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Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge (2006)
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Original name: 工藤新一への挑戦状
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Live-action drama series that takes place before the events that begin the story of Detective Conan, the anime series.
Style:
detective, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, dramatic, twisted, atmospheric, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
investigation, high school, private detective, teenager, crime investigation, friend, deduction, schoolboy, sleuth, teenage life, private investigation, whodunit, friendship, high school life, police procedural, small town, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, locked room, detective conan, live action, case, mystery, school life
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, tense, suspense and captivating films and TV series with plots about investigation, crime investigation, whodunit, moral ambiguity, murder, crime solving and uncover truth mostly in Mystery, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge: Byomkesh (2017), Karen Pirie (2022), Agatha Christie's Hjerson (2021), The Files of Young Kindaichi (2022), Longing For You (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Kindaichi's best friend is involved with the school film club where members are found murdered. Can he protect her before she become the next victim?
Style:
disturbing, tense, psychological, captivating, detective
Plot:
forensics, amateur sleuth, amateur detective, puzzle, teenage life, deduction, private investigation, genius, fighting crime, boy genius, crime investigation, sleuth ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Kudo Shinichi and Mori Ran are invited to the set of a jidaigeki in Kyoto. On their airplane ride to Kyoto, a murder mystery arises. As well, when they finally reach the set in Kyoto, they become involved in another murder mystery. Will Kudo ...
Style:
anime, detective, feel good, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
investigation, murder, detective conan, group of friends, partners against crime, fighting crime, who done it, prodigy, riddles and clues, friend, clue, amateur detective ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In order to uphold his title of High School Detective, a teen sleuth must protect his classmates from kidnapping after receiving a threatening letter.
Style:
anime, detective, light, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
investigation, high school, group of friends, prodigy, deduction, crime solving, secret, schoolboy, clue, secret identity, partners against crime, private detective ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: India
TV show
Story:
The time is 1930s, and crime is culminating. One man can uproot the sin: Satyanweshi Byomkesh Bakshi. Hoichoi Originals brings Bengal’s popular sleuth in an all-new but familiar avatar.
Style:
tense, detective, crime drama, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
sleuth, investigation, crime investigation, teamwork, forensics, friendship, uncover truth, crime solving, friends, whodunit, adaptation, justice ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
india, kolkata
Similarity:
25%
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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:
suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, deduction, detective conan, secret organization, murder mystery, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation, police detective, crime solving, murderer ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Karen is a refreshingly normal and charmingly unfashionable young woman – slick, maverick cop she is not – but her quick mouth and ingenuity make her an impressive investigator. Following her promotion to Police Scotland’s Historic Cases Unit, ...
Style:
detective, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
female detective, cold case, investigation, homicide detective, forensic, female protagonist, murder, british, murder mystery, crime investigation, police detective, police investigation ...
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, Germany, Finland, UK
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Swedish murder investigator Sven Hjerson forms an unexpected detective duo with stubborn TV producer Klara after several years of isolation. Will she also manage to recruit him for her new TV show?
Style:
tense, detective, crime drama, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
private detective, investigation, whodunit, sleuth, murder investigation, murder mystery, crime solving, investigator, private investigation, forensics, homicide detective, crime investigation ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Kindaichi Hajime is a high school student and a private detective with an IQ of 180. He solves murder cases that are riddled with difficult clues. Kindaichi Hajime works with his childhood friend Nanase Miyuki and Kenmochi Isamu. Kenmochi Isamu is ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, detective, captivating ...
Plot:
amateur detective, criminal, investigation, private detective, whodunit, sleuth, violence, apprentice, death, murder, police investigation, high school ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story:
A murder rocks a peaceful town. A detective investigates after his brother is falsely accused. But when tragedy strikes, he must uncover the real culprit, facing family secrets along the way. Will he be able to find justice?
Style:
detective, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, countryside, murder, uncover truth, sleuth, crime solving, crime investigation, private detective, private investigation, secret, criminal, justice ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases by watching and listening, ...
Style:
captivating, confusing, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
investigation, whodunit, british police, police procedural, commissioner, uncover truth, intelligence, deduction, crime investigation, character study, adaptation, confession ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
22%
Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge! The Mystery of the Legendary Strange Bird (2011)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This story takes place 100 days before Kudo Shinichi became Edogawa Conan. Kudo Shinichi, a high school detective, arrives in Jugoya Town with Mori Ran and others. In this town a legend exists, claiming that a gigantic bull-headed shrike attacks the ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, suspense, talky, psychological ...
Plot:
police investigation, police officer, who done it, partner, serial killer, testimony, corpse, friends, society, youth, buddy, uncover truth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Australia
TV show
Story:
DI Mackenzie Clarke is forced to leave London under a cloud of suspicion and return to the last place she ever wanted to be, her hometown of Dolphin Cove, Australia where her tenacity and work ethic helps her solve murder mysteries.
Style:
detective, suspense, twisted, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, small town, whodunit, secrets, getting home, suspicion, law enforcement, redemption, dark past, forensics, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 215 min.
TV show
Story:
Hotel “Shizen no Shima” is located on an small, remote island. The owner of the hotel invites 10 people to the island, but when they arrive they learn that the owner is not there. These 10 people do not know why they are there or what will ...
Style:
psychological, detective, suspense, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, isolation, whodunit, murder, uncover truth, crime solving, murder investigation, crime investigation, secret, homicide detective, mysterious character, changing lives ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
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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, detective, crime drama, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder investigation, police, crime investigation, investigation, sleuth, police detective, forensics, crime solving, workplace, police investigation, uncover truth, coworker ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Criminologist Himura Hideo gets so much pleasure out of being in crime scenes that he's even confessed to having wanted to kill someone. Constantly seeking out the ultimate crime, he is indeed a man with quite a few issues. Mystery writer ...
