Movies like Black Dahlia
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Black Dahlia (2006)
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Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Horror master Ulli Lommel is back with a terrifying tale of a copycat killer in Los Angeles. A young rookie cop and his team discover dismembered female bodies in L.A. similar to the Black Dahlia cold case from 1947. A serial killer seems to be copying the brutal massacre of 1940s Hollywood starlet Betty Short - The Black Dahlia. Ultimately his investigation leads him to a frightening lair of death and torture, all part of a terrifying fantasy that the killer is trying to bring to life.
Style:
scary, psychological, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, low-budget, based on true events
Plot:
serial killer, murder, bodily dismemberment, psychopath, law enforcement, dangerous attraction, who done it, femme fatale, mind game, police investigation, violence spree, cons and scams, violence, obsession, suspense, hollywood, showbiz, rivalry, wannabe, police detective, murderous pair, love, dancing, assassin, female nudity ...
Time:
1940s, 40s
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Most similar movies to Black Dahlia
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, rough and suspenseful films with plots about serial killer, deadly, murder, psychopath, danger, law enforcement and rivalry mostly in Horror, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Black Dahlia: Nightstalker (2002), Green River Killer (2005), Borderline Cult (2007), Son of Sam (2008), Nightstalker (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A stylish horror film based on the life of Richard Ramirez, aka the Nightstalker, who terrorized people in Los Angeles during the 1980s.
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, police investigation, psychopath, murder, mind game, law enforcement, murderous pair, police detective, true crime, violence, rape ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Along twenty years, the deranged serial-killer Gary Ridgway has killed at least forty-eight prostitutes and dumped their bodies in Green River.
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serious, scary, rough, slasher, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder of a prostitute, killer, psychopath, murder, prostitute, serial murder, police investigation, prostitution, mind game, investigation, who done it ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, seattle
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78%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Three serial killers team up at the US/Mexican border town of Juarez and go on a killing spree.
Style:
scary, serious, rough, realistic
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, law enforcement, tough heroes, woman in danger, life is a bitch, confined, brutality, psycho killer, mexican border, killing spree ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
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75%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
This chilling tale recounts the late 70's in New York City, when a serial killer on the loose dubbed "Son of Sam" creates havoc. When arrested, "Son of Sam" tells police he was influenced by a satanic cult. New York would ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, police investigation, law enforcement, investigation, rivalry, mind game, curses spells and rituals, murderer, satanist, tough guy ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Richard Ramirez, dubbed "The Night Stalker" by the media, a serial killer who killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 souls during his reign of terror in Los Angeles back in the Eighties
Style:
scary, serious, rough, realistic, slasher
Plot:
serial killer, murder, devil worship, blasphemy, gang violence, violence, satanist, killer, suspense, stalking, rivalry, female nudity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young man who works at a nursing home uses the legendary Zodiac killer's M.O. to kill people who neglect their elderly relatives.
Style:
slasher, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, wannabe, murder, police detective, police investigation, mind game, psychopath, woman in danger, rivalry, master criminal, obsession, suspense ...
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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69%
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 ...
Plot:
serial killer, murderer, psychopath, police investigation, chase, investigation, mind game, life is a bitch, police detective, law enforcement, violence, serial murder ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
Style:
slasher, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, violence spree, murder, investigation, police detective, law enforcement, woman in danger, stalking, true crime, killer, suspense, rivalry ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Genre guru Ulli Lommel (THE BOOGEYMAN, BTK KILLER) directs this horror film about the infamous Zodiac killer. Though decades have passed since the multiple murderer held the state of California hostage with fear, the mystery of his identity has ...
Style:
scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller
Plot:
serial killer, murder, woman in danger, police investigation, law enforcement, curses spells and rituals, psychopath, journalism, investigation, mind game, amateur detective, killer ...
Time:
70s
Place:
san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Based on true events, tells how a serial murderer, kidnaps and tortures then bandaging girls like mummies.
Style:
psychological, scary, slasher, rough, psychotronic ...
Plot:
serial killer, deadly creature, mummy, psychopath, supernatural, law enforcement, police detective, murder, parents and children, psychiatrist, suspense, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
They met on the Internet. They fell in love. They drove to the desert and stopped at an abandoned warehouse. They wandered inside. Inside they found unspeakable horror. Only one of them survived the ordeal of CANNIBAL. From a hospital bed, an ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
suspense, psychopath, destructive relationship, death wish, computers and web, violence, human flesh, love, internet, dismemberment, serial killer, cannibalism ...
