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The Killer Downstairs (2019)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alison Peters has always done everything right but finds her life in turmoil as a lawyer stuck working at a grocery store job. Desperate for cash, she rents her basement on MiCasaSuCasa.com and gets a response from James Brewer who explains that he and his wife have recently split. At work, Alison and her friend Sarah, deal with a boss, Brandon, who's been harassing Alison. When Brandon is murdered, the police are suspicious of her. As romance starts to bloom between Alison and James, more people in her life begin disappearing.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, creepy
Plot:
murderer, murder, male female relationship, tenant, framed for murder, landlady tenant relationship, investigation, murder investigation, murder suspect, relationships, crime investigation, murder mystery, tragic love, mysterious disappearance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, police investigation, homicide detective, suspect, suspicion, suspicion of murder, serial killer, psychopath, kidnapping, death, stalking ...
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Most similar movies to The Killer Downstairs
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about murder, investigation, murder investigation, murder mystery, murderer, uncover truth and suspicion mostly in Thriller, Crime and Horror genres. Some movies like The Killer Downstairs: The Cheerleader Murders (2016), A Mother's Instinct (2015), Papillon Noir (2008), Killer in the Guest House (2020), Good Neighbor (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A high school student whose father and sister were recently murdered begins her own investigation after two of her fellow cheerleaders are kidnapped. She sets out on a rescue mission, but the killer may already be hot on her trail.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, tension, twist ending ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, murder mystery, kidnapping, investigation, murder investigation, high school, crime solving, crime investigation, uncover truth, murder, murderer, killing ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When a woman’s son goes missing and the prime suspect is released due to lack of evidence, she and her teenage daughter decide to play vigilante.
Style:
psychological, bleak, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
missing child, missing son, kidnapping, cyberbullying, abuse, boy, parent child relationship, high school student, uncover truth, police investigation, law enforcement, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Richard has been living alone since his wife left. His reclusion is broken when mysterious vagabond Jack comes to his rescue. Richard offers to put him up for a few days in exchange for some odd jobs. But the press soon starts hinting at a serial ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, surprise ending ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, missing person, police, corpse, investigation, danger, suspicion, recluse, serial murder, mistrust, trick ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lyon, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A struggling fashion photographer unwittingly rents her guesthouse out to a dangerous and womanizing con man.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating
Plot:
theft, secret identity, caper, hotel, con artists, serial killer, murder, fashion photographer, framed for murder, hidden camera, fistfight, ex boyfriend ...
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young woman suspects the new neighbor is a serial killer.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, homicidal maniac, suspicion of murder, killing, in love, murder, murderer, nobody believes, neighbor, male female relationship, investigation, fall in love ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mary (Austin Highsmith) and Charlie's (Alan Powell) marriage had become a little rocky, he forgot their anniversary whilst she almost slept with their friend Trevor (Luke Edwards) whose partner, Susan (Valerie Azlynn), is always working as she ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, tense, psychological
Plot:
investigation, female protagonist, crime solving, murder, uncover truth, suspicion, murder investigation, murder suspect, crime investigation, murder mystery, suspicion of adultery, secret ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A serial killer walks the streets of Whitechapel, London, attacking and killing women, which later came to be known as the 'Whitechapel murders' stretching from 3 April 1888 to 13 February 1891 included in the London Metropolitan Police ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, homicidal maniac, serial murder, woman in danger, murder mystery, murder of a woman, forensics, sleuth, cat versus mouse, killing spree, criminal, police investigation ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
london
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A guy goes on a date that he has been dying to go to for years.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
murder, female protagonist, divorce, single mother, single father, murder suspect, relationship problems, murder investigation, memory loss, murder mystery, memory lapse, male female relationship ...
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When an expert in spousal murder is accused of killing her husband, she must use her investigation skills to prove her innocence.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
murder, murder investigation, investigation, private investigation, murder mystery, suspect, suspicion, uncover truth, female protagonist, murder suspect, marital problem, crime solving ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The discovery of a chopped-off hand in a Brussels canal forces Belgian police diver Kiki to face deep guilt from the past, her own and her country’s. Based on the book ‘Ritual’ by Mo Hayder.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
homicide detective, investigation, murder investigation, murder, police investigation, tragic past, frogman, dark past, sleuth, murder mystery, secret, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A single mother fears for her life and that of her daughter when they become targets of a serial killer.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, crime thriller, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
murder mystery, investigation, serial killer, murder investigation, uncover truth, teacher, evidence, crime investigation, murder, private investigation, criminal, murderer ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When Sonya Daniels finds the birth certificate of a kidnapped baby, hidden in her late mother's home, she's shocked. What was her parents' connection to the missing little girl and could her mother's murder somehow be connected? ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
family secret, female protagonist, investigation, murder, private investigator, homicide detective, murder investigation, secret, abduction, murder mystery, hidden truth, crime investigation ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A cop-turned-writer creates suspicion when she publishes her first novel, a story that appears to contain details of a real murder.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, captivating, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, female detective, murder investigation, murder suspect, police detective, murder, whodunit, suspicion, female writer, female police detective, police investigation, suspect ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Hollywood PR maven Adrienne takes pride in her low profile and good reputation. Yet she risks both to help a fading action star accused of killing his ex-wife. She believes he’s innocent because she knows him better than most; they were college ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
reputation, accused of murder, framed for murder, relationship vs career, public relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, murder mystery, uncover truth, accusation, relationships, tragic love ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A reporter finds her life in danger when the story she has published results in several murders that come closer to her.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful
Plot:
reporter, murder, murder investigation, serial murder, revenge, investigation, investigator, victim, death, partners against crime, chase, death threat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A psychology professor begins a case study with three subjects who are suffering from sleep paralysis. As the study goes on, what is real and what is dream become mingled with violent consequences.
