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Plot Summary:
Rob Spencer's world begins to unravel when a murder takes place in his town, bringing back a flood of disturbing childhood memories. But things only get worse when he's suspected of being the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative, independent film, twisted
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Lanester (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the west of Paris, three strange murders are committed. Each time, the victim is eviscerated before being arranged in a macabre display. While discovering one of these, police commander Eric Lanester (Richard Berry) loses his sight. With the help of Gabrielle (Emma de Caunes), a young woman taxi driver, the cop nevertheless continues his investigation, which soon awakens demons he considered buried forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, exciting
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A Land Imagined (2018)
Plot Summary:
A lonely construction worker from China goes missing at a Singapore land reclamation site, and a sleepless police investigator must put himself in the mind of the migrant to uncover the truth beneath all that sand.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Singapore, France, Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, tense, atmospheric, neo noir
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Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her husband's ex-wife in Milwaukee, WI.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: factual, psychological, touching, talky, stylized
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The Nothing (2011)
Plot Summary:
The faith of five strangers is put to the test when they awake to find themselves in a mysterious place, with no idea of how they got there... and no way out.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christian film, underground film, psychological, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, independent film, minimal cast, contemplative
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As You Are (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, independent film, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Beyond Suspicion (2000)
Plot Summary:
An insurance salesman's humdrum existence takes a turn when a stranger, ex-con Auggie Rose, unexpectedly dies in his arms. Assuming the identity of the dead man, the salesman embarks on a double life, keeping it secret from his live-in girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, serious, suspenseful, contemplative, detective, clever, realistic, neo noir, independent film
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The Great Father (2017)
Plot Summary:
A businessman who is trying hard to be a good father to his daughter has a run-in with malevolent policeman.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing
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The Scent of Rain & Lightning (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman learns her parents' killer has been released from jail, she is forced to revisit old wounds while discovering the destructive power of hate and the true cost of family secrets fully revealing themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, extraordinary
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Interstate 84 (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a body is found floating in an upstate New York river, hard-drinking cop Joe Weldon is left with few clues. After uncovering the man's identity - an enigmatic simpleton named Hap - Weldon is led to the crooked hustler who took advantage of Hap and the disturbed, young punk who tormented him. A tale of personal demons, shattered lives, and ultimate redemption.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, touching, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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Raatchasan (2018)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is murdering school girls, and a newbie cop has to track him down before the victim count increases.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: suspense thriller, brutal, psychological, tense, feel good, epic, suspense, dark, crime thriller, twisted
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Murder In The Tarentaise Valley (2018)
Plot Summary:
While she was jogging Lisa Campion , the daughter of the retired police officer Fabio Campion , discovered the frozen corpse of Julien , a child who disappeared 20 years ago.The police officer Simon Beauregard is then sent to Roches Noires , a village of the Tarentaise Valley, for the criminal investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Last Fashion Show (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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HAGER (2020)
Plot Summary:
After his colleague Schweitzer goes missing during a drug raid, undercover cop Till Hager is tasked with tracking down a mysterious new drug called "Abaddon" - a substance which supposedly drags it's users down the deepest depths of hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, art house
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Stunts (1977)
Plot Summary:
After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating, independent film, realistic, mind bending
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Girl on the Third Floor (2019)
Plot Summary:
Don Koch tries to renovate a rundown mansion with a sordid history for his growing family, only to learn that the house has other plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, humorous, dark, disturbing, splatter, twisted
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Design of Death (2012)
Plot Summary:
The violent death of an unpopular village resident is initially blamed on an infectious disease, but an investigation shows that everybody in the village had a reason to murder him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of the infamous Theatre Grand Guignol the story revolves around iconic actress Paula Maxa - the most famous of the Grand Guignol's leading ladies and the titular Most Assassinated Woman, who was graphically slain on stage multiple times a day.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, weird
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Last Winter, We Parted (2018)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious, young freelance journalist takes on the closed case of a famous fine arts photographer whose beautiful female subject died on set in a gruesome fire.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, intellectual, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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The Miracle (2018)
Plot Summary:
During the incursion in a mob boss' hideout, Police finds a Virgin Mary plastic sculpture which weeps blood. There is no answer to the mystery, but the power of the enigma will make crazy the people who will get in touch with this event, derailing their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic
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Rescue Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Robyn the daughter of Special Agent in Charge Alex Campbell of the FBI is kidnapped along with her best friend Chloe Hart, Alex is forced to take a close look at those around him to help determine who he can trust and who he can't if he hopes to bring his daughter home alive. As each hour goes by the mad man who take these girls become more unstable and not following the typical patterns kidnappers usually do, making it harder for Alex and his team to plan their next move. With the help of Matt and Kyle his two most trusted associates; Alex will do whatever it takes to get his daughter home even if it means having to bend the law to favor his decisions. Will the FBI bring these two girls home safe or is certain death now a part of their future? Rescue Me is an Action-Drama-Thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, contemplative
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Memoirs of a Murderer (2017)
Plot Summary:
The movie begins in the year 1995 where there were 5 peculiar murder cases. The murderer would always get someone close to the victim to witness how he would strangle the victim from behind with a rope but he would let the witnesses go and speak to the media on how the murders happened. Ito plays the role of Makimura, the police detective who was in charge of investigating the serial murders but failed to catch the cunning murderer and his respected superior ended up being killed as well. 22 years later in 2017 when the case is nearing its statute of limitations, a man named Sonezaki claims to be the culprit for the 1995 murders and even publishes a book titled "Watashi ga satsujinhan desu" to talk about the cases. Despite the disgust towards Sonezaki's actions, the intensive attention showered on him via the media and SNS makes him become the talk of town.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, twist ending, dark fantasy, crime drama, unpredictable
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Into the White Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji. As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, twisted, realistic, suspenseful
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Columbus Circle (2012)
Plot Summary:
An heiress who's been shut inside her apartment building for nearly two decades is forced to confront her fears after one of her neighbors is killed and a detective arrives to begin the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, dark, twisted, independent film
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Chronicles of Evil (2015)
Plot Summary:
A detective accidentally kills a man and disposes of the body to protect his career. The next day he sees that someone has hanged the corpse from a crane for all to see. He takes charge of the murder investigation to protect himself and find out who did it.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, crime thriller, psychological, captivating, dark, action thriller, twisted
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Port of Call (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on a real murder case where a dismembered corpse of a murdered 16 year-old prostitute girl was found in Hong Kong in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, noir, neo noir, crime drama, twisted
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Angels (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hameem Haider (Indrajith) is a police officer who meets with an accident while investigating a series of murders and is forced to take a break from his duties. Years later the unsolved murders are picked up by a reality TV show.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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213 (2009)
Plot Summary:
A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage. Fighting to keep buried the trauma of his childhood, he must confront the all too-familiar flesh masks that the killer leaves on the faces of his victims. He must face his own demons along with the killer to save his small eroding existence.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Chiwawa (2019)
Plot Summary:
Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do not know anything about her background or even her real name.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Innocent Days (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sasaki Shinichi looks at his childhood friend Tanaka Yukino in court. Yukino is sentenced to death. She went to her ex-boyfriend’s apartment and caused his wife and child to burn to death. Shinichi knows his childhood friend and perceives that she is innocent. He wants to save Yukino and meets people who knew her including her sister and former classmates. ~~Based on the novel "Innocent Days" by Kazumasa Hayami.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Insomnia (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 313000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, detective, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, suspenseful, tense, bad ending