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The Absent One

2014 · 1h 56m · Thriller

IMDb 7.1 Metacritic 61 RT 92%

If you're craving a smart, twisty European thriller with real emotional stakes, **watch it tonight**. This is part of the acclaimed Danish Department Q series—a franchise that consistently delivers clever mystery-solving and genuine suspense without relying on Hollywood bombast. A cold case involving murdered children and a wrongful conviction is the kind of morally complex premise that'll keep you locked in.

Plot

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 convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong.

Director: Mikkel Nørgaard

Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pilou Asbæk, David Dencik, Danica Ćurčić

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