Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Darkness: Those Who Kill follows investigator Jan and profiler Louise as they trace a series of killings, perpetually at the edge of the murderer's awareness — close enough to read the pattern, never safely ahead of it. The taste it signals is Scandinavian procedural dread: methodical, psychologically interior, and uncomfortable with easy resolution. Across media, you're drawn to stories where catching a killer requires becoming fluent in how one thinks — and where that fluency costs something.
Those Who Kill, distributed as Darkness: Those Who Kill in some regions, is a Danish crime thriller television series created by Ina Bruhn and produced by Miso Film and Viaplay/Nordic Entertainment Group. It was released on Viaplay in the Nordic countries on 1 March 2019 and has since been broadcast/streamed in several other countries. The series revolves around criminal profiler Louise Bergstein's attempts to link unsolved murders. The series is a reboot of the crime thriller of the same name that was created by Elsebeth Egholm and aired on TV 2 in 2011.
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Film
The Murderer
A determined detective pursues a killer through a small town, with British expat Earl as the prime suspect.
Film
They Will Kill You
A woman unwittingly enters a world of disappearances and hidden menace, where the danger is structural and slow-building.
Film
Dark Crimes
A detective's suspicion of a crime novelist blurs the line between fiction and real murder.
Film
The Dark
A predator and a victimised boy form an unlikely bond in a remote, violence-saturated landscape.
Film
Dark Figure of Crime
A cop extracts case details from a caught serial killer, only to suspect the killer is still steering events.
Game
Those Who Remain
A demon-cursed town shrouded in literal darkness makes the threat environmental and inescapable, not just human.
Game
The Darkness
A killer who becomes the bearer of a demonic force explores violence from inside the predator's perspective.
Game
From The Darkness
A first-person horror game built around fear and exploration of a deceased grandfather's abandoned apartment.
Book
Evil serial killers
A nonfiction study of serial killers' psychology and motivations — the factual counterpart to the show's profiling work.
Book
Whoever fights monsters
An FBI veteran explains how studying killers' behaviour unlocks the logic used to identify and catch them.
Book
Kill or be killed
Fast suspense novellas where violence erupts from criminal networks — compressed, relentless threat with investigative stakes.
Book
Kill switch
A forensic psychiatrist with personal wounds pursues killers others can't reach — the profiler-investigator role in novel form.
Book
The unseen
A story where a murder's buried truth resurfaces across decades, linking past violence to present discovery.
Book
The dark vineyard
A local investigator untangles connected deaths beneath a surface of competing interests and concealed motives.
Series
Those Who Kill
A Copenhagen special unit pairs a detective inspector with a forensic psychiatrist to investigate serial crimes.
Series
Those Who Kill
A homicide detective and a forensic psychologist team up to hunt serial killers, with a missing sibling adding personal stakes.
Series
The Darkness
A special investigator pursues a cold-case murder of a young asylum seeker before a forced retirement cuts her off.
Series
Through the Darkness
Detectives studying killers' minds at the dawn of serial-murder awareness — procedural psychology as the investigative core.
Series
Who Is the Murderer
Guilt and obsession drive a cop and an intern to reopen a serial-killer case that was never truly closed.
Series
The Killing
Copenhagen police procedural tracking a single murder case day-by-day with the same Nordic methodical rhythm.
Start with The Killing for the same Copenhagen procedural atmosphere, then Those Who Kill (2011) for the near-identical detective-plus-forensic-psychiatrist pairing. Through the Darkness adds a Korean serial-murder lens with the same profiling focus.
Those Who Remain shares the show's oppressive atmosphere and a small town under the grip of something predatory. The Darkness puts you inside the killer's perspective, which mirrors the show's uncomfortable closeness to the murderer's viewpoint.
The series keeps its investigators at the edge of the killer's awareness — close enough to read the pattern, never safe enough to feel ahead of it. That persistent threat of exposure, not just danger to others, is what drives the dread.