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Detective Ellen Lucas (2003)
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Detective Ellen Lucas (2003)
Original name: Kommissarin Lucas
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A crime series based in Regensburg, Bavaria.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: police, policewoman, investigation, murder investigation, sleuth, female detective, crime investigation, murder mystery, forensics, fighting crime, police investigation, homicide detective, police detective, crime solving, uncover truth, woman, female police officer, crimes
Place: bavaria

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Most similar movies to Detective Ellen Lucas

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, disturbing and suspense films and TV series with plots about investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation, forensics, sleuth, police investigation and crime solving mostly in Crime, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Detective Ellen Lucas: Under Suspicion (2002), The Strip (2008), The Inspector and the Sea (2007), Murder by the Lake (2014), Murder Investigation Team (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Under Suspicion (2002)
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Dr. Eva Maria Prohacek and her colleague Langner investigate cases of civil servant crime and internal disciplinary matters. From the little patrol officer in uniform to the public prosecutor or the government director - anyone can become ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: investigation, crime investigation, suspicion, legal, forensics, sleuth, crime solving, uncover truth, police detective, police, murder investigation, female detective ...
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95%
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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
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72%
The Inspector and the Sea (2007)
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Der Kommissar und das Meer is a German television series.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: fighting crime, crime solving, uncover truth, unsolved crime, police investigation, forensics, murder, police, sleuth, investigation, crime investigation, police officer ...
Place: germany
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72%
Murder by the Lake (2014)
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: With Germany, Switzerland and Austria sharing its shores, Lake Constance has stories to tell. German homicide inspector Micha Oberländer and his Austrian partner Hannah Zeiler try to discover its secrets and have a few of their own.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: crime investigation, police partner, fighting crime, police investigation, murder investigation, police detective, investigation, sleuth, teamwork, forensics, crime solving, partners against crime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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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 ⇓
62%
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Mrs. Cop (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: After long and grueling hours immersed in brutal crime investigations, lead detective Choi Young Jin must face the particular horrors of singlehandedly raising her daughter Ha Eun. Any way you look at it, Young Jin's got her work cut out for ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, detective
Plot: female police detective, forensics, policewoman, homicide detective, uncover truth, fighting crime, female detective, investigation, murder investigation, crime investigation, mother daughter relationship, family relations ...
Place: korea
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60%
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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
Plot: unsolved crime, investigation, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation, forensics, police investigation, murder mystery, homicide detective, family business, mortician, sleuth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Dead Beautiful (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: As group leader of the Judicial Police in Paris, Martin is responsible for investigating the most atrocious and misogynistic crimes committed against society. Distrustful of everyone, he bears the marks of both his past successes and failures. ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing
Plot: investigation, killer, murder investigation, murder, homicide detective, crime solving, murder mystery, uncover truth, police investigation, sleuth, crime investigation, killings ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Thaw (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Poland
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: Set in Szczecin, Poland, the series begins after the body of a young woman is discovered under the melting ice. It asks ‘Who was she? Why did she die? Who did she leave behind?
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, forensics, homicide detective, crime investigation, life is a bitch, confronting the past, problem, uncover truth, policewoman, female protagonist, loss of child, female police detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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
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57%
Death of a Girl (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Police officer Hella Christensen is on her way to her new job in Kiel. But she doesn't get far because a dead girl was found at the pier in her hometown. Hella's new superior, Simon Kessler, has already arrived from Kiel and is awaiting ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
Plot: homicide detective, fighting crime, police investigation, murder investigation, killings, sleuth, uncover truth, crime investigation, coworker, forensics, murder mystery, police detective ...
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56%
Never Too Late for Justice (2016)
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A special team of the LKA Berlin rolls up unresolved criminal cases from the past.
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: criminal, crime solving, murder investigation, crime investigation, unsolved crime, forensics, homicide detective, police detective, uncover truth, investigation, police investigation, sleuth ...
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56%
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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 ⇓
55%
Perfect Murders (2017)
Genre: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Murderers think they have committed the perfect crime. But the investigators will do everything to find the flaw in the Machiavellian plan devised by each killer.
