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Those Who Kill: Shadow of the Past (2011)
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Original name: Den som dræber - Fortidens skygge
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Detective Katrine Ries Jensen and legal psychiatrist Thomas Schaeffer form a special unit at the Copenhagen Police investigating serial killings. A case from Schaeffer’s past crops up. As a young psychologist, he held back from sending a patient, who was manically drawing the details of a traffic accident, to a secure hospital. Now these bloody scenes resurface, enacted as real killings.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, serious, crime thriller, dark, noir, intense ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, police officer, homicidal maniac, manhunt, mentally unstable, serial killer, soldier, murder mystery, police procedural, psychopath, obsession, forensics, mind game, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, cold case, violent, haunting, revenge, urban, criminal, female protagonist
Time:
contemporary
Place:
copenhagen
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
100%
190
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. This thriller follows the travails of two detectives who are on the trail of a ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
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Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Country: India
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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