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Borkmann's Point (2005)
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Original name: Borkmanns punkt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Van Veeteren finds retiring from the police force is easier said than done when two decapitated bodies are found in quick succession. The matching MO in the two grisly murders brings the investigation teams of Maardam and Kaalbringen together - a collaboration that is not without its problems.
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, detective, tense, dark, psychological thriller, grim, intellectual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police investigation, partners against crime, private detective, law enforcement, partner, police procedural, investigation, obsession, justice, forensic, decapitation, moral ambiguity, swedish, partnership, motive, cold case, slow burn, nypd, revenge, rain, bureaucracy, small town, retirement ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe
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Most similar movies to Borkmann's Point
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and tense films with plots about murder, investigation, serial killer, police procedural, deadly, law enforcement and police investigation mostly in Thriller, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Borkmann's Point: Hide (2011), Class of '76 (2005), Case G (2006), Moreno and the Silence (2006), Carambole (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Boston detective investigates the mummified remains of six women, based on a novel by Lisa Gardner.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, detective, enigmatic ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, uncover truth, police investigation, riddles and clues, law enforcement, murder mystery, investigation, crime scene, police procedural, evidence, cold case ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child."
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
amateur detective, investigation, murder, mentally unstable, riddles and clues, obsession, kidnapping, law enforcement, mystery killer, classmate, murder investigation, cold case ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
389
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Van Veeteren's only unsolved case comes back to haunt him when the daughter of a murdered private detective comes to see him. A brutal wife killer, who went into hiding years before, has resurfaced under an assumed name; or so it seems, and Van ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, private detective, police procedural, manhunt, haunted by the past, chases and races, law enforcement, investigation, investigator, cold case, evidence, suspect ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a girl is murdered soon after leaving a closed religious community, Moreno faces a difficult investigation as the community closes ranks and refuses to cooperate. When another girl is abducted and her bloody fingernails mailed to the police, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, police investigation, religions or cults, law enforcement, private detective, society, kidnapping, partner, police procedural, investigation, missing person, religious community ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
64%
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682
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
This film is based upon the book with the same name, by Håkan Nesser, one of Swedens most appreciated "crime-authors".
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
murder, hit and run, life turned upside down, private detective, law enforcement, investigation, uncover truth, blackmail, doctor, nypd, european, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
What's in a name but murder? Münster comes across the strangled body of a young woman in her home and surprises the murderer who is still on the premises. Though the murderer escapes, a rare book is found at the scene with a dedication by the ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, law enforcement, investigation, police detective, murder mystery, evidence, twists and turns, escapades, witnessing a crime, danger, nypd ...
Time:
19th century, 21st century
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story:
A quiet spring morning a man leaves prison after spending most of his adult life there. The man is convicted of murder, not once but twice.
Style:
psychological, detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, police procedural, police investigation, law enforcement, partner, released from prison, false accusation, investigation, ex convict, justice, moral ambiguity, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
Style:
tense, detective, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police investigation, murderous pair, law enforcement, fighting crime, police detective, psychopath, police procedural, investigation, female victim, cat and mouse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story:
After the death of her mother, a young woman embarks on a hunt for several men, who appear to be connected by a piece of music, which she plays to each of them over the phone, before killing them.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police investigation, rivalry, vengeance, law enforcement, female assassin, nypd, mysticism, musician, murderer, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A famous industrialist is murdered at a restaurant in Malmoe. Police inspector Martin Beck in Stockholm gets the case. The suspects lead to people involved in illegal arms deals. But who was the biggest criminal, the murderer or the industrialist?
Style:
serious, detective, bleak, grim, tense ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, police procedural, corruption, interrogation, justice, morality, political intrigue, industrialist, whodunit, corporate crime, adaptation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A boy finds a dead woman. When police move the corpse they find the skeletons of two women who disappeared in the seventies.
Style:
suspense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
murder, police investigation, family feud, police, blackmail, murder investigation, pastor, danger, investigation, cold case, police procedural, small town ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain, Lithuania
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1943, during the midst of World War II, a serial murderer appears in the Blue Division, volunteer body of Spanish soldiers who fought on the Russian front with German troops. After finding the body of a Spanish soldier who has been stuck in the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, world war two, murder, soldier, army investigation, riddles and clues, military, superior officer, rivalry, danger, gay, spanish civil war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, war, serial killer, murder, prostitute, investigation, conspiracy, nazi occupation, nazi, nazi occupied poland, homosexual subtext, male male relationship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1965, year 1942, year 1944, year 1967 ...
Place:
paris france, france, poland, hamburg germany, warsaw poland ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
An Oslo detective with a painful past returns to his native Iceland to help a dedicated cop hunt a serial killer with a link to a mysterious photo.
Style:
detective, suspenseful, rough, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, serial killer, investigation, police investigation, nordic, police corruption, police, partners against crime, law enforcement, danger, child abuse, violent content ...
Time:
future
Place:
iceland, reykjavik iceland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tearing himself away from the bedside of his coma-bound wife, a police Sergeant investigates a series of age-related murders, only to discover that time can be far more destructive and cruel than the idealistic killer........
