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Acting on Impulse (1993)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An erotic thriller actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a B-movie producer, leading her to hide out and engage in sexual thrills with a pair of innocents.
Style:
slasher, neo noir, parody, independent film, detective
Plot:
serial killer, sex, police, obsession, stalker, death, murder, stalking, hotel, dwarf, salesman, fear, actress, joke, filmmaker, obsessed fan, fan, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, saleswoman, film producer, suspect, suspicion, fiance fiancee relationship, on the lam, red herring ...
Place:
los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller and independent film films with plots about murder, obsession, death, serial killer, police, psychopath and erotic thriller mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Acting on Impulse: Matter of Trust (1998), Lady in Waiting (1994), Dressed to Kill (1980), Bedroom Eyes (1984), The Fan (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A prosecutor is building a case against a suspected serial killer. She receives death threats, but ignores them at first. When her husband disappears and someone blackmails her, she turns to her ex, a suspended homicide detective.
Style:
crime drama, detective, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
husband and wife, prosecutor, blackmail, betrayal, investigation, suspicion, missing person, obsession, love triangle, serial killer, city, alcoholism ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A divorced cop investigating the sadistic murders of high-class prostitutes discovers that the prime suspect is his ex-wife's new boyfriend...
Style:
neo noir, detective, independent film, hot
Plot:
serial killer, threesome, lesbianism, murder of a nude woman, woman with a gun, woman seduces a man, menage a trois, orgy, femme fatale, sex scene, woman on top, police investigation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A mysterious, tall, blonde woman, wearing sunglasses murders one of a psychiatrist's patients, and now she's after the prostitute who witnessed it.
Style:
sexy, neo noir, erotic, slasher horror, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder mystery, serial killer, psychopath, voyeurism, female nudity, murder, voyeur, infidelity, blonde, psycho killer, sexual content, sexual desire ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young businessman, out joging one night, sees a beautiful woman undressing in her bedroom window and he is compelled to return every night to watch her, until one night he witnesses a murder in the same apartment and soon becomes the prime suspect ...
Style:
suspense, tense, neo noir, creepy, slasher ...
Plot:
voyeurism, lesbianism, obsession, privacy invasion, murder mystery, curiosity, suspicion, male protagonist, sexual tension, stalking, guilt, slow burn ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen (Lauren Bacall). However when his letters are rejected, the fan strikes out at the actresses friends, then at her.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
obsession, stalking, obsessed fan, stalker, actress, psychopath, murder, price of fame, maniac, woman in danger, ex husband ex wife relationship, secretary ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
new york
Similarity:
81%
10K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night ...
Style:
exciting, psychological, erotic, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, blindness, psychopath, police detective, murder, stalking, investigation, murder mystery, police investigation, woman in danger, strong female character, female protagonist ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago, san francisco
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a wealthy socialite kills her husband, she claims self-defense. The cop assigned to the case is suspicious but becomes obsessed with the sensual young woman.
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, detective, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
seduction, investigation, erotica, police, murder, obsession, homicide, romantic obsession, murder mystery, police procedural, manipulation, fatal attraction ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, memory, police detective, vengeance, justice, police investigation, race against time, false accusation, conspiracy theory, danger, haunted by the past, serial killer ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Successful actress Vera Lockman thrashes during a nightmare in which she struggles with, shoots and kills her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Jolted awake, she reveals in her journal that the killing actually occurred the day before and that Sal, dead, ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental health, murder, nightmare, actress, drug dealer, ex boyfriend, nightmare comes true, guilt, police detective, classmate, disposing of a dead body, corpse ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous blonde dancing ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, cult classic, sensual, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
voyeurism, obsession, sex, nudity, peeping tom, sexual intercourse, twists and turns, doppelganger, voyeur, sexual content, exhibitionist, porn star ...
Time:
80s, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Casey Noland, a high school kid with no direction in life, decides to pursue the serial killing profession. Only problem...he can't bring himself to kill anybody. Will the help of a gothic chick named Sasha, he attempts to learn the ways of a ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, high school, psychopath, mind game, dark humor, danger, youth, obsession, police investigation, teenage life, stalking ...
Similarity:
78%
1K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage. Fighting to keep buried the trauma of his childhood, he must confront the all too-familiar flesh masks that the killer ...
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
death, profiler, murder, forensic, law enforcement, haunted by the past, danger, police investigation, rivalry, gory, serial killer, male objectification ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Rebecca Mathis is a sex therapist. One of her patients is found dead. At first it is presumed he died of a heart attack...
Style:
sexy, detective, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
seduction, murder mystery, sexual tension, murder investigation, psychological manipulation, investigation, danger, obsession, betrayal, mistrust, misdirection, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
77%
84K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
Style:
suspense, detective, psychological thriller, sexy, surprise ending ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychology, agoraphobia, psychopath, police investigation, murder mystery, twists and turns, maniac, paranoia, police detective, mind game, profiler ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
san francisco, persia, usa, california, boston
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A high-school crush some twenty years later, snowballs into stalking psychosis.
