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Killer Thrillers (and Crime)
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Crime, murder, mystery, and Thrillers that are movies and miniseries (that I haven’t seen).


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Movie: Mr. Brooks ( 2007 )
A well-respected businessman is sometimes controlled by his murder and mayhem-loving alter ego.
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Movie: Mindhunters ( 2004 )
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.
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TV Show: MINDHUNTER ( 2017 )
MINDHUNTER is based on the 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, by former special agent John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. For years, Douglas pursued some of the most notorious serial killers and rapists, developing profiling techniques to catch them. The book goes behind the scenes of some of his highest-profile cases, including the man who hunted prostitutes in Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer. To hone in his profiling methods Douglas interviewed and studied a skew of serial killers. Several book and TV characters have been based in part on him, including Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs, Will Graham on Hannibal and Jason Gideon on Criminal Minds.
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Movie: The Limehouse Golem ( 2017 )
In Victorian London, a Scotland Yard inspector hunts down the sadistic killer behind a series of gory, Jack the Ripper-Like murders.
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Movie: Acolytes ( 2009 )
Three teenagers blackmail a serial killer.
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TV Show: Mr. Mercedes ( 2017 )
A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again. Based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King.
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Movie: Solace ( 2015 )
Psychic John Clancy (Sir Anthony Hopkins) works with the F.B.I. in order to hunt down a serial killer.
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Movie: The Minus Man ( 1999 )
A cold-blooded serial killer floats around the country and chooses his victims from people who complain about their lives and indicate a willingness to be killed. His murders are introduced with the killing of an asthmatic junkie. The killer settles into a seaside rooming house run by an unhappy married couple and waits for his next victims to unveil themselves. Dream cops plague his nights, while plotting his murders. Meanwhile, he also starts a relationship with a postal clerk.
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TV Show: Serial Thriller: Angel of Decay ( 2015 )
Serial Thriller launches as a three-part miniseries event on June 7 at 10pm ET/PT with Serial Thriller: Angel of Decay, a true-crime story that will propel viewers into the heart of a community that was terrorized by one of the world's most notorious serial killers. The eerie outcome may have been ripped from the headlines, but Serial Thriller for the first time reveals the whole narrative by bringing together the untold personal stories and recollections of those closest to the killer as well as the detectives in charge of the investigation. This unprecedented focus on the forensic detail of the story gives Serial Thriller a unique window on the devastating ripple effect of a man who would go on to become one of America's most infamous criminals. The murderer's identity will be a mystery at first, and while many true-crime aficionados will be onto the case early on, other viewers will be left to unravel the clues until his identity is revealed in the second episode. Each character's vivid storyline serves as a reminder that behind every crime are real people and lives transformed.
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TV Show: Serial Thriller: The Chameleon ( 2015 )
Investigation Discovery's three night event, Serial Thriller follows the gripping true story of the race to catch one of America's most notorious serial killers before he kills again.
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TV Show: Serial Thriller: The Head Hunter ( 2016 )
Serial Thriller: The Head Hunter is the 3rd and final mini-series in Investigation Discovery's docudrama which is a true story based on a real American serial killer.
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Movie: Hangman ( 2017 )
A homicide detective brings his partner out of retirement to help catch a serial killer whose crimes are based on the children's game Hangman.
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TV Show: Killer Ratings ( 2019 )
The true-life story of Brazilian TV host Wallace Souza, who literally killed for ratings, and used his crime TV show to cover up the grizzly truth.
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Movie: A Dark Foe ( 2021 )
A guilt-ridden FBI agent, stranded in the painful memory of the abduction of his sister, suffers from a rare condition known as Nyctophobia, an irrational fear of the dark, and will have to face-off with the cunning serial killer who took her away.
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TV Show: Millennium ( 1996 )
Retired serial-profiler Frank Black has moved his family to Seattle to escape the violence and horror he dealt with while working for the FBI in Washington, D.C. Although his uncanny and often unsettling ability to see into the twisted minds of serial killers has caused him much inner torment, Black knows his "gift" can still be used to help protect and save others. For that reason he has joined the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.
