Movies and TV shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
 7.7
 85K
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows Las Vegas criminalists working for the Las Vegas Police Department as they use physical evidence to solve grisly murders in this unusually graphic drama, which has inspired a host of other cop-show "procedurals". The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter and character-driven drama. The network later added spin-offs CSI: Miami and CSI: NY, which have both been cancelled after ten and nine seasons respectively.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough, dramatic, exciting, funny, sincere
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police, murder investigation, police procedural, scientist, forensics, investigator, workplace, expert, murder, teamwork, police investigation, police detective, medical examiner, coworker, policewoman, investigation, victim, responsibility, partners, police officer, crime investigation, evidence, law enforcement, murderer, crime scene ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, las vegas, nevada, united states, united states of america

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Most similar movies to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films and TV series with plots about investigation, law enforcement, police, police officer, murder, criminal and crime investigation mostly in Crime, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Cold Case (2003), CSI: Miami (2002), CSI: NY (2004), Body of Proof (2011), Criminal Minds (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cold Case (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, tense, bleak ...
Plot: female detective, police detective, policewoman, who done it, police officer, murder investigation, police, investigation, mentor, uncover truth, police procedural, victim ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 70s, 90s, 80s ...
Place: philadelphia, usa
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100%
 6.4
 59K
CSI: Miami (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: investigation, policewoman, forensics, murder, workplace situations, workplace, police, medical examiner, crime scene, police detective, law enforcement, riddles and clues ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: miami, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 6.9
 48K
CSI: NY (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: CSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that ran on CBS from September 22, 2004 to February 22, 2013 for a total of nine seasons and 197 original episodes. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, exciting, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: forensics, investigation, partners against crime, crime investigation, workplace, medical examiner, murder investigation, police detective, riddles and clues, murder, interrogation, law enforcement ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 7.1
 19K
Body of Proof (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Body of Proof is an American medical drama television series that ran on ABC from March 29, 2011 to May 28, 2013 and starred Dana Delany as medical examiner Dr. Megan Hunt. The series was created by Chris Murphey and produced by ABC Studios. The ...
Style: captivating, serious, suspenseful, realistic, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot: medical, investigation, forensics, who done it, murder investigation, law enforcement, bodies, unconventional method, talented, medical examiner, ambitious, female protagonist ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.1
 204K
Criminal Minds (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU ...
Style: psychological, exciting, serious, rough, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: fbi, investigation, serial killer, law enforcement, special agents, team, murder, forensics, profiler, investigator, intelligence, crime investigation ...
Time: future, 2020s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, virginia, seattle, new york, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 7.8
 151K
NCIS (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
Style: captivating, serious, exciting, semi serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: law enforcement, special agents, teamwork, partners against crime, crime investigation, victim, evidence, investigation, forensics, military, computer genius, government agency ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.9
 113K
Elementary (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with ...
Style: witty, talky, suspenseful, serious, entertaining ...
Audience: adult
Plot: investigation, sherlock holmes, talented, female partner, unconventional method, prodigy, mastermind, partners, riddles and clues, private detective, resourceful, law enforcement ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 7.8
 164K
Bones (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification ...
Style: witty, suspenseful, intellectual, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, fbi, partners, partners against crime, forensics, law enforcement, expert, crime investigation, scientist, killings, teamwork, police investigation ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Without a Trace (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Without a Trace was an American police procedural television drama series that originally ran on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder investigation, criminal, police, murder, kidnapping, fbi, law enforcement, missing person, female detective, investigation, police detective, crime investigation ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are ...
Style: tense, captivating, clever, realistic, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: sexual abuse, law and order, police detective, sex crime, law enforcement, female detective, police officer, partners against crime, police, criminal, lawyer, fighting crime ...
Time: 20th century, 2010s, 2000s, 90s, 2020s ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Former NYPD detective and forensic genius Lincoln Rhyme was at the top of his game until a serious accident at the hands of a notorious serial killer forced him out of the field. When Amelia Sachs, an intuitive young officer who has a gift for ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, forensics, police, investigation, law enforcement, evidence, partners against crime, riddles and clues, police investigation, police detective, nypd ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 40K
Law & Order (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It originally aired on NBC and, in syndication, on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, clever ...
