Movies and TV shows like Undercover 2016

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Undercover (2016)
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Undercover (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Undercover follows Maya, the first black Director Of Public Prosecutions. Just as she is about to take up the post and her life comes under intense public scrutiny, she learns that that her husband Nick has been lying to her for years. Twenty years ago Nick was a fearless and dedicated undercover officer, infiltrating organisations considered a danger to society because of their political beliefs. Nick built himself a fake past and now with his wife unsuspecting and his conscience killing him – his secret identity may compromise the new Director of Public Prosecutions.
Style: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, detective
Plot: undercover, conspiracy, cover-up, courtroom, strong female lead, danger, suspicion, uncover truth, investigation, rivalry, writers, journalism, marriage, father son relationship, flashback, riot police, criminal lawyer, death penalty, getting home, husband wife relationship, disability, undercover cop, death sentence, writing, return home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, cornwall, london

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and psychological films and TV series with plots about investigation, uncover truth, danger, murder, murder mystery, family relations and rivalry mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Undercover: Berlin Station (2016), Trigger (2018), Good Cop (2012), Bullets (2018), Bitter Daisies (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Berlin Station (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A contemporary spy series that follows Daniel Miller, an undercover agent at the CIA station in Berlin, Germany.
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, action adventure, mind blowing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret service, spy, cia, whistleblower, undercover, espionage, partner, government official, terrorism, partners against crime, tough heroes, strong female lead ...
Place: berlin germany
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Trigger (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Fashionable uptown Moscow: psychologist Artem practices "provocative therapy", convinced that the fastest and most effective cure is to brutally confront his patients with their fears. Yet his own life is in chaos after he was sentenced to ...
Style: captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: psychotherapy, entrapment, psychological manipulation, investigation, shock treatment, psychologist, psychotherapist, self discovery, false accusation, father son relationship, uncover truth, life turned upside down ...
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Good Cop (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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
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77%
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Bullets (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An ex-terrorist, Madina Taburova, who was presumed dead, turns up in Helsinki seeking political asylum. Using a fake identity, the Intelligence Agency officer Mari Saari has to befriend this ex-terrorist to find out why she’s here. In order to ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective
Plot: terrorist plot, undercover cop, police detective, refugee, undercover, investigation, danger, intrigue, gain trust, police officer, female police officer, police ...
Time: 2010s
Place: helsinki finland, finland
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75%
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Bitter Daisies (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: While investigating the disappearance of a teen girl in a tight-knit Galician town, a Civil Guard officer uncovers secrets linked to a loss of her own.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, police detective, child abduction, justice, rescue, parents and children, danger, hopes, race against time, police officer, supernatural, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Remember (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Diagnosed with hyperthymesia, Seo Jin Woo possesses an uncanny memory, which he uses to his advantage as a lawyer defending his wrongfully convicted father. But when Jin Woo is afflicted with Alzheimer’s, his only link to his father’s innocence ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot: revenge, investigation, lawyer, murder, father son relationship, framed for murder, memory lapse, false accusation, save the day, uncover truth, murder mystery, danger ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Trauma (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: A three-part drama set in the trauma unit of a London hospital, a grieving father blames a high-achieving trauma consultant for the death of his teenage son.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, action thriller ...
Plot: obsession, bereavement, class differences, revenge, stalker, medical, psychological trauma, doctor, family problems, african american, investigation, workplace problem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Keeping Faith (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Faith, a small-town Welsh lawyer, is forced to cut short her extended maternity leave when her husband and business partner, Evan, goes missing. As the truth of his actions surface, Faith must fight to protect her family and her sanity.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: lawyer, missing person, female lawyer, investigation, pregnancy, husband wife relationship, danger, couples, twists and turns, family relations, dishonesty, greed ...
Time: future, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Riptide (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Alison has just married Australian Sean Weston. Both of their children struggle with the new family situation, and Alison's former husband wants her back. When Sean disappears during a morning surf, it is not clear if he got caught up in a rip ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
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71%
The Fear Index (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Dr. Alex Hoffman, an American ex-pat physicist, creates an AI-driven system that exploits fear in the financial markets and operates at lightning speed to make big returns. But on the day of launch, Alex’s sanity is shaken after he is viciously ...
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
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71%
The Inside Game (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Farmer Michel Villeneuve is diagnosed with leukemia after collapsing in a field he'd just sprayed with a weed killer made by the agrochemical giant Saskia. His childhood friend Guillaume Delpierre, a principled politician, crusades to get the ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
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70%
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Mad Dog (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Choi Kang-Woo is a former detective, but he now works as a veteran insurance investigator. He leads a team that attempts to reveal insurance fraud cases.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, detective
Plot: insurance investigator, investigation, private investigation, rivalry, crime investigation, teamwork, sleuth, crime solving, forensics, uncover truth
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The return of Lucas (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Peru
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The return of Lucas tells the story of a well-off family who loses his eldest son, Lucas, 4 years old on the beach. Elena, his mother, is obsessed with finding him because he feels he is alive and never stops looking for him, neglecting his other ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, mysterious disappearance, husband wife relationship, obsessive quest, uncover truth, family relations, mother daughter relationship, family problems, disappearance, investigation, boy
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Family Matters (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In 13 episodes, the series of fiction "Family Issues" portrays the life of Peter, a family court judge that you will find that there is a very common routine. He has a troubled past - his mother still abandoned child - and still carries ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: legal, uncover truth, courtroom, rivalry, introspection, injustice, courtroom drama, haunted by the past, righting the wronged, family problems, judge, danger ...
