Movies and TV shows like Liar

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Liar (2017)
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Liar (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A teacher and a surgeon are rocked by scandalous accusations after they enjoy a seemingly innocent date.
Style: psychological thriller, captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful, crime drama, atmospheric, detective, thrilling
Plot: liar, accusation, british police, police, investigation, police investigation, single parent, rape accusation, female police detective, surgeon, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, couples, danger, female teacher, society, sexual abuse, psychology, criminal, feminist, murder mystery, school teacher, law enforcement, nypd, law, criminal psychology ...
Time: 2010s

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Most similar movies to Liar

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, tense, suspenseful and captivating films and TV series with plots about investigation, police, police investigation, murder, law enforcement, murder mystery and police detective mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Liar: The Fall (2013), Baptiste (2019), Bancroft (2017), The Secrets She Keeps (2020), Happy Valley (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Fall (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must ...
Style: psychological thriller, psychological, captivating, serious, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, female detective, police detective, police investigation, policewoman, forensics, victim, crime investigation, violence against women, police, cop, female protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland, united kingdom, belfast
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100%
 7.3
 10K
Baptiste (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Julien Baptiste delves into the criminal underworld of the red light district and uncovers a complex web of deceit and lies.
Style: detective, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: murder, private detective, criminal underworld, investigation, gangster, retired cop, missing girl, niece, hitman, dutch mafia, danger, human trafficking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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Bancroft (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A dark and compelling thriller centering on Detective Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft, a female detective with an explosive secret.
Style: detective, exciting, captivating, hardboiled detective, intellectual ...
Plot: british police, law enforcement, female protagonist, police detective, murder, investigation, danger, mind game, prodigy, partner, eccentricity, heroes ...
Time: 2010s
Place: northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Secrets She Keeps (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: In an affluent Sydney suburb, two women have a chance encounter in a supermarket. They are the same age, both heavily pregnant and due at the same time. Meghan is a glamorous influencer on the rise, with an ambitious television sports reporter ...
Style: psychological thriller, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: unhappy marriage, women, life turned upside down, poor family, dark secret, family problems, marital problem, family secret, pregnant wife, chance meeting, dysfunctional marriage, relationship problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.5
 64K
Happy Valley (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 1059 min.
TV show
Story: Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.
Style: serious, tense, detective, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: policewoman, police investigation, police, police protagonist, investigator, kidnapping, investigation, british police, whodunit, law enforcement, criminal, police station ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: yorkshire, england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
From Darkness (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 233 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Claire Church, a former police officer who moves away to the remote Western Isles in an attempt to escape the past and violence that still haunts her. Soon, Claire is pulled back into an investigation she thought she long left behind, ...
Style: detective, tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: british police, serial killer, murder investigation, policewoman, murder, police investigation, countryside, british, investigation, violence, society, family relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.9
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The Level (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A police detective finds herself at the centre of the most dangerous case of her life when she is seconded on to the investigation into the murder of a drugs trafficker. What nobody around her knows is that she is the missing witness that the police ...
Style: detective, suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: female police detective, murder investigation, forensics, investigation, drug, uncover truth, murder, secret, police officer, female detective, secret revealed, crime investigation ...
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.5
 18K
Stalker (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A pair of detectives investigate stalkers in Los Angeles. Strong and focused, Lt. Beth Davis is an expert in the field of repeated harassment, driven by personal experience of being a victim. She heads the LAPD's Threat Assessment Unit, which ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, detective ...
Plot: stalking, stalker, police, obsession, danger, psychopath, lapd, policewoman, police investigation, name calling, police detective, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Dublin Murders (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Two detectives are dispatched to investigate the murder of a young girl on the outskirts of Dublin, but as the case of the missing children intensifies, both are forced to confront the darkness that lies in their past.
Style: detective, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, police investigation, police detective, mass child killing, police, forensics, secret past, psychological trauma, hidden identity, forest, crime investigation ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.4
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Marcella (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Marcella is shocked to the core of her being when her husband Jason leaves her unexpectedly, confessing he no longer loves her. Heartbroken, Marcella returns to the Met’s Murder Squad. Ten years ago Marcella gave up her fast-tracked police career ...
Style: detective, crime drama, enigmatic, tense, captivating ...
Plot: female protagonist, serial killer, female detective, police, murder, british police, murder investigation, homicide detective, female police officer, female police detective, investigation, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.7
 7K
Bloodlands (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: police, investigation, police detective, who done it, policewoman, investigator, terrorist, female terrorist, uncover truth, murder investigation, violence, murder ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: europe, ireland, northern ireland, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.5
 3K
Better (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: After a family tragedy is narrowly averted, a corrupt police detective undergoes a painful moral awakening and decides to put right twenty years of wrongdoing but satisfying her newfound conscience won't be straightforward.
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: police corruption, moral transformation, detective inspector, life is a bitch, corruption, corrupt cop, police investigation, police officer, police detective, homicide detective, criminal, moral corruption ...
Place: yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Murder in Sweden (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Crime Inspector Maria Wern returns to duty at the Police Department on the island of Gotland, and is immediately thrown into a murder investigation.
Style: tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, detective ...
Plot: island, police investigation, single parent, law enforcement, family relations, lesbian, murder, danger, rivalry, swedish, nordic, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.7
