Movies like London Road

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London Road (2015)
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London Road (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: London Road is a musical drama that documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, offbeat, weird
Plot: serial killer, uncover truth, small town, social relations, police, arrest, suspect, guilty verdict, reporter, community, media coverage, woman, small town life, prostitute, police officer, rock band, court, prostitution, teenage girl, singing, neighbor, taxi driver, abandoned house, neighborhood, single mother ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about murder, serial killer, investigation, deadly, police, police investigation and law enforcement mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like London Road: Broadchurch (2013), Like Father Like Son (2005), The Riddle (2007), Thorne: Scaredycat (2010), Secrets of Eden (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Broadchurch (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Style: emotional, tense, realistic, clever, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder investigation, police investigation, murder, police detective, twists and turns, grief, multiple suspects, small town, reluctant partners, legal, uncover truth, murderer ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
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95%
Like Father Like Son (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Life for Dee Stanton is improving at every turn. Her legal career is blossoming and her boyfriend Dominic unexpectedly proposes to her. Things were very different 11 years ago when her husband Paul was jailed for the brutal murders of four girls and ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, single mother, murder investigation, murder, teenage son, prison, uncover truth, teenage life, family relations, father son relationship, father and son, family problems ...
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The Riddle (2007)
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: murder, amateur sleuth, policewoman, serial murder, riddles and clues, journalism, amateur detective, law enforcement, supernatural ability, serial killer, police inspector, pub ...
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Thorne: Scaredycat (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, police detective, murderous pair, law enforcement, murder mystery, strangulation, psychopath, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Secrets of Eden (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Based on Chris Bohjalian’s New York Times best-selling novel, “Secrets of Eden” centers on Stephen Drew, an adored small-town minister, and the brutal and sadistic murder-suicide of Alice and George Hayward, the town’s most beloved ...
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, serious, captivating
Plot: murder, small town, murder investigation, pastor, clergy, society, religions or cults, under the surface, social relations, minister, small town life, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, vermont
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66%
 3.6
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Assumed Killer (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Bernard Salzmann's thriller Assumed Killer tells the tale of a reporter investigating a serial killer. After she suffers an accident and becomes an amnesiac, she begins to suspect her husband may be the person responsible for the brutal slayings
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot: serial killer, memory loss, investigation, murder, life is a bitch, uncover truth, amateur detective, danger, deep south, journalism, media, car crash ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Appropriate Adult (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min.
TV show
Story: Dramatisation of the case of serial killers Fred and Rose West, focusing on the way in which they were brought to justice.
Style: serious, disturbing, thought provoking, realistic, controversial ...
Plot: serial killer, confession, crime investigation, true crime, police interrogation, crime scene, prostitute, killer, murder of daughter, police investigation, psychopath, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 4.3
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Winter Ridge (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Tearing himself away from the bedside of his coma-bound wife, a police Sergeant investigates a series of age-related murders, only to discover that time can be far more destructive and cruel than the idealistic killer........
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, serial murder, coma, accident, police investigation, police protagonist, law enforcement, husband wife relationship, car accident, guilty conscience, moral dilemma ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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I'm a Killer (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Inspired by true events from the 1970s, the story revolves around a young detective who becomes the head of a police unit focused on catching a rampant serial killer of women, nicknamed 'The Silesian Vampire'.
Style: realistic, suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police, investigation, husband wife relationship, trial, false accusation, murder suspect, lie, police detective, suspicion, dead body ...
Time: 70s
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 6.1
 330
Stolen (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A fast-paced thriller about a vital and terrifying subject - the trafficking of children - with the heart-stopping vibrancy, compassion and energy that only the fate of children inspires. This is a story that touches all our lives. And it's ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: human trafficking, uncover truth, society, law enforcement, confined, police detective, danger, investigation, urban, rescue, captivity, child in peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Accident on Hill Road (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Accident on Hill Road is a cunning and energetic thriller that takes its premise from the real-life incident of a woman who hit a man, then drove home and parked the car in the garage with the man wedged halfway through her windshield. Celina Jaitly ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot: getting home, accident, nurse, serial killer, danger, rivalry, erotica, couples, drug abuse, true crime, drunken girl, retirement home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Murder in Greenwich (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The story of Martha Moxley, 15 year old girl murdered in Greenwich in the 1970's, her murder going unsolved for 25 years.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, novela ...
Plot: amateur detective, murder, uncover truth, fighting the system, murder suspect, who done it, false accusation, protagonist as suspect, police investigation, police detective, haunted by the past, teenage life ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.2
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Lost Girls (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, compassionate, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: serial killer, missing person, investigation, prostitute, missing child, disappearance, depression, true crime, search and rescue, killer, psychopath, police ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Skeletons in the Closet (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
Plot: serial killer, murder, mind game, uncover truth, mysterious character, investigation, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, law enforcement, psychopath, who done it, protagonist as suspect ...
