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Postmortem (1998)
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Postmortem (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The only thing James wants is to remain away from Scotland. One day, however, he receives a fax, a printout of an unknown person's obituary. The next day, he is charged and arrested for the murder of this person.
Style: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: serial killer, serial murder, murder, psychopath, profiler, manhunt, law enforcement, mind game, writer's life, police detective, female nudity, alcoholic, mortician, american abroad, murder suspect, deadly, female full frontal nudity, crimes
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland

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Most similar movies to Postmortem

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about deadly, murder, serial killer, law enforcement, psychopath, danger and female nudity mostly in Thriller, Horror and Crime genres. Some movies like Postmortem: Perfect Prey (1998), The Lost Angel (2005), Freeway (1988), Blowback (2000), The Barber (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Perfect Prey (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A former Texas Ranger is recruited by a Houston police captain to assist a homicide detective in the search for an elusive serial killer who collects antique dolls.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot: serial killer, psychologist, texas ranger, serial murder, psychopath, police detective, law enforcement, police investigation, obsession, danger, chases and races, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
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95%
 3.8
 443
The Lost Angel (2005)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
Style: suspense, scary, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, crucifix, law enforcement, danger, investigation, murder, dealing with death, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, who done it, female pubic hair, church ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 5.1
 544
Freeway (1988)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A deeply-disturbed priest goes on a murderous night-time rampage across America's highways.
Style: neo noir, independent film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, radio, lapd, automobile, exploitation, woman with a gun, violent content, nudity, law enforcement, amateur detective, chase ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 4.6
 828
Blowback (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Whitman is a psychotic religious killer who was caught by Inspector Morell a former seminarian, whose religious knowledge led to Whitman's capture. Whitman was tried and sentenced to death. However, he was rescued by a secret government group ...
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, psychopath, religions or cults, danger, undercover, violence spree, law enforcement, race against time, partners against crime, legal ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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The Barber (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Eugene is a small town barber, beloved by the local community, but hiding a deadly secret. John is hunting for a serial killer not to expose him but to learn the business! They form a twisted bond and turn the town upside down as Eugene teaches John ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, mind game, investigation, murder, twists and turns, small town, barber, monster, house, killer, son ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Intimate Stranger (1991)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A policeman (James Russo) guards a barroom singer (Deborah Harry) whose phone-sex sideline has put a killer (Tim Thomerson) on her trail.
Style: neo noir, erotic, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: phone sex, prostitute, making love, sex scene, murder, psychopath, couples, woman in danger, who done it, sexual relations, serial killer, police investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Hunt for the I-5 Killer (2011)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: “Hunt for the I-5 Killer” is a dramatization based on the haunting true story of the yearlong manhunt for a killer suspected of murdering 14 victims and committing numerous sexual assaults up and down the I-5 highway corridor through California, ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: serial killer, police detective, manhunt, law enforcement, sexual abuse, murder, killer, true crime, chases and races, who done it, rape, serial murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., oregon, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Relentless IV: Ashes to Ashes (1994)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sam Dietz is back and must find and stop another serial killer before he kills again. Detective work for Dietz is tough having to juggle two gorgeous women - one his partner, and the other his shrink, who holds the key to the case.
Style: slasher, independent film, mind bending, realistic, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, die hard, near death experience, evil man, deaf woman, psychopath, police detective, hotshot hero, danger, police investigation, chases and races, murderous pair ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Collector (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Une policière, Maud Graham, suit un tueur en série qui agresse des femmes. En même temps, elle héberge un jeune prostitué et un fugueur de 12 ans. L'action se déroule dans la ville et capitale de la province du même nom, Québec.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, neo noir
Plot: police investigation, murder, kidnapping, mind game, police detective, riddles and clues, who done it, life is a bitch, law enforcement, serial killer, sex crime, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
No One Can Hear You (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mind game, investigation, danger, law enforcement, murder, family life, teenage life, journalism, home invasion, media ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Absence of the Good (1999)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Salt Lake City homicide detective Caleb Barnes is under increasing pressure from all sides to crack a string of serial killings that have been terrorizing the city. At the same time, Barnes' home life is beginning to crumble in the wake of his ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot: serial killer, crime investigation, killing, rivalry, redemption, protagonist as suspect, life is a bitch, law enforcement, mind game, investigation, dealing with death, police investigation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Six-Pack (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A serial killer is on the loose in Paris and he seems to be an american citizen working in the US embassy and being in the middle of a french-american economical affair.
Style: serious, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, perverse ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, police investigation, psychopath, who done it, murder, law enforcement, race against time, politics, bait, bowling, amateur detective ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Splitting Image (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Having grown up an orphan and raised by her grandmother, Emma has worked for everything that she has, and takes pride in the simple life she's created for herself. She's always wanted a perfect marriage, but ended up with a track record of ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot: murderer, violence, psychopath, couples, forensics, murder, blood, female nudity, deadly
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54%
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 273
Killer Reality (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Hayley, a producer on the hit reality show LOVE EVER AFTER, unwillingly falls for The Bachelor on this marriage elimination series. Things become complicated very quickly, especially when one of the female contestants turns up dead. That's when ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, contests and competitions, media, rivalry, uncover truth, media satire, fall in love, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Sanctimony (2000)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A handsome, brilliant stock trader, bored with his existence, becomes a serial killer.
