Highest-Rated Movies about 'Murder By Strangling'

Black Christmas (1974), That Man From Rio (1964), The Snowtown Murders (2011), The Strangler (1964), Appointment With Danger (1951), Child 44 (2015), The General's Daughter (1999), So Dark the Night (1946) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Murder By Strangling movies.

#1. Black Christmas (1974)

Storyline: It's time for Christmas break, and the sorority sisters make plans for the holiday, but the strange anonymous phone calls are beginning to put them on edge. When Clare disappears, they contact the police, who don't express much concern. Meanwhile Jess is planning to get an abortion, but boyfriend Peter is very much against it. The police finally begin to get concerned when a 13-year-old girl is found dead in the park. They set up a wiretap to the sorority house, but will they be in time to prevent a sorority girl attrition problem?

Plot Keywords: sorority house, mysterious killer, slasher, voyeur, voyeurism, sadism, low budget film ...

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#2. That Man From Rio (1964)

Storyline: Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris' Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of a murdered man who possessed one of two other such figurines. Moments after her sweetheart, Adrien, an Army private with a week's leave, arrives in Paris to see her, Agnes too is kidnapped, drugged, and loaded on a plane to Rio. Adrien is in hot pursuit, and before he can rescue her (with the help of a shoeshine boy), foil the murderous thieves, and solve the riddle of the Maltecs, he must traverse Rio, Brasília, and the Amazon heartland... all before the end of his week's leave.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: flight attendant, investigation, professor, scientist, police investigator, kissing someone's hand, following someone ...

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#3. The Snowtown Murders (2011)

Storyline: Sixteen-year-old Jamie lives with his mother, Elizabeth, and two younger brothers, Alex and Nicholas, in a housing trust home in Adelaide's northern suburbs. Their home is but one of many sun-starved houses crammed together to cater for a disenfranchised society. Jamie longs for an escape from the violence and hopelessness that surrounds him and his salvation arrives in the form of John, a charismatic man who unexpectedly comes to his aid. As John spends more and more time with Jamie's family, Elizabeth and her boys begin to experience a stability and sense of family that they have never known. John moves from the role of Jamie's protector to that of a mentor, indoctrinating Jamie into his world, a world brimming with bigotry, righteousness and malice. Like a son mimicking his father, Jamie soon begins to take on some of John's traits and beliefs as he spends more and more time with him and his select group of friends. The protection and guidance that John presents to Jamie is ...

Plot Keywords: gang, underwear, male rear nudity, male nudity, male frontal nudity, ice cream truck, shopping ...

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#4. The Strangler (1964)

Storyline: Leo Kroll, a lab technician in a large unnamed city, is responsible for the strangulation murders of several young nurses. He feels that in some twisted way, that he is getting back at his overbearing shrew of a mother. Leo also kills the nurse who is taking care of his mother in the rest home she is staying at. As a result, Mrs. Kroll dies from a heart attack. He also kills an arcade worker whom he feels can identify him.—Brian Washington <Sargebri@att.net>

Plot Keywords: independent film, engagement ring, wedding ring, marriage proposal, murder investigation, detective, taking off shoes ...

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#5. Appointment With Danger (1951)

Storyline: Relentless postal inspector Al Goddard is set to Gary, Indiana, when another officer is murdered. He must find the nun who witnessed the murder, then infiltrate the gang by convincing them he is a postal inspector gone bad.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: attempted murder, police, police raid, police shootout, empty gun, shot by the police, bartender ...

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#6. Child 44 (2015)

Storyline: Based on the first of a trilogy by Tom Rob Smith and set in the Stalin era of the Soviet Union. The plot is about an idealistic pro-Stalin security officer who decides to investigate a series of child murders in a country where supposedly this sort of crime doesn't exist. The state would not hear of the existence of a child murderer let alone a serial killer. He gets demoted and exiled but decides, with just the help of his wife, to continue pursuing the case.

Plot Keywords: child murderer, soviet union, communist, sex, man hits a woman, jumping from a train, sadism ...

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#7. The General's Daughter (1999)

Storyline: The naked corpse of Captain Elisabeth Campbell, daughter of Lieutenant General "Fighting Joe" Campbell, is found staked out on the urban warfare range of Fort MacCallum. Army CID detectives and ex-lovers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill are called in to investigate, and find themselves wrapped up in a maelstrom of sexual impropriety and misguided face-saving.

Plot Keywords: army, cover up, murder, military, rape victim, gang rape, haunted by the past ...

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#8. So Dark the Night (1946)

Storyline: A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven years at a small inn in the French countryside. There he meets and falls in love with the hotelier's daughter, who had been betrothed to a neighboring farmer, but who hopes to marry him and move to Paris. On the evening of their engagement, both the fiancée and the farmer disappear. What has happened to them? Who is responsible? Can the famed detective apply his talents to a rural mystery?—klg19

Plot Keywords: police detective, police, murder by strangling, b movie, frenchman, stock footage, gendarme ...

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#10. Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

Storyline: After seeing his parents murdered in front of him a young boy spends most of his life in an orphanage where he is abused by the mother superior. When he becomes a teenager, he gets a job as a toy store Santa. When seeing two people having sex in the store brings on flashbacks of his parents, his turmoil leads him to become a Santa serial killer.

Plot Keywords: santa claus, christmas, 1980s, slasher, 1970s, year 1974, female antagonist ...

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#11. The Funhouse (1981)

Storyline: The teenager Amy Harper dates Buzz Dawson for the first time and they go to the carnival with their friends Richie and Liz. They smoke grass and have good-time visiting the attractions including a side show with freak animals. The silly Richie suggests the group to spend the night in the Funhouse for fun. During the night, they witness the murder of the fortune teller Madame Zena by a man wearing a mask of Frankenstein from an opening in the ceiling of a room. They decide to leave the fun house but they find all the exits locked. Meanwhile Richie sneaks in the room and steals the money of the manager of the place. The masked man returns with his father and owner of the fun house to show the corpse of Madame Zena; when the man realizes that he had been robbed, he presses his son that removes the mask and shows his horrible face. Richie startles and drops his lighter in the room. The owner asks his freak son to chase the thieves and eyewitnesses in a night of terror for the teenagers.

Plot Keywords: carnival, character's point of view camera shot, telephone, camera, amusement park, hiding, van ...

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#12. The Greasy Strangler (2016)

Storyline: The Los Angeles-set tale follows Ronnie, a man who runs a Disco Walking tour along with his browbeaten son, Brayden. When a sexy, alluring woman comes to take the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her attentions. It also signals the appearance of an oily, slimy inhuman maniac who stalks the streets at night and strangles the innocent, soon dubbed 'The Greasy Strangler.'—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: older man younger woman sex, female frontal nudity, female nudity, male frontal nudity, death by strangulation, male nudity, crude humor ...

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