The Treatment
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A bruising Belgian procedural that shares The Silence’s focus on an investigator pulled into an old child-abduction case, with subdued performances and an unrelentingly bleak moral atmosphere.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
A bruising Belgian procedural that shares The Silence’s focus on an investigator pulled into an old child-abduction case, with subdued performances and an unrelentingly bleak moral atmosphere.
Why this pick
A meticulously observed hunt for a killer in a provincial community, balancing procedural frustration, haunting landscapes and the lasting human cost of unsolved violence.
Why this pick
A decades-spanning murder inquiry driven by memory, grief and obsession; it has the same sense that a violent past continues to poison everyone left behind.
Why this pick
This German crime thriller follows a rural policeman confronting a child murderer, using austere settings and psychological pressure rather than easy procedural reassurance.
Why this pick
For the cold, lingering dread beneath The Silence’s investigation: an exhausted detective follows a series of baffling killings through quietly uncanny, stripped-back scenes.
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01 / THE STORY
Summer 1986: Pia, an 11-year-old schoolgirl, is raped and murdered in a wheat field near a small provincial German town by one man while another man watches silently from the passenger seat of his red car. The murderer packs Pia's body into the trunk of the car and leaves her bicycle behind.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Peer Sommer

David Jahn

Jana Gläser

Karl Weghamm

Julia Friedrich

Sinikka Weghamm
Pia Lange

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