Movies and TV shows like 1983
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1983 (2018)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 448 min.
TV show
Story:
Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland’s liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.
Style:
erotic, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, suspense, neo noir
Plot:
terrorist, polish, investigation, femme fatale, terrorist attack, communism, killing, geopolitics, dystopia, distopia, islam, cold war, espionage, political conspiracy, alternate universe, alternate history, nordic, police, conspiracy, childhood friend, police detective, underground movement, nudity, law student, human ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Most similar movies to 1983
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, captivating, suspenseful and tense films and TV series with plots about investigation, police, murder, conspiracy, terrorist, police officer and police detective mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like 1983: Bad Banks (2018), Furia (2021), The Mire (2018), The Golden Hour (2022), Greyzone (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 52 min.
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Ambitious Jana is confronted with the unscrupulous machinations of the world of finance. Her working life is determined by egotism, the pressure to succeed and machismo. She soon has to decide how far she is prepared to go for her career.
Style:
disturbing, exciting, captivating, serious, rough
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job, bank manager, finance, corruption, sex, banker, blackmail, fired from the job, bank clerk, manipulative person, workplace, bank ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 51 min.
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Policeman Asgeir moves to an idyllic town in the west part of Norway. After a local conflict, he meets a mysterious woman named Ragna, and soon they are both trapped in a network of right-wing radical forces that threaten Europe.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
undercover agent, terrorist, terrorism, election, teamwork, writers, conspiracy, working undercover, fighting crime, forensics, investigator, police investigation ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, ...
Style:
suspenseful, dark, suspense, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, swamp, small town, investigative journalism, journalism, investigation, life is a bitch, danger, organized crime, society, violence, police ...
Time:
80s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
Mardik, a Dutch detective of Afghan descent, receives word that his childhood friend Faysal has come to the Netherlands. When a terrorist attack occurs the next day, Mardik suspects Faysal and investigates, with drastic consequences.
Style:
detective, psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorist, terrorism, investigation, homicide detective, police investigation, uncover truth, terrorist attack, counter terrorism, who done it, terror, secret, crime solving ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
When a brilliant drone engineer, Victoria, is taken hostage in her own home, a series of dangerous events are set into motion in this high octane thriller.
Style:
disturbing, exciting, serious, suspense, brutal ...
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, investigation, anxiety, criminal, deal, danger, nordic, extortion, blackmail, hi-tech, weapons ...
Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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:
67%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1930s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
secret society, conspiracy, police detective, law enforcement, secret movement, undercover, criminal, politician, murder investigation, partner, dishonesty, nudity ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
former yugoslavia, nebraska, balkan
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
50 years after the Munich Massacre, Munich is hosting a soccer game between an Israeli and a German football club. When things start to fall apart, it seems history might be repeating all over again.
Style:
suspense, dramatic, captivating, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
soccer, soccer match, terrorism, espionage, hostage, terror, football, terrorist, israeli, police, mossad, terrorist attack ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
munich germany
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 46 min.
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Story:
National Security agent Fatima receives a tip that a terrorist attack against Sweden is in the planning stage. Meanwhile Sulle, a teenage girl in Stockholm, gets interested in her student assistent who opens doors to a new and fascinating world - ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, exciting, tense, dramatic ...
Plot:
isis, terrorist, hijab, suicide bomber, islamic terrorism, islam, terrorism, conspiracy, female protagonist, intelligence agency, muslim, rape ...
Place:
syria, middle east, eastern europe
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
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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:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Belgium, Canada, Spain
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Story:
A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
terrorist, organized crime, investigation, crime investigation, private detective, murder investigation, evil plot, counter terrorism, forensics, uncover truth, terrorist attack, sleuth ...
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67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 55 min.
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Story:
A former detective now living on the streets searches for the truth after a new death raises unnerving doubts about a supposedly settled murder case.
Style:
dramatic, suspenseful, captivating, serious
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home. Tom's acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
gay interest, fraud, murderer, murder, killing, deception, cons and scams, murder mystery, con game, beach, gay lead character, psychopath ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 240 min.
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Story:
A Black Forest village seems like an idyll - until the popular local GP dies. The village cop thinks it’s murder. And one murder leads to more...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, crime thriller, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder mystery, murder, village, investigation, killing, police, serial killer, police detective, murder investigation, killing spree, police officer, serial murder ...
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
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Story:
When Katarina Huss starts as a police officer, she must learn to cope with the hard everyday life on the streets of Gothenburg. At the same time, her colleagues seem to be hiding something and soon she is drawn into a tangle of corruption and ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime drama, detective, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, corruption, police, policewoman, investigation, police procedural, disorder, coworker, fighting crime, civil unrest, police station, betrayal ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Finland
Duration: 171 min.
