Movies like Asylum 1997
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Asylum (1997)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Patrick stars as a private investigator traumatized by his father's suicide who goes undercover in a mental institution to uncover the murderer of his psychiatrist.
Style:
independent film, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, psychiatric ward, investigation, murder, hospital, mental institution, private detective, working undercover, law enforcement, doctors and patients, clinic, amateur detective, mentally unstable, dishonesty, cons and scams, power relations, serial killer, suicide, death of father, insane asylum, deadly, mystery, crime, crimes
Time:
90s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and scary films with plots about deadly, murder, serial killer, investigation, law enforcement, danger and psychopath mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Asylum: Nightwatch (1997), Hipnos (2004), The Nurse (1997), Rough Draft (1998), The Lost Angel (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspense, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, police detective, protagonist as suspect, murder, dead prostitute, morgue, frame up, danger, riddles and clues, murder suspect, friend ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dr Sánchez Blanch owns and operates a psychiatric hospital where he specializes in hypnotizing his severely emotionally disturbed patients.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, unpredictable ...
Plot:
hospital, doctor, losing-it hero, supernatural, mental illness, isolation, mind game, eye, psychiatric ward, health, nightmare, psychology ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, brussels, europe
Similarity:
100%
738
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A traumatized nurse plots revenge against a catatonic businessman, whom she blames for the death of her family, by integrated herself as his personal nurse and plots revenge by killing off his family members one by one.
Style:
slasher, independent film, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, femme fatale, doctor, obsession, revenge, mute or deaf, vengeance, dishonesty, rivalry, hidden identity, violence spree, dealing with death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A struggling freelance writer, while investigating the transvestite night life, stumbles across a serial killer in action. The two then strike up a bizarre partnership to document the killer's motives and handiwork as a possessed detective ...
Style:
independent film, tense, scary, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, transvestite, harassment, nypd, killer, sociopath, serial murder, stalking, transvestism, murder, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
Style:
suspense, scary, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, crucifix, law enforcement, danger, investigation, dealing with death, murder, curses spells and rituals, religions or cults, who done it, female nudity, church ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A mysterious love triangle leads to a tragic shooting. Months later, eight members of a MySpace-esque chat room are being gruesomely murdered in the privacy of their own homes.
Style:
suspense, slasher, serious, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
computer, serial killer, murder, investigation, computer program, gory, law enforcement, internet, lesbianism, erotica, technology, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man of the cloth finds his faith challenged both by the death of one of his closest relatives and the aftermath of the crime in this thriller. When a man is murdered under mysterious circumstances, his brother, a Catholic priest (Richard Grieco), ...
Style:
tense, bleak, mind bending, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, art, priest, investigation, obsession, hidden identity, law enforcement, clergy, murder, monastery, painter ...
Time:
90s
Place:
puerto rico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The e-cop Tom Beckwith has just quit his police job in order to study psychology. But his professor, Lauren Porter, is more interested in his criminology abilities than in his progress in psychology. Because of traumatic circumstances during her ...
Style:
neo noir, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, erotica, nudity, bare breasts, woman seduces a man, psychology, professor, police, ex-cop, split personality, obsession, murder ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A tough guy goes undercover on a personal mission of vengeance into the hardcore world of S&M, to find out who's responsible for the death of his brother.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, scary, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
tough heroes, serial killer, investigation, law enforcement, vengeance, dishonesty, dominatrix, death of brother, older brother, stripper, violent, prostitute ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An attorney takes the lawyer/client relationship too seriously. She ends up falling for her client, a very charming photographer who has been charged with a multiple murder. She wants to believe he is innocent but she cannot deny her suspicions.
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lawyer, murder, serial killer, police detective, power relations, courtroom, couples, who done it, fall in love, woman in danger, investigation, danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
One year ago, Agnes Rickover attended opening night at the Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride to see her best friend Lily's dramatic debut. A horrific accident resulted in Agnes witnessing Lily's fiery death in a spectacle gone wrong. After a ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher, tense ...
