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The Cliff (2009)
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Original name: Hraunið
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, tense, captivating, suspense, dark, noir
Plot:
homicide detective, investigation, police, murder, murder investigation, crime investigation, partners against crime, policewoman, secret, partner, police investigation, police detective, forensic, forensics, nordic, supernatural, police officer, cliff, mystery
Place:
iceland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, detective, tense and suspense films and TV series with plots about investigation, murder investigation, police investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation, homicide detective and police mostly in Drama, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like The Cliff: Dublin Murders (2019), The Disappearance (2015), Galileo (2007), Murder Investigation Team (2003), Triangle (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Two detectives are dispatched to investigate the murder of a young girl on the outskirts of Dublin, but as the case of the missing children intensifies, both are forced to confront the darkness that lies in their past.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, tense ...
Plot:
murder, police investigation, investigation, police detective, forest, unsolved crime, mass child killing, forensics, hidden identity, psychological trauma, corpse, murder investigation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
dublin ireland, ireland
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
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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:
detective, psychological, serious, tense, suspense ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
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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, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot:
female detective, physicist, unsolved crime, female police detective, police, genius, police officer, crime investigation, secret revealed, fighting crime, police investigation, murder mystery ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
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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, suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, murder, police, homicide detective, murder investigation, partners against crime, sleuth, crime solving, coworker, fighting crime, forensics ...
Place:
britain
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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The series starts with the murder of a 10-year-old girl in 1984. 15 years later, after the case goes unsolved and passes the statute of limitations, a doctor named Goda Ryoji suddenly quits from his hospital and eventually becomes a detective. In ...
Style:
detective, tense, psychological, crime drama, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, unsolved crime, cold case, problem, homicide detective, police detective, sleuth, murder mystery, crime solving, secret, murder investigation, uncover truth ...
Place:
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Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
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Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense, detective
Plot:
forensics, investigation, crime investigation, murder investigation, partner, sleuth, unsolved crime, uncover truth, crime solving, cold case, homicide detective, teamwork ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
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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, tense, captivating, detective
Plot:
homicide detective, investigation, criminal justice, partner, partners against crime, fighting crime, teamwork, murder investigation, felony, uncover truth, secret revealed, murder mystery ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Iceland
Duration: 45 min.
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A story about four Icelandic detectives, working in the gloomy everyday life in Reykjavik where international crime rings are starting to operate.
Style:
detective, crime drama, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
iceland
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28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 52 min.
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The story is set in a small village in the Ardennes, where a young African footballer is found dead. If all clues lead first to suicide, a police officer just arrived from Brussels does not take long to discover that this is a murder.
Style:
dark, detective, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
homicide detective, murder mystery, investigation, police, murder investigation, partners against crime, crime solving, partner, cold case, small town, detective inspector, police detective ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland, UK
Duration: 49 min.
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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:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
investigation, homicide detective, forensics, female detective, policewoman, life is a bitch, loss of child, problem, confronting the past, female protagonist, uncover truth, sleuth ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
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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, homicide detective, crime investigation, fighting crime, job, colleague, female protagonist, police, office, law enforcement, coworker ...
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26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
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Mar de plástico (Spanish: Sea of Plastic) is a Spanish crime drama television series produced by Boomerang TV for Atresmedia. It airs on Atresmedia's main channel Antena 3. The series focuses on the investigation of a murder in the fictional ...
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
homicide detective, murder, murder investigation, police, racial tension, murder mystery, police detective, danger, partners against crime, forensics, fighting crime, crime solving ...
Time:
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Place:
spain
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: New Zealand, Ireland
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It follows Theo Richter, an Irish detective who teams with Kiwi cop Diana Huia to find a young Irish couple vanish from an infamous rural North Island New Zealand town. Amidst the search and a race against time, the pair have to contend with a ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, detective
Plot:
female detective, missing person, uncover truth, female police detective, sleuth, secret, police investigation, crime investigation, investigation, partners against crime, murder investigation, crime solving ...
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 45 min.
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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:
captivating, tense, suspense, crime drama, detective
Plot:
murder mystery, police investigation, partners against crime, female detective, police inspector, police officer, female protagonist, fighting crime, policewoman, investigation, teamwork, police partner ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
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Style:
captivating, detective, psychological
Plot:
murder investigation, police investigation, forensics, homicide detective, police detective, murder, crime investigation, sleuth, crime solving, uncover truth, teamwork, investigation ...
