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Des (2020)
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of one of the most infamous cases in UK criminal history, that of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Told through the prism of three men, the series explores the personal and professional consequences of coming into contact with a man like Nilsen.
Style:
tense, detective, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, thrilling, contemplative, moody
Plot:
true crime, serial killer, gay interest, detective inspector, police, murder, murderer, investigation, death, murder investigation, chase, murder mystery, who done it, serial murder, danger, law enforcement, police investigation, police detective, dishonesty, uncover truth, killer, lgbtq, judgment, writers, gay lead character ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
united kingdom, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, suspenseful, tense and suspense films and TV series with plots about murder, investigation, serial killer, murder investigation, murder mystery, true crime and murderer mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Des: The Hunt for a Killer (2020), Manhunt (2019), The Pembrokeshire Murders (2021), Code of a Killer (2015), A Confession (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Based on true stories about real homicide investigations in the south of Sweden between 1989-2004. The six-part series explores the murder of 10-year-old Helen Nilsson in Hörby, southern Sweden, a seemingly impossible case that remained unsolved ...
Style:
detective, contemplative, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot:
true crime, child murder, homicide detective, murder investigation, sex crime, murder, police procedural, rapist, interrogation, serial killer, unsolved crime, crime investigation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Across more than a decade, 17 teen boys and young men were murdered by convicted killer Jeffrey Dahmer. How did he evade arrest for so long?
Style:
suspense, sexual, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, killing spree, maniac, homicidal maniac, true crime, homosexuality, murder, woman in danger, lgbt, danger, brutality, disguise ...
Time:
year 1989, 2020s, year 1993, year 1992, year 1996 ...
Place:
usa, milwaukee wisconsin
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100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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The true story of London Metropolitan police detective Colin Sutton's manhunt for serial killer Levi Bellfield.
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detective, exciting, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
police detective, who done it, murder, true crime, criminal, victim, brutality, blood, law enforcement, law, corruption, police officer ...
Time:
future
Place:
london
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
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Story:
Detective superintendent reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, murder investigation, cold case, law enforcement, investigation, police, true crime, father son relationship, unsolved crime, double murder, who done it ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
wales, britain, united kingdom
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min.
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Story:
Set in 1984, Code of a Killer is a true story which tells of the discovery of DNA fingerprinting. Detective David Baker leads an investigation of the vicious murders of the two Leicestershire schoolgirls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth. Alec Jeffreys ...
Style:
captivating, tense, serious, exciting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
homicide detective, investigation, police, police detective, killer, serial killer, manhunt, murder, police investigation, murderer, law enforcement, inventions and discoveries ...
Time:
year 1984, future, 20th century, 80s
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher intends on catching a killer of a missing woman, even if that may cost him his career and reputation.
Style:
detective, suspenseful, suspense, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
true crime, murder, police detective, police, murder investigation, police investigation, investigation, hopes, danger, life philosophy, dialogue, british police ...
Time:
future, year 2016, year 2014, year 2012, year 2011
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
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Story:
The film is the first known dramatisation of one of the most notorious killing sprees in British history and was made to mark the fortieth anniversary of Hindley and Brady's trial. It was made with the full backing of the victims' ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, murder, investigation, death of child, rivalry, true crime, murder investigation, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship, killer, violence spree ...
Time:
60s, year 1964, year 1966, year 1963, year 1965
Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, manchester
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine. The police also believed that he had killed his wife Beryl. But to his final moments Evans protested his innocence. Three years later, a gruesome discovery at 10 ...
Style:
costume drama, realistic, atmospheric, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
true crime, serial killer, murder, british police, alter ego, hidden identity, criminal, mentally unstable, male female relationship, british, murderer, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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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:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Based on the true story of Lanarkshire detective William Muncie’s quest to bring to justice notorious Scottish killer Peter Manuel.
Style:
detective, captivating, tense, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
true crime, police detective, rapist, murder, investigation, murder investigation, police investigation, murder mystery, psychopath, maniac, violent, brutality ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
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Story:
Factual drama based on the notorious Whitehouse Farm murders, and the ensuing police investigation and court case.
Style:
crime drama, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
murder trial, murder mystery, true crime, police investigation, schizophrenic, crime scene, adopted son, british police, murder case, farmhouse, investigation, murder investigation ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
united kingdom
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
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Story:
A devout detective's faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family's spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.
Style:
thrilling, detective, captivating, psychological, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
true crime, religious community, religion, criminal, latter day saints, murder, investigation, husband and wife, secret, crime solving, uncover truth, murder mystery ...
Time:
2020s, 80s
Place:
utah, salt lake city utah, north america
Similarity:
100%
26K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, ...