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58%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw ...
Style:
disturbing, slasher, serious, scary, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police investigation, violence spree, law enforcement, psychopath, stalking, mind game, killer, criminal, suspense, pig killer ...
Time:
50s
Place:
usa, wisconsin, texas
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56%
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
He called himself the Angel of death but when the police department discovered that he was involved in over 40 deaths his name soon became Killer nurse in the beginning it was his story against theirs. Soon he gave up his version of the events and ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, bleak, talky
Plot:
serial killer, killer, obsession, mentally unstable, haunted by the past, law enforcement, hospital, nude, male nurse, nurse, murder, deadly
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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53%
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two pretty young women are abducted to be the featured stars of a snuff film produced by a couple low-life goons. The ladies are bound, gagged, tortured, burned with cigarettes and forced to dig their own graves.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
torture, serial killer, abduction, murder, police detective, psychopath, woman in danger, voyeurism, law enforcement, city life, confined, suspense ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
As a child, Lenore was tormented by nightmares and obsessed with the dark poems and stories of Edgar Allan Poe. As the lead singer in a Los Angeles band, the adult Lenore (Jillian Swanson) finds herself, friends and colleagues haunted by a murderer ...
Style:
slasher, scary, realistic, serious, psychotronic
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, music band, haunted by the past, woman in danger, murder, rivalry, supernatural ability, afterlife, good versus evil, supernatural, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Patients of sexy psychiatrist Dr. Jill Kessey and eccentric attorney Alexander Hathaway are being murdered in bloody, satanic rituals. Law enforcement investigations reveal that sex and mutilation are the signatures of a serial killer, who likes to ...
Style:
sexy, slasher, suspenseful, rough, erotic ...
Plot:
serial killer, mind game, police detective, rivalry, police investigation, law enforcement, who done it, murder, dangerous attraction, woman in danger, dishonesty, sexual abuse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A ritualistic serial killer is beheading victims all over a city, and those surrounding the case are pulled into his world as they try and stop him.
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slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Style:
rough, psychological, bleak, scary, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, psychopath, murder, police detective, obsession, killing spree, mind game, family conflict, law enforcement, journalism, true crime ...
Time:
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Place:
san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A pseudo-documentary edited from the home movies of serial killers Wayne & Andrea Montgomery, presenting a look into their quiet, suburban lives...as well as the graphic & disturbing details of their horrific crimes.
Style:
serious, bleak, scary, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, found footage, murder, violence spree, couples, psychopath, partners, society, couple relations, lifestyle, family life, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A handsome, brilliant stock trader, bored with his existence, becomes a serial killer.
Style:
scary, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, manhunt, who done it, protagonist as suspect, master criminal, witnessing a crime, woman in danger, suspense, serial murder, mind game ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"ChromeSkull" is the sequel to the 2009 horror hit "Laid to Rest." It brings back ChromeSkull, who barely escaped death in the first movie and is hell-bent on continuing where he left off... and forging a new path of terror and ...
Style:
slasher, scary, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, psychopath, survival, wannabe, uninhibited rivalry, obsession, escapades, master criminal, haunted by the past, murder of a policewoman, violence spree ...
Time:
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Place:
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39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bundy, starring Corin Nemec in the title role and co-starring Kane Hodder, details the dark psyche and previously unexplored motivations of the man who became known as one of the most notorious serial killers to leave behind a legacy of evil.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each ...
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serious, scary, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, rivalry, supernatural, survival, confined, escapades, ancient mystery, woman in danger, destiny, cons and scams, ghost ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1958 Nebraska 19 year old garbageman Charles Starkweather goes on a murder spree with his 14 year old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate killing 11 people in three months, introducing America to spree killing.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, road movie
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, mind game, lovers on the run, track down, law enforcement, murder, teenage life, violence spree, chase, suspense ...
Place:
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, mind game, police investigation, on the run, dishonesty, chase, law enforcement, rivalry, who done it, desert ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A group of girls trapped in an institution suffer the wrath of a serial killer on the loose. This campy thriller pays homage to Friday the 13th.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, scary, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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33%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
slasher, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
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