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Partner In Darkness (2015)
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Original name: 闇の伴走者
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
year after manga master Fumiya Ajima's death, 50 unpublished sketches are discovered. The sketches appear to be the work of Fumiya Ajima, but the sketches shows details from several missing women cases that occurred 35 years earlier. Fumiya Ajima’s wife asks the Department Head of Yukihide Ozawa to find out if the sketches are the work of her late husband. Ex-police officer Yuki Mizuno receives a request to investigate the origins of the 50 sketches. Yuki Mizuno then enlists the help of Shinji Daigo, an expert of the manga world.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, detective, psychological, manga, grim, noir, moody
Plot:
investigation, cold case, private investigation, crime investigation, uncover truth, hacker, sleuth, internet, teamwork, computer hacker, secret, police investigation, professional wrestling, partners against crime, evidence, legacy, partnership, flashback, police procedural, female victim, obsession, forensics, grief, urban, identity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
japan
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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 investigation, uncover truth, crime solving, crime investigation, forensics, sleuth and murder investigation mostly in Mystery, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Partner In Darkness: Emergency Interrogation Room (2014), Galileo: Forbidden Sorcery (2022), Knockin' on Locked Door (2023), Swindle Detective (2019), Triangle (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
Yukiko Makabe takes a transfer to a special interrogation team "Kintori".
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tense, detective, crime drama, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
interrogation room, police interrogation, interrogation, police procedural, crime solving, crime investigation, police detective, police investigation, coworker, investigation, uncover truth, workplace ...
Place:
tokyo
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95%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Story:
Galileo Forbidden Magic, a completely new SP drama in the Galileo series, will be broadcast on 17 September at 21:00 on Fuji TV.
Style:
detective, psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, homicide detective, uncover truth, crime solving, police investigation, murder investigation, secret, murder mystery, forensics, crime investigation, police detective ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
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Story:
Touri Gotenba is a young man specializes in solving impossible crime tricks, while Hisame Katanashi specializes in deciphering crime motives. Together, they solve strange and difficult cases under the detective agency "Knockin' on Locked ...
Style:
detective, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, intellectual ...
Plot:
crime solving, investigation, forensics, private detective, detective agency, problem solving, locked room mystery, deduction, crime investigation, police detective, homicide detective, partners against crime ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
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Story:
Kei Maneki works as a model. He has bad luck with murder cases taking place when he works. Kei Maneki becomes an important witness in these murder cases. To clear his name, Kei Maneki and his model friends Itsuki Suo and Toma Shimon attempt to solve ...
Style:
detective, captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, amateur detective, sleuth, forensics, murder, crime solving, private investigation, murder investigation, private investigator, amateur sleuth, crime investigation, uncover truth ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
89%
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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, suspenseful, psychological thriller, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, forensics, police investigation, female detective, uncover truth, murder investigation, crime investigation, homicide detective, crime solving, criminal, murder mystery, murder ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
85%
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:
crime drama, disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
cold case, female protagonist, female detective, attorney, police procedural, coworker, police partner, forensics, police, investigation, female police detective, crime solving ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Imamiya (Fumino Kimura) is a detective who deals with fraud and scam cases. She arrests Kaji (Mahiro Takasugi), who is involved in a voice phishing case. Imamiya and her colleagues do not know who is at the top of the voice phishing group. Detective ...
Style:
detective, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, con men, scam, fraud, police investigation, forensics, police detective, detective inspector, sleuth, crime investigation, crime solving, female detective ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
The series starts with the murder of a 10-year-old girl in 1984. 15 years later, after the case goes unsolved and passes the statute of limitations, a doctor named Goda Ryoji suddenly quits from his hospital and eventually becomes a detective. In ...
Style:
detective, tense, psychological, crime drama, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, unsolved crime, cold case, problem, homicide detective, police detective, sleuth, murder mystery, crime solving, secret, murder investigation, uncover truth ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, paris france
Similarity:
78%
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Kazuhisa Fukase graduated from a prestigious university, but he leads a boring life. His only strength is making delicious coffee. Whenever he makes coffee, he is reminded of his friend Yoshiki Hirosawa. He was friends with Yoshiki Hirosawa back in ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
secrets, tragic past, memories, uncover truth, tragic event, car accident, tragedy, confronting the past, secret, cold case, revelation, investigation ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Saburo Sugimura (Kotaro Koizumi) works for the PR department of a company which his father-in-law Yoshichika Imada runs. One day, Yoshichika Imada tasks Saburo Sugimura with work regarding a man named Nobuo Kajita. A complicated story unfolds from ...
Style:
tense, crime drama, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
family business, investigation, father in law, family relations, crime solving, relationships, private investigation, secret, uncover truth, intrigue, male protagonist, office politics ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
An ex-detective, Kagawa, is found dead in a park in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Swearing revenge, detectives of the #1 investigation team, including Tozawa (Shosuke Tanihara), begin to investigate Kagawa’s death. Meanwhile, Sono (Masanobu Takashima), at the ...
Style:
detective, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
internal affairs, investigation, japanese police, mysterious death, cover up, corruption, police officer, forensics, crime investigation, uncover truth, crime solving, murder investigation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
74%
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:
73%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Kitagawa Keiko plays Sasaki Rena, a detective who risks her life investigating detectives for her dead sister. Beautiful, intelligent, and with a great memory, the talented woman judges situations and chooses the most appropriate course of ...
