Movies and TV shows like Neighborhood’s Hero

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Neighborhood’s Hero (2016)
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Neighborhood’s Hero (2016)
Original name: 동네의 영웅
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Baek Shi-Yoon is an ex-secret agent. He is a well-trained human weapon. Hiding his past, he buys the bar "Neighborhood" and runs it is as the owner. He gets close to the neighborhood regulars at his bar and sympathizes with their pain. Baek Shi-Yoon meets a young man who works as a temporary employee. The young wants to become a police officer. Baek Shi-Yoon trains the young man as a secret agent and they fight together against evil.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
Plot: fighting crime, secret agent, teamwork, forensics, private detective, teacher student relationship, ex cia agent, bar owner, special agent, secret agents, special agents, crimes
Place: korea

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Most similar movies to Neighborhood’s Hero

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, tense and suspense films and TV series with plots about forensics, investigation, fighting crime, crime investigation, crime solving, teamwork and sleuth mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Neighborhood’s Hero: Mad Dog (2017), Dead Lucky (2018), Watcher (2019), Killer by the Lake (2017), The Confidence (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mad Dog (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Choi Kang-Woo is a former detective, but he now works as a veteran insurance investigator. He leads a team that attempts to reveal insurance fraud cases.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, detective
Plot: insurance investigator, investigation, private investigation, rivalry, crime investigation, teamwork, sleuth, crime solving, forensics, uncover truth
Place: korea
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95%
 6.8
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Dead Lucky (2018)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Two feuding detectives hunt down a cop-killer who leaves a trail of broken lives across Sydney.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, detective ...
Plot: murderer, police, murder, armed robbery, police investigation, crime investigation, fighting crime, uncover truth, forensics, bandit, sleuth, police detective ...
Place: sydney australia, australia
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70%
 7.7
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Watcher (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: A psychological thriller that delves into the reality of power. It follows the story of three men and women whose lives are destroyed by a tragic accident as they become a team that uncovers corruption and fights against people with power.
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, detective, political ...
Plot: corruption, investigation, lawyer, uncover truth, private investigation, fighting crime, forensics, detective agency, crime solving, crime investigation, sleuth, corrupt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Killer by the Lake (2017)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Three years after Vanished by the Lake, Lise and Clovis are now by another lake, in Annecy, and face the challenge of a new family life with their nine-month-old son Tom as the couple takes on a demanding new investigation.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: crime solving, crime investigation, confronting the past, homicide detective, murder, female detective, murder investigation, police detective, serial killer, forensics, investigation, teamwork ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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The Confidence (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
TV show
Story: Ke Ying is a talented economics lecturer who is forced to help psychopath Feng Xiao Sheng gain real power within his corporation. The street smart Xiao Wu is a police informant, and when he discovers Fu’s company is laundering money with foreign ...
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing
Plot: criminal gang, organized crime, investigation, fighting crime, crime boss, criminal, teamwork, mafia, police investigation, forensics
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58%
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Hassel (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Roland Hassel's father figure and mentor, Yngve Ruda, is brutally murdered in the middle of the street. Devastated, Hassel decides to undertake his own covert investigation to find Ruda's killer and avenge him with the support of ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: murder investigation, murder, homicide detective, secret revealed, dark secret, crime investigation, murder mystery, investigation, political conspiracy, murderer, unsolved crime, forensics ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.8
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Trident (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Three aging police officers working in support positions are drawn back to front line operations when their best friend, Xia, is killed on the day of his retirement after asking to tag along on one last drug raid. In the ensuing investigations, the ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense, detective
Plot: unsolved crime, workplace, uncover truth, crime investigation, partners against crime, workplace situations, police investigation, forensics, police detective, fighting crime, police station, friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.7
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Missing Noir M (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Gil Soo-Hyun is extremely intelligent. At the age of 10, he attended Harvard University. After graduating there, he decided to work at the FBI and worked there for 10 years. Afterwards, he decided to come back to South Korea. He now works as the ...
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: crime solving, murder investigation, crime investigation, forensics, police investigation, serial killer, sleuth, workplace, murder, mysterious disappearance, investigation, killings ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Inspector Winter (2010)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story: Scandi noir featuring Inspector Erik Winter, a dedicated, yet tormented Gothenburg police detective.
Style: detective, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: police procedural, investigation, police investigation, sleuth, unsolved crime, forensics, uncover truth, murder investigation, police detective, crime investigation, homicide detective, cold case ...
Place: eastern europe
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54%
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Pitbull (2005)
Genre: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: "Pitbull" shows every-day police work the way it is, without unnecessary commentary, using documentary form. The story evolves around few CID policemen, each of whom has his own private problems.
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: police, fighting crime, partners against crime, special agent, partner, coworker, workplace situations, police partner, teamwork, police station, police officer, everyday life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Less than Evil (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Woo Tae Suk is an experienced and well-established detective with a long professional career, but in spite of everything he is a lonely and bitter human being. It all has to do with him only focusing on solving cases, while his actions are ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: police detective, crime investigation, mind game, investigation, master criminal, criminal, crime solving, fighting crime, competitor, sleuth, police investigation, cat versus mouse ...
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.5
 303
Drought (2022)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Portugal, Spain
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a small submerged village on the Spanish-Portuguese border, follows the discovery of two skeletons that reveal evidence of a bloody crime.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot: police detective, murder mystery, murder investigation, investigation, puzzle, crime solving, fighting crime, secret, uncover truth, rural area, skeleton, forensics ...