Style:
suspense, detective, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, whodunit, forensics, homicide detective, criminologist, deduction, criminal psychology, logic, murder investigation, crime solving, murder mystery, crime investigation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Due to government shuffle during the reign of Wu Zetian, the ambitious Di Renjie was relegated to a remote town in the east. Di showed extraordinary talent in case-solving, but as he probed further, more and more secrets were revealed. He embarked ...
Style:
detective, thrilling, captivating, twisted, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, investigator, tang dynasty, crime solving, sleuth, uncover truth, private detective, dynasty, crime investigation, conspiracy, whodunit, corruption ...
Time:
7th century
Place:
china
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 39 min.
TV show
Story:
A huge fan of the Hiroshima Carp baseball team, you the viewer become the story protagonist, Ryo Kirigamine, vice-president of the Young Detectives Club at Tokyo’s Koigakubo Academy. In the search for truth, each week the school club gets tangled ...
Style:
detective, captivating, suspense
Plot:
investigation, teamwork, high school, friends, japanese teenager, japanese woman, crime investigation, female detective, private investigation, sleuth, uncover truth, private detective ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
19%
213
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Lying, cheating, thieving—they’re the best undercover cops in the business. Liam Ketman (Nick Berry, Heartbeat) and Garth O'Hanlon (Stephen Tompkinson, Wild at Heart) take on false identities to infiltrate society’s underbelly and stop ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime drama, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
crime investigation, undercover cop, nypd, criminal, infiltration, deception, covert operation, murder investigation, police investigation, detective inspector, police detective, evidence ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where the currents repeat every 6 ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, detective, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, puzzle, uncover truth, crime solving, forensics, crime investigation, sleuth, murder investigation, whodunit, secret, forensic, neurologist ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Vincent is an ITV drama series. An initial series was made and aired in 2005 and starred Ray Winstone, in the title role, and Suranne Jones as two members of a team of private eyes hired by people to spy on their partners or indeed anyone else they ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime drama, serious, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, private detective, private investigation, partner, workaholic, private investigator, surveillance, moral ambiguity, urban, working class, domestic drama, corruption ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
18%
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:
tense, crime thriller, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, forensics, teamwork, professor, vigilante, serial killer, crime solving, private detective, murderer, sleuth, crime investigation, murder investigation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A particularly vicious serial killer is stalking the Norfolk coast in the vicinity of the Larksoken nuclear power station. The press have branded him 'The Whistler' because witnesses have heard a hymn being whistled in the vicinity of the ...
Style:
detective, suspense, dark, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, police procedural, small town, female victim, intrigue, seaside, cat and mouse, adaptation, english countryside, forensics ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Seventeen years ago, Xuan Zhen was mysteriously murdered. Seventeen years later, another homicide related to the Xuan family occurs. Xuan Zhen's older brother, Xuan Liang became the suspect. As the truth behind the old murder case gradually ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, family secret, investigation, suspicion, secrets, family feud, cold case, family drama, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, love, life is a bitch ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Mrs. Sidhu is a high-end caterer with a taste for crime. Recently widowed, she juggles her new catering business with encouraging her wayward son Tez to find his passion, all while serving up justice to those who believe they are above the law. Her ...
Style:
detective, captivating, semi serious, witty, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
amateur sleuth, female detective, crime solving, investigation, british police, crime investigation, female protagonist, sleuth, private investigation, uncover truth, police investigation, private detective ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
A detective must investigate his first love, who is the suspect in a murder committed with a gun that they and their friends secretly buried 23 years ago.
Style:
suspense, tense, detective, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, murder investigation, cold case, police procedural, whodunit, regret, cover up, first love, small town, guilt, moral ambiguity, redemption ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
18%
450
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Eyes is an ABC television series starring Tim Daly as Harlan Judd. Eyes follows the firm of Judd Risk Management which uses marginally legal means to investigate individuals and crimes where law enforcement would fall short. With the help of ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, crime investigation, dishonesty, private investigator, surveillance, moral ambiguity, secrets, femme fatale, cat and mouse, conspiracy, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Mystery
Country: India
TV show
Story:
Vyom, the school principal's a nerdy teenager son is disliked by most of his classmates, has only four friends, and a crush, Tara. When Tara goes missing and found dead, Vyom decides to solve the mystery behind her death.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenage protagonist, murder mystery, investigation, murder investigation, murder, sleuth, homicide detective, teenager, uncover truth, private investigator, private investigation, crime solving ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
When detective Andrea 'Andie' Whitford is transferred to the Victorian High Country, she is thrust into a baffling mystery of five missing persons who have vanished into the wilderness. Through an edge-of-the-seat, high-stakes ...
Style:
crime drama, detective, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, isolation, wilderness, murder, police procedural, solitude, revenge, small town, deception, macabre, moral ambiguity, forensic ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Set in present day Tokyo, Shishio Homare (Dean Fujioka) works as a freelancer crime consultant. From an early age, Shishio Homare has been fascinated with how people become criminals and in original sin. He is a genius, but he also has an impulse to ...
Style:
detective, crime thriller, thought provoking, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, japanese police, sherlock holmes, crime investigation, partners against crime, partner, police investigation, private detective, genius, fighting crime, private investigation, master criminal ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Real-life detective thrillers which combine stylized dramatic reconstructions, unique archive and compelling interviews with key characters.
Style:
detective, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
paranormal, investigation, interview, paranormal phenomena, investigator, psychic, true crime, real life, paranormal investigation, witnessing a crime, crime investigation, private investigation ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
18%
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