Movies Like

Con Air (1997)

6.8 4.7K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

Plot: undercover, ambush, war veteran, psychopath, bravery, mexican standoff, sandstorm, hijacking, ...

Cast

Anthony Hopkins

Julianne Moore

Gary Oldman

Ray Liotta

Hannibal (2001)

6.8 5.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: based on novel or book, venice, italy, fbi, manipulation, sequel, serial killer, psychological thriller, ...

Happy Face (2025) TV Show

6.8 64 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The story of Melissa Reed, daughter of Keith Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer. After decades of no contact, Keith forces his way back into his daughter’s life, and Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed. In the process, she must face a reckoning of her own identity.

Plot: manipulation, identity crisis, talk show, interview, serial killer, rape and murder, based on memoir or autobiography, true crime, ...

Aalavandhan (2001)

6.8 28 votes

Genre: Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 178 min.

Story: Nandu and Vijay are brothers who were abused by their stepmother during their younger days. Nandhu, who is mentally ill, decides to kill Vijay's fiancee as he visualizes her as his stepmother.

Plot: schizophrenia, brother, psychopath, killer, identical twin

Cast

Catherine Hicks

Chris Sarandon

Alex Vincent

Brad Dourif

Child's Play (1988)

6.8 3.4K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: R

Story: After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her 6-year old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.

Plot: chicago, illinois, birthday, gun, voodoo, stalker, evil doll, murder, ...

Cast

Craig Wasson

Melanie Griffith

Gregg Henry

Deborah Shelton

Body Double (1984)

6.8 926 votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

Plot: police, claustrophobia, witness, film in film, murder, neighbor, serial killer, whodunit, ...

Cast

Annabelle Wallis

Maddie Hasson

George Young

Michole Briana White

Malignant (2021)

6.8 2.7K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.

Plot: dreams, monster, brain tumor, detective, seattle, washington, gore, murder, ...

Cast

Sid Haig

Bill Moseley

Sheri Moon Zombie

William Forsythe

The Devil's Rejects (2005)

6.7 1.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.

Style: exploitation, psychotronic

Plot: fire, sheriff, bounty hunter, sadism, psychopath, sadistic, brothel, motel, ...

Cast

John Gallagher Jr.

Kate Siegel

Michael Trucco

Samantha Sloyan

Hush (2016)

6.7 4.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 82 min.

Audience: R

Story: A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: computer, isolation, deaf-mute, deaf, knife, alone, murder, mute, ...

Cast

Mia Goth

Jenna Ortega

Brittany Snow

Kid Cudi

X (2022)

6.7 4.0K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

Style: intimate

Plot: van, pornography, sheriff, war veteran, gas station, shotgun, alligator, porn star, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: texas

Cast

Baraka Rahmani

Lisa Berry

Dean McDermott

Mercedes Morris

Slasher (2016) TV Show

6.7 344 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Canada

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Thirty years ago, in the sleepy community of Waterbury, a killer known as “The Executioner” murdered Sarah Bennett's parents. Now Sarah and her husband Dylan have returned to town, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying murders centered around the seven deadly sins.

Plot: anthology, murder, serial killer, deadly sins, horror anthology, horror

Cast

Melissa Barrera

Jenna Ortega

Mason Gooding

Jasmin Savoy Brown

Scream (2022)

6.7 3.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

Plot: mask, attempted murder, hallucination, sequel, murder, serial killer, hospital, slasher, ...

Place: california

Cast

Shia LaBeouf

Sarah Roemer

Carrie-Anne Moss

David Morse

Disturbia (2007)

6.7 4.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problem—he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: paranoia, house arrest, neighbor, serial killer, paranoid

Cast

Mason Thames

Madeleine McGraw

Ethan Hawke

Demiu00e1n Bichir

Black Phone 2 (2025)

6.7 1.2K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the Black Phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.

Plot: mask, child abuse, dreams, sibling relationship, winter, child murder, supernatural, rocky mountains, ...

Time: 1980s, 1950s

Cast

David Howard Thornton

Lauren LaVera

Elliott Fullam

Sarah Voigt

Terrifier 2 (2022)

6.7 2.5K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A year after the Miles County massacre, Art the Clown is resurrected by a sinister entity. Art returns home, where he must hunt down and destroy teenage Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan on Halloween. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

Plot: halloween, clown, gore, resurrection, sequel, slasher, killer, macabre, ...

Cast

Tony Curtis

Henry Fonda

George Kennedy

Mike Kellin

The Boston Strangler (1968)

6.7 253 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

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.

Plot: police brutality, double life, boston, massachusetts, detective, surrealism, strangle, serial killer, ...

Cast

Keira Knightley

Carrie Coon

Chris Cooper

Alessandro Nivola

Boston Strangler (2023)

6.6 851 votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

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.

Plot: journalist, boston, massachusetts, journalism, based on true story, serial killer, true crime, female journalist, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Diane Kruger

Demiu00e1n Bichir

Annabeth Gish

Emily Rios

The Bridge (2013) TV Show

6.6 187 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, Sweden

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz.

Plot: fbi, drug cartel, organized crime, serial killer, police detective, murder investigation

Place: mexico

Cast

Josh Stewart

Juan Fernu00e1ndez

Michael Reilly Burke

Madeline Zima

The Collector (2009)

6.6 1.7K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.

Plot: fight, burglar, psychopath, home, gore, trap, thief, slaughter, ...

Cast

Tobin Bell

Donnie Wahlberg

Shawnee Smith

Erik Knudsen

Saw II (2005)

6.6 5.9K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: The chilling and relentless Jigsaw killer returns to terrorize the city once again. When a gruesome murder victim emerges with unmistakable traces of Jigsaw's sinister methods, Detective Eric Matthews is thrust into a high-stakes investigation. To his surprise, apprehending Jigsaw seems almost too easy, but what he doesn't realize is that being caught is merely another piece of Jigsaw's intricate puzzle.

Plot: sadism, riddle, sequel, serial killer, torture, survival horror, death match, mind game, ...

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