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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It's Yorkshire in 1974, and fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions in the last decade. But after a mutilated body is found on a construction site owned by a local property magnate, Eddie and Barry are drawn into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.
Style:
atmospheric, dark, bleak, suspenseful, serious, neo noir, gloomy, stylized, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, murder mystery, investigation, journalism, police brutality, twists and turns, conspiracy, strangulation, brutality, justice, violence, suspense, journalist, uncover truth, life is a bitch, law enforcement, dishonesty, family problems, loss of daughter, killer, politics, torture, catastrophe, revenge ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1974
Place:
yorkshire, england, scotland, northern england, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, complex and suspenseful films with plots about murder, police investigation, mentor, investigation, storytelling, brutality and runaway mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974: Memories of Murder (2003), True Confessions (1981), The Element of Crime (1984), Zodiac (2007), Chronicles (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Nine years on, another Morley child has gone missing on her way home from school. Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent ...
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Plot:
serial killer, murder, murder mystery, police investigation, justice, wrongful conviction, uncover truth, interrogation, dishonesty, clergy, confined, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
yorkshire, england, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After 6 years of brutal murders the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire, but things become more difficult for the ...
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suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, atmospheric, cerebral ...
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serial killer, murder, police corruption, police investigation, murder mystery, twists and turns, who done it, conspiracy, uncover truth, police detective, dishonesty, riddles and clues ...
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Place:
yorkshire, england, europe, london
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about ...
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Audience:
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Place:
south korea, asia, korea
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute
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neo noir, talky, suspenseful, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
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The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, scenic, stylized, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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100%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 84 min.
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Duration: 108 min.
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Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
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A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
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Duration: 312 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
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Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
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Country: USA
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Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and ...
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Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return ...
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Duration: 117 min.
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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