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Plot Summary:
Experienced Moscow police officer Maksim Pokrovskiy is sent to Northern Russia to investigate the murder of the local Oligarch's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: tense, melancholic, suspenseful, suspense, rough
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Arctic Circle (2018)
Plot Summary:
During a routine search of an old cabin in the remote and wintery back country, Finnish policewoman, Nina Kautsalo, discovers two dead prostitutes, with a third still fighting for her life. The ensuing investigation takes a surprise twist when an extremely rare and deadly virus is discovered in the surviving woman’s bloodwork. When the Finnish Bureau of Investigation takes over the case, German virologist, Thomas Lorenz is called in to assist in identifying and containing the virus. Set within the endless white expanse of the arctic circle, Nina and Thomas must rely on each other to have any hope of saving the ones they love. But what takes precedence? A deadly virus or an active serial killer?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, captivating, scenic, detective, disaster movie
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The Labyrinth (2015)
Plot Summary:
Finding the body of the regional politician Karas, killed in the spirit of medieval torture and carefully arranged in a strange scene, unleash police hunt for a sadistic perpetrator. He puts investigation team in the way of a complex series of murders that shake the local region and criminologists themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, poliziottesco
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Evil Minds (2015)
Plot Summary:
A gifted criminal profiler lost someone important to him while he was helping the police solve a bizarre campus serial killing. The lost crippled his mind and left him unable to profile again. But when another serial killing threatened the city, he had to confront his inner demon in order to track down the serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Crime Is Her Game (2019)
Plot Summary:
Captain Gaby Molina investigates with great seriousness and success on cases not always easy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Kings of Jo'Burg (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Masire brothers rule Johannesburg's criminal underworld, but a supernatural family curse and a tangled web of betrayal threaten to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Quicksand (2019)
Plot Summary:
Maja, a student in Stockholm, finds herself on trial for murder after a tragedy at her school. More doubts and suspicions arise when new revelations are made.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, noir, entertaining, crime thriller
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Under Military Law (2015)
Plot Summary:
It is July 1941, and the Nazis are advancing towards Kyiv. A special squad is tasked with investigating major cases by acting both at the frontline and in the city itself, where rising criminals are joining German subversives in infiltrating the city, while a number of Soviet government representatives are happily profiting from other people’s misery.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, War
Country: Ukraine, Russia
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: rough, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, touching
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Red Deer Hunting (2005)
Plot Summary:
Moscow's rich want to get their hands on a thriving factory in Siberia. The Saga of the 1990s based on the book by Yulia Latynina.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, rough, emotional, suspense
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Suspended Cop (2019)
Plot Summary:
At the same time, former operational investigator Dmitry Ryzhov, who had served time in prison for abuse of authority, and police captain Arina Gordeeva were arriving in St. Petersburg. Ryzhov got a job in Zhilkomservis in order to earn money, drive his emergency car in his native district and no longer have anything to do with the police. Gordeeva becomes a precinct of the same region. In it, businessman Veniamin Voronov is in charge of everything - he is Venya Voron. Under his "patronage" almost all the hot spots and many enterprises that are covered for a considerable portion by the local district captain Teltsov. Honest and principled Gordeeva refuses to put up with the current state of affairs in the microdistrict and engages in an implacable fight against local crime and corrupt officials. In this, Dmitry Ryzhov helps her. He also does not tolerate injustice, and he also likes Captain Gordeeva. But she is in no hurry to reciprocate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining, tense, humorous, disturbing, detective
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Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For (2019)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant crossword puzzle editor (Chabert) finds her life turned upside-down when she is pulled into a police investigation after several of the clues in her recent puzzles are linked to unsolved crimes. Proving her innocence means leaving the comfort of her sheltered world and working with a tough police detective (Elliott), puzzling through clues together in order to crack the case, as the two are fish out of water in each other's worlds.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, psychological, surprise ending
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The Truth Will Out (2018)
Plot Summary:
Police detective Peter Wendel leads a cold case group. Based on an original idea by Leif GW Persson, one of Sweden’s most recognized criminologists.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense
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Mammon (2014)
Plot Summary:
Peter Verås is an uncompromising journalist in the most respected newspaper in Norway. He makes his life’s biggest mistake when he gets hold of evidence of a financial fraud from an anonymous source. It turns out the evidence points to his own brother. As he still pursues and the story breaks, the brother commits suicide. Peter tries to track down the anonymous source, only to discover that the source was the brother himself. A search for the truth has commenced that involves media, high – ranked politicians as well as the financial elite. The closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes for him and his brother’s family.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, noir, suspenseful
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MosGaz. Delo N2: Palach (2015)
Plot Summary:
Events take place on the outskirts of Moscow in 1965. In the center - the story of the exposure of a woman executioner who, during the war, at the behest of the Germans, shot prisoners, partisans, and civilians. This is actually a separate civil war of the fanatic with their people. During the war, she was barely 20 years old, and on her account there were already fifteen hundred murders. She shot her victims with a machine gun, hiding behind a toy bunny mask. Then she drank a bottle of moonshine and then appeared the next morning without a mask and lived an ordinary life, the same as everyone else ... Therefore, after the war, it was very difficult to figure out the killer. This case was assigned to the chief investigator. His suspicions fall on one or the other woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: History
