Series like Dead End

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   Siege 55

   Same creator

   2023 · 268 min · Crime · Drama

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   Just three years earlier, Ilpo Larha was an ordinary taxi driver who had just met the love of his life. A fascination with danger prompts the young man to try his hand at driving a getaway car and his criminal career takes off. A couple of years later, he escapes from prison after being sentenced to life imprisonment for a contract murder, leading to a 55-hour siege.

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   • the same creator
   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Great Heist

   Similar atmosphere

   2020 · 48 min · Crime · Drama

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   Based on the 1994 robbery of US$33 million from Colombia's central bank, which turned the country upside down.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared heist series style

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   Run

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   2026 · Crime · Drama

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   The extraordinary life of Australia’s most notorious bank robber, Brenden Abbott, is dramatized in this action-packed series about his unprecedented career in crime and chaotic life on the run.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared heist series style
   • a closely matched era

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   Freezing Embrace

   Shared cast

   2021 · 42 min · Action & Adventure · Crime · Drama · Mystery

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   Commissioner Antti Hautalehto is faced with a complicated case when young men start drowning in the small Finnish town of Borg. Almost every week a new body is found in the river, and soon Hautalehto has reason to distrust his own police colleagues.

   Why it connects

   • substantial genre overlap
   • a principal cast member

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   Deadwind

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   2018 · 48 min · Crime · Drama

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   When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap

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   Salamander

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   2012 · 50 min · Crime · Drama

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   A police inspector investigates the robbery of 66 safe deposit boxes at a private bank in Brussels.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared heist series style

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   SCAMS

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   2019 · 24 min · Action & Adventure · Crime · Drama

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   Hit hard by the Lehman shock, a well-meaning young man joins a phone scam operation and gets increasingly embroiled in the underworld.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared heist series style

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   Pagan Peak

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   2019 · Crime · Drama

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   When a gruesomely staged body is found at the German-Austrian border, two detectives investigate. As the ritual-like murders continue, they enter the killer’s sinister world, set in the Alpine wilderness.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and series-style overlap

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   American Hostage

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   2026 · Crime · Drama

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   A psychological thriller anthology series focusing on a different hostage case every season.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared theme: hostage
   • a closely matched era

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    Unnatural

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    2018 · 45 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery

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    Mikoto, a forensic investigative examiner, and her partners trace down the evidence of crimes and unravel the puzzles behind mysterious deaths.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • similar audience response

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