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The Columnist (2019)
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The Columnist (2019)
Original name: De Kuthoer
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Columnist and author Femke is flooded with anonymous nasty messages and death threats on social media. One day she is completely done and decides to take revenge.
Style: suspense, humorous, dark comedy, psychological, captivating, social, slasher
Audience: teens
Plot: revenge, female serial killer, murder, dark humor, danger, disorder, comedy of errors, massacre, law enforcement, threat, disfigurement, farce, cliche, teenager, robot, distopia, mental disorder, rape and revenge, female killer, social media, writer's block, harassment, sex, serial killer, murderer ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, captivating, psychological and tense films with plots about murder, revenge, serial killer, danger, violence, deadly and dark humor mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The Columnist: Red Swastik (2007), One Must Fall (2018), Serial Lover (1998), Novocaine (2001), Schneider vs. Bax (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Red Swastik (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Bollywood version of Basic Instinct - has to be seen to be believed!!!
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: female killer, femme fatale, police investigation, serial killer, police detective, psychopath, murder, dishonesty, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, new delhi
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95%
One Must Fall (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A horror-comedy slasher set in the '80s about a woman wrongfully fired from her office job and forced to take on a temporary job on a crime scene clean-up crew. With a maniacal serial killer on the loose leaving them lots of work, did he ever ...
Style: slasher, psychological, suspense, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot: maniac, serial killer, murder, violence, dark humor, danger, paranoia, death, nude dance, graphic violence, chainsaw murder, layoff ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 6.7
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Serial Lover (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, dark humor, disorder, looking for love, thirty something, writers, dinner, misfit, freak, gory, blood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.8
 12K
Novocaine (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, suspenseful, tricky, humorous ...
Plot: dentist, murder, femme fatale, drug use, betrayal, false accusation, dark humor, twists and turns, life turned upside down, frame up, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals ...
Time: year 2001
Place: wisconsin, arizona, usa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Schneider vs. Bax (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On his birthday, a hitman reluctantly takes on the easy task of killing a writer, only to find the job a lot more difficult than expected.
Style: captivating, exciting, suspense, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: hitman, birthday, assignment, father daughter conflict, novelist, murder, frame up, danger, dark humor, writers, female nudity, strong female character ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: netherlands
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67%
 7.3
 8K
The Ax (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Spain
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
Style: dark comedy, psychological, suspense, atmospheric, black comedy ...
Plot: serial killer, unemployment, workplace, murder, job seeking, greed, insanity, unlikely criminals, vengeful fired employee, capitalism, big business, labor ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 5.8
 495
Misbehavior (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two female teachers and a male student hit with the inevitable disturbance of a coming whirlpool.
Style: sincere, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: sex, high school, deception, revenge, infidelity, teacher student sex, murder, jealousy, rivalry, disorder, society, love and romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Revenge for Jolly! (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Harry (Brian Petsos) is having a very, very bad day. He returns home from an all-night drinking binge with his cousin Cecil (Oscar Issac), to discover that his little dog Jolly...Harry's one true love and the source of light in his dark, ...
Style: humorous, tense, psychological, captivating, road movie ...
Plot: revenge, partner, dark humor, murderous pair, farce, murder, sociopath, violence, satire, rage, strong violent content, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Death of a Cheerleader (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A remake of the cult classic, inspired by Randall Sullivan’s Rolling Stone article of the same name about the real life murder of a popular, affluent and beautiful Northern California high school cheerleader at the hands of a classmate.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense
Audience: teens
Plot: cheerleading, cheerleader, social problems, socially awkward, antisocial behavior, school, revenge, murder, high school life, social outcast, relationship problems, teensploitation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 215K
Wild Tales (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
Style: dark comedy, suspense, psychological, anthology, tense ...
Plot: multiple storylines, dark humor, human nature, revenge, vengeance, fighting the system, corruption, sex scene, wedding party, twists and turns, violence, coincidence ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place: argentina, persia, south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.6
 23K
Bad Genius (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Lynn, a brilliant student, after helping her friends to get the grades they need, develops the idea of starting a much bigger exam-cheating business.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, humorous, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: genius, high school, father daughter relationship, heist, teenager, hopes, escapades, rivalry, friendship, youth, prodigy, talented ...
Place: thailand, australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Arab on the City (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He never expected to become the first "positive discrimination" member of the police ...
Style: humorous, not serious, parody, captivating, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fish out of water, farce, goofy hero, police investigation, serial killer, silly humor, interracial relations, society, danger, urban ghetto life, disorder, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Above Suspicion (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Valérie, a youthful 40, is an active, exemplary woman. A psychiatrist by trade, she is also a perfect mother, wife, and parishioner. And yet, Valérie is also a murderer.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: violence against women, female serial killer, murder, murderer, tragic past, confronting the past, domestic violence, criminal's revenge, killings, serial murder, revenge, problem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Bad Day for the Cut (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, powerful ...
