Movies Like Serial Killers: Profiling the Criminal Mind
If you liked Serial Killers: Profiling the Criminal Mind (1999), a movie, 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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Driven (2019)
★ 6.2/10FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
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Murder by Numbers (2002)
★ 6.2/10Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might…
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Cult Killer (2024)
★ 6.4/10A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
★ 6.3/10Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
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Copycat (1995)
★ 6.5/10An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
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J. Edgar (2011)
★ 6.2/10As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his…
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Solace (2015)
★ 6.5/10A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.
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Assassin Club (2023)
★ 6/10In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each…
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Kiss the Girls (1997)
★ 6.5/10Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to…
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The Alto Knights (2025)
★ 6.2/10Two of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, vie for control of the city's streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousies and a series of betrayals place them on a…
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Blood Work (2002)
★ 6.2/10Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.
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The Bravados (1958)
★ 6.6/10Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice…
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War (2007)
★ 6.4/10FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mysterious assassin Rogue. But when Rogue turns up years later to take care of some unfinished business, he triggers a…
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The Highwaymen (2019)
★ 6.8/10In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and…
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
★ 7/10A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
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Nighthawks (1981)
★ 6.4/10When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.
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The Anderson Tapes (1971)
★ 6.2/10Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being…
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10 Rillington Place (1971)
★ 7.3/10The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
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The Outfit (1973)
★ 6.8/10A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed…
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GoodFellas (1990)
★ 8.5/10The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.