Style:
tense, serious, psychological thriller, detective, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, coma, murder, husband wife relationship, police protagonist, serial murder, accident, police investigation, law enforcement, investigation, guilty conscience, police ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Young, ace assistant DA, Shelby Cook, works with driven cop, Mike Holland, to catch Daedalus, a serial killer infamous for luring his victims to their deaths through labyrinth traps. Three innocent men have already taken the fall for Daedalus and ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, law enforcement, legal investigation, police investigation, dedicated lawyer, twists and turns, legal, parents and children, rivalry, investigation, family secret, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark. Under hypnosis, a mental patient admits to several recent murders. He also offers a strange defense when he claims that he is the reincarnation of a 19th century man who was wrongly executed.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
reincarnation, serial killer, police detective, woman in danger, law enforcement, murder, investigation, revenge, psychosis, hypnosis, trauma, mental institution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Detective John Traveller (Peter Coyote) is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover. His partner and friend, Detective Matthew Ransom, becomes very upset, affecting his marriage that was not working well. The lover of John's wife was ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, detective ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, protagonist as suspect, riddles and clues, manipulation, law enforcement, danger, who done it, dishonesty, graphic violence, investigation, guilt ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
A horrific discovery in a small town nestled high in the French Pyrenees begins to unravel a dark mystery that has been hidden for years. On an unforgiving winter morning, a group of workers discover the headless body of a horse, hanging suspended ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, detective, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, mind game, danger, police detective, mountain, madness, police procedural, mysterious disappearance, revenge, obsession ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A small criminal who is reported missing is found murdered in the safe of a known bank manager. While working with the motive behind the murder it is discovered that a large amount of counterfeit shares and bonds are in circulation. Hassel and his ...
Style:
detective, tense, suspenseful, realistic, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
police procedural, murder, bank, forgery, corruption, law enforcement, investigation, conspiracy, fraud, motive, evidence, organized crime ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eve Duncan is contacted, 10 years after the disappearance and murder of her 7-year-old daughter Bonnie, by a man claiming to be her killer. Taunted by his clues about Bonnie's case and his threats to kill again, she throws herself into her ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, danger, haunted by the past, cold case, forensic, death, bereavement, cat and mouse, evidence, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 176 min.
TV show
Story:
Swedish miniseries based upon the novel of the same name by Håkan Nesser.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective, realistic
Plot:
murder, uncover truth, law enforcement, police investigation, courtroom, prison, nypd, flashback, drowning, memory loss, custody, wrongful conviction ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
mississippi, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, private detective, amateur detective, danger, investigation, rivalry, murder, psychopath, police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, who done it ...
Time:
year 1995, year 2005
Place:
usa, oregon, new york
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
For more than 10 years, Russian police forces have tried to stop the country’s smartest and most wanted serial killer. But even when he gets caught, nobody can prove his guilt. As the manhunt intensifies, the investigation grows increasingly ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, detective, dark, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, killing, crime investigation, murderer, killing spree, criminal justice, police investigation, serial murder, murder investigation, murder mystery, murder ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
eastern europe, russia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a bloodied and incoherent Jun (Wang Baoqiang) confesses to five murders that have not occurred, the police assume that he's mentally unstable and ignore his claims. Police detective Han (Lau Ching-wan) is investigating a series of gruesome ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, social misfits, couple relations, mentally challenged, estrangement, murder, mentally unstable, law enforcement, unsupportive spouse, police station, police procedural, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Chasing Shadows' follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, crime investigation, missing person, homicide detective, murder mystery, murder, police investigation, law enforcement, serial murder, investigation, partners against crime, uncover truth ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A pathologist and a police commissioner try to solve a series of murders involving a prisoner. Their journey leads to shocking revelations!
Style:
suspense, dramatic, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, morgue, corpse, police, pathologist, woman, murder mystery, death, police investigation, police officer, autopsy, forensics ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 229 min.
TV show
Story:
The 5th woman unfolds autumn 1994. An elderly man found in a gillrad pitfall impaled to death on the sharp sharpened bamboo poles, ecstatic praise of crows. Shortly afterwards disappears a florist without a trace and he also found executed in the ...
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
police detective, serial killer, police investigation, vigilantism, law enforcement, murder, vengeance, life is a bitch, police procedural, vigilante, hospital, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Detective Katrine Ries Jensen and legal psychiatrist Thomas Schaeffer form a special unit at the Copenhagen Police investigating serial killings. A case from Schaeffer’s past crops up. As a young psychologist, he held back from sending a patient, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, mentally unstable, homicidal maniac, police officer, manhunt, serial killer, soldier, murder mystery, police procedural, mind game, violent ...
Place:
copenhagen
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Sudhi and Madhu are police officers at a small wireless police station on the hilltop. Amidst the heavy monsoon, they receive word that a woman`s body parts have been scattered all over Elaveezhapoonchira. Will they solve the mystery?
Style:
suspenseful, detective, tense, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
murder investigation, officer, job, police, crime investigation, investigation, police station, police officer, murder, police investigation, true crime, female victim ...
Similarity:
21%
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