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Recipes for Love and Murder (2022)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.
Style:
suspense, culinary, tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
food, murder mystery, female protagonist, investigative reporter, private investigation, small town, serial killer, investigation, murder, murder investigation, investigative journalism, teamwork, crime solving, small town life, uncover truth, whodunit, female friendship, dark humor, journalism, voice over narration, domestic drama, empowerment, bittersweet, adaptation, mystery ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
south africa, scotland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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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 ...
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Time:
90s
Place:
korea, seoul
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 45 min.
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Book editor Susan Ryeland is given an unfinished manuscript by best-selling mystery writer Alan Conway featuring Conway’s longtime main character, detective Atticus Pünd. When she attempts to attain the final chapters from Conway, she finds ...
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, detective
Plot:
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Time:
1950s
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Drama about the search in 2008 for missing Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews and the surprising revelations the investigation unearthed.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, detective
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Place:
yorkshire
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
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London widow Cora Seaborne moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms an unlikely bond with the village vicar, but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, gothic, spiritual ...
Plot:
victorian england, widow, female protagonist, investigation, uncover truth, problem, private investigation, puzzle, legend, supernatural being, creature, crime solving ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 23 min.
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When a little girl goes missing during a parade in Málaga, a young newspaper journalist becomes fiercely determined to help Amaya's parents find her.
Style:
captivating, tense, thrilling, f word
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min.
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In a quiet town, two boys find a woman's mutilated body. After becoming suspects at first and realizing there is a mystery behind that murder, they decide to investigate the case with the help of an enigmatic old man. When a vertiginous spiral ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
investigation, cheating wife, murder, journalist, gossip, scandal, politics, murder investigation, murder mystery, crime investigation, uncover truth, escapades ...
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27%
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:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
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Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 90 min.
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Style:
tense, captivating, detective, period drama
Plot:
sherlock holmes, private detective, investigation, private investigation, murder, homicide detective, whodunit, murder investigation, uncover truth, unsolved crime, crime investigation, forensics ...
Time:
victorian era
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
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Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, forensics, police detective, dead body, murder mystery, police investigation, murder investigation, homicide detective, killing, uncover truth, murderer ...
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 280 min.
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Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
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Place:
london
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
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Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min.
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Story:
Nineteen-year-old Anna, living at the end of the nineteenth century in the town of Zatonsk, unexpectedly discovers that she possesses supernatural powers. The spirits of the dead literally haunt her, begging to help. Aided by her visions, Anna ...
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Plot:
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Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
russia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 130 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, detective, psychological
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Time:
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Place:
south korea
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
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Story:
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Style:
captivating, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Story:
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Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense, detective
Plot:
forensics, investigation, crime investigation, murder investigation, partner, sleuth, unsolved crime, uncover truth, crime solving, cold case, homicide detective, teamwork ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Finland
Duration: 171 min.
TV show
Story:
Former policeman is tortured and murdered and his friend and former colleauge investigates the case.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense
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22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 40 min.
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Style:
disturbing, suspense, exciting, tense, captivating
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
brutal, enigmatic, tense, detective, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
copenhagen
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Lea Brandstätter witnesses the death of her boyfriend. The investigation leads to Jean Leco, the president of the World Football Association. Their paths cross with that of Marcel, whose best friend has just been stabbed.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
murder investigation, investigation, murder witness, private investigation, forensics, secret, uncover truth, criminal, witnessing a crime, teamwork, sleuth, murder mystery ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 45 min.
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Chasing Shadows' follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot:
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Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
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tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
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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, disturbing, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
homicide detective, murder, murder investigation, police, racial tension, murder mystery, police detective, danger, partners against crime, forensics, fighting crime, crime solving ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Beth Burgess, a discredited journalist, is desperate to salvage her career by latching on to the story of a young mother sentenced to life in prison for maiming and murdering her husband, crimes she claims she didn't commit. In trying to ...
Style:
tense, suspense, dark comedy, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Faroe Islands, Iceland
Duration: 45 min.
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tense, detective, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
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Style:
suspense, detective, tense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
thailand
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