Plot: revenge, murder, farmer, vengeance, death of mother, fighting crime, dark past, criminal, organized crime, chase, danger, gunfight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Lost Choices (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young women is raped while on her way home. When she is rejected by the police, because they don't believe her, she sets out revenge. But not only on her rapist, but also the police and everybody who did not believe her.
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: rape, revenge, rape and revenge, incompetent police, vengeance, social problems, violent, sexual abuse, violence, violence against women, rape victim, kidnapping ...
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46%
Imaikkaa Nodigal (2018)
Genre: Action, 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: tense, suspense, psychological, slasher, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, psycho killer, police investigation, revenge, investigation, maniac, psychopath, murder, serial murder, homicidal maniac, danger, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.9
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Spree (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kurt Kunkle, a rideshare driver thirsty for followers, has figured out a deadly plan to go viral. As his disturbing livestream is absurdly embraced by the social media hellscape, a comedienne emerges as the only hope to stop this rampage.
Style: dark comedy, slasher, mumblecore, psychological, cyber ...
Plot: killing spree, murderer, murder, reckless driving, driving, driver, selfie, death of protagonist, cell phone, killer, blood, violence ...
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46%
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26 Years (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min.
Story: 26 years ago, state troops were ordered to open fire on civilians in the city of Gwangju who were demonstrating as apart of a democratic movement. Thousands of civilians were killed. Now, a shooter from the national team, a gang member, a policeman, ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: revenge, vengeance, murderer, price of justice, assassination, fighting crime, law and order, police, civil rights movement, convict, murder, bandit
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Lost (2006)
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, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, drug use, police investigation, youth, rivalry, lesbian, violence, male female relationship, sexploitation, investigation ...
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44%
Dark Figure of Crime (2018)
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: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, twisted ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, killing spree, investigation, showdown, murder confession, violence, murder victim, danger, murder, prison, confession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, busan
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43%
 5.8
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Black Pond (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The Thompson family is accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Six months later, family friend Tim visits freelance therapist Dr. Eric Sacks and the story finds it's way to the press. The facts are bent and the details ...
Style: captivating, humorous, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, uncover truth, false accusation, eccentric family, dark humor, disorder, family gatherings, murder, stranger, husband wife relationship, death, family dinner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Deadliest Lesson (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A gang of violent teenagers uses detention class to get revenge on the teacher who identified a friend as the gunman in a deadly shooting.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling
Plot: teacher, drug dealer, high school teacher, murder witness, murder, problem, threat, child hostage, witnessing a crime, taken hostage, vengeance, drug lord ...
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42%
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Otis (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After being captured and tortured by the psychopath Otis, teen cheerleader Riley Lawson escapes and informs her parents, who quickly sidestep sluggish FBI agents and take matters into their own hands. But the Lawsons' revenge plan hits a snag ...
Style: realistic, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: serial killer, prom, kidnapping, vengeance, danger, missing person, cheerleader, teenage life, child in peril, fbi, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Swallow, Cat, Rose, Death (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story: What's in a name but murder? Münster comes across the strangled body of a young woman in her home and surprises the murderer who is still on the premises. Though the murderer escapes, a rare book is found at the scene with a dedication by the ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, law enforcement, investigation, police detective, murder mystery, evidence, twists and turns, danger, escapades, witnessing a crime, nypd ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.1
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R.S.V.P. (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young man invites a group of his closest friends to a party, where he proceeds to discreetly kill them all.
Style: slasher, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, dark humor, death, student, party, violence, who done it, woman in danger, college, professor ...
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.8
 32K
Serial Mom (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the ...
Style: dark comedy, parody, black comedy, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: serial killer, dark humor, dysfunctional family, murder, housewife, suburbs, suburban life, female killer, female psychopath, police investigation, violence, farce ...
Time: 90s
Place: baltimore, usa, maryland
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39%
 5.5
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Eiga: Kurosagi (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Tomohisa Yamashita is a swindler who deceives other swindlers who have evil intentions: The swindlers who deceive others with words (Shirosagi/White Swindler) and the swindlers who play with people's mind and body (Akasagi/Red Swindler).
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, suspense, psychological
Plot: embezzler, disguise, revenge, police, justice, parents and children, unlikely friendships, investigation, swindle, evil, sword, con artists ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.2
 407
Stray Bullets (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage boy, criminal, murderer, death threat, murder, escaped prisoner, con artists, threat, risk, boy, house, trailer
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Stalked By My Neighbor (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A girl and her mother escape to suburban safety after a home invasion scares them out of the city, but they're soon menaced by a sinister figure.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller
Audience: chick flick
Plot: home invasion, murder, stalker, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, death, photographer, single mother, danger, new neighbor, obsession, age difference ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.1
 807
The Deal (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A cop catches a serial killer who murdered his sister but never finds her body. The lack of closure torments him and drives his brother-in-law insane, who makes a deal with the mafia for revenge.
Style: tense, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: serial killer, revenge, murderer, criminal's revenge, jail, police detective, criminal, partners in crime, murder, serial murder, killing spree, forensics ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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