Movies like The House That Jack Built
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The House That Jack Built (2018)
81K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A depiction of a serial killer's 12 years' worth of murders and how it shaped his prime intelligence.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, slasher, controversial, surreal, philosophical, non-linear ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, suspense, cruelty, sadism, kidnapping, psychopath as protagonist, sadistic psychopath, extreme violence, animal cruelty, obsessive compulsive disorder, death, disturbed individual, serial killer as protagonist, violence, murderer, corpse, building a house, criminal, hell, taxidermy, hunting, brutality, deception ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
washington d.c.
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Most similar movies to The House That Jack Built
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, suspenseful, psychological and scary films with plots about psychopath, murder, suspense, serial killer, death, blood and violence mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The House That Jack Built: American Psycho (2000), The Shining (1980), The Golden Glove (2019), Antibodies (2005), Se7en (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surreal, stylized, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, insanity, dark humor, satire, greed, sociopath, materialism, psycho, violence, killings, yuppie ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, canada, manhattan new york city, yale university, usa ...
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88%
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:
disturbing, scary, controversial, realistic, sadistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, insanity, rape, extreme violence, psychology, incest, killing spree, violent, violence, merciless ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, midwest, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
1.0M
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style:
psychological, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, psychedelic ...
Plot:
isolation, hotel, insanity, ghost, psychopath, supernatural, suspense, snow, imaginary friend, evil, winter, caretaker ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
colorado, denver colorado, usa, florida, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, controversial, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, mentally unstable, murder of a prostitute, murder, macabre, sex crime, loser, murderer, alcoholic, brutality, misfit, loner ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1970
Place:
hamburg germany, germany, northern germany, west germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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, psychopath, investigation, murder, family life, mind game, gay, lust, small town, killer, lie, good versus evil ...
Time:
year 1996
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Se7en
1.7M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style:
suspenseful, surprise ending, disturbing, scary, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, insanity, police investigation, murder, suspense, killings, sin ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
152K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, murder, suspense, split personality, imaginary friend, maniac, macabre, double life, investigation, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
39K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, scary, sadistic, rough ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, insanity, obsession, mental illness, murder, extreme violence, sadism, loneliness, torture, violence spree, brutality, psychopath ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany, France, Spain, USA, Belgium
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, clever, captivating, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, psychopath, suspense, perfume, psychology, insanity, macabre, sense of smell, twists and turns, genius, killings ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, germany, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
279K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, tense, twist ending, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, cannibalism, suspense, investigation, mind game, fbi, murder, torture, split personality, profiler, reporter ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
canada, atlanta georgia, baltimore, birmingham alabama, chicago illinois ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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American Psycho related movies
280K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
serial killer, cannibalism, psychopath, fbi, cannibal, master criminal, mind game, psychiatrist, cat and mouse, law enforcement, villain played by lead actor, homicidal maniac ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
florence, canada, italy, europe, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
86K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, scary, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Plot:
serial killer, childhood, religious fanatic, twists and turns, demon, murder, plot twist, psychopath, insanity, father son relationship, suspense, supernatural ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
130K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, scary, atmospheric, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insanity, depression, cruelty, guilt, violence, fear, masturbation, death, explicit sex, torture, male nudity, lust ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
28K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, insanity, murder, psycho, psychiatrist, mother daughter relationship, characters murdered one by one, suspense, female nudity, police station, waitress ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
19K
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, disturbing, splatter, scary, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, violent, torture, murder, exploitation, violence, macabre, extreme violence, disturbed individual, weirdo, maniac, schizophrenic ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the ...
Style:
psychological, scary, disturbing, rough, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, torture, home invasion, hostage, murder, bad guy wins, brutality, kidnapping, torment, maniac, evil wins ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
22K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, dark, scary ...
Plot:
suspense, trapped, kidnapping, chase, survival, hunter, kidnapped woman, road rage, psychopath, highway, struggle for survival, maniac ...
Place:
oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
At a summer camp for youths, cocky pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer "Madman Marz". Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called.
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, summer camp, camp counselor, stalking, murder, teenage life, forest, exploitation, killer, camp, death, killing spree ...
Time:
year 1980, 80s, year 1981
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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20K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, violence, psychopath, gang, gay rape, male rape victim, torture, suspicion, murder, manipulation, killer, mother's boyfriend ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 1998
Place:
australia, south australia, adelaide south australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
128K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, gothic, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, suspense, torture, small town, group of friends, violence, murder, masked killer, psycho killer, ghost town, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 70s, year 1974, 80s ...
Place:
usa, florida, paris france, louisiana, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A Nazi doctor who had a fetish for young boys feels guilt after torturing and murdering his latest victim, and throws himself off a roof. Some years later, the doctor, confined to an iron lung, accepts as his nurse a boy who secretly witnessed that ...
Style:
art house, controversial, disturbing, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
pedophile, pedophilia, sadism, torture, isolation, sexual abuse, lgbt, violent, suspense, war criminal, child rape, revenge ...
Time:
80s
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, road movie, tense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, journalism, journalist, lovers on the run, suspense, road trip, writers, obsession, on the road, cross country, violence spree ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, pittsburgh, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970's (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered). Set from his college student years, to his first victims, his capture, ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, sexual predator, necrophilia, kidnapping, misogyny, electric chair, masturbation, murder, execution, rapist, rape ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
seattle, usa, colorado, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
11K
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, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, rape, gay club, gay, torture, violence, necrophilia, killer, serial murder, macabre, obsession ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
14%
218K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
insanity, obsession, psychopath, loneliness, snow, kidnapping, hostage, female psychopath, isolation, obsessed fan, torture, rage ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
revenge, serial killer, vengeance, murder, violence, psychopath, extreme violence, brutality, strong violent content, mercilessness, macabre, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
5150 ELM'S WAY is located at the end of a quiet street in a small town. When Yannick fell off his bike, he knocked at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he could clean the blood off his hands. But Jack Beaulieu and his family had other plans ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, kidnapping, chess, obsession, unlikely criminals, mentally unstable, confinement indoors, confined, vigilantism, good versus evil, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, tense, dark ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, suspense, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, murder investigation, mind game, brutality, fbi ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, maryland, chicago illinois, memphis, baltimore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
10%
152K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Finland, Norway, Italy
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth ...
Style:
psychological, art house, bleak, twist ending, thought provoking ...
Plot:
rape, morality, society, gangsters, twists and turns, female protagonist, vengeance, haunted by the past, rocky mountains, victim, brutality, existentialism ...
Time:
1930s, future, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, rough, humorous, stylized ...
Plot:
serial killer, rape, murder, brutality, found footage, society, insanity, manipulation, dysfunctional family, cult, hitman, art ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, brussels, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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