Movies like The Disturbance

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The Disturbance (1990)
 5.1
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The Disturbance (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A psycho is on the prowl, and his victims are all beautiful women. The police must catch him before he kills again.
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: serial killer, rape, psychopath, police, schizophrenia, murder, erotic fantasy, bare breasts, mental illness, masturbation, insanity, psycho killer, serial murder, nightmare, sexual fantasy, a vision, insane, strangulation, delusion, group therapy, caught masturbating, mystery killer, suicide attempt, madness, shot in the head ...

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Most similar movies to The Disturbance

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, independent film, suspenseful and scary films with plots about serial killer, murder, psychopath, psycho killer, serial murder, killer and maniac mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like The Disturbance: Sketches of a Strangler (1978), The Night Stalker (2016), Poor Albert and Little Annie (1972), Bleed (2002), Lucid (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sketches of a Strangler (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One victim's sister starts looking for him...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, art student, strangler, murder, obsession, prostitute, investigation, mental illness, psychopath, student, strangulation, brother ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Night Stalker (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.
Style: psychological, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, police, murder, psychopath, rape, death, true crime, murderer, rapist, serial murder, violence, killing spree ...
Time: year 1980
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Poor Albert and Little Annie (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, sadistic, splatter ...
Plot: exploitation, serial killer, mother, mental disorder, wealth, killing, nudity, psychiatric hospital, disturbed person, insane, rage, traumatic childhood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
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: scary, disturbing, realistic, independent film, sadistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, insanity, gory, maniac, rape, killing spree, incest, violent, true crime, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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 3.4
 719
Bleed (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A naïve young girl desperate to fit in with her new boyfriend's tightly knit crew learns that membership may be deadly. Upon arriving at a party with her new boyfriend, Shawn, desperate-to-fit-in newcomer Debbie learns that the friends have ...
Style: slasher, independent film, surprise ending, splatter
Plot: serial killer, male nudity, skinny dipping, stalker, swimming pool, female nudity, psychopath, flashback, strangulation, bare breasts, murder, blood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.4
 121
Lucid (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman with increasingly disturbing and violent dreams consults a famous sleep therapist known for his controversial treatments. Her experience plummets her into the dark, twisted depths of her subconscious, grasping for her sanity.
Style: suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: nightmare, murder, serial killer, homicidal maniac, woman in danger, gossip and rumors, masked killer, sadistic psychopath, vengeance, disguise, characters in danger, maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.3
 100
Mad Dog (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: detective
Plot: police, victim, killing spree, murder, psychopath, mental illness, death, telephone call, serial killer, crime scene, insanity, killer ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
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: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: murder, serial killer, two killers, true crime, psychopath, criminal, killer, violent, police detective, homicide, strangler, cousin ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Night Stalker (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A tough homicide cop is assigned to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.
Style: detective, independent film, weird
Plot: serial killer, monster, prostitution, police officer killed, psychiatrist, supernatural power, exploitation, punk rocker, psycho killer, psychopath, killer, nudity ...
Time: year 1986
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 5.6
 12K
Dahmer (2002)
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, slasher, stylized ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, rape, gay club, biopic, gay, torture, violence, necrophilia, blood, killer, serial murder ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 2002, 90s
Place: ohio, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Too Scared to Scream (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A killer of young women is loose in an exclusive apartment complex and a detective is out to stop him. The chief suspect is a Shakespeare-spouting doorman who lives with his invalid mother. Meanwhile, an undercover cop moves into the apartment ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, murder, danger, brutality, psychopath, manipulation, law enforcement, female nudity, disability, dishonesty, criminal ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.1
 17K
Raising Cain (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When neighborhood kids begin vanishing, Jenny suspects her child psychologist husband, Carter, may be resuming the deranged experiments his father performed on Carter when he was young. Now, it falls to Jenny to unravel the mystery. And as more ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, detective, suspense, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, adultery, twins, psychologist, insanity, kidnapping, multiple personality disorder, split personality, evil twin, hospital, obsession, mental illness ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The College Girl Murders (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas
Style: slasher, splatter, independent film, eurospy
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, conspiracy, mystery killer, unknown killer, monk, girls' boarding school, hired killer, girl man relationship, insane, jail, murder ...
Place: scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.0
 4K
Init!ation (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Whiton University unravels the night a star-athlete is murdered, kicking off a spree of social media slayings that force students to uncover the truth behind the school's hidden secrets and the horrifying meaning of an exclamation point.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: murder, fraternity, serial killer, psychopath, athlete, danger, killing spree, university, violence, chase, social media, blood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.5
 6K
Ed Gein (2000)
