Movies and TV shows like Wallander

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Wallander (2005)
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Wallander (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.
Style: psychological, tense, detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, bleak, gloomy
Plot: police detective, law enforcement, forensics, investigation, murder, police investigation, crime investigation, life is a bitch, sleuth, nordic, father daughter relationship, murder investigation, police protagonist, small town, fighting crime, crime solving, police commissioner, partners against crime, uncover truth, criminal, family relations, police partner, teamwork, unsolved crime, partner ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
Keyword: partners, bbc, sweden

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, detective, serious and realistic films and TV series with plots about police investigation, investigation, murder, police, murder investigation, police detective and murder mystery mostly in Crime, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Wallander: Hinterland (2013), Beck (1997), Lewis (2006), Dublin Murders (2019), DCI Banks (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hinterland (2013)
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: police, investigation, homicide detective, hidden truth, murder mystery, forensics, law enforcement, police investigation, partners against crime, partner, crime investigation, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: wales, europe
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100%
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Beck (1997)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Beck follows the Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his partner Gunvald Larson investigating various crimes.
Style: detective, tense, realistic, serious, anime ...
Plot: police detective, swedish, police, nordic, crime investigation, law enforcement, serial killer, investigation, nypd, murder mystery, working class, cop ...
Time: 20th century, future, 90s, 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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100%
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Wallander (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling ...
Style: bleak, detective, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, police investigation, police, loneliness, whodunit, life is a bitch, small town, depression, drinking problem, nordic, murder mystery ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Lewis (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Style: realistic, clever, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, crime investigation, sergeant, murder, investigator, multiple suspects, police investigation, detective inspector, law enforcement, suspicion, criminal ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Dublin Murders (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Two detectives are dispatched to investigate the murder of a young girl on the outskirts of Dublin, but as the case of the missing children intensifies, both are forced to confront the darkness that lies in their past.
Style: detective, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, police investigation, police detective, mass child killing, police, forensics, secret past, psychological trauma, hidden identity, forest, crime investigation ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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DCI Banks (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A thrilling drama based on the novels by Peter Robinson. Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot.
Style: detective, realistic, tense, rough, serious ...
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, murder mystery, law enforcement, police procedural, serial killer, police investigation, police, policewoman, female partner, murder, coma ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: In a seemingly quiet country town the newest resident, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective, witty ...
Plot: detective inspector, police detective, partners against crime, unlikely partners, small town life, sleuth, riddles and clues, under the surface, investigation, whodunit, uncover truth, police investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Chestnut Man (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A young woman is found brutally murdered in a Copenhagen playground. Above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts. Adapted from the acclaimed novel.
Style: brutal, enigmatic, tense, psychological, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, murderer, investigation, murder mystery, murder investigation, forest, police, serial murder, missing person, crime solving, female detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Killing (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode ...
Style: gloomy, tense, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: murder, policewoman, cold case, serial killer, murder mystery, police investigation, murder investigation, murderer, police detective, investigation, politician, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe, copenhagen, scandinavia, afghanistan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Bridge (2011)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
Style: atmospheric, captivating, tense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: serial killer, multiple suspects, police investigation, murder, police detective, cop, twists and turns, mind game, partners against crime, murderer, murder investigation, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, scandinavia, copenhagen, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Gracepoint (2014)
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When a young boy is found dead on an idyllic beach, a major police investigation gets underway in the small California seaside town where the tragedy occurred. Soon deemed a homicide, the case sparks a media frenzy, which throws the boy's ...
Style: tense, realistic, bleak, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder investigation, small town, murder, murder mystery, police investigation, small town life, homicide detective, missing child, social relations, investigation, law enforcement, crime investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Unit One (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story: Rejseholdet is a Danish television crime series starring Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Brygmann. Produced by Danmarks Radio, the program aired 32 episodes spanning four seasons from 2000 to 2004. Each episode revolved around an elite ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: police investigation, police, fighting crime, murder mystery, murder, law enforcement, murderer, investigation, murder investigation, nordic, teamwork, crime solving ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Midnight Sun (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 440 min.
TV show
Story: Kahina Zadi, 32, a French police officer travels to Kiruna in Sweden to investigate the bestial murder of a French citizen. Together with Anders, a Swedish prosecutor of Sami origin, she begins an investigation. Soon new killings start to happen and ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, detective, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, frenchwoman, murder, conspiracy, murder investigation, homicide detective, female protagonist, danger, nordic, small town, twists and turns, sapmi ...
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cardinal (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing 13-year-old girl whose body is discovered in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine. At the same time, he comes under investigation by his new partner, Lise ...
Style: detective, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, homicide detective, psychopath, murder mystery, murder investigation, police corruption, police detective, police investigation, partners in crime, psycho killer, sadist, uncover truth ...
Time: future
Place: canada, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Vera (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and ...
Style: realistic, serious, detective, crime drama, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: female detective, police investigation, crime investigation, police detective, murder, who done it, murder mystery, british police, law enforcement, investigation, police procedural, right hand man ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: england, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Murder in Suburbia (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, rough, detective, crime drama ...
