20 best movies like 8MM 2 (2005)

List of the best movies like 8MM 2 (2005): Gone, Marshland, The Outsider, Secret in Their Eyes, The Giant, Snake Eyes, The Bone Collector, Dressed to Kill, The Eyes, The Prize.

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Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

Jill Parrish is trying to rebuild her life after surviving a terrifying kidnapping attempt. Though she is having a difficult time, she takes small steps toward normalcy by starting a new job and inviting her sister, Molly, to move in with her. Returning home from work one morning, Jill discovers that Molly has vanished, and she is certain that the same man who previously abducted her has returned for revenge.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountrySpain
Duration01:45

The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences if they are to successfully hunt down a killer who for years has terrorized a community in the shadow of a general disregard for women rooted in a misogynistic past.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Revolves around a British military contractor Lex Walker who is told his daughter has died. When he arrives in Los Angeles and discovers the body is not hers, he begins an investigation.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea
Duration02:32

A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

Markimdb: 4.1
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA, France

A teenager's small town life is changed forever when a series of murders begin on the same night that her missing boyfriend suddenly reappears.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:35

All bets are off when corrupt homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend and naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro makes increasingly shocking discoveries that even he can't turn a blind eye to.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:58

Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The murderer's special signature is to leave tantalizing clues based on the grim remains of his crimes.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA

A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

6 strangers are kidnapped and through governmental technology have proof they have all killed before and are told 5 will die this night, one may walk, and the six have 2 hours to decide who gets to live.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:14

For some reason, this year's Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the young author Andrew Craig, who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing. Another laureate is Dr. Max Stratman, the famous German-American physicist who comes to Stockholm with his young and beautiful niece Emily. The Foreign Department also gives him an assistant during his stay, Miss Andersson. Craig soon notices that Dr. Stratman is acting strangely. The second time they meet, Dr. Stratman does not even recognize him.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

Paratroopers Captain 'Rip' Murdock and Sergeant Johnny Drake are mysteriously ordered to travel to Washington, DC. When Drake learns that he is to be awarded the Medal of Honor, he disappears before newspaper photographers can take his picture. Murdock follows the clues and tracks him down, where he learns Drake is dead. Further investigations reveal unexpected twists. Rip learns that Johnny had been accused of murder and sets out to find out whatever he can. He falls in love with Coral whose husband Johnny is supposed to have killed.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

The intriguing relationship between three desperados, who try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:33

    When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    FBI agent Dennis Quaid tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, Russia
    Duration02:21

    Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the sexual exploits her patients relate are weighing on her. Turning to a married friend from her research days for guidance, she finds his help increasingly important when a female patient is murdered and it turns out that her new boyfriend was also seeing the dead woman.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Spain, Hungary, Serbia
    Duration01:50

    A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:24

      Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:26

      In "An Amish Murder", the peaceful Amish farming community of Painter’s Mill, Ohio, is shattered when a series of brutal murders leaves the town with a sense of frailty and loss of innocence. Among the most affected by the tragedy was Kate Burkholder (Campbell), a young girl who survived the terror and, as a result, left the Amish life behind. Fifteen years later, Kate returns to Painter’s Mill as its Chief of Police. Certain she’s come to terms with her past, Kate’s renewed life in her hometown is shattered when a murder investigation triggers deep-seated emotions from her childhood and exposes a dark secret that could destroy her.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrethriller, detective, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      On the eve of their biggest gig ever, the members of synth-rock band Starfoxy throw a rager that ends with a fan mysteriously dead in the pool.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:38

      Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:38

      The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Sweden, Norway
      Duration02:33

      This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he 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.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      Fiona Wagner, a journalism student, tracks a cold-blooded killer with the help of her detective father and a therapist.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an idealistic young blueblood bent on discovering the truth. Harper undertakes the investigation despite the opposition of his publisher, violent threats from mysterious forces, a break-up with his fiancée, and his father's cancer diagnosis.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, melodrama, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:01

      Based on true events, The Wannabe, a story about Thomas, a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas’s failed attempts to fix the trial of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he idolizes most, he sets off on a drug infused crime spree with his girlfriend and longtime mob groupie, Rose, by brazenly robbing the local Mafia hangouts.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds of his crimes on his website; the more hits the site gets, the faster the victim dies. Marsh and her team must find the elusive killer before time runs out.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:41

        After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, crime, detective
        CountryJapan

        The cyber crime investigation division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department finds a video on website "YOURTUBE." In the video, a man covered by a newspaper, warns that a fire will be set at a food processing company. More crime notices are soon found involving violent crimes. Geitsu is the main guy behind the group "Shinbunshi," which has posted the videos. He used to work as a temporary employee at an IT company, but was unfairly dismissed. He then begins doing manual labor work and meets the other members of "Shinbushi."

