Movies like Dream Lover 1986
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Dream Lover (1986)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in doing so she encounters some unexpected results.
Style:
scary, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
woman with a gun, mental illness, insomnia, mind game, ghost, psychopath, mentally unstable, unfulfillment, losing-it hero, domestic disturbance, rape, psycho, doctor, jazz, dream, father daughter relationship, research, fear, widower, painting, nightmare, trust, torment, self defense, scientific research ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, washington d.c.
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and psychological films with plots about deadly, murder, psychopath, serial killer, mind game, danger and law enforcement mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Dream Lover: Freeway Killer (2010), Son of Sam (2008), King of the Jungle (2000), A Perfect Fit (2005), Innocents (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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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
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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
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90%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking out for cigarettes, and his mother. But all life's simple pleasures are brutally torn from him when he witnesses his mother gunned down by a ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, vengeance, losing-it hero, fighting crime, social decay, disability, track down, society, addiction, murder, parents and children, mental illness ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston ...
Style:
psychological, serious, scary, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, prison, confined, prison life, law enforcement, killer, suspense, manipulation, woman in danger, rivalry, true crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A psychological drama about an unstable man, tormented by nightmares, who seeks help from a shrink but is pushed over the edge into increasingly dangerous, psychotic territory by a relationship he is unable to control.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
nightmare, obsession, dangerous attraction, losing-it hero, doctors and patients, psychopath, mentally unstable, male female relationship, mental illness, paranoia, therapy, mental patient ...
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A traveling cellist gets involved with two disturbed sisters on their way to Seattle to tell their mom that their dad has just passed away. On the way, the two kill a judge and a few others unknown to the cellist. Eventually he gets pinned for the ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary
Plot:
serial killer, murder, mind game, criminal heroes, psychopath, dangerous attraction, false accusation, mentally unstable, police investigation, violence spree, parents and children, on the road ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A kick-ass professional car thief, Sage, (Taryn Manning), steals a classic '66 Charger on a challenge. It turns out the car belongs to a serial killer (is there another kind?), who proceeds to slice and dice her friends because he wants his car ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, mind game, heist, race against time, master criminal, psychopath, criminal's revenge, car chase, car thief, suspense, rivalry, woman in danger ...
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77%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The film follows the travels and accounts of Mark Chapman (Jonas Ball) and gives the watcher an insight into his mind. It starts with him in Hawaii and how he does not fit in with anyone including his job; family; friends etc. He says he is ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, assassination, losing-it hero, obsession, unfulfillment, murder, lonely, the beatles, music, criminal, suffering, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place:
hawaii, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground... Los Angeles. It has taken an innocent childhood game and twisted it into a deadly match of wits, where the only prize is survival. Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, mind game, riddles and clues, investigation, vengeance, obsession, ex cop, uncover truth, death of daughter, psychopath, judiciary, serial murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Kenneth Bianchi, one of the two serial rapists and killers who terrorized the Los Angeles area in the late 1970s, is giving police station interviews to psychiatrist Samantha Stone, who has disquieting lifestyle issues of her own. It falls to her to ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, interrogation, mind game, police investigation, who done it, mental illness, life is a bitch, killer, misogynist, serial rapist ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 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, suspenseful, serious, psychological
Plot:
serial killer, private detective, investigation, amateur detective, murder, psychopath, mind game, rivalry, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, who done it, police investigation ...
Place:
usa, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Haunted with nightmares of his wife's recent suicide and struggling to mend the relationship with his only daughter, Richard is caught as a witness to the violence of Abner Solvie. He finds himself at the mercy of a charismatic killer and ...
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, parents and children, family relations, blackmail, father daughter relationship, widower, salvation, murder, suspense, house, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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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slasher, serious, disturbing, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, obsession, psychopath, woman in danger, violence spree, killer, villain, human nature, male female relationship, deadly, gory
Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A con-artist hires two low-lifes to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two dueling pistols, and one night they'll never forget
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, neo noir
Plot:
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Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An heiress who's been shut inside her apartment building for nearly two decades is forced to confront her fears after one of her neighbors is killed and a detective arrives to begin the investigation.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
murder, police investigation, law enforcement, isolation, privacy invasion, suspense, mysticism, conspiracy, domestic disturbance, nosy, abusive relationship, wealthy family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
courtroom, witness, kidnapping, prison, murder, power relations, restaurant, injustice, rebellion, law enforcement, witnessing a crime, legal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Retired cop Eddie Burns gave 15 years and the use of his left arm to the Reno homicide squad. When his wayward sister, Kassie, goes missing Eddie Burns finds himself subjected to a fiendish and ingenious campaign of revenge by the mysterious Charlie ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psychopath, betrayal, kidnapping, murder, police investigation, mind game, haunted by the past, undercover, life is a bitch, false accusation, serial killer, investigation ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, femme fatale, couples, husband wife relationship, psychopath, investigation, rivalry, suspense, death, true crime, mother in law, poisoned ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When a man is involved in a car wreck that kills his former lover, his life is derailed and his mind is splintered with guilt and the subsequent uncertainty about what exactly happened.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
memory loss, life turned upside down, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, uncover truth, life is a bitch, dealing with death, a vision, deadly
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dr Sánchez Blanch owns and operates a psychiatric hospital where he specializes in hypnotizing his severely emotionally disturbed patients.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, scary ...
Plot:
doctor, hospital, mysterious character, supernatural, hypnosis, losing-it hero, mental illness, isolation, mind game, psychology, nightmare, mental institution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brussels, belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, murder, mental institution, psychopath, mentally unstable, confined, redemption, crime and punishment, woman in danger, haunted by the past, criminal psychologist, prison ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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53%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A police detective investigates the apparent serial killing of several children which is linked to an institutionalized, autistic child.
Style:
scary, rough, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, missing person, investigation, mentally unstable, witnessing a crime, police investigation, woman in danger, police detective, reluctant partners, mind game ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, psychopath, manipulation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, mind game, rivalry, destructive relationship, gay, prostitute, killer clown ...
Time:
90s, year 1978, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?
Style:
psychological, serious, bleak, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
serial killer, murder, investigation, mysterious character, uncover truth, mind game, haunted by the past, law enforcement, life is a bitch, psychopath, who done it, protagonist as suspect ...
Place:
new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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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:
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Place:
usa, wisconsin, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young man who yearns to find love, happiness and companionship. Tormented by his ungrateful co-workers and trapped in a life of tedium as a welder in a local factory, Roman's one pleasure is his obsession with ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One victim's sister starts looking for him...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing Seattle.
Style:
psychological, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, profiler, mind game, life is a bitch, track down, police detective, woman in danger, killer, murder, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, washington d.c., florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, tense, dark ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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