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Story:
Former policeman is tortured and murdered and his friend and former colleauge investigates the case.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, murder investigation, secret, police officer killed, murder mystery, police detective, killing, police officer, investigation, crime investigation, homicide detective, crime solving ...
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65%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
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Story:
A secret unit of cops is assembled to stop a terrorist band from attacking Spain after their leader is arrested there.
Style:
political, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorist, police, terrorism, police operation, international crisis, danger, revenge, team, murder, government, investigation, retribution ...
Time:
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Place:
madrid
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A chilling and unflinching look at all sides of a complicated issue, focusing on an African-American Muslim who joins an Islamic sleeper terrorist cell in the United States while working undercover for the FBI.
Style:
tense, captivating, rough, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot:
terrorist, muslim, undercover, undercover agent, fbi, spy, heroes, danger, race against time, chases and races, pretense, working undercover ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, america
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 130 min.
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Story:
An old friend of Kurt Wallander, solicitor Sten Torstensson, visits him one day to tell him that his father has passed away close to Brösarp under peculiar circumstances. Kurt does not take his friend's worry seriously. Shortly after, the ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, detective
Plot:
murder, murder investigation, investigation, conspiracy, crime investigation, murder mystery, uncover truth, forensics, crime solving, cold case, unsolved crime, sleuth ...
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Three story strands are interwoven into a sophisticated action-packed thriller that covers the length and breadth of South Africa, explosively colliding in Cape Town in a violent conspiracy involving organized crime, smuggled diamonds, state ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorism, organized crime, smuggling, poaching, spy, criminal underworld, criminal, smuggler, crime boss, breaking the law, bandit, drug smuggler ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
64%
710
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
An ex-terrorist, Madina Taburova, who was presumed dead, turns up in Helsinki seeking political asylum. Using a fake identity, the Intelligence Agency officer Mari Saari has to befriend this ex-terrorist to find out why she’s here. In order to ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, detective, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorist plot, police detective, investigation, undercover cop, undercover, refugee, danger, intrigue, gain trust, police officer, identity, female protagonist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a ...
Style:
serious, captivating, suspense, exciting, action adventure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cia, espionage, conspiracy, terrorist, terrorism, twists and turns, investigation, agent, intelligence, danger, spy, shooting ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, langley virginia, washington d.c.
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
bomb squad, counter terrorism, terrorist, war on terror, terrorist attack, race against time, bomb, female protagonist, terrorism, police, women, workplace situations ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Lines will be crossed when tragedy forces two men, a mesmerizing ex-con and an embattled local cop, to face the secrets of their past. As these two men find themselves increasingly compromised by one another, the lives of both quickly unravel.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak ...
Plot:
small town, sheriff, killing, problem, police detective, murder, police officer, murderer, small town sheriff, police, supernatural, nypd ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
63%
648
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
Wanted was a 2005 American primetime police drama television series broadcast on the TNT network. The series was created by Louis St. Clair and Jorge Zamacona, and executive produced by Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent and Jorge Zamacona.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, detective
Plot:
task force, police, partners against crime, sleuth, fighting crime, forensics, police officer, investigation, teamwork, criminal, police partner, police investigation ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Sweden
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Story:
Danish secret service agent Katrine Poulson and British spy Beatrice Ogilvy are thrown together in a race against time. As a terrorist plot against the British PM unfolds, Poulson and Ogilvy are tangled up in a web of lies, murder and power ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, political thriller, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
espionage, conspiracy, power struggle, political conspiracy, terrorist, spy thriller, special agent, killing, secret agent, terrorist plot, conspiracy theory, government agent ...
Place:
london, united kingdom, denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
After the death of her gangster husband, Carmen is forced to take over his business and fight for her family's safety
Style:
psychological, exciting, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
gangster, murder, crime family, criminal heroes, society, parents and children, heroes, family relations, rivalry, crime boss, power struggle, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
The murder of a female GP in a rural playground in front of numerous witnesses draws a group of detectives into an ever-darkening mystery that takes them across Europe, aided by mysterious notes sent by the "Ghost Detective".
Style:
crime drama, detective, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police detective, police, police investigation, murder, murder investigation, conspiracy, obsessive compulsive disorder, suicide, forensic, nordic, mental health, forensics ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A tech innovator creates a cutting-edge crowd-sourcing hub to solve his own daughter's murder, as well as revolutionizing crime solving in San Francisco.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, emotional, thought provoking, exciting ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, grief, innovation, technology, science, computer, daughter, cyberspace, danger, computers and web, laboratory ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
investigation, police investigation, fighting the system, law enforcement, political unrest, dishonesty, police detective, political conspiracy, dictatorship, working class, cold war, secret service ...
Time:
50s, 1920s
Place:
europe, prague, central europe, czech republic
Similarity:
62%
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