Movies like Stray 2019

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Stray (2019)
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Stray (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An orphaned teenager forms an unlikely friendship with a detective. Together they investigate her mother's murder, and uncover the supernatural force that proves to be a threat to her family.
Style: psychological thriller, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing
Audience: adult
Plot: female detective, murder, crime investigation, intergenerational friendship, save the day, unlikely friendships, murder investigation, mysterious girl, threat, police investigation, serial killer, japanese woman, teenager, orphan, supernatural power

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about murder, murder investigation, investigation, crime investigation, police investigation, murder mystery and uncover truth mostly in Thriller, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Stray: The Girl Is in Trouble (2015), Por Thozhil (2023), Nibunan (2017), Sethupathi (2016), Khiladi (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Girl Is in Trouble (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, captivating
Plot: murder, murder mystery, investigation, murder investigation, moral dilemma, criminal, blackmail, uncover truth, crime investigation, murderer
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95%
 8.0
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Por Thozhil (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Loganathan, a senior cop is asked to mentor Prakash, an academically bright but faint-hearted and needs to overcome his fears in order to succeed. The unlikely duo, team up to investigate a series of murder cases, and realize all of them are ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, exciting, enigmatic
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Nibunan (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A senior cop and his team of two are after a serial killer who is giving them nightmares. Shocked after finding who the next possible victim is going to be, the cop tracks down the assassin with the help of various clues.
Style: tense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, kannada
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Place: india
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 7.1
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Sethupathi (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Sethupathi, an inspector, investigates the murder of a cop and finds that Vaathiyar, a big shot, is responsible for the killing. He arrests Vaathiyar, but an unfortunate incident that has a connection to the case he is investigating, puts his career ...
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing
Plot: police, investigation, murder investigation, threat, police officer, police detective, police officer killed, crime boss, police investigation, fighting crime, assassination plot, conspiracy ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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 5.2
 4K
Khiladi (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Mohan Gandhi is a wanted criminal who’s serving time for a crime he might or might not have committed. With large sums of money, lies and deceit involved, who is he really?
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: murder, gang, murderer, investigation, crime investigation, murder investigation, battles, bandit, fight, police investigation, police, money ...
Place: india
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Indemnity (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 124 min.
Story: An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: memory lapse, protagonist as suspect, suspect, amnesiac, memory loss, murder suspect, suspicion, obsessive quest, suspicion of murder, murder, memory, murder investigation ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Head Hunter (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1972 the tranquility of a coastal town in California is broken as hitch-hiking girls begin to go missing and corpses start showing up. Welcome to Murder City.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense
Plot: serial killer, murder, crime investigation, murder investigation, small town, serial murder, murder mystery, killings, investigation, killer
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The Execution (2021)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: For more than 10 years, Russian police forces have tried to stop the country’s smartest and most wanted serial killer. But even when he gets caught, nobody can prove his guilt. As the manhunt intensifies, the investigation grows increasingly ...
Style: serious, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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 5.7
 2K
Overdose (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Captain Sara Bellaiche, from Toulouse Judiciary Police branch, is investigating a go-fast linked to the murder of two teenagers, an investigation led by Richard Cross, from the Paris Criminal Brigade. Forced to collaborate in order to find the ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot: criminal, female protagonist, fighting crime, drug, drug bust, homicide detective, teamwork, investigation, murder investigation, police partner, crime solving, police ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Last Seen in Idaho (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A woman awakens from a coma after a car accident and begins having shocking visions of her future murder. It's a race against the clock as she tries to solve and prevent her own murder.
Style: tense, exciting, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: race against time, supernatural, puzzle, female protagonist, murder investigation, clairvoyance, threat, flash forward, supernatural ability, murder, supernatural power, foreknowledge ...
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53%
Lawless: Dead Evidence (2001)
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A killer thought behind bars is killing again. It's up to John Lawless (Kevin Smith) and Jodie Keane (Angelina Dotchin) to stop the murders.
Style: detective, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: sleuth, murder mystery, crime investigation, killings, police investigation, serial killer, who done it, murder investigation, murder, uncover truth, investigation, private investigator ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.4
 6K
Eight by Ten (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: 8X10 Tasveer is a story about young man named Jai Puri, (Akshay Kumar), who possesses supernatural powers. Jai is of Indian origin who works as a forest ranger in Canada. His life is shattered by a loss of a very important person in his life. This ...
Style: suspense, suspense thriller, enigmatic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: murder mystery, murder, supernatural, paranormal investigation, murder investigation, supernatural ability, supernatural power, uncover truth, crime solving, crime investigation, cat versus mouse, mysterious villain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
X - The eXploited (2018)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Would you believe in a policewoman who suffers from such serious panic disorders that she is afraid to get close to any crime scene and has been on permanent office duty for more than a decade? Would you believe a lone mother who is unfit to pay her ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: politics, corruption, female detective, political conspiracy, crime investigation, murder investigation, political intrigue, policewoman, murder, female protagonist, police officer, police detective ...
