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Boston Strangler The Untold Story (2008)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders.
Style:
scary, psychological, serious, rough, realistic, suspense, spooky, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, prison, psychopath, prison life, danger, law enforcement, confined, killer, biopic, killing spree, rivalry, manipulation, woman in danger, true crime, deadly, crime, manipulations, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, boston
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about deadly, serial killer, murder, law enforcement, danger, psychopath and killer mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Boston Strangler The Untold Story: Bundy: A Legacy of Evil (2009), The Zodiac (2005), Nightmare in Columbia County (1991), Tracks of a Killer (1996), Pavement (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 99 min.
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 90 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Style:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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