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Houdini and Doyle (2016)
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Houdini and Doyle (2016)
Original name: Houdini & Doyle
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 433 min.
TV show
Story: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge and often Stratton is put in the middle. The trio will take on cases that involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists…or are they a ruse to conceal murder?
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, intellectual, enigmatic, detective, period drama, detective series
Plot: illusionist, amateur detective, skepticism, writers, magic, dispute, paranormal investigator, investigation, partner, paranormal investigation, twists and turns, crime investigation, teamwork, private detective, unsolved crime, fighting crime, private investigation, crime solving, partners against crime, uncover truth, riddles and clues, mysticism, sleuth, illusion, murder mystery ...
Time: 20th century, victorian era, 1900s
Place: london
Keyword: partners

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Most similar movies to Houdini and Doyle

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, detective and suspense films and TV series with plots about investigation, uncover truth, crime solving, crime investigation, murder investigation, unsolved crime and cold case mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Houdini and Doyle: Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000), Frankie Drake Mysteries (2017), Private Eyes (2016), Agatha Christie's Marple (2004), The Essex Serpent (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British Comedy Drama series, produced by Working Title Films for BBC One. It is a remake of the 1960s television series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and stars Vic Reeves as Hopkirk and Bob Mortimer as Randall, ...
Style: enigmatic, humorous, captivating, suspense, detective
Plot: ghost, supernatural power, supernatural, private investigator, private detective, crime investigation, private investigation, paranormal investigation, investigation, partners against crime, detective agency, mysticism ...
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100%
Frankie Drake Mysteries (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Toronto’s only female private detective in the 1920s takes on the cases the police don’t want or can’t handle. From airplanes and booze running to American G-men, Communists and union busters, Frankie’s fearless sense of adventure gets her ...
Style: captivating, exciting, light, tense, funny ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: female detective, private detective, investigation, uncover truth, twists and turns, pursuit, interwar period, feminist, strength, women, police, intelligence agency ...
Time: 1920s, future, 20th century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Private Eyes (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.
Style: captivating, detective, semi serious, tense, exciting ...
Plot: investigation, male female relationship, private detective, private investigator, murder mystery, crime investigation, partners against crime, twists and turns, murder investigation, fighting crime, partner, crime solving ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: ontario canada, canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story: The show follows the adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which ...
Style: clever, serious, realistic, detective, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder mystery, female detective, who done it, whodunit, uncover truth, riddles and clues, murder investigation, female protagonist, amateur detective, murder, twists and turns, investigation ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: england, united kingdom, europe
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67%
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The Essex Serpent (2022)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 288 min.
TV show
Story: London widow Cora Seaborne moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms an unlikely bond with the village vicar, but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, spiritual, gothic ...
Plot: victorian england, mythical creature, widow, female protagonist, investigation, secret, sleuth, creature, puzzle, private investigation, paranormal investigation, supernatural being ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1890s
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100%
Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
TV show
Story: If Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former professor, forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Bell. This series recounts the fictional murder investigations that Bell might have undertaken with the ...
Style: captivating, tense, detective, period drama
Plot: sherlock holmes, private detective, investigation, murder, whodunit, private investigation, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation, unsolved crime, crime solving, teamwork ...
Time: victorian era
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36%
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Circle (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
TV show
Story: A special team of four is established by the Istanbul Police Department. The team has all kinds of different talents. These four people, who have experienced many things in their past, start working together to solve grisly murders.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, detective
Plot: investigation, partners against crime, teamwork, fighting crime, partner, murder investigation, criminal justice, murder mystery, police partner, police, cold case, sleuth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Vampire Detective (2016)
Genre: Crime, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Private detective Yoon San gets turned into a vampire one day while he was out on a duty. As he meets various clients and cracks cases for them, he also uncovers the mystery surrounding him as well as the secrets from his past.
Style: detective, tense, suspense, serious, captivating ...
Plot: vampire, private detective, investigation, murder investigation, danger, private investigation, uncover truth, crime solving, crime investigation, paranormal investigation, supernatural power, whodunit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Murdoch Mysteries (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: In 1890s Canada, a police inspector applies the latest scientific methods of deduction, much to the chagrin of his superiors.
Style: detective, captivating, tense
Plot: crime solving, homicide detective, police detective, murder investigation, crime investigation, uncover truth, fighting crime, investigation, private investigation, forensics, private detective, cold case ...
Time: victorian era, 1890s
Place: america, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Secrecy of the investigation (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
TV show
Story: In the center of the plot is a senior investigator named Masha Shvetsova and her male colleagues. The plot is the most vital, but, like in “Streets of Broken Lanterns,” it is seasoned with a fair amount of humor - otherwise, how can the audience ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, detective
Plot: investigation, female detective, crime investigation, homicide detective, police, job, fighting crime, good versus evil, colleague, female protagonist, office, law enforcement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Inspector John Marlott investigates a series of crimes in 19th Century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead.
Style: stylized, tense, suspenseful, detective, costume drama ...
Plot: frankenstein, murder mystery, investigation, murder, law enforcement, riddles and clues, danger, medieval, murder investigation, homicidal maniac, murderer, serial killer ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, future
Place: britain, europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Young Detective (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Young Bao Zheng solves a series of criminal cases with his friends.
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, inspirational, costume drama
Plot: criminal, partners against crime, fighting crime, unsolved crime, crime solving, crime investigation, teamwork, uncover truth, master warrior, secret revealed, cold case, felony ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Medical Examiner Dr. Qin: The Survivor (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
TV show
Story: ...
