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Unabomber: The True Story (1996)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The real story behind the hunt for Theodore J. Kaczynski, later known as the Unabomber, a terrorist who sent several bombs through the mail, alarming authorities and society. The movie follows a postal inspector who tracks down the suspect; a obstinate detective; and Kaczynski's brother, who suspected of Ted after the publishing of his manifesto explaining the reasons for the bombings.
Plot:
serial killer, terrorism, university, bombing, true crime, environmental issue, cabin, crimes
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, psychological and serious films with plots about serial killer, murder, true crime, killer, murderer, death and court mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Unabomber: The True Story: Happy Face Murders (1999), Deadly Intentions (1985), The Todd Killings (1971), Boston Strangler (2023), Death Benefit (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez who terrorized California in 1985 and the two Los Angeles police detectives who try to track him down.
Plot:
serial killer, violent, killer, murderer, police, true crime, heat wave, murder, police partner, thief, police investigation, breaking and entering ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
los angeles
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95%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An eccentric older woman (Ann-Margret) implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young retarded girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, true crime, violent, rape, female nudity, sociopath, serial murder, black panties, wet t shirt, female full frontal nudity, dead woman in morgue
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81%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her physically and mentally. She divorces him and take their child away. He then decides to kill her but when his plot is discovered he is charged with ...
Plot:
woman in danger, serial killer, doctor, husband wife relationship, psychopath, murder, domineering mother
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76%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of high school kids in a small California town. ...
Style:
slasher, splatter
Plot:
serial killer, murder, true crime, killer, teenage girl, drugs, small town, sex, police, death, male nudity, homicidal maniac ...
Place:
california, tucson arizona, arizona
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74%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Elizabeth Montgomery plays serial killer, churchgoer, and grandmother Blanch Taylor Moore in this, one of her last films before her untimely passing. Childhood memories of her womanizing and abusive father fill Moore with a hidden rage towards all ...
Plot:
serial killer, black widow, killer, court, true crime, marriage, investigation, priest, murder, poison, lifetime
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Movies like The Frozen Ground
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.
Plot:
serial killer, flashback, adultery, lawyer, courtroom, judge, murder, true crime, court, talking to the camera, looking at the camera
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70%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.
Style:
interesting
Plot:
serial killer, true crime, investigative journalism, investigation, death, attack, secret, victim, police officer, criminal, rapist, murderer ...
Time:
60s, year 1964
Place:
boston
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70%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Steven Keeney is a big corporate lawyer who decides to take on a small-time murder case to discover the true circumstances behind the death of a young girl. Virginia McGinnis is the one suspected of pushing the women off the cliff to collect on a ...
Style:
psychological
Plot:
serial killer, lawyer, love, investigation, murder, justice, true crime
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69%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1928 Arthur Upfield, Australia’s premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, one of his friends, stockman Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, true crime, writers, truck, investigation, camel, missing person
Time:
year 1929
Place:
australia
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68%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
Plot:
serial killer, patricide, death of mother, matricide, family relations, true crime, death, death of father, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, murder, courtroom ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
In Norway on 22 July 2011, right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utöya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story will focus on the survivors of the attacks, the political ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, dramatic, disturbing
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, mass murder, tragedy, car bomb, island, bomb, criminal, female judge, female lawyer, media frenzy, suspense ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
oslo norway, norway, europe, eastern europe
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63%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
True life drama about a working mum (Henner) whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her (Savant) and killing her cousin comes up for parole.
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, evil man
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61%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This film is based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos a prostitute-turned-serial killer who preyed mostly on truck drivers.
Plot:
serial killer, killer, prostitute, murderer, prostitution, female killer
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60%
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, rough, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, rape and murder, who done it, strong violent content, stalking, mentally unstable, police detective, law enforcement, life is a bitch, physical appearance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Based on the known events that shook the United States for 23 days in 2002. Within 24 hours six people were killed by a sniper in Maryland County. A man and his son get overlooked in all settings where shootings occur. The police, in cooperation ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
Plot:
terrorism, sniper, police, serial killer, murder, police detective, track down, law enforcement, society, manhunt, killer, chief of police ...
