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Emergence (2019)
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Emergence (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A police chief takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all.
Style: atmospheric, enigmatic, suspense, colorful, exciting, detective, colourful
Plot: child, police, daughter, supernatural, science and technology, investigation, single mother, cancer patient, female protagonist, coastal town, survival, superhero, artificial intelligence, women, coming of age, conspiracy, police officer, police investigation, police detective, telekinesis, divorce, weapons, stephen king, tv show

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, suspenseful, atmospheric and suspense films and TV series with plots about investigation, police, police officer, supernatural, police detective, murder and police investigation mostly in Drama, Mystery and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Emergence: The Crossing (2018), John Doe (2002), Forever (2014), Haven (2010), The 4400 (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Crossing (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Refugees from a war-torn country start showing up to seek asylum in an American town. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is 250 years in the future. The local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, non-linear, spiritual
Plot: time travel, conspiracy, twists and turns, superpower, runaway, manhunt, police, adaptation, society, friendship, investigation, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.8
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John Doe (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: John Doe is an American science fiction drama television series that aired on Fox during the 2002–2003 TV season.
Style: serious, suspenseful, detective, mind bending, enigmatic
Plot: prodigy, genius, hidden identity, amateur detective, supernatural ability, mysterious character, memory loss, amnesia, danger, police, superhero, super powers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington state, washington d.c.
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100%
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Forever (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Doctor Henry Morgan, New York City’s star medical examiner, has a secret. He doesn't just study the dead to solve criminal cases, he does it to solve the mystery that has eluded him for 200 years—the answer to his own inexplicable ...
Style: atmospheric, captivating, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: immortality, supernatural, investigation, friendship, law enforcement, immortal, supernatural ability, crime scene, friends, murder investigation, female detective, deduction ...
Time: 18th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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100%
 7.5
 41K
Haven (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
Style: atmospheric, stylized, detective, suspenseful, supernatural thriller ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, supernatural ability, female protagonist, investigation, surprising revelation, small town, danger, fbi, paranormal activity, small town life, social relations, mysterious place ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: maine, usa, new england, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.3
 47K
The 4400 (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: 4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman strength to an unexplained ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, quarantine, missing person, supernatural, murderer, investigation, foreknowledge, cure, danger, abduction, ufo, psychic ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., seattle
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100%
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Beforeigners (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: In the near future a new phenomenon starts happening all over the world with powerful flashes of light occurring in the ocean and people from the past mysteriously reappearing. Called “beforeigners,” these people come from three separate time ...
Style: captivating, atmospheric, non-linear, enigmatic, detective ...
Plot: time travel, viking, police detective, imaginary, time traveler, mentor, culture clash, police, social relations, drug, parent child relationship, unsupportive coworkers ...
Place: oslo norway, eastern europe
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100%
 6.8
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The Rook (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: After waking in a park with total amnesia — and surrounded by dead bodies, all wearing latex gloves — a young woman must fight to uncover her past, and resume her position at the head of Britain’s most secret (supernatural) service before the ...
Style: disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: secret, secret service, investigation, murder, superhero, amnesia, adaptation, intelligence agency, espionage, psychopath, erased memory, supernatural power ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Raising Dion (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A widowed mom sets out to solve the mystery surrounding her young son's emerging superpowers while keeping his extraordinary gifts under wraps.
Style: atmospheric, scenic, colorful, children's program, enigmatic
Audience: family outing
Plot: superhero, boy, school, racial discrimination, black, african american, single mother, society, friendship, superpower, comic book, afrofuturism ...
Time: future
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67%
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Black Spot (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: In the small bordertown of Villefranche, lost in the heart of a large forest, crime rate is six times higher than elsewhere in the area. Each new crime Major Laurène Weiss solves with the help of her unusual team makes her sink deeper and deeper ...
Style: scenic, dark, suspense, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: murder, supernatural, forest, small town, police, investigation, missing child, secret, isolation, danger, crime investigation, nature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.4
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Fringe (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, surreal, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, investigation, mad scientist, time travel, parallel universe, fbi, alternate dimension, top secret, alternate reality, experiment, danger, paranormal activity ...
Time: 2000s, future, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: harvard university, usa, massachusetts, boston
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100%
The Disappearance (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 258 min.
TV show
Story: When Anthony Sullivan disappears on his tenth birthday, his family is devastated. However, as more and more time passes without the police being able to locate him, long-buried family secrets are dragged to the surface, turning the Sullivan family ...
Style: atmospheric, non-linear, detective, social, bleak ...
Plot: missing child, family drama, judge, police, hopes, investigation, parents and children, treasure hunt, kidnapping, marching
Place: quebec
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100%
 7.3
 43K
Touch (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Martin Bohm, a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his autistic, mute 11-year-old son, Jake. Their relationship and their lives take an extraordinary turn when he discovers his gifted son has the ability to see ...
Style: uplifting, serious, suspenseful, touching, dramatic ...
Plot: autism, foreknowledge, psychic power, supernatural ability, supernatural, changing lives, professor, psychic, single parent, single father, hopes, investigation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Falling Water (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of three unrelated people, who slowly realize that they are dreaming separate parts of a single common dream.
Style: intellectual, psychological, suspense, captivating, surreal ...
Plot: subconscious, dream, supernatural, missing child, alternate reality, disorder, puzzle, psychological trauma, imagination, sect, sick mother, fantasy world ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 90K
Manifest (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: After landing from a turbulent but routine flight, the crew and passengers of Montego Air Flight 828 discover five years have passed in what seemed like a few hours. As their new realities become clear, a deeper mystery unfolds and some of the ...
