Movies and TV shows like Scene of the Crime

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Scene of the Crime (1970)
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Scene of the Crime (1970)
Original name: Tatort
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF 2 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland. The first episode was broadcast on November 29, 1970. The opening sequence for the series has remained the same throughout the decades, which remains highly unusual for any such long-running TV series up to date. Each of the regional TV channels which together form ARD, plus ORF and SF, produces its own episodes, starring its own police inspector, some of which, like the discontinued Schimanski, have become cultural icons. The show appears on DasErste and ORF 2 on Sundays at 8:15 p.m. and currently about 30 episodes are made per year. As of March 2013, 865 episodes in total have been produced. Tatort is currently being broadcast in the United States on the MHz Worldview channel under the name Scene of the Crime.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, witty, realistic, anthology, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, crime investigation, murder, police, fighting crime, sidekick, suspicion, danger, law enforcement, police station, police investigation, riddles and clues, police protagonist, investigation, criminal, interrogation, police inspector, car chase, driver, taxi, cop, male female relationship, crime solving, german culture, urban ...
Time: 70s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: europe, germany, austria
Keyword: german

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Most similar movies to Scene of the Crime

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and detective films and TV series with plots about police detective, law enforcement, police investigation, police, investigation, murder and deadly mostly in Crime, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Scene of the Crime: Columbo (1971), A Touch of Frost (1992), Flikken Maastricht (2007), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Police Call 110 (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Columbo (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all ...
Style: clever, detective, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: police detective, murder, homicide detective, murder investigation, police protagonist, mind game, police, crime investigation, basset hound, crime solving, riddles and clues, uncover truth ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 90s, 80s, 2000s
Place: los angeles, usa
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100%
A Touch of Frost (1992)
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: detective, serious, realistic, clever, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, police, whodunit, investigation, riddles and clues, murder mystery, partners against crime, intrigue, intelligence agency, inspector, widower, urban setting ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, northern england, europe
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100%
Flikken Maastricht (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: law enforcement, police detective, fighting crime, female detective, police, cop, police investigation, forensics
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows Las Vegas criminalists working for the Las Vegas Police Department as they use physical evidence to solve grisly murders in this unusually graphic drama, which has inspired a host of other cop-show "procedurals". The ...
Style: detective, serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police, police procedural, investigator, forensics, murder investigation, murder, teamwork, medical examiner, scientist, police investigation, expert, police detective ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Police Call 110 (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: East Germany
TV show
Story: Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: crime investigation, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, criminal, domestic violence, extortion, rape, theft, swindle, cop, police ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe, east germany, german democratic republic
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79%
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Derrick (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: murder investigation, police investigation, murder, police detective, investigation, cop, police, german culture, superior officer, partners against crime, law enforcement, manners ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 80s
Place: munich germany, europe, germany
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Jo (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK
Duration: 366 min.
TV show
Story: Jo is an English-language French police procedural television series created by Canadian/USA screenwriter René Balcer of Law & Order fame with French writing team Franck Ollivier & Malina Detcheva, known for the mini-series Lost Signs. It ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Plot: police detective, police investigation, riddles and clues, fighting crime, law enforcement, murder, danger, investigation, nypd, murder mystery, criminal, murder investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Former NYPD detective and forensic genius Lincoln Rhyme was at the top of his game until a serious accident at the hands of a notorious serial killer forced him out of the field. When Amelia Sachs, an intuitive young officer who has a gift for ...
Style: serious, realistic, detective, psychological
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, police, partners against crime, forensics, riddles and clues, police investigation, danger, evidence, law enforcement, police detective ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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The Old Fox (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
Style: detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere
Plot: murder, investigation, cop, commissioner, murder investigation, police inspector, old man, police department, police commissioner, criminal, crime investigation, police ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s, 90s, 21st century
Place: munich germany, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Baretta (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. ...
Style: detective, retro, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: police detective, police, investigation, car chase, police officer, cop, agent, undercover, police protagonist, working undercover, police station, police investigation ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Wallander (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and ...
Style: psychological, tense, detective, realistic, serious ...
Plot: police detective, law enforcement, forensics, investigation, murder, police investigation, crime investigation, life is a bitch, sleuth, nordic, father daughter relationship, police protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Kojak (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the ...
Style: detective, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: police, investigation, danger, police investigation, fighting crime, rivalry, law enforcement, honest law enforcer, police detective, murder investigation, police officer, cop ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Without a Trace (2002)
