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Turk's Head (2010)
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Turk's Head (2010)
Original name: Tête de Turc
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A 14 year old boy, an ER doctor, a cop looking for revenge, a mother fighting for her children and a man distraught by the death of his wife see their destinies come together. As the doctor spends several days in a coma, events keep on happening and all will be swept by the shock wave.
Style: tense, thought provoking, serious, captivating, psychological, rough, realistic
Plot: vengeance, police investigation, police detective, society, law enforcement, juvenile delinquency, life turned upside down, immigrant, doctor, youth, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, teenage life, urban, disorder, siblings relations, violent content, teenager, police officer, police, troubled teen, coma, bus, turk ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, europe
Keyword: doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, realistic, suspenseful and serious films with plots about law enforcement, society, family relations, murder, police officer, police detective and police mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Turk's Head: R.I.F. (2011), Armed Hands (2012), Go Fast (2008), Stolen (2011), Oh Mercy! (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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R.I.F. (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A policeman takes his family on a holiday, and after almost hitting a wild hog, the car won't start. They get hike with a guy scrutinizing his pretty wife. Shortly after, she disappears.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: missing person, uncover truth, on the run, police investigation, police detective, chase, cop, revenge, violent content, who done it, law enforcement, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Armed Hands (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lucas and his team are after a gang of Serbian criminals using NATO-issued weapons. As the investigation leads him to Paris, Lucas attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, a young narc officer.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: police investigation, partner, snitch, law enforcement, partners against crime, informant, drug bust, police, chase, investigation, bankruptcy, violent content ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france, marseille
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Go Fast (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, law enforcement, drug dealing, rivalry, gang, working undercover, marijuana, loss of partner, car chase, undercover, police procedural, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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63%
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Stolen (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A fast-paced thriller about a vital and terrifying subject - the trafficking of children - with the heart-stopping vibrancy, compassion and energy that only the fate of children inspires. This is a story that touches all our lives. And it's ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: human trafficking, uncover truth, society, law enforcement, confined, police detective, danger, investigation, urban, rescue, captivity, child in peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Oh Mercy! (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense
Plot: french police, murder, police, investigation, police station, crime scene, police officer, corpse, police detective, danger, brutality, violence ...
Time: 2000s
Place: france
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59%
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Bad Boy (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Benoît Delage is a university professor loved by everyone. But his whole life is thrown off course when his son starts dabbling in crime, and it's revealed that Benoît himself went to prison years ago for killing a policeman. His excellent ...
Style: tense, suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: murder investigation, name calling, who done it, uncover truth, murderer, escapades, investigation, revenge, brutality, murder mystery, partners against crime, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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53%
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Murdered (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Cathy has been preparing herself since early morning. She is about to celebrate her daughter Eva's 20th birthday. But on this very day, Cathy's life is turned upside-down with the shocking news that her daughter has been murdered. At first ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, psychological, tense ...
Plot: partner, death, murder investigation, violence, who done it, murder mystery, murder, family relations, society, evidence, uncover truth, partners against crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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51%
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As Night Comes (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Troubled 17-year-old Sean Holloway falls in with a group of teenage outcasts called 'The Misfits,' whose charismatic leader, Ricky, takes him under his wing. But as Sean becomes more and more entangled in the gang's anarchist ways, ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, slasher ...
Plot: youth, halloween, rivalry, juvenile delinquency, gang, vengeance, teenager, violence, social misfits, gory, chaos and mayhem, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Fabienne (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Fabienne is a police officer. She does her job well but is gradually growing tired of the dehumanized nature of her work : arresting undocumented aliens day after day does not fit in with her ideals. That's why when, one night, Olga, the Kazakh ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, sincere, neo noir ...
Plot: violence against women, police investigation, working class, law enforcement, missing child, police station, murder, policewoman, family relations, dishonesty, danger, immigrant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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47%
The Young Lieutenant (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, neo noir, captivating ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, policewoman, murder investigation, female boss, job, workplace situations, police officer, police academy, homicide, recovering alcoholic, law enforcement, investigation ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: france, paris france, europe, nice france
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47%
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Dossier K. (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Vincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
Style: tense, serious, psychological, detective, captivating ...
