Movies like The Killing Game
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The Killing Game (2011)
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eve Duncan is contacted, 10 years after the disappearance and murder of her 7-year-old daughter Bonnie, by a man claiming to be her killer. Taunted by his clues about Bonnie's case and his threats to kill again, she throws herself into her career as a forensic sculptor and works to close the case.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, dark, intense, detective, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, danger, haunted by the past, forensic, cold case, death, obsession, female protagonist, loss, cat and mouse, evidence, bereavement, revenge, kidnapping, stalking, vigilante, mind game, urban, strong female presence, riddles and clues, foster home, child abduction, deadly ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to The Killing Game
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, suspense and serious films with plots about murder, investigation, danger, deadly, serial killer, uncover truth and obsession mostly in Thriller, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Killing Game: Hide (2011), Mississippi Murder (2017), The Rosary Murders (1987), Ricochet (2011), Pavement (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Boston detective investigates the mummified remains of six women, based on a novel by Lisa Gardner.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, detective, enigmatic ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, uncover truth, police investigation, riddles and clues, law enforcement, murder mystery, investigation, crime scene, police procedural, evidence, cold case ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jennifer Shannon (Lori Loughlin) has a gift for finding rare treasures hidden in garage sales that she can resell at her consignment store, Rags to Riches, and for get her involved in the criminal investigations that happen at the very second-hand ...
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, uncover truth, amateur detective, who done it, danger, suspicion, strong female presence, riddles and clues, police investigation, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A sleuthing garage sale maven suspects foul play when her friend dies in an old house with a cursed reputation. Even though police evidence - and even webcam footage of the death – point to natural causes – this mysterious death in a cursed” ...
Style:
serious, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
amateur detective, who done it, riddles and clues, investigation, murder, uncover truth, couples, danger, strong female presence, supportive spouse, couple relations, coroner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An amazing murder mystery taking place in a setting that no one would expect the coast of Mississippi. A young woman tried to live a normal life despite a horrible upbringing. But she will learn her past will haunt her once more.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
murder mystery, female protagonist, murderer, murder, murder investigation, dark past, dark secret, haunted by the past, tragic past, danger, haunting, small town ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest (Donald Sutherland), who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police.
Style:
disturbing, serious, atmospheric, bleak, neo noir ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, who done it, moral dilemma, church, haunted by the past, uncover truth, investigation, clergy, society, legal ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
100%
547
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two homicide detectives find their careers - and lives - on the line when they get caught up in a case of murder and betrayal in high-society Savannah.
Style:
atmospheric, detective, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, police detective, betrayal, dishonesty, law enforcement, partner, high society, danger, couples, twists and turns, deep south ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, psychopath, investigation, murder, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, animal life, vengeance, law enforcement, danger, police investigation ...
Place:
alaska, usa, south africa, san francisco, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 172 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, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, private detective, amateur detective, danger, investigation, rivalry, murder, psychopath, police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, who done it ...
Time:
year 1995, year 2005
Place:
usa, oregon, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The members of the Fallen Angels Murder Club must band together again as they search for answers surrounding the death of one of their own. Hollis Morgan finds herself at the center of the investigation when a journalist reporting on the murder ...
Style:
serious, psychological, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, female protagonist, woman, african american woman, african american, murder investigation, black cast, african american protagonist, black, crime investigation, whodunit ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark. Under hypnosis, a mental patient admits to several recent murders. He also offers a strange defense when he claims that he is the reincarnation of a 19th century man who was wrongly executed.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
reincarnation, serial killer, police detective, woman in danger, law enforcement, murder, investigation, revenge, psychosis, hypnosis, trauma, mental institution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
392
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
A mother who loses her child to psycho killer's killing spree goes in search for answers
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, crime thriller, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, serial killer, battles, tragic love, love affair, love story, uncover truth, murder investigation, murderer, fight, family tragedy ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
police detective, serial killer, murder, uncover truth, haunted by the past, mysterious character, danger, stalking, woman in danger, law enforcement, lawyer, riddles and clues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, cuba
Similarity:
28%
389
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Van Veeteren's only unsolved case comes back to haunt him when the daughter of a murdered private detective comes to see him. A brutal wife killer, who went into hiding years before, has resurfaced under an assumed name; or so it seems, and Van ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, private detective, police procedural, manhunt, haunted by the past, chases and races, law enforcement, investigation, investigator, cold case, evidence, suspect ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
28%
110
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Meet Leonard, a man who will help you die with a smile on your face. A young attorney meets his client for the first time, a serial killer known as the "Smiley Face Killer", whose victims all died with a smile on their faces.
