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In Cold Blood (1996)
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In Cold Blood (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: At the end of the 1950s, in a more innocent America, the brutal, meaningless slaying of a Midwestern family horrified the nation. This film is based on Truman Capote's hauntingly detailed, psychologically penetrating nonfiction novel. While in prison, Dick Hickock, 20, hears a cell-mate's story about $10,000 in cash kept in a home safe by a prosperous rancher. When he's paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith, also 20, to join him in going after the stash. On a November night in 1959, Dick and Perry break into the Holcomb, Kansas, house of Herb Clutter. Enraged at finding no safe, they wake the sleeping family and brutally kill them all. The bodies are found by two friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors are routinely left unlocked. Detective Alvin Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation heads the case, but there are no clues, no apparent motive and no suspects...
Style: tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: serial killer, murder, killer, true crime, biopic, death sentence, psychopath, investigation, fugitives, journalism, chases and races, rivalry, law enforcement, false accusation, mind game, on the run, countryside, police investigation, dishonesty, obsessive quest, criminal heroes, cons and scams, death, family relations, brutality ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: kansas, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films and TV series with plots about murder, serial killer, deadly, true crime, law enforcement, police investigation and investigation mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like In Cold Blood: Bonnie & Clyde (2013), Small Sacrifices (1989), Fatal Vision (1984), The Deliberate Stranger (1986), Helter Skelter (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bonnie & Clyde (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
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Story: Bonnie and Clyde is a two-part film about two Depression-era outlaws, starring Emile Hirsch as Clyde Barrow and Holliday Grainger as Bonnie Parker. It is based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie ...
Style: stylized, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
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Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: usa, texas
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In Cold Blood (1967)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A 1967 film based on Truman Capote's book of the same name. After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their ...
Style: black and white, disturbing, suspense, neo noir, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, true crime, killer, execution, death row, death penalty, courtroom drama, lawyer, investigation, justice, jazz ...
Time: 50s, year 1967, year 1965, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: kansas, america, usa, missouri, texas ...
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Small Sacrifices (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 159 min.
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Story: Based on the best-selling true crime book by Ann Rule, the film is about Diane Downs and the attempted murder of her three children.
Style: detective, tense, talky, realistic, serious ...
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Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: oregon
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Fatal Vision (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
TV show
Story: A retiree spends nine years relentlessly seeking to prove that his son-in-law, a former Green Beret Army doctor, murdered his pregnant wife and two children
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Duration: 178 min.
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Story: About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigation even more difficult.
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 185 min.
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Story: Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Theodore Robert Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the ...
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Helter Skelter (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 194 min.
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Story: The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".
Style: disturbing, spooky, slasher horror, serious, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, courtroom drama, true crime, hippie, charles manson, psychopath, killer, commune, murder, lawyer, counterculture, mental disorder ...
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The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 251 min.
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Story: The Murder of Mary Phagan, a 1987 two-part TV miniseries made by Orion Pictures Corporation and distributed by National Broadcasting Company (NBC), is a dramatization of the story of Leo Frank, a factory manager charged and convicted with murdering ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, tense, bleak
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Des (2020)
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Duration: 143 min.
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Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Factually-based drama telling the stories of five young women who were tragically murdered in Ipswich in 2006.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, bleak, realistic ...
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Duration: 65 min.
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Story: Set in 1984, Code of a Killer is a true story which tells of the discovery of DNA fingerprinting. Detective David Baker leads an investigation of the vicious murders of the two Leicestershire schoolgirls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth. Alec Jeffreys ...
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Style: serious, psychological, rough, disturbing, suspenseful ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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TV show
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Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
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Duration: 200 min.
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Style: tense, realistic, serious, psychological, sexual ...
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The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 337 min.
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Style: serious, tense, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
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Time: 70s
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
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