town, gory, nightmare comes true, youth ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
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, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, gory, crazy, psycho killer, lake, maniac, serial murder, blood, friday the 13th ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, splatter, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, small town, police investigation, brutality, dead teenager, small town life, haunted by the past, danger, teenage life, social relations ...
Time: year 1946, year 1976, year 2013
Place: texas, arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.6
 71K
Urban Legend (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at ...
Style: slasher, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, college, strangulation, serial murder, killer, murder, teenager, blood, gory, gas station, dark and stormy night ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.2
 3K
Bloody Moon (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Miguel, a horribly disfigured young man, goes on a rampage at a masquerade party and rapes and then mutilates a girl. Institutionalized at a mental asylum, he is released five years later, into the care of his sister, Manuela who, along with their ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, rape, mental patient, mental institution, danger, woman in danger, youth, dangerous attraction, exploitation, violence, killer ...
Time: 80s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Watch Me When I Kill (1977)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A pharmacist is murdered, and a woman happens to see the culprit leave the scene. She soon finds herself being stalked by the killer.
Style: erotic, scary, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, mystery killer, danger, investigation, woman in danger, stalking, on the run, courtroom drama, gory, serial killer, jury ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.1
 5K
Phone (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Soon after Ji-won gets a new cell phone, her friend's young daughter, Yeong-ju, puts it to her ear and immediately begins screaming in terror. When other strange things start happening in connection with the phone, Ji-Won does some ...
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, journalism, phone terror, telephone call, evil spirit, haunted by the past, obsession, investigation, teenage life, danger, vengeance ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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