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I Fought the Law (2025)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Ann Ming is distraught when her 22-year-old daughter Julie goes missing. The police suggest that Julie must have fled to London to reunite with Julie's estranged husband, but Ann knows that Julie would never leave 5-year-old Kevin behind.
Style:
suspense, tense, dark
Audience:
adult
Plot:
true crime, murder, missing person, miscarriage of justice, mother daughter relationship, grief, police investigation, acquittal, cold case, missing child, british, confession, guilt, moral ambiguity, trial, haunting, obsession, sexual abuse, flashback, child custody, forensic evidence, slow burn, investigative journalism, working class, criminal justice ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
london
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Most similar movies to I Fought the Law
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, dark and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about moral ambiguity, investigation, murder, cold case, obsession, slow burn and police procedural mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like I Fought the Law: The Light in the Hall (2022), The Promise (2020), Echoes in the Darkness (1987), Until I Kill You (2024), Missing (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Sharon Roberts has never stopped grieving the loss of her murdered daughter, Ela, and journalist Cat, who grew up with Ela, has always been obsessed by her murder. The parole of her killer, Joe, leaves both women forced to confront the past.
Style:
crime thriller, tense, intense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cold case, murder, grief, confronting the past, missing person, secrets, small town, guilt, obsession, investigation, mother daughter relationship, dark past ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
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Style:
tense, crime drama, disturbing, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
investigation, cold case, disappearance, missing person, missing child, police procedural, crime investigation, crime solving, police investigation, uncover truth, mysterious disappearance, haunting ...
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 250 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years
Style:
dark, tense, emotional, suspenseful, period piece ...
Plot:
true crime, murder investigation, conspiracy, family tragedy, cover up, courtroom, cold case, whodunit, police procedural, court case, trial, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
pennsylvania
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
A extraordinary true story of Delia Balmer, who survived a near-fatal relationship with murderer John Sweeney. The series narrates the ordeal Delia suffered at the hands of John Sweeney, and her traumatic journey through the police and criminal ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, intense, psychological thriller, emotional ...
Plot:
murderer, true crime, female protagonist, domestic violence, survival, abusive relationship, resilience, police investigation, manipulation, stalking, psychological abuse, obsession ...
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
80%
366
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
DS Mary Jane Croft runs the under-resourced Missing Persons Unit.
Style:
detective, captivating, thrilling, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
police procedural, race against time, forensics, secret, teamwork, mysterious disappearance, crime solving, uncover truth, female detective, investigation, undercover, police detective ...
Place:
dover england
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story:
25 defendants, 300 trial days and a legal scandal that has gone down in the history of jurisprudence: In this thrilling legal drama, bestselling author Ferdinand von Schirach transports the so-called "Worms Trials", a German legal scandal ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense
Plot:
sexualized violence, true crime, rape, child abuse, court, scandal, violence, sexual abuse, life is a bitch, legal action, domestic violence, trial ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
TV show
Story:
The siblings discover their father has left everything to a woman they have never met. As his death becomes the subject of a police investigation, the siblings hunt for his previous will.
Style:
tense, suspense, intense, twisted, dark ...
Plot:
family drama, sibling rivalry, crime investigation, betrayal, deception, power struggle, suspicion, legal battle, grief, mistrust, obsession, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 160 min.
TV show
Story:
A floating body, a drug deal gone wrong, and two former detectives the perpetrators. Life imprisonment is the end of Roger Rogerson's story. The last Blue Murder ended with his expulsion in disgrace from the NSW Police Force. In this ...
Style:
tense, detective, crime drama, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, murderer, corrupt cop, police corruption, true crime, jail, killing, homicide detective, police investigation, murder mystery, unsolved crime ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
sydney australia
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Lives are torn apart and relationships fractured forever when a young child goes missing. Five years later, DCI Maggie Brand leads a new investigation and puts at risk her own happy family life.
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, detective ...
Plot:
missing child, police investigation, dead child, law enforcement, life turned upside down, investigation, police procedural, cold case, family drama, secrets, grief, guilt ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Germany
TV show
Story:
A cold case turns topical again and turns everything upside down, intertwining the lives of several people.
Style:
suspense, detective, tense, dark, emotional ...
Plot:
cold case, investigation, truth, secrets, justice, lie, revelation, cover up, flashback, missing person, police procedural, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min.
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Story:
British television movie in which a married lawyer's excursion into adultery leads to murder.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime thriller, emotional, period piece ...
Plot:
lawyer, murder, marriage, infidelity, affair, adultery, british, seduction, guilt, betrayal, television, morality ...
Time:
80s
Place:
britain, london
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
In a residential area, a man is murdered by another man, who broke into his apartment. Sergeant Kizaki, who is working near the area, hears a gunshot and runs towards the apartment. Detective Oomura already is at the scene of the crime.
Style:
detective, tense, captivating, thrilling, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, crime scene, murder mystery, murderer, murder investigation, uncover truth, sleuth, crime solving, police investigation, crime investigation, suspect ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Biba and her handsome brother Rex live in a beautiful, rambling house in north London; naive Karen is soon lured into their dissolute circle, spending an idyllic summer whiling away the hours in a haze of booze and sex. The story runs along two ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, realistic, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
family in danger, haunted by the past, starting over, family relations, danger, couples, hopes, family secret, character study, domestic drama, haunting, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases. The show follows Helsinki central police department investigator Veli Miettinen and lawyer Mira Kataja ...
