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Unforgotten (2015)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
'Unforgotten' follows modern police team DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan, who gradually unravel long-forgotten secrets which have a dramatic impact on their investigation and the four potential suspects. The slow revelation of the secrets will also affect the personal lives of both Sunny and Cassie.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, clever, realistic, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric
Plot:
murder mystery, murder investigation, murder, investigation, police, missing person, who done it, female police detective, cold case, police investigation, uncover truth, father daughter relationship, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, sleuth, crime investigation, forensics, mysterious disappearance, unsolved crime, fighting crime, secret, homicide detective, partners, police detective, detective inspector ...
Time:
future, 70s, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films and TV series with plots about investigation, police investigation, murder mystery, murder, police detective, police and murder investigation mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Unforgotten: River (2015), Endeavour (2012), Lewis (2006), Broadchurch (2013), Grantchester (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Duration: 60 min.
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Duration: 89 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
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The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
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Audience:
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england
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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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 ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Duration: 60 min.
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Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have ...
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Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Duration: 100 min.
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Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case unit composed of CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an ...
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Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 89 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
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Duration: 240 min.
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Duration: 48 min.
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Rosemary & Thyme is a British television mystery series starring Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV in 2003. The third series ended in August 2007. The theme is murder ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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