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The Fire Engine That Disappeared (1993)
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Original name: Brandbilen som försvann
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:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
prostitute, mysticism, police, ocean, chase, manhunt, law enforcement, dishonesty, murder, fire, drug dealer, bomb, police procedural, police brutality, exploding house, chases and races, deadly, explosion, stabbing, crime, crimes, ocean or sea
Time:
90s, 20th century
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Most similar movies to The Fire Engine That Disappeared
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about murder, deadly, law enforcement, dishonesty, chases and races, police and chase mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Fire Engine That Disappeared: Murder at the Savoy (1993), Stockholm Marathon (1994), The Man on the Balcony (1993), Roseanna (1993), The Police Murderer (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
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 ⇓
91%
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 ⇓
91%
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 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
police, murder, crime investigation, crime scene, law enforcement, investigation, police investigation, riddles and clues, who done it, interpol, dead woman, entrapment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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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 ⇓
86%
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 ⇓
45%
357
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:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
private detective, manhunt, haunted by the past, law enforcement, murder, police procedural, suspense, nypd, snow, fictional country, deadly, chases and races
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
39%
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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 ⇓
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
During a patrol, Julie and Simon, two police constables, injure a wealthy man who pointlessly killed their partner. This wealthy man in question turns out to be the son of a politician. This is why the two police constables are accused of brutality ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, working undercover, police, drugs, criminal, chase, politician, duty, patrol, nightclub ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After ten years in prison, vicious crime boss Mario Blanco is out for revenge. Revenge against the cop that put him away. Revenge at any cost! But David, the officer that sent Blanco to jail has been in hiding since quitting the force after exposing ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
chase, gangsters, car chase, rivalry, vengeance, dishonesty, law enforcement, revenge, police, police shootout, attempted rape, female nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A stripper at the club Studio Six is murdered. A political scandal takes off when the Minister of Commerce appears to have been at the club. He resigns - but only to hide an even bigger secret.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic, controversial
Plot:
murder, journalism, life is a bitch, media, law enforcement, minister, female nudity, suspense, politics, society, violence, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, gangsters, heist, dishonesty, criminal heroes, gang, law enforcement, police investigation, chase, siege, marriage, police ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jack Reed investigates a young woman whom he and his wife take into their household when she turns out to be targeted by unknown assassins.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
nypd, murder, woman in danger, dishonesty, law enforcement, rivalry, witnessing a crime, fugitives, corruption, police, runaway, true crime ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
28%
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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 ⇓
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, murder, ex convict, diamond, warden, crime and punishment, coldhearted, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, vengeance, on the run ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Private eye Joe Dancer finds himself framed for manslaughter while trying to uncover a Hollywood scandal that could ruin a studio and destroy a top star's career.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
private investigator, private detective, hollywood, murder, manipulation, on the run, chase, reluctant partners, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, investigation, fighting crime ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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 ⇓
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, gang, murder, dishonesty, heist, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, gangsters ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Movies similar to Man on the Roof
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When entertainment lawyer Wolfgang Leighton decides to take a break from business for some fishing in Tennessee's backwoods, he ends up embroiled in a bank robbery and murder. Pursued by the killers, he's running from the police and a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
fishing, room service, bank robbery, recording studio, manhunt, false accusation, murder, dishonesty, life is a bitch, heroes, protagonist as suspect, intrigue ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Europol Agent Tom Brindle is called to Barcelona, Spain, to track down the notorious serial killer known as Pygmalion. A set of fingerprints lead to a young, volatile soldier, Marco Soler. Agent Brindle arrests Marco and intensely interrogates him, ...
Style:
scary, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police investigation, track down, mind game, siblings relations, manhunt, law enforcement, twins, police detective, dishonesty, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A former actress, unjustly sent to prison eight years earlier, is forced to testify against a mafia hit man.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
district attorney, witness, police detective, law enforcement, on the run, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, chase, legal, life is a bitch, couple relations, woman in danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A jailed auto mechanic must run for his life after he witnesses the murder of a fellow inmate by two prison guards.
Style:
campy, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
frame up, murder, chase, confined, law enforcement, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, on the run, dishonesty, death row, wrongfully committed, prison life ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
636
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 ⇓
25%
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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 ⇓
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of 3 girls.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, rough
Plot:
private detective, missing person, private investigator, law enforcement, journalism, murder, violence against women, mysticism, serial killer, dead woman, flashback, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A teenager finds a gun loaded with three bullets and shoots at the guard of a supermarket when he discovers it stealing a comic. In his escape along the road he meets a girl who has tried to commit suicide without success and both decide to take a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
on the run, murder, false accusation, strong violent content, fugitives, life is a bitch, lovers on the run, dishonesty, love and romance, criminal heroes, youth, on the road ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Swedish family found murdered in her home on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain - all except the 16-year-old daughter, who has disappeared. At first the police believe that there is a burglary gone wrong, but the more crime examined, the more ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological
Plot:
murder, journalism, media, journalist, mysticism, reporter, writers, on the run, investigation, strong female presence, ice hockey, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, morocco, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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