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The Red Wolf (2012)
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Original name: Den röda vargen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Swedish tabloid Kvällspressen has set their crime reporter, Annika Bengtzon, to monitor a complex murder case. The victim is a colleague and the only witness is a 15-year-old boy. Bengtzons inquiries may be an unexpected turn when the tracks leading to a 40 year attack on an airbase.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot:
journalism, murder, danger, investigation, dishonesty, nordic, family relations, husband wife relationship, mysticism, writers, investigative journalism, reporter, swedish, media, strong female presence, woman in danger, state affairs, journalist, bully, female assassin, nobel prize, car bomb, deadly, tabloid, crime ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe
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Most similar movies to The Red Wolf
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and tense films with plots about murder, investigation, deadly, dishonesty, danger, journalism and media mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The Red Wolf: Nobel's Last Will (2012), Border Run (2012), Dicte (2013), King's Game (2004), Varg Veum - Yours Until Death (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A stripper at the club Studio Six is murdered. A political scandal takes off when the Minister of Commerce appears to have been at the club. He resigns - but only to hide an even bigger secret.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense ...
Plot:
journalism, murder, life is a bitch, law enforcement, media, minister, female nudity, politics, dishonesty, violence, society, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While covering the annual Nobel Banquet for tabloid Kvällspressen, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a spectacular murder right in front of her. Two people are shot, one of them the controversial Laureate in Medicine, Aaron Wiesel. Annika is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
journalism, journalist, murder, investigation, uncover truth, danger, media, dishonesty, nordic, reporter, writers, investigative journalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A female American reporter searches for her missing brother against the backdrop of violence and human smuggling across the US/Mexican border.
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
border, missing person, u.s. mexico border, woman in danger, illegal immigration, investigation, uncover truth, dishonesty, journalism, danger, siblings, woman in jeopardy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, arizona, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is Midsummer's Eve and ten people are on a deserted castle for a TV recording. The next morning the program leader is shot dead. Kvällspressens Annika Bengtzon a mandate to monitor the murder, but she soon learns that her best friend Anne ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot:
journalism, murder, investigation, law enforcement, multiple suspects, false accusation, dishonesty, estate, who done it, nordic, swedish, investigative journalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
72%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Norway
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Newly divorced journalist returns to her hometown to restart her life and work through her past.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, dark ...
Plot:
mother daughter conflict, investigation, journalism, media, family relations, nordic, police investigation, danger, disorder, dishonesty, crime investigation, exodus ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Erica's sister Anna is visiting at the same time as the TV program "Antiques cubed" is in town to record at the castle in Fjällbacka. When Anna runs into the TV host for the show, Claes Wager, sparks quickly evolve into a flirt ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, crime drama, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, amateur detective, love affair, family relations, nordic, danger, couples, whodunit, suspect, small town, family drama ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Swedish family found murdered in her home on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain - all except the 16-year-old daughter, who has disappeared. At first the police believe that there is a burglary gone wrong, but the more crime examined, the more ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological
Plot:
journalism, murder, danger, media, journalist, swedish, investigative journalism, european, reporter, mysticism, writers, hockey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe, morocco
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When David Lindholm, Sweden's most famous police officer, found shot in bed identifies herself quickly with his young wife Julia. Julia is threatened with life imprisonment for murder, both her husband and her missing four year old son ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
journalism, investigation, murder, dishonesty, race against time, murder investigation, crime investigation, murder mystery, missing child, criminal, private investigation, murderer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Starting a new job as a political journalist at a leading newspaper, Ulrik Torp witnesses a brutal struggle for power in the Midparty's ranks -- a struggle that coincides with the charismatic party leader's involvement in a near fatal car ...
Style:
political thriller, realistic, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
politics, conspiracy, journalist, politician, political scandal, parliament, campaign, state affairs, dishonesty, journalism, trust, nordic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, realistic, neo noir, detective ...
Plot:
private investigator, who done it, robbery, murder, investigation, dishonesty, private detective, uncover truth, woman in danger, new love, law enforcement, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Action, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Tabloid journalist Annika Bengtzon is writing about a murder in the port of Stockholm and she suspects that the Yugoslav mafia is involved. However, she also finds links to a foundation that runs a shelter for battered women, Paradiset. Looking for ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
journalism, murder, investigation, woman in danger, danger, haunted by the past, family problems, scoop, female reporter, reporter, investigative journalism, mysticism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The Victoriastadium is totally destroyed in a bomb attack and Christina Furhage, head-responsible for the Olympic Games in Stockholm, dies with it. Why did someone destroy the stadium and why is Christina murdered? The police desperately seek for ...
