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Movies similar to The Silence of the Lambs
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.
Explore the interactive map15 recommendations if you liked The Silence of the Lambs
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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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Malice (1993)
It has a 41% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
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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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Lola (1981)
It has a 37% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and TMDB relationship signals.
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
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The General's Daughter (1999)
It has a 37% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
When the body of Army Capt. Elisabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.
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The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)
It has a 36% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the dark.
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Ibuku (2026)
It has a 33% affinity with The Silence of the Lambs, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and TMDB relationship signals.
A destitute widow and former traditional dancer defies social ostracization to embark on a desperate international journey, seeking a final reconciliation with her estranged daughter who faces execution abroad for the murder of an abusive employer.
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