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The Missing (2014)
 8.2
 30K
The Missing (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 943 min.
TV show
Story: A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.
Style: detective, serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, tense, captivating, gloomy, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Plot: investigation, missing child, missing person, police detective, twists and turns, abduction, pedophile, police, child abuse, journalist, child abduction, parents and children, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, haunted by the past, grief, spy, police officer, murder mystery, reporter, aspiration, police investigation, storytelling, police procedural, supernatural horror ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, year 2009, year 2006, year 2014, 21st century, contemporary
Place: france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, tense, serious and realistic films and TV series with plots about investigation, murder mystery, police, police investigation, murder, law enforcement and police detective mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Missing: Unforgotten (2015), The Forest (2017), The Guilty (2013), Safe (2018), Baptiste (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Unforgotten (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: '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 ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, crime drama, tense ...
Plot: murder investigation, murder mystery, murder, police investigation, investigation, police, cold case, missing person, female police detective, uncover truth, father daughter relationship, haunted by the past ...
Time: future, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place: england, london
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 7.2
 13K
The Forest (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 313 min.
TV show
Story: In a small quiet village in the Ardennes, a sixteen-year-old girl disappears into the forest after calling her teacher in the middle of the night. Captain Gaspard Deker, a former soldier and newly arrived single father is conducting the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, twist ending, dark ...
Plot: forest, police, lost child, police investigation, mind game, investigation, twists and turns, missing child, secrets, partner, police detective, deception ...
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100%
 6.7
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The Guilty (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lives are torn apart and relationships fractured forever when a young child goes missing. Five years later, DCI Maggie Brand leads a new investigation and puts at risk her own happy family life.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: police investigation, missing child, dead child, law enforcement, life turned upside down, suspect, investigation, police officer, missing person
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 51K
Safe (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 356 min.
TV show
Story: After his daughter goes missing, a widower begins uncovering the dark secrets of the people closest to him.
Style: suspense, captivating, witty, thrilling, crime drama ...
Plot: investigation, missing person, parents and children, twists and turns, neighbor, missing daughter, father daughter relationship, father, female detective, suspect, private investigation, uncover truth ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.3
 10K
Baptiste (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Julien Baptiste delves into the criminal underworld of the red light district and uncovers a complex web of deceit and lies.
Style: detective, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: murder, private detective, criminal underworld, investigation, gangster, retired cop, missing girl, niece, hitman, dutch mafia, danger, human trafficking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, amsterdam
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100%
 8.4
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Broadchurch (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Style: emotional, tense, realistic, clever, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder investigation, police investigation, murder, police detective, twists and turns, grief, multiple suspects, small town, reluctant partners, legal, uncover truth, murderer ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 7.2
 11K
The Bay (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.
Style: detective, crime drama, realistic, clever, serious ...
Plot: policewoman, investigation, police, missing person, courtroom drama, police investigation, social relations, uncover truth, family relations, who done it, parents and children, law enforcer ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 942
Amber (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The disappearance of 14 year old Amber Bailey sets off a two-year search during which her family will go through unimaginable pressures. As the days, months and years progress the mystery deepens, and strange and terrifying clues come to light, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, captivating, touching ...
Plot: missing person, family relations, parents and children, missing child, family problems, suburbs, teenage girl, reporter, investigation, missing daughter, criminal, murder mystery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Disappearance (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Set in Lyon, the show traces the increasing trauma of the Morel family who fall apart when their 17-year-old daughter fails to return home from a night out. As the hours pass and the police investigation builds, The Disappearance explores every ...
Style: psychological, detective, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, jealousy, family relations, betrayal, police, nordic, partner, twists and turns, abduction, danger, intrigue ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 265K
Changeling (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
Style: psychological, heartbreaking, sentimental, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, investigation, fighting the system, missing child, missing person, police corruption, uncover truth, disorder, trial, kidnapped child, corruption ...
Time: 1920s, year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, year 1935 ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa, canada, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 800K
Prisoners (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, serial killer, twists and turns, revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, brutality, torture, police, vigilante, cop ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
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100%
 8.0
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River (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: John River, a brilliant police officer whose genius and fault-line is the fragility of his mind - a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest
Style: serious, suspenseful, detective, crime drama, surprise ending ...
