Movies and TV shows like The Killing 2007
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The Killing (2007)
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Original name: Forbrydelsen
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 covering twenty-four hours of the investigation. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the story of the murdered victim's family alongside the police investigation. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast.
Style:
psychological, gloomy, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, atmospheric, political, dark, spooky ...
Plot:
murder, policewoman, homicide detective, whodunit, serial killer, murder mystery, police investigation, who done it, murder investigation, murderer, police detective, investigation, politician, uncover truth, election, investigator, family problems, suspicion, crime investigation, dishonesty, strong female character, conspiracy, unsolved crime, assassination plot, crime solving ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
denmark, europe, scandinavia, copenhagen, afghanistan, sweden, eastern europe ...
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Most similar movies to The Killing
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, realistic and serious films and TV series with plots about murder mystery, murder, police investigation, investigation, police, murder investigation and law enforcement mostly in Crime, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Killing: The Bridge (2011), Broadchurch (2013), Happy Valley (2014), Cold Case (2003), The Chestnut Man (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 60 min.
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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 ...
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, multiple suspects, murder, police detective, murder investigation, twists and turns, partners against crime, mind game, videotaping, riddles and clues, forensics ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, denmark, scandinavia, copenhagen, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
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The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder.
Style:
psychological, serious, gloomy, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder investigation, police detective, strong female lead, multiple suspects, murder mystery, murder, police investigation, female protagonist, crime investigation, female detective, policewoman, strong female character ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
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The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Style:
emotional, clever, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder investigation, police investigation, murder, twists and turns, police detective, multiple suspects, small town, grief, legal, who done it, murderer, whodunit ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
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88%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
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Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.
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serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
policewoman, police, investigator, kidnapping, rape, police investigation, police protagonist, investigation, female protagonist, law enforcement, criminal, police station ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
yorkshire, england
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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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 ...
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atmospheric, serious, realistic, tense, bleak ...
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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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Movies similar to Criminal Minds
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 50 min.
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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:
enigmatic, brutal, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, murderer, murder investigation, investigation, serial murder, forest, murder mystery, police, missing person, crime solving, female detective ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
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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, serious, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
police detective, murder investigation, police investigation, loneliness, life is a bitch, drinking problem, small town, depression, police officer, police, whodunit, murder mystery ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
sweden, scandinavia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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A murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz.
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tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, twists and turns, partners, policewoman, murder, drug cartel, police investigation, interrogation, u.s. mexico border, corruption, marital problem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, usa
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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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, captivating, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
murder mystery, murder, female detective, police investigation, crime investigation, law enforcement, police detective, british police, who done it, investigation, right hand man, british ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, northern england
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 207 min.
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A female police detective investigates a series of serial murders while dealing with sexist hostility from her male comrades.
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, emotional, enigmatic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, police investigation, police detective, suspense, obsession, investigation, female detective, police, police station, sexism, murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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TV shows similar to Columbo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 59 min.
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A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, tense, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, killings, victim, police detective, responsibility, investigator, victorian england, multiple suspects, notoriety, jack the ripper, murder, who done it ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, 1880s, 1890s
Place:
england, london, europe, east end london
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
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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 ...
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psychological, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
sleuth, law enforcement, police detective, forensics, investigation, murder, police investigation, crime investigation, life is a bitch, father daughter relationship, murder investigation, police protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
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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:
realistic, tense, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, policewoman, homicide detective, profiler, forensics, female protagonist, criminal, police partner, police ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe, copenhagen
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.
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atmospheric, clever, bleak, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police detective, female detective, missing child, disappearance, police investigation, policewoman, bodies, child rape, life is a bitch, self discovery, hidden truth, child abuse ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new zealand
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86%
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 ...
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tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, serious, dark ...
Plot:
police investigation, missing person, suspense, police detective, uncover truth, unsolved crime, cold case, false identity, police partner, under the surface, investigation, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, sweden, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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TV shows similar to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 42 min.
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Copenhagen Police's Homicide unit, headed by Jens Møller, tries to solve the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall.
