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Jack Taylor: Priest (2010)
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Jack Taylor: Priest (2010)
Original name: "Jack Taylor" The Priest
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story: Feature-length crime drama, starring Iain Glen as the private detective created by author Ken Bruen. Taylor is asked for help after a priest is beheaded, and soon finds himself mixed up in a murky world of child abuse and revenge.
Style: detective
Plot: private detective, catholic priest, cover up, rape, revenge, nun, priest, child abuse, brother and sister, murder investigation
Place: ireland

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Most similar movies to Jack Taylor: Priest

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, tense, captivating and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about private detective, investigation, murder investigation, private investigator, crime investigation, murder and police mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Jack Taylor: Priest: Longstreet (1971), The Fifth Commandment (2008), Switch (1975), Harry O (1973), The Huntress (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Jack Taylor: The Magdalen Martyrs (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
TV show
Story: Galway Private Investigator JACK TAYLOR is hired by the daughter of a former inmate of the infamous Magdalen Laundries to find the identity of a former nun, known only as LUCIFER, who was notorious for taking pleasure in torturing the girls. Jack ...
Style: detective
Plot: private detective, narration, death of son, hypothermia, death of friend, diary, hamburger, russian roulette, man in a wheelchair, female singer, corporal punishment, envelope of money ...
Place: ireland
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100%
Jack Taylor: Nemesis (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: This episode is actually called Nemesis. Jack Taylor: Nemesis Iain Glen returns in the second of three new crime dramas, based on the novels by Ken Bruen, about a former Garda officer now working as a private investigator after being fired from the ...
Plot: ransom, private investigator, kidnapping
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Jack Taylor: In Purgatory (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
TV show
Story: Jack and Darragh are hired by the head of a large software company to find out who has stolen valuable games data from the company. Jack takes an liking to the main suspect, but when she is killed, Jack suspects his employer and vows to bring him ...
Plot: murder, private investigator
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Jack Taylor: Cross (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: Jack is asked by Kate to meet with the family of a young man that is murdered by crucifiction.
Style: psychological, tense, atmospheric, stylized
Plot: murder investigation, private investigator, murder, crucifix, teenager, missing person, mind game, evidence, victim, manipulation, sadism, troubled ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Jack Taylor: The Guards (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story: Jack Taylor is an Irish television drama based on a series of novels by Ken Bruen. Set in Galway, the series stars Iain Glen in the eponymous role of Jack Taylor, a former officer with the Garda Síochána who becomes a "finder" after ...
Style: dark, detective, neo noir
Plot: murder mystery, car chase, drinking, drowning, abuse, fight, narration, smuggling, beating, nosebleed
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Jack Taylor: The Pikemen (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
TV show
Story: A man is brutally murdered by an unseen assailant. We glimpse the murder weapon: A steel spearhead with a scythe-like hook on the side, mounted on a shaft. Some days later and Jack Taylor is returning to his beloved Galway after having been away for ...
Style: detective
Plot: charm, injection, run over by a car, death threat, abduction, father murders son, crime scene photograph, business card, pistol whip, gun held to head, falling to death, foot chase ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Longstreet (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Longstreet is an American crime drama series that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season. A 90-minute pilot movie of the same name aired prior to the debut of the series as an ABC Movie of the Week.
Style: detective, vintage
Plot: blindness, blind character, blind man, police, murder, private detective, insurance, seeing eye dog, attempted murder, martial arts, obstacle, dog
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Fifth Commandment (2008)
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell is a German television series.
Style: captivating, detective, psychological
Plot: investigation, private detective, priest, murder investigation, fighting crime, crime investigation, crime solving, uncover truth, police detective, police investigation, who done it, criminal
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Switch (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, ...
Style: detective
Plot: cop, private investigator, con man, ex-cop, detective agency, retired cop, partner, father son relationship, sting operation, private detective, con artists
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Harry O (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Harry O, sometimes spelled Harry-O, is an American crime drama series that aired for two seasons on ABC from 1974 to 1976. The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe. Harry O followed the broadcast of two pilot ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful, vintage
Plot: police, private detective, cop, private investigator, police department, disability, misfit, law enforcement, investigation, urban, beach
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Huntress (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Huntress is an American TV series that appeared on the USA Network over subsequent summers of the 2000 and 2001 television seasons. It was inspired by a book about the real bounty hunter, Dottie Thorson, and is also a belated sequel to the 1980 ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, rough, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: bounty hunter, private detective, rivalry, chases and races, justice, fugitive, escaped prisoner, family relations, mother daughter relationship, bounty, reward, criminal ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Country: South Korea
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Style: tense, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, detective
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Jack Irish (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man ...