Style:
detective, tense, suspenseful, factual, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, corpse, communism, investigation, forensics, murder, police investigation, sexual sadism, train, bureaucracy, true crime, politics ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1984 ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr, california
Similarity:
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390K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
Style:
psychological thriller, crime drama, thought provoking, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychology, psychopath, criminal psychologist, fbi, fbi agent, serial murder, police, murderer, police investigation, true crime, murder ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 80s
Place:
virginia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
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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:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A series of murders alarm the police authorities, as strange symbolisms are traced to every crime scene. The eccentric professor of criminology Dimitris Lainis is asked to shed some light on the mystery.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
murder mystery, serial killer, masked killer, police, investigation, police detective, police investigation, murder investigation, partner, dishonesty, law enforcement, police officer ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Copenhagen Police's Homicide unit, headed by Jens Møller, tries to solve the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, tense, intellectual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police, murder mystery, true crime, law enforcement, female journalist, police investigation, murder investigation, brutal murder, forensic, uncover truth, investigation, murder of a woman ...
Time:
2020s, year 2017, 21st century
Place:
copenhagen
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
The true story of the courageous families of four young gay men who lost their lives to killer Stephen Port. Facing police failings, they fought for justice for their loved ones.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating, detective
Plot:
gay, murder, serial killer, justice, killing, murderer, investigation, crime solving, murder investigation, crime investigation, uncover truth, true crime ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Factually-based drama telling the stories of five young women who were tragically murdered in Ipswich in 2006.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, murder, police investigation, woman in danger, addiction, drug abuse, prostitute, small town, life is a bitch, murderer, killing spree ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
28%
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:
27%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
The true story of a controversial honeytrap at the heart of the 1992 police investigation into the murder of a young mother in London. Examining the complicated and toxic sexual politics of the early ‘90s and the police’s obsession with the ...
Style:
detective, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot:
murder, undercover agent, seduction, female detective, investigation, murder case, murder investigation, forensics, cold case, police investigation, crime solving, murderer ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
293
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Two detectives communicate through a walkie-talkie to solve a cold case. One detective exists in the present day and the other detective exists 15 years in the past.
Style:
detective, tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, serial killer, kidnapping, police detective, who done it, police investigation, murder investigation, law enforcement, uncover truth, murder mystery, danger, investigator ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After 6 years of brutal murders the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire, but things become more difficult for the ...
Style:
tense, gloomy, suspenseful, cerebral, detective ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, police corruption, murder, police investigation, who done it, conspiracy, dead prostitute, uncover truth, police detective, dishonesty, riddles and clues ...
Time:
80s, year 2009, year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place:
europe, england, yorkshire, london
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story:
The Long Shadow depicts one of the most notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, police undertook the biggest manhunt in British ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, tragic
Plot:
manhunt, serial killer, murder, murder investigation, killing spree, prostitute, murderer, murder victim, homicidal maniac, serial murder, cat versus mouse, murder mystery ...
Time:
year 1982, year 1975, 70s, 80s
Place:
england, yorkshire
Similarity:
27%
490
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
20 years ago Moo-Yeom’s father was a suspect in the "Gap Dong” serial murder case. Because of the detectives’ oppressive investigation, Moo-Yeom’s father killed himself. Now, Moo-Yeom is a detective and works to capture the killer Gap ...
Style:
detective, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, psychopath, murder, psycho killer, murder investigation, life, evidence, serial murder, who done it, uncover truth, police investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on a true story that shocked a nation, this powerful four-part factual drama, from BAFTA winning writer and executive producer Jeff Pope (Appropriate Adult, The Widower), centres on the devastating impact on a city of an innocent child’s ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
true crime, police detective, murder, murder investigation, justice, police investigation, danger, dishonesty, british police, investigation, missing child, murder mystery ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007
Place:
liverpool
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
Murder in Paradise recounts the stories of American couples who go on dream vacations that end in violence. Only one of them comes back alive, and it’s never an accident. From a boxing champ found dead in his hotel room, to a vicious pirate attack ...
Style:
detective, suspenseful, tense, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, murder investigation, testimony, violence, police officer, police investigation, investigator, partner, law enforcement, murder mystery, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
In the dark and remote landscape of northern Norway, a brutal murder reveals a mass grave which links old cases to missing people. Local police woman Hedda is put on the case with special investigator Joel Dreyer who comes from the metropolitan ...
Style:
detective, tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
policewoman, serial killer, police, investigation, murder investigation, murder, who done it, uncover truth, vengeance, danger, violence, society ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
27%
801
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Two detectives who survive a shark attack, join forces to hunt a serial killer that is also hunting them.
Style:
detective, unusual plot structure, tense, suspense, contemplative ...
Plot:
police, serial killer, partner, police officer, revenge, investigation, youth, serial murder, heroes, murder, police detective, murder mystery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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