Movies like Switchback
If Switchback's mix of sheriff, texas and colorado stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Switchback's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Frailty
2002 · Directed by Bill Paxton · 100 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: sheriff, texas, serial killer
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."
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Se7en
1995 · Directed by David Fincher · 127 min8.4
Why you'll like itWith R. Lee Ermey · Shares: serial killer · Also mystery and thriller · From the same decade (1990s)
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the…
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The Imposter
2012 · Directed by Bart Layton · 99 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: child kidnapping, missing son
In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture.
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The Devil All the Time
2020 · Directed by Antonio Campos · 138 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: sheriff, serial killer
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
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The Hitcher
1986 · Directed by Robert Harmon · 98 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer, hitchhiker
On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking…
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The Batman
2022 · Directed by Matt Reeves · 177 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer, murder investigation · Also mystery and thriller
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
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Longlegs
2024 · Directed by Osgood Perkins · 101 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer, series of murders
FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the…
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The Silencing
2020 · Directed by Robin Pront · 93 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: sheriff, serial killer
A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Directed by Jonathan Demme · 119 min8.3
Why you'll like itWith Ted Levine · Shares: serial killer · From the same decade (1990s)
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for…
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Django Unchained
2012 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 165 min8.2
Why you'll like itWith Walton Goggins · Shares: texas
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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I See You
2019 · Directed by Adam Randall · 98 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer · Also thriller and mystery
When a 12-year-old boy goes missing at a local park, a detective investigates the case to help the boy's family find answers.
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No Country for Old Men
2007 · Directed by Joel Coen · 122 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: sheriff, texas
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail.