American films about killers

List of the best American killer movies according to visitors: Ava, John Wick: Chapter 4, Shoot the Hero, Terrifier, The Man from Toronto, Blue Caprice, Death Wish, I Am Not a Serial Killer, The Final Girls, American Ultra.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA

A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.

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Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA, China

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Markimdb: 3.4
Genreaction, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:20

A 30-something couple unintentionally become involved in a botched jewel heist while shopping for wedding rings.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women and everyone else who stands in his way on Halloween night.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA

The world's deadliest assassin and New York's biggest screw-up are mistaken for each other at an Airbnb rental.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:19

A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
Duration02:46

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 rules to keep himself “good” and “normal”. However, when a real monster shows up in his town he has to let his dark side out in order to stop it – but without his rules to keep him in check, he might be more dangerous than the monster he’s trying to kill.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:51

    A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountryUSA, Luxembourg
    Duration02:36

    American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike, a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA

    Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Four friends gather at an elegant home during the Summer of Love, 1969. Unbeknownst to them, deadly visitors are waiting outside. What begins as a simple farewell party turns to a night of primal terror as the intruders stalk and torment the four, who struggle for their lives against what appears to be a senseless attack.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:45

      With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryItaly, USA
      Duration01:24

      Ann, a reclusive elegant lady, with an obsession for butterflies, is befriended by the eerily beautiful young Alice. Using her seductive innocence, Alice establishes a disturbing mother daughter relationship with Ann. Lured into her twisted world, Ann soon discovers that she is not the only recipient of the girl's affections. Confronted by Alice's other lady friends, Ann's shock awakens a dark, hidden past, unchaining a spiral of madness: a series of brutal and bizarre crimes that Ann will have to commit to preserve her harmless and deceptive appearances. The only one who recognizes there's something unsettling about Ann, is nine year old Julie, her next door neighbour's daughter. With the inevitable curiosity of a child, Julie begins to explore the corners of Ann's apartment, discovering a dark secret hidden in the walls of the forbidden butterfly room. No one believes what she's seen except for Ann's daughter. Horrified, she realises that the fate of the young girl lies in her hands.

      Markimdb: 3.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:43

      A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:36

      On a dark Christmas Eve in a small town, the lone Sheriffs on the night shift encounter a mysterious man who goes by the name of Mr. Nobody. As the night progresses, the Sheriffs discover that this isn't just a nobody, but a vengeful killer whose past threatens to haunt them all.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genredrama, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      Wyatt Earp is approached by a journalist for an interview about how he became a famous sheriff. Earp told the story of how he was a fearless U.S. Marshall. If 27-year old Wyatt Earp comes out that his first girlfriend Dora Hand was murdered. Together with his friend Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Bill Tilghman and Charlie Bassett he goes hunting for the perpetrator ...

      Markimdb: 3.3
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryCanada, USA

      A killer stalks and terrorizes a group of sorority girls on a college campus.

      Markimdb: 2.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Mexico
      Duration02:11

      Pregnant with director Roman Polanski's child and awaiting his return from Europe, 26-year-old Hollywood actress Sharon Tate becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:25

      Picking up right where the original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family’s connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA

      A lonesome stranger with nerves of steel must track down and kill a rogue hitman to satisfy an outstanding debt. But the only information he's been given is a time and location where to find his quarry. No name. No description. Nothing.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryUSA

      A reality TV crew's staged investigation into the paranormal becomes terrifyingly real when the house they're exploring turns out to be haunted by the ghost of a serial killer.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:03

        Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares.

        Markimdb: 8.6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration02:13

        Leon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Leon's footsteps.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:27

        Young Emily Walton, who has suffered from psychosomatic blindness ever since the car accident that took her mother's life, must summon every instinct at her disposal to protect herself and her loved ones from a mysterious intruder

        Markimdb: 4.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
        CountryUSA

        A vengeful ghost, a mysterious killer, and a family where everyone has a secret converge in one night of terror in this remake of Francis Ford Coppola's first feature film.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        In a small New Mexico town, a 17-year-old high school girl who just got her driver’s license gets into her first Fender Bender, innocently exchanging her personal information with an apologetic stranger. Later that stormy night, she is joined in her desolate suburban home by a couple of her school friends who try their best to make a night out of it, only to be visited by the stranger she so willingly handed all of her information to — a terrifying and bizarre serial killer who stalks the country’s endless miles of roads and streets with his old rusty car, hungrily searching for his next unsuspecting victim.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

          A cop (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister (Juno Temple).

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:59

          A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game, Hangman.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:42

          Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genreaction, comedy
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:06

          The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryCanada, USA
          Duration02:26

          On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrethriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:14

          An office worker is trapped inside the building where a killer is on the loose.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:05

          A spellbinding and romantic supernatural thriller. Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Roni receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious classmate, Kirk, Roni descends into a shadow world that blurs the bounds of the living and the dead-and begins a desperate race against time to stop a cunning killer.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
          CountryUSA, France, Bulgaria, Germany
          Duration02:16

          Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:04

          A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, they join forces to pull off a heist.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrefantastic, action, adventure, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:34

          Three years after the demise of Jurassic World, a volcanic eruption threatens the remaining dinosaurs on the isla Nublar, so Claire Dearing, the former park manager, recruits Owen Grady to help prevent the extinction of the dinosaurs once again.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, comedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA

          Two years after defeating a satanic cult led by his babysitter Bee, Cole's trying to forget his past and focus on surviving high school. But when old enemies unexpectedly return, Cole will once again have to outsmart the forces of evil.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:22

          Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

          A group of young friends make an incomprehensible discovery in an abandoned mine, but the more they try to change the future, the more they seal their fate.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genredrama, crime
          CountryUSA

          A young Hitman who lives with his mother catches feelings for the witness of a murder he commits.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryFrance, Canada, USA
          Duration02:24

          A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genredrama, western, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:19

          The story of a drifter named Paul who arrives in a small town seeking revenge on the thugs who murdered his friend. Sisters Mary Anne and Ellen, who run the town's hotel, help Paul in his quest for vengeance.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genrehorror, action, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:36

          Rusty Nail is back on the road again looking to punish injustice at every turn - and this time it's with a group of hotheaded street racers on their way to the Road Rally 1000. As they drive through a desolate shortcut on the way to the race, an encounter with Rusty turns sour and soon he is tracking, teasing and torturing them until the end of the road.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          Kidnapped and trapped by a winter storm, this slow burn thriller follows two strangers who must outsmart an unseen killer.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrefantastic, action, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:20

          Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

          Markimdb: 5
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:32

            When a group of college students take part in a clinical drug trial, an unexpected side effect of the experimental medicine gives them terrifying visions of their own deaths...which begin to come true. As they scramble to escape their fate, they discover that the killer is among them and shares their ability to see the future - only he seems to be one step ahead of their efforts to survive.

            Markimdb: 5
            Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:27

            The film centers on Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist who has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, one by one the horrors they have committed begin to unfold. However, Dr. Marcus soon learns that there is one patient who ties them all together - Patient Seven.




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