Plot:
snow, high school crush, obsession, private investigator, wedding dress, stalker, vengeance, hospital, broken promise, murder, nurse, bachelor party ...
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Style:
road movie, psychological, slasher, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Audience:
date night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
psycho killer, hitchhiker, serial killer, psychopath, desert, stalker, violence, sociopath, stalking, kidnapping, highway, motel ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, california
Similarity:
77%
709
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Traumatized after witnessing her jealous husband kill her adulterous lover and then himself, an unbalanced, nymphomaniac young woman finds herself stalked by an unknown assailant, but she cannot make anyone believe her desperate situation.
Style:
erotic, detective, queer horror, independent film
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian erotica, making love, stalker, erotica, outdoor sex, serial killer, sex scene, female protagonist, adultery, desire, infidelity ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
77%
339K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
small town, murder, police investigation, psychopath, investigation, investigator, character study, police corruption, murder mystery, insomnia, death, guilt ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, persia, usa, north america, los angeles
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Victor McShane disappeared on Blanchard Hill in the spring of 1985. No one knows what happened to him... Twenty years later, a group of campers take a hike on Blanchard, unaware that a killer is on the loose, killing people without mercy. Two ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, slasher horror, independent film, detective ...
Plot:
haunted house, serial killer, haunted, satire, gonzo, slasher spoof, drug, blood, camp, supernatural power, possession, nature ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A dark comedy about an eclectic group of strangers invited to a downtown bar by a mutual ex-lover, Nikki Franklyn, a maddeningly sexy, unpredictable and possibly insane young woman who's recently gotten out of prison for murdering her last ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, humorous, independent film, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
group of strangers, couples, dark humor, psychopath, ex-lover, rivalry, obsession, betrayal, vengeance, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, murder, drunk ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Reporter Shoshona Reed is about to expose a number of people who have a lot to lose. Unfortunately, her cunning ways of getting stories by blackmailing people gets her killed...
Style:
independent film, hot, sexploitation film
Plot:
erotica, nudity, night, murder, male nudity, female nudity, sex, femme fatale, male female relationship, sexploitation, villainess, cheating wife ...
Similarity:
76%
538
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A race car driver has visions of the victims of a serial killer before their demise and tries to get a skeptic police detective and an ambitious reporter to help him find the killer.
Style:
psychotronic, independent film, detective
Plot:
serial killer, sex with mother, woman with a gun, mother child relationship, stoner, mistaken identity, double murder, elevator, a vision, schoolgirl, police station, running from police ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance ...
Style:
detective, retro, dark comedy, suspenseful, clever ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, strangler, disguise, jewish mother, police investigation, murder, killer, police, police officer, woman strangled to death, theater, nypd ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california, boston ...
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Following the murders at the Rollerdome, Skye Rotter leaves town in search of a normal life. Reunited with the mother who abandoned her as a child, Skye's dream of a happier life starts to take shape - until her serial killer father returns.
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, parents and children, teenage life, starting over, youth, small town, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, stalker, therapist ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist gets involved with his best friend's wife who may be a murderer.
Style:
soap opera, independent film, slasher, psychological thriller
Plot:
abusive husband, mad woman, obsession, adultery, extramarital affair, flash forward, sex, lust, husband wife relationship, fatal attraction, guru, murder ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An account of serial killer Richard RamÃrez 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:
75%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A California metal sculptor (Rick Rossovich) becomes a suspect after someone kills his gallery-owner lover (Sally Kirkland).
Style:
neo noir, slasher, homoerotic, independent film
Plot:
psychopath, woman killed, death, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, serial killer, psycho killer, suffocation, corpse, blonde, framed for murder, obsessed fan ...
Time:
year 1989
Similarity:
75%
75K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jack Terry is a master sound recordist who works on grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him ...
Style:
neo noir, political thriller, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
conspiracy, political conspiracy, serial killer, murder mystery, murder, investigation, politics, conspiracy theory, assassination, witnessing a crime, amateur detective, damsel in distress ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, california
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A loathsome man ends up dead, but it's not clear who's to blame. If ever a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, an abusive drunk who steals from his wife, Joyce, and promises her close friend Cynthia Kellogg that ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, talky, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
murder, crime gone awry, twists and turns, police investigation, character study, obsession, redemption, domestic violence, crumbling marriage, unlikely criminals, law enforcement, murder mystery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sensual, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, dangerous attraction, sexual tension, love, serial killer, sex scene, split personality, sexual awakening, killer, woman in danger, stalking, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, puerto rico, san francisco
Similarity:
74%
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