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The Salisbury Poisonings (2020)
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The Salisbury Poisonings (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story: In March 2018 Salisbury became the site of an unprecedented national emergency. This three-part dramatisation focuses on the extraordinary heroism shown by the local community.
Style: suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, suspense
Plot: chemical weapon, spy, russian abroad, poisoning, father and daughter, hospitalization, intoxication, british police, british government, father daughter relationship, reconnaissance, female police officer, russian politics, police officer, biopic, prospector, policewoman, archive footage
Place: united kingdom, england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, suspense and disturbing films and TV series with plots about investigation, murder, true crime, danger, murder investigation, police and police officer mostly in Drama, History and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Salisbury Poisonings: Yosi, The Regretful Spy (2022), Honour (2020), The First Circle (2006), The Days (2023), The Great Train Robbery (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Yosi, The Regretful Spy (2022)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 367 min.
TV show
Story: An Argentinean intelligence agent infiltrates the Jewish community to gather information that is then allegedly used to perpetrate two of the worst terrorist attacks in Latin American history, leaving over 100 dead.
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot: reconnaissance, terrorist, terrorism, undercover agent, spy, male protagonist, special agent, secret agent, spy mission, fighting crime, terrorist bombing, prospector ...
Place: israel, egypt, argentina, paraguay, patagonia
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Honour (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
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: detective, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
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Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
The First Circle (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 440 min.
TV show
Story: A ten-episode television series based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Set in a relatively comfortable Stalin-era prison in the town of Marfino where a community of prisoners with highly technical skills do research for the state.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: prison, prospector, jail, scientific experiment, spy, soviet spy, experiment, secret, multiple storylines, totalitarian regime, communism, josef stalin ...
Place: ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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The Days (2023)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear disaster.
Style: captivating, tense, dark
Plot: nuclear disaster, nuclear radiation, nuclear power plant, flooding, radiation poisoning, nuclear holocaust, nuclear explosion, problem, alternate history, gas mask, entity, tragedy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Great Train Robbery (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Two-part BBC drama portraying The Great Train Robbery of 8 August 1963. The first part shows it from the point of view of the robbers, and the second part from the point of view of the police who set out to identify and catch the robbers.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: train robbery, train, criminal heroes, partner, law enforcement, friends, danger, post war, organized crime, conspiracy, mafia, robbery ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1963
Place: england, britain, europe, scotland, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Rillington Place (2016)
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: bleak, melancholic, realistic, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, murder, mentally unstable, hidden identity, british, murderer, criminal, male female relationship, psycho killer, investigation, killer ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Slow Horses (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
TV show
Story: This quick-witted spy drama follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
Style: disturbing, tense, funny, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot: reconnaissance, team, crime investigation, agent, cia agent, misfit, secret agent, prospector, investigation, espionage, british intelligence, unlikely hero ...
Time: future, 2020s
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Looming Tower (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 492 min.
TV show
Story: Tracing the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, it takes a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently might have set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
Style: rough, suspense, political, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot: cia, terrorism, counter terrorism, fbi, terrorist, cia agent, spy, war on terror, espionage, special agent, real life, showdown ...
Time: september 11 2001, year 2001, 90s, 2000s, year 1998
Place: usa, syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Spy City (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: After a defector is murdered, British agent Fielding Scott is assigned to track down a mole in his own ranks in 1961 Berlin. His investigation leads him into a deadly web of crime, betrayal and paranoia. Who can Scott trust in the city of spies?
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, thrilling
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Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Good Cop (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A dutiful Liverpool beat cop discovers what he is truly capable of after his partner is brutally murdered in a targeted attack by a local gang.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, crime drama ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Traitors (2019)
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 1945 London. Feef is seduced by a rogue American spy into spying on her own country. Her task? To uncover a Russian agent in the heart of the British Government.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, period drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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The Queen (2009)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
TV show
Story: The Queen was a 2009 British drama-documentary showing Queen Elizabeth II at different points during her life. Broadcast on Channel 4 over five consecutive nights from 29 November 2009, the Queen was portrayed by a different actress in each episode. ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, captivating
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Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
From Darkness (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
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Duration: 233 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Claire Church, a former police officer who moves away to the remote Western Isles in an attempt to escape the past and violence that still haunts her. Soon, Claire is pulled back into an investigation she thought she long left behind, ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 45 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Man Standing Next (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
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Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Baghdad Central (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
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Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, political, detective ...
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Time: future, 2000s, year 2003
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⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.8
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Dark Angel (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
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TV show
Story: Drama about the real-life Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 7.3
 8K
Quiz (2020)
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TV show
Story: Quiz tells the extraordinary and sensational story of how Charles and Diana Ingram attempted an ‘audacious heist' on the quiz show 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'. Major Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Movie in collections
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The Widower (2014)
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Country: UK
Duration: 136 min.
TV show
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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Little Boy Blue (2017)
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 ...
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Time: 2000s, year 2007
Place: liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 9.3
 854K
Chernobyl (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 330 min.
TV show
Story: A dramatization of the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Style: dark, atmospheric, rough, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: radiation, nuclear holocaust, radiation poisoning, nuclear power plant, nuclear reactor, disaster, save the day, nuclear explosion, salvation, scientist, nuclear radiation, nuclear threat ...
Time: year 1986, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place: chernobyl, ussr, soviet union, ukraine, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Pembrokeshire Murders (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 144 min.
TV show
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: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, murder investigation, police, investigation, true crime, cold case, law enforcement, father son relationship, unsolved crime, double murder, who done it ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: wales, britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Code of a Killer (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
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, serious, tense, exciting, thought provoking ...
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Time: year 1984, future, 20th century, 80s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Movie in collections
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Waco (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 292 min.
TV show
Story: The FBI and ATF seize religious leader, David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in the spring of 1993. A six-part television series covering a deadly standoff between the federal government and the Branch Davidians spiritual ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anime ...
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Time: year 1993, 90s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 352 min.
TV show
Story: The minister, his mistress, and her lover the spy. The story of the woman at the centre of one of the 20th century's biggest scandals – which changed Britain forever.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, political, beautiful ...
Plot: extramarital affair, sex scandal, british prime minister, scandal, government, political corruption, post war, political scandal, female protagonist, political unrest, sexual relations, british history ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.9
 6K
Deceit (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 188 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, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense
Plot: murder, investigation, seduction, undercover agent, murder investigation, forensics, murder case, police investigation, crime investigation, mystery killer, working undercover, crime solving ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Hunt for Raoul Moat (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 166 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the police operation in 2010 to apprehend fugitive Raoul Moat. He went to Northumbria after killing one person and wounding two others.
Style: suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: police, fugitive, criminal, crime solving, investigation, homicide detective, secret, police officer, police investigation, uncover truth, murder investigation, murder ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.6
 10K
A Confession (2019)
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, tense, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot: true crime, murder, police, murder investigation, police investigation, police detective, investigation, hopes, danger, dialogue, life philosophy, police officer ...
Time: future, year 2016, year 2014, year 2011, year 2012
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.5
 870
Klangor (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: A desperate father looks for his missing daughter.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot: mysterious disappearance, family problems, father daughter relationship, father and daughter, disappearance, conspiracy, dysfunctional family, family relations, police, female nudity, teenager
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Murders at White House Farm (2020)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 277 min.
TV show
Story: Factual drama based on the notorious Whitehouse Farm murders, and the ensuing police investigation and court case.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, tense ...
Plot: murder, murder trial, true crime, police investigation, schizophrenic, adopted son, murder mystery, murder case, farmhouse, murder investigation, investigation, crime investigation ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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