Strangler movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant strangler movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychotronic, independent film and crying films and TV shows about / with strangler, murder, death, strangulation, serial killer, psychopath, violence, deadly, investigation and female nudity plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as strangler: Sketches of a Strangler (1978), The Strangler's Wife (2002), Don't Answer the Phone! (1980), No Way to Treat a Lady (1968), Night of the Strangler (1972), Terror in the Night (1964), The Hillside Strangler (2004), Boston Strangler (2023), Blue My Mind (2017), Santo vs. the Strangler (1965).

List of strangler movies

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Sketches of a Strangler (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One victim's sister starts looking for him...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, art student, strangler, murder, obsession, prostitute, investigation, mental illness, psychopath, student, strangulation, brother ...
Time: 70s
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The Strangler's Wife (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Mae thought she had the perfect husband. Until she found out about his other women. But now she suspects an even more horrible truth. He isn't cheating with these other women... he's killing them.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: strangulation, serial killer, strangler, husband wife relationship, murder, murder of a nude woman, killings, murderer, serial murder, family relations, homicidal maniac, secret ...
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Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, psychological, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, obsession, stalking, murder, photographer, mind game, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, woman in danger, riddles and clues, female nudity ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: los angeles, vietnam, asia, california
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No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
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, dark comedy, clever, suspenseful, spooky ...
Plot: serial killer, disguise, police investigation, jewish mother, murder, killer, politics, nypd, police, police officer, theater, cat and mouse ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Night of the Strangler (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In New Orleans, a relationship between a black man and a white girl leads to a string of murders.
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Plot: strangler, racism, murder disguised as suicide, murder, murder of a pregnant woman, girl, exploitation, interracial relations, serial killer, death of sister, murder of wife, murder of sister ...
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Terror in the Night (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story: A troubled teen with an undeserved criminal past is the suspect when young women start turning up around town dead and marked up with lipstick.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, juvenile delinquent, strangler, murder, rock, psychopath, youth, protagonist as suspect, chase, high school, riddles and clues, teenage life ...
Time: 60s
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The Hillside Strangler (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 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: serious, realistic, disturbing, rough, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, strangulation, rape, prostitute, murder, police investigation, psychopath, murderous pair, violence, sexual abuse, death, hidden identity ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, oregon, california
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Boston Strangler (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.
Style: detective, captivating, tense, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, journalism, investigative journalism, murder investigation, strangler, female journalist, female reporter, criminal, murderer, investigation, secret ...
Time: 60s, year 1964
Place: boston
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 6.1
 3K
Blue My Mind (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, Mia is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful ...
Style: captivating, touching, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: mermaid, teenager, coming of age, puberty, parent child relationship, body horror, transformation, life is a bitch, underage sex, swimming, creature, darkness ...
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Santo vs. the Strangler (1965)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Santo battles the Strangler.
Style: neo noir
Plot: wrestling, struggle, strangler, murder, death, revenge, strangulation, jealousy, mysterious stranger, chorus girl, cabaret, masked hero ...
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Like Father Like Son (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Life for Dee Stanton is improving at every turn. Her legal career is blossoming and her boyfriend Dominic unexpectedly proposes to her. Things were very different 11 years ago when her husband Paul was jailed for the brutal murders of four girls and ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, single mother, murder investigation, murder, teenage son, prison, uncover truth, teenage life, family relations, father son relationship, father and son, family problems ...
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Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders (2006)
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, rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, mind game, police investigation, who done it, mental illness, life is a bitch, killer, misogynist, serial rapist, strangler ...
Time: 70s, year 1978
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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The Specter of Terror (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Mary Preston, Iberia stewardess, lives with her ​​friend and companion Helena O'Hara. She finds out that is followed by a mysterious character. He is Charly, an airport employee, U.S. Vietnam veteran, unhinged and with sexual disorders due ...
Style: perverse, detective, crying, psychotronic
Plot: flight attendant, stewardess, serial killer, psychopath, vietnam veteran, strangler, zombie, whodunit, maniac, murder, psychiatrist, car trunk ...
Place: madrid
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The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
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, suspenseful, rough
Plot: murder, serial killer, two killers, true crime, psychopath, criminal, killer, violent, police detective, homicide, strangler, cousin ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
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The Astral Factor (1978)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Demonstrating that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, a convicted strangler studies the paranormal and finds a way to render himself invisible. Once he escapes, he sets out to find and eliminate the five women who testified in his prosecution. ...
Style: independent film, detective, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: woman strangled to death, invisible man, supernatural, serial killer, invisibility, murder, strangler, escaped mental patient, psychopath, curses spells and rituals, woman in danger, prison ...
Time: 70s
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A Demon in My View (1991)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.
Style: mind bending, scary, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, strangler, violence spree, obsession, mentally unstable, investigation, murder, curses spells and rituals, police, deadly, black pantyhose ...