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, detective
Plot: forensics, investigation, crime investigation, murder investigation, partner, police investigation, sleuth, fighting crime, crime solving, homicide detective, unsolved crime, secret revealed ...
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26%
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Dry Water (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Paulo Duarte dies. An apparent suicide that does not convince anyone - neither the police nor his sister Teresa, who decides to leave her life in Lisbon to find out what really happened to her brother. Teresa is not mistaken and Paul's death ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
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26%
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Galileo (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Galileo is a Japanese television drama based on Detective Galileo, a novel by mystery writer Keigo Higashino. It narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, ...
Style: detective, tense, suspense, captivating
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Murder in Suburbia (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, rough, detective, crime drama ...
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Time: future, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
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Style: serious, captivating, intellectual, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: investigation, who done it, amateur detective, clergy, danger, murder, uncover truth, priest, riddles and clues, friendship, social relations, law enforcement ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Mallorca Files (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Amongst the vibrant international community of the eponymous Spanish island, a British and a German detective with very different approaches to policing have a clash of personalities. Despite - or perhaps because of - their very different ...
Style: detective, tense, suspense, captivating, crime drama
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Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Comic creator Rohan Kishibe, along with his partner-cum-editor, Kyōka Izumi, challenge various incidents beyond human knowledge.
Style: suspense, anime, captivating, tense
Plot: investigation, private investigation, private detective, sleuth, crime investigation, uncover truth, crime solving, unsolved crime, murder investigation, secret revealed, cold case, supernatural power
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Roba (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: A new captain comes to take over the police station. Old behaviors and installed management will be questioned and put into debate. Police drama that tells the life of the policemen of the station of Roba, in the south of Helsinki. Winner of the ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, detective
Plot: police, fighting crime, forensics, investigation, partners against crime, police investigation, police station, partner, police partner, police detective, secret revealed, workplace situations ...
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24%
Blutige Anfänger (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Praxissemester an der Polizeifachhochschule Halle/Saale: Endlich raus aus den Seminarräumen und rein in's echte Leben - was für die Studenten bedeutetet: echte Mordfälle. Mit Unterstützung ihrer Ausbilder in der Mordkommission werden sie ...
Style: tense, captivating
Plot: murder investigation, crime solving, fighting crime, police investigation, partners against crime, police station, sleuth, teamwork, secret revealed, criminal, crime investigation, unsolved crime ...
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23%
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Marnow Murders (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The city of Schwerin is melting – it is the hottest summer in years. Detectives Lona Mendt and Frank Elling are on the trail of a serial murderer, who seems to choose his victims randomly. But nothing is as it seems. The detectives have apparently ...
Style: enigmatic, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, forensics, murder investigation, partners against crime, investigation, killing spree, murder mystery, uncover truth, killings, fighting crime, police partner, crime solving ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Grace (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries ...
Style: detective, captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing
Plot: detective inspector, police partner, police, british police, police detective, unsolved crime, forensics, sleuth, crime solving, fighting crime, partners against crime, investigation ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Moorside (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Drama about the search in 2008 for missing Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews and the surprising revelations the investigation unearthed.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
Plot: missing person, kidnapping, investigation, fighting crime, disappearance, crime investigation, mysterious disappearance, murder mystery, cold case, private investigation, uncover truth, crime solving ...
Place: yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 781 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Watson, finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.
Style: detective, gothic, spiritual, mind bending, realistic ...
Plot: sherlock holmes, private detective, investigation, mind game, mastermind, serial killer, murder mystery, police, spirituality, writers, partners against crime, prodigy ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Murder Investigation Team (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
TV show
Story: Murder Investigation Team is a British police procedural drama series produced by the ITV network as a spin-off from the long-running series, The Bill. The series is based around the cases of a Murder Investigation Team, who are linked to the Sun ...
Style: detective, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, murder mystery, murder, police, homicide detective, murder investigation, forensics, crime investigation, sleuth, killings, workplace, police detective ...
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Detective Chinatown (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
TV show
Story: Strange crimes occur in Thailand as the ranking for the world's best detective sees a shift. New detectives come into the picture to tackle three difficult cases.
Style: suspense, detective, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, murder investigation, crime investigation, murderer, sleuth, murder mystery, police detective, police investigation, cold case, killings, secret revealed ...
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Five (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When they were twelve years old, Mark, Pru, Danny and Slade were out together in the park. Mark’s five-year-old brother, Jesse, was annoying them. They were mean – told him to get lost. Jesse ran away. He was gone. Never seen again. Twenty years ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, detective, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: crime solving, childhood friend, murder, missing person, investigation, crime investigation, police detective, murder mystery, secret, crime scene, forensics, twists and turns ...
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Steppe (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Experienced chief of police Seyfi and newbie officer Nuri Pamir start to investigate the case of a child murder taking place in the city. The case brings them to Mr. Abbas and his daughter Dilara, who are well-known individuals in their circles.
Style: captivating, tense, detective
Plot: murder, murderer, police, murder investigation, fighting crime, partner, police detective, homicide detective, investigation, murder mystery, police partner, police investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 57 min.
Story: A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and help to foil an audacious robbery.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating
Plot: sherlock holmes, private detective, sleuth, accused of murder, street kid, murder investigation, crime investigation, crime solving, uncover truth, murder mystery, homicide detective, private investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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