Movies like Psycho-Circus

If you like "Psycho-Circus" you are looking for slasher, suspense and grindhouse movies about / with circus, serial killer, murder, macabre, killer clown, manhunt and carnival themes of Crime, Mystery and Thriller genre shot in UK or West Germany.
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Psycho-Circus (1966)
 5.4
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Psycho-Circus (1966)
Original name: Circus of Fear
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
Style: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot: circus, serial killer, murder, macabre, killer clown, manhunt, carnival, amusement park, on the run, vampire, heist, psychopath, gang, stalking, legends and myths, bank, chase, journalism, chases and races, private detective, rivalry, who done it, danger, law enforcement, police investigation ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place: england, london
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Most similar movies to Psycho-Circus

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about deadly, murder, danger, serial killer, law enforcement, who done it and police investigation mostly in Thriller, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Psycho-Circus: Dead Eyes of London (1961), Scream and Scream Again (1970), The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), Murder Eleven (2013), Nothing But the Night (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dead Eyes of London (1961)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.
Style: detective, gothic, suspense, mind bending, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, blind man, blindness and impaired vision, nurse, clergy, investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, danger, amateur detective, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: london, united kingdom, britain, scotland yard, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Scream and Scream Again (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
Style: serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: serial killer, mad scientist, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, hospital, investigation, scientific experiment, zombie, police, murder, pursuit ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot: master criminal, danger, terrorism, chases and races, rivalry, escapades, heroes, riddles and clues, faked death, private detective, exploitation, explosions ...
Time: 60s
Place: scotland yard, england, london, shanghai, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 3.8
 245
Murder Eleven (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A serial killer is loose on the streets of Atlantic City. His ten victims are prostitutes, his methods are ruthless and yet his motives are unknown. Two embattled homicide detectives, Mayfield and Jesse, are in a race against time to catch this ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, homicide detective, race against time, police investigation, law enforcement, amateur detective, murder, who done it, tough heroes, partners against crime, police officer, prostitute ...
Time: 21st century
Place: atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jean Reno, Benoit Magimel and Christopher Lee (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars Trilogy) star in the riveting action-packed sequel to Crimson Rivers. No one is safe when seemingly random killings emerge as a deadly pattern intended to usher ...
Style: atmospheric, detective, suspense, talky, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, police detective, serial killer, police investigation, who done it, investigation, murder mystery, dark hero, reluctant partners, lone hero, supernatural, religion ...
Time: 2000s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Nothing But the Night (1973)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Already three trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last months, looking like suicides. However after a mysterious accident of a bus with the last three trustees and 30 orphan kids in it, police colonel Bingham starts investigating. ...
Style: gothic horror, classic horror, terrifying, detective, independent film ...
Plot: folk horror, murder, supernatural, evil child, mad scientist, hypnosis, darkness, island, bus, orphan, investigation, suicide ...
Time: 70s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Hysteria (1965)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent car accident. With only a photograph torn from a newspaper to guide him, and an unknown benefactor, he attempts to unravel what looks increasingly ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, noir, psychological thriller, realistic ...
Plot: amnesia, private investigator, parallel universe, photograph, murder, american abroad, hysteria, car accident, psychotherapy, losing-it hero, riddles and clues, memory loss ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, london, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
The Nature of the Beast (1995)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.
Style: psychological, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, mind game, police investigation, on the run, rivalry, chase, danger, dishonesty, law enforcement, who done it ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Gone but Not Forgotten (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious
Plot: serial killer, danger, private detective, investigation, amateur detective, psychopath, rivalry, murder, police investigation, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, police detective ...
Place: usa, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
A Study in Terror (1965)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, realistic, serious, slasher ...
Plot: private detective, sherlock holmes, serial killer, freemason, killer, atmosphere, murder, prostitute, who done it, woman in danger, police detective, partners against crime ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 3.9
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Countdown (1996)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Chris Murdoch falls obsessively in love with a Japanese girl attending University in Seattle (Kaori Ozaki) he murders Japanese men who have shown her kindness under the pretext of revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII. However the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, die hard, police investigation, chases and races, rivalry, undercover, mind game, terrorism, law enforcement, crime gone awry, manhunt, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
American Crime (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes. This might just be the career opportunity, which she has hoped for. When she herself becomes a target and suddenly disappears, the ...
Style: serious, scary, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, stalking, mind game, investigation, uncover truth, who done it, danger, protagonist as suspect, journalism, law enforcement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Creature with the Blue Hand (1967)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, detective, tense, mind bending ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, snake, mental disorder, twins, psychopath, twin brother, whodunit, stalker, violent content, mad scientist, investigation ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Jack Rises (2013)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A London detective tracking a serial killer finds the killers "truth or die" methods take him to New York to solve the case.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, who done it, law enforcement, riddles and clues, murder, private detective, amateur detective, dishonesty, danger, murderous pair, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Try to Remember (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Fifteen years after a murderer is convicted he is released and all the witnesses against him begin to be murdered.