Style:
detective, tense, crime drama, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
true crime, murder investigation, police detective, murder, investigation, police procedural, sleuth, police department, partnership, lawyer, moral ambiguity, justice ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
helsinki finland, finland
Similarity:
53%
706
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 63 min.
TV show
Story:
Obsessive, self-destructive London television scriptwriter Daniel Feeld finds his health failing while involved with the post-production on his new TV drama, "Karaoke." A hard-drinking heavy smoker, Feeld is in much physical pain as he ...
Style:
metafiction, psychological, surreal, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
paranoia, screenwriter, murder, obsession, character study, hallucination, identity, double life, urban, claustrophobia, duplicity, creative block ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, tense, exciting, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, investigation, murder, whodunit, crime scene, murder investigation, private investigation, homicide detective, criminal, murderer, true crime, crime investigation ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
While haunted by memories of a failed arrest that allowed the Ripton Stalker to remain free, retired detective Inspector Huw Miller becomes suspicious of his enigmatic new neighbour Patrick Harbottle.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, crime drama, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
cold case, investigation, obsession, guilt, stalker, cat and mouse, small town, paranoia, serial killer, isolation, slow burn, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story:
The Charmer was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman and murderer, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, the smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald ...
Style:
crime drama, tension, atmospheric, suspense, stylized ...
Plot:
murder, deception, british, seducer, manipulation, revenge, betrayal, moral ambiguity, character study, adaptation, obsession, serial killer ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
McCallum is a British television series that was produced by STV Productions.
Dr Iain McCallum was the original lead character, played by John Hannah. McCallum was a forensic pathologist who traveled by Triumph Motorcycle, and solved murders. The ...
Style:
detective, crime drama, dark, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
forensics, autopsy, morgue, murder investigation, police procedural, medical examiner, forensic evidence, crime scene, urban, pathologist, murder mystery, nypd ...
Time:
20th century, future, 90s
Place:
london, east end london
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
True-crime thriller that follows a team of homicide detectives as they open an 18-year-old cold case that occurred in one of America's notorious body-dumping grounds, the Louisiana swamplands.
Style:
tense, crime thriller, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cold case, murder investigation, investigation, homicide detective, true crime, investigator, uncover truth, police procedural, crime solving, murder, crime investigation, forensics ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story:
True story about a kid from rich family with political ties who covers up a suspicious death of a young woman. This comes back to haunt him later.
Style:
dark, intense, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
cover up, lie, guilt, family secret, investigation, betrayal, corruption, moral ambiguity, high society, political scandal, privilege, trial ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new england
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
An eight year old girl is found murdered on the patio of her home. Any one of the adults who care for her could have killed her, but which one?
Style:
dramatic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, tense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, suspicion, whodunit, investigation, child murderess, little girl, girl, suspicion of murder, child murder, murder of a girl, murder, murder investigation ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Drama exploring the story of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor, who died on a housing estate in South London in 2000. After leaving Nigeria to embark on a new life in the UK, the young Damilola and his family are full of optimism. Little do they realise ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
child murder, death of child, boy, murder, true crime, trial, injustice, justice, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, police station, police ...
Time:
year 2000
Place:
africa, nigeria, london
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Nisan, an unhappy, sick, lost woman trapped in the hustle of city life, discovers a shady cult in her search for her friend who disappeared after a healing session they attended together. Despite all her doubts, Nisan can't turn a blind eye to ...
Style:
tense, dark drama, psychological thriller, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
missing person, manipulation, female protagonist, secret society, claustrophobia, urban, city life, spiritualism, investigation, moral ambiguity, obsession, occult ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of families haunted, despite themselves, by a past that has not died.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
missing person, uncover truth, haunted by the past, under the surface, love and romance, life is a bitch, couple relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, family drama, grief ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Hizaki Yuko is a child psychologist working at the Childcare Center. At work, her heart goes out to the children at the center. At home, she has to endure the grumblings of her mother, Tamiko, who is the sole caregiver of Seitaro, Yuko's father ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, social problems, family relations, psychological trauma, relationship problems, crime investigation, crime solving, life is a bitch, family problems, psychology, homicide detective, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Behind every prisoner, there's a wife, girlfriend or mother doing time on the outside. For some it's a nightmare, for others a liberation. Prisoners' Wives - it's time to tell their stories.
Style:
emotional, tense, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, couples, housewife, social relations, family relations, parents and children, women, female protagonist, relationships, family drama, betrayal, motherhood ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story:
A Beverly Hills socialite embarks on a love/hate relationship with a psychotic businessman who murdered her fiance and then raped and terrorized her which leads to a bizarre trial.
Style:
psychological thriller, crime drama, tense, dark, suspenseful
Plot:
rape, murder, trial, violence against women, socialite, psychopath, female protagonist, obsession, trauma, stalker, psychological abuse, toxic relationship ...
Place:
beverly hills, california
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story:
Through a mysterious Motorola phone, two detectives - one from the present, and the other from 15 years in the past - begin communicating and working together to solve cold cases. This is the Chinese adaptation of 2016 tvN drama Signal.
Style:
detective, tense, dark drama, dramatic, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, police department, murder, police procedural, investigation, cold case, communication, murder mystery, murder investigation, murderer, police investigation, serial murder ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
In Tokyo, an old person, who lived alone, is found dead. Detectives from the Police Station investigate the case. According to the victim's neighbors, a woman sometimes came in and out of the victim's home. That woman is Miki Yamamoto. She ...
Style:
detective, crime thriller, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, killing, criminal, murderer, police detective, serial murder, homicide detective, uncover truth, forensics, police investigation, murder investigation ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
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