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Shining Girls (2022) TV Show

7.5 216 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Years after a brutal attack left her in a constantly shifting reality, Kirby Mazrachi learns that a recent murder is linked to her assault. She teams with veteran reporter Dan Velazquez to understand her ever-changing present—and confront her past.

Plot: chicago, illinois, based on novel or book, serial killer, miniseries, newspaper reporter, traumatized woman, thriller

Cast

Riccardo Cucciolla

Don Backy

Lea Lander

Maurice Poli

Rabid Dogs (1995)

7.5 289 votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: Italy

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway.

Plot: robbery, rape, kidnapping, getaway car, gang, slasher, killer, road movie, ...

Cast

Karlheinz Bu00f6hm

Moira Shearer

Anna Massey

Maxine Audley

Peeping Tom (1960)

7.5 910 votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

Plot: london, england, primal fear, photography, obsession, childhood trauma, serial killer, landlord, ...

Cast

Tom Cruise

Henry Cavill

Ving Rhames

Simon Pegg

Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

7.5 9.2K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure

Country: United States of America

Duration: 147 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.

Plot: mask, race against time, london, england, central intelligence agency (cia), helicopter, paris, france, ...

Place: norway

Cast

Sul Kyung-gu

Kim Nam-gil

Kim Seol-hyun

Oh Dal-su

Memoir of a Murderer (2017)

7.4 380 votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: A former serial killer with Alzheimer's fights to protect his daughter from her mysterious boyfriend who may be a serial killer too.

Plot: based on novel or book, dementia, alzheimer's disease, serial killer, قاتل متسلسل, الزهايمر, مقتبس من رواية أو كتاب, الخرف

Ripper Street (2012) TV Show

7.4 197 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Ireland, United Kingdom

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 36

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.

Style: dark

Plot: london, england, jack the ripper, victorian england, serial killer, period drama, police detective, victorian era, ...

Time: 19th century

Ratsasan (2018)

7.4 195 votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 170 min.

Story: A serial killer is murdering school girls, and a newbie cop has to track him down before the victim count increases.

Plot: serial killer, psychological thriller, rookie cop, police investigation, child kidnapping

Cast

Tahar Rahim

Jenna Coleman

Billy Howle

Ellie Bamber

The Serpent (2021) TV Show

7.4 388 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.

Plot: bangkok, thailand, serial killer

Time: 1970s

Place: nepal, thailand, india

Cast

Christian Bale

Justin Theroux

Josh Lucas

Bill Sage

American Psycho (2000)

7.4 12.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

Plot: new york city, based on novel or book, businessman, psychopath, dark comedy, satire, wall street, serial killer, ...

Time: 1980s

Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes

Cast

John Wayne Gacy

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Sam Amirante

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Greg Bedoe

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Rafael Tovar

Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes (2022) TV Show

7.4 220 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Audience: TV-MA

Story: He dined with the powerful. He preyed on the vulnerable. Beneath a smiling exterior was the horrifying darkness of a sadistic serial killer.

Plot: illinois, clown, biography, serial killer, miniseries, true crime, missing person, criminal investigation, ...

Time: 1970s

American Gothic (1995) TV Show

7.4 57 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Everything is not what it seems in Trinity, South Carolina. Sheriff Lucas Buck develops a sinister interest in Caleb. Caleb's cousin Gail tries to protect him, but that's complicated since she has feelings for Sheriff Buck. And Caleb's dead sister, Merlyn, returns as an angel, warning him that Buck is an incarnation of evil - and may not be human.

Plot: small town, blackmail, black magic, supernatural, family relationships, serial killer, gothic, rapist, ...

Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (2025) TV Show

7.4 65 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When a teenager goes missing, it becomes clear that many young men and boys have disappeared at the hands of John Wayne Gacy, the prime suspect.

Plot: detective, illinois, investigation, based on true story, murder, serial killer, lawyer, miniseries, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Neve Campbell

Skeet Ulrich

Rose McGowan

Matthew Lillard

Scream (1996)

7.4 8.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

Plot: high school, small town, riddle, killing, halloween, house party, serial killer, school, ...

Place: california

Cast

Tyler Labine

Alan Tudyk

Katrina Bowden

Jesse Moss

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)

7.4 3.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.

Plot: countryside, west virginia, cabin, chainsaw, misunderstanding, accidental death, hillbilly, violent death, ...

Cast

Daniel Craig

Rooney Mara

Christopher Plummer

Stellan Skarsgu00e5rd

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

7.4 7.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Sweden, United States of America

Duration: 158 min.

Audience: R

Story: Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

Plot: journalist, island, rape, hacker, based on novel or book, nazi, journalism, investigation, ...

Place: sweden, scandinavia

La Doña (2016) TV Show

7.4 640 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Mexico, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 200

Audience: TV-14

Story: A story of revenge and ambition, seduction and betrayal; all told from the perspective of an offended and abused woman named Altagracia. Altagracia represents the hundreds of thousands of Mexican women who have been victims of the violence by faceless men who are protected by impunity. But Altagracia, transformed into a strong-willed, ruthless man-eater known as La Doña, will seek out each and every one of these men to bring them to justice.

Plot: corruption, business woman, violence against women, alcoholism, femme fatale, revenge, murder, romance, ...

Cast

Choi Woo-shik

Son Suk-ku

Lee Hee-jun

Kwon Da-ham

A Killer Paradox (2024) TV Show

7.4 191 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When one accidental killing leads to another, an ordinary young man finds himself stuck in an endless cat-and-mouse chase with a shrewd detective.

Plot: detective, hacker, ex-cop, serial killer, young adult, based on webcomic or webtoon, dark fiction

Cast

Rufus Sewell

William Hurt

Kiefer Sutherland

Jennifer Connelly

Dark City (1998)

7.3 3.2K votes

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: beach, amnesia, experiment, paranoia, dystopia, sleep, manipulation, mad scientist, ...

Cast

Isabelle Adjani

Sam Neill

Margit Carstensen

Heinz Bennent

Possession (1981)

7.3 1.4K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

Plot: adultery, berlin, germany, monster, police, marriage crisis, berlin wall, obsession, ...

Place: germany

Cast

Susanne Lothar

Ulrich Mu00fche

Arno Frisch

Frank Giering

Funny Games (1997)

7.3 2.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: Austria

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

Plot: lake, sadism, psychopath, hostage-taking, remote control, sociopath, breaking the fourth wall, serial killer, ...

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