Movies like The Boston Strangler 1968
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The Boston Strangler (1968)
12K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, rough, suspense, retro, detective, suspenseful, slasher, psychosexual thriller, mysterious ...
Plot:
serial killer, strangulation, true crime, split personality, murder, double life, police detective, serial rapist, police investigation, psychopath, strangler, obsession, manhunt, character study, killer, psychology, murder mystery, hospital, killing, surrealism, investigation, mental illness, fetish, gay, criminal ...
Time:
20th century, year 1968, 60s, year 1963, 1960s
Place:
boston, usa, new england, massachusetts
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Most similar movies to The Boston Strangler
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and realistic films with plots about serial killer, psychopath, murder, police investigation, deadly, killer and law enforcement mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Boston Strangler: Primal Fear (1996), Citizen X (1995), Zodiac (2007), Red Dragon (2002), The Zodiac (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
279K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, psychological, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mental illness, murder, courtroom drama, plot twist, trial, psychology, courtroom, court case, corruption, lawyer, manipulation ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
26K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, ...
Style:
detective, tense, suspenseful, factual, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, corpse, communism, investigation, forensics, murder, police investigation, sexual sadism, train, bureaucracy, true crime, politics ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1984 ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr, california
Similarity:
100%
665K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, suspense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, journalism, maniac, murder mystery, mind game, journalist, true crime, paranoia, killer, uncover truth ...
Time:
70s, year 2007, year 1971, year 1969, year 1979 ...
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
Similarity:
100%
310K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, psychological thriller, scary, gothic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, cannibalism, mind game, investigation, fbi agent, murder, psycho killer, profiler, split personality, killer, cruelty ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
baltimore, birmingham alabama, florida, washington d.c., chicago ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, true crime, murder, psychopath, law enforcement, violence spree, police investigation, stalking, mind game, danger, criminal, cannibal ...
Time:
50s
Place:
usa, wisconsin, texas
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: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarted. He moves to California to live with his cousin Angelo and dates a string of women, becoming increasingly preoccupied with sex. Eventually the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, rough, sexual ...
Plot:
serial killer, strangulation, strangler, prostitute, rape, murder of a nude woman, killer, psychopath, sex, voyeurism, murder, murderous pair ...
Time:
70s
Place:
oregon, usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Kenneth Bianchi, one of the two serial rapists and killers who terrorized the Los Angeles area in the late 1970s, is giving police station interviews to psychiatrist Samantha Stone, who has disquieting lifestyle issues of her own. It falls to her to ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, making love, murder, police investigation, mind game, who done it, mental illness, life is a bitch, sex scene, killer, misogynist ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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518K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style:
psychological, suspense, depressing, twist ending, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, vengeance, police, police investigation, investigation, death in the family, police detective, sexual abuse, loss of child, child abuse, loss of daughter ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, dark ...
Plot:
serial killer, biopic, murder, killer, true crime, violent, death sentence, courtroom drama, psychopath, killing, death, british ...
Time:
1940s, year 1971, year 1949, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
london, england, europe, boston, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
73K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.
Style:
suspense, twist ending, surprise ending, intense, mysterious ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychic, investigation, psychology, police investigation, twists and turns, premonition, murder investigation, swat team, supernatural, whodunit, plot twist ...
Time:
year 2015
Similarity:
100%
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:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about ...
Style:
neo noir, detective, realistic, enigmatic, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, police, murder mystery, rape, police investigation, twists and turns, unsolved crime, police detective, murder investigation, murderer, suspicion, investigation ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, year 1986, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
south korea, east asia, korea, asia
Similarity:
67%
5K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house which he shared with his family.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, rough, slasher, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, clown, true crime, biopic, sexual abuse, police investigation, obsession, police detective, life is a bitch, double life, killer clown, killer ...
Time:
70s, 50s
Place:
illinois, chicago, usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer. Based on a story by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, depressing ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, child murder investigation, investigation, murder mystery, child murder, plot twist, justice, private investigation, violent, small town, obsession ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
nevada, turkey, reno nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, murder investigation, mind game, fbi, cannibal ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place:
pittsburgh, baltimore, persia, usa, memphis ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
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Story:
The film is the first known dramatisation of one of the most notorious killing sprees in British history and was made to mark the fortieth anniversary of Hindley and Brady's trial. It was made with the full backing of the victims' ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, murder, investigation, death of child, rivalry, true crime, murder investigation, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship, killer, violence spree ...
Time:
60s, year 1964, year 1966, year 1963, year 1965
Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, manchester
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mary Giordano is a bright, intelligent student who goes to a catholic school. She also has a addiction to mystery novels and detective magazines (hence the title of the movie), which inspire her to do her own detective work. When she starts snooping ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, brutal, bleak, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
female detective, amateur detective, serial killer, murder, sexualized violence, police investigation, woman in danger, danger, fatal attraction, schoolgirl, uncover truth, teenage life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.
Style:
suspenseful, stylized, rough, detective, slasher ...
Plot:
twists and turns, police station, police corruption, sadism, hidden identity, serial killer, mass murder, dishonesty, whodunit, police, dirty cop, characters killed one by one ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, new mexico, usa
Similarity:
100%
79K
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, factual, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, child murder, murder mystery, stalinism, investigation, murder, child murder investigation, politics, murder investigation, totalitarian regime, justice, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1950s, year 2015, 50s ...
Place:
moscow russia, soviet union, russia, ukraine, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
100%
119K
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
Style:
adult animation, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, anime ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, obsession, twists and turns, stalking, actor's life, actress, violence, stalker, rising to stardom, danger, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killing cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, two killers, serial killer, true crime, psychopath, cousin, strangler, homicide, killing spree, killer, criminal, violent ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
34%
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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:
32%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of double killings occurring in Rochester, NY during the 80’s and the troubled police officer determined to solve them, with or without the help of her department
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, mental illness, police investigation, obsession, uncover truth, psychopath, mind game, haunted by the past, woman in danger, true crime, murder ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Vietnam, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
serial killer, serial murder, fbi, murder, killer, psychopath, obsession, chase, mind game, race against time, police investigation, terror ...
Time:
y2k, year 2000, 90s
Place:
chicago, los angeles, usa, california, san francisco
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young man who works at a nursing home uses the legendary Zodiac killer's M.O. to kill people who neglect their elderly relatives.
Style:
slasher, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
wannabe, murder, police detective, police investigation, mind game, psychopath, obsession, danger, master criminal, rivalry, woman in danger, gory ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
bay area, los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston ...
Style:
serious, psychological, scary, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, confined, psychopath, prison life, prison, law enforcement, killer, biopic, killing spree, manipulation, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.
Style:
perverse, suspenseful, suspense, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot:
serial killer, missing person, investigation, disappearance, true crime, prostitute, missing child, depression, murder, mother daughter relationship, search and rescue, psychopath ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
long island, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
Style:
tense, detective, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police investigation, murderous pair, law enforcement, fighting crime, police detective, psychopath, police procedural, investigation, female victim, cat and mouse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
30%
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