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Bordertown (2016)
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Bordertown (2016)
Original name: Sorjonen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Peculiar detective Kari Sorjonen escapes the hustle and bustle of big city to a small border town.
Style: detective, tense, noir, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, atmospheric, dark, crime drama, gloomy ...
Audience: kids
Plot: border, crime investigation, small town, nordic, police detective, police, family relations, teenage girl, corruption, eccentricity, serial killer, danger, friendship, society, police officer, spy, killer, forest, investigation, supernatural, criminal, murder mystery, forensics, police procedural, woman with a gun ...
Place: finland, russia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, detective and captivating films and TV series with plots about investigation, police, murder, police officer, police investigation, murder mystery and murder investigation mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Bordertown: Bordertown: The Mural Murders (2021), Black Spot (2017), The Forest (2017), Deadwind (2018), The Truth Will Out (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bordertown: The Mural Murders (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, “Making the world a better place”, is linked to a voting circulating in social ...
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, killer, murderer, lynching, murder investigation, investigation, sleuth, crime solving, mental illness, killings, mysterious villain, murder mystery ...
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Black Spot (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: In the small bordertown of Villefranche, lost in the heart of a large forest, crime rate is six times higher than elsewhere in the area. Each new crime Major Laurène Weiss solves with the help of her unusual team makes her sink deeper and deeper ...
Style: scenic, dark, suspense, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: murder, supernatural, forest, small town, police, investigation, missing child, secret, isolation, danger, crime investigation, nature ...
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The Forest (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 313 min.
TV show
Story: In a small quiet village in the Ardennes, a sixteen-year-old girl disappears into the forest after calling her teacher in the middle of the night. Captain Gaspard Deker, a former soldier and newly arrived single father is conducting the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, twist ending, dark ...
Plot: forest, police, lost child, police investigation, mind game, investigation, twists and turns, missing child, secrets, partner, police detective, deception ...
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Deadwind (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, tense, dark ...
Plot: murder, homicide detective, family relations, danger, friendship, vengeance, female detective, ship, criminal, grief, nordic, investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: helsinki finland, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Truth Will Out (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Police detective Peter Wendel leads a cold case group. Based on an original idea by Leif GW Persson, one of Sweden’s most recognized criminologists.
Style: detective, tense, captivating, enigmatic, suspense
Plot: cold case, murder, wrongful conviction, childhood trauma, ex husband ex wife relationship, mental illness, police, corruption, father daughter relationship, politician, investigation, rivalry ...
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Broadchurch (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Style: emotional, tense, realistic, clever, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder investigation, police investigation, murder, police detective, twists and turns, grief, multiple suspects, small town, reluctant partners, legal, uncover truth, murderer ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
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The Disappearance (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Set in Lyon, the show traces the increasing trauma of the Morel family who fall apart when their 17-year-old daughter fails to return home from a night out. As the hours pass and the police investigation builds, The Disappearance explores every ...
Style: psychological, detective, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, jealousy, family relations, betrayal, police, nordic, partner, twists and turns, abduction, danger, intrigue ...
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The Break (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The story is set in a small village in the Ardennes, where a young African footballer is found dead. If all clues lead first to suicide, a police officer just arrived from Brussels does not take long to discover that this is a murder.
Style: detective, dark, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, murder mystery, police, homicide detective, murder investigation, crime solving, partners against crime, partner, cold case, teamwork, fighting crime, police partner ...
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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 ⇓
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Trapped (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: As a ferry carrying 300 passengers from Denmark pulls into an Icelandic town’s small port, heavy snow begins to fall. The ferry can’t leave until the storm passes and the main road into town is impassable. A mutilated and dismembered body washes ...
Style: atmospheric, detective, crime drama, scenic, bleak ...
Plot: murder investigation, police, murder, snowstorm, small town, coastal town, winter, nordic, investigation, ex wife, danger, voodoo ...
Place: iceland
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The Chestnut Man (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A young woman is found brutally murdered in a Copenhagen playground. Above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts. Adapted from the acclaimed novel.
Style: brutal, enigmatic, tense, psychological, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, murderer, investigation, murder mystery, murder investigation, forest, police, serial murder, missing person, crime solving, female detective ...
