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Return to Paradise (2024)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Australia
TV show
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, tense, atmospheric, emotional, twisted, noir
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, whodunit, getting home, law enforcement, secrets, small town, suspicion, redemption, dark past, forensics, moral ambiguity, revenge, return home
Place:
australia
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Most similar movies to Return to Paradise
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, detective and dark films and TV series with plots about investigation, police procedural, moral ambiguity, slow burn, small town, murder mystery and murder mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Return to Paradise: Murder Before Evensong (2025), The Pavilion (2021), Silent Truth (2026), High Country (2024), Blood (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
A murder mystery follows Canon Daniel Clement, as he tries to keep his fractured community together and catch a killer.
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, tense, melancholic
Plot:
small town, church, murder, investigation, whodunit, family secret, slow burn, red herring, moral ambiguity, intimate, religious hypocrisy, dark humor ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 50 min.
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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:
44%
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:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
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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:
44%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Cat Hogan returns to West Meath upon her mother's sudden death - she has an accident at home and died (or was it an accident?). Blood is about old secrets, older betrayals, mind games and the lies family tell each other.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
family secret, investigation, secrets, family drama, murder mystery, murder investigation, murder, confronting the past, crime solving, family relations, uncover truth, private investigation ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Fifteen years ago, the loss of three young people tore this sleepy seaside town apart. Now, the mysterious death of a young woman dredges up the past.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, emotional, sinister, tense ...
Plot:
mysterious death, cold case, guilt, haunting, grief, coastal town, slow burn, whodunit, investigation, regret, memory, suspicion ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network, following a pilot episode on 7 August 1993, between 24 July 1994 ...
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, psychological thriller, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
british police, police, murder mystery, investigation, police procedural, whodunit, small town, adaptation, suspicion, police detective, law, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s, future
Place:
cornwall, england
Similarity:
41%
1K
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 ...
Style:
detective, suspense, tense, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
secrets, investigation, mother and daughter, conspiracy, danger, small town, police procedural, corruption, slow burn, moral ambiguity, identity, obsession ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Police officer Hella Christensen is on her way to her new job in Kiel. But she doesn't get far because a dead girl was found at the pier in her hometown. Hella's new superior, Simon Kessler, has already arrived from Kiel and is awaiting ...
Style:
tense, crime drama, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, forensics, homicide detective, police investigation, murder investigation, fighting crime, killing, murder, uncover truth, police detective, crime solving ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, small town, diner, murder, law enforcement, small town life, social relations, murder mystery, sheriff, self discovery, danger, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 291 min.
TV show
Story:
Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh investigates the death of Alice Liddell who ran a home for unwed mothers. One of those residents is Sally Jupp who was a witness in a drugs smuggling and murder investigation in London. Sally works at the local ...
Style:
detective, crime drama, suspense, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, whodunit, victim, family secret, manor, police procedural, suspect, country estate, moral ambiguity, alibi, english countryside ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The sheriff of a colorful small town finds her red state outlook challenged when a young FBI agent of Middle Eastern descent is sent to help her solve a horrific crime.
Style:
psychological, southern gothic, thrilling, captivating, detective ...
Plot:
sheriff, investigation, small town, female protagonist, murder mystery, secrets, private investigator, police investigation, police detective, forensics, female detective, crime investigation ...
Place:
kentucky
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Yū Amagi is a slightly eccentric detective who has been assigned to the Twelfth Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division from the Lost and Found Centre. The Twelfth Section is called the ...
Style:
detective, crime drama, crime thriller, suspense, twisted ...
Plot:
investigation, police procedural, whodunit, obsession, suspicion, forensics, redemption, moral ambiguity, dark past, bureaucracy, office politics, lost and found
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
When four members of a suburban garden club get entangled in a scandalous murder, they're forced to bury the body – in their own well-manicured flower beds. In this juicy drama everyone's got dirt… but some secrets never stay buried.
