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The Light in the Hall (2022)
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Original name: Y Golau
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, bleak, suspenseful, intense, melancholic, tragic, moody
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, missing person, grief, confronting the past, cold case, investigation, obsession, mother daughter relationship, secrets, small town, guilt, dark past, memory, journalism, remorse, moral ambiguity, parole, revenge, flashback, ethical dilemma, psychological drama, flashbacks
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Light in the Hall
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, dark and psychological films and TV series with plots about investigation, moral ambiguity, grief, slow burn, revenge, small town and secrets mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Light in the Hall: Without Sin (2022), Wonderful World (2024), The Twelve (2019), Playing Gracie Darling (2025), Under Salt Marsh (2026). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Explores the relationship which develops between a grieving mother and the man she believes murdered her daughter.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
grief, murder, british, loss, mourning, relationships, prison visit, grieving mother, accused of murder, prison, prisoner, jail ...
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95%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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Story:
A mother who unfairly lost her young son, takes revenge against the perpetrator who has been forgiven by the law and heals her wounds.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revenge, loss, motherhood, female protagonist, grief, vigilante justice, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, investigation, obsession, empathy, secrets ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
Twelve ordinary people are called for jury duty for a murder case as traumatizing as it is controversial: the respected headmistress Fri Palmers stands accused of two murders, one of whom is her own child. Gradually, as the trial gains momentum, it ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, jury, courtroom, trial, court, legal action, courtroom drama, murder trial, judge, court case, murderer, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When Joni was 14, her best friend Gracie Darling disappeared during a séance. Some 27 years on, the local kids in a small town get their kicks with a game of 'Playing Gracie Darling' – but the seemingly innocent game turns sinister when ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, gothic ...
Plot:
small town, missing person, seance, guilt, childhood trauma, macabre, grief, investigation, family secret, haunting, supernatural, cold case ...
Similarity:
90%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
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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:
89%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story:
This psychological mystery/thriller, adapted from Barbara Vine aka Ruth Rendell's novel of the same name, depicts a family on the edge. Two sisters, the elder, obsessive Vera, and the younger, manipulative Eden, cut a path of secrecy and ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, dark, twisted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, sibling rivalry, family drama, jealousy, obsession, revenge, secrets, psychological manipulation, manipulation, betrayal, adaptation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 50s
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When a birthday party takes a tragic turn, its ripples shatter a close-knit community — tearing families, friendships and hearts apart.
Style:
emotional, psychological, intense, dark, tension ...
Plot:
female nudity, accident, trauma, grief, loss, guilt, mourning, aftermath, community, moral ambiguity, relationships, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of friends get together thirty years after one of the group members died in a tragic accident while they were on holiday. What was supposed to be a relaxing vacation changes rapidly into a nightmare, when some of the friends are blackmailed ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
blackmail, group, vacation, summer vacation, group of friends, dark past, secrets, summer, secret, murder mystery, reunited friends, friends ...
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
After tragically losing his wife, child psychiatrist Dr. Eli Adler encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli's past.
Style:
psychological thriller, emotional, serious, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
loss, grief, trauma, suicide, loss of spouse, guilt, grieving father, mental illness, haunting, mourning, child protagonist, memory ...
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Pascual León, a retired 65-year-old man, finds out how to give meaning to his last days after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's: to avenge a past crime before his memory loss erases everything that he is.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
memory, revenge, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, vengeance, tragic past, fighting illness, senior citizen, illness, retired, confronting the past, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
A three-part drama set in the trauma unit of a London hospital, a grieving father blames a high-achieving trauma consultant for the death of his teenage son.
Style:
psychological, suspense, medical drama, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
bereavement, investigation, obsession, class differences, medical, revenge, stalker, psychological trauma, doctor, family problems, grief, guilt ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Lisa, after witnessing a cataclysmic event on Platform 7 of a railway station, finds her own fragmented memory jogged to reveal a connection between her own life and that of the event she has just witnessed.
Style:
psychological thriller, thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
train station, witness, memory, memory loss, tragic event, tragedy, character study, trauma, female protagonist, flashback, macabre, guilt ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sabine is looking for the truth behind the disappearance of her best friend twenty years ago. An encounter with the handsome Olaf, a man she remembers from her teenage years, and the announcement of a high school reunion turn her life upside down.
Style:
tense, suspense, melancholic, atmospheric, noir ...
Plot:
high school reunion, secrets, dark past, missing person, flashback, female protagonist, obsession, high school, memory, investigation, relationships, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1995
Similarity:
68%
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:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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, dark, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
true crime, miscarriage of justice, murder, missing person, cold case, acquittal, grief, mother daughter relationship, police investigation, haunting, missing child, confession ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
TV show
Story:
Police officer Luise Berg heads for an inevitable catastrophe after her daughter’s murderer is released early from prison. A psychologically complex game of confusion begins in which the boundaries of guilt and innocence, perpetrators and victims, ...