Plot: investigation, murder mystery, murder, police detective, partners against crime, murder investigation, partner, sleuth, fighting crime, police investigation, forensics, crime investigation ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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100 Code (2015)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: New York, USA. Stockholm, Sweden. Over the past twelve months young, blonde, blue-eyed women have been found dead in a meadow where Asphodel flowers grow. New York Detective Tommy Conley gets a special dispensation from the NYPD to go observe and ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, partners against crime, police investigation, psychopath, forensics, law enforcement, father daughter relationship, victim, uncover truth, multiple suspects, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Stockholm Requiem (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A series of violent murders paralyze Stockholm. Private investigator Fredrika Bergman and her colleagues seek out to solve these crimes, but soon their existence is put under threat.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, detective
Plot: investigation, police, female police detective, homicide detective, female protagonist, crime investigation, partners against crime, fighting crime, forensics, partner, police partner, murder investigation ...
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Rebus (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Rebus is the title of the detective drama TV series based on the Inspector Rebus novels by the Scottish author Ian Rankin set in and around Edinburgh. The series was produced by STV Productions for the ITV network. Four seasons have been aired; ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: police investigation, law enforcement, uncover truth, who done it, murder, multiple suspects, police, nypd, murder mystery, investigation, police inspector, failed attempt ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: scotland, england, edinburgh scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Thorne: Sleepyhead (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Thorne Sleepyhead: follows DI Tom Thornes investigation into a mysterious serial killer. His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate. Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, police investigation, murder, hunt down, danger, society, conspiracy, murder mystery, murder investigation, law enforcement, male protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Tunnel (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The plot follows detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wasserman working together to find a serial killer who left the upper-half body of a French politician and the lower-half of a British prostitute in the Channel Tunnel, at the midpoint between ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, partners against crime, partner, police detective, social worker, murder, law enforcement, hunt down, tunnel, casual sex, bodies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: english channel, europe, england, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: A British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent ...
Style: serious, detective, tense, realistic, witty ...
Plot: murder, police detective, police investigation, riddles and clues, police, investigation, buddy cop, partners against crime, nypd, investigator, shrewd, partner ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Those Who Kill (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Those Who Kill is a Danish crime TV series from 2011, which follows a fictitious unit within Copenhagen Police which specialises in investigating serial murders. The series was aired as five two-part stories in Denmark, but has aired as five feature ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, policewoman, police investigation, profiler, female protagonist, crime investigation, criminal, forensics, police, law enforcement, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Motive (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A cat-and-mouse series with a twist on the everyday whodunit, "Motive" centers on Angie Flynn, a detective on a backwards chase for clues to a killer that has already been revealed to viewers. The series, filmed in Vancouver, is an ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, detective, realistic ...
Plot: murder investigation, female detective, murder mystery, police detective, honest law enforcer, investigation, police investigation, fighting crime, sergeant, murder, law enforcement, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on the first book in Jussi Adler-Olsen's bestselling thriller series about Department Q THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES tells the story of the two policemen Carl Mørck and Assad who become involved in a five-year-old case concerning a missing ...
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: police investigation, missing person, police detective, cold case, false identity, police partner, unsolved crime, under the surface, uncover truth, investigation, murder mystery, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
13%
Medical Examiner Dr. Qin (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 33 min.
TV show
Story: Medical examiner Qin Ming, together with his assistant and a police detective, solves crimes with his expertise.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, dorama
Plot: medical examiner, police, teamwork, uncover truth, murder investigation, forensics, partners against crime, police investigation, crime solving, crime investigation, partner, investigation ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Anatomy of Evil (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria
TV show
Story: The criminal psychologist Richard Brock teaches at the University of Vienna. He used to work as a psychologist until his wife took her own life and he lost his license on suspicion of incorrect treatment. In the meantime he has developed a ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: criminal psychologist, homicide detective, forensics, police psychologist, partner, secret revealed, workplace situations, police, crime investigation, crime solving, unsolved crime, police investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Inspector Lynley TV Series
Style: detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, police, detective inspector, murder, investigation, law enforcement, police investigation, fighting crime, inspector, homicide detective, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
12%
Partners for Justice (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Baek Beom has worked as a forensic doctor for 10 years. He has a bad personality, but he is excellent with his work. Baek Beom does not open his mind to other people. Eun Sol is a rookie prosecutor with a warm heart. She has a bright personality and ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, detective
Plot: forensic, serial killer, investigation, prosecutor, murder, forensics, murder investigation, fighting crime, crime investigation, uncover truth, partners against crime, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.6
 7K
The Break (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The story is set in a small village in the Ardennes, where a young African footballer is found dead. If all clues lead first to suicide, a police officer just arrived from Brussels does not take long to discover that this is a murder.
Style: detective, dark, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, murder mystery, police, homicide detective, murder investigation, crime solving, partners against crime, partner, cold case, teamwork, fighting crime, police partner ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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