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Good Cop (2012)
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Good Cop (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A dutiful Liverpool beat cop discovers what he is truly capable of after his partner is brutally murdered in a targeted attack by a local gang.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, dark, detective, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic ...
Plot: police, rivalry, loss of friend, vigilantism, law enforcement, life turned upside down, revenge, investigation, murder, friendship, danger, murder mystery, nypd, police officer, vengeance, urban, right and wrong, violent content, graphic violence, crime, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, liverpool

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, serious and realistic films and TV series with plots about murder, investigation, law enforcement, police investigation, murder mystery, danger and police mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Good Cop: Prey (2014), What Remains (2013), Exile (2011), Undeniable (2014), Identity (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Prey (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Three-part crime thriller. When detective Marcus Farrow looks into a seemingly forgotten case, he has no idea of the chaos and heartache that will soon follow. He is found at the scene of a murder, and with all the evidence pointing towards him, he ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, detective, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, murder mystery, murder, false accusation, chase, uncover truth, life turned upside down, wanted, disorder, protagonist as suspect, danger, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, manchester
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What Remains (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: When the decomposed body of Melissa Young is found by a couple in their new flat, Detective Len Harper is determined to discover what happened to her and why nobody noticed she was missing.
Style: captivating, serious, suspenseful, tense, detective ...
Plot: murder, police investigation, multiple suspects, uncover truth, murder mystery, who done it, danger, life is a bitch, one last case, loner, social relations, police officer ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Exile (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Exile is a British psychological thriller television series dealing with the topic of Alzheimer's disease against a background of corruption. It stars John Simm and Jim Broadbent and was broadcast on BBC One. The series received varyingly ...
Style: psychological, tense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: parents and children, mental illness, homecoming, haunted by the past, family relations, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, mental health, murder mystery, investigation, father son relationship, dementia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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81%
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Undeniable (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: 25 years ago, Jane saw a man killing her mother. Today, she's a well adjusted wife and mother herself. While having a physical, she notices a doctor who looks like the killer and reports him. No one believes her - except one cop.
Style: realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, detective ...
Plot: murder, murder witness, haunted by the past, police investigation, couples, witnessing a crime, couple relations, mental health, murder mystery, feminist, investigation, murderer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Identity (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Identity is a British police procedural drama television series starring Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes, airing in the UK during July–August 2010. Concerning identity theft, the series was created and written by Ed Whitmore, a writer most noted for ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: police investigation, identity theft, fighting crime, law enforcement, police detective, police, hidden identity, danger, murder, murder mystery, cons and scams, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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76%
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Code 37 (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Female detective Hannah Maes leads a police squad, specialized in sexual offenses. A smaller, but important part of the story is about the private quest of Hannah. She investigates a past robbery at her home and the subsequent brutal rape of her ...
Style: tense, realistic, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sex crime, police, police investigation, murder, law enforcement, robbery, fighting crime, rivalry, danger, european, violent content, sex maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, ghent, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Telling Lies (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone calls chart the certain ruin of young Phil's day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another. Told entirely in animated captions.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, mind bending ...
Plot: murder, couples, rivalry, hidden identity, law enforcement, who done it, investigation, life turned upside down, twists and turns, profanity, violent content, legal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Thorne: Sleepyhead (2010)
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, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, police investigation, murder, hunt down, danger, society, conspiracy, murder mystery, murder investigation, law enforcement, male protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Case Sensitive (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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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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72%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Single-Handed (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 841 min.
TV show
Story: Single-Handed is an Irish television drama series, first broadcast on RTÉ Television in 2007. Set and filmed in the west of Ireland, it focuses on the life of a member of the Garda Síochána, Sergeant Jack Driscoll. Three two-episode, single-story ...
Style: detective, crime drama, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: police investigation, fighting crime, who done it, workplace, social relations, police officer, murder, uncover truth, rivalry, danger, murder mystery, nypd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Messiah 2: Vengeance Is Mine (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Last Weekend (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Ian (Shaun Evans) and Em (Claire Keelan) receive a surprise invitation from an old friend. Ollie (Rupert Penry-Jones) invites the couple to spend a weekend in the Suffolk countryside with him and Daisy (Genevieve O'Reilly). The couples expect ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: couples, friendship, death, revenge, murder, supernatural horror, under the surface, countryside, weekend, vacation, golf, rivalry
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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68%
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One on One (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story: On May 9th, a female high school student was brutally murdered. There are 7 suspects and 7 shadows that terrorize them. Who are they and which one of them is you?
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious ...
