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Assumed Killer (2013)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Bernard Salzmann's thriller Assumed Killer tells the tale of a reporter investigating a serial killer. After she suffers an accident and becomes an amnesiac, she begins to suspect her husband may be the person responsible for the brutal slayings
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, memory loss, investigation, murder, life is a bitch, danger, uncover truth, deep south, journalism, media, attorney, doctor, hospital, amnesia, tattoo, car accident, funeral, telephone call, reporter, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, flashback, news report, female reporter ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, florida
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Most similar movies to Assumed Killer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about deadly, investigation, murder, danger, uncover truth, dishonesty and amateur detective mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Assumed Killer: Hide (2011), Fatal Trust (2006), The Falls (2003), Killer by Nature (2010), Gone but Not Forgotten (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Dean Cain portrays Scott Peterson, the California man accused of murdering his 8 month pregnant wife, Laci. Based on a true story.
Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
husband murders wife, amateur detective, murder, pregnancy, false accusation, missing person, courtroom drama, protagonist as suspect, uncover truth, investigation, infidelity, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Boston detective investigates the mummified remains of six women, based on a novel by Lisa Gardner.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, detective, enigmatic ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, uncover truth, police investigation, riddles and clues, law enforcement, murder mystery, investigation, crime scene, police procedural, evidence, cold case ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the father of her kid son Sam was killed by an escaped psychiatric patient, Kate decides it's time for a new chapter in her life. She moves to the town where her former lover Tom lives and now works in the sheriff's department, and ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
family relations, psychopath, danger, small town, male female relationship, murder, serial killer, love, death of father, doctor, running, ex lover ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
125
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a smoke-filled dive in Buffalo, NY, David Marx tells us his tale of obsession, betrayal, and murder - leading him to an uncertain fate "underneath Niagara Falls." David tells us how his beautiful redheaded ex-girlfriend, Jennifer ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
missing person, femme fatale, amateur detective, murder, ransom demand, uncover truth, investigation, betrayal, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The troubled teenager Owen Whitmore has a sleep disorder and occasionally sleepwalks. Owen is having therapy sessions with Dr. Katherine Ramos. Having just joined the medical school, he has to move to another town, but he is divided between the ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, nightmare comes true, nightmare, who done it, doctors and patients, sleepwalking, dream, danger, couples, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, private detective, amateur detective, danger, investigation, rivalry, murder, psychopath, police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, who done it ...
Time:
year 1995, year 2005
Place:
usa, oregon, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A successful lawyer finds out that she has a half-brother who is imprisoned in a secure hospital after he brutally murdered his neighbor and their baby.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
autism, murder, legal investigation, family secret, investigation, uncover truth, siblings relations, imprisonment, family relations, disability, life is a bitch, dedicated lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Everything is not as it seems for a man who recovers from a plane crash in which his family is killed. After plastic surgery and rehabilitation, he determines that he worked for a secret agency for which he was an assassin. His former boss puts him ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, memory loss, female killer, female assassin, secret agent, assassination, uncover truth, haunted by the past, leadership, chases and races, danger, professional killer ...
Place:
london, england, europe, amsterdam
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Johanna is a therapist on the verge of a midlife crisis. When one of her patients is found brutally murdered, she takes it upon herself to solve the mystery. But why is this stressed-out shrink willing to risk her marriage, her career and her entire ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, midlife crisis, investigation, doctors and patients, therapist, female protagonist, police, car accident, danger, haunted by the past, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, clergy, amateur detective, uncover truth, youth, society, dishonesty, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
479
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious, independent film
Plot:
investigation, uncover truth, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, injustice, parents and children, murder, idealism, price of justice, hopes, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alabama, usa, tennessee
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A famous writer is found hanged in his office. At first, all police investigations conclude that it was suicide, but when Samantha Kinsey, owner of Seller 'Mystery Woman' starts his own investigation, he discovers that there is chance that ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, light hearted
Plot:
amateur detective, investigation, betrayal, dishonesty, murder, danger, store, sabotage, murder mystery, whodunit, female protagonist, crime solving ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, blows the whistle on his company's deadly and corrupt practices in Latin America. Knowing he will be assassinated for his betrayal, he places an anonymous call securing the services of ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
private detective, whistleblower, amateur detective, murder, uncover truth, investigation, danger, survival, dishonesty, workplace, journalism, deadline ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
france, usa, new york, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While covering the annual Nobel Banquet for tabloid Kvällspressen, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a spectacular murder right in front of her. Two people are shot, one of them the controversial Laureate in Medicine, Aaron Wiesel. Annika is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
journalism, journalist, murder, investigation, uncover truth, danger, media, dishonesty, nordic, reporter, writers, investigative journalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jennifer Shannon (Lori Loughlin) has a gift for finding rare treasures hidden in garage sales that she can resell at her consignment store, Rags to Riches, and for get her involved in the criminal investigations that happen at the very second-hand ...