Style:
enigmatic, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
science runs amok, sleeping, murder, murder suspect, murder investigation, murder mystery, suspicion of murder, scientific research, escape from reality, research, suspicion, scientific experiment ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
What goes through the mind of a serial killer as he meticulously plots his crimes, researching his victims and entrapping them while they are none the wiser?
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
homicide detective, serial killer, child abuse, killer, murder investigation, deathtrap, female victim, murderer, criminal, dark past, violence, internet dating ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two cops must contend with the uncooperative tenants of an apartment complex as they try to solve a murder before the crime scene is wiped clean.
Style:
detective, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, murder, murder investigation, murderer, police detective, homicide detective, police, crime investigation, police officer, police investigation, uncover truth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nigeria
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Best friends Samantha and Kristina go their separate ways when Kristina gets into the hottest sorority on campus. The nightmare begins when Kristina is murdered and Samantha becomes the next target of the campus killer.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
sorority, murder, suspicion, investigation, female protagonist, friendship, college, girlfriend, murder suspect, death of girlfriend, suspicion of murder, girlfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A mother protects her stepdaughter after the teenager witnesses the murder of her best friend, but is soon forced to come to grips with the terrifying possibility that her stepdaughter may be the real killer.
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
murder, suspicion, teenager, murder mystery, murder witness, stepdaughter, witnessing a crime, teenage girl, life is a bitch, murderer, suspect, murder investigation ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Shu Kubota is killed by someone with a baseball bat. A metal bat and an old toy are found at the crime scene. Detective Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) with the special investigation unit goes to the crime scene to investigate. There, Detective Yoshito ...
Style:
detective, psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, murder, homicide detective, serial killer, sleuth, murderer, murder investigation, uncover truth, killing spree, police investigation, crime solving, murder mystery ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
An alcoholic cop accepts to investigate a case involving a couple of gruesome murders. Will the case be the redemption that he was waiting for?
Style:
exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
police detective, alcoholic, who done it, murder, police officer, murder investigation, police investigation, law enforcement, death, uncover truth, murder mystery, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Old friends gets together for a high school reunion, only for a crime to set off a series of tragic events.
Style:
captivating, suspense, detective
Plot:
stalker, school, murderer, murder, murder investigation, high school reunion, police investigation, confronting the past, tragic event, crime investigation, homicide detective, investigation ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Following the death of CEO Robert Loring at precisely 10:44 pm, the FBI sends in Jordan Price, one of their best and brightest to solve the case. As other key executives are murdered at exactly the same time, Jordan finds herself investigating the ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, fbi, murder, female fbi agent, murder mystery, murder investigation, fbi investigation, corporate conspiracy, cover up, sleuth, crime investigation, uncover truth ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Pretty and likable Jennifer arrives as a freshman at Whittendale University and is greeted by pledge-seeker Carly of the Beta Sigma Eta Sorority. Once warmly embraced by the sorority, Jennifer soon realizes trouble is lurking beneath the happy ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, crime drama, noir
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
murder mystery, female protagonist, sorority, suspicion, murder, framed for murder, college campus, college student, problem, suspect, murder suspect, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
23%
375
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An investigative Journalist thinks she's found a killer, and breaks into his place to find the evidence. Only when he come's back it becomes a game of cat and mouse with deadly consequences.
Style:
slasher, scary, bleak, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, british, violence, kidnapping, blood, murder investigation, investigation, who done it, uncover truth, murder mystery, murderer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
What if a man with a mental condition, living in a fantasy world and detached from all emotional responsibility, is in real life the prime suspect for a series of murders targeting young women? Bill Thompson awakens to reality when forced to ...
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, murder of a woman, uncover truth, falsely accused, false accusation, youth, murderer, murder mystery, suspicion, revenge, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A Los Angeles narcotics detective clashes with a small-town Utah Sheriff while investigating his girlfriend's mysterious abduction thirty miles outside Kanab, Utah.
Style:
detective, thrilling, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, homicide detective, murder, crime solving, guilty verdict, police detective, police investigation, framed for murder, sleuth, false accusation of murder, crime investigation, murderer ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A group of models is killed off, one by one, and everyone is a suspect.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot:
suspicion of murder, murder investigation, women, fashion model, fashion industry, murder, suspicion, empire fashion, model, investigation, murder suspect, serial killer ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A police inspector suspects a serial killer is afoot in the university city of Bologna, luring in his victims through online video chats before murdering them and assuming their identity.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, psychopath, blind man, unsolved crime, murder mystery, murder, serial murder, murder investigation, murderer, blindness, blind character ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
21%
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