The Journalist

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1. La Palma

   2024 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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   A Norwegian family vacationing on La Palma faces disaster when a young researcher discovers alarming signs of an imminent volcanic eruption.

2. D.P.

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

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   A young private's assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.

3. Los Favoritos de Midas

   2020 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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   Los Favoritos de Midas follows Victor, a rich businessman, who is blackmailed in a strange way and a mysterious organization that threatens to kill a person randomly on the date they indicate, and will continue to kill other victims periodically unless they get something from him.

4. Kalifat

   2020 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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   Agent Fatima gets a tip that a terrorist act is planned in Sweden. At the same time, the teenager Sulle has opened her eyes to her student assistant who opens the doors to a new fascinating world. 

5. Ferry: de serie

   2023 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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   Desperate for funds, Ferry Bouman stumbles upon a golden opportunity when a high-profile bust leaves a vacant position among Brabant's top dealers.

6. Our Zoo

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Our Zoo is a drama series based on the true story of the Mottershead family who, in the face of staunch opposition and huge personal sacrifice, founded Chester Zoo in the 1930s.

7. MINDHUNTER

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8.4), also on Netflix.

   MINDHUNTER is based on the 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, by former special agent John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. For years, Douglas pursued some of the most notorious serial killers and rapists, developing profiling techniques to catch them. The book goes behind the scenes of some of his highest-profile cases, including the man who hunted prostitutes in Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer. To hone in his profiling methods Douglas interviewed and studied a skew of serial killers. Several book and TV characters have been based in part on him, including Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs, Will Graham on Hannibal and Jason Gideon on Criminal Minds.

8. 22. juli

   2020 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   They help the injured. They comfort the bereaved. They try to understand. This is the story of those who were at work when the terror hit Norway on July 22, 2011.

9. High School Return of a Gangster

   2024 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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   A middle-aged gangster finds himself body-swapped into the body of a bullied teen. Now inhabited by a tough-as-nails gangster, the teen starts to fight back against the power structure at his school and change his miserable existence.

10. House of Cards

    2013 · Drama, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8.2), also on Netflix.

    Based on the BBC miniseries of the same name, House of Cards follows Francis Underwood, the politician's politician – masterful, beguiling, charismatic and ruthless. He and his equally ambitious wife Claire will stop at nothing to ensure their ascendancy. This wicked political drama slithers beneath the curtain and through the back halls of greed, sex, love and corruption in modern Washington D.C.