Style: detective, crime drama, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: private detective, investigation, private investigation, unsolved crime, uncover truth, life is a bitch, crime investigation, murder mystery, cold case, murder investigation, homicide detective, crime solving ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Honey West (1965)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Honey West is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC during the 1965–1966 television season. The series starred Anne Francis as female private detective Honey West and John Ericson as her partner, Sam Bolt. Only 30 half-hour ...
Style: detective, retro, noir, neo noir
Plot: spy, private detective, female protagonist, 007, female superhero, damsel in distress, woman with a gun, women, kickass women, martial arts, female detective, private investigator ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Fiery Priest (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: People commit variety of ugly crimes these days. However, they forgive themselves by giving testimony every week. They believe that they can repent just by having faith. But the truth is that they have faith to repeat the sins again and again ...
Style: dorama, captivating, satirical, humorous, tense ...
Plot: murder investigation, priest, prosecutor, police, murder, riddles and clues, teamwork, anger management, counselor, twists and turns, friendship between men, social problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hidden Assets (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Belgium, Canada
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Story: A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Agatha Christie's Hjerson (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, Germany, Finland, UK
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Swedish murder investigator Sven Hjerson forms an unexpected detective duo with stubborn TV producer Klara after several years of isolation. Will she also manage to recruit him for her new TV show?
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The New Mike Hammer (1984)
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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My Partner the Ghost (1969)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), first transmitted during 1969 and 1970, is a British private detective television series starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope as the private detectives Jeffrey Randall and Martin Hopkirk, respectively. The series was ...
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Place: london, britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Style: detective, realistic, serious, neo noir, rough ...
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Time: 80s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.3
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Wisting (2019)
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Country: Norway
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Empathetic, meticulous and relentless - the only thing to escape Larvik detective William Wisting in his hunt for Norway's most notorious criminals is a happy family life. And when two mysterious deaths interrupt Wisting's Christmas, it is ...
Style: detective, captivating, disturbing, exciting, clever ...
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Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Moon Over Miami (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Moon Over Miami is a short-lived American comedy series that aired on ABC.
Style: detective, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, serious
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television and originally broadcast on the ITV Network. There were two series of 13 fifty-minute episodes; the first aired in 1971, the second in 1973. The ...
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Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Rebel (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
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Story: After her brother is slain by police, Oakland police officer Rebecca “Rebel” Cole becomes disillusioned with the system and is forced to take matters into her own hands and become a private investigator and a champion for her community.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, detective
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Place: oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 720
Hassel (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Roland Hassel's father figure and mentor, Yngve Ruda, is brutally murdered in the middle of the street. Devastated, Hassel decides to undertake his own covert investigation to find Ruda's killer and avenge him with the support of ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
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Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.7
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Hope Street (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The arrival of DC Leila Hussain sets tongues wagging – what brings this big city girl to a sleepy Northern Irish seaside town? Warm-hearted detective drama in a stunning setting.
Style: detective, tense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating
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Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.2
 2K
The Sniffer (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An extraordinary sense of smell gives a crime investigator unique insight into solving mysteries, but his gift takes a toll on his personal life.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, clever, suspense ...
Plot: murder investigation, police detective, supernatural ability, investigator, partner, sense of smell, police investigation, friendship, twists and turns, police, murder, genius ...
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Beverly Hills Buntz (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Beverly Hills Buntz is a spinoff from Hill Street Blues. It aired on NBC during the 1987–88 season.
Style: detective, sitcom
Plot: private investigator, ex cop, private detective, tough cop, investigation, television flop
Place: beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 8.5
 28K
Bosch: Legacy (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Bosch is now making a living as a private investigator two years after he quit the LAPD and finds himself working with one time enemy and top-notch attorney Honey “Money” Chandler. Meanwhile, Bosch's daughter Maddie is venturing into the ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, detective
Plot: private investigator, enemy, organized crime, legal, homicide detective, relationship problems, problem, police investigation, unlikely friendships, forensics, investigation, policewoman ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 4.9
 206
Wolffs Revier (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
Style: detective, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious
Plot: police, murder, riddles and clues, family relations, danger, parents and children, chases and races, law enforcement, female nudity, homicide detective, police protagonist, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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