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Unfair (2006)
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Unfair (2006)
Original name: アンフェア
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: A no-nonsense detective with a reputation for pushing limits investigates a rash of brutal murders connected by a series of cryptic short stories.
Style: clever, serious, suspenseful, stylized, detective, realistic
Plot: police investigation, police detective, riddles and clues, serial killer, murder, danger, law enforcement, fighting crime, partner, strong female presence, partners against crime, investigation, female detective, deadly, mystery, crime, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, detective, realistic and serious films and TV series with plots about murder, police investigation, law enforcement, investigation, police detective, deadly and police mostly in Mystery, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Unfair: Jo (2013), The Last Detective (2003), Unfair: Code Breaking (2006), Tell Me What You Saw (2020), The Black Tower (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Jo (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK
Duration: 366 min.
TV show
Story: Jo is an English-language French police procedural television series created by Canadian/USA screenwriter René Balcer of Law & Order fame with French writing team Franck Ollivier & Malina Detcheva, known for the mini-series Lost Signs. It ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Plot: police detective, police investigation, riddles and clues, fighting crime, law enforcement, murder, danger, investigation, nypd, murder mystery, criminal, murder investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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The Last Detective (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: The Last Detective is an ITV drama starring Peter Davison as Dangerous Davies. The first series aired in 2003 with three more seasons succeeding this. The first consisted of a pilot and three episodes, the second and the third series both consisted ...
Style: detective, clever, suspenseful, realistic, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, uncover truth, amateur detective, law enforcement, partners against crime, danger, investigation, riddles and clues, nypd ...
Time: future
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Former NYPD detective and forensic genius Lincoln Rhyme was at the top of his game until a serious accident at the hands of a notorious serial killer forced him out of the field. When Amelia Sachs, an intuitive young officer who has a gift for ...
Style: serious, realistic, detective, psychological
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, police, partners against crime, forensics, riddles and clues, police investigation, danger, evidence, law enforcement, police detective ...
Place: new york
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84%
Unfair: Code Breaking (2006)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Unfair was the first full-fledged mystery drama in a long time. It was aired in January 2006 and enjoyed support from a wide spectrum of fans and high viewer ratings. Support was especially high among viewers in the same age group as Ryoko ...
Style: thrilling, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: investigation, forensics, who done it, murder mystery, murderer, sleuth, murder investigation, crime solving, murder, uncover truth, secret, killings ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Tell Me What You Saw (2020)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The eccentric Oh Hyun Jae was a peerless criminal profiler until a bomb planted by a serial killer took the life of his young fiancée, causing him to become a recluse. When a serial killer long thought dead returns to terrorize the city, rising ...
Style: detective, intellectual, realistic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: photographic memory, serial killer, talented, psychic, investigation, crime investigation, law enforcement, homicide detective, police detective, coworker, murder, fighting crime ...
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The Black Tower (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Frustrated with his career, Commander Dalgliesh is invited to Toynton Grange, a home for the disabled, by his old teacher, Father Baddeley, who is resident there. But unbeknown to Dalgliesh, something happening at the Grange is making the Father ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot: monastery, murder, law enforcement, police investigation, danger, police detective, riddles and clues, village, who done it, commander, tower, investigation ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: england
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Identity (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Identity is a British police procedural drama television series starring Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes, airing in the UK during July–August 2010. Concerning identity theft, the series was created and written by Ed Whitmore, a writer most noted for ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: police investigation, identity theft, fighting crime, law enforcement, police detective, police, hidden identity, danger, murder, murder mystery, cons and scams, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Zen (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen ...
Style: atmospheric, sexy, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, workplace, law enforcement, suspicion, corruption, transcendence, investigation, nypd, chief of police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Mystery Woman (2003)
Genre: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
Story: A famous writer is found hanged in his office. At first, all police investigations conclude that it was suicide, but when Samantha Kinsey, owner of Seller 'Mystery Woman' starts his own investigation, he discovers that there is chance that ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: amateur detective, investigation, betrayal, dishonesty, murder, danger, store, sabotage, writers, who done it, law enforcement, forgery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Bullet Vanishes (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: One rainy night in an arms factory near Shanghai, a young female worker accused of stealing a box of bullets from the ruthless Boss Ding (Liu Kai Chi) is violently killed in a game of Russian roulette. Half a month later, a series of inexplicable ...
Style: rough, tense, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, police investigation, partner, conspiracy, partners against crime, dishonesty, riddles and clues, murder, danger, who done it, law enforcement, police shootout ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Inspector George Gently (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.
Style: detective, suspenseful, serious, crime drama, clever ...
Plot: murder investigation, police investigation, police, whodunit, law enforcement, police detective, partner, chief of police, partners against crime, murder, police procedural, investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, future
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Mysteries of Detective Cat HOLMES (2012)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Yoshitaro Katayama (Masaki Aiba) became a police detective after having followed the will of his father who had been known as a great detective. However, Yoshitaro can never step into murder scenes because he faints whenever he sees blood, and ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, suspenseful, detective
Plot: murderer, investigation, society, serial murder, uncover truth, friendship, clue, mysterious man, partners against crime, police investigation, corpse, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Above Suspicion (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds, and features the career of La Plante's latest heroine DC ...
