Movies like The Perfect Patient
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The Perfect Patient (2019)
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Original name: Quick
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Belgium
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A true and captivating story about the biggest legal scandal in Swedish history, the story about the reporter who questioned an entire legal system. Hannes Råstam was dedicated to proving the innocence of Thomas Quick and unmask the legal chaos which sentenced Quick to a life in psychiatric prison.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, psychological thriller, scary, bleak
Plot:
scandal, journalist, serial killer, psychopath, murder, nordic, injustice, investigation, false accusation, friendship, redemption, terminal illness, acquittal, violence, mental institution, fear, insanity, trial, hunting, legal, true crime, criminality, danger, evil, court ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Most similar movies to The Perfect Patient
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, psychological and disturbing films with plots about murder, investigation, serial killer, psychopath, violence, deadly and true crime mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Perfect Patient: Super Dark Times (2017), Lost Girls (2020), Strangled (2016), Tell Me a Story (2018), Resurrection Man (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, 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, bleak, psychological, dark ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
nightmare, high school, friendship, murder, insomnia, marijuana, bicycle, sword, violence, panic, cycling, party ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1996, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
new york, new york state
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.
Style:
perverse, suspenseful, suspense, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot:
serial killer, missing person, investigation, disappearance, true crime, prostitute, missing child, depression, murder, mother daughter relationship, search and rescue, psychopath ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
long island, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Based on real-life events, this psycho-thriller is set in the provincial Hungary of the 1960s, when a series of atrocious murders shock the small town of Martfü. A psychotic killer is on the prowl, who continues to slaughter young women while an ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
strangulation, serial killer, woman strangled to death, investigation, murder, violence, death, danger, hunting, psychopath, cruelty, deception ...
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Swedish family found murdered in her home on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain - all except the 16-year-old daughter, who has disappeared. At first the police believe that there is a burglary gone wrong, but the more crime examined, the more ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological
Plot:
journalism, murder, danger, media, journalist, swedish, investigative journalism, european, reporter, mysticism, writers, hockey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe, morocco
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
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Story:
Tell Me a Story takes the world's most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller.
Style:
erotic, modern fairy tale, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot:
greed, love, revenge, murder, fear, macabre, myth, choice, machine, buddy, plot twist, impostor ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, violent, dark hero, psychopath, journalism, investigation, master criminal, uncover truth, ira, trouble, violence ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, england, europe, california
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Hyeong-min, a prominent police detective, and Tae-oh, a killer who has confessed to multiple murders, maintain a fierce psychological confrontation.
Style:
tense, twisted, crime drama, detective, crime thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, showdown, killing spree, investigation, murder victim, violence, danger, murder confession, cat and mouse, interrogation, mind game ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, busan, seoul
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A police detective consults with incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy to help him catch The Green River Killer. Based on terrifying true life elements which inspired Silence of the Lambs. In 1984, police in Washington State are investigating a spate ...
Style:
psychological thriller, clever, atmospheric, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
maniac, fbi, murderer, true crime, unsolved crime, homicide detective, mysterious villain, mind game, investigation, murder investigation, homicidal maniac, murder mystery ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the eve of legalization a marijuana grower is brutally murdered. His best friend, against the advice of his mentor, teams up with a suspended narcotics investigator to find the killer.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
violence, marijuana, psychopath, psycho killer, murder investigation, investigation, crime solving, uncover truth, murderer, murder mystery, murder, drug traffic ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing Seattle.
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, profiler, true crime, mind game, police detective, woman in danger, killer, murder, violence, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, florida, washington d.c.
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Rampage delves into the subject of legal insanity, so often the default defense in modern-time gruesome crime trials. Alex McArthur plays an outwardly normal guy who goes on incredible killing and mutilating sprees until (and even after, when he ...
Style:
christmas horror, action thriller, cult classic, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, courtroom, courtroom drama, killer, true crime, lawyer, violence, death sentence, court case, killing spree, hunting, art ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Similarity:
24%
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, tense, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
police, serial killer, murderer, psychopath, death, true crime, murder, serial murder, rapist, killing spree, brutality, maniac ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
california
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, femme fatale, danger, couples, psychopath, husband wife relationship, investigation, rivalry, death, skinny dipping, true crime, mother in law ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa, miami
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio shocks the little town of Brembate di Sopra, Italy. To bring the culprit to justice, prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri only has one tenuous lead: a bit of DNA that's not much help without a database to compare ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
prosecutor, murder investigation, investigation, murder, true crime, forensics, cold case, murderer, unsolved crime, crime investigation, uncover truth, murder mystery ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations.