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, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, insanity, murder, mental illness, arrest, true crime, biopic, life is a bitch, psycho killer, neighbor, killer, schizophrenia ...
Time: y2k, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: usa, texas, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.2
 265
Cardiac Arrest (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a black market for human organs, while across town a ...
Style: slasher, detective, independent film
Plot: killer, hospital, murder, investigation, serial killer, surgery, heart, heart transplant, body part
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 2.4
 312
Laser Moon (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A radio DJ helps two police detectives hunt down a serial killer who kills women using a surgical laser instrument during every full moon and whom makes taunting phone calls the radio station.
Style: slasher, independent film, surprise ending
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, stripper, radio station, woman with a gun, full moon, taunting, psycho killer, radio dj, female nudity, sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Deadly Intruder (1985)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A serial killer escapes from a mental hospital and hides out in a small town. A local cop must catch him before he starts on another killing spree.
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: serial killer, murder, vacation, death, kidnapping, psychopath, insanity, drifter, manhunt, mental patient, stalking, maniac ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 2.6
 302
Sorrow (2015)
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, slasher, suspense, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, revenge, escape, killer, vengeance, chief of police, female assassin, obsession, woman in danger, murder, female protagonist, killing spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of a small town, set in 1946 Arkansas. Loosely based on a true story.
Style: slasher, scary, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, masked killer, stalking, killer, mystery killer, unknown killer, murder, maniac, human monster, police investigation, true crime ...
Time: 1940s, year 1976, post world war two, year 1946
Place: texas, arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.9
 482
Dance Macabre (1992)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A dance instructor brings his dance troupe to Russia for training. What his dancers don't know, however, is that he has a dual personality--and his hidden personality is a serial killer.
Style: horror musical, independent film, slasher horror, psychotronic, gothic ...
Plot: phantom of the opera, serial killer, slaughterhouse, killing spree, crazy, american horror, psycho terror, insane, disturbed person, female nudity, slaughter, blood ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.4
 20K
Maniac (1980)
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, grindhouse, disturbing, splatter, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, maniac, violent, torture, murder, extreme violence, exploitation, macabre, extreme, violence, blood ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A horror film based on a real-life mass murder that took place in 1966. Richard Franklin Speck was a mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966.
Style: slasher, tense, rough, disturbing, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, sexual abuse, murder, psychopath, violence spree, confined, hostage, journalism, maniac, misogynist, brutality, psychiatrist ...
Time: 60s, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place: chicago, usa, dallas texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Super Dark Times (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.
Style: suspense, slasher, dark, disturbing, post-horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, murder, friendship, nightmare, marijuana, katana, teenager, sword, bicycle, coming of age, love triangle, neighbor ...
Time: year 2017, 90s, year 1996, year 1995
Place: new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
A Stranger Is Watching (1982)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three years after Steve Peterson's wife, Nina, was murdered in front of their 11 year old daughter Julie, she and his new girlfriend Sharon Martin are kidnapped by the same killer, the psychotic Artie Taggart. Imprisoning them in a bunker below ...
Style: slasher, suspense, detective, realistic, serious ...
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, psychopath, serial killer, kidnapper, violence, psycho killer, tv reporter, rape victim, race against time, investigation, children ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 3.3
 576
Hatchetman (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Claudia Wagner dreams of being a lawyer and, along with her boyfriend Sonny, must put all her knowledge into use when, one by one, her girlfriends become victim to a serial killer. Can she uncover his identity before she becomes the next victim?
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: axe murderer, murder, female nudity, stripper, serial killer, bare chested male, masked killer, psychopath, serial murder, psycho killer, stalker, sexploitation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Scream Bloody Murder (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The odd, unhealthy relationship between a psychologically damaged man and his sister is upended by the arrival of a mysterious drifter.
Style: independent film, psychological, psychotronic
Plot: mannequin, nightmare, murder, masturbation, incest, virgin, skinny dipping, alcoholic father, serial killer, brother sister relationship, biker, shark ...
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.9
 9K
Antibodies (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, psychopath, murder, danger, gay, family life, mind game, lust, sadist, small town, killer ...
Time: year 2005, year 1996
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 3.9
 193
Blue Call (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Haylee, a local EMT suffering from PTSD, spends her days making split second decisions with lives that hang in the balance. One night on a routine call, she is faced with a moral decision, taking matters into her own hands and mercy kills a young ...
Style: suspense, bleak, scary, psychotronic, slasher ...
Plot: woman in danger, serial killer, murder, fear, maniac, psycho terror, serial murder, homicidal maniac, brutality, killing spree, young woman, drug use ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.5
 201
Torment (1986)
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A detective sets out to capture a psycho who kills women, but the psycho turns the tables and goes after the detective's girlfriend.
Style: slasher, sadistic, psychotronic, detective, independent film
Plot: serial killer, exploitation, insane, couples, old woman, crazy, slaughterhouse, crime scene, killing spree, murder, psychopath, brutality ...
Time: year 1986
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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