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:
student, university, murder, serial killer, police, murder investigation
Place:
eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and suspense films with plots about murder, police, serial killer, crimes, investigation, police detective and crime 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), Evil Judgment (1984), Death Diploma (1989). 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:
blood, serial killer, death, murder, male female relationship, university, television, streetcar
Place:
poland
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Shortly after police discovers the murder of three friends, police inspector Wallander finds his friend and colleague Svedberg dead. First, it is believed that Svedberg killed himself but Wallander soon discovers links between Svedberg, the three ...
Plot:
murder investigation, voyeur, jealousy, homosexual, murder, police, shot in the leg, police procedural, police officer killed
Place:
eastern europe
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70%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An ambitious reporter gets in their way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who became active around Christmas time..
Plot:
reporter, police partner, investigation, serial killer, police, christmas, female nudity, lesbian sex, murder
Place:
new york
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A girl starts her own investigation after the police fail to catch a local serial killer.
Plot:
murder, slasher, serial killer, maniac, corruption, violence, mansion, country, justice, investigation
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two young bright university graduates start a brilliant career of gangsters.
Plot:
graduate student, college graduate, gang, mob, criminal, attack, university, mafia, nightclub, girl, fear, gangster ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Valentin Karlberg is reported missing in Stockholm and Detective Roland Hassel must find him before it's too late.
Plot:
crime investigation, excavator, illegal gambling, police procedural, murder, falling to death, phone booth, swedish police
Place:
eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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55%
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:
murder, church, police detective, priest, murder investigation, village, winter, crime, crimes, christmas, husband wife relationship, danger ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Place:
sweden
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54%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
You need to suffer, to understand....
Plot:
investigation, police, killer, murder, serial murder, crime scene, murder investigation, profanity, schizophrenic, ritual murder, swat
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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:
hangar, plane crash, murder, private detective, flashback, photographer, period piece, detective inspector, seaplane
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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53%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
What if a man with a mental condition, living in a fantasy world and detached from all emotional responsibility, is in real life the prime suspect for a series of murders targeting young women? Bill Thompson awakens to reality when forced to ...
Plot:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
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, kidnapping, corruption, murder, corrupt, crime, crimes
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same ...
Style:
microfilm
Plot:
motorcycle, stewardess, stolen identity, barracks, death by gunshot, kiss, multiple murder, investigation, kissing, hospital, airplane, false identity ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The kidnapping of a DA's wife, the murder of several minor criminals and the police finding a large stash of weapons is all in a day's work for criminal detective Roland Hassel.
Plot:
murder, kidnapping, police detective, explosion, fake identity, nightmare, grenade launcher, moaning, bomb, terrorist group, fire, helicopter ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
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:
murder, reporter, police detective, sex, dominatrix, sergeant, bank manager, serial killer, money, police, radio, satire ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
police, rape, death, murder, serial killer, female director, serial murder, murderer, rapist
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The shocking story of Joel Rifkin, a troubled young man whose hidden fantasies of power and control combined with his obsessive dedication to prostitutes led him to embark on one of the New York area’s most notorious murder sprees, claiming ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Johan Falk and his colleagues at the GSI go after sex traffickers importing young women from the East and forcing them into prostitution.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious, realistic
Plot:
murder, police, human trafficking, law enforcement, crime, danger, tough law enforcer, crimes, urban, graphic violence, trafficking, police procedural ...
Time:
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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 ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Criminal detective Roland Hassel and his colleague Bolinder is investigating a criminal gang involved in the meat packing business. Bolinder is murdered in front of Hassel and the criminals are out to kill Hassel, the only witness.
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When four degenerate thugs rape and murder a young waitress in part of their rape and murder spree, they are arrested, but get away with though a legal technicality. The brother of one of the rape/murder victims decides to become vigilante and kill ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A publisher of novels begins to receive packets containing macabre: members of a female corpse. The appearance of a mysterious woman who seems related packages will lead to a situation of dramatic denouement.
Plot:
murder, lesbian relationship, severed head, lsd, unfaithful husband, tape recording, corpse, dead woman, suicide, affair, severed arm, female nudity ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Puck’s new boss turns out to be a control freak, who isolates everyone from the outside world. After a strange death, Puck calls on detective Wijk.
Plot:
police detective, father son relationship, writers, family relations, patriarch, winter, period piece, nobel prize, despot, revenge, stenographer, hotel ...
Time:
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Place:
sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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:
realistic, serious, rough, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, poacher, countryside, rape, village, family relations, police detective, incompetent police, graphic violence, siblings relations, deadly, gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terminal illness, serial killer, murder, law enforcement, life is a bitch, crime, crimes, couple relations, police investigation, mysterious villain, murder investigation, psychopath ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ 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:
suspenseful, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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