strangulation

52 movies and shows

Hostel

Sat, 17 Sep 2005

Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

Empire of Passion

Wed, 06 Sep 1978

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

Sexual Predator

Tue, 04 Dec 2001

A female parole officer unwittingly gets involved with a handsome photographer who might be a serial killer.

Strangers on a Train

Wed, 27 Jun 1951

Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player — a theory he plans to test out.

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Welcome Home Brother Charles

Fri, 21 Nov 1975

After wrongly doing time in prison for murder, a man seeks revenge on a racist law enforcement system and the detective who framed him.

Amityville: The Evil Escapes

Fri, 12 May 1989

After moving into their matriarch's gothic seaside mansion, the Evans family soon becomes host to an uninvited demonic force in the form of a mysterious lamp that once resided in the Amityville house.

Bloody Birthday

Tue, 28 Apr 1981

In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.

The Boston Strangler

Tue, 08 Oct 1968

Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.

Naked Obsession

Fri, 30 Nov 1990

City-council member Franklin Carlyle is mugged, knocked down and left on an alley. When he recovers, he is befriended by an alcoholic who introduces him to a local strip-bar.

Hannibal Rising

Tue, 06 Feb 2007

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill.

The Mummy's Curse

Fri, 22 Dec 1944

After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina Mansouri, who seeks help and protection at a swamp draining project.

Dark Places

Tue, 01 May 1973

A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only problem is that the house they plan to hide it in is haunted.

Circus

Fri, 05 May 2000

Bruno, a sadistic criminal, wants clever con man Leo out of the way. Leo and his equally clever wife, Lily, are up to something. So too is Julius: he hires Leo to kill Gloria, Julius's wife. Leo does it, but then Julius shows up with the murder on tape, saying Gloria isn't his wife - it's blackmail. Leo's bookie, Troy, is also closing in, wanting to be paid. Bruno and Lily as well as Bruno and Julius have their own scams running, and Leo is their target. Maybe Leo can get Troy off his back, avoid Moose (Bruno's huge enforcer), send Gloria's corpse out of England, turn the tables on Bruno's murderous brother Caspar, and outfox Lily. Or is Lily his fox? It's a three-ring circus.

The Strangler

Wed, 01 Apr 1964

An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.

Serial Rapist

Sat, 01 Jul 1978

A chubby, bicycle-riding rapist/killer dispatches 13 people in a cold, bloody, detached rampage.

Shallow Grave

Fri, 25 Sep 1987

Passing through a small Georgia town on their way to Florida, four young college girls witness a woman murdered. They try to escape before he murders them, too. But no one will believe them.

The Hillside Strangler

Fri, 12 Nov 2004

Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarted. He moves to California to live with his cousin Angelo and dates a string of women, becoming increasingly preoccupied with sex. Eventually the cousins decide to start an escort agency. After violently killing a prostitute they thought had betrayed them, Kenneth and Angelo begin committing a series of crimes that become a media sensation.

Lady of Burlesque

Sat, 01 May 1943

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

The Invisible Man's Revenge

Fri, 09 Jun 1944

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.