Movies like The Hunt for the BTK Killer (2005)
The best movies like The Hunt for the BTK Killer (2005) are Dot.Kill (2005), Dating Game Killer (2017) and Long Pigs (2007). If The Hunt for the BTK Killer hooked you with its tv movie and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBelieve Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018)8.0/10 from 724 votes
- NewestNo Tears in Hell (2025)Released 2025
Dot.Kill (2005)
Charlie Daines is a morphine-addicted detective on the trail of a psychopath who is setting up murders and broadcasting them live on the internet. As he closes in on the killer, Charlie realises that he is to be the final victim.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Dating Game Killer (2017)
Rodney Alcala commits a series of grisly murders in the 1970s. While the mother of one of his victims desperately searches for answers, Rodney maintains his intelligent, smooth-talking persona, even appearing as a bachelor on "The Dating Game."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Long Pigs (2007)
Two desperate filmmakers began a documentary about a cannibalistic serial killer. What follows is their actual footage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
Head Cases: Serial Killers in the Delaware Valley (2013)
Serial killer Wayne Montgomery committed 41 murders between 1979 and 2007, leaving behind an extensive video library of his life's work. Now, a new generation is carrying on Wayne's brutal legacy in a terrifying world where rules do not apply. Press play and take a trip through the mind of one of history's most prolific serial killers - and his devoted followers who are out for blood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Freeway 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 & thriller
Ted Bundy (2002)
Seattle, 1974. Ted Bundy gives into his violent passions and embarks on a cross country killing spree, leaving a trail of raped, tortured, murdered, dismembered, and defiled corpses in his wake…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNo 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
The 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 crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisConfessions 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
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisGacy (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 & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisStrange Harvest (2025)
Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a cosmic force.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCitizen X (1995)
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNight Hunter (2019)
A Minnesota police officer crosses paths with a committed and tireless vigilante as he follows the trail of a ruthless predator responsible for several abductions and murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSuspect Zero (2004)
A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
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 & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Zodiac (2005)
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Green River Killer: Mind of a Monster (2020)
Beginning in the early 1980s, Washington state was gripped with fear as the bodies of young women began appearing along the banks of the Green River. As the number of victims grew, investigators created a taskforce and enlisted the help of the FBI, but it took almost 20 years to finally catch their man. Through startling and chilling tapes and video archive of Gary Ridgway’s police interviews, The Green River Killer: Mind of a Monster reveals, in Ridgway’s own disturbing words, insight into his evil: from how his troubling behavior as a child morphed into his morbid motivation to murder as many women as possible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018)
On the night she plans on taking her own life, 17-year-old 'Lisa McVey' is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive and is raped. She manages to talk her attacker into releasing her, but when she returns home, no one believes her story except for one detective, who suspects she was abducted by a serial killer. Based on horrifying true events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisTo Catch a Killer (1992)
"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hillside Strangler (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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
The 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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Riverman (2004)
A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing Seattle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
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 crime & thriller
Ed 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
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021)
Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase ‘serial killer’.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer (2010)
A small independent news crew investigates a series of unexplained disappearances in a small Midwestern county. They find themselves interviewing a man who possesses an all too intimate knowledge of the details of "The County Line Cannibal" - Cyrus.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPopulation Zero (2016)
In 2009 three young men were killed in a remote part of Yellowstone National Park. Authorities never found the murderer. He found them! Hours after the trio were gunned down, Dwayne Nelson confessed to the crime. Despite this Nelson was allowed to go free because of an American Constitution loophole. Documentarian Julian T. Pinder travels to Yellowstone in a compelling chase for truth behind a crime that should have rocked the nation. How did a guilty man go free? In his hunt for answers Pinder risks his own life when he finds evidence that could re-open the case years later.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Killing Floor (2007)
A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment. Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Hunt for the BTK Killer?
The closest matches to The Hunt for the BTK Killer are Dot.Kill (2005), Dating Game Killer (2017) and Long Pigs (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Hunt for the BTK Killer?
People who watched The Hunt for the BTK Killer most often go on to Dot.Kill (2005), Dating Game Killer (2017) and Long Pigs (2007).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Hunt for the BTK Killer?
Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018), rated 8.0/10 by 724 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Hunt for the BTK Killer?
No Tears in Hell (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Hunt for the BTK Killer?
Yes: Dot.Kill (2005), Dating Game Killer (2017) and Long Pigs (2007).
How are movies similar to The Hunt for the BTK Killer chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Hunt for the BTK Killer, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.