Movies like The Frozen Ground
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The Frozen Ground (2013)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, intense, suspense, factual, disturbing, bad ending, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
police investigation, serial killer, crime, kidnapping, hunting, runaway, strip club, pole dancer, prostitute, escape, confession, gun, drug overdose, hitman, winter, psychopath, crimes, pimp, drugs/alcohol, rape, woman in danger, manhunt, rapist, chases and races, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place:
alaska, usa, boston
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Most similar movies to The Frozen Ground
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and tense films with plots about crime, murder, crimes, serial killer, police investigation, deadly and law enforcement mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The Frozen Ground: The Bone Collector (1999), Kiss the Girls (1997), Solace (2015), True Crime (1995), Prisoners (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, twists and turns, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, police investigation, forensics, mind game, riddles and clues, crime, policewoman, master criminal, investigation, reluctant partners, death ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place:
new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological, twists and turns ...
Plot:
psychopath, police investigation, missing person, woman in danger, race against time, investigation, mystery, chases and races, crimes, danger, rivalry, who done it ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, los angeles, washington d.c., usa, california
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
psychic, serial killer, fbi, police investigation, brutality, murder, chase, hospital, supernatural, shooting a police officer, prophet, crime ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mary Giordano is a bright, intelligent student who goes to a catholic school. She also has a addiction to mystery novels and detective magazines (hence the title of the movie), which inspire her to do her own detective work. When she starts snooping ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, police corruption, amateur detective, female detective, child murder, mystery, psychopath, danger, crime, police investigation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, psychological, tense, twist ending ...
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, police investigation, investigation, disappearance, brutality, revenge, torture, crime, vigilantism, moral ambiguity, maze ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2010s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, boston
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100%
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Movies like Se7en
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, intense, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, psychopath, dangerous attraction, undercover agent, fatal attraction, fake identity, psychological thriller, witness, mistaken identity, murder investigation, fbi ...
Time:
2000s, contemporary, 21st century, year 2004, year 1983
Place:
usa, canada, montreal quebec, pennsylvania, montreal
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, serious, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
hitman, vigilantism, serial killer, judge, crime, murder, dedicated lawyer, vengeance, legal action, secret society, mission of murder, uncover truth ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, hospital, double life, crime, mind game, investigation, split personality, police investigation, strangulation, police detective, mystery ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A big city cop from LA moves to a small town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a young blind woman named Helena, who he is attracted to. ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, falling in love, mystery, obsession, crime, surveillance, school, small town, police investigation, dangerous attraction, victim ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
13K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, sexual, serious, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, prostitute, police detective, murder, kidnapping, crime, psychopath, investigation, single parent, mysterious character, obsession, police investigation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new orleans, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Silence of the Lambs related movies
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, master criminal, mind game, psychopath, crime, investigation, police investigation, torture, killings, crimes, police, insanity ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, rough, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, mind game, psychopath, police investigation, crime, profiler, psychology, police detective, violence, maniac, agoraphobia, paranoia ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, boston
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31%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, investigation, crime, gory, manhunt, betrayal, police detective, track down, vigilantism, crimes, deadly ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
Style:
suspenseful, stylized, tense, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, serial killer, neo noir, murder, policewoman, police investigation, crime, stalking, strong sexual content, female protagonist, female police officer ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, martial arts, police detective, strip club, stripper, slasher, psychopath, police investigation, crime, partners against crime, addiction, hitman ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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No Country for Old Men related movies
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S/M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from ...
Style:
sexual, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, gay, investigation, murder, police investigation, police, undercover, psychopath, crime, gays and lesbians, s&m, urban ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 185 min.
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 ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, true crime, murder, psychopath, crime, protagonist as suspect, manhunt, mind game, track down, uncover truth, obsession ...
Time:
80s
Place:
colorado, seattle, usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, gloomy, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, blindness, murder, crime, investigation, mind game, killer, psychopath, crimes, deadly, stalking, woman in danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, police corruption, murder, feminist, dirty cop, drug dealing, stalker, sports car, coffee, male prostitute, pizza ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI agent Dennis Quaid tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, twists and turns, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, train, murder, hitchhiker, crime, missing person, vengeance, crimes, deadly, law enforcement, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, erotic, sexy, sexual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police investigation, police, femme fatale, suspect, newspaper, crime, police detective, oldies, strong sexual content, partners against crime ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A psychologist falls for a world-class chess player suspected of odd murders linked to his game.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, serious, scary ...
Plot:
chess, serial killer, investigation, murder, mystery, crime, resort, betrayal, protagonist as suspect, police investigation, manipulations, mind game ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
Style:
suspenseful, rough, twists and turns, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, crime, police investigation, revenge, drugs/alcohol, urban, vigilantism, dirty cop, crimes, deadly, law enforcement ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, harlem manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, interesting, talky ...
Plot:
murder, voodoo, culture clash, investigation, crime, gays and lesbians, small town, journalism, crimes, deadly, misfit, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
georgia, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
police investigation, serial killer, crime, kidnapping, partners, partners against crime, disappearance, buddy cop, crimes, deadly, woman in danger, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place:
spain
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50%
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Movies like Prisoners
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, mind game, investigation, cannibalism, crime, murder, fbi, killings, special agents, psychology, crimes ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place:
maryland, virginia, usa, washington d.c., bahamas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Style:
suspenseful, twists and turns, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police, police investigation, gory, crime, psychopath, crimes, deadly, law enforcement, life is a bitch, uncover truth ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
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26%
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins
Style:
suspenseful, serious, offbeat, realistic, rough
Plot:
serial killer, murder, baseball, psychopath, police detective, crime, crimes, deadly, law enforcement, stalking, who done it, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, houston texas
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25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After 6 years of brutal murders the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire, but things become more difficult for the ...
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, twists and turns, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, police corruption, murder, crime, police investigation, neo noir, uncover truth, mystery, who done it, crimes, deadly, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place:
yorkshire, england, europe, london
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24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
Style:
clever, bleak, serious, gloomy, tense ...
Plot:
police investigation, crime, police detective, serial killer, crimes, murder, partners, investigation, partners against crime, who done it, law enforcement, uncover truth ...
Time:
contemporary, 20th century, 21st century, 90s
Place:
louisiana, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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