Plot: mafia, vengeance, fighting crime, police detective, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, murder, gangster, mob boss, violent content, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, antwerp, albania, europe
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39%
Paris by Night (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s ...
Style: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, intrigue, lifestyle, dishonesty, police corruption, nightlife, betrayal, friendship, organized crime, police officer, cop, nightclub ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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38%
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Now or Never (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: As a mother, in principle, you do not rob banks. But these days, it can be a solution for the future of your home, and not to give up on your dreams. Playing the thieves can quickly become dangerous and bad encounters can turn into a love story ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, tense, serious ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, unemployment, down on your luck, family in crisis, society, plan, bankruptcy, danger, black, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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38%
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Gang in Blue (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: racism, serial killer, interracial, police, corruption, investigation, police corruption, special agent, violent content, dishonesty, rivalry, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 90s
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The Loner (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A cop is looking for the killer of his friend.
Style: rough, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, loss of partner, fighting crime, police detective, law enforcement, police chase, revenge, guy, boy, police officer, bad guy, violent content ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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37%
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Sket (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: girl gang, gang, vengeance, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, gang leader, youth, society, criminal heroes, rivalry, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
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Bypass (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Tim has no job, but Tim ‘works’, selling stolen goods...In the face of mounting internal and external pressure, how far will he go to keep his head above water and protect those he loves?
Style: touching, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot: life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, society, parents and children, family relations, youth, down on your luck, terminal illness, urban, working class, criminal
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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36%
Between the Canals (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Three small time criminals from Dublin's North Inner City each aspire to be somebody in a fast changing society.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, working class, urban ghetto life, moral dilemma, society, crime gone awry, drug dealing, unemployment, police detective, life is a bitch, downfall, st. patrick's day ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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Marseille (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseilles to get back together with Katia, his former girlfriend. But ...
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: gang, danger, family relations, parents and children, murder, mafia, father son relationship, lawyer, reprisal, rivalry, black, violent content ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: marseille, france
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A Smell of Blood (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Murder strikes a family-run perfume business, and everyone is a suspect.
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Innocence (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The fall from the top to the absolute bottom can be very fast. A renowned physician, also a beloved father and husband, is accused of a serious felony. Innocence is hard to prove, especially when in desperation to try to save oneself, we sacrifice ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, poliziottesco ...
Plot: protagonist as suspect, police investigation, life turned upside down, vengeance, life is a bitch, false accusation, child abuse, interrogation, human, rivalry, law enforcement, flashback ...
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Beyond the Sky (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Malboro and Cucu, the starring characters, are two brothers who split after the older one, Malboro, went to prison five years. One day he is set free, willing to return to his life. Cucu is the younger brother, who has become a boxer with possible ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: disorder, family relations, siblings relations, estrangement, male objectification, brother brother relationship, orphan, urban, male nudity, female bare legs, nudity, bare butt ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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24 Days (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
Style: disturbing, realistic, sincere, psychological, serious ...
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Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paula, a young art student, witnesses the assassination of her father, a university professor. Frustrated by the local police she starts to investigate the murder herself. Driven by anger, frustration and sorrow, she commits fearless acts that put ...
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The Detective 2 (2011)
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Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating
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Drushyam (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Rambabu, a cable operator, lives with his beloved wife Jyothi and two daughters. One day, his family inadvertently gets involved in a grave crime and he must go to great lengths to protect them.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, twisted ...
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Insecure (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: couples, society, fall in love, working class, immigrant, life is a bitch, misfit, security guard, gang, pursuit, youth, danger ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france
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30%
Despair Sessions (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Turkey, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A grieving father joins a support group led by a manipulative psychiatrist and an ex-police detective.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, tense
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The Last Deadly Mission (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak ...
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Place: france, europe, marseille
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