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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Original name: Una lucertola con la pelle di donna
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young woman is accused of murdering her debauched neighbor after dreaming it. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
Style: slasher, grindhouse, psychosexual thriller, surprise ending, erotic, psychedelic, suspense, experimental, mondo, sensual ...
Plot: lesbian lover, nightmare, erotic dream, murder, lesbian, female nudity, serial killer, glamour, female psychopath, plot twist, acid trip, killer, rape, psycho, mysticism, lgbt, macabre, lsd, illusion, parallel universe, darkness, voyeurism, psychotic, violent, real sex ...
Time: 70s
Place: london, england, europe
Keyword: italian horror, irish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and slasher films with plots about murder, cigarette smoking, investigation, blood, violence, death and female nudity mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like A Lizard in a Woman's Skin: One on Top of the Other (1969), Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972), Don't Torture a Duckling (1972), Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971), Mirage (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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One on Top of the Other (1969)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An insurance scam lands a man on death row for murdering his wife. What everyone doesn't know is she really isn't dead.
Style: realistic, sexy, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: doppelganger, infidelity, love triangle, murder, investigation, who done it, sexual fantasy, false accusation, death row, killer, plot twist, lookalikes ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, paris france, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by a person dubbed "The Half-Moon Killer" by the police, and her husband must find the connecting thread between herself, six other women, and the killer before the killer strikes at her again.
Style: slasher, suspense, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, dead prostitute, murder of a prostitute, police, psychopath, prostitute, woman in danger, police investigation, amateur detective, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that's rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.
Style: psychological, slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, serial killer, police investigation, journalism, obsession, amateur detective, small town, mind game, mysterious character, uncover truth, death ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, southern italy, europe, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He ...
Style: slasher, mind bending, grindhouse, creepy, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, female serial killer, closeted homosexual, murder, obsession, female psychopath, psychotic, macabre, murder mystery, gay, musician, killer ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: europe, rome italy, italy, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mirage (1965)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: New York City. David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and why is he surrounded by murder?
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot: amnesia, manhunt, investigation, chase, police detective, private detective, murder, dishonesty, mind game, uncover truth, spy, russian roulette ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
Style: scary, rough, atmospheric, slasher, grindhouse ...
Plot: disappearance, paranoia, sect, danger, orgy, journalism, investigation, autopsy, medical examiner, delusion, reporter, hospital ...
Time: 60s, 70s, future
Place: prague, czechoslovakia, czech republic, europe, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Inspector Sylvester is assigned to investigate the violent murder of a fashion house model Isabella, by a masked assailant. As the investigation proceeds all of the house’s various sins, including corruption, abortions, blackmail and drug ...
Style: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, psychosexual thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, killer, model, fashion, whodunit, masked killer, fashion model, strangulation, macabre, murderer, female nudity, erotica ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a fashion model dies during an abortion, a series of murders begins, starting with her doctor. The next victims are connected to the modeling agency where she worked, Albatross, run by a hard edged and jealous bi-sexual, Gisella, married to a ...
Style: slasher, erotic, suspense, disturbing, sensual ...
Plot: lust, serial killer, lesbian sex, sexual fantasy, erotica, fashion model, female serial killer, voyeur, licking, model, voyeurism, murderer ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor (Fabio Testi) who is involved with a student becomes a suspect, along with several other male and female teachers.
Style: slasher, detective, grindhouse, suspense, deep ...
Plot: serial killer, voyeurism, murder, obsession, sexual obsession, psycho killer, murder of a nude woman, infidelity, misogynist, lust, voyeur, brutality ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Nothing Underneath (1985)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Thriller in Milan, Italy, where a serial killer uses scissors to assassinate top-models. A Yellowstone park ranger, from Usa, arrives in the city to protect his sister, but she has vanished. The guy will meet a lot of people and will know the ...
Style: slasher, slasher horror, detective, surprise ending
Plot: female nudity, serial killer, fashion model, erotica, photographer, fraternal twins, russian roulette, brother sister relationship, model, forest ranger, cocaine, taxi ...
Place: milan italy, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Murder 101 (1991)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Charles Lattimore, an author of a book about a famous murder trial, arranges to meet with one of his students one night. When the student is found murdered and Lattimore has no alibi, he suspects he is being framed by the subject of his book.
Style: realistic, psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: murder, police investigation, dishonesty, uncover truth, frame up, who done it, police corruption, protagonist as suspect, mind game, law enforcement, amateur detective, false accusation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.5
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The Double (1971)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man is shot in an underground car-park by a mysterious bearded man. As he dies he recollects the events that led him to this situation, including adulterous liaisons and jealous envy.
Style: non-linear, neurotic, crying, freeze frame, detective ...
Plot: rape, photography, unfaithful husband, sex starved woman, female pubic hair, bare butt, horniness, automobile, nudity, bare chested male, impotence, infidelity ...
Place: morocco, north africa, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
Style: detective, slasher, sexy, suspense, erotic ...