Place: usa, new england
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52%
 7.0
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Hukkle (2002)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no good, some ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: murder, investigation, social relations, small town, serial killer, female assassin, underground, human relationship, cat, criminal, small town life, rural setting ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Wicked Little Letters (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark and absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, the film follows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan and rowdy Irish migrant Rose ...
Style: humorous, light, funny, entertaining, detective ...
Plot: neighbor, seaside town, letter, police, town, women, small town, female protagonist, small town life, strong female presence, woman, female nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
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Who Killed Atlanta's Children? (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: From 1979 to 1981, 29 African-American males, mostly children, were either missing or found murdered in metro Atlanta. The cases plagued the city until 1982, when Wayne Wiiliams was convicted of the murders of two adult men. Authorities then ...
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, journalism, investigation, murder, uncover truth, psychopath, who done it, legal, law enforcement, manhunt, child murder investigation, true crime ...
Time: 80s
Place: georgia, atlanta georgia, usa
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47%
 7.7
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Zodiac (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, murder mystery, maniac, journalism, mind game, journalist, paranoia, killings, killer, true crime ...
Time: 70s, year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1970 ...
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
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46%
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Memories of Murder (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story: 1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about ...
Style: realistic, neo noir, psychological, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, police, rape, police investigation, murderer, murder, twists and turns, investigation, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, true crime ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, y2k, year 1986, 20th century ...
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
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46%
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Jigsaw (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
Style: detective, offbeat, noir, independent film, british noir
Plot: serial killer, police, murder, railway, mysticism, car, corpse, small town, seaside, police investigation, ladies man, traveling salesman ...
Place: brighton
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45%
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The Commander (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Commander Clare Blake has risen to the top of her profession in the male-dominated Metropolitan Police Service and is now the head of the serious crimes unit. Some years previously she arrested James Lampton for murder. He was subsequently sentenced ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, who done it, manipulation, law enforcement, dishonesty, police, nypd, strong female presence, big breasts, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, brighton
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Staircase Murders (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After he calls 911 to report his wife's accident, successful novelist and aspiring politician Michael Peterson (Williams) becomes the prime suspect in her alleged murder.
Style: captivating, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary
Plot: trial, investigation, serial killer, murder, police, husband wife relationship, murder trial, secret past, loss of mother, father daughter estrangement, judge, jury ...
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42%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Last Rampage (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, in the summer of 1978.
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, serious, tense ...
Plot: prison escape, runaway, escape, fleeing, jail, criminal, serial killer, prison break, arizona desert, escaped prisoner
Time: 70s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Murder on the Cape (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An out-of-work fisherman has an affair with a fashion writer wintering on the Cape. She returns two years later with his child, and when she is murdered, the fisherman is the prime suspect.
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: writers, true crime, murder, accusation, framed for murder, suspect, murder investigation, framed for a crime, murder mystery, suspicion, son, fisherman ...
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41%
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Holy Spider (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Jordan, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
Style: action thriller, dramatic, tense, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot: serial killer, prostitute, journalist, murder of a prostitute, prostitution, muslim, religion, police, sex worker, investigation, serial murder, religious fundamentalism ...
Time: year 2001
Place: iran, middle east, maghreb
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40%
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
TV show
Story: This drama tells the real-life story of retired schoolteacher Christopher Jefferies who was initially questioned by police as a suspect in the murder of Jo Yeates who rented a flat from him. He was vilified by the press, partly on account of his ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, tense, costume drama ...
Plot: protagonist as suspect, murder suspect, media coverage, landlord, false accusation, police, murder, life is a bitch, dishonesty, lawyer, true crime, branding iron ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Ghost and the Whale (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothers' need revenge! Joseph tries to tell anyone who will listen that a whale killed his beautiful Annabel Lee, but even he doesn't quite ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: mental illness, false accusation, uncover truth, vengeance, life is a bitch, missing person, social relations, mental health, psychology, bipolar disorder, small town life, small town
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Moss (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Hae Gook (Park Hae Il) travels to a reclusive village to attend his father's funeral. He wants to find out the reason behind his father's strange death, but the villagers, in particular village chief Cheon (Jung Jae Young), seem to be ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, mind twisting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: village, uncover truth, under the surface, twists and turns, social relations, rivalry, riddles and clues, dishonesty, danger, superhero, death of father, comic book ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Shoot on Sight (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer of Scotland Yard, is asked to hunt-down suspected suicide-bombers against the backdrop of July 7 bombings in London. Tariq's task gets complicated as an innocent Muslim is killed by the commando shooters of ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, disturbing, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: terrorism, police investigation, life is a bitch, religions or cults, culture clash, husband wife relationship, investigation, politics, murder, death, gang, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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