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TV Show: Invisible Monsters: Serial Killers in America ( 2021 )
Invisible Monsters: Serial Killers in America weaves the stories of five infamous serial killers—Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, The Green River Killer and BTK—together into a single narrative exploring the perfect storm of what was happening in culture, communications, law enforcement, media, forensics, and technology that allowed them to proliferate and evade capture.Names that still strike fear into the hearts of many, these seemingly normal men developed disturbingly intimate and hands-on approaches to murder that were at odds with their soft-spoken public existence. Most of our public understanding of the modern serial killer comes from the 20 years that all five men were active. We still struggle to reconcile the uncomfortable dichotomy of monsters hiding in plain sight.The stories of these killers and their victims are told by those closest to them, including exclusive interviews with survivors, investigators, forensic psychologists, prosecutors, and victims' family members.
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TV Show: The Following ( 2013 )
The FBI estimates there are currently over 300 active serial killers in the United States. What would happen if these killers had a way of communicating and connecting with each other? What if they were able to work together and form alliances across the country? What if one brilliant psychotic serial killer was able to bring them all together and activate a following? Welcome to The Following, a terrifying new thriller.
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Movie: The Iceman Confesses: Secrets of a Mafia Hitman ( 2001 )
Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, a loving father...and a ruthless killer. A decade after HBO last visited him in prison, the convicted murderer, who freely admits having whacked more than 100 people in cold blood, takes viewers back inside his cold, calculating mind. In this follow-up to America Undercover's 1992 film The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Kil...Read all
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Movie: Ed Gein ( 2000 )
The story of Ed Gein, who dug up the corpses of over a dozen women and made things out of their remains before finally shooting two people to death and butchering their bodies like beef sides.
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TV Show: Murder Among the Mormons ( 2021 )
Murder Among the Mormons is the first comprehensive look at one of the most shocking crimes to have ever taken place among the Mormon community and the criminal mastermind behind it all. The three-part documentary series directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) and Tyler Measom (An Honest Liar), examines a trio of bombings in 1985 that killed two people and shocked Salt Lake City. The murders send further shockwaves through the community when a trove of early Mormon letters and diaries are found destroyed in the vehicle of the third victim, a renowned collector of rare documents, including the infamous White Salamander Letter - an artifact whose contents threatened to shake the very foundations of Mormonism. As he fights for his life, investigators race to uncover the truth.
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TV Show: The Chameleon Killer ( 2021 )
Deep in the woods of New Hampshire, police find barrels with the remains of mutilated victims. The hunt for a serial killer stretches to California as detectives unravel a tangled web of abuse and murder created by one man with many fake identities.
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Movie: Riders of Justice ( 2021 )
Markus goes home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a train crash. All appears to be a tragic accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
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Movie: Babyteeth ( 2020 )
Milla, a seriously ill teenager, falls in love with a drug dealer, Moses, her parents' worst nightmare.
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Movie: In the Shadow of the Moon ( 2019 )
A Philadelphia police officer struggles with a lifelong obsession to track down a mysterious serial killer whose crimes defy explanation.
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TV Show: Kastanjemanden ( 2021 )
The Chestnut Man is set in the quiet suburb of Copenhagen, where the police make a terrible discovery one blustery October morning. A young woman is found brutally murdered in a playground and one of her hands is missing. Above her hangs a small man made of chestnuts. The ambitious young detective Naia Thulin is assigned to the case, along with her new partner, Mark Hess. They soon discover a mysterious piece of evidence on the chestnut man--evidence connecting it to a girl who went missing a year earlier and was presumed dead - the daughter of politician Rosa Hartung.
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Movie: A Classic Horror Story ( 2021 )
Five carpoolers travel in a motorhome to reach a common destination. Night falls, and to avoid a dead animal carcass, they crash into a tree. When they come to their senses, they find themselves in the middle of nowhere. The road they were traveling on has disappeared and there is only a dense, impenetrable forest and a wooden house in the middle of a clearing, which they discover is the home of a spine-chilling cult.
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TV Show: Exhibit A ( 2019 )
This true crime series shows how innocent people have been convicted with dubious forensic techniques and tools such as touch DNA and cadaver dogs.
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TV Show: Chernobyl ( 2019 )
Chernobyl dramatizes the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history and tells of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster. The miniseries focuses on the heartbreaking scope of the nuclear plant disaster that occurred in Ukraine in April 1986, revealing how and why it happened and telling the shocking, remarkable stories of the heroes who fought and fell.
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TV Show: Mayor of Kingstown ( 2021 )
Mayor of Kingstown is set in a small Michigan town where the only industry remaining are federal, state, and private prisons, the story follows the McLusky family, the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians, in a city completely dependent on prisons and the prisoners they contain. It is a stark and brutal look at the business of incarceration.