Plot: murder, vigilantism, danger, vengeance, rivalry, terrorist group, investigation, suspect, group of friends, high school student, asian, lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
A Mother's Son (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
TV show
Story: A mother suspects that her son could be the killer of a recently found dead girl, and becomes caught in a torturous dilemma of whether to denounce him, or protect him and hide the act.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: murder, parents and children, who done it, family problems, social relations, small town, family relations, moral dilemma, suspicion, suspicion of murder, danger, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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The Reckoning (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sally Wilson's daughter Amanda is stricken with a brain tumour and each day, her condition appears to be worsening. Sally is at her wits end as to how to help her daughter and knows a life saving operation in America that she can't afford ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, psychological, serious ...
Plot: murder, twists and turns, moral dilemma, family relations, couple relations, couples, human nature, inheritance, danger, rivalry, violent content, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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The Guilty (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lives are torn apart and relationships fractured forever when a young child goes missing. Five years later, DCI Maggie Brand leads a new investigation and puts at risk her own happy family life.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: police investigation, missing child, dead child, law enforcement, life turned upside down, suspect, investigation, police officer, missing person
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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66%
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Bloodlands (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: police, investigation, police detective, who done it, policewoman, investigator, terrorist, female terrorist, uncover truth, murder investigation, violence, murder ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: europe, ireland, northern ireland, united kingdom
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66%
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Perfume (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: While in boarding school, a group of six become friends through their intense passion for scent. When one is brutally murdered years later, disturbing secrets about the group are revealed when the police investigates each as a suspect.
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, bloody, captivating ...
Plot: police, boarding school, murder mystery, investigation, murder, odor, friendship, crime solving, smell, murder investigation, secret society, crime investigation ...
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Quirke (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue investigates sudden death victims in the 1950s.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, tense, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, uncover truth, haunted by the past, law enforcement, danger, death, scandal, murder mystery, morgue, police investigation, step siblings ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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65%
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Injustice (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: On the surface William Travers is a picture of success. An accomplished criminal barrister happily living with his wife in rural Suffolk. However, Travers is still recovering from a traumatic series of events that have shaken his belief in the legal ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, rough, captivating ...
Plot: legal, courtroom drama, murder, lawsuit, courtroom, police investigation, legal system, law enforcement, police detective, police brutality, injustice, vicious ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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65%
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Intruder (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Rebecca and Sam's lives are turned upside down when two teenagers break into their coast home.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
Plot: police investigation, cover up, police detective, drug dealer, newspaper reporter, grieving father, journalist, husband wife relationship, seaside town, female journalist, police officer, radio announcer ...
Place: england
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65%
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Murder in Sweden (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Crime Inspector Maria Wern returns to duty at the Police Department on the island of Gotland, and is immediately thrown into a murder investigation.
Style: tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, detective ...
Plot: island, police investigation, single parent, law enforcement, family relations, lesbian, murder, danger, rivalry, swedish, nordic, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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65%
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Honour (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
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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65%
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Black Work (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
TV show
Story: 'Black Work' is the story of Jo Gillespie, a woman who's husband is shot dead in the line of action, in his job as a undercover cop. Jo, a police officer herself soon has to confront issues in her marriage and family life in order to ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: investigation, police, undercover, uncover truth, law enforcement, murder, life is a bitch, strong female presence, cheating wife, female police officer, husband wife relationship, murder mystery ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: northern england, england, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Kidnap and Ransom (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Kidnap and Ransom is a British television three-part miniseries, originally shown on ITV in January 2011 with a second series following in February 2012. The series follows the work of a British hostage negotiator Dominic King, played by Trevor Eve, ...
Style: captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: rescue, captivity, ransom, confined, danger, kidnapping, abduction, hostage, negotiator, police, terrorist, terrorist plot ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Low Winter Sun (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Low Winter Sun is an American television drama series developed by Chris Mundy, starring Mark Strong and Lennie James. The series premiered on August 11, 2013, on AMC, with the first season consisting of ten episodes. It is based upon the 2006 ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: murder, police detective, vengeance, right and wrong, law enforcement, rivalry, police corruption, perfect crime, dishonesty, dirty cop, revenge, deception ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
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63%
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Suspects (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Set in London, each episode is a self-contained story, starting with a news report, then following the team of three detectives as they investigate the circumstances the crime. The cases themselves are hard-hitting with contemporary themes, such as ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: investigation, police, murder mystery, crime investigation, investigator, partner, who done it, murder investigation, interrogation, heroes, friendship, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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If You Knew Me (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Sathyadev, who is on a career break, is forced to put on his cop shoes ones again to save Thenmozhi, a young woman who is the target of a criminal organ harvesting group, led by a ghost from his past.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling ...
Plot: police, vengeance, police investigation, rivalry, fighting crime, self discovery, law enforcement, uninhibited rivalry, murder, danger, genius, villain ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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