Movies and TV shows like Prime Suspect: The Lost Child
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Prime Suspect: The Lost Child (1995)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
TV show
Story:
Supt. Tennison orchestrates a search for an abducted baby, but events take a turn for the worst when personal emotions cause complications.
Style:
bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
psychologist, murder, abortion, police brutality, media circus, mother kills own child, missing person, life is a bitch, who done it, criminal psychologist, law enforcement, police investigation, police detective, child killer, promotion, uncover truth, swat team, police, motorcycle, hostage, kidnapping, pedophilia, child murderess, female detective, child abuse ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe
Most similar movies to Prime Suspect: The Lost Child
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films and TV series with plots about law enforcement, police investigation, murder, deadly, police detective, investigation and police mostly in Crime, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Prime Suspect: The Lost Child: Trial & Retribution (1997), Midsomer Murders (1997), Prime Suspect: Inner Circles (1995), Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act (2006), Prime Suspect 2 (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
tense, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
police detective, serial killer, courtroom, investigation, legal, murder mystery, police procedural, crime investigation, murder, police investigation, missing person, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
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.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, suspenseful, clever ...
Plot:
murder, police detective, murder investigation, whodunit, multiple suspects, who done it, investigation, detective inspector, human nature, twists and turns, police investigation, law enforcement ...
Time:
future, 90s, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
TV show
Story:
From IMDB: A series of brutal sex murders disturbingly similar to the pattern of Superintendent Jane Tennison's first major case leads to the awful suggestion that she may have caught the wrong man the first time.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
serial killer, false accusation, kidnapping, murder, whodunit, wannabe, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, police investigation, amateur detective, uncover truth, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
TV show
Story:
A seemingly straightforward sex murder investigation by Superintendent Jane Tennison leads to a hidden political scandal.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere
Plot:
conspiracy, murder, law enforcement, politics, dishonesty, uncover truth, police investigation, police detective, suburbs, who done it, medical examiner, prime suspect ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 182 min.
TV show
Story:
Helen Mirren returns for the final time as Jane Tennison in the long-awaited Prime Suspect 7. Retirement looms for Detective Superintendent Tennison, but as her career draws to a close, the body of a missing schoolgirl is found, and the hunt for her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
policewoman, law enforcement, police investigation, suspicion, murder, career, haunted by the past, politics, sister sister relationship, whodunit, retired, golden years ...
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 203 min.
TV show
Story:
DCI Jane Tennison's investigation of a murder is complicated with the unexpected participation of her secret lover in her detective unit.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
policewoman, interracial sex, police detective, investigation, city, interracial relations, lovers, police investigation, amateur detective, private detective, law enforcement, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min.
TV show
Story:
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison's investigation of the murder of a Bosnian refugee leads her to one, or possibly two, Serbian war criminals determined to silence the last witness to a massacre a decade before.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, bleak, tense
Plot:
policewoman, law enforcement, investigation, uncover truth, who done it, suspicion, police detective, protagonist as suspect, murder, father daughter relationship, suspense, politics ...
Place:
england, london, europe, bosnia herzegovina
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 207 min.
TV show
Story:
Assigned to a Vice squad, Detective Jane Tennison investigates a child murder and discovers a sinister link to the police. Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison moves to a new district and is put in charge of a vice investigation instead of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
policewoman, male prostitute, child rape, pimp, gay slur, lgbt, suicide attempt, street kid, social worker, cover up, police detective, murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe, england, london, manchester, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story:
Detective Tennison investigates a seemingly straightforward drug murder that she believes is linked to a smugly smooth crime boss.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
policewoman, murder investigation, forensics, politics, drug dealing, social worker, prime suspect, female detective, police corruption, juvenile delinquency, strong female presence, chief of police ...
Place:
england, europe, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
Police investigate a mutilated body found in the Thames which appears to be the product of a witchcraft killing.
Style:
rough, serious, bleak, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
police investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement, police detective, murder, partners, murder mystery, investigation, police, partners against crime, black cast, murder investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 207 min.
TV show
Story:
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 ⇓
31%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
When a man is buried alive, Red Metcalf must delve into a serial killer's psyche.
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police detective, riddles and clues, false accusation, criminal's revenge, police investigation, law enforcement, race against time, track down, deaf, child killer ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%