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Clique (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min.
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Story: In the first year of uni, childhood best friends Holly and Georgia find themselves drawn to an elite clique. When Holly begins to suspect darkness lurks beneath the glamour, she will do anything to save her soulmate.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological thriller, psychological
Plot: feminism, university, female friendship, brother sister relationship, female nudity, student, society, rivalry, mysterious character, danger, high school life, feminist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, britain
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69%
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The Widower (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 136 min.
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Story: Over a thirteen year period, a seemingly mild‐mannered male nurse, Malcolm Webster, set about poisoning and murdering his first wife, attempting to do the same to his second wife and moving on to a further scheme to deceive his third fiancée.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective ...
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The Field of Blood (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
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Story: Adaptation of Denise Mina's thriller set in 1982. When the story of a murder has huge implications for her family, newspaper copy boy Paddy Meehan battles prejudices to get to the truth. As she inches closer to revealing the truth, her ...
Style: tense, captivating, realistic, detective, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, journalism, murder, uncover truth, workplace, media, ambition, murder mystery, danger, society, women, scoop ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, future, year 1982
Place: glasgow scotland, europe, scotland
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69%
The Perfect Mother (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 192 min.
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Story: Convinced of her daughter's innocence in a homicide, a devoted mother soon uncovers unsettling truths as the line between victim and perpetrator blurs.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, psychological
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Apaches (2017)
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Story: A young journalist is forced into a life of crime to save his father and family in this series based on the novel by Miguel Sáez Carral.
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense
Plot: father son relationship, reunited friends, father son reunion, social relations, friendship, family reunited, friends, society, family problems, social problems, family relations, getting home ...
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Intruder (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min.
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Story: Rebecca and Sam's lives are turned upside down when two teenagers break into their coast home.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
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A Mother's Son (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
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Story: A mother suspects that her son could be the killer of a recently found dead girl, and becomes caught in a torturous dilemma of whether to denounce him, or protect him and hide the act.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: murder, parents and children, who done it, family problems, social relations, small town, family relations, moral dilemma, suspicion, suspicion of murder, danger, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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68%
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The Suspect (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 239 min.
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Story: Doctor Joseph O'Loughlin a man who appears to have the perfect life and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted, even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling.
Style: psychological thriller, thrilling, detective, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: secret, uncover truth, crime investigation, life is a bitch, sleuth, problem, investigation, forensics, psychological drama
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68%
Garage Sale Mystery: All That Glitters (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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Story: Jennifer Shannon (Lori Loughlin) has a gift for finding rare treasures hidden in garage sales that she can resell at her consignment store, Rags to Riches, and for get her involved in the criminal investigations that happen at the very second-hand ...
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
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Criminal Record (2024)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: In the heart of London, an anonymous phone call draws two brilliant detectives—a young woman in the early stages of her career and a well-connected man determined to protect his legacy—into a fight to correct an old miscarriage of justice.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, detective
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Moscow Noir (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France, Poland, Lithuania, Finland
Duration: 45 min.
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Style: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating
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Complicit (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?
Style: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terrorism, secret agent, government agency, undercover, danger, spy, counter terrorism, terrorist plot, special agent, conspiracy theory, conspiracy, war on terror ...
Time: 21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 127 min.
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Story: An old friend of Kurt Wallander, solicitor Sten Torstensson, visits him one day to tell him that his father has passed away close to Brösarp under peculiar circumstances. Kurt does not take his friend's worry seriously. Shortly after, the ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, detective
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68%
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Dig (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: When FBI Agent Peter Connelly, recently stationed in Jerusalem, begins investigating the murder of a young American, he realizes that he’s uncovered an ancient international conspiracy that threatens to change the course of human history. Certain ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, enigmatic, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: jerusalem, middle east, israel
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67%
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Injustice (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: On the surface William Travers is a picture of success. An accomplished criminal barrister happily living with his wife in rural Suffolk. However, Travers is still recovering from a traumatic series of events that have shaken his belief in the legal ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, rough, captivating ...
Plot: legal, courtroom drama, murder, lawsuit, courtroom, police investigation, legal system, law enforcement, police detective, police brutality, injustice, vicious ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Exile (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Story: Exile is a British psychological thriller television series dealing with the topic of Alzheimer's disease against a background of corruption. It stars John Simm and Jim Broadbent and was broadcast on BBC One. The series received varyingly ...
Style: psychological, tense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: parents and children, mental illness, homecoming, haunted by the past, family relations, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, mental health, murder mystery, investigation, father son relationship, dementia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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