Movies like Play Motel
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Play Motel (1979)
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.
Style:
suspense
Plot:
sex, maniac, prostitute, serial killer, erotica, psycho, devil, violence, hotel, obsession, blonde, death, female nudity, sex maniac, seduction, nun, bondage, male nudity, good versus evil, photograph, fear, voyeur, adultery, sexual perversion, lust ...
Place:
italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, cult film and scary films with plots about murder, female nudity, blood, sex, cruelty, serial killer and sadism mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Horror genres. Some movies like Play Motel: Death Smiles on a Murderer (1973), Death Laid An Egg (1968), Paranoia (1969), Olga O's Strange Story (1995), Death Steps in the Dark (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A man discovers an ancient Incan formula for raising the dead, and uses it for a series of revenge murders.
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, scary, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, killer, violence, fear, anger, necrophilia, female psychopath, adultery, human monster, confusion, jealousy, obsession ...
Time:
1900s
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95%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill ...
Style:
suspense
Plot:
serial killer, chicken farm, love triangle, photograph, car accident, silhouette, screaming, mistreatment, bra and panties, room, dress, female corpse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
683
Genre: Drama, Horror, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Kathryn West, a glamorous American widow, arrives in Italy several weeks after the death of her older, extremely wealthy husband. With the help of Brian, her lawyer, Kathryn moves into a luxurious villa and proceeds to lead a lonely, uneventful ...
Style:
psychotronic, sexploitation film, suspense
Plot:
paranoia, widow, exhibitionist, whodunit, nipples, bedroom, lingerie, whiskey, legs, nudity (full frontal - brief), panties, beach ...
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78%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Olga Roli returns to her birthplace after a nervous breakdown, it quickly becomes much worse for her. Anonymous, threatening phone calls to deal with her as Olga O, her stage name from her time working in a local strip club, soon followed by a ...
Style:
sexploitation film, suspense, erotic
Plot:
striptease, infidelity, falling in love, man and woman in bed, murder, corruption, danger, female removes her clothes, prostitution, photograph, repression, murder witness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Greece
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An Italian reporter is travelling on the Instabul-Athens train. A woman is murdered with the reporter's letter-opener so that makes him the main suspect. With the help of his Swedish girlfriend he starts investigating in order to prove his ...
Plot:
whodunit, dead man, mysterious man, lust, bathroom, cruelty, razor, female nudity, death, manipulation, pain, sex ...
Place:
athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five women obsessed with sex & drugs pay for their sins.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, rough, bleak, surprise ending
Plot:
serial killer, mysterious man, friendship, female victim, murder, obsession, revenge, danger, voyeurism, sadist, fear, black gloves ...
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74%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a bungled diamond heist a trio of killers take refuge at the home of a country doctor and force him at gunpoint to attend to their mortally wounded colleague. They abuse the doctor and take sexual advantage of his wife. But everything is not ...
Style:
suspense
Plot:
robbery, voyeur, murder, home invasion, rape, blood, sadism, fear, long hair, female nudity, sunglasses, manipulation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A pathology med student and a priest team up to investigate a wave of suicides blamed on sun spots and discover a number of them to be actual murders.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, rough, sexual, serious ...
Plot:
murder, danger, serial killer, investigation, italian horror, slasher killer, deadly, zombie, clergy, law enforcement, supernatural, rivalry ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A rich man gathers together friends and relatives at the abandoned theatre he owns, but the party isn't fun for long since apparently one of them is a murderer.
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, cult film
Plot:
murder, sex, betrayal, threatened with a knife, sensuality, sexual obsession, stabbed in the chest, bedroom, wound, off screen murder, caressing, attraction ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
515
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Nightmares of the past haunt the beautiful, mysterious Olivia (Suzanna Love), a London resident who begins a passionate affair with American businessman Mike (Easy Rider's Robert Walker, Jr.). Trapped in a loveless marriage and traumatized by ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, captivating, surprise ending
Plot:
murder, female killer, obsession, female serial killer, serial murder, manipulation, violence, hearing voices, revenge, sadism, husband wife relationship, fight ...
Place:
arizona, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The plot involves the murder of a prostitute in a Paris brothel (run by early 60's sex symbol Anita Ekberg). It's blamed on a jealous client, but the lead detective ("Bogey")suspects otherwise. And when the murders continue after ...
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, sexual, serious ...
Plot:
psychopath, murder, investigation, prostitute, danger, serial killer, decapitation, eiffel tower paris, french giallo, chase, clergy, slasher ...
Time:
70s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
303
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
People around Peter Crane begin dying in mysterious fashion. How is Playboy Peter involved in this? He begins having nightmares dealing with murder...His psychiatrist has no idea of what Peter is suffering from. Even the police are in danger as they ...