Style: mysterious, suspense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: time warp, mysticism, a vision, time travel, life & death, time traveler, investigation, airplane, starting over, supernatural, passenger, presumed dead ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
 684
The Cliff (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Iceland
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: The Cliff is a dramatic mystery about a Crime Detective who is sent to a small community in Iceland to help a local policewoman investigate a suspicious accident. Together they unravel a mystery that involves bizarre incidents and unexplained deaths.
Style: detective, captivating, tense, suspense, noir ...
Plot: investigation, police, murder, homicide detective, murder investigation, crime investigation, partners against crime, partner, secret, policewoman, police investigation, police detective ...
Place: iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.5
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The Pretender (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Pretender is an American television series that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series starred Michael T. Weiss as Jarod, a genius and former child prodigy with the ability to become anyone he wants to be, i.e., to flawlessly impersonate ...
Style: exciting, atmospheric, serious, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: prodigy, secret hideout, goodhearted, righting the wronged, secret place, genius, undercover, self discovery, encounter, good versus evil, hopes, manhunt ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Silent Voice (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: People tell lies with words through their cerebral neocortex. However, the moment before a person speaks, the mental reflexes of the limbic system will be apparent.
Style: detective, clever, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: police, policewoman, police inspector, shrewd, suprisingly clever, police officer, woman, police detective, smart female lead, police investigation, female protagonist
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 8.2
 133K
Watchmen (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 527 min.
TV show
Story: Television series based on the comic-book 'Watchmen', which was published by DC Comics in 1986 - 1987.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, non-linear, suspense, dark ...
Plot: superhero, villain, anti hero, vigilantism, team, black, heroes, racial slur, racial tension, police officer, racial discrimination, fight ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, year 2019
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 7.6
 12K
Bordertown (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Peculiar detective Kari Sorjonen escapes the hustle and bustle of big city to a small border town.
Style: detective, noir, captivating, tense, enigmatic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: border, crime investigation, small town, nordic, police detective, family relations, police, teenage girl, corruption, eccentricity, danger, serial killer ...
Place: finland, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.1
 527
Vindication (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: An episodic faith-based crime drama series that follows the small town investigative work of Detective Travis.
Style: psychological, captivating, bleak, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: woman with a gun, town, police, police officer, small town, police investigation, woman, investigation, crime investigation, police detective, women
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Murder in the First (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Murder in the First follows homicide detectives Terry English and Hildy Mulligan as they investigate a multitude of tragedies in San Francisco.
Style: exciting, detective, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: murder investigation, police, police officer, legal, crime investigation, murder trial, lawyer, investigation, trial, master criminal, african american, guilt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
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19%
 8.0
 12K
Millennium (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.
Style: atmospheric, scary, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, good versus evil, supernatural, investigation, conspiracy, prophecy, secret movement, police detective, fbi, who done it, government agency, law enforcement ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.4
 14K
Frequency (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Raimy Sullivan is stunned when a voice suddenly crackles through her father’s old, long-broken ham radio – it’s Frank Sullivan, somehow transmitting over the airwaves and through the decades from 1996. Separated by twenty years, ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, detective, suspense ...
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, investigation, destiny, danger, police detective, redemption, father daughter relationship, murder, serial killer, twists and turns, time ...
Time: 2010s, year 1996
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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North Mission Road (2003)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: North Mission Road is a documentary style show on truTV that details "unique and compelling" cases of the Los Angeles County Coroner Department. The name of the show is based on the road on which the office of the Los Angeles County ...
Style: suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, detective
Plot: investigation, murder, forensics, crime investigation, secret, murder investigation, fighting crime, police detective, sleuth, police investigation, workplace, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 8.0
 64K
Travelers (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: time travel, time traveler, artificial intelligence, time machine, consciousness, police detective, time paradox, changing the future, sent to the past, post apocalypse, teamwork, mind control ...
Time: future
Place: north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.7
 40
Esteefa (2015)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Egypt
TV show
Story: A police officer investigates a series of crimes, with each investigation spanning two episodes out of 26 separate episodes.
Style: tense, suspenseful, detective, captivating, exciting
Plot: police, police officer, true crime, criminal, crime investigation, police inspector, murder investigation, police investigation, police detective, investigation
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 8.0
 27K
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 ...
Plot: police detective, police, police investigation, hallucination, twists and turns, haunted by the past, murder investigation, loneliness, police procedural, able to see the dead, nordic, partner ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 8.3
 25K
Shetland (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have ...
Style: atmospheric, tense, detective, serious, stylized ...
Plot: police, investigation, police detective, murder investigation, island, police investigation, who done it, multiple suspects, british police, murder, detective inspector, whodunit ...
Time: future, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.8
 2K
The Thaw (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Poland
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: Set in Szczecin, Poland, the series begins after the body of a young woman is discovered under the melting ice. It asks ‘Who was she? Why did she die? Who did she leave behind?
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, forensics, homicide detective, crime investigation, life is a bitch, confronting the past, problem, uncover truth, policewoman, female protagonist, loss of child, female police detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Disappearance (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Set in Lyon, the show traces the increasing trauma of the Morel family who fall apart when their 17-year-old daughter fails to return home from a night out. As the hours pass and the police investigation builds, The Disappearance explores every ...
Style: psychological, detective, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, jealousy, family relations, betrayal, police, nordic, partner, twists and turns, abduction, danger, intrigue ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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