Profiler movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant profiler movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, psychological, serious, detective, realistic and suspense films and TV shows about / with profiler, investigation, serial killer, law enforcement, police investigation, murder, deadly, police, crime investigation and forensics plots mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Denmark and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as profiler: Prodigal Son (2019), The Paris Murders (2009), Mindhunter (2017), Those Who Kill (2014), Profiler (1996), Darkness: Those Who Kill (2019), Numb3rs (2005), Taking Lives (2004), Mindhunters (2004), Night Hunter (2018).

List of profiler movies

 7.7
 26K
Prodigal Son (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The son of a notorious serial killer becomes an acclaimed criminal psychologist who uses his unique insight into how killers think to help the NYPD.
Style: psychological thriller, psychological, suspense, disturbing, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: serial killer, haunted by the past, criminal psychologist, psychological trauma, murder investigation, maniac, repressed memory, forensics, expert, criminal psychology, childhood trauma, uncover truth ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
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The Paris Murders (2009)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: ChloƩ Saint-Laurent is a profiler and works with a police team to solve murders in Paris. She's very sweet, she wears very colored clothes and a huge yellow bag. She looks like a little girl who need a doll, but she's very smart and a ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot: profiler, criminal psychologist, murder investigation, police investigation, crime investigation, fighting crime, workplace situations, unlikely partners, partner, law enforcement, workplace, serial killer ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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 8.6
 390K
Mindhunter (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
Style: psychological thriller, crime drama, thought provoking, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot: serial killer, psychology, psychopath, criminal psychologist, fbi, fbi agent, serial murder, police, murderer, police investigation, true crime, murder ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, 80s
Place: virginia
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Those Who Kill (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follows Catherine Jensen, a recently promoted homicide detective who enlists the help of Thomas Schaeffer, a forensic psychologist, to track down serial killers and relentlessly seeks the truth behind the disappearance of her brother.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, forensics, policewoman, homicide detective, female detective, police detective, profiler, criminal psychologist, murder investigation, police investigation, criminal, crime investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, usa
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 7.2
 5K
Profiler (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Profiler is an American crime drama that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series follows the exploits of a criminal profiler working with the FBI's fictional Violent Crimes Task Force based in Atlanta, Georgia. Ally Walker starred as ...
Style: tense, serious, psychological, mind bending, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, profiler, fbi, forensics, investigation, murder, female detective, law enforcement, fighting crime, investigator, danger, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: atlanta georgia
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Darkness: Those Who Kill (2019)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Investigator Jan and profiler Louise constantly move around in the thrilling periphery of a murderer's view as they link a series of killings.
Style: suspense, detective, suspenseful, bleak, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, homicide detective, profiler, police, mysterious disappearance, investigation, incest, serial murder, unsolved crime, crime investigation, abduction, violence ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 21st century
Place: denmark
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Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior was a short-lived American police procedural drama that aired on CBS. The show debuted in 2011 as a spin-off from the successful Criminal Minds, which had premiered in 2005. This edition's profiling team also ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: forensics, profiler, serial killer, police investigation, law enforcement, multiple suspects, danger, police procedural, african american, computer genius, computer system, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
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 7.0
 48K
Numb3rs (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a ...
Style: tense, suspense, realistic, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot: mathematics, prodigy, genius, fbi, murder investigation, police detective, law enforcement, brother brother relationship, partners against crime, federal agent, workplace, profiler ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 6.2
 101K
Taking Lives (2004)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is ...
Style: psychological thriller, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, psychopath, murder investigation, murder mystery, dangerous attraction, fatal attraction, tough girl, female agent, strong female character, police investigation, strong female lead ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, 80s, year 1983, 21st century
Place: usa, canada, montreal, pennsylvania
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 6.3
 67K
Mindhunters (2004)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Finland, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, scary, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, mind game, island, trap, violence, investigation, killing spree, profiler, psycho killer, fbi, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
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 6.0
 31K
Night Hunter (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A police task force traps an online predator, only to discover that the depth of his crimes goes far beyond anything they had anticipated.
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, tense, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, profiler, investigation, serial killer, mental illness, tragic past, baby, justice, father daughter relationship, vigilantism, winter, criminal ...
Time: 2010s
Place: minnesota, canada
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Sebastian Bergman (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Swedish crime drama series about forensic psychologist Sebastian Bergmann.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, bleak, psychological ...
Plot: profiler, police investigation, serial killer, coping, murder, loss of daughter, private investigation, law enforcement, criminal psychologist, nordic, murderer, murder investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
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 4.8
 1K
213 (2009)
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
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 6.6
 99K
Kiss the Girls (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail ...
