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The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer (1993)
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the life of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered more than a dozen people, and ate many of them, before he was caught in 1991.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, controversial, queer cinema
Plot:
serial killer, killer, psycho killer, gay, murder, exploitation, violent, psycho, psychotic, cannibal, necrophilia, murderer, police, violence, death, killings, alcoholic, priest, cannibalism, homosexual, african american, brutality, capture, homosexuality, lie ...
Place:
wisconsin, milwaukee wisconsin
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Most similar movies to The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, suspenseful, realistic and serious films with plots about serial killer, murder, killer, psychopath, violence, suspense and blood mostly in Crime, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer: Dahmer (2002), The Riverman (2004), Cold Light of Day (1989), B.T.K. Killer (2005), Ted Bundy (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, rape, gay club, gay, torture, violence, necrophilia, killer, serial murder, macabre, obsession ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
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95%
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
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72%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
True story of serial Killer Dennis Nilsen.
Style:
weird
Plot:
serial killer, killer, gay, psychopath, true crime, serial murder, necrophilia, evil, interrogation, homosexual, death of grandfather, police officer ...
Place:
london
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66%
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." ...
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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 ⇓
57%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970's (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered). Set from his college student years, to his first victims, his capture, ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, sexual predator, necrophilia, kidnapping, misogyny, electric chair, masturbation, murder, execution, rapist, rape ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
seattle, usa, colorado, florida
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56%
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Movies like American Psycho
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry: "the guy next door" and the serial killer.
Style:
disturbing, scary, controversial, realistic, sadistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, insanity, rape, extreme violence, psychology, incest, killing spree, violent, violence, merciless ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, midwest, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The true story of Edward Gein, the farmer whose horrific crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. This is the first film to Gein's tormented upbringing, his adored but domineering mother, and the 1957 ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, insanity, mental illness, murder, arrest, life is a bitch, neighbor, killer, schizophrenia, psycho killer, psychopath, suspense ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
4K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house which he shared with his family.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer clown, psychopath, evil clown, mind game, obsession, police investigation, sexual abuse, police detective, life is a bitch, double life, violence ...
Time:
70s, 50s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Story of a gay serial killer who murders young boys so he can serve them as dinner to his circle of fellow cannibals.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, tense, gothic, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, serial child killer, secret, gay, psychopath, boy, black market, cannibal, true crime, lgbt, killer ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
germany, europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, rough, serious, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
child abuse, torture, court, confined, dysfunctional family, mentally unstable, murder, captivity, true crime, family problems, domestic violence, threat ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Films like Hannibal
Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy. During his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he becomes.
Style:
psychological, bleak, disturbing, tense, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
socially awkward, sociopath, coming of age, serial killer, gay, teenager, high school, killer, psychopath, father son relationship, teenage protagonist, murder ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, year 1991
Place:
ohio, pittsburgh, minnesota, washington d.c., germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
295
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A couple of depraved killers find themselves in a different situation when the survivor takes matters into her own hands
Style:
psychotronic, disturbing, scary, slasher, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, psycho, killer, escape, vengeance, chief of police, female assassin, obsession, psycho killer, maniac, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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44%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In 1978 in Hong Kong, a grisly murder takes place. Eight years later, on a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim. A squadron of coarse, happy-go-lucky cops investigate, and suspicion falls on Wong Chi Hang, the new owner of ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, bloody, slasher, disgusting ...
Plot:
serial killer, restaurant, cannibalism, prison, violent, food, psychopath, murder, killer, cannibal, cooking and food, torture ...
