Movies and TV shows like Awake 2021
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Awake (2021)
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Original name: Kljun
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Sonja Kljun is a young, ambitious detective, eager to prove that her refined intuition is right - the alleged suicide in peaceful Subotica hides far more serious secrets than it seems at first glance. Sonja's moving to Subotica will trigger an avalanche of events that will reveal deeply buried secrets related to the mysterious organization, but also to Sonja's past. Refined intuition is not unique to Sonja, but also to her ten-year-old daughter, whose unusual dreams related to her mother's job are beginning to come true.
Style:
detective, psychological, tense, suspense, atmospheric, dark, noir, emotional, twist ending, grim
Plot:
investigation, secrets, conspiracy, mother and daughter, corruption, danger, small town, police procedural, obsession, memory, premonition, identity, moral ambiguity, slow burn, revenge, loyalty
Place:
eastern europe
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Most similar movies to Awake
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, noir, dark and detective films and TV series with plots about investigation, revenge, moral ambiguity, police procedural, slow burn, secrets and small town mostly in Drama, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like Awake: Bellevue (2017), Silent Truth (2026), Bitter Daisies (2018), Hound's Hill (2025), Fallen (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
When a transgender teen goes missing, Annie Ryder—a cop at odds with her hometown—dives in to unravel the disappearance that suggests foul play, despite finding herself in a difficult position as she must cast suspicion on people she has known ...
Style:
mysterious, tense, suspense, crime drama, intense ...
Plot:
missing person, small town, criminal psychology, female detective, investigation, female protagonist, police detective, danger, psychopath, death, suspicion, identity ...
Place:
canada, ontario canada
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
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Story:
A detective must investigate his first love, who is the suspect in a murder committed with a gun that they and their friends secretly buried 23 years ago.
Style:
suspense, tense, detective, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, murder investigation, cold case, police procedural, whodunit, regret, cover up, first love, small town, guilt, moral ambiguity, redemption ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
While investigating the disappearance of a teen girl in a tight-knit Galician town, a Civil Guard officer uncovers secrets linked to a loss of her own.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, detective, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
investigation, police detective, child abduction, missing person, disappearance, secrets, rescue, justice, danger, parents and children, race against time, hopes ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, galicia
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A successful and renowned novelist — haunted by trauma and a mysterious blackmailer — returns to his hometown to reckon with his unresolved past.
Style:
dark, psychological, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
blackmail, secrets, investigation, hometown, investigative journalism, journalism, small town, trauma, corruption, cold case, family drama, political corruption ...
Place:
eastern europe, poland
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Germany
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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:
63%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
TV show
Story:
When a young woman's murder shows similarities to a decade-old cold case, a new police commander must break the silence permeating an Owl Mountain town.
Style:
detective, atmospheric, tense, dark, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, cold case, investigation, police procedural, small town, secrets, isolation, trauma, conspiracy, cover up, evidence, slow burn ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Morfa Halen is a tight-knit Welsh town precariously nestled between towering mountains and a fast-encroaching sea that threatens its very existence. As a once-in-a-generation storm begins to gather far out at sea, former detective turned teacher ...
Style:
detective, atmospheric, emotional, dark, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cold case, secrets, small town, investigation, coastal town, community, grief, trauma, loss, isolation, family drama, realism ...
Place:
wales
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A former detective solves a high school murder case. He then starts looking for his crush which leads to unexpected discoveries.
Style:
suspense, detective, tense, mysterious, twisted ...
Audience:
adult, teen drama
Plot:
investigation, murder, high school, whodunit, secrets, school, cold case, crush, moral ambiguity, small town, obsession, young adult ...
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A serial killer thriller told in reverse, unravelling the truth behind a series of murders as DCI Gabriel Markham hunts down a brutal killer.
Style:
dark, tense, suspense, detective, crime thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, police, investigation, forensic, mental illness, vengeance, weapons, danger, disfigured face, obsession, disfigurement, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When Detective Kat Donovan matches on a dating app with the fiancé who disappeared years before, she learns that some secrets are best left in the past.
Style:
detective, tense, dark, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
family secret, missing person, cold case, online dating, grief, obsession, evidence, double life, betrayal, family drama, forensics, corruption ...
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iran
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Story:
Detective Kiani gets involved in a complex case that reveals great secrets of a family. As it turns out, we are dealing with a criminal and mysterious series that a police officer is going to find out the secret of this story.
Style:
detective, tense, suspense, noir, psychological ...
Plot:
family secret, investigation, police procedural, interrogation, moral ambiguity, betrayal, macabre, domestic drama, mature, corruption, conspiracy, urban ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Seventeen years ago, Xuan Zhen was mysteriously murdered. Seventeen years later, another homicide related to the Xuan family occurs. Xuan Zhen's older brother, Xuan Liang became the suspect. As the truth behind the old murder case gradually ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, family secret, investigation, suspicion, secrets, family feud, cold case, family drama, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, love, life is a bitch ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
On the run from her troubled past, a young mother is accused of killing her new boss at a flower farm just before discovering he's actually her father.
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family secret, false accusation, identity, investigation, moral ambiguity, single mother, betrayal, motherhood, escape, identity crisis, domestic drama ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
When detective Andrea 'Andie' Whitford is transferred to the Victorian High Country, she is thrust into a baffling mystery of five missing persons who have vanished into the wilderness. Through an edge-of-the-seat, high-stakes ...
Style:
crime drama, detective, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, isolation, wilderness, murder, police procedural, solitude, revenge, small town, deception, macabre, moral ambiguity, forensic ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Australia
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Story:
DI Mackenzie Clarke is forced to leave London under a cloud of suspicion and return to the last place she ever wanted to be, her hometown of Dolphin Cove, Australia where her tenacity and work ethic helps her solve murder mysteries.