Style: suspense, detective, twist ending, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, twists and turns, kidnapping, woman in danger, police investigation, violence against women, forensics, murder mystery, plot twist, investigation, profiler ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, washington d.c., north carolina, california
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 8.5
 305K
Hannibal (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him ...
Style: psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, cannibal, psychopath, cannibalism, mind game, murder, psychiatrist, death, manipulation, graphic violence, mental patient, fbi ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Those Who Kill (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Those Who Kill is a Danish crime TV series from 2011, which follows a fictitious unit within Copenhagen Police which specialises in investigating serial murders. The series was aired as five two-part stories in Denmark, but has aired as five feature ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, serial killer, law enforcement, homicide detective, policewoman, profiler, police investigation, forensics, female protagonist, crime investigation, police, police protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe, copenhagen
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 8.1
 238K
Criminal Minds (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU ...
Style: psychological, exciting, serious, rough, thrilling ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: fbi, investigation, serial killer, law enforcement, team, crime investigation, murder, forensics, danger, profiler, investigator, human nature ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2000s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, virginia, seattle, new york, arizona
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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 ...
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 7.9
 1K
The Inside (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The Inside is an American crime drama television series created by Tim Minear and Howard Gordon and produced by Imagine Television. The Inside follows the work of the FBI's Los Angeles Violent Crimes Unit, a division dedicated to investigating ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: investigation, fighting crime, law enforcement, haunted by the past, profiler, female agent, fbi, special agent, rookie, dark past, nypd, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, murder, teenager, serial murder, murderer, small town, masked killer, investigation, stalking, adolescence, fear, supernatural power ...
Place: minnesota, midwest
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 4.7
 469
Code 11-14 (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An FBI agent went to Australia with his family to capture a serial killer. When Australian Police captured the main suspect, he and his family went back to USA. Unfortunately the REAL serial killer also went back to USA in the same airplane with the ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: serial killer, child in peril, profiler, family relations, airplane, family in danger, investigation, special agent, murder, false arrest, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
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 4.9
 5K
Thr3e (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Innocent lives hang on the whim of an elusive psychopathic murderer whose strange riddles and impossible timelines force three people into a mission to end the game before one or all of them die.
Style: bleak, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, profiler, split personality, mental illness, murder, stalking, psychopath, gory, danger, investigation, criminal psychologist, puzzle ...
Time: 20th century
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Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders is a drama about the specialized International Division of the FBI tasked with solving crimes and coming to the rescue of Americans who find themselves in danger while abroad.
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot: profiler, investigation, danger, law enforcement, forensics, fbi, team, human nature, twists and turns, crime solving, world spanning, cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.8
 22K
Suspect Zero (2004)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tricky, detective, stylized ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, murder mystery, vigilantism, psychic, police investigation, psychic power, mental illness, fbi, profiler, vigilante, obsession ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: new mexico, usa, arizona, dallas texas, oklahoma ...
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Into the Labyrinth (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The anomalous heat wave overwhelms everything, forcing everyone to reverse the pace of life: only during the hours of darkness it is possible to work, move, survive. And it is precisely in the middle of the night that Samantha emerges from the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, rough, tense, realistic ...
Plot: kidnapping, private detective, danger, psychopath, psychologist, private investigator, kidnapped, survival, psychiatry, kidnapped woman, investigation, amnesia ...
Place: usa
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 6.6
 655
Criminal Minds (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the US TV series of the same name, profilers investigate cases from the perspective of the criminals to solve them.
Style: suspense, exciting, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: police, investigation, crime investigation, profiler, law enforcement, antisocial behavior, murderer, crime scene, crime solving, police investigation, forensics, murder ...
Place: korea
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 5.9
 2K
The Riverman (2004)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing Seattle.
Style: psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, profiler, true crime, mind game, police detective, woman in danger, killer, murder, violence, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, florida, washington d.c.
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 8.4
 9K
Cracker (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.
Style: clever, crime drama, rough, witty, dark ...
Plot: police detective, british police, policewoman, police investigation, profiler, investigation, police procedural, law enforcement, criminal psychologist, police officer, murder mystery, nypd ...
Time: 20th century, future, 90s
Place: england, manchester, northern england, europe
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 7.2
 310K
Red Dragon (2002)
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 ...
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Murder by Numbers (2002)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, intense, erotic, talky ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: murder, mind game, sociopath, perfect crime, serial killer, murder mystery, murder investigation, murderous pair, psychopath, violence against women, police investigation, strangulation ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: persia, usa, california
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