Place: budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.2
 2K
Abstruse (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Two young women get themselves into a very compromising situation that proves life changing, the aftermath is almost worse as all trails of the event has been wiped out and all of a sudden the tables turn and Amanda goes from being the victim to the ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense, tense
Plot: false accusation of murder, corrupt cop, framed for murder, accused of murder, murder, threat to kill, conspiracy, threat, assassination plot, murderer, father son relationship, murder investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Witness Unprotected (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sam is a divorced freelance photographer who is struggling to put her daughter, Laurie, though college. She takes any job, even the dangerous ones, to keep the paychecks coming. Her latest assignment, given to her by a private investigation firm, ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: photographer, murder, murder mystery, threat to kill, murder investigation, investigation, threat, investigator, crime investigation, stalking, crime solving, murderer ...
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47%
 7.7
 285
Missing Noir M (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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Story: Gil Soo-Hyun is extremely intelligent. At the age of 10, he attended Harvard University. After graduating there, he decided to work at the FBI and worked there for 10 years. Afterwards, he decided to come back to South Korea. He now works as the ...
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: crime solving, murder investigation, crime investigation, forensics, police investigation, serial killer, sleuth, workplace, murder, mysterious disappearance, investigation, killings ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.3
 2K
Control (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The once unconditional friendship between police officers Vincke and Verstuyft hits a very rough patch when they come up against a series of gruesome murders. Complicating matters even further, a survivor of the killer drives a wedge between them ...
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Their Killer Affair (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When several carnal murders in a small beach town are linked to the public release of a discreet dating app's client information, detective Maxine Payton suspects the killer may be someone intimately close to her.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, detective
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Kuttram 23 (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A case involving the disappearance of a pregnant woman turns into a personal one for the cop who is tasked with investigating it.​
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, crime thriller, suspense thriller
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Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.3
 769
Women (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A small town detective while investigating the disappearance of a local woman comes across an unassuming Sociology professor who is hiding a secret life.
Style: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, abduction, police procedural, psychopath, murder investigation, murder, violence, chase, murderer, police detective, suspicion ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Ritual Killer (2023)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Unable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles, an anthropologist who hides an ...
Style: disturbing, hardboiled detective, captivating, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, black magic, homicide detective, police investigation, killings, police officer, murder investigation, police detective, killing spree, serial murder, police ...
Place: mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Killer by the Lake (2017)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
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Story: Three years after Vanished by the Lake, Lise and Clovis are now by another lake, in Annecy, and face the challenge of a new family life with their nine-month-old son Tom as the couple takes on a demanding new investigation.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Arne Dahl - Himmelsöga (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
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Story: Through a christmas decorated Stockholm staggers a half naked and beaten woman. The tracks lead police to a warehouse with illegal medical preparations that can be linked to international smuggling organization Maximus. According to Interpol is the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, detective
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Control Zeta (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a near future, crimes and accidents have disappeared because it has become possible to call the past. However, the peace will be disturbed by a killer who seems to have found the one crack in the system.
Style: thrilling, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.0
 6K
Salute (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Committed and fiery, Sub Inspector Aravind Karunakaran is obliged to be part of an investigation where an innocent man Murali is deliberately being set up for the murder of a middle-aged couple. Fearing the consequences of revealing that they had ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense
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Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.8
 220
Time of Fear (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Time of Fear is a taut psychological thriller thrusting an FBI agent and a grieving father into the dark world of a demented killer. FBI Agent Cheryl Hammer, arrives in a small California town to catch an elusive killer. Seeing no help forthcoming ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful
Plot: homicidal maniac, murder, fbi agent, crime solving, murder investigation, murder mystery, killings, catholic priest, killing spree, investigation, unsolved crime, police detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.2
 4K
Maayavan (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A series of murders are happening in the city, and a cop realises that they are all eerily similar. Can he find out the link and capture the murderer before it is too late?
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspense thriller
Plot: murder, serial killer, murder mystery, criminal, crime solving, fight, investigation, police officer, uncover truth, crime investigation, professional wrestling, police ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Darker the Lake (2022)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When strange, supernatural murders suddenly become the talk a peaceful town, two detectives must solve a deadly game, but will the myth of this game reveal secrets too close to home.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, scary
Plot: game, killings, crime investigation, paranormal activity, killing spree, paranormal phenomena, investigation, paranormal, murder, murder investigation, murder mystery, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 3.7
 580
Blame (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While on vacation in rural Wisconsin, five friends seek refuge in a lone building after their vehicle crashes in a vicious snowstorm. With no cell service, the group splits up to find help but when they reunite, one of them is found dead.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot: murder, vacation, fleeing, murder investigation, murder mystery, criminal, secret, group of friends, murderer, friends, cop, snow ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Attraction to Paris (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Puerto Rico
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A college girl, studying abroad in Europe, stumbles upon a murder in progress, orchestrated by a terror cell, putting her life in danger as the main witness.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: terrorist, witness, terrorist attack, relationships, love affair, couple relations, male female relationship, terrorizing, crime investigation, investigation, relationship problems, terrorism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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