Movies like The Chosen 2005
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The Chosen (2005)
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Original name: Den utvalde
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple of brutal and mysterious murders point to Uppsala University. Johan, a last year student at the police academy, gets involved in the investigation. He enrolls a course at the University in order to, under cover, track down the killer.
Plot:
murder, university, serial killer, police, student, murder investigation
Place:
eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, disturbing and serious films with plots about murder, police, serial killer, murder investigation, investigation, police detective and violence mostly in Thriller, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Chosen: Polish Death (1995), One Step Behind (2005), Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998), The Legacy of the Bones (2019), The Beast (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Young man frustrated with his life and pointless job becomes one of the suspects in serial killer investigation, but he suspects someone else...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A murder investigation takes detective Christer Wijk to a small village, where he needs to separate rumors and facts to trail the murderer.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
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Place:
sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Two rival detectives with different methods try to solve the murder of a missing girl after discovering her mutilated body in the tidelands of Incheon.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, twists and turns
Plot:
murderer, police, murder investigation, murder, police detective, partners, investigation, serial killer, police operation, brutality, rivalry, unsolved crime ...
Place:
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The dead body of a young man who was kidnapped is found, the police looks for the kidnappers as a web of corruption its uncovered in the police department.
Plot:
police, corruption, kidnapping, murder, corrupt, crimes
Place:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Harry Friberg has received a photo assignment at Lindarängen's airport in Stockholm. The assignment turns into a nightmare when the photographer is invited to a crayfish party by the company's director.
Plot:
air disaster, private detective, murder, plane crash, detective inspector, photographer, flashback, seaplane, killed by a propeller, hangar
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours are flying in the nearby village of Elizondo. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or is ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a serial killer abducts a young woman’s fiancé, she must race against the clock to discover the identity of the killer, and more importantly – his motive.
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, psychological, twists and turns, psychological thriller
Plot:
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Duration: 60 min.
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A series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And the killer regularly calls about his handiwork, but only to a street-wise, and usually rather tipsy, radio reporter, about to be sacked for his habitual ...
Plot:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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