Style:
crime drama, dark comedy, twisted, suspense, satirical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder mystery, secrets, scandal, small town, betrayal, gossip, moral ambiguity, unhappiness, dark humor, social climbing, investigation, class conflict ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Tom Mathias comes to Aberystwyth having abandoned his life in London. He's a brilliant but troubled man. Despite his faults he is an excellent detective, who knows that the key to solving the crime lies not in where you look for truth, but how ...
Style:
detective, serious, tense, bleak, crime drama ...
Plot:
murder mystery, homicide detective, hidden truth, forensics, law enforcement, police investigation, partners against crime, crime investigation, partner, small town, police officer, murder investigation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
wales, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
When Dr. Edwin Lorrimer, a forensic scientist working at a private laboratory is found killed, Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is sent to investigate. Dalgliesh had been in the area a few months previously investigating the murder of a young ...
Style:
detective, crime drama, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, laboratory, police procedural, forensic evidence, whodunit, forensics, jealousy, small town, slow burn, revenge, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
england
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
TV show
Story:
On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
murder mystery, family secret, family drama, family problems, female protagonist, murder investigation, murderer, murder, family relations, secret, grief, whodunit ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Mickey Fox investigates criminal activity and patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater while contending with her ex-con father and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter.
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, tense, emotional, suspense ...
Plot:
small town, female sheriff, sheriff, father daughter relationship, police procedural, family conflict, investigation, secrets, law enforcement, confrontation, domestic drama, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When a grisly murder brings Detective Maik Briegand back to his small hometown, he finds himself dredging up bodies, clues and his own past traumas.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, detective, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
murder investigation, murder, small town, secrets, crime investigation, murder mystery, homecoming, police investigation, investigation, uncover truth, crime solving, secret ...
Place:
east germany, switzerland
Similarity:
28%
14K
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:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Live-action drama series that takes place before the events that begin the story of Detective Conan, the anime series.
Style:
detective, tense, disturbing, captivating, twisted ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
high school, investigation, private detective, friend, teenager, crime investigation, deduction, schoolboy, private investigation, teenage life, sleuth, whodunit ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
The special homicide case that was unsolved in 1997 resurfaced 13 years later. Criminal policeman Wei Zhengrong, who wasn't able to find out the real murderer that year was traumatised and left the front line. The once fledgling new policeman ...
Style:
detective, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, partner, homicide, cold case, police investigation, undercover, murderer, forensics, murder mystery, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
china
Similarity:
27%
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:
27%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A particularly vicious serial killer is stalking the Norfolk coast in the vicinity of the Larksoken nuclear power station. The press have branded him 'The Whistler' because witnesses have heard a hymn being whistled in the vicinity of the ...
Style:
detective, suspense, dark, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, police procedural, small town, female victim, intrigue, seaside, cat and mouse, adaptation, english countryside, forensics ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england
Similarity:
26%
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:
26%
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:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Ex-cop Jim Bergerac is forced to confront a troubling past case when a wealthy woman is murdered, pushing him to overcome personal demons and reignite his investigative prowess to navigate family tensions and law enforcement scrutiny.
Style:
crime drama, detective, suspenseful, tense, twisted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder mystery, investigation, secrets, suspicion, reluctant hero, redemption, private investigator, police procedural, family drama, cold case, slow burn, class conflict ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
25%
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:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
The second adaptation of Alexandra Marinina's novels - "I died yesterday", "The stolen dream", "Men's games", "Everything must be paid for." Criminal investigation officer Anastasia Kamenskaya is ...
Style:
tense, detective, crime drama, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, female protagonist, policewoman, police investigation, law enforcement, good versus evil, police station, strong female lead, coworker relationship, murder, friendship, police procedural ...
Place:
moscow russia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Kat Crichton is a young Family Liaison Officer assigned to investigate the brutal murder of the wife of a local tycoon at a remote island mansion. The murder investigation unravels on the island of Lewis and Harris, from where Kat mysteriously fled ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
island, murder mystery, investigation, isolation, police procedural, secrets, small community, suspicion, justice, moral ambiguity, getting home, retribution ...
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
25%
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