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Dexter: Resurrection (2025)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma to find Harrison gone without a trace. Realizing the weight of what he put his son through, Dexter sets out for New York City, determined to find him and make things right. But closure won't come easy. When Miami Metro's Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast. As father and son navigate their own darkness in the city that never sleeps, they soon find themselves deeper than they ever imagined - and that the only way out is together.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, dark, crime drama, noir, grim, detective, dark comedy
Plot:
serial killer, missing person, mature, father son relationship, fatherhood, redemption, moral ambiguity, anti hero, revenge, investigation, obsession, vigilante, loss, cat and mouse, identity, violence, isolation, blood, underworld, corruption, dark humor, reunion, psychological drama
Place:
new york
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Most similar movies to Dexter: Resurrection
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark, tense, noir and suspense films and TV series with plots about investigation, moral ambiguity, revenge, urban, cat and mouse, corruption and serial killer mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Dexter: Resurrection: Shadow (2019), Dexter: Original Sin (2024), The Crow Girl (2025), Queen Mantis (2025), Less than Evil (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Haunted by a tragic loss, an ex-cop with a rare inability to feel pain strikes out on his own to catch offenders who've eluded Johannesburg police.
Style:
crime drama, detective, dark, neo noir, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
justice, anti hero, ex cop, moral ambiguity, vigilante, urban, trauma, corruption, revenge, vigilante justice, investigation, loss ...
Place:
south africa, africa
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95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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84%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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psychological thriller, intense, tense, suspense, dark ...
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82%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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Cha Su-yeol, a police officer who has long despised his mother, the notorious 'Mantis' serial killer, must reluctantly turn to her for help when a copycat killer emerges.
Style:
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Place:
seoul
Similarity:
78%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
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suspense, tense, detective, psychological thriller, dark ...
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korea
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72%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A police officer who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease must solve one last case before he loses all his memories. He must run against time to catch the notorious serial killer who he believes has a mysterious role in his own personal life.
Style:
psychological thriller, detective, suspense, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
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70%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
dark, grim, tense, noir, suspense ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark, detective ...
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65%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
taiwan, taipei
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
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Story:
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Style:
dark, intense, crime drama, noir, bleak ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 35 min.
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Style:
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Place:
india
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 60 min.
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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.
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
54%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 48 min.
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After being raped, young police detective Sunny Becker returns to work and tries to catch the fugitive killer André Haffner before he strikes again. In a race against time, the biggest thing holding Sunny back are her own demons.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, dark, disturbing ...
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Place:
switzerland
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
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Style:
tense, suspense, tension, detective, dark ...
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Place:
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intense, crime thriller, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
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Duration: 50 min.
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A series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community, and Detective Lois Tryon feels they are eerily personal, as if someone—or something—is taunting her.
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psychological thriller, detective, intense, sinister, suspense ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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suspense, crime thriller, dark, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, cat and mouse, vigilante, investigation, psychopath, obsession, revenge, violent, haunting, moral ambiguity, urban ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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crime drama, dark, suspense, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
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41%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, with Stacy Keach in the title role, is a television series that originally aired on CBS from January 28, 1984 to January 12, 1985. The series was 24 sixty minute episodes. The show follows the adventures of Mike ...
Style:
detective, crime drama, noir, suspense, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
new york
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41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
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The series deals with three groups: modern businessmen - drug dealers and their subordinates, police officers and finally teenagers and their parents all operating in the seedy underbelly of Belgrade.
Style:
tense, crime drama, detective, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
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39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Choi Kang-Woo is a former detective, but he now works as a veteran insurance investigator. He leads a team that attempts to reveal insurance fraud cases.
Style:
suspense, tense, detective, crime thriller, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
korea, seoul
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Musical, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A ruthless crime wave-A relentless investigator-As the bodies pile up, the line between justice and obsession begins to blur. City is gripped by fear as a series of brutal murders surface. A determined detective takes on the case, unaware that the ...
Style:
detective, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A dismissed special ops officer struggles to adapt to his new role in retail security — until he spots a way to solve his financial troubles.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, action packed, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
eastern europe, poland
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on true events. A disgraced police detective seeking redemption goes undercover to expose a violent crime syndicate. But as he sinks deeper into the mob, the price for absolution may be higher than he can afford.
Style:
crime drama, detective, tense, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
criminal underworld, redemption, organized crime, undercover, ethical dilemma, law enforcement, moral ambiguity, covert operation, corruption, violence, city, investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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