Movies and TV shows like The Great Train Robbery

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The Great Train Robbery (2013)
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The Great Train Robbery (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Two-part BBC drama portraying The Great Train Robbery of 8 August 1963. The first part shows it from the point of view of the robbers, and the second part from the point of view of the police who set out to identify and catch the robbers.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, detective, period piece, stylized
Plot: train robbery, train, criminal heroes, law enforcement, partner, friends, danger, mafia, conspiracy, post war, organized crime, robbery, gang, train travel, notoriety, biopic, heist, police, criminal, investigator, male nudity, profanity, cigarette smoking, train station, british history ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1963, 1960s
Place: england, britain, scotland, europe, scotland yard
Keyword: partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films and TV series with plots about police, law enforcement, murder, police investigation, investigation, true crime and criminal mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Great Train Robbery: Public Morals (2015), Peaky Blinders (2013), Three Girls (2017), Mrs Biggs (2012), Code of a Killer (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Public Morals (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the early 1960's in New York City's Public Morals Division, where cops walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that come from dealing with all kinds of vice can get the better of them.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, moral dilemma, temptation, partner, law enforcement, partners against crime, gangster, investigation, mafia, nypd, post war, courtroom drama ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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Peaky Blinders (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 2109 min.
TV show
Story: A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Style: serious, atmospheric, tense, stylized, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gangster, gang, mafia, gang war, determination, cruelty, mob boss, power struggle, crime boss, family relations, rivalry ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, ancient times, 1910s, victorian era
Place: england, britain, ireland, birmingham alabama, london
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Three Girls (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min.
TV show
Story: The story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale, for which nine men were convicted and sentenced. The drama explores how these girls were groomed, how they were ignored by the authorities ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: human trafficking, teenage girl, rape, sex slave, working class, sexual abuse, police investigation, court case, true crime, child sexual abuse, friendship, sexualized violence ...
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Mrs Biggs (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 258 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Charmian Biggs (née Powell), the rebellious product of a strict 1950s upbringing, and her whirlwind romance with Ronald Biggs leading to a descent into crime, most infamously 1963's Great Train Robbery.
Style: emotional, stylized, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: couple relations, criminal heroes, love and romance, family relations, love affair, wanted, couples, crime and punishment, fugitive, train robbery, true crime, british history ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1950s
Place: england, rio de janeiro, australia
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Code of a Killer (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Set in 1984, Code of a Killer is a true story which tells of the discovery of DNA fingerprinting. Detective David Baker leads an investigation of the vicious murders of the two Leicestershire schoolgirls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth. Alec Jeffreys ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, exciting, thought provoking ...
Plot: investigation, police, serial killer, manhunt, police investigation, murder, murderer, law enforcement, inventions and discoveries, homicide detective, biology, forensics ...
Time: year 1984, future, 20th century, 80s
Place: england
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43%
Gangland Undercover (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: This drama series is a fictionalized retelling of the story of meth dealer-turned-ATF informant Charles Falco, who spent three years inside one of America's most dangerous motorcycle gangs, the Vagos. Although Falco originally took on the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: motorcycle gang, working undercover, biker, undercover agent, informant, organized crime, undercover, outlaw, gang, mafia, drug dealer, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, virginia, california, southern california
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39%
Bonded by Blood (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, rise and fall, rivalry, partner, gangster, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal heroes, vengeance, drug dealing, ambition, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, britain, europe
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37%
Romanzo criminale - La serie (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
TV show
Story: Romanzo Criminale – La serie - is a television series Italian based on the eponymous novel by judge Giancarlo De Cataldo, and it is the second adaptation of the film Romanzo Criminale directed by Michele Placido. The first series quickly achieved ...
Style: serious, captivating, rough, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: gang, mafia, organized crime, police, criminal heroes, gangster, law enforcement, drug dealing, police detective, dishonesty, violence, italian mafia ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, rome italy
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36%
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City of Vice (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: City of Vice is a British historical crime drama television series set in Georgian London and was first screened on 14 January 2008 on Channel 4. It is produced by Touchpaper Television part of the RDF Media Group. The series mixes fiction with fact ...
Style: captivating, serious, detective, historical drama, tense ...
Plot: blind character, murder, fighting crime, legal, rivalry, prostitution, gang, novelist, brothel, police, partners against crime, peplum ...
Time: 18th century
Place: london, england
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36%
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Crime Story (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Crime Story is an American TV drama, created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson, that premiered in 1986 and ran for two seasons on NBC. The executive producer was Michael Mann, who had left his other series Miami Vice to oversee Crime Story and ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, detective, captivating ...
Plot: police, police detective, gangster, law enforcement, tough heroes, mafia, mobster, vendetta, danger, cop, rivalry, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1963
Place: chicago, usa, las vegas, illinois
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36%
See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: The film is the first known dramatisation of one of the most notorious killing sprees in British history and was made to mark the fortieth anniversary of Hindley and Brady's trial. It was made with the full backing of the victims' ...
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, murder, investigation, death of child, rivalry, life is a bitch, true crime, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship, killer ...
Time: 60s, year 1964, year 1966, year 1963, year 1965
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, manchester
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35%
Case Sensitive (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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
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Rillington Place (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story: In 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine. The police also believed that he had killed his wife Beryl. But to his final moments Evans protested his innocence. Three years later, a gruesome discovery at 10 ...