Place:
united kingdom, britain, england
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 70 min.
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Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, detective
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
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A series of violent murders paralyze Stockholm. Private investigator Fredrika Bergman and her colleagues seek out to solve these crimes, but soon their existence is put under threat.
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, detective
Plot:
homicide detective, investigation, police, female police detective, female protagonist, fighting crime, forensics, partners against crime, crime investigation, partner, cold case, police investigation ...
Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Duration: 90 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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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:
captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, detective, psychological
Plot:
investigation, murder, murder mystery, forensics, workplace situations, crime investigation, uncover truth, police investigation, crime solving, secret, sleuth, who done it ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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With a documentary style delivery, this drama tells the story of a team of top murder detectives with each episode featuring a different murder while also following a serialized story involving the lead detective’s missing wife.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
homicide detective, police, disappearance, murder investigation, murder, investigation, partners against crime, death, suicide, murder mystery, assistant, partner ...
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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DI Ray is set in Birmingham and follows Leicester-born Rachita Ray, a police officer who takes on a case that forces her to confront a lifelong personal conflict between her British identity and her South Asian heritage.
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, detective, psychological
Plot:
female detective, murder investigation, police investigation, police detective, homicide detective, uncover truth, policewoman, crime solving, crime investigation, investigation, forensics, police ...
Place:
united kingdom, britain, england
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
police partner, homicide detective, investigation, investigator, police detective, partners against crime, police investigator, teamwork, crime investigation, detective inspector, police investigation, uncover truth ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 33 min.
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Medical examiner Qin Ming, together with his assistant and a police detective, solves crimes with his expertise.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, dorama
Plot:
police, medical examiner, teamwork, uncover truth, partners against crime, crime solving, crime investigation, police investigation, murder investigation, forensics, partner, sleuth ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria
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The criminal psychologist Richard Brock teaches at the University of Vienna. He used to work as a psychologist until his wife took her own life and he lost his license on suspicion of incorrect treatment. In the meantime he has developed a ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense
Plot:
homicide detective, criminal psychologist, unsolved crime, forensics, police psychologist, partner, workplace situations, teamwork, murder investigation, crime solving, partners against crime, police ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 60 min.
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As a ferry carrying 300 passengers from Denmark pulls into an Icelandic town’s small port, heavy snow begins to fall. The ferry can’t leave until the storm passes and the main road into town is impassable. A mutilated and dismembered body washes ...
Style:
atmospheric, detective, crime drama, scenic, enigmatic ...
Plot:
police, nordic, murder investigation, murder, small town, winter, coastal town, investigation, voodoo, ex wife, danger, forensic ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 40 min.
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The special homicide case that was unsolved in 1997 resurfaced 13 years later. Criminal policeman Wei Zhengrong, who wasn't able to find out the real murderer that year was traumatised and left the front line. The once fledgling new policeman ...
Style:
detective, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, partner, homicide, cold case, police investigation, undercover, murderer, forensics, murder mystery, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
china
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
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Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, detective, suspenseful
Plot:
murder investigation, murder, investigation, murderer, violence, partner, escapades, evidence, society, law enforcement, vengeance, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
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Set in London, each episode is a self-contained story, starting with a news report, then following the team of three detectives as they investigate the circumstances the crime. The cases themselves are hard-hitting with contemporary themes, such as ...
Style:
detective, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, police, crime investigation, investigator, police investigation, partner, who done it, murder investigation, friends, uncover truth, partners against crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland
Duration: 43 min.
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Story:
The series follows Inspector Sakari Koskinen and his team in the Violent Crimes Unit as they try to solve murders in a Finnish lakeside city of Tampere.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, tense, psychological
Plot:
murder investigation, middle aged man, police investigation, police detective, murder, police inspector, detective inspector, police partner, fighting crime, homicide detective, killing, teamwork ...
Place:
finland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005.
Style:
detective, suspenseful, crime drama, rough, tense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, police detective, murder, murder investigation, partners against crime, homicide detective, partner, sleuth, female detective, fighting crime, crime investigation, forensics ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
22%
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