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iSmart Shankar (2019)
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iSmart Shankar (2019)
Original name: ఇస్మార్ట్ శంకర్‌
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A contract killer goes on the run after eliminating a target and eventually finds himself linked to a slain cop whose memory is transferred to his brain.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: heroes, murder, murder investigation, police investigation, murderer, investigation, hitman, memory, forensics, memories, fighting crime, police officer killed, police detective, crime solving, uncover truth, telugu, mystery

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and disturbing films with plots about investigation, uncover truth, murder investigation, murder, police investigation, crime solving and crime investigation mostly in Crime, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like iSmart Shankar: Maayavan (2017), Zero Tolerance (2015), Khiladi (2022), Kuttram 23 (2017), Salute (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Maayavan (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A series of murders are happening in the city, and a cop realises that they are all eerily similar. Can he find out the link and capture the murderer before it is too late?
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspense thriller
Plot: murder, serial killer, murder mystery, criminal, crime solving, fight, investigation, police officer, uncover truth, crime investigation, professional wrestling, police ...
Place: india
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Zero Tolerance (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Johnny and Peter, former paramilitary operatives, search Bangkok - leaving carnage in their wake - to find the men who killed Johnny's daughter, Angel.
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: revenge, call girl, murder investigation, murder, investigation, unsolved crime, murderer, battles, teamwork, cold case, forensics, uncover truth ...
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 5.2
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Khiladi (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Mohan Gandhi is a wanted criminal who’s serving time for a crime he might or might not have committed. With large sums of money, lies and deceit involved, who is he really?
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: murder, gang, murderer, investigation, crime investigation, murder investigation, battles, bandit, fight, police investigation, police, money ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 7.3
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Kuttram 23 (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A case involving the disappearance of a pregnant woman turns into a personal one for the cop who is tasked with investigating it.​
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, crime thriller, suspense thriller
Plot: police, murder mystery, murder, family problems, police investigation, crime investigation, fight, police detective, police officer, fighting crime, murder investigation, investigation ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Salute (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Committed and fiery, Sub Inspector Aravind Karunakaran is obliged to be part of an investigation where an innocent man Murali is deliberately being set up for the murder of a middle-aged couple. Fearing the consequences of revealing that they had ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense
Plot: crime investigation, investigation, unsolved crime, police investigation, sleuth, cold case, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime solving, police, truth, murder ...
Place: india
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Sethupathi (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Sethupathi, an inspector, investigates the murder of a cop and finds that Vaathiyar, a big shot, is responsible for the killing. He arrests Vaathiyar, but an unfortunate incident that has a connection to the case he is investigating, puts his career ...
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing
Plot: police, investigation, murder investigation, threat, police officer, police detective, police officer killed, crime boss, police investigation, fighting crime, assassination plot, conspiracy ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Darbar (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story: Aaditya, the commissioner of Mumbai Police, sets out to catch Ajay, a drug peddler. However, he uncovers a deeper controversy linked to an international drug lord and must mete out justice.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, action packed
Plot: police, sleuth, manhunt, pursuit, secret, police officer, gangster, police detective, police investigation, fighting crime, investigation, forensics ...
Time: 2020s
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84%
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Si 3 (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A reputed cop from Tamil Nadu takes charge in Andhra Pradesh to solve the mysterious murder of a top police officer, and takes on local thugs and criminals during the course of his mission.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: police, police investigation, government conspiracy, fighting crime, investigation, political conspiracy, cold case, fighting the system, criminal, murder investigation, forensics, organized crime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 7.7
 285
Missing Noir M (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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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 ⇓
82%
The Accidental Detective 2: In Action (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A comic book storekeeper, Dae-man, and the legendary homicide detective, Tae-su, who met on previous case quit their jobs to open a private detective agency.
Style: tense, humorous, captivating, disturbing
Plot: murder, forensics, detective agency, homicide detective, investigation, sleuth, crime solving, killings, teamwork, female detective, police investigation, uncover truth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 5.1
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S Storm (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: No sooner is a team at ICAC set up to investigate irregularities/corruption in soccer/football official gaming/betting in Hong Kong before a suspect is assassinated.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: crime solving, investigation, crime investigation, uncover truth, professional athlete, police investigation, secret, murder mystery, forensics, sleuth, corruption, secret revealed ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
HIT: The 2nd Case (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Krishna Dev aka KD, a laidback cop working in Andhra Pradesh State HIT, takes on a gruesome murder case. As KD unravels the layers of the crime, the stakes rise unbelievably high and the threat comes unusually close.