Plot: police detective, police, police investigation, hallucination, twists and turns, haunted by the past, murder investigation, loneliness, police procedural, able to see the dead, nordic, partner ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, britain
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 8.5
 7K
Spiral (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Spiral is a French television police drama series created by the TV production company Son et Lumière. The first eight episodes series started on Canal+ in France on 13 December 2005. It returned for a second series, partly funded by the BBC, of ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, detective ...
Plot: lawyer, police, judge, double life, uncover truth, legal, murder, police detective, legal investigation, suspicion, twists and turns, trial ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
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Five Days (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, missing person, police detective, mind game, amateur detective, life is a bitch, law enforcement, missing child, murder mystery, family problems, sergeant, mysterious character ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.9
 647K
True Detective (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: 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, anthology, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, investigation, police investigation, murder, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, murderer, drinking problem, partners against crime, female nudity, troubled ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 2000s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: louisiana, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Secrets and Lies (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Andrea Cornell is a tough, thorough Homicide Detective who leaves no stone unturned. Her unwavering dedication to her job makes her the most formidable opponent - or a highly valuable ally.
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: investigation, murder, family relations, murder mystery, family problems, police investigation, family in crisis, child killer, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, uncover truth, who done it ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.3
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The Killing (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: 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, gloomy, neo noir, tense, serious ...
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, murder mystery, multiple suspects, murder, police investigation, female detective, crime investigation, female protagonist, murderer, who done it, strong female character ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
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 8.3
 25K
Shetland (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have ...
Style: atmospheric, tense, detective, serious, stylized ...
Plot: police, investigation, police detective, murder investigation, island, police investigation, who done it, multiple suspects, british police, murder, detective inspector, whodunit ...
Time: future, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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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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22%
 7.8
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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
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22%
 6.8
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Identity (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Identity is a British police procedural drama television series starring Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes, airing in the UK during July–August 2010. Concerning identity theft, the series was created and written by Ed Whitmore, a writer most noted for ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: police investigation, identity theft, fighting crime, law enforcement, police detective, police, hidden identity, danger, murder, murder mystery, cons and scams, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Trial & Retribution (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial ...
Style: detective, crime drama, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: police detective, serial killer, police procedural, courtroom, legal, investigation, murder mystery, exodus, crime investigation, murder, who done it, kidnapping ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Case Histories (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Case Histories is a British drama television series based on the Jackson Brodie detective novels by Kate Atkinson. It stars Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie.
Style: detective, tense, suspenseful, serious, touching ...
Plot: investigation, private detective, investigator, uncover truth, haunted by the past, missing person, suspicion, murder, murder mystery, grief, siblings, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 7.5
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The Five (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When they were twelve years old, Mark, Pru, Danny and Slade were out together in the park. Mark’s five-year-old brother, Jesse, was annoying them. They were mean – told him to get lost. Jesse ran away. He was gone. Never seen again. Twenty years ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, detective, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: crime solving, childhood friend, murder, missing person, investigation, crime investigation, police detective, murder mystery, secret, crime scene, forensics, twists and turns ...
Place: britain
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21%
 7.7
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Murphy's Law (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy.
Style: captivating, serious, clever, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: working undercover, fighting crime, police detective, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, haunted by the past, justice, anti hero, nypd, murder mystery, undercover cop, cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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21%
 7.7
 9K
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 ⇓
21%
 7.5
 2K
Collision (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 201 min.
TV show
Story: Collision is a five-part television drama miniseries, which debuted on ITV & UTV in November 2009. In the same month, it was also on PBS as a series in two parts. It tells the story of a group of strangers whose lives intertwine following a ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, police investigation, road accident, traffic accident, police, life is a bitch, uncover truth, stranger, twists and turns, car accident, car crash, police procedural ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Top of the Lake (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 750 min.
TV show
Story: A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.
Style: atmospheric, clever, bleak, captivating, detective ...
Plot: female detective, missing child, disappearance, police detective, police investigation, policewoman, child rape, bodies, life is a bitch, self discovery, child abuse, secret ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark. It won an International Emmy Award from ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: police detective, police investigation, forensics, fighting crime, law enforcement, haunted by the past, police procedural, nordic, murder mystery, law enforcer killer, war crime, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 8.1
 19K
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 ⇓
20%
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