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The Moorside (2017)
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The Moorside (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Drama about the search in 2008 for missing Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews and the surprising revelations the investigation unearthed.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
Plot: kidnapping, missing person, investigation, friendship, murder investigation, crime investigation, murder mystery, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, unsolved crime, fighting crime, private investigation, crime solving, cold case, uncover truth, women, missing child, aspiration, schoolgirl, police investigation, cop, mystery, crime, missing, crimes ...
Place: yorkshire

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and detective films and TV series with plots about crime solving, uncover truth, investigation, crime investigation, murder investigation, police investigation and forensics mostly in Crime, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Moorside: My Son (2021), The Five (2016), The Promise (2020), Unforgotten (2015), Murder Investigation Team (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Son (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a man's only son goes missing, he travels to the town where his ex-wife lives in search of answers. To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script of dialogue.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, detective
Plot: missing child, divorced parents, disappearance, ex husband ex wife relationship, kidnapping, uncover truth, kidnapped, kids in trouble, ex couple relations, male female relationship, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 2020s
Place: scotland, ireland
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The Five (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When they were twelve years old, Mark, Pru, Danny and Slade were out together in the park. Mark’s five-year-old brother, Jesse, was annoying them. They were mean – told him to get lost. Jesse ran away. He was gone. Never seen again. Twenty years ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, detective, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: crime solving, childhood friend, murder, missing person, investigation, crime investigation, police detective, murder mystery, secret, crime scene, forensics, twists and turns ...
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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The Promise (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
TV show
Story: What's the worst that can happen to a police officer? Definitely an unresolved investigation. This is what happens on Boxing Day 1999. Charlotte Meyer, an 11-year-old girl, disappears without a trace. Captain Pierre Castaing, in charge of the ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, enigmatic, tense, suspense
Plot: missing person, investigation, disappearance, crime investigation, crime solving, police investigation, mysterious disappearance, cold case, uncover truth, police officer
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Unforgotten (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: 'Unforgotten' follows modern police team DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan, who gradually unravel long-forgotten secrets which have a dramatic impact on their investigation and the four potential suspects. The slow revelation of the ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, crime drama, tense ...
Plot: murder investigation, murder mystery, murder, police investigation, investigation, police, cold case, missing person, female police detective, uncover truth, father daughter relationship, haunted by the past ...
Time: future, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Murder Investigation Team (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
TV show
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 ...
Style: detective, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, murder mystery, murder, police, homicide detective, murder investigation, forensics, crime investigation, sleuth, killings, workplace, police detective ...
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Concrete Evidence: A Fixer Upper Mystery (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: When Mac—Shannon’s new beau—first moved to Lighthouse Cove, he bought the historic lighthouse mansion that the town is named after. During renovation demolition, the bones of a teenage girl who went missing fifteen years ago were discovered. ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot: death of sister, crime investigation, murder investigation, skeleton, child murder investigation, murder mystery, uncover truth, murder, investigation, crime solving, unsolved crime, murderer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Murdoch Mysteries (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: In 1890s Canada, a police inspector applies the latest scientific methods of deduction, much to the chagrin of his superiors.
Style: detective, captivating, tense
Plot: crime solving, homicide detective, police detective, murder investigation, crime investigation, uncover truth, fighting crime, investigation, private investigation, forensics, private detective, cold case ...
Time: victorian era, 1890s
Place: america, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Chasing Shadows (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Chasing Shadows' follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, crime investigation, homicide detective, missing person, murder, crime solving, investigation, murder mystery, police investigation, law enforcement, partner, partners against crime ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Hammarvik (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: When police officer Johanna Strand returns to her hometown Hammarvik to attend her mother's funeral, she expects to stay only for a few nights but the body of a young woman is found and she decides to stay and investigate what happened.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, detective ...
Plot: sleuth, murderer, investigation, crime investigation, unsolved crime, secret revealed, crime solving, murder investigation, forensics, police investigation, cold case, murder mystery ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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55%
Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
TV show
Story: If Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former professor, forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Bell. This series recounts the fictional murder investigations that Bell might have undertaken with the ...
Style: captivating, tense, detective, period drama
Plot: sherlock holmes, private detective, investigation, murder, whodunit, private investigation, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation, unsolved crime, crime solving, teamwork ...
Time: victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Four Lives (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of the courageous families of four young gay men who lost their lives to killer Stephen Port. Facing police failings, they fought for justice for their loved ones.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, tense, detective
Plot: murder, serial killer, justice, gay, murderer, murder investigation, crime investigation, investigation, crime solving, uncover truth, killings, women ...
Time: 2010s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Strip (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
TV show
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 ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, detective
Plot: murder investigation, police, investigation, crime investigation, coworker, uncover truth, rich and poor, sleuth, workplace, fighting crime, forensics, police detective ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Vanished by the Lake (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Homicide Detective Lise returns to her hometown for the first time since a local tragedy shattered her teens. Tragedy strikes again when a teenage girl vanishes under circumstances that mirror the disappearance of Lise's two best friends, Ana ...