Style: scary, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, manhunt, who done it, master criminal, protagonist as suspect, witnessing a crime, danger, woman in danger, serial murder, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 ...
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51%
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Fashion Victim (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Andrew Cunanan started his murderous spree in Minnesota, continued through Chicago, and despite being the subject of an intense manhunt, was able to kill fashion great Gianni Versace, in Miami, before killing himself.
Style: captivating, serious, sincere, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, fbi, fashion designer, manhunt, lgbt, on the run, violence spree, murder, gay interest, gay, glbt, fashion ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.3
 254
Trail of Blood (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: On a weekend camping trip deep in the forest, a young U.S. Marine enlistee named Jim and his friends stumble upon the murdered bodies of a vacationing couple. They're suddenly taken hostage by a deeply disturbed war veteran on a sadistic ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, mentally unstable, partner, murder, woods, serial killer, manhunt, survival, violence, violence spree, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 5.2
 858
Hangman (2001)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Death by noose. A nasty way to die if you're not dropped from a length, but instead just had the support kicked from beneath you. A series of murders like this is taking place, linked to a net-based game of 'Hangman', the words of ...
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, mind game, mysterious character, psychopath, police detective, danger, dangerous attraction, false accusation, frame up, murder, villain ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Rough Draft (1998)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A struggling freelance writer, while investigating the transvestite night life, stumbles across a serial killer in action. The two then strike up a bizarre partnership to document the killer's motives and handiwork as a possessed detective ...
Style: independent film, tense, scary, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, killer, nypd, serial murder, sociopath, stalking, transvestism, murder, harassment, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.2
 413
Twist of Fate (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A beautiful attorney's hunt for a serial killer is frustrated by his accomplice's twisted scheme to keep the killer free at all costs
Style: erotic, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: making love, lawyer, sex scene, serial killer, strong violent content, profanity, legal, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger, mind game, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Deathly Compulsion (1999)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A present-day thriller about a man with a needle in his brain. This needle poisons his mind and tortures him with morbid thoughts and an urge to kill. When he finally commits a murder there is a witness, who is drawn into a deadly game of cat and ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: european, murder, violent content, psychopath, race against time, law enforcement, serial killer, protagonist as suspect, police investigation, heroes, chases and races, voice over narration ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.1
 484
Fatal Instinct (1992)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A homicide detective (Michael Madsen) falls for a resort owner (Laura Johnson) suspected of slaying a playboy developer.
Style: neo noir, independent film, sexy, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: strong sexual content, porn actress, serial killer, murder, violent content, profanity, couples, law enforcement, police detective, sexual relations, dangerous attraction, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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In the Deep Woods (1992)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A friend of Joanna has been killed by a serial killers who leaves the bodies in the woods. A strange guy who says is a private detective: Joanna begins to fear he might be the killer.
Style: crime thriller, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: serial killer, private detective, psychopath, law enforcement, police detective, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, cigarette smoking, female protagonist, funeral, death of friend, woman in peril, woods ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.1
 303
Dirty Work (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bad City is the tangled story of three men's lives: Manning, a dirty, disillusioned cop; Julian, king of drugs, thugs and prostitution; and Frank, a ruthless politician who destroys everything in the way of his ambition.
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, police investigation, prostitute, police detective, gangster, police corruption, gambling, tough heroes, reluctant partners, criminal heroes, dishonesty, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.8
 421
The Pass (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A businessman with a compulsive gambling problem which has led to his wife leaving him, travels to Reno, Nevada for some gambling therapy which takes a turn when he picks up a psychotic serial killer posing as a hitchhiker.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, redneck, terror, revenge, taxi, vigilante, driver, hitchhiking, gambling, murder, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.2
 225
Dangerous Love (1988)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A psychopath kills members of a video dating club and records their deaths.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, chases and races, dishonesty, law enforcement, life is a bitch, frame up, murder, false accusation, righting the wronged, wrongful accusation, female nudity, strangulation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.2
 1K
Impact Point (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Pro Beach Volleyball star, Kelly Reyes, faces challenges everyday, fierce competitors, the press, but nothing could prepare her for him.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological, scary
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, danger, rivalry, murder, stalking, psychopath, mind game, dangerous attraction, obsession, woman in danger, law enforcement ...
Place: usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.2
 904
Long Distance (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, profiler, murder, psychopath, danger, stalking, phone terror, violent content, sexual content, profanity, killer, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.6
 116
Survival Knife (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The lone survivor of a serial killer's attack tries to cope with the death of her friends and her mutilation at the hands of the maniac - but she fears the trauma has awakened a dark side within her as she slowly becomes something possibly even ...
Style: slasher, suspense, serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot: serial killer, revenge, split personality, murder, female killer, haunted by the past, danger, woman with a gun, bad girl, psycho killer, psychopath, serial murder ...
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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