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: forensics, uncover truth, investigation, fighting crime, partners against crime, murder investigation, unsolved crime, police investigation, criminal, sleuth, crime solving, homicide detective ...
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53%
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Kurokouchi (2013)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Keita Kurokouchi (Tomoya Nagase) continues to extort money from politicians whom Keita Kurokouchi has information on. By using his information he is able to crack unsolved cases. Rookie Detective Mayo Seike (Ayame Gouriki) is excellent ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, detective
Plot: corruption, fighting crime, conspiracy, homicide detective, uncover truth, organized crime, crime investigation, crime solving, sleuth, police investigation, investigation, murder investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Herr und Frau Bulle (2018)
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Style: detective, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot: female detective, analyst, crime investigation, crime solving, investigation, police investigation, murder investigation, homicide detective, forensics, fighting crime, uncover truth, who done it ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Duo (2002)
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
TV show
Story: Das Duo is a German television series.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: forensics, partners against crime, female detective, police investigation, investigation, female police detective, uncover truth, sleuth, criminal, unsolved crime, female protagonist, secret revealed ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
50%
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Out of Control (2009)
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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49%
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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 ⇓
46%
Atypical Crime Investigator, Hinako Todo (2016)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Hinako Todo (Haru) is a first-year detective who graduated from the police academy at the top of her class. She always carries with herself a bottle of shichimi chili peppers which was left by her late mother and sprinkles shichimi over everything ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: police investigation, investigation, uncover truth, murder investigation, crime investigation, criminal, murder mystery, sleuth, forensics, crime solving, homicide detective, murder ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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DI Ray (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: DI Ray is set in Birmingham and follows Leicester-born Rachita Ray, a police officer who takes on a case that forces her to confront a lifelong personal conflict between her British identity and her South Asian heritage.
Style: psychological, detective, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: police investigation, homicide detective, police detective, murder investigation, fighting crime, investigation, policewoman, female detective, forensics, police, crime investigation, uncover truth ...
Place: britain, united kingdom, england
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46%
Legacy, a Kate McDougal Investigation (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A dead body is discovered in the Eastern Townships Lake (in province of Quebec, Canada). Then a second one is discovered. A hunt is launched to catch a serial killer in the region.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: serial killer, police detective, police investigation, murder investigation, homicide detective, investigation, uncover truth, murder, forensics, crime solving, crime investigation, police ...
Place: quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Recurrence (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Years after moving to a remote town, ex-cop Pipa is pulled back into the dark world she thought she'd left behind when a corpse appears on her property.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, dark
Plot: drag, criminal, police, homicide detective, murder investigation, police investigation, murder, sleuth, murder mystery, police detective, crime solving, female protagonist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Angels and Demons: The Cold Case Unit (2015)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Makita Hikari is a police officer. She has a pure personality and doesn't question people’s motives. Due to her personality, she is constantly deceived by suspects and finds herself relegated to a trivial job in the cold case resource room. ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: police, crime solving, police investigation, forensics, coworker, sleuth, female protagonist, cold case, workplace, partners against crime, police partner, attorney ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Inspector Borowski (2016)
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
TV show
Story: Joined by his young colleague Sarah Brandt, veteran police inspector Klaus Borowski tackles disturbing and unsettling criminal cases in the city of Kiel.
Style: detective, psychological, captivating
Plot: police, crime investigation, who done it, police partner, investigation, police investigation, homicide detective, murder investigation, female detective, teamwork, partners against crime, forensics ...
⇓ 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%
Josephine Klick (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
TV show
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: policewoman, forensics, female detective, female police detective, female protagonist, police detective, workplace, uncover truth, coworker, crime investigation, investigation, teamwork ...
Place: berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ⇓
40%
Spreewaldkrimi (2006)
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
TV show
Story: Spreewald Krimi is a German television crime series by ZDF.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: provincial life, murder, investigation, crime solving, crime investigation, forensics, uncover truth, sleuth, murder investigation, homicide detective, homicide, dead body
Place: berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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