Plot: crime investigation, police, law and order, legal, murder investigation, homicide detective, evidence, police officer, lawyer, punishment, rivalry, partners ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 8.1
 188K
The Mentalist (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
Style: exciting, intellectual, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, investigation, partners against crime, fighting crime, partners, murder, police investigation, police, law enforcement, justice, talented, outsmarting ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, clever
Audience: kids
Plot: law and order, lawyer, murder investigation, prosecutor, murder, workplace situations, power relations, mind game, partners, police, investigation, judiciary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Elliot Stabler returns to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss. Stabler journeys to find absolution and rebuild his life, while leading a new elite task force that is taking apart the city’s most powerful ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: organized crime, law and order, police, police procedural, crime investigation, criminal, suspect, fighting crime, workplace situations, partners against crime, crime solving, coworker ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Crossing Jordan (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, clever, captivating ...
Plot: forensics, investigation, police, female detective, female protagonist, police detective, uncover truth, fighting crime, who done it, murder, murder investigation, mind game ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 9.1
 941K
Sherlock (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
Story: A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Style: clever, witty, captivating, serious, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sherlock holmes, investigation, murder mystery, mastermind, private detective, friendship, british, partners, mind game, riddles and clues, murder, talented ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, england, scotland yard, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.4
 11K
CSI: Cyber (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The FBI's team of Cyber Crime Investigators, headed by Special Agent Avery Ryan, works to solve cases involving the dark-net. Avery, a Special Agent in Charge and esteemed Cyber-Psychologist heads up a team, including Senior Special Agent ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: forensics, profiler, federal agent, cybercrime, crime investigation, fbi, police investigation, partners, law enforcement, special agents, partners against crime, computers and web ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Law & Order  Los Angeles (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Law & Order: LA, originally titled Law & Order: Los Angeles, is an American police procedural and legal drama television series set in Los Angeles, where it was produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and developed by Blake Masters, it ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, gloomy ...
Plot: investigation, legal, law and order, police investigation, legal action, murder, district attorney, fighting crime, law enforcement, power relations, courtroom, legal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 165K
Castle (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
Style: witty, realistic, entertaining, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: writers, investigation, female detective, crime investigation, romancing partners, partners, homicide detective, police investigation, police detective, riddles and clues, resourceful, law enforcement ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Rizzoli & Isles (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective. Jane, the only female cop in Boston's homicide division, is tough, relentless and rarely lets ...
Style: captivating, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: girls' night
Plot: female detective, partners against crime, friends, forensics, police investigation, murder investigation, homicide detective, investigation, coworker, female protagonist, best friends, policewoman ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.7
 15K
Major Crimes (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Major Crimes explores how the American justice system approaches the art of the deals as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction. Los Angeles Police Captain Sharon Raydor heads up a special squad within the LAPD ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, tense
Plot: female protagonist, law enforcement, female detective, homicide detective, police detective, policewoman, coworker, murder investigation, murder, lapd, fighting crime, investigator ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior was a short-lived American police procedural drama that aired on CBS. The show debuted in 2011 as a spin-off from the successful Criminal Minds, which had premiered in 2005. This edition's profiling team also ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: forensics, profiler, serial killer, special agents, multiple suspects, law enforcement, police, police procedural, african american, ex military, computer genius, policewoman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 8.1
 40K
Chicago P.D. (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who ...
Style: exciting, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: police, law enforcement, policewoman, crime investigation, victim, police detective, sergeant, partners, murder, gang, abduction, fbi ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago illinois, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.8
 27K
The Closer (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Deputy Police Chief Brenda Jean Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the ...
Style: captivating, sincere, realistic, tense, serious ...
Plot: investigation, crime investigation, police investigation, homicide detective, female detective, interrogation, twists and turns, workplace romance, police detective, policewoman, murder, law enforcement ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 8.7
 82K
The Shield (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
Style: exciting, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: law enforcement, police corruption, police detective, police brutality, corrupt cop, murder, partners, dishonesty, cruelty, drugs, criminal, racism ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
NCIS: Los Angeles (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: crime investigation, military, partners, special agents, forensics, partners against crime, fighting crime, army investigation, graphic violence, soldier, law enforcement, team ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 122K
Lie to Me (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when a person is lying and why, which helps law enforcement and government agencies uncover the truth. But his ...
Style: clever, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, psychology, talented, expert, deception, crime investigation, riddles and clues, outsmarting, human nature, sign language, lie, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Bone Collector (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending, clever ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: serial killer, suspense, psychopath, investigation, twists and turns, police investigation, race against time, mind game, policewoman, murder, paraplegic, forensics ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 109K
The Fall (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must ...
Style: psychological, captivating, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, female detective, police detective, policewoman, police investigation, law enforcement, victim, forensics, evidence, police, violence against women, coworker ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland, united kingdom, belfast
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%