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:
realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, dark
Plot:
police detective, road accident, police, police investigation, car accident, life is a bitch, stranger, uncover truth, twists and turns, police officer, car, murder mystery ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%

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, realistic
Plot:
murder, uncover truth, police investigation, law enforcement, prison, courtroom, suspense, nypd, drowning, flashback, fictional country, custody ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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, 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min.
TV show
Story:
After two horribly mutilated bodies are discovered, DCI Red Metcalfe is assigned the case.
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder investigation, police detective, race against time, therapy, police investigation, husband wife relationship, god, lgbt, investigation, politics, deaf ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
TV show
Story:
A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R.D. Wingfield. Writing credit for the three episodes in the first 1992 series went to Richard ...
Style:
realistic, serious, clever, witty, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police detective, whodunit, police, investigation, riddles and clues, murder mystery, bbc, british, partners against crime, intrigue, intelligence agency, urban setting ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
The lease on the Dupayne Museum is almost up and under the terms of their father's will, all three of the Dupayne children must agree to continue or the museum is to close. Neville Dupayne is dead set against continuing the museum when the ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot:
museum, investigation, mind game, uncover truth, police detective, murder, who done it, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, law enforcement, detective inspector, mission of murder ...
Place:
london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
TV show
Story:
Blue Murder is a British crime drama television series based in Manchester. Shown on ITV from 2003 until 2009 when it was cancelled by the network, it starred Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
family relations, police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, whodunit, single mother, investigation, nypd, single parent, strong female presence, children, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of ...
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
police, murder, police detective, investigation, murder mystery, strangulation, law enforcement, police investigation, society, riddles and clues, twists and turns, who done it ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case unit composed of CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, gloomy
Plot:
police detective, psychologist, murder, murder investigation, police investigation, workplace, forensic evidence, sergeant, temperamental, forensics, cold case, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story:
Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, clever, realistic, dark
Plot:
murder investigation, whodunit, law enforcement, police investigation, who done it, police detective, chief of police, partners against crime, partners, murder, investigation, murder mystery ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, future
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%

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, serious, captivating, exciting, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, missing person, police detective, mind game, law enforcement, life is a bitch, amateur detective, suspense, missing child, murder mystery, bbc, family problems ...
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
D.C.I. Langton takes charge when the body of would-be model Louise Pennell is found,sliced in half and with her mouth mutilated into a smile. D.C. Anna Travis discovers that newspaper journalist Richard Reynolds had received anonymous typed letters ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
police detective, law enforcement, police investigation, murder, strong female presence, media circus, serial killer, detective sergeant, detective inspector, crime scene, forensics, journalist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story:
When the decomposed body of Melissa Young is found by a couple in their new flat, Detective Len Harper is determined to discover what happened to her and why nobody noticed she was missing.
Style:
captivating, serious, suspenseful, tense, dark ...
Plot:
murder, who done it, police investigation, multiple suspects, uncover truth, murder mystery, life is a bitch, one last case, social relations, loner, police officer, investigation ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, police investigation, murder, vigilantism, law enforcement, vengeance, life is a bitch, police procedural, vigilante, revenge, hospital ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
TV show
Story:
Murderland poses the question of tragedy and curiosity - can one move on from horrible and unexplained events that one experiences as a child, and grow up to make a new life? Or will peace come only once the truth is known? Murderland tells of the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, bleak, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
murder, police detective, police investigation, haunted by the past, uncover truth, who done it, life is a bitch, death of mother, murder suspect, mother daughter relationship, nypd, multiple perspectives ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Without a Trace was an American police procedural television drama series that originally ran on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder investigation, criminal, police, murder, kidnapping, fbi, law enforcement, missing person, female detective, investigation, police detective, crime investigation ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Frustrated with his career, Commander Dalgliesh is invited to Toynton Grange, a home for the disabled, by his old teacher, Father Baddeley, who is resident there. But unbeknown to Dalgliesh, something happening at the Grange is making the Father ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot:
monastery, murder, police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, who done it, riddles and clues, village, investigation, monk, police, tower ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england
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21%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.
Style:
serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
legal, forensics, lawyer, courtroom, police detective, fighting crime, workplace, cop witness relations, rivalry, power relations, punishment, courtroom drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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