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The Staircase (2022)
 7.1
 33K
The Staircase (2022)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 519 min.
TV show
Story: An exploration of the life of Michael Peterson, his sprawling North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson.
Style: detective, crime thriller, suspense, thrilling, historical drama, crime drama, entertaining, queer cinema
Plot: true crime, courtroom, parents, house, criminal, defense attorney, criminal trial, gay, murder investigation, court, murder mystery, suspect, framed for murder, suspicion, courtroom drama, accused of murder, corruption, lgbtq, death, wife, legal, husband wife relationship, loss of wife, secret, death of wife ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 2020s, contemporary
Keyword: body

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Most similar movies to The Staircase

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, suspense, tense and captivating films and TV series with plots about murder, investigation, criminal, serial killer, true crime, police and murder investigation mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Staircase: Love & Death (2023), American Crime Story (2016), Unbelievable (2019), Defending Jacob (2020), Black Bird (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.5
 36K
Love & Death (2023)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 378 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore – two churchgoing couples enjoying their small town Texas life… until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe.
Style: psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, captivating, psychological
Plot: true crime, brutality, murder, violence, courtroom drama, extramarital affair, self defense, violent, police, criminal, friend, daughter ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 534 min.
TV show
Story: Across more than a decade, 17 teen boys and young men were murdered by convicted killer Jeffrey Dahmer. How did he evade arrest for so long?
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, historical drama ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, homosexual, killer, true crime, maniac, violence, brutality, lgbt, homosexuality, homicidal maniac ...
Time: 2020s, year 1996, year 1992, year 1989, year 1993 ...
Place: milwaukee wisconsin, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
American Crime Story (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminals.
Style: anthology, realistic, serious, feel good, mind blowing ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: courtroom drama, true crime, murder, crime investigation, courtroom, legal investigation, police, racism, society, gay, legal action, lawyer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, europe, los angeles, california, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.3
 118K
Unbelievable (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 385 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth.
Style: detective, serious, crime drama, social, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, rape, rape victim, female protagonist, sexual abuse, female detective, psychopath, teenage rape, violence, murder mystery, police, criminal ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Defending Jacob (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 402 min.
TV show
Story: A family’s lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate.
Style: suspense, detective, serious, captivating, social ...
Plot: murder investigation, police investigation, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, bullying, false accusation of murder, parents and children, investigation, murder, mysterious villain, family relations, boy ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 101K
Black Bird (2022)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 347 min.
TV show
Story: As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, thrilling ...
Plot: serial killer, organized crime, deal, investigation, prison, informant, criminal underworld, murder, killings, fighting crime, bandit, murder investigation ...
Time: 2020s
Place: illinois, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.6
 331K
Mindhunter (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
Style: psychological thriller, detective, psychological, thought provoking, crime drama ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, psychology, fbi, police, serial murder, murderer, criminal psychologist, police investigation, killings, fbi agent, murder ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 138K
The Sinner (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A young mother kills in a fit of unexplainable rage a seemingly stranger. An inquisitive detective obsesses over the case, attempting to get to the bottom of the true motive behind the act.
Style: psychological thriller, anthology, psychological, melancholic, detective ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: murder, murder investigation, psychological trauma, investigation, past coming back to haunt, crime investigation, memory loss, amnesia, drug, manslaughter, forensics, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.4
 170K
The Night Of (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 525 min.
TV show
Story: After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
Style: suspense, realistic, atmospheric, tense, psychological ...
Plot: murder, murder investigation, courtroom, investigation, lawyer, murder mystery, drug, legal, vengeance, district attorney, relationships, catastrophe ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dexter: New Blood (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 529 min.
TV show
Story: Set 10 years after Dexter Morgan went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, he is now living under an assumed name in Upstate New York, far from his original home in Miami.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, serial murder, murder, missing person, vigilante, secret identity, homicidal maniac, murderer, killing spree, kidnapping, murder investigation, killings ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 37K
The Act (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 425 min.
TV show
Story: Dee Dee Blanchard is overprotective of her daughter, Gypsy, who is trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her mother. Gypsy's quest for independence opens up a Pandora's box of secrets, which ultimately leads to murder. The ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, rough, anthology, thought provoking ...
Plot: overprotective parent, true crime, treatment, pretense, fake illness, mother daughter relationship, murder of mother, manipulation, mental illness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, murder investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: usa, syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.6
 10K
A Confession (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher intends on catching a killer of a missing woman, even if that may cost him his career and reputation.
Style: detective, suspenseful, tense, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot: true crime, murder, police, murder investigation, police investigation, police detective, investigation, hopes, danger, dialogue, life philosophy, police officer ...
Time: future, year 2016, year 2014, year 2011, year 2012
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 64K
Manhunt (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 817 min.
TV show
Story: An in-depth look at how an FBI profiler helped track down the terrorist Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.
Style: tense, suspense, detective, anthology, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, terrorism, terrorist, true crime, federal bureau of investigation, psychoanalysis, mathematics, crime investigation, murder mystery, crime solving, fighting crime, homicide detective ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 20K
Des (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min.
TV show
Story: The story of one of the most infamous cases in UK criminal history, that of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Told through the prism of three men, the series explores the personal and professional consequences of coming into contact with a man like ...
