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Beck (1997)
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Beck (1997)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Beck follows the Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his partner Gunvald Larson investigating various crimes.
Style: detective, tense, serious, realistic, noir, anime, suspenseful
Plot: police detective, swedish, police, nordic, crime investigation, serial killer, law enforcement, investigation, murder mystery, nypd, working class, cop, police officer, murder, police protagonist, swedish police, neighbor, medical examiner, father daughter relationship, interrogation, police procedural, criminality, literary, police investigation, hidden truth ...
Time: 20th century, future, 90s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Keyword: sweden

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, detective, suspenseful and serious films and TV series with plots about police investigation, law enforcement, murder, police detective, investigation, police and deadly mostly in Crime, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Beck: The Sandhamn Murders (2010), Wallander (2005), Wallander (2008), The Bridge (2011), 100 Code (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Sandhamn Murders (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Viveca Stens popular novels come to life in "The Sandhamn Murders", a perfect mix of Nordic crime & the beautiful surroundings of the outer Stockholm archipelago.
Style: detective, disturbing, surprise ending, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: murder mystery, crime investigation, murder, suspect, police detective, uncover truth, serial killer, social relations, nordic, european, investigation, swedish ...
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Wallander (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
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
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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Wallander (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling ...
Style: bleak, detective, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, police investigation, police, loneliness, whodunit, life is a bitch, small town, depression, drinking problem, nordic, murder mystery ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scandinavia
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100%
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The Bridge (2011)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
Style: atmospheric, captivating, tense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: serial killer, multiple suspects, police investigation, murder, police detective, cop, twists and turns, mind game, partners against crime, murderer, murder investigation, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, scandinavia, copenhagen, europe, eastern europe
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100 Code (2015)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: New York, USA. Stockholm, Sweden. Over the past twelve months young, blonde, blue-eyed women have been found dead in a meadow where Asphodel flowers grow. New York Detective Tommy Conley gets a special dispensation from the NYPD to go observe and ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, partners against crime, police investigation, psychopath, forensics, law enforcement, father daughter relationship, victim, uncover truth, multiple suspects, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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The Fifth Woman (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 229 min.
TV show
Story: The 5th woman unfolds autumn 1994. An elderly man found in a gillrad pitfall impaled to death on the sharp sharpened bamboo poles, ecstatic praise of crows. Shortly afterwards disappears a florist without a trace and he also found executed in the ...
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, police detective, vigilantism, law enforcement, murder, vengeance, life is a bitch, vigilante, police procedural, revenge, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
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Collision (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 201 min.
TV show
Story: Collision is a five-part television drama miniseries, which debuted on ITV & UTV in November 2009. In the same month, it was also on PBS as a series in two parts. It tells the story of a group of strangers whose lives intertwine following a ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, police investigation, road accident, traffic accident, police, life is a bitch, uncover truth, stranger, twists and turns, car accident, car crash, police procedural ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: europe, england
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Those Who Kill (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Those Who Kill is a Danish crime TV series from 2011, which follows a fictitious unit within Copenhagen Police which specialises in investigating serial murders. The series was aired as five two-part stories in Denmark, but has aired as five feature ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, policewoman, police investigation, profiler, female protagonist, crime investigation, criminal, forensics, police, law enforcement, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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DCI Banks (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A thrilling drama based on the novels by Peter Robinson. Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot.
Style: detective, realistic, tense, rough, serious ...
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, murder mystery, law enforcement, police procedural, serial killer, police investigation, police, policewoman, female partner, murder, coma ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire
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Killer Instinct (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Killer Instinct is an American crime drama television series filmed in Vancouver that originally aired on the Fox Network. The pilot episode aired on September 23, 2005, and the final episode aired on December 2, 2005. Fox ordered 13 episodes, only ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Plot: police detective, police investigation, fighting crime, law enforcement, partner, policewoman, true crime, woman with a gun, murder mystery, crime investigation, buddy cop, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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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
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Snow Angels (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland
Duration: 341 min.
TV show
Story: Two days before Christmas, while Sweden is paralyzed by a heavy snowstorm, five-week-old baby Lukas inexplicably disappears from his home. Experienced police officer Alice thinks that something is not right in the parents' stories.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: missing person, deaf child, social realism, child neglect, murder investigation, police, winter, partner, who done it, buddy cop, police detective, law enforcement ...
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
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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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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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Chasing Shadows (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Chasing Shadows' follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, crime investigation, homicide detective, missing person, murder, crime solving, investigation, murder mystery, police investigation, law enforcement, partner, partners against crime ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england
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Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Former NYPD detective and forensic genius Lincoln Rhyme was at the top of his game until a serious accident at the hands of a notorious serial killer forced him out of the field. When Amelia Sachs, an intuitive young officer who has a gift for ...