Style: thrilling, captivating, detective, tense, crime thriller
Plot: police investigation, uncover truth, sleuth, investigation, police detective, homicide detective, murder investigation, fight, crime solving, crime investigation, murder, telugu ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Inteqam: The Perfect Game (2004)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Assistant Commissioner of Police, Uday Dhirendra Thakur, is a rogue cop, known for his relentlessness in pursuing criminals, and bringing them to justice, failing which, killing them in false encounters. It is this reputation that gets him ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, detective
Plot: murder, investigation, insanity, writers, murder mystery, police officer killed, fighting crime, murder investigation, police detective, police investigation, killing spree, vigilantism ...
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80%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 4.8
 437
Channeling (2013)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A drama centered on people who seek validation by broadcasting their lives to as big an audience as possible.
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: uncover truth, murder investigation, investigation, murder, social media, loss of brother, social issues, crime solving, crime investigation, competitor, social network, murderer ...
Time: near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo Returns! Showdown with the Black Organization (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shinichi Kudo returns as the young Conan to investigate a murderous letter sent to a beauty pageant winner who demands affection.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, anime
Plot: murder investigation, murder mystery, uncover truth, murderer, crime investigation, police detective, investigation, crime solving, murder
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.2
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The Division (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the 90s, Rio de Janeiro was shaken by a wave of kidnappings. Security forces call controversial agents to help save the city from thugs and also from the police itself.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, political thriller
Plot: kidnapping, police, abduction, police investigation, crime investigation, investigation, crime solving, attempted kidnapping, forensics, uncover truth, social criticism, city
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Against her father's wishes, a young female cop in Chicago pursues her dream of becoming a detective when she's brought on to investigate a major murder case.
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing
Plot: policewoman, murder mystery, homicide detective, forensics, police detective, murder investigation, partners against crime, female police detective, investigation, crime solving, female protagonist, coworker ...
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77%
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Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)
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Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
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Story: Istanbul police commissioner Mehmet Özakin is in charge of serious crime, mainly murder investigations, mostly in the Turkish metropolis. A very modern Turk, he uses up to date Western methods, without prejudice, assisted by bachelor Mustafa ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, detective
Plot: investigation, murder, murder investigation, forensics, crime solving, murder mystery, crime investigation, murderer, uncover truth, sleuth, police detective, police investigation ...
Place: istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
The Girl Is in Trouble (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, captivating
Plot: murder, murder mystery, investigation, murder investigation, moral dilemma, criminal, blackmail, uncover truth, crime investigation, murderer
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76%
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Time of Fear (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Time of Fear is a taut psychological thriller thrusting an FBI agent and a grieving father into the dark world of a demented killer. FBI Agent Cheryl Hammer, arrives in a small California town to catch an elusive killer. Seeing no help forthcoming ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Leakers (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Malaysia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film centers around a Malaysian pharmaceutical company using a new virus to generate an epidemic. A secret organization, known as "The Leaker", discloses this information. After the suicide of the pharmaceutical company's son and ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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I'm Not a Killer (2019)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: One livid dawn, a cold and damp wind blows as a man walks alone through the darkness. Deputy Police Superintendent Francesco Prencipe is on his way to meet his best friend, Judge Giovanni Mastropaolo whom he hasn't seen for almost two years. ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense
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Control Zeta (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a near future, crimes and accidents have disappeared because it has become possible to call the past. However, the peace will be disturbed by a killer who seems to have found the one crack in the system.
Style: thrilling, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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74%
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Genre: Crime
Country: USA
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Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense
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74%
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Nibunan (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A senior cop and his team of two are after a serial killer who is giving them nightmares. Shocked after finding who the next possible victim is going to be, the cop tracks down the assassin with the help of various clues.
Style: tense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, kannada
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Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Inspector Koo (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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Story: A reclusive ex-cop reenters the game as an insurance investigator, searching for clues in crime scenes perfectly staged by a serial killer in her midst.
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74%
Anjaam Pathiraa (2020)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A psychologist with a keen interest in criminology gets entangled in a tough serial killer case which the police find hard to crack.
Style: suspense, suspense thriller, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: investigation, police, murder investigation, partners against crime, murder mystery, police detective, serial murder, police officer killed, danger, forensics, partner, police officer ...
Time: 2020s
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Control (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The once unconditional friendship between police officers Vincke and Verstuyft hits a very rough patch when they come up against a series of gruesome murders. Complicating matters even further, a survivor of the killer drives a wedge between them ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, homicide detective, police partner, crime investigation, murder, homicidal maniac, murder investigation, serial murder, killings, murder mystery, criminal, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 5.7
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Overdose (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Captain Sara Bellaiche, from Toulouse Judiciary Police branch, is investigating a go-fast linked to the murder of two teenagers, an investigation led by Richard Cross, from the Paris Criminal Brigade. Forced to collaborate in order to find the ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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