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Thorne: Scaredycat (2010)
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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:
tense, detective, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, sinister ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police investigation, law enforcement, fighting crime, police detective, murderous pair, psychopath, police procedural, investigation, partnership, cat and mouse, female victim, obsession, sleuth, forensics, urban, suspicion, cold case, murder mystery, moral ambiguity, strangulation, deadly, crime, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
london, england, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, realistic, suspenseful and serious films with plots about murder, serial killer, law enforcement, investigation, police investigation, deadly and police detective mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Thorne: Scaredycat: Thorne: Sleepyhead (2010), Hide (2011), Class of '76 (2005), Dark Figure of Crime (2018), Sirens (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, psychological, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, police investigation, murder, hunt down, danger, society, murder mystery, conspiracy, murder investigation, law enforcement, british ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
1K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Boston detective investigates the mummified remains of six women, based on a novel by Lisa Gardner.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, detective, enigmatic ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, uncover truth, police investigation, riddles and clues, law enforcement, murder mystery, investigation, crime scene, police procedural, evidence, cold case ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child."
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
amateur detective, investigation, murder, mentally unstable, riddles and clues, obsession, kidnapping, law enforcement, mystery killer, classmate, murder investigation, cold case ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Hyeong-min, a prominent police detective, and Tae-oh, a killer who has confessed to multiple murders, maintain a fierce psychological confrontation.
Style:
tense, twisted, crime drama, detective, crime thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, showdown, killing spree, investigation, murder victim, violence, danger, murder confession, cat and mouse, interrogation, mind game ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, busan, seoul
Similarity:
100%
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210
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
This psychological thriller concerns Ali, a London-based female law officer simultaneously involved in a heated and clandestine relationship with her sister's beau and a city-wide police hunt for a serial rapist. When the squads close in on the ...
Style:
detective, psychological, captivating, dark, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial rapist, investigation, murder, killing, homicide detective, who done it, forensics, murder mystery, crime solving, uncover truth, police detective, sleuth ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
D.C.I. Langton takes charge when the body of would-be model Louise Pennell is found,sliced in half and with her mouth mutilated into a smile. D.C. Anna Travis discovers that newspaper journalist Richard Reynolds had received anonymous typed letters ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, murder, serial killer, danger, media circus, strong female presence, forensics, crime scene, detective sergeant, detective inspector ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
100%
163K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
Style:
psychological thriller, detective, crime drama, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police investigation, murder, police, talented, police detective, uncover truth, psychopath, forensics, crime investigation, law enforcement, serial killer, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, psychopath, investigation, murder, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, animal life, vengeance, law enforcement, danger, police investigation ...
Place:
alaska, usa, south africa, san francisco, africa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark. Under hypnosis, a mental patient admits to several recent murders. He also offers a strange defense when he claims that he is the reincarnation of a 19th century man who was wrongly executed.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
reincarnation, serial killer, police detective, woman in danger, law enforcement, murder, investigation, revenge, psychosis, hypnosis, trauma, mental institution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on the first book in Jussi Adler-Olsen's bestselling thriller series about Department Q THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES tells the story of the two policemen Carl Mørck and Assad who become involved in a five-year-old case concerning a missing ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, serious ...
Plot:
police investigation, missing person, cold case, police detective, murder mystery, unsolved crime, under the surface, false identity, uncover truth, police partner, homicide detective, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, private detective, amateur detective, danger, investigation, rivalry, murder, psychopath, police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, who done it ...
Time:
year 1995, year 2005
Place:
usa, oregon, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Van Veeteren finds retiring from the police force is easier said than done when two decapitated bodies are found in quick succession. The matching MO in the two grisly murders brings the investigation teams of Maardam and Kaalbringen together - a ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, partners against crime, police investigation, law enforcement, private detective, partner, police procedural, investigation, moral ambiguity, obsession, decapitation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
29%
2K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Jo is an English-language French police procedural television series created by Canadian/USA screenwriter René Balcer of Law & Order fame with French writing team Franck Ollivier & Malina Detcheva, known for the mini-series Lost Signs. It ...