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TV Show: Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders ( 2022 )
Series examining the police investigation into the crimes of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, and the missed opportunities to charge him for his earlier, unacknowledged crimes.
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TV Show: The Killer Speaks ( 2013 )
The Killer Speaks is an American documentary television series on A&E that debuted in 2013. The series features actual convicted felons as they describe their crimes step-by-step in chilling detail. It's a journey through the minds of killers, an autopsy of their psychology, with the goal of shedding light on what leads people to kill. The series includes spree killers, serial killers, and domestic violence killers.
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TV Show: The Interrogator ( 2019 )
The Interrogator recounts some of the most hypnotic cases from the files of Houston Homicide Detective Fil Waters who uses his charm, intellect, and down-home Texas style to get his prime suspect to lower his guard and reveal the truth.
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TV Show: 10 Steps to Murder ( 2019 )
Detectives, friends and family reveal the twists and turns that led to tragedy, and where it all went wrong - revealing the 10 steps to murder.
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TV Show: Who Killed Little Gregory? ( 2019 )
When their 4-year-old son is murdered, a young couple fights a twisting and arduous battle trying to identify a frustratingly elusive killer.
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TV Show: The Object of Murder ( 2019 )
The Object of Murder is a compelling crime series that takes viewers into the lives of victims' families and loved ones and explores the tragic effects that a murder has had on them. Told through first-person interviews, stylized recreations and archival footage, the series examines a homicide and reveals a unique object with emotional power that is associated with the murder. Each episode highlights an individual crime and is illuminated by someone whose life was forever changed by the event and who feels a deep emotional connection to the item linked to their loved one.
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TV Show: How It Really Happened ( 2017 )
How It Really Happened delves deeply into some of the most notorious crimes, mysteries, trials, and celebrity tragedies of our time.
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TV Show: Murder Calls ( 2017 )
Murder Calls is a crime documentary series investigating extraordinary murder cases from Australia. In each murder case the investigators get a phone call which leads to a key clue…a clue that exposes the murderer. The series is a true-life, accounts of heart-wrenching stories and the unrelenting determination of detectives to solve the case.
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TV Show: Fall River ( 2021 )
Fall River chronicles a satanic cult that police alleged was practicing human sacrifice. Cult leader Carl Drew was captured and sent to prison for life without parole, but 20 years later, inconsistent evidence continued haunting the lead investigator, throwing the entire case into question. With new witnesses and evidence on hand, the shocking story of a town caught in the frenzy of "Satanic Panic" will unfold.
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TV Show: David Wilson's Crime Files ( 2019 )
Professor David Wilson explores Scottish crimes.
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TV Show: When Missing Turns to Murder ( 2019 )
Someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Each episode of this series features one case as it reveals powerful and emotional testimony from families and friends of those who have disappeared. Every story intimately shares the moment when a family changes forever – when a missing persons enquiry turns into a murder investigation. As each programme unfolds police and authorities investigate and bring the perpetrators to justice.
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TV Show: Murderous Minds: Inside Serial Killers ( 2018 )
Regarding criminality, not many genres inspire as much horror and revulsion as that of a serial killer. A predator in the most savage form. A beastly figure usually preying on the weak, innocent and vulnerable. Deeply-embedded negative and sometimes horrific experiences are the usual catalysts for their reign of terror. Take a look inside these murderous minds.
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TV Show: Manhunt: Catch Me if You Can ( 2019 )
Series following attempts to locate wanted criminals.
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TV Show: Killer at the Crime Scene ( 2021 )
Forensic scientists and detectives examine evidence to identify unknown killers.
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TV Show: The Murders at Starved Rock ( 2021 )
This three-part documentary series explores the brutal murders of three women in 1960 in Starved Rock State Park in LaSalle County, Illinois, and the decades of questions and doubts that have haunted the son of the prosecutor in the case, as the man found guilty seeks to clear his name after 60 years in prison.