Time: 90s
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 4.4
 530
Fiend (1980)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This low budget feature from Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler opens with a spirit entering into a gravesite and reanimating a corpse back to life as Mr. Longfellow. In order for him to stay alive, he needs to absorb the life energies out of the living ...
Style: independent film, psychotronic, weird
Plot: zombie, occult, serial killer, supernatural horror, killer, exploitation, body horror, 666, demon, strangler, blood, violence ...
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 4.0
 696
Deadly Games (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A town is being terrorized by a masked killer who is murdering women. A young woman is attacked by the killer but escapes. She believes the killer to be either the town's policeman or the manager of the local theater, and she devises a plan to ...
Style: slasher, christmas horror, independent film, erotic drama, weird
Plot: christmas, exploitation, maniac, murderer, serial killer, strangler, death, police, friend, women, woman, nudity ...
Time: year 1982
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The Bedroom Window (1987)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Terry Lambert is sleeping with Sylvia, the wife of his boss. One night, while in Terry's apartment, Sylvia witnesses a man assault a young woman, Denise, on the road below. Not wanting to reveal her affair with Terry, she keeps quiet. Terry ...
Style: suspenseful, neo noir, tense, intense, psychological ...
Plot: legal, femme fatale, serial killer, rapist, false accusation, murder, obsession, revenge, investigation, infidelity, danger, mind game ...
Time: 80s
Place: maryland, baltimore
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 5.4
 42K
Replicas (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China, Puerto Rico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.
Style: exciting, intellectual, futuristic, clever, psychotronic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: robot, consciousness, science, cloning, family in danger, resurrection, laboratory, genetics, androids, betrayal, scientist, scientific experiment ...
Time: near future, future
Place: puerto rico
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 7.9
 810K
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Thor is on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the prophecy of destruction to his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new ...
Style: entertaining, action comedy, funny, action adventure, saga ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, family friendly
Plot: superhero, female villain, monster, alien planet, supernatural power, deity, rebellion, goddess, warrior, norse mythology, superpower, norse god ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york
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Maps to the Stars (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Style: surreal, stylized, disturbing, cynical, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, hollywood, mental illness, aspiring actor, child star, obsession, actress, satire, threesome, haunted by the past, menage a trois, fire ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
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 7.9
 619K
Star Trek (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm ...
Style: futuristic, epic, stylized, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: space travel, star trek, space opera, outer space, alien, spacecraft, time travel, heroic mission, teamwork, space and aliens, alternate universe, space wars ...
Time: future, year 2009, 24th century, 23rd century, 2000s
Place: san francisco, iowa, bay area, space western
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Where the Truth Lies (2005)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
Style: sexy, period piece, stylized, erotic, suspense ...
Plot: murder, sexualized violence, threesome, investigation, journalist, hotel, lesbian, male nudity, sex party, sexual obsession, extramarital affair, sex ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2005, year 1957, 50s ...
Place: new jersey, los angeles, miami
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 7.5
 6K
Failan (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After losing both her parents, Failan emmigrates to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Once she reaches Korea, she finds out that her relatives have moved to Canada well over a year ago. Desperate to stay and make a living in Korea, Failan ...
Style: romantic, touching, captivating, depressing, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, gangster, love affair, family relations, asian, marriage, orphan, threat, love story, terminal illness, in love, love ...
Time: year 2001
Place: east asia, asia, south korea, korea
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Angels Don't Sleep Here (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man is accused of murder and manipulated into a web of deceit as his thought-to-be dead twin brother plots revenge on those who tried to kill him.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, independent film
Plot: murder, twins, revenge, investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement, danger, psychopath, police corruption, protagonist as suspect, mind game, dishonesty ...
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: The Joker is back with a vengeance, and Gotham's newest Dark Knight needs answers as he stands alone to face Gotham's most infamous Clown Prince of Crime.
Style: anime, stylized, intense, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: superhero, good versus evil, insanity, justice, save the day, heroic mission, master villain, fighting crime, secret identity, righting the wronged, danger, undercover ...
Time: future, 2040s, 21st century
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 201 min.
Story: Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam bring the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark ...
Style: epic, atmospheric, breathtaking, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, manly ...
Plot: sword fight, wizard, magic, magical, battles, creature, courage, monster, friendship, sword and sorcery, good versus evil, medieval ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, prehistoric times, prehistory
Place: iran
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy, Switzerland, Thailand
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Years after the onset of the Clone Wars, the noble Jedi Knights lead a massive clone army into a galaxy-wide battle against the Separatists. When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from ...
Style: futuristic, saga, exciting, emotional, intense ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: star wars, alien, sword fight, space wars, robot, space opera, spaceship, heroic mission, outer space, space, tragic villain, personality change ...
Time: future, year 2005, 20th century, year 2016, 2000s
Place: space western
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A Perfect Murder (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But ...
Style: sexy, suspenseful, clever, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: betrayal, infidelity, blackmail, murder, twists and turns, jealousy, love affair, perfect crime, adultery, husband wife relationship, greed, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
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