Style:
detective, suspense, twisted, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, small town, whodunit, secrets, getting home, suspicion, law enforcement, redemption, dark past, forensics, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
The suspense story begins when Jin Saeki, a policeman in Yamanashi Prefecture, arrives at a prominent estate residence in response to a tip, and finds the skeletal remains of 13 children, as well as a mysterious marking. Jūzō Haikawa, the ...
Style:
suspense, detective, dark, tense, sinister ...
Plot:
investigation, secrets, haunting, cold case, abandonment, abuse, trauma, missing child, justice, orphan, obsession, police procedural ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
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Story:
An explosion take place in a street of Tokyo. Many people were killed or seriously injured. One casualty is Chihiro, the wife of Public Security chief inspector Kuraki Naotake.
While trying to find why his wife was being implicated in the explosion ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, crime drama, tense, twisted ...
Plot:
investigation, police procedural, bombing, revenge, conspiracy, cover up, urban, female detective, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, secret mission, male protagonist ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1994, at the age of sixteen, Clotilde Idrissi suffered a road accident. Clotilde is the only survivor, unlike her brother Nicolas and his parents, who died instantly. Twenty-five years later, she returns to the scene of the tragedy with her ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
family secret, life is a bitch, troubled past, confronting the past, learning the truth, uncover truth, secret, changing lives, female protagonist, self discovery, introspection, haunting ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story:
A quiet spring morning a man leaves prison after spending most of his adult life there. The man is convicted of murder, not once but twice.
Style:
psychological, detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, police procedural, police investigation, law enforcement, partner, released from prison, false accusation, investigation, ex convict, justice, moral ambiguity, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
An unidentified female body was found in a cave in outskirts of Longwan. A man suddenly showed and required for a DNA match with the body. The latter turned out to be his mum Luo Hongying who was the missing suspect of the case 20 years ago which ...
Style:
tense, detective, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, murder investigation, homicide detective, killing, murderer, police investigation, police detective, sleuth, crime solving, forensics, murder, family secret ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
When Jaehee, a top call girl at a club in Gangnam, goes missing, Detective Kang Dongwoo returns to crack the case. Prosecutor Min Seojin aims to rise in rank, while the notorious pimp, Yoon Gilho becomes a prime suspect. They unravel a web of ...
Style:
detective, tense, suspenseful, dark, noir ...
Plot:
investigation, missing person, secrets, prosecutor, prostitution, underworld, moral ambiguity, urban, nightlife, power struggle, conspiracy, police procedural ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
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Story:
Kuttram Purindhavan - The Guilty One, is a crime drama set against the backdrop of a small-town, unraveling the moral complexities of three central characters whose hidden truths and past guilt collide in a chain of events no one could foresee. When ...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, tense, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
small town, guilt, village life, missing person, investigation, secrets, moral ambiguity, grief, justice, guilty conscience, loss, kidnapping ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When an ominous photo mysteriously surfaces, Greta must confront buried truths — and her hazy memory — to save her husband from his dark secrets.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, twist ending ...
Plot:
kidnapping, female protagonist, secrets, domestic drama, memory loss, investigation, flashback, motherhood, betrayal, conspiracy, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia ...
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: New Zealand
TV show
Story:
Anaís Mallory is a smart and savvy homicide investigator who after returning to her hometown, and taking the lead detective position, faces a series of startlingly complex murders with links to her family's tragic history.
Style:
crime thriller, suspenseful, detective, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, homicide, family secret, small town, police procedural, getting home, cold case, moral ambiguity, slow burn, isolation
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
A masked perpetrator murders a prominent politician and leaves an old, golden coin in his hand. Nikola Bobic, a defence attorney, reluctantly takes a case and plunges into a dangerous game that will change his life forever.
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
investigation, danger, mind game, crime solving, uncover truth, who done it, crime investigation, secret, murder investigation, homicide detective, secrets, masked killer ...
Place:
balkan
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Athira, a 25-year-old cop gets to investigate her best friend's missing case. The case turns out to be very mysterious when she suspects that her accident has been staged and that she has been murdered. After digging deep into the case, she ...
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, twisted, tense, twist ending ...
Plot:
missing person, investigation, crime investigation, female protagonist, murder mystery, female detective, secrets, identity, betrayal, deception, police procedural, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 215 min.
TV show
Story:
Hotel “Shizen no Shima” is located on an small, remote island. The owner of the hotel invites 10 people to the island, but when they arrive they learn that the owner is not there. These 10 people do not know why they are there or what will ...
Style:
psychological, detective, suspense, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, isolation, whodunit, murder, uncover truth, crime solving, murder investigation, crime investigation, secret, homicide detective, mysterious character, changing lives ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
A Bradford cop with his personal life in chaos must hunt down a killer targeting the Asian community.
Style:
crime drama, suspenseful, realistic, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
family conflict, police procedural, investigation, murder mystery, serial killer, moral ambiguity, grief, racial tension, urban, family drama, identity, justice ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
TV show
Story:
Seven murders; Unsolved for over one & half year. Will the ace cop from Mumbai, Ramakant Kulkarni be able to bring Justice?
Style:
suspenseful, detective, tense, twisted, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, murder, whodunit, police procedural, cold case, justice, female victim, violent, evidence, haunting, cover up, slow burn ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
When an arson investigator begrudgingly teams up with a police detective, their race to stop two arsonists ignites a twisted game of secrets and suspicions.
Style:
detective, suspense, tension, psychological, crime thriller ...
Plot:
investigation, secrets, arson, smoking, cat and mouse, danger, urban, obsession, moral ambiguity, police procedural, partnership, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
40%
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