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TV Show: City of Angels | City of Death ( 2021 )
City of Angels | City of Death, a new six-part ABC News documentary series, tells the incredible true-crime story of a fascinating era. From the mid-1970's through the mid-1980's, over twenty serial killers terrorized Los Angeles. And a group of dedicated detectives — members of the LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division — hunted them down. Hunted them all down. This is a story that has never been told before: how a small band of law enforcement heroes juggled multiple serial killer investigations at the same time, and — before the advent of DNA technology — had only the tried-and-true "shoe leather" methods to track down and catch the most diabolical criminals in California history. From the Hillside Strangler to the Freeway Killer, from the Skid Row Stabber to the Tool Box Killers, from the Dating Game Killer to the Sunset Strip Killers… evil was everywhere. But so were the hard charging detectives who worked around the clock to catch them. City of Angels | City of Death will tell their amazing stories in their own words.
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TV Show: The Lie: Murder in Suburbia ( 2021 )
The dramatic twists and turns of the investigation into Rachel O'Reilly's murder in 2004, and the devastating impact it had on her loved ones, featuring testimony from those who were closest to the case.
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Movie: Minority Report ( 2002 )
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
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TV Show: The North Water ( 2021 )
Set in the UK and the ice floes of the Arctic in the late 1850s, The North Water tells the story of Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as ship's doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic. On board he meets Henry Drax, the harpooner, a brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.
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Movie: Seven Psychopaths ( 2012 )
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
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Movie: Taking Lives ( 2004 )
An FBI profiler is called in by French Canadian police to catch a serial killer who takes on the identity of each new victim.
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Movie: The House That Jack Built ( 2018 )
The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer, over the course of twelve years, and depicts the murders that really develop his inner madman.
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Movie: Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes ( 2021 )
Serial killer Dennis Nilsen narrates his life and horrific crimes via a series of chilling audiotapes recorded from his jail cell.
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TV Show: Ragdoll ( 2021 )
Six people have been murdered, dismembered, and sewn into the shape of one grotesque body — nicknamed the ‘Ragdoll.' Assigned to the shocking case are DS Nathan Rose, recently reinstated to the London Met; his best friend and boss, DI Emily Baxter; and the unit's new recruit, DC Lake Edmunds. The 'Ragdoll Killer' taunts the police by sending them a list of his next victims, with Rose's name among them. And with those victims to protect, our heroes soon come under intense public scrutiny. A darkly funny, gruesomely imaginative serial killer thriller, Ragdoll also captures the fascinating but flawed friends struggling with the consequences of institutionalization and trauma.
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TV Show: Des ( 2020 )
Des is based on material from the book Killing for Company by Brian Masters, which focuses on one of the most infamous cases in UK criminal history, that of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Told through the prism of three men—Dennis Nilsen, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Jay and biographer Brian Masters—the series exploring the personal and professional consequences of coming into contact with a man like Nilsen.
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Movie: The Covenant ( 2006 )
Four young men who belong to a New England supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Meanwhile, jealousy and suspicion threaten to tear them apart.
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Movie: Deliver Us from Evil ( 2014 )
New York police officer Ralph Sarchie investigates a series of crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest, schooled in the rites of exorcism, to combat the possessions that are terrorizing their city.
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Movie: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark ( 2011 )
A young girl is sent to live with her estranged father and his girlfriend at their new home. The father, Alex has plans to spruce up the home with the help of his interior decorator girlfriend, Kim. The previous owner of the home was a famous painter who mysteriously disappeared. Alex's daughter, Sally, soon discovers the cause of the painter's disappearance.
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Movie: Passengers ( 2008 )
A grief counselor working with a group of plane-crash survivors finds herself at the root of a mystery when her clients begin to disappear.
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Movie: The Forgotten ( 2004 )
After being told that their children never existed, a man and woman soon discover there is a much bigger enemy at work.
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Movie: I Am Not a Serial Killer ( 2016 )
In a small Midwestern town, a troubled teen with homicidal tendencies must hunt down and destroy a supernatural killer while keeping his own inner demons at bay.
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Movie: Whiteout ( 2009 )
U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months.
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Movie: Postscript ( 2019 )
A series of short stories set in a nightmarish post-apocalyptic future. A handful of desperate survivors scattered around the globe endeavour to survive life-or-death struggles through harsh yet beautiful dystopian landscapes.
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Movie: Girl Next ( 2021 )
A young woman is abducted by a strange group of human traffickers who use drug and trauma based mind control to turn women into "Sofia" dolls. Trapped in a waking nightmare she fights for a way to escape, to avoid becoming Girl Next
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Movie: From Hell ( 2001 )
In Victorian-era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders of Jack the Ripper.