Movies like A Place in the Sun 2012
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A Place in the Sun (2012)
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Original name: En plats i solen
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 remarkable it becomes. When the burglars also found dead paralyzed the entire investigation. The offense sends a shockwave that shakes, and even on the crime-ridden Costa del Sol.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological
Plot:
journalism, murder, media, danger, journalist, swedish, mysticism, writers, investigative journalism, reporter, european, investigation, chases and races, strong female presence, on the run, hockey, female nudity, double murder, woman in danger, ice hockey, deadly, topless, tabloid, crime, crimes ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
spain, europe, morocco
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and tense films with plots about murder, deadly, investigation, danger, journalism, law enforcement and journalist mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like A Place in the Sun: Nobel's Last Will (2012), Dicte (2013), Deadline (2001), Paradise (2003), Verdict in Blood (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, suspense, controversial ...
Plot:
journalism, murder, life is a bitch, law enforcement, media, minister, female nudity, politics, violence, society, dishonesty, journalist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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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, dishonesty, multiple suspects, who done it, law enforcement, false accusation, estate, nordic, mysticism, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
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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 ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, disturbing
Plot:
journalism, murder, danger, dishonesty, investigation, nordic, family relations, husband wife relationship, writers, investigative journalism, swedish, mysticism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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, realistic, serious, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
journalism, investigation, murder, race against time, dishonesty, murder investigation, homicide detective, crime investigation, murder mystery, missing child, criminal, private investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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, murder, journalist, investigation, nobel prize, uncover truth, danger, media, dishonesty, nordic, writers, investigative journalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Norway
Duration: 60 min.
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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, journalism, investigation, media, family relations, nordic, police investigation, danger, dishonesty, disorder, european, exodus ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
journalism, terrorism, female reporter, media, bomb, danger, female protagonist, murder, journalist, mysticism, investigative journalism, reporter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
journalism, murder, investigation, woman in danger, danger, haunted by the past, family problems, scoop, female reporter, journalist, investigative journalism, reporter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a female judge is found murdered in her home, television reporter and amateur detective Joanne Kilbourn finds herself neck-deep in a homicide investigation. Her only two clues are twin wills left by the victim -- one donating everything to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
investigation, amateur detective, police detective, journalism, law enforcement, murder, danger, who done it, nypd, strong female presence, police investigation, media ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Nora Barkin is an aspiring actress who supports herself by working for a courier service. No sooner has Nora's friend and coworker Bill Reagan jubilantly announced that he possesses a lottery ticket worth 13 million dollars than Bill is killed ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending
Plot:
fish out of water, amateur detective, investigation, riddles and clues, couple relations, who done it, best friend, murder, danger, law enforcement, lottery, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Van Veeteren's only unsolved case comes back to haunt him when the daughter of a murdered private detective comes to see him. A brutal wife killer, who went into hiding years before, has resurfaced under an assumed name; or so it seems, and Van ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective
Plot:
manhunt, private detective, haunted by the past, chases and races, law enforcement, murder, police procedural, nypd, snow, fictional country, deadly
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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, law enforcement, journalism, murder, violence against women, mysticism, bookstore, dead woman, serial killer, stray cat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ...
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suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, amateur detective, love affair, family relations, nordic, danger, couples, swedish, writers, strong female presence, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Thriller - Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his conscience. - Edward Furlong, Grace Johnston, Meat Loaf
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As the killer's calls and clues increase, the reporter is lured into a deadly trap.
Style:
neo noir, retro, spectacular, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, journalism, murder, journalist, newspaper, reporter, killer, corrupt cop, killing, crime investigation, investigative journalism, corrupt ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
This film is based upon the book with the same name, by Håkan Nesser, one of Swedens most appreciated "crime-authors".
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
hit and run, murder, life turned upside down, investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement, private detective, blackmail, doctor, european, serial killer, nypd ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames-side-pub.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious ...
Plot:
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Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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, bleak, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, brutality, psychopath, journalism, investigation, master criminal, uncover truth, ira, trouble, violence, anglo irish relations ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, stalking, mind game, investigation, uncover truth, who done it, danger, protagonist as suspect, journalism, law enforcement ...
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26%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many ...
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Plot:
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Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground... Los Angeles. It has taken an innocent childhood game and twisted it into a deadly match of wits, where the only prize is survival. Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting ...
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Time:
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Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Película española basada en la novela homónima escrita por Juan Bonilla. Simón, un aspirante a escritor frustrado que se dedica a escribir crucigramas para un periódico, recibe un misterioso encargo: debe incluir la palabra Adversario el ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
spain, andalusia, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
What's in a name but murder? Münster comes across the strangled body of a young woman in her home and surprises the murderer who is still on the premises. Though the murderer escapes, a rare book is found at the scene with a dedication by the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, femme fatale, danger, couples, husband wife relationship, psychopath, investigation, rivalry, death, true crime, mother in law, strip club ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, enigmatic, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
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25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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