Plot:
haunted house, amateur detective, hotel, murder, investigation, psychopath, serial killer, danger, violence, haunting, haunted, best friend ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, murder, investigation, hidden identity, law enforcement, working undercover, fighting crime, master criminal, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, vengeance, rivalry ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.
Style:
psychological, noir, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, children, child murder investigation, spy, killer, home invasion, coming of age, witness, con artists, child abuse, violent content ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A teenage boy befriends an escapee from a mental institution who sees visions of horrible murders being committed.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, mentally unstable, confined, danger, gory, haunted by the past, mental illness, mental institution, escaped mental patient, nypd, escape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Style:
rough, psychological, bleak, scary, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, killing spree, investigation, police detective, mind game, gory, family conflict, law enforcement, danger, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, year 2005, 60s
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A pair of romantically entangled cops become suspects in the brutal murder of one of their mates.
Style:
tense, mind bending, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
yakuza, murder of a nude woman, vietnam war, nypd, triad, policewoman, partner, police corruption, pregnancy, gambling, murder, police detective ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, survival, danger, mental illness, murder, law enforcement, mentally unstable, investigation, master criminal, gory, doctors and patients ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Charlie is an introverted person getting out of prison. He feeds in an apartment and starts dreaming of the woman who died in this apartment. And his fantasies of this woman getting worse and worse.
Style:
independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, male nudity, psychiatric patient, alone, murder, psychopath, friendship, hospital, woman in danger, mental institution, drug dealing, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, suspenseful, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
mental institution, paranoia, losing-it hero, mental illness, mentally unstable, investigation, murder, hospital, stalking, uncover truth, obsession, mind game ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After Fran Smith disappears one day in mysterious circumstances, Fran's daughter Deanna and Fran's sister, Sherrie endlessly search for her with enduring hope. The most likely suspect in Fran's disappearance is her husband John, but ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Plot:
missing person, investigation, family problems, injustice, dishonesty, law enforcement, dysfunctional family, private detective, couple relations, remarry, murder, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
29%
268
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
mental institution, doctor, nurse, murder, mistaken identity, power relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, misfit, patient, trap, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to be, but he is ...
Style:
psychological, satanic, independent film, scary, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental institution, satan, psychopath, murder, psychiatrist, american horror, hell, psychiatric ward, satanism, occult, puzzle ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
College students exploring an abandoned insane asylum accidentally shatter canisters holding the cremains of former mental patients. Inhaling the dusty ash filling the air, they're soon possessed by the souls once held within them. One is a ...
Style:
serious, bleak, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, college, buddies, supernatural, youth, mentally unstable, misfit, obsession, mental illness, psychiatric ward, dangerous friend ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Veteran Detective Ed Delopre (Dennis Hopper) and partner Mike McGivern (Fredric Forrest) have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five dead bodies already on his record. The mayor, in a rush to see peace ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, stylized, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot:
psychopath, criminal heroes, gangster, investigation, law enforcement, rivalry, riddles and clues, dishonesty, killer, american football, kidnapping, police detective ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
26%
143
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
The high rent district of Valley Creek apartments, seems to be a magnet for beautiful people....those who can afford to live there. But the rent has just gone up and it is costing residents their lives.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, scary, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, law enforcement, amateur detective, serial killer, apartment building, maniac, neighbor, murderer, woman, nudity, police investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions. Now ...
Style:
disturbing, independent film, serious, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
murder, patient, injection, suicide, rape, caucasian, african american, nurse, mental patient, exodus, psychiatric ward, couples ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After 12 years in an asylum, as she is reunited with friends and family, Dana begins to realize the events that led to her stay there may not have been imaginary.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, woman in danger, haunted by the past, best friend, mental illness, teenage life, youth, supernatural, mentally unstable, mental institution, doctors and patients, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A London detective tracking a serial killer finds the killers "truth or die" methods take him to New York to solve the case.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, police investigation, danger, law enforcement, riddles and clues, private detective, dishonesty, murder, who done it, murderous pair, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, new york
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and abused by the kids of the neighborhood and his grandpa . When several people around ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, detective ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boy, killer child, murder, psychopath, therapist, suspicion, mischievous children, social misfits, danger, family life, investigation, serial killer ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
24%
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