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrethriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:33

        Mike Kendall, a disgraced ex-cop, is fighting a losing battle with the bottle. When he finds a woman left for dead at the side of a road, Kendall turns private eye to track down her killers, taking one last shot at redemption.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, thriller, detective
        CountryFinland
        Duration01:31

        Jussi Vares find two bodies of Turku outskirts of women, which has been shot in the head, and the man whose body is full of runes similar to the cuts, which suggest that the murder would have been part of the dark ritual. A year later, Vares is hired to investigate these homicides. Cable Wires take Varesta towards Turku underworld dominant invisible godfather, sheriff. Sheriff is the man whom nobody knows and we do not discuss. Vares drifts dangerously close to the "jury", the secret underworld lord clubs, the members of the human spirit is a cheap commodity. Rummaging through the case Vares get too close to the truth.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        Charlie, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Charlie plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        Samantha Holt had the perfect life with a handsome fiancée and a future that couldn’t look brighter. But an unexpected turn on a dark lonely road puts her on a collision course with Bruce Miller, a devoted family man who descends into madness when he loses everything he ever cared about. One year later, Bruce decides to give Samantha the punishment he believes she escaped. Samantha has struggled with her own demons since that fateful night, and Bruce will take her struggles to the edge when he implements a demented plan to teach her a twisted lesson that may cost her the ultimate price.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryGermany
        Duration01:42

        Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
        CountryChina

        When a murder occurs in a small town in Southeast China, a local mechanic, known for his honesty, comes under suspicion. When the police target him to take the fall, he’s forced to try and exonerate himself, uncovering a number of disturbing facts, most much bigger than the initial crime.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller, detective
        CountryItaly

        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 darkness that had swallowed her. A thirteen year old kidnapped and long held prisoner, Sam is now suddenly free and, traumatized and wounded, is hospitalized in a hospital room. Next to her, Dr. Green (Dustin Hoffman), an extraordinary profiler. Green in fact does not hunt monsters in the outside world, but in the minds of the victims. Because it is inside the memories of Sam that the clues able to lead to the capture of his jailer are hidden: the Man of the Labyrinth. But Dr. Green is not the only one chasing the monster. There is also Bruno Genko (Toni Servillo), a private investigator with an unexpected talent.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        A reporter stumbles upon the journal of a murderer replete with plans to butcher specific people, and investigates on his own, finding that every trail leads to a 9-year-old orphan living in a group home.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrethriller, detective
        CountryIndia

        Coming from the streets of Paharganj, the movie depicts a woman's search for her lost love, a man's attempt to regain his lost enigma and dealing with his brother's untimely death, an unexpected political murder, and raging gang war.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, melodrama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:00

        Two teenage boys secretly meet up in a cabin, bear witness to a shooting and barely escape with their lives. Desperate to keep their relationship a secret and in fear of being found by the perpetrator, they remain silent but soon learn that what has been seen cannot be unseen -- and when you witness a horrible event, it changes everything.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without asking him the reason why he should do so.

        Markimdb: 3.3
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        Stu Undercoffler (Eric Roberts) is a corrupt CEO whose drive for power has led him to make some highly unethical choices. Once Stu's self-serving decisions have begun to spread darkness through the world, there's no stopping it. After losing his wife, Stu begins to have a crisis of conscience but starts to believe he is being stalked and has been hallucinating. Is he losing his mind or have his former victims come back to wreck havoc on him?

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
        CountryGermany, USA
        Duration02:02

        A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
        Duration02:34

        A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:21

        Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        Trying to find inspiration for his next horror novel, Blake retreats to the Appalachian Mountains with his mistress, Angelica. Upon arrival they learn about the case of several missing boys in the area. When Angelica follows a lead to one of the missing boys and disappears, Blake becomes a prime suspect.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.




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