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The Five (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When they were twelve years old, Mark, Pru, Danny and Slade were out together in the park. Mark’s five-year-old brother, Jesse, was annoying them. They were mean – told him to get lost. Jesse ran away. He was gone. Never seen again. Twenty years ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, detective, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: crime solving, childhood friend, murder, missing person, investigation, crime investigation, police detective, murder mystery, secret, crime scene, forensics, twists and turns ...
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cardinal (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing 13-year-old girl whose body is discovered in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine. At the same time, he comes under investigation by his new partner, Lise ...
Style: detective, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, homicide detective, psychopath, murder mystery, murder investigation, police corruption, police detective, police investigation, partners in crime, psycho killer, sadist, uncover truth ...
Time: future
Place: canada, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 60K
The Alienist (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Crime reporter, John Moore, meets with psychologist, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, to investigate a serial killer in New York during the late 19th century.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, detective, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, mental illness, police, murder mystery, murder investigation, psychologist, crime investigation, ritual, private detective, investigation, homicide detective, psychopath ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 2010s
Place: new york, america
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The Valhalla Murders (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: An Oslo detective with a painful past returns to his native Iceland to help a dedicated cop hunt a serial killer with a link to a mysterious photo.
Style: detective, disturbing, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, police investigation, nordic, police corruption, police, partners against crime, law enforcement, danger, child abuse, violent content ...
Time: future
Place: iceland, reykjavik iceland
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All the Sins (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland, Estonia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Lauri Räihä, a criminal investigator from Helsinki, is sent to investigate two murders that have occurred in the northern Finnish town where he grew up. The assignment offers Lauri a way out of confronting his own problems.
Style: unusual plot structure, psychological, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: murder investigation, past, police detective, revenge, crime investigation, murder, murder mystery, who done it, danger, police investigation, investigation, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland
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Persona (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, a retired judicial officer decides to commit a murder that he had been planning for years.
Style: tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, rape, secret, police, death, journalist, anti hero, danger, alzheimer's disease, family relations, cognitive science ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
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Wallander (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
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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
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Deep Water (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min.
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Story: Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned a brutal murder case in Bondi, where they begin to uncover mounting evidence to suggest the killing is connected to a spate of unexplained deaths, "suicides" and disappearances ...
Style: detective, captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Tunnel (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: The life of a reliable detective named Tigor changes drastically after he is thrown in the future while he is investigating a serial murder case in Yogyakarta, 1990.
Style: psychological thriller, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: police, serial killer, time portal, who done it, time loop, heroes, police officer, partner, law enforcement, violence, small town, partners against crime ...
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Place: indonesia
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Pagan Peak (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 43 min.
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Story: When a gruesomely staged body is found, propped up on a mountain pass in the Alps close to the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate. For German detective Ellie, this is the first real challenge of her career; her Austrian ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, detective, slasher ...
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River (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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 ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Freed after 20 years in prison, the child killer Guy Beranger found refuge with the monks in Vielsart, a small village in Belgian's Ardennes. He is placed under the protection of a young Federal Police's inspector, Chloé Muller. A little ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating, psychological thriller ...
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The Lava Field (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Style: detective, psychological, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic ...
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Place: iceland
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The Cliff (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Iceland
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: The Cliff is a dramatic mystery about a Crime Detective who is sent to a small community in Iceland to help a local policewoman investigate a suspicious accident. Together they unravel a mystery that involves bizarre incidents and unexplained deaths.
Style: detective, captivating, tense, suspense, noir ...
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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 ...
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Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Midnight Sun (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 440 min.
TV show
Story: Kahina Zadi, 32, a French police officer travels to Kiruna in Sweden to investigate the bestial murder of a French citizen. Together with Anders, a Swedish prosecutor of Sami origin, she begins an investigation. Soon new killings start to happen and ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, detective, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, frenchwoman, murder, conspiracy, murder investigation, homicide detective, female protagonist, danger, nordic, small town, twists and turns, sapmi ...
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 8.3
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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
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Suspects (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
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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 ⇓
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Eyewitness (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: Eyewitness is a gripping, fast-paced thriller seen through the eyes of two teenagers whose clandestine meeting unravels into a nightmare of murder, corruption and gang warfare.
Style: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: gay interest, gay, gay teenager, murder, police corruption, lgbt, nordic, secret, witnessing a crime, teenager, friendship, pursuit ...
Place: oslo norway
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