Movies like Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
The best movies like Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) are Gacy (2003), Schramm (1993) and My Dead Ones (2018). If Tenderness of the Wolves hooked you with its horror and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedM (1931)8.1/10 from 2,600 votes
- NewestNo Tears in Hell (2025)Released 2025
- In GermanSchramm (1993)Also in German
Gacy (2003)
Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house which he shared with his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSchramm (1993)
Lothar Schramm is a simple man with complex problems, yet he seems like such a nice guy. He works as a taxi driver and lives by himself where he is happy to answer his door to strangers and kill them outright. As with many shy loner types he has a problem dealing with women so he drugs them and photographs their nude bodies for sexual stimulation. He then murders his helpless victims and so goes the life of a deranged serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Dead Ones (2018)
Behind the looks of a shy film student, Davi hides an obscure past that is about to be revealed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
No Tears in Hell (2025)
In the frozen darkness of an Alaskan winter, a mother and son turn their home into a house of nightmares — luring victims into a twisted web of abuse and cannibalism. Based on the terrifying true story of Russian serial killer Alexander Spesivtsev.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & crime
Confessions of a Serial Killer (1985)
After being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his traveling companions, his friend and friend's sister. But the police can't be sure whether to believe him or not until he locates a body and shows them some polaroids. Based on the true story of Henry Lee Lucas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
Evilenko (2004)
For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Golden Glove (2019)
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Secret Life (1993)
Based on the life of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and ate many of them before he was caught in 1991.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
10 Rillington Place (1971)
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStrangled (2016)
A psychotic killer is on the prowl, who continues to slaughter young women while an innocent man is wrongly accused and sentenced for crimes he could never have committed. A determined detective arrives on the scene and soon becomes obsessed with the case while under pressure from the prosecutor to see a man hang.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Boston Strangler (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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTargets (1968)
An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDahmer (2002)
On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisEd Kemper (2025)
The horrifying true story of Ed Kemper, a cunning and sadistic serial killer shaped by childhood abuse, whose charm masked his grotesque obsession with murder, mutilation, and the ultimate act of revenge on his mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & crime
The Child I Never Was (2002)
A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a psychopath, in this disturbing independent drama from Germany, based on the true story of of Germany's most famous child murderer Juergen Bartsch who, between the ages of 15 and 19, abused, tortured and killed four schoolboys in the Ruhr region of Germany from 1962 to 1966.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
The House That Jack Built (2018)
Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAntibodies (2005)
When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken his tight-knit community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Gray Man (2007)
In the late 1920s, Albert Fish, a seemingly benevolent father and grandfather who reared his family by himself after his wife deserted them, turns out to be a serial child molester and murderer. Based on a true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
M (1931)
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisPeeping Tom (1960)
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFreeway Killer (2009)
For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer easily avoided police at first. But as police closed in and the killer’s pattern grew more erratic, the only question was how many more will die?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart (2014)
Between 1978 and 1979, the inhabitants of the Oise are in fear of a maniac who kills several hitchhikers and escape the police. He was then dubbed "the killer of the Oise" is actually a shy young policeman who will investigate his own murder, only to lose control of the situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisJack the Ripper (1976)
A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Park Maniac (2024)
An infamous serial killer who assaulted and killed several women in the '90s, gets on a collision course with a young journalist eager for the truth and a career-changing article.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last House on the Left (2009)
When athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no one is going to forget.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWinged Creatures (2009)
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisStrange Darling (2024)
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Tenderness of the Wolves?
The closest matches to Tenderness of the Wolves are Gacy (2003), Schramm (1993) and My Dead Ones (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Tenderness of the Wolves?
People who watched Tenderness of the Wolves most often go on to Gacy (2003), Schramm (1993) and My Dead Ones (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Tenderness of the Wolves?
M (1931), rated 8.1/10 by 2,600 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Tenderness of the Wolves?
No Tears in Hell (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there German movies like Tenderness of the Wolves?
Yes: Schramm (1993), The Golden Glove (2019) and The Devil Strikes at Night (1957).
How are movies similar to Tenderness of the Wolves chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Tenderness of the Wolves, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.