20 best movies like The Hillside Strangler (2004)

List of the best movies like The Hillside Strangler (2004): Unlawful Entry, The Boston Strangler, Alex Cross, Secret in Their Eyes, Dahmer, Michael Clayton, Tightrope, Savage Streets, A Force of One, The Watcher.

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryJapan, USA
Duration01:47

After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops that answered their call. He helps them install the security system, and begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol, and spends a lot of time discussing the couple's problems with the wife. The husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

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.

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: 6.3
    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: 5.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his life. Certain characters and events are fictional.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    A law firm brings in its 'fixer' to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

    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: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and murdered her best friend.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse. Taunting Joel with photographs of his intended victims and leaving his crime scenes meticulously free of clues in order to keep the police at bay, Griffin derives as much pleasure out of watching Joel react to every movement as watching his victims die. But when Griffin moves into Joel's inner circle, Joel must quickly find some way to stop him before someone close to him becomes the next one to die.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Based on the true story of double killings occurring in Rochester, NY during the 80’s and the troubled police officer determined to solve them, with or without the help of her department

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    A lurid, dark look into the lives of sex workers, where victims of child abuse deal with the consequences later in life.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer easily avoided police at first. But as police closed in and the killer’s pattern grew more erratic, the only question was how many more will die?

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada, Germany

    Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:44

    On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes. You're about to experience both versions.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    In the Philadelphia police department, Emmett Young is a hotshot, a workaholic newly promoted to homicide. He learns he has a disease that will soon kill him painfully, so he hires a stranger to arrange his own death. With one eye on the calendar (he's allowed a few days' grace before his murder), he pursues a final case, the serial killing of young women. Emmett develops a profile of the assailant. Meanwhile, his fixer hires an ex-cop to kill Emmett, a lonely security guard whom the fixer taunts and belittles. In this limited time, can Emmett sort out what's important? Written by

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:13

    Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the job done, even if it means murder.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryCanada, USA

    A troubled detective travels to Memphis in order to track down a pair of serial killers.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, he descends to the level of a cave dweller and falls deeper into crime and degradation.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryGermany

    13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, western, crime
    CountryMexico, USA
    Duration01:52

    An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day and a self-appointed hero at night. But what is a real hero? And who decides what is right or wrong? As the boundaries blur, Sean's dual life wears on his psyche and his two worlds careen dangerously close to colliding. Like a graphic novel you can't put down, Boy Wonder challenges morality, distorting perceptions of what is right and what is justified, as it races to its shocking conclusion.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:27

    The morphine-addicted detective Charlie Daines is on the trail of a sophisticated psychopath who is setting up murders and broadcasting them live on the internet. As he closes in on the killer, he realizes that it has become personal and that he is to be the final victim. Will he catch the killer before it's too late or will his old-school methods mean his death?

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole is now a Los Angeles police detective. When a series of horrible murders occurs in the metro area, Cole is assigned to the case, along with tough-talking fellow cop Jim Campbell. Although the two men clash, they gradually become effective partners as they uncover a conspiracy linked to the killings, which also involves terrorism and organized crime.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration01:44

    Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics cop with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of 'Fatal Beauty' begin turning up next to too many dead bodies. Mike works for the original owner of the drugs and tries to tell himself that since he does not handle the drugs, he is 'clean'. Mike becomes Rita's constant companion.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, history
    CountryUSA, Hungary
    Duration01:43

    Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:49

    Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Charlie Cox should have stopped for gas in California. While he's on a cross-country trip with his teenage daughter, Joleen, his car hits empty in a creepy town in Nevada. With nary a drop of fuel to be found, Charlie and Joleen stop for the night at a dilapidated trailer park. There, Joleen catches the eye of two teenage boys, Jimmy and Pinky -- either of whom could be the serial killer currently terrorizing the town.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Two corrupt cops have a successful, seemingly perfect money making scheme- they sell drugs that they seize from dealers, kill the dealers, and blame the crimes on street gangs. Their scheme is going along smoothly until they kill an undercover DEA agent posing as a dealer, and then try to cover-up their crime.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:30

    When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    A murdered hotel millionaire's son finds himself tangled up in a game of seduction and murder after a raunchy night with three beautiful women.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada

    An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:19

    A cop, investigating the mysterious death of a filmstar, meets a sex-worker, while he faces some personal problems psychologically. The mystery connects these people in a way, that ultimately changes their lives.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryCanada, USA

    "To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:16

    Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house which he shared with his family.

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

    A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.




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