Plot:
playboy, devil, sect, psycho, sexual attraction, voyeur, police, desire, female full frontal nudity, perversion, cult, nudity (full frontal - brief) ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, scary, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, psychopath, killer, slasher, knife murder, obsession, gory, supernatural, cult, crime, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Place:
europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The film starts out incredibly in a beautiful Gothic castle in Germany. As little girls, Kitty Wildenbrück and her sister Evelyn have been fighting when their grandfather tells them the story behind an incredibly uncanny painting: Legend has it ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, suspense, exciting, psycho film ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, whodunit, stabbed to death, female psychopath, death, insanity, brutality, violence, sadism, cruelty, blood ...
Place:
europe, west germany, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
türkish Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
Style:
surprise ending, cult film
Plot:
passion, mysterious man, psycho, telephone call, dancing, night, loss of control, memory, psycho killer, homicidal maniac, voyeur, blood stain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: 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:
rough, atmospheric, sexual, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
voyeurism, serial killer, knife murder, deadly, witnessing a crime, danger, investigation, mysterious character, dishonesty, stalking, rivalry, crimes ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Forensic student Christina Marelli decide to write about a mysterious serial killer who kills couple in love. The killer shows up just when the little lovebirds sitting in their cars and have a cozy time. He shoots them to death and then uses her ...
Style:
surprise ending
Plot:
serial killer, mystery killer, knife murder, black gloves, whodunit, caress, mutilation, humiliation, female corpse, degradation, deeply disturbed person, gore ...
Place:
italy, florence, florence italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Luigi Bazzoni (Le Orme) directed this outstanding giallo thriller starring Franco Nero as a hard-drinking newspaperman who gets involved in a string of brutal murders.
Style:
rough, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, manipulation, serial killer, investigation, stalking, nudity (full frontal - brief), alcohol abuse, sexual obsession, psycho, reporter, voyeur, law enforcement ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy, new york, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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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:
cult film, suspense
Plot:
whodunit, photographer, murder investigation, obstacle, dance school, handicap, police, prostitute, psycho killer, ballerina, bed, female nudity ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.
Style:
realistic, serious, scary, tense, sexual ...
Plot:
murder, sexual abuse, mental illness, danger, serial killer, repression, manipulation, doctor, violence, rape, unlikely criminals, crimes ...
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of his victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police ...
Style:
psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
tourist, eyeball, slasher, insanity, murder, mystery killer, unknown killer, whodunit, lesbianism, victim, gore, danger ...
Place:
barcelona, europe, barcelona spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, college, murder, clergy, law enforcement, teachers and students, love affair, high school, teenage life, gory, power relations, deadly ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This spaghetti horror's storyline revolves around a former hooker (Grandi) running a successful men's magazine. An obsessed admirer systematically slaughters her models (occasionally increasing the magazine's output) and supplies the ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, sexual, stylized, sexy ...
Plot:
murder, prostitute, woman in danger, obsession, serial killer, slasher, mystery, crimes, supernatural, danger, stalking, deadly ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Stefano, a young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano. The fresco painter was Legnani, and the fresco is his last work. Legnani apparently was mentally disturbed. He was used to paint people close to ...
Style:
twists and turns, surreal, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
transvestism, sexual frustration, obsession, murder, investigation, supernatural horror, crimes, unlikely criminals, obsessive quest, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, amateur detective ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A masked killer stalks an institution for mentally disturbed rich women.
Style:
rough, sexual, suspenseful, mind bending, scary ...
Plot:
murder, clinic, serial killer, obsession, arrow, nurse, underwear, shower, nymphomaniac, danger, crimes, voyeurism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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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:
rough, sexual, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
mental illness, murder, mental institution, sexual abuse, addiction, psychopath, hospital, adultery, perversion, torture, nun, revenge ...
Time:
70s
Place:
belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: 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:
serious, realistic, mind bending, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
woman in danger, investigation, slasher, danger, serial killer, strangulation, psychopath, masked killer, whodunit, murder, blackmail, model ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young American girl arrives on an island near Venice to begin her new job as secretary to famous novelist Richard Stuart. However, it turns out that her predecessor disappeared without a trace....
Style:
suspense, disturbing
Plot:
italian horror, murder mystery, buttocks, revelation, sexual perversion, violence, obsession, fear, sex scene, breasts, love, slashing ...
Place:
venice, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
Style:
light, tense, scary, mind bending, erotic ...
Plot:
woman in danger, mind game, serial killer, slasher, psychopath, paralysis, victim, lust, escape, knife, spa, tarantula ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, axe, violence, obsession, slasher, gory, danger, deadly, teenage life, investigation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
europe, italy, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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