Best tv shows like The Nest
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Plot Summary:
Happy couple Dan and Emily live in a huge house just outside Glasgow and want for nothing, save a baby of their own. Through a chance encounter they meet Kaya, an 18-year-old from the other side of the city, whose life is as precarious as theirs is comfortable. When Kaya agrees to carry their baby, it feels like they were meant to meet, but was it really by chance?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, twisted
Best tv shows and movies like The Nest (2020):
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The Glory Boys (1984)
Plot Summary:
Two ideologically-disparate terrorists (one from the PLO, one from the IRA) meet up in London to assassinate a visiting Israeli nuclear scientist. An alcoholic ex-government agent (Anthony Perkins) is brought out of retirement to track them down.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags:
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After the Crash (2019)
Plot Summary:
Just after midnight on December 23, 1977, a night flight between Istanbul and Paris plummets toward the Swiss Alps, crashing into a snowy mountainside. Within seconds, flames engulf the plane, which is filled with holiday travelers. Out of all the passengers, all but one perish. The sole survivor is a three-month-old girl--thrown from the airliner before fire consumes the cabin. But two infants were on board and in 1977, DNA tests do not exist. Is "the Miracle Child of Mont Terri" Lyse-Rose or Emilie? The families of both girls, who have nothing in common, step forward to claim the child. 20 years later, a private detective tasked with solving the mystery of the girl known as "Lylie", is found murdered. He had just entrusted a secret notebook into the hands of Emilie, now a beautiful young woman. From there, the investigation starts again and the mystery unravels.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Woman in the Wall (2023)
Plot Summary:
Lorna Brady wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house. Brady has no idea who the dead woman is or if she herself might be responsible for the apparent murder, because she has long suffered from extreme bouts of sleepwalking.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Byomkesh (2014)
Plot Summary:
Byomkesh was a 2014 Indian Bengali crime fiction television series based on the Bengali sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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ST: Aka to Shiro no Sôsa File the Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
The ST team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department consists of eccentric members. Some members do not cooperate with others and others do not reveal themselves in front of others. With Samon as the leader of the ST team and young Inspector Tomohisa tasked with managing the team, the ST (Scientific Task Force) attempt to solve the most difficult of cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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ST MPD Scientific Investigation Squad (2014)
Plot Summary:
The ST is a group of outcasts though each highly talented in their realm of specialty. Besides Akagi, the team includes a female profiler with a boyish appearance and a phobia of "orderly" things who is never afraid to speak out, a female physicist with a superhuman hearing ability that can pick up sounds afar and a constant fear of being "constrained," a combat-skilled chemist with an acute sense of smell and an aversion to pointy objects, and a monk who would have won the Nobel prize in chemistry if he had chosen the path to do so. In short, the "ST" is a menagerie of odd people which makes Yurine question whether his promotion was just a one-way ticket off of the career track...But gradually, the ST team begins to grow on Yurine, as he does everything he can to sustain the team. Can the ST prove themselves worthy of their badge and prevent their disintegration, and will Akagi and Yurine's partnership somehow find common ground to overcome their differences?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective
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Pied Piper (2016)
Plot Summary:
Drama series follows a police crisis negotiation team as they try to solve cases without using force. The police crisis negotiation team works on such cases like attempted suicides, hostage situations and terror situations.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: semi serious, intense, psychological, emotional, suspenseful, detective
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The Rising (2022)
Plot Summary:
Neve Kelly is dead. She is stuck in limbo and must find out who killed her. This adaptation of the mystery series Beau Séjour impresses on account of its young cast and the breath-taking landscapes of England’s Lake District.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
Similar in 78%
Viewpoint (2021)
Plot Summary:
A gripping drama following a tense police surveillance investigation into a tight knit Manchester community and explores whether it is ever possible to observe the lives of others with true objectivity and zero effect.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 230 min
Plot tags: detective
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Private Eye (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century, where a young student in medicine discovers the murdered body of the son of a government official. Being scared of being accused, he decides to hire Hong Jin-ho (a detective) to help him find the murderer before the police accuse him of the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, surprise ending, suspense, tricky, detective, twisted
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Secret (2009)
Plot Summary:
A detective suspects that his wife murdered a gangster's brother. As he tries to misdirect the police and the bloodthirsty gangster while independently investigating his wife, terrible secrets slowly begin to surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, detective, mind twisting, twisted, mind bending
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Harry's Game (1982)
Plot Summary:
Harry is an undercover agent for the British army sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA and find (and terminate) the assassin of a British Cabinet Minister. Harry is alone, the army hasn't been told he is being put in place, his wife is fed up with him and his job, and his one new friend, an Irish woman who falls for him will be consumed by his relentless search for the assassin.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Cheat (2019)
Plot Summary:
University lecturer Dr Leah Dale has always prided herself on her academic integrity so when final year student Rose, submits a suspiciously top-grade essay, Leah is quick to call her out. But there’s more going on than meets the eye as Rose takes the challenge as a personal affront, and what begins as a seemingly open and shut case of academic deception soon spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, intense, detective, psychological thriller
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Extremely Dangerous (1999)
Plot Summary:
Extremely Dangerous is a 1999 four part series for ITV starring Sean Bean as an ex-National Criminal Intelligence Service undercover agent convicted of the brutal murder of his wife and child who goes on the run to try and clear his name. He sets out to follow up a strange clue sent to him in prison. The boss of a local crime syndicate, a former associate, hears of his escape and sends out the word to bring him in. On the run from the police and disowned by his NCIS colleagues, he is faced with the fact that he may be guilty.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Víctor Ros (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 19th century Madrid, after a faithful run-in with the law, a notorious young hoodlum grows up to be a top police detective, who must deal with his shady past, mafia and his police mentor on daily basis.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective
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Under Suspicion (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the small town of Cienfuegos, it's a very special day for 7-year-old Alicia Vega (Aroa Palacios) and her family: her First Communion. However, when they are celebrating at the family's restaurant, closed for the occasion, she goes missing.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, surprise ending, suspense, detective, disturbing
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The Suspect (2022)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Joseph O'Loughlin a man who appears to have the perfect life and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted, even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 239 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, detective, thrilling, suspense
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Night and Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
Working on a series of harrowing cases, forensic pathologist, Sara Grau, finds the key to a case in which she has unwittingly become a prime target. Sophisticated Spanish crime thriller.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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The Field of Blood (2011)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of Denise Mina's thriller set in 1982. When the story of a murder has huge implications for her family, newspaper copy boy Paddy Meehan battles prejudices to get to the truth. As she inches closer to revealing the truth, her investigations place her in mortal danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, realistic, detective, suspense, crime drama, serious, stylized
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Boss Hunt (2015)
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: brutal, serious, factual, detective
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The Reckoning (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sally Wilson's daughter Amanda is stricken with a brain tumour and each day, her condition appears to be worsening. Sally is at her wits end as to how to help her daughter and knows a life saving operation in America that she can't afford would be the answer. When the harassed single Mum is called to the office of a swish city lawyer, she never expects a life or death proposition. She’s been bequeathed £5 million! But in order to qualify for this amazing transfer of funds, Sally must first kill a man who deserves to die.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, serious, realistic
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The Last Weekend (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ian (Shaun Evans) and Em (Claire Keelan) receive a surprise invitation from an old friend. Ollie (Rupert Penry-Jones) invites the couple to spend a weekend in the Suffolk countryside with him and Daisy (Genevieve O'Reilly). The couples expect an idyllic holiday, but the competitive edge to the men's relationship soon rises to the surface, with irreversible consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, dark, thrilling, psychological thriller
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Penance (2020)
Plot Summary:
Maddie. Following the loss of their son, Rosalie and Luke find their marriage under immense strain. Maddie and Rosalie find themselves in the caring hands of Jed, a charming and charismatic young man that they encounter at bereavement counselling who is also suffering under the weight of his own grief. Jed rekindles a hope for the future within the Douglas household. But underneath, a deadly and morally corrupt triangle is taking shape.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, bleak, suspenseful
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Presumed Guilty (2018)
Plot Summary:
A terrible event leads an investigator in Paris to come back to his birth town ten years after leaving it, where he has to confront the ghosts of his past and an unsolved mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, detective
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Cybergeddon (2012)
Plot Summary:
Cybergeddon follows the story of agent Chloe Jocelyn as she investigates a slew of seemingly unrelated cyber attacks with fellow agent Frank Parker and incarcerated master hacker Chase Rabbit Rosen. Chloe and her team must crack the worldwide cybercrime ring led by Gustov Dobreff before it is too late. In a world where everyone is connected, everyone is at risk.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective
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In the Red (1998)
Plot Summary:
A series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And the killer regularly calls about his handiwork, but only to a street-wise, and usually rather tipsy, radio reporter, about to be sacked for his habitual irreverence toward his station and the BBC. And while everything seems to point to a lead singer of a rock group famous for the "In The Red" music which has been connected to the killings, in typical British mystery fashion, there are also other sub-plots to be considered.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, dark comedy
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Riot Police (2020)
Plot Summary:
A fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 306 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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A Perfect Spy (1987)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Magnus Pym, from his childhood to the end of his career in middle age. As a young man, there is little doubt that his father Rick was the most influential character in his life. Rick was a raconteur, con man, thief, black marketer and all in all, simply larger than life. From a young age, Rick included Magnus in his schemes and the young man learned that you would do anything for the ones you love. When a university student in Switzerland, Pym meets the other person who will have the greatest influence in his life, Axel, a Czech refugee. As Pym enters his career in the British Secret Service, his relationship with Axel and the values he developed in childhood lead him down his own path of betrayal and loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 982
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 374 min
Plot tags: political, psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Gold Digger (2019)
Plot Summary:
Gold Digger tells the story of wealthy 60 year old Julia as she falls in love with Benjamin, a man 25 years her junior. As this six part series progresses the impact their unconventional relationship has on her family is explored and the secrets of their past are revealed. Has Julia finally found the happiness she's always deserved? Or is Benjamin really the gold digger they think he is?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, enigmatic, psychological thriller, scenic
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Bodyguard (2018)
Plot Summary:
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: political, detective, exciting, suspense, disturbing, romantic, philosophical, atmospheric, feel good, serious