Style:
suspenseful, detective, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
police detective, investigation, police investigation, riddles and clues, fighting crime, murder, danger, law enforcement, police procedural, serial killer, crime scene, cat and mouse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
26%
389
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, suspense, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, private detective, police procedural, manhunt, haunted by the past, chases and races, law enforcement, investigation, investigator, cold case, evidence, suspect ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Detective Katrine Ries Jensen and legal psychiatrist Thomas Schaeffer form a special unit at the Copenhagen Police investigating serial killings. A case from Schaeffer’s past crops up. As a young psychologist, he held back from sending a patient, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, mentally unstable, homicidal maniac, police officer, manhunt, serial killer, soldier, murder mystery, police procedural, mind game, violent ...
Place:
copenhagen
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An aggressive police officer tries to solve the mystery behind consecutive murders. While doing so, he must fight against his inner demons.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
law enforcement, police investigation, tough law enforcer, murder, who done it, serial killer, fighting crime, turk, investigation, moral ambiguity, anti hero, police procedural ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A gifted criminal profiler, Fang Mu was asked to assist the police in solving a bizarre campus serial killing. Working together with Police Captain Tai Wei, Fang Mu tries to crack down the murder cases, but he unknowingly gets embroiled in a battle ...
Style:
detective, tense, crime thriller, psychological thriller, thrilling ...
Plot:
serial killer, mind game, investigation, murder mystery, battle of wits, teamwork, murder, homicide detective, criminal psychology, secret, murder investigation, crime solving ...
Similarity:
23%
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, murder, danger, law enforcement, serial killer, dirty cop, detective inspector, police procedural, investigation, meme, murder mystery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london, spain
Similarity:
22%
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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, missing person, homicide detective, murder mystery, murder, police investigation, law enforcement, serial murder, investigation, partners against crime, uncover truth ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
22%
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:
tense, serious, psychological thriller, detective, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, coma, murder, husband wife relationship, police protagonist, serial murder, accident, police investigation, law enforcement, investigation, guilty conscience, police ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Krishna Dev aka KD, a laidback cop working in Andhra Pradesh State HIT, takes on a gruesome murder case. As KD unravels the layers of the crime, the stakes rise unbelievably high and the threat comes unusually close.
Style:
tense, detective, crime thriller, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, police procedural, murder mystery, sleuth, crime solving, police investigation, police detective, crime investigation, uncover truth, fight, murder investigation, homicide detective ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Overdomineering female police detective Jamie McDowell still tries to run her 19-year old only son Peter's life although he is a builder who lives alone. She strongly opposes his engagement to Kelly Shaw, who he doesn't know very long, and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot:
domineering mother, burned alive, uncover truth, police detective, police investigation, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, single parent, murder, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, war, serial killer, murder, prostitute, investigation, conspiracy, nazi occupation, nazi, nazi occupied poland, homosexual subtext, male male relationship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1965, year 1942, year 1944, year 1967 ...
Place:
paris france, france, poland, hamburg germany, warsaw poland ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, captivating ...
Plot:
murder of a nude woman, woman strangled to death, murder, manipulation, who done it, uncover truth, police investigation, danger, couples, love affair, law enforcement, obsession ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
John George Haigh, the notorious "acid bath murderer" in 1940s England, becomes the subject of this dramatisation
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
serial killer, murder, acid, murder mystery, true crime, killer, deception, religious fanaticism, serial murder, mental health, perfect crime, killing spree ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Millionaire Richard Trainor is celebrating the fact that his new calendar featuring twelve nude woman is a huge success. However the party is ruined when Miss January is pushed off a building and later on that night Miss February is knifed to death. ...
Style:
detective, slasher, tense, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
murderous pair, serial killer, murder, dream girl, bare legs, arson, photographer, serial murder, sex, psychopath, fashion, police detective ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
3K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killer.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
police investigation, serial killer, murder, law enforcement, murder of a girl, murder trial, obsession, uncover truth, riddles and clues, danger, true crime, courtroom ...
Time:
year 2014, 90s, 20th century, year 2001, year 1995 ...
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain, Lithuania
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1943, during the midst of World War II, a serial murderer appears in the Blue Division, volunteer body of Spanish soldiers who fought on the Russian front with German troops. After finding the body of a Spanish soldier who has been stuck in the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, world war two, murder, soldier, army investigation, riddles and clues, military, superior officer, rivalry, danger, gay, spanish civil war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and Suitcase to handle a crime spree in ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot:
murder, jesse stone, investigation, law enforcement, police investigation, small town, murder investigation, serial killer, die hard, secret service, cop, chief of police ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston, new england
Similarity:
100%
565
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An elderly woman turns the tables on her kidnapper.
Style:
rough, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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