Movies like Edge of Sanity

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Edge of Sanity (1989)
 5.3
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Edge of Sanity (1989)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens. The police can't catch him, he has nothing to lose but his mind
Style: slasher, independent film, scary, mind bending, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, weird
Plot: psychopath, jekyll and hyde, mad doctor, murder, mental illness, mad scientist, mental disorder, prostitute, jack the ripper, twins, cocaine, evil twin, insanity, surrealism, investigation, victorian england, doctor, obsession, gory, stalking, danger, experiment gone awry, disorder, drug abuse, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, victorian era
Place: london

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and slasher films with plots about deadly, murder, danger, psychopath, serial killer, blood and female nudity mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Edge of Sanity: Shiver (2012), A Demon in My View (1991), The Fan (1981), Jack the Ripper (1976), Jekyll & Hyde (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, gothic horror, psychological, slasher ...
Plot: jekyll and hyde, split personality, macabre, monster, twins, evil twin, mad doctor, switching roles, double life, couples, disorder, mad scientist ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 4.3
 1K
Shiver (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
Style: rough, suspenseful, scary, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, obsession, murder, adaptation, police, nudity, sex scene, investigation, female nudity, psycho killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
A Demon in My View (1991)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.
Style: mind bending, scary, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, strangler, violence spree, obsession, mentally unstable, investigation, murder, curses spells and rituals, police, deadly, black pantyhose ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.7
 3K
The Fan (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen (Lauren Bacall). However when his letters are rejected, the fan strikes out at the actresses friends, then at her.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Plot: obsession, murder, stalking, obsessed fan, actress, stalker, woman in danger, price of fame, maniac, psychopath, actor's life, secretary ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Jack the Ripper (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
Style: bleak, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, jack the ripper, murder, maniac, psychopath, woman in danger, who done it, danger, police investigation, gory, mind game, killer ...
Time: victorian era, 70s, 19th century, 1880s
Place: england, london, europe, scotland, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Jekyll & Hyde (1990)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, ...
Style: gothic horror, scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: jekyll and hyde, laboratory, experiment gone awry, split personality, switching roles, rivalry, mentally unstable, supernatural ability, antidote, disorder, drug abuse, mad scientist ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 80s
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 3.4
 312
Craig (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: CRAIG is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from losing his parents in a big fire. Besides a friend from childhood, in one go he looses everyone he cares about. The friend, Cliff, isn't of much use either. He has his own ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, vengeance, danger, mental illness, gory, split personality, obsession, rivalry, suburban life, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Phantom of Death (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici's girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti ...
Style: slasher, detective, terrifying, scary, mind bending ...
Plot: serial killer, pianist, psycho, murder, prostitute, gory, terminal illness, pregnancy, riddles and clues, psychopath, investigation, aging ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 7.2
 53K
Dead Ringers (1988)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the ...
Style: psychological, bleak, atmospheric, disturbing, dark ...
Plot: insanity, obsession, drug addiction, identical twins, twins, mental illness, mistaken identity, love triangle, body horror, addiction, brother brother relationship, schizophrenia ...
Time: year 1988, 20th century, year 1954, 1950s, 90s ...
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
My Sweet Killer (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Charlie is an introverted person getting out of prison. He feeds in an apartment and starts dreaming of the woman who died in this apartment. And his fantasies of this woman getting worse and worse.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, scary ...
Plot: mental illness, alone, murder, male nudity, psychiatric patient, psychopath, misfit, mysterious character, doctors and patients, split personality, femme fatale, mind game ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.3
 977
Effects (1979)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, exploitation, voyeurism, terror, director, murder, inspiration, drug use, cocaine, bar fight, psychopath, supernatural ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.4
 1K
Buried Alive (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by various ex-mental patients. Spurred on by a series of horrific hallucinations, she begins to investigate the mysterious ...
Style: scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, insanity, mental illness, gory, danger, juvenile delinquency, school, teenage life, youth, serial killer, edgar allan poe, buried alive ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.8
 772
The Surgeon (1995)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dr. Julian Mater is suspended and gets his license revoked for performing experiments on dying patients in cellular regeneration. A couple of years later, he returns to the hospital that condemned his work to begin practicing his grizzly experiments ...
Style: slasher, medical horror, mystical, suspense, grindhouse ...
Plot: medical, serial killer, medicine, hospital, investigation, rivalry, vengeance, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, stalking, mad scientist, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.6
 2K
Dark Souls (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young girl, Johanna, is attacked and seemingly murdered. Her father receives a phone call from the police pronouncing her dead as he sees her walk in the front door of their house. Strange things begin to happen to Johanna; she is disorientated ...