Place: portugal, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Duval and Moretti (2008)
Genre: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Inspectors Duval and Moretti, inseparable cops and friends, work under the leadership of Paloma Ruiz, a commissioner with the iron hand, with the help of their favorite informer, Caesar.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: fighting crime, police partner, uncover truth, partners against crime, detective inspector, teamwork, sleuth, forensics, police, police officer, police investigation, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Wanted (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Wanted was a 2005 American primetime police drama television series broadcast on the TNT network. The series was created by Louis St. Clair and Jorge Zamacona, and executive produced by Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent and Jorge Zamacona.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, detective
Plot: task force, police, fighting crime, sleuth, forensics, partners against crime, police partner, police investigation, crime solving, secret revealed, cold case, investigation ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Be Reborn (2022)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Style: disturbing, captivating, detective, suspense
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Troppo (2022)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An eccentric private investigator with a criminal past recruits a disgraced ex-cop to help solve the disappearance of a Korean tech pioneer in the wilds of Far North Queensland.
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
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46%
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North Shore (2023)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, USA, North Korea, Russia
TV show
Story: When the 19-year-old daughter of a UK politician is found dead in Sydney Harbour, cultures clash as a British and an Australian detective team up to solve a complex murder mystery. But this international investigation will expose more than murder, ...
Style: detective, captivating, thrilling, psychological, tense
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Country: Taiwan
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Story: Pi Zi and Ying Xiong are two cops who are as different as day and night. One lives a luxurious lifestyle and does nothing but drink coffee and wait for information from dubious sources to crack his cases. Another believes law and justice are the ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Codename Hunter (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Norwegian Mini series (2007) starring Mads Ousdal
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing
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45%
 7.3
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The Undertaker (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: Switzerland
TV show
Story: A detective leaves the force to take over the family business as an undertaker at the same time as he is being investigated for murder. His close encounters with corpses and his earlier police training lead him to see things some of his ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, detective
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Medical Examiner Dr. Qin: The Survivor (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
TV show
Story: ...
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, detective
Plot: forensics, investigation, crime investigation, murder investigation, partner, police investigation, sleuth, fighting crime, crime solving, homicide detective, unsolved crime, secret revealed ...
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45%
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Paradox (2012)
Genre: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: A bright, young officer joins General Police Headquarters to investigate one of its lead inspectors and the criminal cases he's working on.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: fighting crime, forensics, crime investigation, detective inspector, investigation, police detective, partners against crime, uncover truth, unsolved crime, crime solving, police investigation, police inspector ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Informant (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the truth about his past by working with him.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: fighting crime, police detective, teamwork, police officer, police investigation, criminal, organized crime, reconnaissance, police, forensics
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Art of Crime (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, detective
Plot: fighting crime, art critic, crime solving, art theft, uncover truth, art thief, partners against crime, partner, teamwork, secret revealed, unsolved crime, theft ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Luna & Sophie (2018)
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
TV show
Story: Luna Kunath (Caroline Erikson) and Tamara Meurer (Anjua Pahl) work together in the Potsdam murder commission. Luna is single, strong, assertive, funny, empathic, sporty and fast in the head. It is an excellent policewoman whose carefree always ...
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: sleuth, uncover truth, female protagonist, investigation, forensics, cold case, police investigation, crime investigation, fighting crime, crime solving, murder investigation, unsolved crime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.5
 2K
Strike Force (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A boisterous homicide detective is partnered with a neurotic narc to fight organized crime in the Dutch city of Tilburg.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
Plot: fighting crime, partners against crime, murder investigation, investigation, police detective, crime investigation, police partner, police, crime solving, police officer, sleuth, detective inspector ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.1
 3K
Furia (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
TV show
Story: Policeman Asgeir moves to an idyllic town in the west part of Norway. After a local conflict, he meets a mysterious woman named Ragna, and soon they are both trapped in a network of right-wing radical forces that threaten Europe.
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense
Plot: undercover agent, terrorism, election, police investigation, fighting crime, working undercover, teamwork, political conspiracy, police investigator, forensics, writers, police detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.4
 332
Your Honor (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An incorruptible judge has spent his career fighting organized crime. However, the tables are turned when his son is guilty of a hit-and-run case.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: judge, family relations, father son relationship, moral dilemma, fighting crime, family problems, court, courtroom drama, career, father and son
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.6
 1K
The Veil (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Han Ji-hyuk, an NIS agent gone MIA, returns after one year to join a new team as he searches for his lost past.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing
Plot: betrayal, investigation, espionage, reconnaissance, badass, secret agent, special agent, crime solving, uncover truth, crime investigation, spy, government agent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.6
 23
Death Notify (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
TV show
Story: A series of serial killings is exposed and creates a stir among the public. A killer called "Darker" has been leaving a death notification card after killing scumbags who evaded the law. To counter the provocation of the mysterious ...
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological
Plot: professor, uncover truth, murderer, investigation, sleuth, crime investigation, private detective, forensics, crime solving, teamwork, murder investigation
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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