Style:
disturbing, tense, intellectual, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot:
murder of a woman, true crime, law enforcement, murder mystery, police, journalist, female journalist, brutal murder, police investigation, murder investigation, uncover truth, investigation ...
Time:
year 2017, 21st century
Place:
copenhagen
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100%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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, police investigation, small town, murder, missing child, homicide detective, social relations, small town life, murder mystery, investigation, law enforcement, crime investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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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 ...
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atmospheric, serious, tense, bleak, dark ...
Plot:
police, investigation, homicide detective, murder mystery, law enforcement, police investigation, hidden truth, forensics, partners against crime, partners, crime investigation, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
wales, europe
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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'Unforgotten' follows modern police team DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan, who gradually unravel long-forgotten secrets which have a dramatic impact on their investigation and the four potential suspects. The slow revelation of the ...
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tense, suspenseful, serious, clever, realistic ...
Plot:
murder mystery, murder investigation, murder, investigation, police, missing person, who done it, female police detective, cold case, police investigation, uncover truth, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
future, 70s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, london
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, tense, rough, dramatic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
uncover truth, murder, partners, talented, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, cruelty, psychopath, police, forensics, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Midsomer Murders
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 45 min.
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Based on true stories about real homicide investigations in the south of Sweden between 1989-2004. The six-part series explores the murder of 10-year-old Helen Nilsson in Hörby, southern Sweden, a seemingly impossible case that remained unsolved ...
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tense, unusual plot structure, psychological, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot:
murder investigation, child murder, homicide detective, true crime, sex crime, child rape, police officer, serial killer, murder, interrogation, police procedural, crime investigation ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, sweden, eastern europe
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
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An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
Style:
neo noir, serious, atmospheric, gloomy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, police investigation, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, murder, murderer, drinking problem, partners, partners against crime, graphic violence ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, california, usa
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50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 43 min.
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When a gruesomely staged body is found, propped up on a mountain pass in the Alps close to the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate. For German detective Ellie, this is the first real challenge of her career; her Austrian ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, slasher, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
murder, suspense, police investigation, society, death, murderer, abduction, brutality, german, violence, life philosophy, ritual ...
Place:
germany, alps, austria
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland
Duration: 341 min.
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Two days before Christmas, while Sweden is paralyzed by a heavy snowstorm, five-week-old baby Lukas inexplicably disappears from his home. Experienced police officer Alice thinks that something is not right in the parents' stories.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, clever
Plot:
winter, missing person, police officer, deaf child, child neglect, social realism, murder investigation, police, family relations, track down, partners, partners against crime ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, sweden, eastern europe
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland, Estonia
Duration: 45 min.
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Lauri Räihä, a criminal investigator from Helsinki, is sent to investigate two murders that have occurred in the northern Finnish town where he grew up. The assignment offers Lauri a way out of confronting his own problems.
Style:
unusual plot structure, tense, psychological, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot:
murder investigation, past, crime investigation, police detective, police officer, murder, revenge, police, who done it, murder mystery, family relations, uncover truth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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TV shows similar to True Detective
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 440 min.
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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, dark, atmospheric
Plot:
serial killer, murder investigation, frenchwoman, murder, conspiracy, homicide detective, female protagonist, small town, twists and turns, suspense, lgbt, nypd ...
Place:
sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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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 ...
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realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
police, murder investigation, police procedural, scientist, forensics, investigator, workplace, expert, murder, teamwork, police investigation, police detective ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas, nevada
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 46 min.
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National Security agent Fatima receives a tip that a terrorist attack against Sweden is in the planning stage. Meanwhile Sulle, a teenage girl in Stockholm, gets interested in her student assistent who opens doors to a new and fascinating world - ...
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exciting, disturbing, tense, slasher, dramatic
Plot:
isis, hijab, terrorist, terrorism, suicide bomber, islamic terrorism, islam, muslim, intelligence agency, rape, police, conspiracy ...
Place:
syria, middle east, sweden, eastern europe
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 421 min.
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Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
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psychological, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
murder investigation, murder, suspense, small town, self mutilation, haunted by the past, mother daughter relationship, hometown, journalist, reporter, self harm, serial killer ...
Place:
usa, missouri
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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
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12%
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