Time:
80s
Place:
china, macau, asia, hong kong
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43%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to, his capture
Style:
thought provoking, serious, tense, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, family relations, psychopath, human nature, family problems, parents and children, haunted by the past, father son relationship, gay, killer, suspense ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 80s, 70s, 90s ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A depiction of a serial killer's 12 years' worth of murders and how it shaped his prime intelligence.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, suspense, cruelty, sadism, kidnapping, psychopath as protagonist, sadistic psychopath, extreme violence, animal cruelty, obsessive compulsive disorder ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Movies like I Saw the Devil
Genre: Biography, Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The dismembered body of a hooker is found, and police arrest her pimp and his crew for the crime. During interrogation, they explain how the girl stole from her pimp, and so they group kidnapped, raped, tortured, and finally murdered and dismembered ...
Style:
disturbing, brutal, surprise ending, cult film
Plot:
suspense, gang, serial killer, police detective, cruelty, violence, humiliation, drug use, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, blackmail, rape ...
Place:
hong kong
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39%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
"There Is A Secret in My Soup" is based on infamous HK crime case called 'Hello Kitty Murder'.In 1999 three triad gangsters kidnapped,brutally tortured and beat a 23-year old woman named Fan Man-yee for one month until she ...
Style:
controversial, disturbing, cult film
Plot:
serial killer, nude, true crime, kidnapping, bondage, corpse, cannibalism, cheating wife, drugs, violence, police, female nudity ...
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39%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.
Style:
realistic, psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, partners, violence spree, on the run, on the road, killer, sniper, lawyer, small town, african american, murderer, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, usa, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
There is something horribly wrong with the bodies found in the dark city streets. Some are mutilated while others have the Price equation (wΔz = Cov (w,z) = βwzVz) carved into their flesh. Detective Eddie Argo and his new partner Helen Westcott ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, physical torture, investigation, police, torture, master criminal, police investigation, death, introspection, gay, psychological trauma ...
Place:
new york, usa
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39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killing cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
murder, serial killer, psychopath, violent, warrior, killer, criminal, police detective, strangler, psycho, two killers, cousin ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In this "lost slasher film from 1978," a masked killer wages an unrelenting spree of murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia. But when his tortured past comes back to haunt him, he plunges to even greater depths of madness and depravity, ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, controversial, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, necrophilia, exploitation, murder, maniac, violence, suspense, brutality, paranoia, fear, death ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, rough, brutal, bleak ...
Plot:
torture, psychopath, revenge, murder, brutality, rape, prison, exploitation, abduction, serial killer, sexual perversion, humiliation ...
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37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surreal, stylized, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, insanity, dark humor, satire, greed, sociopath, materialism, psycho, violence, killings, yuppie ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, canada, manhattan new york city, yale university, usa ...
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36%
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Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, brutal, suspenseful, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, massacre, monster, torture, murder, insanity, suspense, chainsaw, masked killer, macabre, white trash ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
texas, austin texas, latin america, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 534 min.
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Story:
Across more than a decade, 17 teen boys and young men were murdered by convicted killer Jeffrey Dahmer. How did he evade arrest for so long?
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, sexual, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, homosexual, killer, homosexuality, psychopath, suspense, violence, brutality, lgbt, lgbtq, serial murder ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, milwaukee wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, violence, psychopath, gang, gay rape, male rape victim, torture, suspicion, murder, manipulation, killer, mother's boyfriend ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 1998
Place:
australia, south australia, adelaide south australia, oceania
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35%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Blood drenched terror grips the beautiful city of San Diego as mutilated bodies begin to surface. Lead Homicide Detective Mason "Nostradamus" Brannigan believes it to be the signature of methodical killer Dante: The Inferno Killer who ...
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, disturbing, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, serial murder, psychopath, brutality, violence, masked killer, death, violent, woman in danger, uncover truth, maniac ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Style:
slasher, disturbing, splatter, scary, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, violent, torture, murder, exploitation, violence, macabre, extreme violence, disturbed individual, weirdo, maniac, schizophrenic ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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34%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, robbery, investigation, religions or cults, law enforcement, journalism, obsession, leadership, legends and myths, district attorney, true crime ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, realistic, controversial, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, bullying, revenge, teenager, drugs, rape, rivalry, murder, youth, bully, male nudity, teenage sex ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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