Movies like Kill by Inches
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Kill by Inches (1999)
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Genre: Horror, Thriller, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An anxious young tailor dominated by his father, a master of the craft, is eager to do well with his clients; but his inadequacy in measuring leaves him frustrated and humiliated. His younger sister - an expert seamstress - arrives back in town, discovers his measuring weakness and begins a cruel reign of terror over him, humiliating him endlessly in front of customers. Pushed to the edge, the young tailor heads down the nightmarish road to insanity and murder.
Style:
controversial, neo noir, psychological, tense, atmospheric, clever, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, family relations, parents and children, vengeance, siblings relations, eccentric family, unlikely criminals, father daughter relationship, insanity, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, tailor, sibling rivalry, paranoia, child murder, sororicide, wrestler, deadly, dead woman in bath tub, crime, crimes
Time:
90s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, psychological and realistic films with plots about deadly, murder, danger, suspense, psychopath, family relations and rivalry mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Kill by Inches: The Stepdaughter (2000), Acacia (2003), Wake Up (2019), Sick Boy (2012), Buried Alive II (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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After a childhood spent going from one abusive foster home to the next, Susan seeks revenge on the mother who abandoned her. Susan's search leads her to a ranch where her long-lost sister begins to suspect the beautiful drifter isn't who ...
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
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Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
When a psychiatric doctor researches a young girls' diary to find out why she murdered her entire family, he begins to fall into the same state of insomnia and confusion that led her to lose her mind.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sick Boy stars Skye McCole Bartusiak as Lucy, a young woman who steps in for a friend to take a job babysitting a young boy confined to his room due to a mysterious illness. Lucy begins to suspect the child’s mother, played by horror legend Debbie ...
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woman in danger, child illness, confined, zombie, parents and children, family problems, suspense, murder, violence, bad kids, killer child, virus ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman inherits a fortune, causing her husband and his lover to plot her demise by poisoning her. The only trouble is it only places her in a deep coma that resembles death. When an accident occurs in the embalmer's office he doesn't ...
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful
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Time:
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Genre: Mystery, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ulrik Hansson is 45 years old and lives a secure life in a Swedish residential district together with his wife Monika and their two children. He's got a well-paid job as an architect and builds a new detached house which the family will move ...
Style:
mind bending, rough, suspenseful, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Yearning to break free from their sordid pasts, three sisters unite for a simple plan: steal enough drugs to set themselves up for a new life. But when the eldest sister Teig decides they're going to hide out in their old, abandoned family ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological, realistic
Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
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Audience:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer to home than he first realizes. When he discovers that the man working against him is another side of his own personality he is ...
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Story:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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