Top 37 must-see best serial killer movies from 327 serial killer movies, including Halloween, Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, Frenzy, Zodiac, Mother, Peeping Tom, Deep Red, and The Secret in their Eyes ranked and rated by score.
327 Serial Killer films sorted alphabetically from A-Z
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Plot / Synopsis: Alex Cross, a Washington D.C. cop and forensic psychologist learns that his niece who is going to college in North Carolina is missing. So he goes there and learns that the police think she's among the victims of someone who kidnaps young girls and holds them captive and kills them who dubs himself Cassanova after the great lover. Later...
Director: Gary Fleder Stars: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Alex McArthur, Tony Goldwyn
Plot / Synopsis: Ismael Lopez, a petty criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Twenty years later, and the daughter Leire has been left mute and with a mental age of a child, spending most of her time in a mental home. A chance meeting between Leire and Ismael, who now works...
Director: Juanma Bajo Ulloa Stars: Karra Elejalde, Ana Álvarez, Lio, Silvia Marsó, Elena Irureta
Plot / Synopsis: An author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a small town during the 1960's, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl.
Tagline: The year is 1962. The place is Willowpoint Falls. Nobody talks about what happened in the school cloakroom 10 years ago. Now, in the dead of night,...
Director: Frank LaLoggia Stars: Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond, Jason Presson
Plot / Synopsis: Prequel about teenage Leatherface who escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnaps a young nurse and takes her on a road trip from hell. Along the way, they are pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of these teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will destroy his mind, molding him into...
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury Stars: Stephen Dorff, Lili Taylor, Sam Strike, Vanessa Grasse, Finn Jones
Plot / Synopsis: A California couple and a survivalist encounter Leatherface and his family.
Tagline: Some tales are told, then soon forgotten. But a legend... is forever...
Director: Jeff Burr Stars: Kate Hodge, Ken Foree, R.A. Mihailoff, William Butler, Viggo Mortensen
Plot / Synopsis: In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez were America's notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". Their lethal scam was simple; they would swindle and then viciously murder lovelorn war widows who would answer their personal ads in which Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Ironically, Ray's initial introduction to Martha was as a prospective mark. But...
Director: Todd Robinson Stars: John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek, Scott Caan
Plot / Synopsis: In Germany, Hans Beckert is an unknown killer of girls. He whistles Edvard Grieg's 'In The Hall of the Mountain King', from the 'Peer Gynt' Suite I Op. 46 while attracting the little girls for death. The police force pressed by the Minister give its best effort trying unsuccessfully to arrest the serial killer. The organized crime has great...
Director: Fritz Lang Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Plot / Synopsis: It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery...until now...
Director: Stevan Mena Stars: R. Brandon Johnson, Samantha Dark, Heather Magee, Richard Glover, Courtney Bertolone
Plot / Synopsis: A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a good idea, particularly when the killer kills a...
Plot / Synopsis: "Manhunt" vividly tells the terrifying story of the pursuit and capture of Richard Ramirez, "the Night Stalker" - a serial killer who terrorized California in mid 1980s...
Director: Bruce Seth Green Stars: Richard Jordan, A Martinez, Julie Carmen, Alan Feinstein, Lisa Eilbacher
Plot / Synopsis: Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial murderer named "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.
Tagline: (reissue) Hannibal Lecter's legacy of evil begins here...
Director: Michael Mann Stars: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina
Plot / Synopsis: As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.Tagline: I warned you not to go out tonight...
Director: Franck Khalfoun Stars: Nora Arnezeder, Brian Ames, America Olivo, Genevieve Alexandra, Liane Balaban
Plot / Synopsis: A psychopath, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?
Tagline: Run from this man!...
Director: William Lustig Stars: Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper, Rita Montone
