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The Cliff (2009)
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The Cliff (2009)
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, noir, dark
Plot: investigation, police, murder, homicide detective, murder investigation, crime investigation, partners against crime, policewoman, secret, partner, police investigation, police detective, forensic, forensics, nordic, supernatural, police officer, cliff, mystery
Place: iceland
Keyword: partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, captivating, tense and suspense films and TV series with plots about investigation, police investigation, murder investigation, crime investigation, police, police detective and uncover truth mostly in Drama, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like The Cliff: Dublin Murders (2019), The Disappearance (2015), Murder Investigation Team (2003), Steppe (2018), Galileo (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dublin Murders (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: 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.
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Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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The Disappearance (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
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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 ...
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Murder Investigation Team (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
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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 ...
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Place: britain
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Steppe (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 50 min.
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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
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Galileo (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
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Triangle (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story: 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: captivating, thrilling, detective, tense, psychological
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Place: japan
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Hinterland (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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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 ...
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Beyond Evil (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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Story: A serial murder case takes place in the small, peaceful city. The case is the same serial murder case that took place 20 years ago and changed Lee Dong-Sik’s life. The two detectives work to catch the killer.
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Circle (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
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The Break (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 52 min.
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Story: 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.
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Sea of Plastic (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
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Story: 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 ...
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Country: Russia
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Karen Pirie (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
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Story: Karen is a refreshingly normal and charmingly unfashionable young woman – slick, maverick cop she is not – but her quick mouth and ingenuity make her an impressive investigator. Following her promotion to Police Scotland’s Historic Cases Unit, ...
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The Gone (2023)
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Story: 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 ...
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Trapped (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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North Mission Road (2003)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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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
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Time: 21st century
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The Strip (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
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Story: The Strip is an Australian television drama series that screened on the Nine Network. The series premiered on the Nine Network at 8:30pm on 4 September 2008 but was moved to a later 10:30pm timeslot from 13 November 2008. The show did not return for ...
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Ridley (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
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Story: Retired Detective Inspector Alex Ridley is lured back into service as a consultant detective when his former protégée, Carol Farman, needs help cracking a complex murder case.
Style: detective, psychological, captivating
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Suspects (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
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Story: 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, captivating, suspense, tense ...
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Time: 21st century
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Stockholm Requiem (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: 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: suspense, tense, captivating, detective
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Two junior investigators come together against a new breed of criminal, the uber rich and powerful corporations, individuals and governments who hide behind legitimate facades.
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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
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Roba (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 41 min.
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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
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Medical Examiner Dr. Qin (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 33 min.
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Story: Medical examiner Qin Ming, together with his assistant and a police detective, solves crimes with his expertise.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, dorama
Plot: medical examiner, police, teamwork, uncover truth, murder investigation, forensics, partners against crime, police investigation, crime solving, crime investigation, partner, investigation ...
Place: china
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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, ...
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