Style: bleak, melancholic, realistic, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, murder, mentally unstable, hidden identity, british, murderer, criminal, male female relationship, psycho killer, investigation, killer ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: england, london
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Honour (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
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Story: Based on the heartbreaking true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner murdered by her own family for falling in love with the wrong man, Honour follows Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode's passionate search to discover the fate of ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: police, murder investigation, murder, missing woman, investigation, lawyer, uncover truth, partners against crime, family relations, who done it, police investigation, chase ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, london
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Arthur & George (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Arthur & George is a three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes' novel about Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle as played by actor Martin Clunes. Set in 1906 in Staffordshire, Hampshire and London the drama follows Sir Arthur and his ...
Style: clever, serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: writers, who done it, false accusation, private detective, writer's life, uncover truth, injustice, attorney, prejudice, miscarriage of justice, servant, priest ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, 1910s, edwardian era, future ...
Place: england, europe, britain, london
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Messiah 2: Vengeance Is Mine (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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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
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Salamander (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: A police inspector investigates the robbery of 66 safe deposit boxes at a private bank in Brussels.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, secret movement, dishonesty, honest law enforcer, secret agenda, robbery, boarding school, nordic, murder mystery, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, flanders
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Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord (2012)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal is a 2012 Colombian television series produced and broadcast on Caracol TV, about the life of Pablo Escobar. It is only available in Spanish. There is a version available with English subtitles.
Style: realistic, rough, stylized, serious, novela ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug lord, dea, latinos, drug dealing, rise to the top, ambition, drug traffic, terrorism, gangster, notoriety, mafia, sociopath ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: colombia, latin america, panama
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The Interceptor (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A gripping eight-part series about a state-of-the-art law enforcement team whose unswerving mission is to hunt down some of Britain’s most dangerous criminals. The Interceptor delves into the adventures of a dedicated surveillance team known as ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot: undercover, partners against crime, police investigation, fighting crime, criminal, law enforcement, partner, master criminal, nypd, wiretap, anti hero, surveillance
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain
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Life of Crime (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
TV show
Story: A female cop becomes obsessed with tracking down the killer of a 15-year-old girl, and hunts him over the course of her 28 year career in the force.
Style: tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: murder mystery, murder, police detective, police investigation, homicide detective, obsession, law enforcement, lie, murder investigation, investigation, crime investigation, fighting crime ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: england
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The Widower (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 136 min.
TV show
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 ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, investigation, honeymoon, woman in danger, unlikely criminals, couple relations, danger, true crime, murder mystery, murderer, hospital ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: england
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Sam: A Saxon (2023)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Germany
TV show
Story: Based on the true story of Sam Meffire’s rise and fall in East Germany, this miniseries follows Sam’s desperate search for a place he can call home, as he fights for recognition and justice. Sam goes from being the first Black cop in the GDR to ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense
Plot: police, life, criminal, police officer, criminal underworld, bandit, black, gang of outlaws, african american, gang, african american man, criminality ...
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In Face of the Crime (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 479 min.
TV show
Story: Im Angesicht des Verbrechens is a German television series about the Russian mafia in Berlin. It received high critical acclaim, but the viewer figures were disappointing. It was broadcast by ARTE and Das Erste.
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, captivating, detective ...
Plot: police, prostitute, society, dishonesty, law enforcement, organized crime, prostitution, money, police investigation, love, danger, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
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Corleone (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Il Capo dei Capi (The Boss of the Bosses) is a six-part Italian miniseries which debuted on Canale 5 between October and November 2007. It tells the story of Salvatore Riina, alias Totò u Curtu, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily. Riina is played ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cosa nostra, criminal heroes, gangster, mafia, organized crime, bribery, italian mafia, notoriety, mobster, corrupt politician, murder, corruption ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, 1940s ...
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Z Cars (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
Style: detective, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience: kids
Plot: police, cop, city, police investigation, partner, partners against crime, law enforcement, fighting crime, realism, british man, pig, fictional city ...
Time: 20th century, future, 70s, 60s, 80s
Place: england, united kingdom
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31%
Between the Lines (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Between the Lines was a television police drama series created by J. C. Wilsher and produced by World Productions for the BBC. It was first shown on BBC1 between 1992 and 1994, running for three series. The show centred on the eventful life of ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: police, police corruption, dirty cop, dishonesty, law enforcement, police investigation, workplace, corrupt law enforcer, workplace situations, honest law enforcer, police station, lesbian ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: london, england
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30%
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Five Daughters (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Factually-based drama telling the stories of five young women who were tragically murdered in Ipswich in 2006.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, police investigation, drug abuse, woman in danger, addiction, prostitute, life is a bitch, small town, murderer, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
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Hidden (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: When a mysterious lawyer Gina Hawkes turns up asking Harry to find a missing alibi witness for her client he agrees to take on the job but is unwittingly drawn into investigating the death of his brother 20 years ago. Harry quickly finds himself ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: legal, lawyer, twists and turns, haunted by the past, who to trust, lawyers and clients, investigation, political conspiracy, murder, uncover truth, politics, conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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The Body Farm (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Dr Eve Lockhart is one of Britain's leading forensic pathologists and runs a state-of-the-art forensic research facility called The Body Farm with her business partner Mike Phillips. Theirs is the only facility in the country using real human ...
Style: realistic, serious, detective, captivating, tense ...
Plot: murder investigation, workplace situations, police detective, workplace, law enforcement, forensics, aspiration, who done it, nypd, forensic, corpse, right hand man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Inside Men (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: The story of three employees of a security depot who plan and execute a multi-million pound cash heist.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: heist, perfect crime, partners in crime, group of criminals, workplace, temptation, workplace situations, twists and turns, bank robber, murder mystery, violent content, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
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