Place:
washington d.c., maryland, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Marie Madeleine Dreux, Marquise of Brinvilliers, was executed in 1676 for poisoning. Manipulated by her lover and having kept the aftereffects of her childhood, she does not hesitate to poison her father and two brothers to recover their inheritance.
Plot:
serial killer, male nudity, true crime, daughter murders father, family relations, assassin, murder, court, french history, execution, poison, female full frontal nudity
Time:
17th century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Gruesome true story of murderer Richard Speck who killed eight nursing students in one night in Chicago during the late sixties. The story also follows him to his prison fate and uncovers more of his strange behavoir before his death.
Plot:
serial killer, true crime, sorority, criminal, killer, suspense, rape, violence, nurse, murder, torture, sadist ...
Place:
chicago illinois
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The true story of John Hawkins as featured on America's Most Wanted.
Plot:
serial killer, murder, gay, con artists, true crime, insurance fraud, male homosexuality, bisexual, homosexual, scam, insurance, homosexuality
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
serial killer, police, preacher, murder, treasure, child in peril, family crisis, tickling
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52%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Based on Aileen Wuornos’s early life, this Is the true story of America’s most notorious female serial killer, who went on a killing spree in Florida in 1989 and 1990. What few people know, is that back in 1976 a young and beautiful Aileen ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, dark
Plot:
serial killer, female serial killer, murder, female assassin, confronting the past, suspense, killings, dark past, new life, murder mystery, woman with a gun, feminist ...
Place:
florida
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This docu-drama focuses on the true story of the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace by alleged serial killer Andrew Cunanan.
Plot:
serial killer, lgbt, gay, murder, male prostitute, fbi, true crime, gay interest, serial murder, empire
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51%
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:
psychological, realistic, serious, mind bending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, true crime, murder, killer, parent child relationship, law enforcement, stalking, police investigation, terrorism, fighting crime, obsessive quest, clergy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
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50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
John George Haigh, the notorious "acid bath murderer" in 1940s England, becomes the subject of this dramatisation
Style:
psychological, disturbing
Plot:
serial killer, murder, acid, murder mystery, killer, deception, religious fanaticism, suspense, serial murder, true crime, mental health, murderer ...
Time:
1940s
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49%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A mother fights to prove her 14-year-old son is innocent of a murder he confessed to under hypnosis.
Style:
factual
Plot:
murder, courtroom, teenage boy, hypnosis, false confession, true crime, court, legal, mother son relationship
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48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
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Story:
In 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine. The police also believed that he had killed his wife Beryl. But to his final moments Evans protested his innocence. Three years later, a gruesome discovery at 10 ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, dark, atmospheric, melancholic
Plot:
serial killer, true crime, murder, mentally unstable, british, male female relationship, murderer, hidden identity, criminal, investigation, post war, killer ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A crime drama dircted by Anthony Page.
Plot:
serial killer, terror, murder, domestic violence, insanity, ex husband ex wife relationship, husband wife relationship, nurse, judge, fear, immigrants, polish american
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45%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
TV show
Story:
A wanna-be tough guy and his 14-year-old girlfriend go on a murder spree.
Plot:
serial killer, murder, age difference, good girl gone bad, violent, killer, murderer, electric chair, lawyer, psychopath, violence, love ...
Time:
50s
Place:
nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
In 1977, teenager Wayne (Nick Foster) gathers his two friends, female runaway Rhonda (Sarah Ogg) and disco club hopper Tim (David Gobble), for a drug party located in the suburban home of quiet recluse Dean (Brad Jones). But unknown to Tim and ...
Plot:
serial killer, cocaine, disco, kidnapping, homosexual, violence, female nudity, murder, party, father daughter relationship, dancing, cigarette smoking
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45%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force captain. Based on a true story.
Plot:
love, captain, sergeant, u.s. air force, u.s. army, military, testimony, investigation, child murder, murder, mother daughter relationship, serial killer ...
Time:
80s
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45%
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The real-life case based on the horrific crimes of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the mother and son duo who specialized in theft, fraud and murder.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
criminal, landlady, mother son relationship, female psychopath, murder, domineering mother, mentally unstable, obsession, childhood trauma, suspense, parents and children, bandit ...
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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