Arsonist movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant arsonist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, psychological and cult classic films and TV shows about / with arsonist, fire, arson, murder, death, violence, danger, heroes, revenge and blood plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as arsonist: Point of Origin (2002), Major Grom: Plague Doctor (2021), She (1984), Unhinged (2020), Fire Will Come (2019), 49 Days (2006), Flames of Fury (2021), Open 24 Hours (2018), Firehouse (1973), The Promised Land (1975).

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Point of Origin (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fact-based drama about an arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.
Style: surprise ending, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: firefighter, arson, arsonist, delusion, investigation, law enforcement, fire, tragic hero, rescue, escapades, race against time, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa
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Major Grom: Plague Doctor (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Igor Grom is a skilled policeman from St. Petersburg, known for his daring nature and uncompromising attitude towards the criminals of all kinds. Incredible strength, analytical mind and integrity – these qualities make Major Grom the perfect ...
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, perverse ...
Plot: arsonist, heroes, superhero, revenge, vigilante, partner, serial killer, hunt down, corruption, undercover, fighting crime, female journalist ...
Place: soviet union
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 4.8
 2K
She (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In a backward post-apocalyptic world, She aids two brothers' quest to rescue their kidnapped sister. Along the way, they battle orgiastic werewolves, a psychic communist, a tutu-wearing giant, a mad scientist, and gladiators before standing ...
Style: apocalyptic, independent film, fantasy adventure, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, sword and sorcery, wasteland, rescue, sorcery, female protagonist, violence, arsonist, torture victim, post apocalyptic, female fighter, exploitation ...
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 6.0
 76K
Unhinged (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A case of road rage turns into full-blown terror when an unstable driver follows a woman and her son.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, road movie ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: psychopath, road rage, pursuit, driving, mentally unstable, maniac, survival, stalking, highway, woman in danger, stalker, brutality ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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Fire Will Come (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When Amador Coro gets out of prison for having provoked a fire, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his elder mother, Benedicta, and three cows. Life goes on ...
Style: social
Plot: arsonist, love interest, fire, peace, landscape, slow burn, funeral, forest, dog, cow, village life, rural setting ...
Time: 2010s
Place: iberian peninsula, galicia, spain
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 5.1
 248
49 Days (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Liu (Stephen Fung) awaits execution after he is convicted of murdering his friends. According to Chinese superstition, the souls of the dead have 49 days to wander the earth before going to heaven or hell for an eternity. Liu and his lawyer (Gilian ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: frame up, ghost, curses spells and rituals, gambling, reincarnation, danger, rivalry, legal, legal action, supernatural, escape, murder ...
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 6.9
 141
Flames of Fury (2021)
Genre: Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: First barns burn, then an old house burns. A fire brigade goes around. A corpse burned beyond recognition is found in the old house. Intention or amazing coincidence? Franzi Heilmayr and Martin Merana believe in coincidence - until the evidence ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: arsonist, arson, murder, house fire, society, who done it, burn victim, partner, law enforcement, murder mystery, murder investigation, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria
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Open 24 Hours (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station. The isolation triggers her anxiety and hallucinations, with devastatingly gory results.
Style: slasher, suspense, psychological, disturbing, dark comedy
Plot: serial killer, fire, murder, hallucination, violence, psycho killer, mental illness, paranoid, revenge, brutality, psychopath, arson ...
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 5.7
 208
Firehouse (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Tensions arise when a previously all-white firehouse gets its first black fireman.
Style: tv series pilot
Plot: swing, black, racism, arsonist, firefighter, firefighting, fireman, husband wife relationship, prejudice, arson, black american, revenge ...
Place: new york
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The Promised Land (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional ...
Style: serious, realistic, biting, epic, crying
Plot: revolution, friendship, capitalist, renaissance, literary, identity, time machine, revolt, railway, artist, fire, adultery ...
Time: victorian era, year 1975, 19th century, turn of the century
Place: poland, eastern europe, middle east, berlin germany, europe ...
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 4.9
 9K
Endless Love (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This ...
Style: erotic, intense, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, mental illness, obsession, forbidden love, young lovers, arson, teen angst, mental institution, first love, teenage girl, sex scene, obsessive love ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: chicago, new york
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Alone in the Dark (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: maniac, home invasion, murder, serial killer, family in danger, mental institution, psychopath, mental illness, insanity, escaped mental patient, blackout, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 2016
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How Awful About Allan (1970)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
Style: surprise ending, spooky, psychological thriller, scary, suspense ...
Plot: mental institution, house fire, blindness, brother sister relationship, car crash, plot twist, swing, house, fire, disfigurement, boarder, father son relationship ...
Time: 60s
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 5.7
 43K
Money Train (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares; his foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him.