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, cult horror ...
Plot: zombie, supernatural, murder, infection, uncover truth, psychopath, gory, danger, police investigation, vengeance, kids in trouble, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.5
 679
Night Junkies (2007)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the seedy London underworld of junkies and prostitutes, a vampire stalks women. When a stripper, Ruby, is bitten, she is determined not to give in to her blood addiction, no matter what.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, sexy ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, dangerous attraction, mysterious character, love affair, downfall, fall in love, serial killer, danger, rivalry, murder, addiction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.5
 23K
Santa Sangre (1989)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, dark, psychedelic, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, psychology, clown, extreme, art, magic realism, schizophrenia, macabre, funeral ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.2
 4K
Tony (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, loneliness, isolation, police, violence, killer, social realism, murderer, killing, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.5
 374
Relative Fear (1994)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and abused by the kids of the neighborhood and his grandpa . When several people around ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense ...
Plot: murder, killer child, suspicion, psychopath, therapist, boy, mischievous children, social misfits, danger, family life, investigation, serial killer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, necrophilia, psychopath, exploitation, true crime, murder, redneck, killer, gory, obsession, freak, violent ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: wisconsin, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Jekyll + Hyde (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Henry Jekyll is a young science student who, along with his friend Mary, experiments with various drugs and compounds in order to create a personality-enhancing drug that he believes will turn him into the successful and popular person he so craves ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, slasher, exciting ...
Plot: split personality, disorder, supernatural, obsession, mental illness, supernatural ability, misfit, addiction, experiment gone awry, suicide, jekyll and hyde, struggle ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Psycho Cop Returns (1993)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A group of office workers decide to have a party in the office building. Among other things, they want to have some drugs there. Their conversation on the subject is overheard by Joe Vickers, which is rather unfortunate for them, since Joe Vickers ...
Style: slasher, independent film, detective, bloody, dark ...
Plot: serial killer, killer cop, stripper, murder, wedding, cop, office, sex scene, woman with a gun, making love, strip club, maniac ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 3.6
 208
Sinful (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: An unhappily married young woman plots to steal the unborn baby of her single and pregnant next door neighbor by befriending her and waiting for the right time to act. Lilith is a young woman who longs for having a family and the perfect child. But ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, psychological thriller
Plot: pregnant wife, husband wife relationship, murder, insanity, jealousy, macabre, obsession, dangerous attraction, danger, motherhood, bad girl, woman with a gun ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.0
 3K
The Ugly (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, creepy ...
Plot: serial killer, mental institution, murder, psychologist, psychopath, mind game, investigation, mysterious character, haunted by the past, doctors and patients, killer, surrealism ...
Time: 90s
Place: new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 6.7
 4K
Anguish (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's collection. Reality soon takes a bizarre turn, both for the characters and the audience.
Style: slasher, psychological thriller, surreal, mind twisting, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, two killers, hypnosis, terror, surrealism, eye, blood, psycho killer, spirituality, survival, teenager, mental disorder ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, southern california, america, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 3.4
 396
The Choke (2006)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: rock, survival, teenage life, gory, rave, danger, stalking, murder, rock and roll, serial killer, hard rock, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 4.1
 943
Dark Asylum (2001)
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, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mental institution, survival, danger, mental illness, murder, mentally unstable, law enforcement, investigation, master criminal, gory ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.8
 16K
Mary Reilly (1996)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Style: gothic, suspense, atmospheric, scary, gothic horror ...
Plot: jekyll and hyde, servant, mad scientist, laboratory, prostitute, dual identity, master and servant, dangerous attraction, power relations, devil, secrets, insanity ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 90s, year 1996, 1880s
Place: scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.7
 2K
I, Monster (1971)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner ...
Style: grindhouse, gothic horror, classic horror, gothic, medical horror ...
Plot: mad scientist, jekyll and hyde, split personality, doctor, monster, mad doctor, murder, friendship, disorder, battles, private detective, supernatural ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, victorian era
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.4
 11K
The Broken (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and ...
Style: mind bending, surreal, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: dream, broken mirror, nightmare, fear, murder, doppelganger, investigation, danger, haunted by the past, girlfriend, embassy, woman in danger ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.1
 38K
Bug (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, mind bending, suspense ...
Plot: paranoia, insanity, conspiracy theory, mental illness, psychosis, couples, nudity, obsession, schizophrenia, addiction, losing-it hero, delusion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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