Style:
tense, serious, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, suicide, danger, euthanasia, mercy killing, lawyer, murder, rivalry, moral ambiguity, manipulation, psychopath, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A psychologist with a keen interest in criminology gets entangled in a tough serial killer case which the police find hard to crack.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
investigation, police, murder investigation, partners against crime, police officer killed, murder mystery, police detective, serial murder, danger, forensics, partner, killing ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the father of her kid son Sam was killed by an escaped psychiatric patient, Kate decides it's time for a new chapter in her life. She moves to the town where her former lover Tom lives and now works in the sheriff's department, and ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
family relations, psychopath, danger, small town, male female relationship, murder, serial killer, love, death of father, doctor, running, ex lover ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain, Lithuania
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1943, during the midst of World War II, a serial murderer appears in the Blue Division, volunteer body of Spanish soldiers who fought on the Russian front with German troops. After finding the body of a Spanish soldier who has been stuck in the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, world war two, murder, soldier, army investigation, riddles and clues, military, superior officer, rivalry, danger, gay, spanish civil war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young heiress has her life turned upside down after her business partner's wife is killed and foul play is suspected.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, enigmatic, realistic
Plot:
amateur detective, woman in danger, investigation, dishonesty, danger, murder, couples, who done it, estate, inheritance, adultery, murder investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young man desperate to be connected to the people close to him resorts to devious measures to achieve that desire
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
obsession, family in danger, relationship problems, murder, investigation, uncover truth, love affair, couples, dishonesty, sociopath, desire, criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
519
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, twists and turns, parents and children, haunted by the past, small town life, small town, mental illness, ghost, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The troubled teenager Owen Whitmore has a sleep disorder and occasionally sleepwalks. Owen is having therapy sessions with Dr. Katherine Ramos. Having just joined the medical school, he has to move to another town, but he is divided between the ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, nightmare comes true, nightmare, who done it, doctors and patients, sleepwalking, dream, danger, couples, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Erica's sister Anna is visiting at the same time as the TV program "Antiques cubed" is in town to record at the castle in Fjällbacka. When Anna runs into the TV host for the show, Claes Wager, sparks quickly evolve into a flirt ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, crime drama, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, amateur detective, love affair, family relations, nordic, danger, couples, whodunit, suspect, small town, family drama ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Nicholas Brendon is a grieving husband out to ruin a man (Vincent Ventresca) he blames for ruining his marriage by targeting his family.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, haunted by the past, obsession, murder, love affair, memory loss, race against time, neighbor, danger, who done it, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A detective investigates the disappearance of a woman's corpse from a morgue and tries to uncover the cause of her death.
Style:
suspense, serious, captivating, detective, enigmatic ...
Plot:
investigation, lovers, husband, husband wife relationship, twists and turns, uncover truth, deception, death, corpse, revenge, infidelity, murder ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mourning the loss of her father, who committed suicide, Mackenzie starts having hallucinations of killing people. They seem so real that she's convinced she's been committing these crimes; however, she can find no evidence to support this. ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, suspicion, murder, danger, losing-it hero, hallucination, serial killer, uncover truth, youth, rivalry, dishonesty, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In order to solve the mystery of her best friend's murder, Darcy decides to date each one of her friend's on-line pals to see which one of them might have something to do with it.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, female protagonist, murder mystery, online dating, internet dating, problem, crime solving, murderer, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation ...
Similarity:
25%
668
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A detective uncovers a sinister conspiracy when he is sent to research a disintegrating neighborhood for a public relations campaign.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, captivating ...
Plot:
danger, police investigation, police detective, uncover truth, partner, workplace, law enforcement, murder, murder investigation, conspiracy, investigation, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India, South Korea
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A cat-and-mouse game engages between a blind woman and a serial killer when the former becomes the witness of a kidnap performed by the latter.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, intense, tension ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, cat and mouse, cat versus mouse, witnessing a crime, abduction, witness, murder, homicidal maniac, woman in danger, criminal, blindness ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
Style:
tense, detective, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police investigation, murderous pair, law enforcement, fighting crime, police detective, psychopath, police procedural, investigation, female victim, cat and mouse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A girl who lost her father to a serial killer, a detective and a killer are intertwined in a chaotic relationship and are met with an unprecedented series of events.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, detective, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, killing, murderer, vengeance, serial murder, police detective, homicide detective, criminal, killing spree, murder, criminal's revenge ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
23%
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