Plot: massage parlor, serial killer, gay, maniac, murder, wedding, erotica, affair, psycho killer, murderer, lgbt, adultery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Quiet Place to Kill (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A race-car driver who's down on her luck is invited by her ex-husband's wife to stay at their plush villa. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As ...
Style: grindhouse, suspense, slasher, psychotronic, surprise ending ...
Plot: gigolo, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, older woman younger man relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, stealing a car, bare chested male, swimming pool, mother daughter relationship, greedy man, american abroad, womanizer, man hits a woman ...
Place: mallorca, spain, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The New York Ripper (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Style: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, detective, dark ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, torture, nudity, sex, gory, massacre, violence against women, sexual cruelty, brutality, fondling, psycho ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Psychic (1977)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
Style: grindhouse, slasher, creepy, gothic, suspense thriller ...
Plot: psychic, exploitation, murder, investigation, supernatural, macabre, whodunit, murder mystery, psychic power, killer, telekinesis, plot twist ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, europe, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young newlywed couple from America returns to Geneva to visit Marcel's home town. Once there he is informed of his former lover's suicide and in turn is subjected to threats that accuse him of being responsible for her death and further, ...
Style: sexy, neo noir, crying, psycho sexual, independent film ...
Plot: female orgasm, female nudity, suicide, newlywed, mysterious telephone call, vacation gone wrong, dead body, villain as protagonist, bare butt, bare chested male, nudity, couples ...
Place: switzerland, geneva switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Devil's Honey (1986)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A young woman abducts a doctor whom she holds responsible for the death of her boyfriend and subjects him to various sexual torture acts.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, erotic, sexual ...
Plot: sexploitation, female masturbation, vengeance, obsession, missing person, mentally unstable, love triangle, captivity, couples, sexual abuse, erotica, love ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place: venice, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, slasher, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, voyeurism, female psychopath, maniac, attempted murder, murder, psychopath, murder mystery, police detective, female killer, danger ...
Time: 70s, year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Blood Brides (1970)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
Style: slasher, surreal, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, homicidal maniac, serial murder, woman in danger, gory, wedding, whodunit, fashion, family life, criminal ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: europe, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Bedroom Window (1987)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Terry Lambert is sleeping with Sylvia, the wife of his boss. One night, while in Terry's apartment, Sylvia witnesses a man assault a young woman, Denise, on the road below. Not wanting to reveal her affair with Terry, she keeps quiet. Terry ...
Style: suspenseful, neo noir, tense, intense, psychological ...
Plot: legal, femme fatale, serial killer, rapist, false accusation, murder, obsession, revenge, investigation, infidelity, danger, mind game ...
Time: 80s
Place: maryland, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Night Warning (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death ...
Style: slasher, psychological, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: orphan, basketball, homosexuality, gay teacher, serial killer, attic, homosexual, male nudity, high school, gay, obsession, teenage boy ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Pieces (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, disturbing, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, chainsaw, college, psychopath, danger, exploitation, stalking, sexual repression, male nudity, investigation ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Duration: 95 min.
Story: The attractive widow of a wealthy lawyer invites to her luxurious house the thirteen best friends of her late husband, with the purpose of finding out if her husband's killer is one of them. But, over the next few days, a series of mysterious ...
Style: suspense, freeze frame, neo noir, crying
Plot: sex with a maid, murder, masked killer, whodunit, guest, house, stalker, playboy, drug dealer, jealous man, strangled to death, death of mother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, persia, iran, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.6
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The Body (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Style: surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder, investigation, uncover truth, missing person, adulterous husband, car accident, mistress, morgue, vengeance, adultery, haunted by the past ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (1984)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A series of murders rock a dance academy in New York in which the mysterous directress, Candice, sets out to find the kiler, with a little assistance from a shady male model, named George, who has a hidden agenda for her as does she for him.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, dance studio, vengeance, investigation, gory, dancer's life, competition, female serial killer, suspicion, killer, lgbt ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.4
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In the Cut (2003)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, France, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, a self-determined woman living in New York City--as if to test the limits of her own safety--propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison. Soon she grows increasingly ...
Style: sexual, sexy, erotic, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: seduction, erotica, voyeurism, serial killer, police investigation, eroticism, lust, oral sex, female nudity, female masturbation, police detective, seductive man ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Nightwatch (1994)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In order to finance his law studies, Martin starts as a night watchman in a mortuary. When the victims of a serial killer of prostitutes are deposited there, scary things begin to happen. Therefore and because of a strange bet with his fellow ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, tense, psychological, creepy ...
Plot: psychopath, night watchman, serial killer, doctor, murder, bet, brutality, danger, investigation, oral sex, perversion, murder mystery ...
Time: 90s
Place: scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Basic Instinct (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.
Style: sexy, erotic, neo noir, sexual, detective ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, obsession, sex, manipulation, serial killer, nudity, seduction, murder, sexual tension, dangerous attraction, hot and sexy, strong sexual content ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: san francisco, bay area, persia, california, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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