Style: detective, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: police detective, police investigation, serial killer, murder, law enforcement, danger, dirty cop, detective inspector, police procedural, investigation, legal, meme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, spain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Fifth Woman (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 229 min.
TV show
Story: The 5th woman unfolds autumn 1994. An elderly man found in a gillrad pitfall impaled to death on the sharp sharpened bamboo poles, ecstatic praise of crows. Shortly afterwards disappears a florist without a trace and he also found executed in the ...
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, police detective, vigilantism, law enforcement, murder, vengeance, life is a bitch, vigilante, police procedural, revenge, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Messiah 2: Vengeance Is Mine (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: When a man is buried alive, Red Metcalf must delve into a serial killer's psyche.
Style: tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
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Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder (2005)
Genre: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Murder is something to sing about when Mystery Woman Samantha Kinsey-an expert in pulp fiction, and increasingly proficient when it comes to real-life crime-untangles a record-breaking murder. Mystery Woman bookshop owner, Samantha Kinsey, has ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, mind bending
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Thorne: Sleepyhead (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Thorne Sleepyhead: follows DI Tom Thornes investigation into a mysterious serial killer. His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate. Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, police investigation, murder, hunt down, danger, society, conspiracy, murder mystery, murder investigation, law enforcement, male protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Cold Squad (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by ...
Style: detective, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: police detective, investigation, murder investigation, nypd, coroner, strong female presence, partner, riddles and clues, law enforcement, police investigation, fighting crime, crime investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: canada, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Death of an Expert Witness (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: When Dr. Edwin Lorrimer, a forensic scientist working at a private laboratory is found killed, Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is sent to investigate. Dalgliesh had been in the area a few months previously investigating the murder of a young ...
Style: detective, crime drama, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: murder, police investigation, danger, law enforcement, multiple suspects, who done it, riddles and clues, police, laboratory, investigation, deadly
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
False Accusation (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story: A quiet spring morning a man leaves prison after spending most of his adult life there. The man is convicted of murder, not once but twice.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, detective
Plot: murder, police investigation, law enforcement, partner, released from prison, nypd, fictional country, flashback, police procedural, deadly, decapitated body
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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Above Suspicion 2: The Red Dahlia (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
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Story: D.C.I. Langton takes charge when the body of would-be model Louise Pennell is found,sliced in half and with her mouth mutilated into a smile. D.C. Anna Travis discovers that newspaper journalist Richard Reynolds had received anonymous typed letters ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
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Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Women's Murder Club (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Women's Murder Club was an American police procedural and legal drama, which ran on ABC from October 12, 2007, to May 13, 2008. The series is set in San Francisco, California and is based on the 'Women's Murder Club' series of ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, witty, detective ...
Plot: female detective, policewoman, homicide detective, forensics, investigation, fighting crime, police investigation, workplace situations, legal, legal investigation, partners against crime, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: A British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent ...
Style: serious, detective, tense, realistic, witty ...
Plot: murder, police detective, police investigation, riddles and clues, police, investigation, buddy cop, partners against crime, nypd, investigator, shrewd, partner ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Cold Case: Shinjitsu No Tobira (2016)
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Style: detective, contemplative, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: cold case, police, murder investigation, investigation, police procedural, partner, police detective, society, vengeance, heroes, escapades, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Killer Instinct (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Killer Instinct is an American crime drama television series filmed in Vancouver that originally aired on the Fox Network. The pilot episode aired on September 23, 2005, and the final episode aired on December 2, 2005. Fox ordered 13 episodes, only ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Plot: police detective, police investigation, fighting crime, law enforcement, partner, policewoman, true crime, woman with a gun, murder mystery, crime investigation, buddy cop, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Stolen Face (2019)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Shirato Takamasa is a detective at the Investigation Cooperation Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. His job is to catch wanted criminals by only relying on their faces. One day, he sees Sunami's face who was a senior ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot: police, investigation, criminal, police department, mysterious death, police officer, uncover truth, escapades, law enforcement, violence, evidence, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Stone's Cocoon (2015)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The body of a person who died an unnatural death is discovered encased in mortar like concrete in the basement of an abandoned building. Why was the person murdered this way? The next day, the investigation task force receives a phone call from the ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, enigmatic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, investigation, murder mystery, mysterious villain, police investigation, unsolved crime, psycho killer, fighting crime, killings, entrapment, murderer, serial killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Blue Murder (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
TV show
Story: Blue Murder is a British crime drama television series based in Manchester. Shown on ITV from 2003 until 2009 when it was cancelled by the network, it starred Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis.
Style: detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: family relations, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, whodunit, single mother, investigation, nypd, single parent, strong female presence, children, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Crystal's Beating (2016)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: From a gruesome murder to a series of bomb blasts, it's explosive storytelling from beginning to end! This “Crystal's Beating” (Suishō no Kodō) is the sequel to the immensely popular crime suspense drama series “Cocoon of Stone” ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Plot: uncover truth, female police detective, forensics, murder, crime solving, murder investigation, investigation, police detective, murderer, crime investigation, serial killer, female protagonist ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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The Tunnel (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The plot follows detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wasserman working together to find a serial killer who left the upper-half body of a French politician and the lower-half of a British prostitute in the Channel Tunnel, at the midpoint between ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, partners against crime, partner, police detective, social worker, murder, law enforcement, hunt down, tunnel, casual sex, bodies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: english channel, europe, england, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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