Style: melancholic, suspense, intense, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, train robbery, subway, buddy cop, perfect crime, new year's eve, arson, bank robbery, happy ending, robbery, caper, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
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*batteries not included (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.
Style: feel good, entertaining, touching, light, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: ufo, apartment building, alien, alien robot, benign alien, space and aliens, eviction, robot, alien invasion, friendship, elderly couple, alien encounter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 6.4
 13K
The Hot Spot (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A loner moves in to a small Texas town, finds himself a job, and sets about plotting to rob the local bank.
Style: neo noir, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: femme fatale, erotica, infidelity, love triangle, manipulation, dangerous attraction, bank robbery, accountant, love and romance, cons and scams, voyeur, car salesman ...
Time: 80s, 1950s
Place: texas, usa, virginia
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A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the fire that destroys his workplace. Garet, the real arsonist, is apalled that someone else would try ...
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
Audience: date night
Plot: farce, house fire, teenage crush, arsonist, jealousy, silly humor, opposites attract, unfulfillment, love and romance, disorder, family relations, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
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 6.8
 491
The Collector (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.
Plot: psychotic, female psychopath, mental disorder, arsonist, female fight, insanity, murderer, car crash, stealing money, woman hits a man, lesbianism, woman kills a man ...
Time: 90s
Place: finland
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 8.2
 1.4M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, persia, iran, america
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 7.1
 2K
Mademoiselle (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.
Style: black and white, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual ...
Plot: female nudity, female psychopath, teacher, lust, life & death, swing, femme fatale, obsession, countryside, village, teachers and students, couple relations ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: france, europe
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 5.8
 133K
Skyscraper (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.
Style: tense, suspense, psychotronic, anamorphic, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, teens, kids
Plot: skyscraper, disaster, penthouse, heroism, terrorism, protective parent, fire, panic, courage, betrayal, hostage, lone hero ...
Time: 2010s
Place: hong kong, china, asia, minnesota
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 5.5
 24K
Maximum Risk (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A policeman takes his twin brother's place and inherits his problems and a beautiful girlfriend. He is forced to kickbox his way from France to the U.S. and back while playing footsie with the FBI and Russian mafia. Not just muscles with a ...
Style: exciting, suspense, serious, suspenseful, metafiction ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, chase, gangster, gunfight, heroes, car chase, hidden identity, undercover, switching roles, law enforcement, lone wolves, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, france, paris france, europe ...
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune. This movie is extremely alarming, an expression which here means "a ...
Style: offbeat, fairy tale, atmospheric, gothic, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: children, orphan, death in the family, steampunk, danger, siblings relations, child in peril, book, happy ending, young heroes, child, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2004, victorian era, 1940s
Place: peru
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Augustus: The First Emperor (2003)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Austria
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.
Style: epic, realistic, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Plot: ancient history, ancient rome, roman empire, roman emperor, emperor, politics, ancient, betrayal, assassination, leadership, ambition, tragic hero ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century b.c., 1st century
Place: alexandria egypt, rome italy, europe, greece, italy ...
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 6.5
 113K
Hostage (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, intense, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, home invasion, hostage negotiator, twists and turns, organized crime, one man army, police investigation, fbi, swat team, kidnapped, rescue ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iran, california, los angeles
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The Gravedancers (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a night of drunken exploits, Allison, Harris, and Kira are chased and terrorized by the ghosts of a child pyromaniac, an ax murderer, and a rapist.
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, dark ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, rapist, vandalism, sexual relations, sexual abuse, curses spells and rituals, love and romance, stalking, couple relations, danger, haunted house ...
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 4.8
 4K
Firestorm (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Firefighter Jesse Graves has to save ornithologist Jennifer and other people caught in a forest fire, which was set up by the lawyer of convicted killer Earl Shaye, who escaped from the prison with several of his inmates posing as firefighters to ...
Style: cliffhanger, anamorphic, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, prison, firefighter, firefight, natural disaster, fire, hostage, survival, fugitives, forest fire, violence, firefighting ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: wyoming
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Aces 'N' Eights (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: brutality, good versus evil, rescue, partner, heroes, criminal heroes, society, husband wife relationship, murder, gunfight, gang of outlaws, showdown ...
Time: 19th century
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Behind the Wall (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In this chilling, atmospheric thriller, Katelyn (Lindy Booth) seeks answers about the brutal murder that claimed her mother's life 20 years ago in the lighthouse where they lived, a crime for which her grief-and-guilt-crazed father has long ...
Style: suspenseful, mind bending, enigmatic, suspense, serious ...
Plot: ghost, murder, supernatural, rivalry, danger, dark secret, spirit, demonic possession, haunted by the past, priest, secret room, death of mother ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.7
 6K
The Square (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder, revenge, tragedy, extortion, infidelity, nothing goes right, dishonesty, crime gone awry, danger, disorder, life turned upside down ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: australia
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