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London Spy (2015)
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London Spy (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A romance between an MI6 code genius and an ordinary man promises happiness. But tragedy strikes when the spy dies in suspicious circumstances, forcing his lover to pursue the truth behind his death.
Style: captivating, tense, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, cute, spooky, gay cinema ...
Plot: gay, espionage, gay interest, conspiracy, gay lead character, gays and lesbians, lgbt, murder, love affair, lgbtq, undercover, love and romance, gender, police, surveillance, spy, murder mystery, resistance, gay couple, buddy, pride, clandestine, mi6, gay protagonist, netflix
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: london, england, indiana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and tense films and TV series with plots about murder, lgbt, gay, investigation, lgbtq, murder mystery and deadly mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like London Spy: The Night Manager (2016), No Night Is Too Long (2002), A Very British Sex Scandal (2007), Eyewitness (2016), Any Human Heart (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Night Manager (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 346 min.
TV show
Story: Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer ...
Style: serious, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: espionage, spy, arms dealer, undercover, corruption, working undercover, secret service, arms dealing, british secret service, violent, betrayal, murder ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, switzerland, morocco, spain, london ...
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83%
No Night Is Too Long (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Young Tim Cornish's life has begun with great promise. Blessed with extraordinary good looks, Tim enjoyed much attention and cared little of broken hearts. At University he was a favored student in a prestigious creative writing course, but a ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: gay, obsession, lgbt, gay relationship, murder, gay sex, betrayal, gay romance, gay interest, love and romance, redemption, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Very British Sex Scandal (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Very British Sex Scandal tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a royal correspondent for the Daily Mail newspaper. He is a closet homosexual and like many gay men at that time, lives in secret as homosexuality is against the law. One evening he ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, sex scandal, gay slur, love affair, society, journalism, couples, scandal, writers, lgbtq ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Eyewitness (2016)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Two teenage boys secretly meet up in a cabin, bear witness to a shooting and barely escape with their lives. Desperate to keep their relationship a secret and in fear of being found by the perpetrator, they remain silent but soon learn that what has ...
Style: atmospheric, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, witnessing a crime, couple relations, murder, murder witness, forest, investigation, small town, lgbtq, witness, relationship problems, lgbt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Any Human Heart (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
TV show
Story: A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson.
Style: stylized, serious, realistic, sentimental, historical drama ...
Plot: introspection, writer's life, encounter, love and romance, historical character, love affair, writers, relationships, romantic relationship, world war one, chess, biopic ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 80s, 50s, 1920s ...
Place: england, london, france, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Page Eight (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Page Eight is lovingly turned, with elegant writing, a flawless cast and a heartfelt message from writer/director David Hare about the danger zone where spies and politicians meet. The tension builds gently as we follow the fortunes of Johnny ...
Style: political thriller, serious, tense, realistic, political ...
Plot: spy, espionage, blackmail, secret service, undercover, government agency, loss of friend, state affairs, dishonesty, father daughter relationship, prime minister, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Legacy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past. Based on Alan Judd's 2001 novel Legacy, the second in the Thoroughgood series after 1981's A ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, kgb, secret agent, government agency, betrayal, undercover, love and romance, political unrest, dishonesty, forbidden love ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place: england, london, britain, soviet union, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Game (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: London 1972. When a defecting KGB officer, Arkady Malinov, reveals Operation Glass, a devastating Soviet plot that could change the course of the Cold War, Daddy, the head of MI5, assembles a secret team to investigate. As the Soviets awaken a list ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, captivating, clever, stylized ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: spy, conspiracy, espionage, cold war, secret agent, twists and turns, state affairs, dishonesty, undercover, government agency, intelligence, post war ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Glue (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: When the body of a local teenage boy is found underneath the wheels of a tractor, the villagers in this remote community and his friends are forced to open up their world and watch their secrets spill out.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: murder, village, police investigation, uncover truth, youth, teenage life, under the surface, sexuality, investigation, lgbt, college, voodoo ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Signora Volpe (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: After years as an MI6 operative, Sylvia winds up in a village in Umbria visiting her sister Isabel and becomes involved in a murder investigation.
Style: detective, tense, thrilling, captivating
Plot: female protagonist, whodunit, spy, carabinieri, changing lives, lifestyle change, new identity, female agent, secret, female spy, new life, haunted by the past ...
Time: future
Place: italy, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Long Call (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Matthew Venn returns to the small North Devon community he grew up in with his husband and begins investigating a murder whilst coming to terms with his own traumatic past, having been excommunicated by his family and the church community ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, detective
Plot: murder, gay, lgbt, investigation, murder investigation, forensics, police investigation, murder mystery, sleuth, crime solving, crime investigation, police detective ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Banana (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Witty, heartfelt and unique interlinked stories covering different aspects of LGBT life, featuring the most exciting emerging talent.
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, controversial ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gender, gays and lesbians, lesbian, couple relations, self discovery, haunted by the past, lgbtq, lgbt, love, multiple storylines, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, manchester, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.6
 477
Cal (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Twenty-year-old Cal returns from France to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill. His finds his home city of Bristol facing hard economic times brought on by the global economic crisis, with poverty and crime on the rise and rioting ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, tense ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, love affair, life is a bitch, society, gay interest, coming of age, age difference, lgbtq, male nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 4K
Cucumber (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Original drama series from Russell T Davies exploring the passions and pitfalls of 21st century gay life, beginning with the most disastrous date night in history.
