Movies and TV shows like Good Cop 2012
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Good Cop (2012)
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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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Most similar movies to Good Cop
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, police and danger mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Good Cop: What Remains (2013), Exile (2011), Undeniable (2014), Identity (2010), Case Sensitive (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 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, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, who done it, police investigation, multiple suspects, life is a bitch, loner, uncover truth, danger, one last case, social relations, investigation ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
parents and children, mental illness, homecoming, haunted by the past, family relations, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, mental health, investigation, murder mystery, dementia, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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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:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
murder, murder witness, police investigation, haunted by the past, couples, couple relations, witnessing a crime, feminist, mental health, murder mystery, investigation, murderer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
49%
740
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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, realistic, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
police investigation, identity theft, fighting crime, law enforcement, police detective, police, hidden identity, danger, murder, police protagonist, murder mystery, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
48%
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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, assassination plot, danger, investigation, police, mysterious death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
46%
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, crime thriller ...
Plot:
murder, moral dilemma, inheritance, twists and turns, couples, family relations, couple relations, human nature, moral ambiguity, single mother, family drama, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
46%
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, law enforcement, hidden identity, who done it, investigation, twists and turns, life turned upside down, profanity, violent content, legal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
45%
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:
44%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 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:
serial killer, murder, investigation, danger, unlikely criminals, honeymoon, couple relations, woman in danger, true crime, murder mystery, murderer, pyromaniac ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
44%
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, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police detective, false accusation, riddles and clues, criminal's revenge, danger, law enforcement, race against time, police investigation, deaf, serial murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
43%
44
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Klim Roshchin is a policeman who started out as an ethologist before the police, studied the life of wolves, and lived in a pack. He uses his animal instinct to catch criminals. A unique policeman who does not use weapons. His arsenal includes ...
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, detective, entertaining, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, character study, police procedural, lone hero, fighting crime, law enforcement, police, police officer, heroes, visceral, chase, interrogation ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 841 min.
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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, social relations, workplace, police officer, murder, uncover truth, rivalry, danger, nypd, murder mystery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
43%
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, period piece ...
Plot:
homicide detective, murder mystery, police detective, murder, police investigation, obsession, police inspector, law enforcement, lie, investigation, murder investigation, crime investigation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
43%
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, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police, who done it, police detective, investigation, terrorist, policewoman, investigator, female terrorist, cold case, uncover truth, murder investigation, danger ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
northern ireland, europe, ireland, united kingdom
Similarity:
43%
156
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Big Apple is an American television drama series that was originally broadcast in the United States on CBS in 2001. The story centers on two New York City Police Department detectives Mooney and Trout working with the FBI to solve a murder with ties ...
Style:
tense, detective, crime drama, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
organized crime, fbi, nypd, police detective, police, justice, criminal, law enforcement, legal, police procedural, murder investigation, investigation ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
42%
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:
42%
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, bleak, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, uncover truth, haunted by the past, law enforcement, danger, death, murder mystery, scandal, morgue, honest law enforcer, fighting crime ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 46 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, family problems, who done it, small town, family relations, social relations, moral dilemma, suspicion, suspicion of murder, danger, mother and son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
42%
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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:
tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
terrorist, rescue, captivity, ransom, confined, danger, kidnapping, hostage, abduction, negotiator, police, terrorist plot ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
42%
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, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, danger, vigilantism, vengeance, rivalry, lovers, terrorist group, investigation, suspect, group of friends, high school student, asian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
41%
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:
disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological
Plot:
police investigation, corpse, female journalist, seaside town, husband wife relationship, police officer, newspaper reporter, journalist, grieving father, radio announcer, drug dealer, police detective ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
41%
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, police investigation, vengeance, fighting crime, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, law enforcement, self discovery, murder, danger, genius, villain ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 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, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, undercover, british police, police, uncover truth, law enforcement, murder, cheating wife, life is a bitch, strong female presence, female police officer, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
northern england, england, yorkshire
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 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:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, conspiracy, murder, police investigation, lawsuit, courtroom, legal system, police detective, vicious, police brutality, haunted by the past, injustice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
Police investigate a mutilated body found in the Thames which appears to be the product of a witchcraft killing.
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
uncover truth, police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, murder, partner, murder mystery, investigation, police, urban, partners against crime, black cast ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england, london
Similarity:
41%
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, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, police, crime investigation, investigator, police investigation, partner, who done it, murder investigation, friends, uncover truth, partners against crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london
Similarity:
41%
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:
police investigation, island, single parent, family relations, law enforcement, lesbian, murder, rivalry, danger, female police officer, swedish police, swedish ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 48 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:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
police, missing woman, murder investigation, murder, lawyer, investigation, heroes, uncover truth, partners against crime, family relations, who done it, law enforcement ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, london
Similarity:
40%
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:
40%
15K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.
Style:
detective, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
homicide detective, murder, missing person, secret past, revenge, police, family relations, danger, vengeance, friendship, police officer, death of husband ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
helsinki finland, finland
Similarity:
40%
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