Style: detective, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: true crime, serial killer, detective inspector, police, murder, gay interest, murderer, death, chase, police investigation, murder investigation, who done it ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: united kingdom, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.9
 647K
True Detective (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
Style: neo noir, serious, atmospheric, anthology, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, investigation, police investigation, murder, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, murderer, drinking problem, partners against crime, female nudity, troubled ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 2000s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: louisiana, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 105K
The Undoing (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 337 min.
TV show
Story: Grace and Jonathan Fraser are living the only lives they ever wanted. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle ...
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, detective, thrilling ...
Plot: adultery, murder investigation, murder, life turned upside down, lie, mysterious disappearance, affair, family relations, father son relationship, lawyer, murder mystery, family drama ...
Time: 2020s, year 2019
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
15%
Mayor of Kingstown (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Set in a small Michigan town where the only industry remaining are federal, state, and private prisons, the story follows the McClusky family, the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians, in a city ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, crime thriller ...
Plot: prison, organized crime, corruption, business, corrupt politician, racism, political corruption, inequality, corrupt mayor, mayor, town mayor, conspiracy ...
Place: michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 9.3
 373K
The Wire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between ...
Style: clever, tense, detective, cynical, serious ...
Plot: organized crime, corruption, police detective, police, urban ghetto life, working undercover, life is a bitch, drug dealing, fighting crime, shooting, police investigation, urban decay ...
Time: 2000s, future, year 2002, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Escape at Dannemora (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 440 min.
TV show
Story: The stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became ...
Style: melancholic, captivating, atmospheric, anthology, historical drama ...
Plot: prison escape, prison life, prison, love triangle, true crime, deception, prisoner, love affair, twists and turns, travel, organized crime, jail ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
We Own This City (2022)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 357 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anime ...
Plot: criminal, police corruption, police, crime solving, arms dealing, crime investigation, fighting crime, breaking the law, investigation, arms smuggling, police investigation, gun control ...
Time: 2020s
Place: baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 472 min.
TV show
Story: A devout detective's faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family's spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.
Style: teen, thrilling, spiritual, detective
Audience: teens
Plot: true crime, criminal, religion, homicide, corruption, investigation, religious community, female nudity, latter day saints, god, religious fanatic, misogyny ...
Time: 2020s, 80s
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Girl from Plainville (2022)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: The controversial case of Michelle Carter, who was convicted in 2017 of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging the suicide of her then-boyfriend via texts and phone calls.
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: true crime, suicide, murder, victim, forced suicide, relationship problems, accused of murder, framed for murder, life is a bitch, male female relationship, female protagonist, relationships ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Law & Order True Crime (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: An anthology series that delves into the players, the crime and the media circus, detailing the day-to-day battles of the trial and unveiling the shocking truth of what really went down when the cameras stopped rolling.
Style: anthology, rough, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lawyer, family drama, law and order, legal, lawyers and clients, stereotypes, life & death, murder, defense attorney, human nature, police investigation, court ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Witness for the Prosecution (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
TV show
Story: The hunt is on to find the murderer of a wealthy glamorous heiress who is found dead in her London townhouse. Based on the short story by Agatha Christie.
Style: detective, twisted, slasher, costume drama, period drama
Plot: murder mystery, heiress, murder, interwar period, lawyer, socialite, accused of murder, court, inheritance, scandal, resistance, christmas ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.6
 10K
Manhunt (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of London Metropolitan police detective Colin Sutton's manhunt for serial killer Levi Bellfield.
Style: detective, suspense, exciting, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: police detective, serial killer, murder, police, true crime, criminal, victim, brutality, blood, who done it, law, law enforcement ...
Time: future
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Elliot Stabler returns to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss. Stabler journeys to find absolution and rebuild his life, while leading a new elite task force that is taking apart the city’s most powerful ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating, detective ...
Plot: organized crime, law and order, police, police procedural, crime investigation, criminal, police investigation, die hard, forensics, nypd, legal, suspect ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are ...
Style: detective, tense, captivating, clever, grindhouse ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: law and order, sexual abuse, police, sex crime, law enforcement, criminal, police detective, female detective, partners against crime, lawyer, danger, fighting crime ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 2010s, 2020s ...
Place: new york, usa, las vegas, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.1
 24K
Devil's Knot (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.
Style: bleak, factual, intense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: police investigation, satanism, courtroom drama, teenager, courtroom, jury, court, murder, legal, investigation, police interrogation, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, memphis, southern usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.6
 65K
Your Honor (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: The son of a respected judge is involved in a hit-and-run that leads to a high-stakes game of lies, deceit and impossible choices. A legal thriller that rips through all strata of New Orleans society.
Style: thrilling, realistic, suspenseful, serious, emotional
Plot: courtroom drama, legal, courtroom, mafia, crime boss, judge, father son relationship, family relations, parent child relationship, car accident, lawyer, uncover truth ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.1
 3K
Honour (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the heartbreaking true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner murdered by her own family for falling in love with the wrong man, Honour follows Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode's passionate search to discover the fate of ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: police, murder investigation, murder, missing woman, investigation, lawyer, uncover truth, partners against crime, family relations, who done it, police investigation, chase ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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