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Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes (2025)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
London is rocked by terrorist attacks as armed police shoot dead an innocent man on his way to work.
Style:
suspense, tragic
Plot:
true crime, investigation, justice, civil rights, urban, scandal, ethics, british politics, surveillance, media coverage, empathy, retiring, fear, protest, multiculturalism, courtroom, mourning, murder, criminal, manhunt, victim, guilty, based on real people, memorial
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 2005
Place:
london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, captivating, tense and suspense films and TV series with plots about true crime, investigation, murder, murder investigation, criminal, police investigation and police mostly in Drama, Crime and History genres. Some movies like Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes: Little Boy Blue (2017), The Hack (2025), Four Lives (2022), Hatton Garden (2019), Rillington Place (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
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Duration: 60 min.
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Place:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
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suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating, detective
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Time:
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Place:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
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Story:
In 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine. The police also believed that he had killed his wife Beryl. But to his final moments Evans protested his innocence. Three years later, a gruesome discovery at 10 ...
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
britain, london
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12K
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Time:
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Place:
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66%
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Style:
captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
helsinki finland, finland
Similarity:
66%
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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63%
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Style:
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Similarity:
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Place:
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Similarity:
55%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
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Style:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Style:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating
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9K
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
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Duration: 134 min.
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Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
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TV show
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True crime docu-series about Maxine Carr and Ian Huntley.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min.
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Set in 1984, Code of a Killer is a true story which tells of the discovery of DNA fingerprinting. Detective David Baker leads an investigation of the vicious murders of the two Leicestershire schoolgirls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth. Alec Jeffreys ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Anna, a young and naive woman, moves to Knutby to become part of the free church congregation as a nanny, which to her seems like a warm and pious community. But soon the idyll that never existed crackles, and manipulation, power games, social ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, dark, tension ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 58 min.
TV show
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
liverpool
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 64 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
prague, central europe, czech republic, eastern europe
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