Movies and TV shows like Murphy's Law

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Murphy's Law (2003)
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Murphy's Law (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy.
Style: serious, captivating, rough, clever, realistic, suspenseful, detective, dark, crime drama, gloomy ...
Plot: working undercover, fighting crime, police detective, law enforcement, haunted by the past, tough law enforcer, justice, murder mystery, nypd, undercover cop, anti hero, cop, female partner, underworld, divorced man, guilt, murder of daughter, dark past, detective sergeant, police protagonist, maverick cop, undercover, lone wolves, police investigation, police officer ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, london, europe
Keyword: irish

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Most similar movies to Murphy's Law

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, detective and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about law enforcement, police investigation, police detective, investigation, murder, police and murder mystery mostly in Crime, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Murphy's Law: The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey (2004), East West 101 (2007), Identity (2010), Blue Murder (2003), The Last Detective (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark. It won an International Emmy Award from ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: police detective, police investigation, forensics, fighting crime, law enforcement, haunted by the past, police procedural, nordic, murder mystery, law enforcer killer, war crime, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, denmark
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East West 101 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Zane Malik and the Major Crime Squad investigate crime and murder in all quarters of multicultural Sydney.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, tense, bleak ...
Plot: police detective, racism, police investigation, haunted by the past, fighting crime, law enforcement, rivalry, ego clash, society, loss of son, woman with a gun, nypd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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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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Blue Murder (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
TV show
Story: Blue Murder is a British crime drama television series based in Manchester. Shown on ITV from 2003 until 2009 when it was cancelled by the network, it starred Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis.
Style: detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: family relations, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, whodunit, single mother, investigation, nypd, single parent, strong female presence, children, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Last Detective (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: The Last Detective is an ITV drama starring Peter Davison as Dangerous Davies. The first series aired in 2003 with three more seasons succeeding this. The first consisted of a pilot and three episodes, the second and the third series both consisted ...
Style: detective, clever, suspenseful, realistic, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, uncover truth, amateur detective, law enforcement, partners against crime, danger, investigation, riddles and clues, nypd ...
Time: future
Place: london, europe, england
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Jo (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK
Duration: 366 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: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Plot: police detective, police investigation, riddles and clues, fighting crime, law enforcement, murder, danger, investigation, nypd, murder mystery, criminal, murder investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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Waking the Dead (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case unit composed of CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, detective, crime drama, serious ...
Plot: psychologist, police detective, murder, murder investigation, police investigation, workplace, sergeant, temperamental, forensics, cold case, police, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Unforgotten (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: 'Unforgotten' follows modern police team DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan, who gradually unravel long-forgotten secrets which have a dramatic impact on their investigation and the four potential suspects. The slow revelation of the ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, crime drama, tense ...
Plot: murder investigation, murder mystery, murder, police investigation, investigation, police, cold case, missing person, female police detective, uncover truth, father daughter relationship, haunted by the past ...
Time: future, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Rebus (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Rebus is the title of the detective drama TV series based on the Inspector Rebus novels by the Scottish author Ian Rankin set in and around Edinburgh. The series was produced by STV Productions for the ITV network. Four seasons have been aired; ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: police investigation, law enforcement, uncover truth, who done it, murder, multiple suspects, police, nypd, murder mystery, investigation, police inspector, failed attempt ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: scotland, england, edinburgh scotland
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Inspector George Gently (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.
Style: detective, suspenseful, serious, crime drama, clever ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Vera (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and ...
Style: realistic, serious, detective, crime drama, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
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Time: future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: england, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Lewis (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Style: realistic, clever, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, crime investigation, sergeant, murder, investigator, multiple suspects, police investigation, detective inspector, law enforcement, suspicion, criminal ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Moses Jones (2009)
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, bleak, suspenseful, realistic ...
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Falcón (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
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Story: Falcón is a brilliant detective whose personal and professional life is compromised by dark secrets from the past.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Body Farm (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
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Story: Dr Eve Lockhart is one of Britain's leading forensic pathologists and runs a state-of-the-art forensic research facility called The Body Farm with her business partner Mike Phillips. Theirs is the only facility in the country using real human ...
Style: realistic, serious, detective, captivating, tense ...
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Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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A Touch of Frost (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
TV show
Story: A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R.D. Wingfield. Writing credit for the three episodes in the first 1992 series went to Richard ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, clever, suspenseful ...
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Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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River (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: John River, a brilliant police officer whose genius and fault-line is the fragility of his mind - a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest
Style: serious, suspenseful, detective, crime drama, surprise ending ...
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Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Thorne: Scaredycat (2010)
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: rough, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, police detective, murderous pair, law enforcement, murder mystery, strangulation, psychopath, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Zen (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen ...
Style: atmospheric, sexy, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, workplace, law enforcement, suspicion, corruption, transcendence, investigation, nypd, chief of police ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Trial & Retribution (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial ...
Style: detective, crime drama, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
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Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Interceptor (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A gripping eight-part series about a state-of-the-art law enforcement team whose unswerving mission is to hunt down some of Britain’s most dangerous criminals. The Interceptor delves into the adventures of a dedicated surveillance team known as ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot: undercover, partners against crime, police investigation, fighting crime, criminal, law enforcement, partner, master criminal, nypd, wiretap, anti hero, surveillance
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Taggart (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of ...
Style: detective, captivating, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: police, murder, police detective, investigation, murder mystery, strangulation, law enforcement, police investigation, society, riddles and clues, police station, who done it ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, 21st century
Place: scotland, europe, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Above Suspicion (2009)
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 ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Scott & Bailey (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: D.C. Rachel Bailey and D.C. Janet Scott have a robust and engaging friendship which enables them to draw upon each other’s strengths and investigate murders for the Manchester Metropolitan Police.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
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Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, manchester, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Bill (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Bill is a police procedural television series that was broadcast on the ITV network from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, entitled Woodentop, which was broadcast in August 1983. In its final ...
Style: captivating, serious, sincere, detective, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: police detective, inspector, police investigation, law enforcement, fighting crime, society, workplace situations, police, partner, investigation, legal, heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place: england, london, europe, east end london
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40%
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
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40%
Murder in Suburbia (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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 ...
Plot: investigation, murder mystery, murder, police detective, partners against crime, murder investigation, partner, sleuth, fighting crime, police investigation, forensics, crime investigation ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Hinterland (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Tom Mathias comes to Aberystwyth having abandoned his life in London. He's a brilliant but troubled man. Despite his faults he is an excellent detective, who knows that the key to solving the crime lies not in where you look for truth, but how ...
Style: detective, serious, tense, bleak, crime drama ...
Plot: police, investigation, homicide detective, hidden truth, murder mystery, forensics, law enforcement, police investigation, partners against crime, partner, crime investigation, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: wales, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Law & Order: UK (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.
Style: serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: legal, forensics, lawyer, courtroom, police detective, workplace, fighting crime, cop witness relations, punishment, power relations, rivalry, jury ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Baretta (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. ...
Style: detective, retro, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: police detective, police, investigation, car chase, police officer, cop, agent, undercover, police protagonist, working undercover, police station, police investigation ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa
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