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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 various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
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Kiss the Girls (1997)
It has a 54% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
Forensic 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 submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.
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Hannibal (2001)
It has a 52% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.
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Fallen (1998)
It has a 51% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
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Misery (1990)
It has a 49% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
It has a 48% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
A 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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Sleepers (1996)
It has a 48% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
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The Number 23 (2007)
It has a 45% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
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The Iceman (2012)
It has a 45% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.
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The Informer (2019)
It has a 43% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as he tries to survive and protect the lives of his loved ones.
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The Green Mile (1999)
It has a 39% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
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The Town (2010)
It has a 37% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
A proficient group of thieves rob a bank and hold the manager hostage. Things begin to get complicated when one of the crew members falls in love with her.
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
It has a 36% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)
It has a 35% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and TMDB relationship signals.
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
View mapRude Buay...The Unstoppable
It has a 32% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
Author John A. Andrews, son of the Caribbean soil, penetrates inside the belly of the drug world. In an environment saturated with corruption, deception, duplicity, deceit, and inequities of all kinds, Andrews conceives a cross Atlantic, greed driven fiasco, embedded within the drug epidemic. Can Jamaican born, DEA "Rude Buay," save his country from the tyranny of the Dragon Drug Cartel?
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The Godfather (1972)
It has a 32% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
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