Movies like Darkness Surrounds Roberta

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Darkness Surrounds Roberta (2008)
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Darkness Surrounds Roberta (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: retro, suspense, detective
Plot: sex, kidnapping, murder, sexuality, mass murder, blood, blindness, respect, perversity
Place: italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, slasher and scary films with plots about murder, female nudity, serial killer, blood, gore, violence and deadly mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Darkness Surrounds Roberta: Sleepless (2001), The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971), School of Horror (2007), Dark Glasses (2022), The Stendhal Syndrome (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sleepless (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
Style: gothic, suspenseful, slasher, scary, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, murder, psycho killer, sadism, police investigation, maniac, insomnia, gory, midget, macabre, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe, turin italy
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The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A reporter and a blind retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
Style: slasher, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, blind man, murder, macabre, investigation, chase, gory, obsession, voyeurism, stalking, twists and turns, mind game ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: italy, europe, turin italy, rome italy
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School of Horror (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Aspiring filmmaker Rocky Horror (Robert Baldassari) devises a dangerous plan to create a surefire terror hit when he lures several film school classmates to a haunted tavern, hoping to capture footage of them being attacked by a legendary monster. ...
Style: suspense, independent film, surprise ending
Plot: murder, found footage, cannibal, blood, tavern, film school, gore
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Dark Glasses (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Diana, a high-class prostitute trying to escape from a serial killer, suffers a car accident that leaves her blind and kills the family of Chin, a ten-year-old boy.
Style: suspense, slasher, psychological, disgusting
Plot: serial killer, eye, car accident, blind woman, prostitute, killed by a dog, boy, woman, young boy, police officer killed, blind man, nightmare ...
Place: rome italy
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The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Style: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, art, murder, sadistic psychopath, psycho killer, hallucination, surrealism, policewoman, obsession, memory loss, mental illness, rape ...
Time: 90s
Place: rome italy, florence, italy, europe
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Feral (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In this terrifying tale, a young couple goes on a desperate search for their daughter who's disappeared without a trace into the nearby woods -- the same woods that have recently claimed and released the mutilated bodies of several animals. ...
Style: suspense, independent film, wild
Plot: murder, blood, police, evolution, monster, woods, trailer
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Death Carries a Cane (1973)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ketty,a photographer living in Rome,accidentally witnesses the murder of a young woman at the hands of a razor-wielding black-gloved killer.Ketty and her fiance,Alberto,go to the police-only to learn that two other witnesses to the crime have been ...
Style: suspense, slasher, slasher horror
Plot: murder, serial killer, erotica, whodunit, red herring, photographer, dance school, obstacle, murder investigation, trauma, woman in peril, woman in jeopardy ...
Place: rome italy, italy
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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
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80%
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Crazy Desires of a Murderer (1977)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of hip friends gather at a Gothic castle owned by a wheelchair- bound older relative of one of the girls. One couple in the group, unbeknownst to the others, is smuggling heroin in some Chinese artifacts the protagonist has brought back from ...
Plot: whodunit, female nudity, sex, murder, bare breasts, taxidermy, psycho, psycho killer, murder mystery, italian gothic, female full frontal nudity, champagne ...
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Body Puzzle (1992)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A police officer makes a terrible discovery during the investigation of a series of murders: Each victim has a transplanted organ from the same man.
Style: detective, slasher, surprise ending, suspense, independent film
Plot: serial killer, plot twist, lgbt, twists and turns, widow, psychopath, police investigation, homicide detective, dog, swimming pool, piano, pianist ...
Time: 90s
Place: italy
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Cross of the Seven Jewels (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man becomes a werewolf after being cursed by a black magic society. Only a jeweled necklace he wears can stop the transformations taking place.
Style: suspense
Plot: werewolf, rape, murder, sex, male nudity, female nudity, violence, blood, dog, jewelry, orgy, transformation ...
Place: italy, naples italy
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Village of the Vampire (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Rebecca is searching for her sister, a young journalist who went missing while investigating a series of unfortunate events. The trail leads her to Timere, a remote place far from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, where amidst the tight lipped ...
Style: scary, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, suspense ...
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Time: 21st century
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Midnight Killer (1986)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Nicola confronts his beautiful wife about the affair she's been having. But someone brutally murders her in the shower, right after he leaves the house. Naturally Nicola is made prime suspect. But his colleague, Anna, sees signs that the murder ...
Style: slasher, detective, psychotronic, disturbing, splatter ...
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Hangman's Game (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The events occur between 4:45 am and 6:15 am in the Colombian jungle. Mark, an American contractor wakes up doped, tortured and hung up by the arms next to a local prostitute that acts as interpreter whilst the kidnappers want to hack a 60 billion ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 58 min.
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Giorgia Mainardi, a brutal and egoistic person, died. Noone is really interested in his death, but during his autopsy they find out he was murdered. As a voice from dead, he and his daugther try to find the murder of him... but they have to hurry, ...
Style: retro, epic, realistic, serious, scary ...
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Country: USA
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Story: A modern telling of an ancient genre. A serial killer is terrorizing Arizona with the police in hot pursuit. What the police don't know is that a mysterious group are also pursuing the same killer to stop the killer from unleashing an evil like ...
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, tense ...
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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 ...
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Stoker Hills (2020)
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Duration: 91 min.
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Style: disturbing, tense, bleak, scary, suspense ...
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Night of the Devils (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Night of the Devils is an Italian vampire thriller with a remarkably good pedigree. The script is based on The Wurdalak, a short story by A.K. Tolstoy. The central character is the patriarch of a wealthy family who fears that he will show up one day ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, gothic horror, suspense, serious ...
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Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Diane is a photographer of the ultimate in trendy soft core. Her ex, George, who makes bondage films, hooks Diane up with the muscular Teagan in exchange for a favor with a well-heeled client. Diane asks Teagan to model in her next shoot. When ...
Style: mysterious, detective, weird, sexploitation film
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The Beast Kills in Cold Blood (1971)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
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Plot: woman in jeopardy, promiscuous woman, serial killer, clinic, murder, female pubic hair, bisexual woman, outdoor sex, sexuality, massage, female masturbation, lesbian couple ...
Time: 70s
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
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Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bleak, disturbing ...
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Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Killer Nun (1979)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, whilst presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, psychological, queer horror ...
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Time: 70s
Place: belgium
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Pulled to Hell (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Charles, and Kyle are three private investigators that specialize in missing persons cases. Mickey and her team get in way over there heads when they cross a serial killer who has three very nasty pets that have a taste for human flesh. The team ...
Style: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, rough, tense
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Place: usa
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Night of the Scorpion (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story: This Spanish-Italian co-production tells the story of a man who feels deep guilt for the death of his wife: he, an alcoholic, is convinced that he accidentally caused her fatal fall in their house while he was drunk. He finds a new wife, but he is ...
Style: detective
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The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Wealthy surgeon Andreas Valenti accidentally kills one of his lovers, Daniella, with an unusual objet d'arte and covers it up by dismembering and disposing of the body never realizing he's being watched by a stalker the entire time. ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: murder, underwater, lgbt, plot twist, male nudity, whodunit, death, accidental killing, murder victim, mistress, dead woman, doctor ...
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The Weapon, The Hour, The Motive (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A sexually-promiscuous priest is stabbed to death inside a church
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: murder, stalker, whodunit, self flagellation, nun, female nudity, priest, orphan, rape, christian faith, investigation, convent ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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