 2K
Black Work (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
TV show
Story: 'Black Work' is the story of Jo Gillespie, a woman who's husband is shot dead in the line of action, in his job as a undercover cop. Jo, a police officer herself soon has to confront issues in her marriage and family life in order to ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: investigation, police, undercover, uncover truth, law enforcement, murder, life is a bitch, strong female presence, cheating wife, female police officer, husband wife relationship, murder mystery ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: northern england, england, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 8.0
 27K
River (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: John River, a brilliant police officer whose genius and fault-line is the fragility of his mind - a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest
Style: serious, suspenseful, detective, crime drama, surprise ending ...
Plot: police detective, police, police investigation, hallucination, twists and turns, haunted by the past, murder investigation, loneliness, police procedural, able to see the dead, nordic, partner ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.8
 20K
Undercover (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Undercover agents infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation by posing as a couple at the campground where he spends his weekends. Inspired by real events.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, mafia, dishonesty, police investigation, danger, escapades, adaptation, society, rivalry, investigation, espionage, nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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 ⇓
32%
 8.3
 25K
Shetland (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: atmospheric, tense, detective, serious, stylized ...
Plot: police, investigation, police detective, murder investigation, island, police investigation, who done it, multiple suspects, british police, murder, detective inspector, whodunit ...
Time: future, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 7.5
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Good Cop (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A dutiful Liverpool beat cop discovers what he is truly capable of after his partner is brutally murdered in a targeted attack by a local gang.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot: police, rivalry, loss of friend, law enforcement, life turned upside down, vigilantism, revenge, investigation, murder, friendship, danger, murder mystery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.1
 3K
Honour (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the heartbreaking true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner murdered by her own family for falling in love with the wrong man, Honour follows Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode's passionate search to discover the fate of ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: police, murder investigation, murder, missing woman, investigation, lawyer, uncover truth, partners against crime, family relations, who done it, police investigation, chase ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.9
 1K
Quirke (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue investigates sudden death victims in the 1950s.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, tense, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, uncover truth, haunted by the past, law enforcement, danger, death, scandal, murder mystery, morgue, police investigation, step siblings ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: The film is the first known dramatisation of one of the most notorious killing sprees in British history and was made to mark the fortieth anniversary of Hindley and Brady's trial. It was made with the full backing of the victims' ...
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, murder, investigation, death of child, rivalry, life is a bitch, true crime, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship, killer ...
Time: 60s, year 1964, year 1966, year 1963, year 1965
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.2
 4K
Prey (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Three-part crime thriller. When detective Marcus Farrow looks into a seemingly forgotten case, he has no idea of the chaos and heartache that will soon follow. He is found at the scene of a murder, and with all the evidence pointing towards him, he ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, detective, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, murder mystery, murder, false accusation, chase, uncover truth, life turned upside down, wanted, disorder, protagonist as suspect, danger, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 6.7
 4K
The Bill (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Bill is a police procedural television series that was broadcast on the ITV network from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, entitled Woodentop, which was broadcast in August 1983. In its final ...
Style: captivating, serious, sincere, detective, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: police detective, inspector, police investigation, law enforcement, fighting crime, society, workplace situations, police, partner, investigation, legal, heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place: england, london, europe, east end london
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Kidnap and Ransom (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Kidnap and Ransom is a British television three-part miniseries, originally shown on ITV in January 2011 with a second series following in February 2012. The series follows the work of a British hostage negotiator Dominic King, played by Trevor Eve, ...
Style: captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: rescue, captivity, ransom, confined, danger, kidnapping, abduction, hostage, negotiator, police, terrorist, terrorist plot ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.2
 1K
Suspects (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Set in London, each episode is a self-contained story, starting with a news report, then following the team of three detectives as they investigate the circumstances the crime. The cases themselves are hard-hitting with contemporary themes, such as ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: investigation, police, murder mystery, crime investigation, investigator, partner, who done it, murder investigation, interrogation, heroes, friendship, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.9
 5K
Van der Valk (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Set against the backdrop of the city of Amsterdam, Piet Van der Valk and his team investigate a series of high-profile cases immersed in the worlds of art, politics, addiction, mysticism and the fashion industry.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective ...
Plot: murder mystery, police investigation, riddles and clues, private detective, crime scene, investigation, mind game, prodigy, mastermind, eccentricity, twists and turns, friendship ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: amsterdam, netherlands, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 8.4
 153K
Luther (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
Style: detective, psychological thriller, atmospheric, tense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: uncover truth, murder, talented, police detective, police investigation, psychopath, police, forensics, crime investigation, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, cop ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 8.0
 9K
New Tricks (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers ...
Style: detective, crime drama, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: police detective, police investigation, police, murder mystery, investigation, elderly, law enforcement, crime investigation, old age, boss, partners against crime, uncover truth ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 8.4
 30K
Unforgotten (2015)
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 ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, crime drama, tense ...
Plot: murder investigation, murder mystery, murder, police investigation, investigation, police, cold case, missing person, female police detective, uncover truth, father daughter relationship, haunted by the past ...
Time: future, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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