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Plot Summary:
This drama mini-series follows a group of friends from the South Sudanese community living in Sunshine, a suburb in the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. The young men get entangled in a crime as they are hoping to make it as professional basketball players.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration:
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Harter Brocken (2015)
Plot Summary:
Country constable Frank Koops' first-ever murder victim in St. Andreasberg, a town in the Harz forest, is local crack shot Vanessa Riemann, who helped her bothers Patrick and Marco run a tourist inn, which wasn't lucrative, so they try guided tours but are looking to sell the state. He's forced to accept as 'partner' passing-by public prosecutor office official Miriam Nohe, who seduces him. Koops talent as character judge gets the better of all liars, working from the assumption it's all about the cash loot of a nearby bank robbery.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Elvira (2022)
Plot Summary:
Elvira's unambitious job is to answer the phone at a brothel owned by her childhood friend and policeman, Køster. However, when a prostitute goes missing, Elvira feels an urge to investigate, which leads to dramatic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags:
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Hyde & Seek (2016)
Plot Summary:
When his best mate and partner is killed in a random attack, Detective Gary Hyde and his new partner Claire McKenzie discover an underbelly of murder and fraud that threatens national security.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, witty, intense, detective
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Spuren des Bösen - Racheengel (2012)
Plot Summary:
The police psychologist and brilliant interrogator Richard Brock gets into a hostage situation. It's not about money, but a desperate act.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Total Control (2019)
Plot Summary:
A local Indigenous politician is recruited to the senate by the Australian Prime Minister after a contentious video goes viral.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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The Diplomat (2023)
Plot Summary:
The six-part series follows Laura Simmonds and her Barcelona Consul colleague and friend Alba Ortiz as they fight to protect British nationals who find themselves in trouble in the Catalan city.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: political thriller
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Smile (2009)
Plot Summary:
Smile is a Japanese television drama series, shown on TBS started last April 17, 2009. Jun Matsumoto plays the lead role of Vito, a half-Filipino, half-Japanese man who always smiles despite all of the problems and difficulties he faces. The series focus on foreigners and mixed-race children who suffered from racism.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama
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Dance Brothers (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers trying to make it as dancers open their own club, but their artistic drive soon clashes with the business, threatening their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags:
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Mystery Road (2018)
Plot Summary:
Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station. Soon, Jay's investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: exciting, colorful, scenic, detective, breathtaking, colourful
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Nitram (2021)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most heinous of acts.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, dark
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The Stranger (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship becomes the core of this tightly wrought thriller, which is based on the true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, dramatic, detective
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The Walk-In (2022)
Plot Summary:
Forced to flee the UK and go into hiding in the 1990’s when he became a mole from within the BNP, Matthew Collins returned to Britain to make a new life for himself. As Collins works with young white men in the fight against radicalisation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: social
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Partisan (2020)
Plot Summary:
A man gets a new job in the idyllic surroundings of Jordnära, a gated community that runs a successful organic farm. But he quickly realizes that their rules and routines are somewhat unorthodox.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 227 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Twelve (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story of 12 ordinary Australians who are selected for jury duty in a murder trial as traumatising as it is controversial, in which a woman stands accused of killing her teenage niece.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Secrets She Keeps (2020)
Plot Summary:
In an affluent Sydney suburb, two women have a chance encounter in a supermarket. They are the same age, both heavily pregnant and due at the same time. Meghan is a glamorous influencer on the rise, with an ambitious television sports reporter husband Jack, while Agatha works in the supermarket as a shelf stacker. Although they live near each other, the two women’s lives could not be more different…Both women have secrets. And both will risk everything to conceal the truth. But their worlds are about to collide in one shocking act that cannot be undone.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing, complex
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The Red Line (2019)
Plot Summary:
A heart-in-your-throat drama, Red Line begins with the mistaken shooting of a black doctor at the hands of a white cop and unfolds from the perspective of each of the families connected to the tragedy. It's a then-and-now meets us-and-them tale about the often-personal politics of crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Wake in Fright (2017)
Plot Summary:
John Grant is returning to Sydney after a year teaching at a one-classroom school in the Outback. Shortly after hitting the road, he collides with a kangaroo, and finds himself marooned in a small mining town, awaiting repairs on his car. With little to do but drink beer, John is seduced into a raucous, illegal game of two-up. After a short, exhilarating winning streak, he loses everything, which triggers a dangerous series of events that render John a broken and desperate man.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Murder Call (1997)
Plot Summary:
Murder Call was an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and seen on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The idea to the series was born by the books of Tessa Vance by Jennifer Rowe: Suspect/Deadline and Something Wicked. Both books were integrated as episodes in the TV series. The series dealt with the cases confronted by an unconventional team of homicide detectives, Tessa Vance and Steve Hayden.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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Angela's Eyes (2006)
Plot Summary:
FBI agent Angela Clinton has the exceptional gift of knowing when someone is lying. She discovered this skill at age 14, when she learned her "average" American parents were actually spies. Attempting to right her parents' wrong, Angela is now working with the same agency that brought her parents down.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, realistic, detective, suspenseful
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Brotherhood (2019)
Plot Summary:
An honest lawyer reaches a moral crossroads after the cops force her to inform on her incarcerated brother, the leader of a rising criminal faction.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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The Code (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Code is a drama series which tells tells the story of two brothers who discover some information that those at the highest levels of political power are determined to keep secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, detective
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City on a Hill (2019)
Plot Summary:
In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, bleak, exciting, detective, anime, crime drama
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ZeroZeroZero (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on the book of the same name by bestselling author Roberto Saviano, ZeroZeroZero is an unforgettable exploration of the inner workings of the global cocaine trade.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, brutal, serious, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, sadistic, hood, neo western, crime thriller
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Justice Served (2022)
Plot Summary:
A band of freedom fighters invade the trial of a white police officer who shot a Black man — and a hostage situation unfolds on screens nationwide.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Without a Trace (2002)
Plot Summary:
Without a Trace was an American police procedural television drama series that originally ran on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic, detective, bleak, rough, crime drama, thrilling
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Oz (1997)
Plot Summary:
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 105000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: rough, thought provoking, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, talky, dramatic, controversial
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Wentworth (2013)
Plot Summary:
Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, erotic, sexy, dark, dramatic, thrilling
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Mayor of Kingstown (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set in a small Michigan town where the only industry remaining are federal, state, and private prisons, the story follows the McClusky family, the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians, in a city completely dependent on prisons and the prisoners they contain.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, crime thriller, thrilling, detective
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The Shield (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, cynical, dramatic, detective, crime drama, serious
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Top Boy (2011)
Plot Summary:
A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, suspenseful, rough, crime drama, dramatic, anime, hood, tense, bleak