Style: serious, realistic, detective, psychological
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, police, partners against crime, forensics, riddles and clues, police investigation, danger, evidence, law enforcement, police detective ...
Place: new york
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Arne Dahl: The Blinded Man (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story: Arne Dahl - Misterioso A failed robbery attempt at Sydbanken outside Avesta leaves one robber lying dead with a dart through his eye, but there are no witnesses to the incident and no perpetrator is ever identified. In Stockholm, three high-profile ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot: police, serial killer, murder, police investigation, law enforcement, assassination, uncover truth, murder investigation, nordic, swedish, computer genius, multiple suspects ...
Time: 21st century
Place: estonia, eastern europe
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Jordskott (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Finland, UK, Norway
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Inspector Eva Thörnblad returns to Silver Height seven years after her daughter Josefine disappeared by a lake in the woods. The body was never found and the girl was believed to have drowned. Now a boy has vanished without a trace and ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, gloomy, detective, atmospheric ...
Plot: missing child, uncover truth, police investigation, family problems, haunted by the past, riddles and clues, small town, nordic, folk horror, female protagonist, investigation, poor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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Above Suspicion (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds, and features the career of La Plante's latest heroine DC ...
Style: detective, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: police detective, police investigation, serial killer, murder, law enforcement, danger, dirty cop, detective inspector, police procedural, investigation, legal, meme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, spain, london
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Columbo (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all ...
Style: clever, detective, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: police detective, murder, homicide detective, murder investigation, police protagonist, mind game, police, crime investigation, basset hound, crime solving, riddles and clues, uncover truth ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 90s, 80s, 2000s
Place: los angeles, usa
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Police Call 110 (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: East Germany
TV show
Story: Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: crime investigation, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, criminal, domestic violence, extortion, rape, theft, swindle, cop, police ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe, east germany, german democratic republic
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Messiah 2: Vengeance Is Mine (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: When a man is buried alive, Red Metcalf must delve into a serial killer's psyche.
Style: tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, riddles and clues, false accusation, criminal's revenge, danger, police investigation, law enforcement, race against time, deaf, child killer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Case Sensitive (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When Geraldine Bretherick and her 5-year-old daughter Lucy are found dead in the bathroom of their luxury home, the case divides new DS Charlie Zailer and her DC Simon Waterhouse. Is it a murder-suicide or something even more sinister, and how ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, serious ...
Plot: police detective, police investigation, murder, uncover truth, law enforcement, murder mystery, partner, danger, assassination plot, investigation, police, mysterious death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Tunnel (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The plot follows detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wasserman working together to find a serial killer who left the upper-half body of a French politician and the lower-half of a British prostitute in the Channel Tunnel, at the midpoint between ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, partners against crime, partner, police detective, social worker, murder, law enforcement, hunt down, tunnel, casual sex, bodies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: english channel, europe, england, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Baantjer (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Baantjer is a Dutch television programme which was broadcast by RTL 4 from 6 October 1995 until 1 December 2006 for a total of 123 episodes in 12 seasons. It stars Piet Römer as Jurriaan 'Jurre' de Cock, a police detective, and Victor ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: police detective, police, murder, multiple suspects, police investigation, law enforcement, unfaithfulness, adultery, police officer, forensics, extramarital affair, investigation ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Trial & Retribution (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial ...
Style: detective, crime drama, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: police detective, serial killer, police procedural, courtroom, legal, investigation, murder mystery, exodus, crime investigation, murder, who done it, kidnapping ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Cold Squad (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by ...
Style: detective, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: police detective, investigation, murder investigation, nypd, coroner, strong female presence, partner, riddles and clues, law enforcement, police investigation, fighting crime, crime investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: canada, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Thorne: Sleepyhead (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Thorne Sleepyhead: follows DI Tom Thornes investigation into a mysterious serial killer. His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate. Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, police investigation, murder, hunt down, danger, society, conspiracy, murder mystery, murder investigation, law enforcement, male protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Scene of the Crime (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF 2 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland. The first episode was broadcast on ...
Style: exciting, serious, witty, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, crime investigation, murder, police, fighting crime, sidekick, suspicion, police investigation, danger, law enforcement, police station, riddles and clues ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: europe, germany, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Killing (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode ...
Style: gloomy, tense, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: murder, policewoman, cold case, serial killer, murder mystery, police investigation, murder investigation, murderer, police detective, investigation, politician, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe, copenhagen, scandinavia, afghanistan ...
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