Style:
detective, suspense, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, private investigation, problem, tragic past, female protagonist, private investigator, dark past, murder investigation, loss of sister, vengeance, murder mystery, crime solving ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A genius detective teams up with a colleague to investigate a case that hits close to home, but the duo becomes entangled in a cat-and-mouse game.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, detective, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, amnesia, memory loss, forensics, tragic past, killing, crime solving, murder investigation, secret, crime investigation, murderer ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
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Story:
From a gruesome murder to a series of bomb blasts, it's explosive storytelling from beginning to end! This “Crystal's Beating” (Suishō no Kodō) is the sequel to the immensely popular crime suspense drama series “Cocoon of Stone” ...
Style:
suspense, tense, crime drama, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, forensics, uncover truth, police detective, murder investigation, female police detective, murderer, female protagonist, murder, female detective, crime investigation, crime solving ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
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Story:
Ryoko Kamizuru (Yuki Amami) was once a famous attorney, but an accident caused her to get disbarred. She now runs a private detective office and works as a private detective. Her partner at the detective agency is Kouhei Matsushita (Kouhei ...
Style:
detective, captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful
Plot:
investigation, female detective, police detective, police partner, partners against crime, forensics, crime solving, detective inspector, female police detective, homicide detective, who done it, uncover truth ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Russia
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Story:
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Style:
clever, captivating, detective, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
investigator, hidden truth, investigation, murder, mystery killer, murder investigation, mathematician, private investigation, crime investigation, murder mystery, murder of wife, uncover truth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
moscow russia, russia
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Jozuka Hisui is a psychic with green eyes and has the ability to feel the souls and bring the dead back. Together with her partner Chiwasaki Makoto, Hisui works hard as a "medium detective" and catches the culprits despite their perfect ...
Style:
suspense, tense, detective, psychological, exciting ...
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural power, dead, investigation, female detective, medium, private investigation, young girl, young woman, crime investigation, ghost, resurrection ...
Similarity:
62%
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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, tense, detective, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
corruption, investigation, anti hero, fighting crime, conspiracy, homicide detective, moral ambiguity, crime solving, uncover truth, police detective, sleuth, police investigation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
One million yen in elaborate fake bills that no one can tell are not the real deal were picked up by a homeless person. The bills begin to circulate like the blood flowing through blood vessels. These fake bills undermine the Japanese economy like a ...
Style:
detective, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
counterfeit money, investigation, police, investor, undercover, money, detective inspector, crime investigation, money problems, problem, sleuth, police investigation ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Shinichi Todo is handsome and smart. He is loved by family, friends and his girlfriend. Everything in his life seems to go well, but, one day, someone with the same name is arrested. After that, his smooth life changes. An imposter takes his life.
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, mistaken identity, impostor, identity theft, who done it, forensics, crime solving, teamwork, uncover truth, private investigation, secret, escapades ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
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Story:
Shirato Takamasa is a detective at the Investigation Cooperation Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. His job is to catch wanted criminals by only relying on their faces. One day, he sees Sunami's face who was a senior ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspense, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
criminal, police, investigation, mysterious death, police department, uncover truth, police officer, law enforcement, investigator, youth, who done it, weirdo ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
June 1965. During his three years as chief of police Rodion Stotskiy has turned Gurzuf into the most peaceful place on the southern coast of Crimea. Even the beach con men here prefer not to take action. The murder of a cashier and a policeman ...
Style:
detective, captivating, suspense, crime thriller, tense ...
Plot:
investigation, fighting crime, organized crime, police investigation, crime investigation, police detective, law enforcement, murder mystery, bandit, police officer, murder investigation, teamwork ...
Time:
60s
Place:
crimea
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Shot in Polish-British co-production series of short stories based on themes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "father" of the world's most famous detective: Sherlock Holmes. Each episode is a separate entity, revealing another riddle crime ...
Style:
captivating, tense, detective
Plot:
sherlock holmes, private detective, amateur sleuth, investigation, uncover truth, murder investigation, partners against crime, homicide detective, sleuth, whodunit, crime investigation, crime solving ...
Similarity:
54%
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:
53%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Egypt
TV show
Story:
A police officer investigates a series of crimes, with each investigation spanning two episodes out of 26 separate episodes.
Style:
detective, tense, crime drama, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, police, police procedural, law enforcement, police investigation, murder investigation, police inspector, police detective, criminal, crime investigation, police officer, true crime ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
TV show
Story:
An exciting story line is connected with the existence of a unique medieval work: Voynich's Manuscript. Investigators are trying to track down the murderer and put a stop to the evil but, at the same time, are themselves threatened. In a ...
Style:
suspenseful, detective, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, killing, murder, serial killer, puzzle, sleuth, uncover truth, murderer, crime solving, treasure hunter, police investigation ...
Place:
prague
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The body of a person who died an unnatural death is discovered encased in mortar like concrete in the basement of an abandoned building. Why was the person murdered this way? The next day, the investigation task force receives a phone call from the ...
Style:
enigmatic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
unsolved crime, murder, mysterious villain, investigation, police inspector, female detective, killing, fighting crime, serial killer, entrapment, police investigation, killing spree ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Bull Doctor is a Japanese television drama series that aired on NTV from 6 July to 14 September 2011.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, talky, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, crime investigation, riddles and clues, friends, partners against crime, coworker, policewoman, scientist, criminal, evidence, clue, murderer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
48%
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:
48%
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