Style: enigmatic, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, female police detective, crime solving, mysterious disappearance, confronting the past, secret revealed, sleuth, tragic past, crime investigation, murder investigation, female detective, forensics ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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New Blood (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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.
Style: detective, tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: police partner, investigation, crime solving, homicide detective, investigator, police investigator, police detective, partners against crime, crime investigation, police investigation, detective inspector, teamwork ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
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 ⇓
53%
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Circle (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
TV show
Story: A special team of four is established by the Istanbul Police Department. The team has all kinds of different talents. These four people, who have experienced many things in their past, start working together to solve grisly murders.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, detective
Plot: investigation, partners against crime, teamwork, fighting crime, partner, murder investigation, criminal justice, murder mystery, police partner, police, cold case, sleuth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Raid (2017)
Genre: Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: In the Kaliningrad remand prison, Major Andrei Ryzhov commits suicide, accused of exceeding his authority. Four of his colleagues - Oleg Kaplan, Pavel Karpenko, Oksana Golikova and Fyodor Vachevsky - are confident of the innocence of their former ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: police investigation, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime solving, partners against crime, private investigation, crime investigation, homicide detective, unsolved crime, cold case, teamwork, police partner ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Detective Chinatown (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
TV show
Story: Strange crimes occur in Thailand as the ranking for the world's best detective sees a shift. New detectives come into the picture to tackle three difficult cases.
Style: suspense, detective, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, murder investigation, crime investigation, murderer, sleuth, murder mystery, police detective, police investigation, cold case, killings, secret revealed ...
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Jack Irish (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man ...
Style: detective, crime drama, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: private detective, investigation, private investigation, unsolved crime, uncover truth, life is a bitch, crime investigation, murder mystery, cold case, murder investigation, homicide detective, crime solving ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Murder in Suburbia (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, rough, detective, crime drama ...
Plot: investigation, murder mystery, murder, police detective, partners against crime, murder investigation, partner, sleuth, fighting crime, police investigation, forensics, crime investigation ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Partners for Justice (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Baek Beom has worked as a forensic doctor for 10 years. He has a bad personality, but he is excellent with his work. Baek Beom does not open his mind to other people. Eun Sol is a rookie prosecutor with a warm heart. She has a bright personality and ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, detective
Plot: forensic, serial killer, investigation, prosecutor, murder, forensics, murder investigation, fighting crime, crime investigation, uncover truth, partners against crime, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Korolevstvo krivykh... (2005)
Genre: Crime
Country: Russia
TV show
Story: Journalist Alexander Vetrov is a sensation hunter. His specialty is mysterious incidents and murders. Each of his materials is the result of an independent investigation. Every now and then Alexander gets involved in dangerous adventures that can ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense
Plot: investigative journalism, uncover truth, investigative reporter, investigation, murder mystery, crime solving, forensics, puzzle, cold case, journalist, crime investigation, private investigation ...
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51%
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Serve and Protect (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: Fresh off the Academy, talented rookie officer Alicia joins the police station in Distrito Sur. While she learns the ropes from veteran detective Miralles and streetwise agent Batista, she will try to find out the truth about her mother's death.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, telenovela
Plot: police, police detective, fighting crime, partners against crime, murder investigation, partner, cold case, murder, uncover truth, police partner, police investigation, crime solving ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: A writer gets caught up in a murder investigation involving his mentor, an esteemed American author. Based on the book of the same name, by Joël Dicker.
Style: captivating, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: murder, murder investigation, writers, young girl, seaside town, uncover truth, evidence, crime investigation, framed for murder, investigation, crime solving, murder mystery ...
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Taken Down (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Taken Down is a crime drama series set in Dublin. The first series investigates the violent death of a young Nigerian migrant found abandoned close to a Direct Provision Centre, where refugees await the hope of asylum. The investigation brings us ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, detective
Plot: investigation, fighting crime, crime solving, crime investigation, uncover truth, criminal underworld, police investigation, murder investigation, sleuth, forensics, occupation
Place: dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Steppe (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
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
Plot: murder, murderer, police, murder investigation, fighting crime, partner, police detective, homicide detective, investigation, murder mystery, police partner, police investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.6
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Killing Fields (2016)
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: True-crime thriller that follows a team of homicide detectives as they open an 18-year-old cold case that occurred in one of America's notorious body-dumping grounds, the Louisiana swamplands.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, detective
Plot: investigation, cold case, homicide detective, investigator, uncover truth, sleuth, forensics, police investigation, police investigator, murder investigation, murder mystery, crime solving ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Through the Darkness (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: It deals with the beginning of profilers who had to look into their minds to chase away demons that could not be called human beings in the days when the word profiling was unfamiliar and there was no concept of psychopaths, when a series of vicious ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, serial killer, murder mystery, secret, uncover truth, murderer, fighting crime, crime solving, crime investigation, police procedural, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Sea of Plastic (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
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 ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot: police, investigation, murder, murder investigation, small village, homicide detective, racial tension, murder mystery, danger, police detective, partners against crime, fighting crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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