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak
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Cut Off (2018)
Plot Summary:
Thriller set in the world of Forensic Pathology. Coroner Paul Herzfeld finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, sexy, bleak, psychological horror, tense, psychological thriller, slasher, twist ending, detective
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Riot Police (2020)
Plot Summary:
A fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 306 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Ebar Shabor (2015)
Plot Summary:
A very much experienced police detective Mr. Shabor Dasgupta (Actor-Saswata Chatterjee) is assigned to do the task of solving the mystery of the murder of Mitali Ghosh (Actress-Swastika Mukherjee),who is a woman with a messy past life, who was killed on the night she had thrown a house party for her close friends and family. The task is very tough for Shabor to find the real victim. There are lots of twists in the story.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, dark, detective
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Possessions (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young French woman living in Israel is accused of the murder of her husband on the day of their wedding. As the bride struggles to prove her innocence, mysterious happenings surround her. Is she guilty or could she be the victim?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Evaru (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a high-ranking police officer is killed by his alleged rape victim, Sub-inspector Vikram Vasudev is entrusted with investigating what seems like an open-and-shut case. However, as he delves deeper, Vikram finds the case spiralling into a dark tale filled with unexpected surprises.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, twist ending, detective, twisted
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Cold Case: Shinjitsu No Tobira (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Thou Shalt Not Kill (2015)
Plot Summary:
Stubborn and determined detective Valeria Ferro endeavors to solve the challenging puzzle behind crimes motivated by jealousy, vendettas and repressed anger to seek the truth and justice. All as she struggles with her own demons and the phantoms of her past that come back to life when her mother is released from jail after serving a seventeen-year prison sentence.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, rough, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, thought provoking
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Pagan Peak (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a gruesomely staged body is found, propped up on a mountain pass in the Alps close to the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate. For German detective Ellie, this is the first real challenge of her career; her Austrian counterpart Gedeon though seems to have lost any ambitions in his job. Very soon, they discover more crime scenes with symbolically posed victims, reminiscent of pagan rituals. It all seems to be part of a bigger, sinister plan. Ellie finds herself under increasing pressure to understand the deranged killer's motives so she can stop him. The hunt leads them ever deeper in the dark valleys and archaic Alpine customs - and the paranoid world of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, detective, slasher, rough, bleak, interesting
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Deadwind (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, dark, crime thriller, detective
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The Method (2015)
Plot Summary:
The main character is an extraordinary and mysterious person, at the same time, he (Rodion Meglin) is an outstanding inspector. Rodion is used to work alone in order to keep the secrecy of his unusual method. Young graduate Esenya Steklova is eager to get the internship with the glorious investigator but she could hardly expect the challenges she would face while working with Rodion. Together they investigate the cruelest crimes that took place in the history of Russian criminality.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller, rough
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Darkness: Those Who Kill (2019)
Plot Summary:
Investigator Jan and profiler Louise constantly move around in the thrilling periphery of a murderer's view as they link a series of killings.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating
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The Thin Blue Line (2021)
Plot Summary:
Swedish drama series about police officers in Malmö, their tiring work and the difficulties of keeping their personal and professional life separate.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, contemplative
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Dublin Murders (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives are dispatched to investigate the murder of a young girl on the outskirts of Dublin, but as the case of the missing children intensifies, both are forced to confront the darkness that lies in their past.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, detective, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, crime drama, enigmatic, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Justice (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lee Tae Kyung is a star lawyer with the best win rate. He is able to win cases by using his sharp logic and intelligent speeches. He amasses power and wealth by dealing with clients who are part of the elite class. His cases are usually referred from Song Woo Yong who is the owner of a construction company. Lee Tae Kyung gets these high class criminals acquitted or at minimum receive probation. He first became a lawyer to get revenge for his younger sister, but has since become focused on money. He changes when he deals with a series of cases involving missing actresses. Meanwhile, Song Woo Yong has grown his construction company by funneling criminal cases involving wealthy people to Lee Tae Kyung. For his family, he desires even more power. He comes into conflict with Lee Tae Kyung over the cases involving missing actresses.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Mire (2018)
Plot Summary:
The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they start their own investigation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, thought provoking, suspenseful, crime thriller, dark, sinister
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Tulskiy Tokarev (2010)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Kamenskaya (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, entertaining