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10 Best Movies Like Special Unit - The First Murder

If you loved Special Unit - The First Murder, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Purity of Vengeance

The Purity of Vengeance

2018★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Unit - The First Murder for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenl...

#2
The Keeper of Lost Causes

The Keeper of Lost Causes

2013★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Unit - The First Murder for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Mere...

#3
The Absent One

The Absent One

2014★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Unit - The First Murder for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was...

#4
A Conspiracy of Faith

A Conspiracy of Faith

2016★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Unit - The First Murder for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department Q follow a sinister trail that...

#5
Boundless

Boundless

2024★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Unit - The First Murder for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In a moment of cowardice, Detective Carl Mørck sends Rose, his junior colleague in Department Q, to the remote Danish island of Bornholm to answer his old colleague Christian Haber...

#6
Bleeder

Bleeder

1999★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Unit - The First Murder for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two stories for the price of one: a video store clerk tries to get acquainted with a waitress; a man beats his pregnant wife, unaware that her brother is a violent racist....

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