Movies Like Killing for Love (2016)

Killing for Love is a 2016 crime, documentary film from Karin Steinberger with a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Fear of 13 and Family Business.

Crime Documentary

The Fear of 13

2015

After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems.

7.4

MagicScore

Family Business

1989

Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past.

5.7

MagicScore

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

2021

An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2019 college admissions scandal, to persuade his wealthy clients to cheat an educational system already designed to benefit the privileged.

6.8

MagicScore

Casting JonBenet

2017

Twenty years after the modern world's most notorious child murder, the legacy of the crime and its impact are explored.

5.7

MagicScore

Close-Up

1990

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

8.0

MagicScore

Zero Dark Thirty

2012

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

7.0

MagicScore

Tell Me Who I Am

2019

In this documentary, Alex trusts his twin, Marcus, to tell him about his past after he loses his memory. But Marcus is hiding a dark family secret.

7.4

MagicScore

Talk to Me

2007

The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.

6.9

MagicScore

Brothers

2004

A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a prisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family.

6.7

MagicScore

#10

Notes on Blindness

2016

After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, Notes on Blindness is an ambitious and groundbreaking work, both affecting and innovative.

7.0

MagicScore

#11

Kevin Hart: What Now?

2016

Comedian Kevin Hart performs in front of a crowd of 50,000 people at Philadelphia's outdoor venue, Lincoln Financial Field.

6.5

MagicScore

#12

Hot Pursuit

2015

Straight-arrow policewoman Cooper is excited and thrilled about her next assignment. Her task is to escort Daniella Riva, a wisecracking Colombian beauty, from San Antonio to Dallas so both she and her husband can testify against a drug lord. Plans go awry when Mr. Riva gets ambushed, leaving Daniella a widow. Cooper and her witness must now use their wits to escape from crooked cops and murderous gunmen, while not killing each other in the process.

5.8

MagicScore

#13

Vendetta

2015

A hard-nosed detective deliberately commits a crime to get thrown in prison, allowing him the chance to seek vengeance on a criminal serving a life sentence for brutally murdering his wife.

5.3

MagicScore

#14

Scrubbers

1982

Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.

5.0

MagicScore

#15

Faces of Death III

1985

The third installment of the infamous "is it real or fake?" mondo series sets its sights primarily on serial killers, with lengthy reenactments of police investigations of bodies being found in dumpsters, and a staged courtroom sequence.

3.5

MagicScore

#16

Chronicle of an Escape

2006

The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.

6.5

MagicScore

#17

Antebellum

2020

Successful author Veronica finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.

6.2

MagicScore

#18

Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison

1901

This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

4.2

MagicScore

#19

Kaithi

2019

Dilli, a convicted criminal, is out on parole to meet his daughter. However, a drug bust sets him off on a mission to save the life of police officers.

7.6

MagicScore

#20

Birdman of Alcatraz

1962

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.

7.5

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Killing for Love?

The top films similar to Killing for Love by MovieMagicScore are The Fear of 13 (7.4), Family Business (5.7), Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal (6.8). Each shares crime/documentary themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Killing for Love worth watching?

Killing for Love holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10 from 46 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Killing for Love?

Killing for Love (2016) is a crime, documentary film directed by Karin Steinberger, starring Imogen Poots, Daniel Brühl, Jens Söring.

Where can I find more recommendations like Killing for Love?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more crime recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Killing for Love

This ranked list pairs Killing for Love (2016), a crime and documentary film from Karin Steinberger, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Imogen Poots take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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