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, uncover truth, amateur detective, who done it, danger, suspicion, strong female presence, riddles and clues, police investigation, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An attorney is trying to solve her younger brother's mysterious disappearance while simultaneously helping a new friend rid herself of a stalker. As she begins to uncover the truth, it turns out that the seemingly separate situations are ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, crime thriller ...
Plot:
investigation, missing person, amateur detective, uncover truth, legal, dishonesty, who done it, danger, stalking, false identity, disappearance, private detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?
Style:
psychological, serious, bleak, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
serial killer, murder, mind game, mysterious character, uncover truth, investigation, haunted by the past, law enforcement, life is a bitch, psychopath, who done it, protagonist as suspect ...
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
37%
4K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The psychological thriller "Murk" tells the story of Jacob, who is investigating into the circumstances surrounding his sister's death on her wedding night.
Style:
psychological, bleak, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, amateur detective, destructive relationship, uncover truth, woman in danger, disability, couples, obsession, family relations, siblings relations, murder, nordic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A priest returns to his old Catholic high school to replace a priest who has gone missing, only to begin to suspect that the missing priest may have been murdered by someone at the school to hide a darker secret.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, enigmatic, realistic
Plot:
uncover truth, investigation, clergy, who done it, danger, amateur detective, riddles and clues, rivalry, society, teachers and students, boarding school, school ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, mind bending
Plot:
ghost, uncover truth, haunted by the past, investigation, life is a bitch, murder, supernatural, dishonesty, legal, dedicated lawyer, deep south, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa
Similarity:
36%
265
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Sixteen years after the Drakes' young daughter was kidnapped by her nanny, a woman appears claiming to be the long-lost child.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
amateur detective, danger, police investigation, investigation, law enforcement, orphan, family relations, criminal heroes, parents and children, dishonesty, child abduction, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
murder, amateur detective, memory loss, uncover truth, mind game, mysterious character, investigation, manipulation, psychopath, who done it, danger, law enforcement ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, psychopath, investigation, murder, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, animal life, vengeance, law enforcement, danger, police investigation ...
Place:
alaska, usa, south africa, san francisco, africa
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After witnessing a brutal murder, a little girl is quickly surrounded by a group of law-enforcement professionals and a psychologist.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
political conspiracy, murder, witnessing a crime, on the run, investigation, uncover truth, politics, danger, police corruption, government agency, chase, life is a bitch ...
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Socialite Molly Lasch is released from prison after serving a six-year sentence for the murder of her husband, Dr. Gary Lasch. Now, with the help of Fran, an investigative reporter, Molly sets out to prove her innocence. Together they uncover a ...
Style:
serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, amateur detective, uncover truth, righting the wronged, woman in danger, false accusation, partner, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, frame up ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
CHRISTIAN SLATER plays a worldly and urbane priest who is forced to challenge his comfortable existence as an ecclesiastical spin-doctor when he comes to believe in the innocence of a young priest accused of murder. His only ally, a journalist, is ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
church, amateur detective, courtroom drama, murder, false accusation, priest, fighting the system, uncover truth, investigation, legal, clergy, dishonesty ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark. Under hypnosis, a mental patient admits to several recent murders. He also offers a strange defense when he claims that he is the reincarnation of a 19th century man who was wrongly executed.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
reincarnation, serial killer, police detective, woman in danger, law enforcement, murder, investigation, revenge, psychosis, hypnosis, trauma, mental institution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. She becomes an amnesia victim and although, she doesn't know her own identity, is able to ...
Style:
mind bending, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
amnesia, retrograde amnesia, hitman, murder, violent content, doctors and patients, dishonesty, life is a bitch, witnessing a crime, hospital, who done it, false accusation ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ellie suffers a strong shock to discover that, after suffering a near-death experience, can hear voices from beyond. He soon realizes that it is a gift with which you can help others.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
ghost, murder, psychic power, danger, serial killer, talking to the dead, new neighbor, death, fugitive, sex, train, flashback ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When Grace is accused of playing a role in a deadly accident, her best friend reaches out from beyond the grave to unveil the truth behind what happened.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
memory loss, false accusation, uncover truth, investigation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, best friend, accident, car accident, danger, murder, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
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