Style: psychological, rough, realistic, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, haunted by the past, police investigation, psychopath, manhunt, murder, vengeance, law enforcement, rivalry, friendship, woman in danger, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: miami, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Ten Little Indians (1974)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, Spain, UK, Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ten people are invited to a hotel for a weekend getaway by a Mr. U. N. Owen, who mysteriously isn't in attendance. When the group gets together for their first dinner, a record is played in which Mr. Owen accuses each guest of committing ...
Style: atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot: hotel, murder, vigilante, characters killed one by one, paranoia, serial killer, isolation, whodunit, who done it, psychopath, serial murder, doctor ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Never Forget (2008)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man (Phillips) who wakes up with amnesia also finds his supposed friend has accused him of murder.
Style: psychological, realistic, mind bending, tense, exciting ...
Plot: murder, amnesia, woods, rock, puzzle, memory loss, best friend, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger, chases and races, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Thorne: Scaredycat (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, police detective, murderous pair, law enforcement, murder mystery, strangulation, psychopath, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Room of Death (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. The next morning the police ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, rough, enigmatic, queer horror ...
Plot: maniac, serial killer, psychopath, doll, haunted by the past, confined, police investigation, murder, missing person, vengeance, farm, rescue ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Ten Little Indians (1965)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion.When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in uniquely macabre Agatha Christie-style.It is based on Christie's best-selling novel with 100 ...
Style: suspenseful, talky, psychological, tense, black comedy ...
Plot: murder mystery, serial killer, isolation, murder, mind game, private detective, investigation, whodunit, characters killed one by one, guilt, false accusation, weekend ...
Time: 60s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Berserk (1967)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Monica Rivers, is the owner and ringmaster of a traveling circus and who'll stop at nothing to draw bigger audiences. When a series of mysterious murders begins to occur and some of her performers die gruesomely, her profits soar. She hires ...
Style: detective, psychotronic, slasher, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: circus, hagsploitation, murder, investigation, underground, age-gap relationship, mysticism, amusement park, macabre, haunted, serial killer, tightrope walker ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The White Lioness (1996)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization. In Skåne, southwest of Sweden, is given to the real estate agent Louise Åkerblom by missing and ...
Style: mind bending, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: murder, conspiracy, violent content, who done it, political corruption, police corruption, kgb, fish out of water, political conspiracy, police investigation, state affairs, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993
Place: south africa, russia, africa, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Murder in My House (2006)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Before Lauren and her dad, Stran, even settle into their beautiful new house, she learns that it was once the site of a grisly homicide! When her pops, a former prosecutor, becomes obsessed with cracking the case, he's murdered. And it's ...
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: murder, private detective, femme fatale, amateur detective, riddles and clues, couples, legal investigation, intrigue, starting over, police investigation, dishonesty, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw ...
Style: disturbing, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, law enforcement, police investigation, violence spree, psychopath, stalking, mind game, danger, killer, true crime, criminal ...
Time: 50s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Pavement (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, vengeance, animal life, amateur detective, obsessive quest, police investigation, danger, psychopath, law enforcement, haunted by the past ...
Place: south africa, usa, san francisco, alaska, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.2
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Our Town (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Kyung-ju is a struggling novelist who writes violent and gory murder mysteries. When a fierce argument with his landlady ends in her death, he stages the killing so that it looks like the act of the serial killer that has been terrorizing his ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, twisted ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, murder, psychopath, rivalry, danger, twists and turns, wannabe, law enforcement, who done it, chase, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.7
 629
Reflections (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Europol Agent Tom Brindle is called to Barcelona, Spain, to track down the notorious serial killer known as Pygmalion. A set of fingerprints lead to a young, volatile soldier, Marco Soler. Agent Brindle arrests Marco and intensely interrogates him, ...
Style: scary, serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, twins, murder, siblings relations, police investigation, manhunt, dishonesty, law enforcement, police detective, danger, rivalry, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.6
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First Degree (1995)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When prominent businessman Andrew Pyne is found shot in a New York alley, one of the NYPD's best, Rick Mallory, suspects a Galeno Mob hit. When he and his partner, Amos Turzo try to question Pyne's widow, Hadley, they are quickly ushered ...
Style: independent film, tense, mind bending, realistic, serious ...
Plot: murder, righting the wronged, power relations, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, witnessing a crime, fighting crime, police investigation, couple relations, femme fatale, amateur detective, serial killer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Magic Man (2010)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In order to see magic idol Krell Darius perform his world-famous magic act, a beautiful aspiring young-magician, Tatiana, travels from New York to Las Vegas with her closest friends, BFFs, Elena and Vera. As the layers of illusion unfold, so too do ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, independent film
Plot: serial killer, investigation, haunted by the past, police detective, manipulation, danger, murder, dishonesty, magic, wizards and magicians, wizard, mythical creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the murder of his mother. Calgary can prove that Jack was innocent. In spite of opposition from ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse ...
Plot: amateur detective, murder, uncover truth, death row, frame up, false accusation, injustice, law enforcement, legal, murder mystery, alibi, incest ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: england, antarctica, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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