Movies like The Night Visitor
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The Night Visitor (1971)
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
Style:
art house, scary, psychological, rough, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
snow, prison, murder, mental illness, revenge, macabre, farmer, parrot, psychopath, mental institution, life is a bitch, intrigue, prison life, frame up, isolation, vengeance, rivalry, law enforcement, false accusation, confined, dishonesty, wrongfully committed, chess, lawyer, murderer ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, sweden
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Most similar movies to The Night Visitor
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, rough and realistic films with plots about deadly, murder, rivalry, danger, suspense, law enforcement and confined mostly in Thriller, Crime and Horror genres. Some movies like The Night Visitor: Furnace (2007), Death Row (2007), Kemper (2008), Bell from Hell (1973), Mummy Maniac (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
prison, ghost, suspense, murder, confined, rivalry, supernatural, investigation, police detective, violence, paranormal, escape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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95%
602
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As eight convicts serve their sentences in a work-release program at a creepy abandoned prison, an unknown killer stalks them.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, scary
Plot:
prison, psychopath, prison life, serial killer, survival, confined, life is a bitch, murder, death row, all male cast, danger, deadly
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
589
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
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78%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young man is released from an asylum and returns home for revenge on his aunt and her three daughters, who had him declared insane in order to steal his inheritance.
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
revenge, mental institution, psychopath, mentally unstable, family relations, secret identity, intrigue, murder, family life, violence, aunt, suspense ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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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 ⇓
72%
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Movies like Mindhunters
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Elliott Gast (Jason Behr) is quickly climbing the corporate ladder of international commerce, negotiating deals to generate large fortunes for giant corporations. His success makes him the target for political extremists who kidnap him and broadcast ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
confined, missing person, isolation, captivity, terrorism, prison life, internet, torture, survival, suspense, hostage, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
643
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When William Conroy (Rob Lowe), a former college professor, is sentenced to life in prison for vehicular manslaughter it seems his life is over. But when a fellow inmate tells him that in the past two years fourteen inmates have died at the prison, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
prison, false accusation, law enforcement, frame up, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, confined, criminal heroes, protagonist as suspect, jail, court, suspense ...
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57%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A jailed auto mechanic must run for his life after he witnesses the murder of a fellow inmate by two prison guards.
Style:
campy, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
frame up, murder, chase, confined, law enforcement, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, on the run, dishonesty, death row, wrongfully committed, prison life ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man is falsely convicted of the murder of his wife. During his time in jail, he finds comfort from four women with whom he corresponds. After his second court appearance, he is finally freed from prison only to be framed for yet 2 more murders ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, wrongful conviction, stalking, murder, death row, frame up, false accusation, obsessed fan, on the run, life is a bitch, fugitives, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 ⇓
55%
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Movies similar to Reasonable Doubt
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he ...
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
vengeance, investigation, riddles and clues, law enforcement, psychopath, murder, teenage life, small town, serial killer, supernatural, ghost, puzzle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, mental institution, mind game, survival, murder, mental illness, investigation, law enforcement, mentally unstable, master criminal, doctors and patients ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, realistic, psychological, serious, rough ...
Plot:
mental institution, criminal heroes, gangsters, rivalry, drug dealing, confined, dangerous animal, vengeance, murder, doctor, female fighter, female fight ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 ⇓
51%
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:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A struggling freelance writer, while investigating the transvestite night life, stumbles across a serial killer in action. The two then strike up a bizarre partnership to document the killer's motives and handiwork as a possessed detective ...
Style:
tense, scary, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, killer, nypd, stalking, transvestism, murder, journalism, investigation, amateur detective, law enforcement, media ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Style:
serious, psychological, bleak, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
legal, false accusation, investigation, frame up, uncover truth, police investigation, lovers reunited, testimony, haunted by the past, state affairs, rebellion, life is a bitch ...
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46%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, bleak, mind bending, serious
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, paranoia, mentally unstable, investigation, hospital, murder, doctors and patients, mind game, obsession, losing-it hero, uncover truth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller that takes you through the mind of convicted killer, Michael Raine, and his experiences on death row. Was he guilty of killing his girlfriend or was he a victim of a conspiracy to frame him for a crime he didn't commit? ...
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
death row, murder, injustice, heroes, confined, protagonist as suspect, manhunt, dishonesty, life is a bitch, amateur detective, state affairs, prison life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his traveling companions, his friend and friend's sister. But the police can't be sure whether to ...
Style:
slasher, controversial, psychological, sexy, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, killer, sex crime, exploitation, prostitute, true crime, police detective, murder, sexual abuse, life is a bitch, law enforcement ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Madhouse related movies
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An unfortunate bank robber takes an escaped mental patient, wanted for murder, as hostage.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Plot:
mental illness, investigation, crime gone awry, disorder, dishonesty, law enforcement, confined, murder, hostage, female nudity, therapist, archery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Three psychotic murderers escape from a mental institution and stalk women in Los Angeles.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Plot:
murder, suspense, mental disorder, motorcycle chase, motorcycle cop, producer, escaped mental patient, chase, strong violent content, hostage, confined, captivity ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, prison, violence spree, vengeance, confined, murder, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, tough heroes, gang, heroes, revenge ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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511
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A pair of crooks on the run from the law gets more than they bargained for when they break into a seemingly abandoned house looking for a place to hole up and find that it's controlled by an evil spirit that will do anything to protect its ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
ghost story, confined, supernatural, isolation, on the run, mysterious character, ghost, cons and scams, twists and turns, greed, suspense, blaxploitation ...
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40%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Izzy is raising her younger brother, Kevin, by herself. Their parents are deceased and her older brother, Rusty, is away in the Marines. When Izzy learns that her little brother is being bullied at school, she does what any unstable, psychopathic, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, revenge, psychopath, mentally unstable, vengeance, youth, family problems, family relations, best friends, young heroes, mentally challenged, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Kill Theory related movies
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 ...
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37%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
Style:
scary, psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental institution, psychiatry, mental illness, mentally unstable, intern, murder, ghost, supernatural, investigation, who done it, woman in danger, doctors and patients ...
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36%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
police officer, murder, chase, police, revenge, witness, robbery, threat, gunfight, burglar, false accusation, falsely accused ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a ...
Style:
slasher, atmospheric, disturbing, scary, serious ...
Plot:
prison, ghost, prisoner, revenge, prison life, electric chair, jail, house, exploitation, supernatural, night, imprisonment ...
Time:
80s
Place:
wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Detective Joe Garvey is called in to a mysterious case: a ballerina has been slayed on stage during a performance, it seems she didn't even fight. At her house Garvey finds her 14 years old precocious sister Tinsel. She's not very ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, slasher, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
orphan, murder, conspiracy, police, revenge, on the run, satanic cult, attack, supernatural ability, law enforcement, psychopath, disability ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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