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Under Salt Marsh (2026)
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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 Jackie Ellis discovers the body of her 8-year-old pupil, Cefin, seemingly drowned. The discovery sends shockwaves through the community, reviving the ghost of an unsolved cold case that rocked the town three years prior - the disappearance of Jackie’s niece, Nessa, which cost her career.
Style:
atmospheric, detective, tense, emotional, suspense, dark, psychological, bleak, noir, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, secrets, small town, coastal town, cold case, isolation, community, grief, loss, trauma, betrayal, flooding, family drama, realism, moral ambiguity, slow burn, welsh
Time:
contemporary
Place:
wales
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Most similar movies to Under Salt Marsh
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, dark, noir and suspense films and TV series with plots about investigation, slow burn, moral ambiguity, grief, secrets, small town and revenge mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Under Salt Marsh: Signs (2018), The One That Got Away (2024), Fallen (2023), Syndicate (2022), Bitter Daisies (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
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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:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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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:
76%
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:
75%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
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Story:
An young employee at a well known bank passes away jumping from the building rooftop. People speculate that, it is a suicide but her partner Adnan, who’s also her coworker figures out it is not just a mere suicide, rather a murder. Adnan and ...
Style:
tense, suspense, twisted, dark, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, investigation, whodunit, secrets, bank, betrayal, conspiracy, justice, cover up, office politics, loss, grief ...
Similarity:
68%
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:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
TV show
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:
67%
3K
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:
62%
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:
61%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in an isolated country town, where a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners. One year later investigative journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend to write what should be a ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, bleak ...
Plot:
priest, investigation, investigative reporter, journalist, private investigation, crime investigation, uncover truth, murder investigation, learning the truth, truth, investigative journalism, searching for the truth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
59%
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:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The 12-episode series follows Wang Xiang, an ex-train driver who had worked his whole life at the steel plant in a fictional small town in North China, as he attempts to solve the mystery behind a brutal murder during the autumn of 1998. For more ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, captivating, thrilling, suspense ...
Plot:
slow burn, small town, working class, loss, investigation, memory, grief, blue collar, secrets, cold case, relationship problems, secret ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
55%
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:
55%
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 ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
TV show
Story:
What's the worst that can happen to a police officer? Definitely an unresolved investigation. This is what happens on Boxing Day 1999. Charlotte Meyer, an 11-year-old girl, disappears without a trace. Captain Pierre Castaing, in charge of the ...
Style:
tense, crime drama, disturbing, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
investigation, cold case, disappearance, missing person, missing child, police procedural, crime investigation, crime solving, police investigation, uncover truth, mysterious disappearance, haunting ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A sheltered London professor attempts to uncover the cause of his wife’s mysterious death in Hong Kong, traveling there after discovering she died in a car accident on the mountain roads of Tai Po.
Style:
suspense, dark, psychological, tense, twisted ...
Plot:
conspiracy, secrets, investigation, grief, car crash, danger, fatal accident, mourning, professor, corruption, identity, loss ...
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
53%
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:
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
In an ordinary looking apartment, a father and daughter play a game of hide-and-seek. While searching for his daughter, she is nowhere to be found... Later, a video is posted which shows the girl holding a sign with a mysterious set of numbers. But ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, detective, psychotronic ...
Plot:
disappearance, female detective, child abduction, unsolved mystery, troubled past, investigation, missing child, family relations, mysterious disappearance, daughter, violence, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
51%
21K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A desperate father searching for his runaway daughter gets caught up in a murder case — and stumbles upon secrets which could destroy his family for good.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, intense, emotional, dark ...
Plot:
drug addiction, family drama, investigation, murder, runaway teen, missing person, violence, secrets, obsession, loss, desperation, corruption ...
Similarity:
51%
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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:
50%
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:
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
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.
Style:
psychological thriller, detective, intense, sinister, suspense ...
Plot:
female detective, female protagonist, serial killer, nun, male nudity, investigation, character study, obsession, small town, macabre, mature, partnership ...
Similarity:
49%
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:
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
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:
46%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
TV show
Story:
A corpse of an aspiring model was found under a Bridge. Police officer Shakil investigates the case whether it is a suicide case or murder. And he unveils some dark secrets that no one has imagined!
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, detective, twisted ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, law enforcement, police procedural, urban, evidence, underworld, conspiracy, victim, corruption, interrogation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
bangladesh
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Detective Hannah Laing becomes deeply conflicted when she discovers her son is playing a crucial role as an undercover informant in a brutal murder investigation.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, detective, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
murder investigation, investigation, female detective, crime family, police detective, fighting crime, uncover truth, family drama, mature, crime investigation, police investigation, crime solving ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Investigation of cruel murder of the young girl turns into the difficult psychological drama which opens questions of the human values and meanings, things that everyone cares about: fidelity and treachery, cynicism and compassion, revenge and ...
Style:
bleak, tense, detective, dark, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
multiple suspects, murder investigation, disorder, cold case, partner, investigation, circumstantial evidence, murder mystery, dead woman, moral ambiguity, grief, guilt ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
45%
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:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A police forensics officer, traumatized by the horrors he has seen and processed, leaves his job, wife and son and lives on the streets as a homeless wanderer. Try as he does he is unable to completely forget the past and finds himself in a struggle ...
Style:
detective, tense, captivating, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
forensics, investigation, homicide detective, criminal, police, justice, trauma, troubled past, confronting the past, tragic past, uncover truth, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Lexie Noble lives a great life on the outskirts of Edinburgh… until her husband is murdered. As she struggles to make sense of what happened, she learns he had been laundering money for notorious crime boss Cal Morris. As a partner in her late ...
Style:
tense, suspense, tension, detective, dark ...
Plot:
money laundering, organized crime, murder mystery, crime boss, underworld, female protagonist, revenge, threat, betrayal, investigation, criminal underworld, police operation ...
Place:
edinburgh scotland
Similarity:
42%
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:
42%
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