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: serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: criminal, law enforcement, murder investigation, kidnapping, murder, police, fbi, missing person, police detective, female detective, investigation, federal bureau of investigation ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Killer Instinct (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Killer Instinct is an American crime drama television series filmed in Vancouver that originally aired on the Fox Network. The pilot episode aired on September 23, 2005, and the final episode aired on December 2, 2005. Fox ordered 13 episodes, only ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Plot: police detective, police investigation, fighting crime, law enforcement, partner, policewoman, true crime, woman with a gun, murder mystery, crime investigation, buddy cop, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Ironside (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Ironside is an upcoming American drama television series that is scheduled to premiere in the 2013–14 television season on NBC. It will air on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern/9 p.m. Central, after Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It is a ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, fighting crime, law enforcement, wheelchair bound, police, investigation, black cast, disabled, power relations, disability, tough law enforcer, urban ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Messiah 2: Vengeance Is Mine (2002)
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, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, riddles and clues, false accusation, criminal's revenge, danger, police investigation, law enforcement, race against time, deaf, child killer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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CSI: Miami (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, detective, realistic, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: investigation, forensics, murder, police detective, danger, policewoman, law enforcement, workplace situations, medical examiner, workplace, police, crime scene ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: miami, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Lewis (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Style: realistic, clever, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, crime investigation, sergeant, murder, investigator, multiple suspects, police investigation, detective inspector, law enforcement, suspicion, criminal ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Moses Jones (2009)
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: uncover truth, police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, murder, partner, investigation, murder mystery, police, urban, partners against crime, black cast ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Above Suspicion (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds, and features the career of La Plante's latest heroine DC ...
Style: detective, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: police detective, police investigation, serial killer, murder, law enforcement, danger, dirty cop, detective inspector, police procedural, investigation, legal, meme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, spain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Motive (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A cat-and-mouse series with a twist on the everyday whodunit, "Motive" centers on Angie Flynn, a detective on a backwards chase for clues to a killer that has already been revealed to viewers. The series, filmed in Vancouver, is an ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, detective, realistic ...
Plot: murder investigation, female detective, murder mystery, police detective, honest law enforcer, investigation, police investigation, fighting crime, sergeant, murder, law enforcement, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Vienna Crime Squad (2005)
Genre: Crime
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: law enforcement, investigation, fighting crime, partner, workplace situations, riddles and clues, police station, police detective, workplace, murder, police investigation, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Last Detective (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: The Last Detective is an ITV drama starring Peter Davison as Dangerous Davies. The first series aired in 2003 with three more seasons succeeding this. The first consisted of a pilot and three episodes, the second and the third series both consisted ...
Style: detective, clever, suspenseful, realistic, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, uncover truth, amateur detective, law enforcement, partners against crime, danger, investigation, riddles and clues, nypd ...
Time: future
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Zen (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen ...
Style: atmospheric, sexy, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, workplace, law enforcement, suspicion, corruption, transcendence, investigation, nypd, chief of police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.7
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Criminal: UK (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Within the walls of an interrogation room and with time running out, London investigators go after three suspects, each accused of a grievous crime.
Style: contemplative, atmospheric, anthology, serious, tense ...
Plot: police, interrogation, murder, investigator, criminal, investigation, law enforcement, partners against crime, law enforcer, evidence, suspicion, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Life of Crime (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
TV show
Story: A female cop becomes obsessed with tracking down the killer of a 15-year-old girl, and hunts him over the course of her 28 year career in the force.
Style: tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: murder mystery, murder, police detective, police investigation, homicide detective, obsession, law enforcement, lie, murder investigation, investigation, crime investigation, fighting crime ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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L.A. Dragnet (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith methodically investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, police investigation, partners against crime, fighting crime, society, law enforcement, police, die hard, investigation, car chase, nypd, crime investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Beck (1997)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Beck follows the Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his partner Gunvald Larson investigating various crimes.
Style: detective, tense, realistic, serious, anime ...
Plot: police detective, swedish, police, nordic, crime investigation, law enforcement, serial killer, investigation, nypd, murder mystery, working class, cop ...
Time: 20th century, future, 90s, 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.9
 49K
CSI: NY (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: CSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that ran on CBS from September 22, 2004 to February 22, 2013 for a total of nine seasons and 197 original episodes. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, serious, psychological, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, forensics, crime investigation, partners against crime, danger, medical examiner, workplace, murder investigation, police detective, forensic evidence, riddles and clues, murder ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.6
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Aspe (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: In each episode of this Flemish whodunit based on the books of Pieter Aspe, a serious crime - usually one or more murders in the author's home town Bruges - gets investigated by the grumpy but brilliant chief inspector Pieter Van In and his ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, police investigation, police detective, fighting crime, partner, who done it, law enforcement, partners against crime, whodunit, unfaithfulness, murder investigation, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe, bruges
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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