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, emotional, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexuality, gay couple, gay interest, gays and lesbians, couple relations, life turned upside down, gender, lgbtq, lgbt, fear of commitment, gay lead character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Surveillance 24/7 (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Our hero Adam gets drawn into a web of intrigue as evidence is planted on him of a gay royal affair.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: surveillance, conspiracy, intrigue, gay, race against time, investigation, rivalry, frame up, murder, danger, state affairs, amateur detective ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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State of Play (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story: A thriller set in London, in which a politician's life becomes increasingly complex as his research assistant is found dead on the London Underground and, in a seemingly unrelated incident, a teenage pickpocket is shot dead.
Style: political thriller, political, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot: conspiracy, journalism, politics, murder, journalist, corruption, twists and turns, political corruption, manipulation, moral ambiguity, state affairs, political conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, london, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Style: clever, detective, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: private detective, investigation, whodunit, murder, murder mystery, who done it, private investigator, murder investigation, danger, multiple suspects, uncover truth, riddles and clues ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, united kingdom, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Thorne: Sleepyhead (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Thorne Sleepyhead: follows DI Tom Thornes investigation into a mysterious serial killer. His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate. Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, police investigation, murder, hunt down, danger, society, conspiracy, murder mystery, murder investigation, law enforcement, male protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Heartstopper (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Charlie, a highly strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...? Based on Alice Oseman's bestselling ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, cute, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay relationship, gay love, lgbtq, lgbt teen, gay lead character, gay interest, gay couple, teenage love, gay teenager, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Closed Circuit (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A terrorist attack in London results in the capture of suspect Farroukh Erdogan (Denis Moschitto). The attorney general appoints Claudia Simmons-Howe (Rebecca Hall) as special advocate on Erdogan's legal team. On the eve of the trial, ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, political, realistic ...
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, conspiracy, cia, spy, legal action, lawyer, murder, surveillance, politics, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Fingersmith (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 181 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of two young women collide in Victorian England when a trio of 'fingersmiths' (pick-pockets) concoct an elaborate scam to defraud a young heiress of her inheritance. The story alternates between the twisting back alleyways of ...
Style: serious, realistic, costume drama, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian relationship, thief, gays and lesbians, psychiatric ward, fall in love, abuse, lgbtq, class differences, manipulation ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1860s, ancient times
Place: britain, london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
 5.0
 2K
Last Ferry (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When a young gay lawyer arrives on Fire Island to explore his sexuality, he becomes witness to a murder after being drugged. A stranger helps him to safety, but he soon discovers his saviour is friends with the killer.
Style: sentimental, psychological, sexy, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay subtext, gay interest, couple relations, gay relationship, witness, youth, gays and lesbians, murder witness, gay love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Four Lives (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of the courageous families of four young gay men who lost their lives to killer Stephen Port. Facing police failings, they fought for justice for their loved ones.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, tense, detective
Plot: murder, serial killer, justice, gay, murderer, murder investigation, crime investigation, investigation, crime solving, uncover truth, killings, women ...
Time: 2010s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.9
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Grantchester (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Drama series set in 1953, against the backdrop of the real hamlet of Grantchester. The drama focuses upon the life of Sidney Chambers, a charismatic, charming clergyman who turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious ...
Style: tense, serious, detective, crime drama, period piece ...
Plot: investigation, murder, murder mystery, partners against crime, priest, police detective, village, village life, amateur detective, clergy, friendship, haunted by the past ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1953, 1940s
Place: england, united kingdom, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.9
 2K
Messiah (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min.
TV show
Story: After two horribly mutilated bodies are discovered, DCI Red Metcalfe is assigned the case.
Style: tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, murder investigation, police detective, race against time, therapy, police investigation, chases and races, husband wife relationship, murder mystery, deaf, god, investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 330 min.
TV show
Story: In this sequel to the controversial PBS mini-series, Mona Ramsey is on a cross-country trip that takes her to a brothel which may hold a secret about her past. Michael "Mouse" Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton go on a cruise where they meet ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, sexual, emotional ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, lesbian, buddy, glbt, transgender, gay interest, lesbianism, gay subtext, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Prime Suspect (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 207 min.
TV show
Story: A female police detective investigates a series of serial murders while dealing with sexist hostility from her male comrades.
Style: detective, suspense, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, female detective, murder mystery, police detective, murder, police, obsession, investigation, sexism, uncover truth, murder investigation ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Shadow Line (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A noir thriller with diverse individuals whose worlds become interwoven after the murder of drug baron Harvey Wratten. From the cop with a bullet in his brain, whose amnesia leaves him doubtful of his own moral compass; to the drug-lord driven by a ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, detective, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, who to trust, police corruption, uncover truth, investigation, conspiracy, forensics, mysterious character, hitman, one last job, death, secret ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.5
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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 ⇓
22%
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