Style:
disturbing, sexy, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychopath, female nudity, murder, unsolved crime, female pubic hair, lesbian, drug use, police investigation, youth, rivalry, motel, violence ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Serial killer Keith Jesperson murders at least eight women over a five-year span and taunts authorities with disturbing letters and scribbled confessions signed with a happy face.
Style:
disturbing, crime drama, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder investigation, murder, true crime, murderer, homicidal maniac, serial murder, taunting, killing, crime solving, investigation, uncover truth ...
Place:
north america, oregon
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her physically and mentally. She divorces him and take their child away. He then decides to kill her but when his plot is discovered he is charged with ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, intense, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
woman in danger, abusive relationship, psychological manipulation, stalking, psychological torment, courtroom drama, attempted murder, sadism, female protagonist, fear, manipulation, trial ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground... Los Angeles. It has taken an innocent childhood game and twisted it into a deadly match of wits, where the only prize is survival. Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, riddles and clues, investigation, ex cop, chases and races, vengeance, danger, obsession, uncover truth, death of daughter, serial murder, psychopath ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
22%
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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, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, two killers, serial killer, true crime, psychopath, cousin, strangler, homicide, killing spree, killer, criminal, violent ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Based on a true story- A group of robbers broke into a house at night with the intention of committing robbery. The house was inhabited by two young girls and a disabled child and their mother. Not getting the desired money, the robbers started ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, gangster, danger, criminal, bandit, family relations, rivalry, youth, friends, society, gang, vengeance ...
Place:
bangladesh
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Based on real-life events, this crime thriller traces the terrible trail left by a serial rapist and killer, highlighting the ensuing media coverage, public panic and one police officer's personal crusade to capture the psychopath.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, police, brutality, violence, psychopath, police detective, blood, revenge, police investigation, obsession, murder investigation, homicidal maniac ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
A CBI officer goes in search of a ruthless serial killer. Things get worse when the murderer targets the former and her family
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, slasher, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, psycho killer, revenge, maniac, serial murder, homicidal maniac, danger, investigation, murder, psychopath, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
John George Haigh, the notorious "acid bath murderer" in 1940s England, becomes the subject of this dramatisation
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
serial killer, murder, acid, murder mystery, true crime, killer, deception, religious fanaticism, serial murder, mental health, perfect crime, killing spree ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A friendship between two young mothers results in murder when one develops an attraction to the other's boyfriend.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, suspense, psychological
Plot:
true crime, murder, police investigation, uncover truth, murder mystery, mysterious man, who done it, heroes, murderer, friends, escapades, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Ecuador
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, psychopath, journalism, media, obsession, insanity, greed, uncover truth, ambition, journalist, reporter ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
ecuador, latin america, florida, miami, new jersey ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Surya is an IT employee leading a happy life till he’s marked as a suspect in a high-profile murder case. As an under-trial prisoner, he doesn’t just have to prove his innocence in court; he also has to face abuse in custody. Advocate Aadhya ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
false accusation, torture, justice, activist, defense attorney, jail, interrogation, judiciary, vengeance, murder, psychopath, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is found mysteriously dead in his apartment, Detective Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his partner ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
warning, psychopath, plague, danger, riddles and clues, law enforcement, chase, investigation, murder, panic, pandemic, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Steven Keeney is a big corporate lawyer who decides to take on a small-time murder case to discover the true circumstances behind the death of a young girl. Virginia McGinnis is the one suspected of pushing the women off the cliff to collect on a ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, justice, murder mystery, suspect, courtroom, courtroom drama, insurance fraud, wrongful accusation, evidence, trial, lawyer ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Style:
rough, psychological, bleak, scary, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, killing spree, investigation, police detective, mind game, gory, family conflict, law enforcement, danger, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, year 2005, 60s
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is Midsummer's Eve and ten people are on a deserted castle for a TV recording. The next morning the program leader is shot dead. Kvällspressens Annika Bengtzon a mandate to monitor the murder, but she soon learns that her best friend Anne ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot:
journalism, murder, investigation, law enforcement, multiple suspects, false accusation, dishonesty, estate, who done it, nordic, swedish, investigative journalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
20%
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