Style:
tense, rough, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorist, journalism, terrorism, female reporter, female protagonist, bomb, media, danger, murder, journalist, newspaper, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Erica's parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to Fjällbacka and discovers she has a brother.
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, serious, tense
Plot:
uncover truth, life is a bitch, investigation, haunted by the past, nordic, writers, serial killer, against humanity, intrigue, dishonesty, murder, parents ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young heiress has her life turned upside down after her business partner's wife is killed and foul play is suspected.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, enigmatic, realistic
Plot:
amateur detective, woman in danger, investigation, dishonesty, danger, murder, couples, who done it, estate, inheritance, adultery, murder investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, violent, dark hero, psychopath, journalism, investigation, master criminal, uncover truth, ira, trouble, violence ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, england, europe, california
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter is killed in a mass murder in a Barcelona hotel room, maverick reporter Dan Kovaks, the dead journalist's brother, launches an investigation all his own. But now he and his hard-driving producer, Alejandra ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, exciting, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
uncover truth, investigation, on the run, danger, dishonesty, media, chases and races, journalism, scoop, covert operation, spy, interpol ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe, barcelona
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people drowned.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, interesting
Plot:
terrorism, conspiracy, investigation, state affairs, escapades, ocean, uncover truth, fighting the system, politics, journalism, dishonesty, media ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, russia, estonia, pentagon
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes. This might just be the career opportunity, which she has hoped for. When she herself becomes a target and suddenly disappears, the ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, murder, psychopath, stalking, mind game, investigation, uncover truth, who done it, boss and employee, protagonist as suspect, police investigation ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective ...
Plot:
private investigator, woman in danger, life is a bitch, gangster, murder, who done it, danger, private detective, investigation, law enforcement, nordic, missing child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
copenhagen
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Colombia, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A body is discovered impaled on a stake near a scenic lake near Bogota. A journalist try to find what happened. With a friend, they set about to find the cause of the crime and uncover an intricate real estate fraud involving corrupt politicians, ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
nudist, political corruption, investigation, partners against crime, partner, media, state affairs, journalism, dishonesty, social decay, murder, police corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young man desperate to be connected to the people close to him resorts to devious measures to achieve that desire
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
obsession, family in danger, relationship problems, murder, investigation, uncover truth, love affair, couples, dishonesty, sociopath, desire, criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Racial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum seeker dies at the hands of the Police. Shortly afterwards, a right-wing politician is targeted by a gunman at a public rally and his wife is fatally wounded. Another member of the ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic, detective
Plot:
twists and turns, private detective, political conspiracy, danger, political intrigue, woman in danger, state affairs, assassination attempt, dishonesty, politics, lesbian, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, femme fatale, danger, couples, psychopath, husband wife relationship, investigation, rivalry, death, skinny dipping, true crime, mother in law ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa, miami
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of 3 girls.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak, rough
Plot:
private detective, missing person, private investigator, journalism, law enforcement, cold case, murder, violence against women, bookstore, mysticism, dead woman, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investigate the case.
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective
Plot:
private detective, private investigator, murder, investigation, dishonesty, murder investigation, university, drinking, drinking alcohol, mysticism, nordic, bait ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, dangerous attraction, couples, danger, dishonesty, murder, suspicion, psychology, infidelity, female nudity, scalpel, veterinarian ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
flanders
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a psychiatrist to hypnotize the son who narrowly escaped death in order to find the one surviving ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
hypnosis, hospital, hypnotist, murder, boy, witnessing a crime, police detective, investigation, danger, nurse, male victim, murder investigation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, blows the whistle on his company's deadly and corrupt practices in Latin America. Knowing he will be assassinated for his betrayal, he places an anonymous call securing the services of ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
private detective, whistleblower, amateur detective, murder, uncover truth, investigation, danger, survival, dishonesty, workplace, journalism, deadline ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
france, usa, new york, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A movie by Jon Lindström
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
law enforcement, police investigation, dishonesty, missing person, twists and turns, murder, girl, wife, unfaithfulness, missing girl, scientist, courtroom ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A famous writer is found hanged in his office. At first, all police investigations conclude that it was suicide, but when Samantha Kinsey, owner of Seller 'Mystery Woman' starts his own investigation, he discovers that there is chance that ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, light hearted
Plot:
amateur detective, investigation, betrayal, dishonesty, murder, danger, store, sabotage, murder mystery, whodunit, female protagonist, crime solving ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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