Movies Like X + YY: Formel des Bösen
If you liked X + YY: Formel des Bösen (1970), a crime and thriller movie directed by Pavel Jovic and Teja Piegeler, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Calendar Killer (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and thrillerKlara is going to die today unless she kills her husband instead. The Calendar Killer has given her that impossible choice. When Jules starts his night shift at a telephone safety helpline for lonely women on their way…
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King Cobra (2016)
★ 5.8/10Also crimeIt’s 2006, YouTube is in its infancy, and internet porn is still behind a paywall. Taking the stage name Brent Corrigan, a fresh-faced, wannabe adult video performer is molded into a star by Stephen, a closeted gay…
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Strange Darling (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and thrillerNothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and crimeBroke, and in desperate need to update her portfolio, New York City model Katie calls a number from a tear-off flyer offering free photos. But this innocent attempt quickly turns into an unthinkable kidnapping…
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Vice Squad (1982)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and thrillerAn unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
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Foxy Brown (1974)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and thrillerA voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
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Bully (2001)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and thrillerA group of teenagers in South Florida enact a murder plot against their mutual bully, Bobby, who has emotionally, physically, and sexually abused them for years.
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Fear (1996)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerNicole Walker always dreamed of being swept away by someone special — someone strong, sexy and sensitive who would care for her more than anything else in the world. David is all that and more: a modern-day knight who…
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Crimes of Passion (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and thrillerFashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…
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Grindhouse (2007)
★ 7/10Also thrillerGrindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…
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Frank and Penelope (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller and crimeA tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is…
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The Last Boy Scout (1991)
★ 6.8/10Also thrillerSomewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't kill each other…
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GirlHouse (2014)
★ 6/10Also thrillerIn an attempt to make some extra cash while away at College, Kylie moves into a house that streams content to an X-rated website. After a deranged fan hacks in to determine the house's location, she finds herself in a…
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Cape Fear (1991)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and thrillerSam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape…
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Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and thrillerA vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt…
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and thrillerArriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
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The Golden Glove (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and thrillerA serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
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Jack the Ripper (1976)
★ 5.9/10Also thrillerA serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
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The Killer Inside Me (2010)
★ 5.8/10Also crime and thrillerDeputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him…
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Basic Instinct (1992)
★ 7/10Also thrillerCatherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.