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, dark, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
murder of daughter, murderer, jail, prison, criminal, female nudity, moral ambiguity, grieving mother, true crime, murder, grief, trauma ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
On a summer's evening in 1984, a five-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors, suspicion, and a grieving family. Twenty years later, the boy's older sister ...
Style:
psychological thriller, atmospheric, melancholic, mysterious, tense
Plot:
missing child, secrets, cold case, grief, loss of innocence, small town, investigation, memory, abduction, guilt, suspicion, haunting ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 1984, year 2004
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Summer 2007, Finland. While the Kurtti are spending their annual holidays in their cabins in the land of a thousand lakes, the family is struck by a tragedy: Tommi, 2 years old, is killed by a gunshot. Elias, a 12-year-old neighbour, is blamed for ...
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family drama, secrets, family tragedy, family problems, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, lifestyle change, changing lives, secret, threat, family secret, secret past ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Peru
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
The return of Lucas tells the story of a well-off family who loses his eldest son, Lucas, 4 years old on the beach. Elena, his mother, is obsessed with finding him because he feels he is alive and never stops looking for him, neglecting his other ...
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, obsession, family drama, missing child, dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, uncover truth, obsessive quest, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
62%
31
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
TV show
Story:
Laura (Vanessa Aleksander) returns to her hometown after many years in connection with the death of her mother - Maria (Malgorzata Foremniak). This unplanned meeting awakens demons from the past and sheds new light on family secrets, while Laura ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, mother daughter relationship, family secret, secrets, family drama, problem, tragic past, crime solving, family problems, confronting the past, secret, uncover truth ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Spain
Duration: 370 min.
TV show
Story:
Two murders shake the Finnish community of Fuengirola, a group that made this tiny corner of Málaga their own little Finnish paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Hilkka Mäntymäki, a veteran crime detective aged 60, is travelling from ...
Style:
tense, psychological, detective, crime drama, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, serial killer, police detective, murder investigation, female police detective, brutal murder, murderer, crime investigation, secret, murder mystery, police investigation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The shocking murder of a nurse opens old wounds in a small-town community, throwing a historic conviction into doubt, raising the horrifying prospect of a copycat killer and reuniting two former lovers tasked with finding the killer.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dark, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, investigation, small town, fear, police procedural, female victim, cold case, trauma, moral ambiguity, justice, grief, wrongful conviction ...
Place:
wales
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A rich heiress, Maria Sorokina, goes missing after a quarrel with her husband. Boris Novinsky, head of the police station, entrusts this case to a young detective, yesterday's intern, Alina Novinskaya, his daughter. It turns out that a maniac ...
Style:
tense, suspense, detective, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, serial killer, maniac, homicidal maniac, murder, police, police investigation, brutality, police officer, death, husband wife relationship, unfaithful husband ...
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 140 min.
TV show
Story:
Literature teacher Azem Yücedag, who was accused of killing his wife, is released from prison and embarks on a path to search for what he lost.
Style:
serious, crime drama, suspenseful, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
wrongful conviction, secrets, investigation, moral ambiguity, redemption, male protagonist, identity, intrigue, mistrust, betrayal, grief, obsession ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
53%
242
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Sasha makes her living as a professional surrogate mother. Contrary to the usual practice, she moves in with her new customers until the baby is born. She finds herself in a different world - in the house of rich government official Vadim and his ...
Style:
cynical, captivating, suspense, ambiguous ending, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family secret, family relations, society, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, sisters, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, women's rights, murder, jealousy, pregnancy ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
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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:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand
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Story:
An ex-actress who is now the wife of a famous politician is suddenly caught in a murder case. After a party goes haywire, the wife wakes up to the dead body of the stripper her friends hired. The same day she's being questioned, a man turns ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, motivational speaker, dead body, investigation, murder, domestic abuse, corpse, problem, secret, secrets, scandal, guilt ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 2007 min.
TV show
Story:
A 35 year old woman, Kate, awakes from an eighteen year coma following a tragic accident to an unfamiliar world. As she tries to make sense of what has happened her family and old school friends are reluctant to dig up the past.
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, enigmatic, emotional ...
Plot:
coma, high school friend, family relations, secret past, uncover truth, female protagonist, memory, amnesia, secrets, dark past, secret, confronting the past ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
51%
737
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Alison has just married Australian Sean Weston. Both of their children struggle with the new family situation, and Alison's former husband wants her back. When Sean disappears during a morning surf, it is not clear if he got caught up in a rip ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, missing person, problem, private investigation, mysterious disappearance, crime investigation, uncover truth, crime solving, secret, suspicion, female protagonist, secrets ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
48%
5K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
DI Jack Caffery is a young man searching for himself. Obsessed with the neighbour he believes murdered his 10 year-old brother in the 90s, Jack finds himself trying to right the wrongs of others - but at what cost? In an isolated house in ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark, detective ...
Plot:
psychopath, home invasion, isolated house, obsession, investigation, mental disorder, claustrophobia, isolation, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, serial killer, revenge ...
Similarity:
47%
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