Movies like Roseanna

If you like "Roseanna" you are looking for rough, bleak and serious movies about / with police, murder, crime investigation, crime scene, investigation, who done it and interpol themes of Crime, Drama and Thriller genre shot in Sweden or Germany.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Roseanna (1993)
 6.2
 1K
Roseanna (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the murder cant be solved. Martin Beck and his men are assigned to the case. Soon they find a likely suspect and together with a police woman they begin a cat and mouse game to catch him. Plot by Mattias Pettersson.
Style: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: police, murder, crime investigation, crime scene, investigation, who done it, interpol, law enforcement, police investigation, riddles and clues, ship, sex maniac, entrapment, police procedural, dead woman, dead girl, tailing a suspect, sexual murder, canal, danger, deadly, film within a film, shooting range, mystery, crime ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: sweden

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to Roseanna

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about murder, law enforcement, deadly, police investigation, police, investigation and police procedural mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Roseanna: The Man on the Balcony (1993), Murder at the Savoy (1993), Stockholm Marathon (1994), The Police Murderer (1994), The White Lioness (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
The Man on the Balcony (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A serial-killer attacks and murders young girls in the parks of Stockholm. The police have trouble finding any evidence to find the killer. But when a newsstand is robbed in one of the parks while the murderer strikes again, police inspector Martin ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, rough, realistic
Plot: serial killer, child murder investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, child murder, murder, police, criminal heroes, serial child killer, dead children, sex maniac, vigilante ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: sweden, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Murder at the Savoy (1993)
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: mind bending, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: murder, police, law enforcement, investigation, arms dealing, medical, businessman, hospital, arms deal, police procedural, murder investigation, deadly ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
The Fire Engine That Disappeared (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A routine mission ends up in a flaming inferno when a house suddenly explodes. It looks like a spectacular suicide attempt but the technical investigation reveals unexpected evidence. Beck and his men are soon on the tracks of a narcotic syndicate...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: prostitute, mysticism, police, dishonesty, chase, law enforcement, manhunt, ocean, police procedural, murder, police brutality, drug dealer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Stockholm Marathon (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A gardener decides to exact revenge on the men he believes to be responsible for the death of his mentally disturbed wife.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: law enforcement, police, obsessive quest, chase, vengeance, rivalry, mind game, mentally unstable, police detective, nude, male nudity, seamstress ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: sweden, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Movie in collections
bleak movies
6748
realistic movies
28805
suspenseful movies
19837
sweden movies
519
The Police Murderer (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at the same time become, without their knowledge, suspects for the murder. They are chased by a large number of police but only Martin Beck believes them to ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: police, amusement park, life is a bitch, law enforcement, manhunt, witnessing a crime, protagonist as suspect, winter, snow, strangulation, small town, murder ...
Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Prime Time (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It is Midsummer's Eve and ten people are on a deserted castle for a TV recording. The next morning the program leader is shot dead. Kvällspressens Annika Bengtzon a mandate to monitor the murder, but she soon learns that her best friend Anne ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: investigation, murder, journalism, law enforcement, false accusation, estate, dishonesty, multiple suspects, who done it, writers, suspense, mysticism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The White Lioness (1996)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization. In Skåne, southwest of Sweden, is given to the real estate agent Louise Åkerblom by missing and ...
Style: mind bending, realistic, serious, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: murder, conspiracy, graphic violence, political corruption, who done it, kgb, political conspiracy, police corruption, fish out of water, dishonesty, police investigation, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place: south africa, africa, russia, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Crown Witness (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A movie by Jon Lindström
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: police investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, missing person, murder, twists and turns, scientist, courtroom, missing girl, murder investigation, rat, research laboratory ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Movie in collections
The Detective 2 (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mysteries keep revolving around Tam’s life.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: investigation, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, private detective, murder, riddles and clues, serial killer, killer, graphic violence, danger, shotgun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, china, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.9
 1K
Quirke (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue investigates sudden death victims in the 1950s.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, tense, suspenseful
Plot: investigation, murder, haunted by the past, uncover truth, intrigue, law enforcement, death, suspense, pathologist, murder mystery, morgue, dishonesty ...
Time: 50s, 20th century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Moreno and the Silence (2006)
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: serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: murder, police investigation, religions or cults, society, partners, law enforcement, private detective, kidnapping, cult, nypd, fictional country, police procedural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Borkmann's Point (2005)
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 ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
Plot: serial killer, partners against crime, police investigation, murder, private detective, law enforcement, partners, suspense, nypd, police procedural, fictional country, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Fifth Woman (2002)
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 ⇓
46%
Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Lifetime (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When David Lindholm, Sweden's most famous police officer, found shot in bed identifies herself quickly with his young wife Julia. Julia is threatened with life imprisonment for murder, both her ​​husband and her missing four year old son ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, journalism, dishonesty, race against time, murder investigation, crime investigation, homicide detective, murder mystery, missing child, murderer, private investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, sweden, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Swallow, Cat, Rose, Death (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
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, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, law enforcement, investigation, murder mystery, police detective, suspense, evidence, escapades, twists and turns, witnessing a crime, nypd ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.1
 755
Max & Jeremie (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, stylized
Plot: gangsters, killer, criminal heroes, retiring, hitman, graphic violence, police, violence, murder, train, immaturity, police brutality ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.5
 457
The Gunman (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Detective Ben Simm's wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, investigation, vengeance, haunted by the past, serial killer, psychopath, law enforcement, vigilantism, track down, murder, who done it, vigilante ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.0
 9K
The Hunters (1996)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-running case where reindeers have been poached and soon discovers that his brother is involved...
Style: neo noir, dark, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: poacher, rape, sex crime, murder mystery, countryside, politics, whodunit, murder, hunter, sibling relationship, dirty cop, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Movie in collections
The Dark House (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story takes place in two parallel time planes. The first plot follows the events of one autumn night in 1978. Edward Srodon, a zootechnician, makes an accidental stopover in a farmhouse of Dziabas family in the remote area of Bieszczady ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: murder, race against time, who done it, law enforcement, crime scene, martial law, winter, multiple storylines, suspense, snow, haunted house, countryside ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.4
 873
Pavement (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, haunted by the past, vengeance, animal life, amateur detective, law enforcement, psychopath, obsessive quest, police investigation, gang ...
Place: san francisco, south africa, alaska, usa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
He Died with His Eyes Open (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois, a French murder mystery based upon a novel of the same name, is an unusual, involving film with excellent performances by its entire cast. Police Inspector Staniland (Michel Serrault) is investigating the death of a ...
Style: neo noir, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: femme fatale, murder, police detective, seduction, who done it, investigation, couples, law enforcement, dishonesty, crime investigation, jealousy, incest overtones ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: canada, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Donato and Daughter (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Though emotionally estranged, a father and daughter team of Los Angeles police detectives must work together to stop a serial killer. Along the way, the two find themselves forced to deal with a number of painful secrets from their past.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, family life, parents and children, estrangement, fighting crime, partners, law enforcement, amateur detective, who done it, nypd, transvestite ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.1
 636
Carambole (2005)
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
Plot: murder, hit and run, life turned upside down, investigation, uncover truth, private detective, law enforcement, blackmail, doctor, suspense, serial killer, nypd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Movie in collections
Gone but Not Forgotten (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 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, suspenseful, serious, psychological
Plot: serial killer, private detective, investigation, amateur detective, murder, psychopath, mind game, rivalry, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, who done it, police investigation ...
Place: usa, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Death of an Expert Witness (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: When Dr. Edwin Lorrimer, a forensic scientist working at a private laboratory is found killed, Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is sent to investigate. Dalgliesh had been in the area a few months previously investigating the murder of a young ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot: murder, multiple suspects, who done it, riddles and clues, law enforcement, police investigation, laboratory, investigation, police, danger, deadly
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.4
 237
The Preacher (2007)
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: bleak, suspenseful, serious
Plot: police investigation, family feud, murder, police, murder investigation, blackmail, pastor, suspense, dead woman, danger
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Swedish tabloid Kvällspressen has set their crime reporter, Annika Bengtzon, to monitor a complex murder case. The victim is a colleague and the only witness is a 15-year-old boy. Bengtzons inquiries may be an unexpected turn when the tracks ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot: murder, journalism, investigation, dishonesty, husband wife relationship, family relations, writers, reporter, mysticism, state affairs, media, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sweden, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Deathly Compulsion (1999)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A present-day thriller about a man with a needle in his brain. This needle poisons his mind and tortures him with morbid thoughts and an urge to kill. When he finally commits a murder there is a witness, who is drawn into a deadly game of cat and ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: murder, graphic violence, psychopath, law enforcement, race against time, protagonist as suspect, police investigation, serial killer, heroes, sexual murder, murderer, sexual perversion ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Johan Falk: Spelets regler (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It's been two years since John Falk and Frank Wagner broke their cooperation and Frank started working undercover with the police. Frank's search for Kevin crosses Johan's investigation and opens up a new collaboration between them - ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: crime investigation, graphic violence, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, drug dealing, murder, drug smuggling, police procedural, criminal, danger, urban
Time: 21st century
Place: sweden, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.3
 177
Kojak: Ariana (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash young associate.
Style: serious, realistic, witty, rough, clever ...
Plot: police investigation, law enforcement, fighting crime, tough law enforcer, riddles and clues, who done it, police, murder, criminal, city, reunion, urban
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%