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Plot Summary:
Now a disgraced P.I., Marius M. Quick is forced to relive the past he's desperately tried to forget when a murderer dubbed 'The Pasta Killer' begins assassinating his friends, connections and contacts.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: neo noir, black and white
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To Catch a Spy (2021)
Plot Summary:
When the newly renovated Hotel Optima in Malta has a grand reopening, Chloe and her team from Destination Traveler Magazine, head over to cover the travel scene in Malta and sees someone fall to their death, right past her hotel window.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery
Country: Malta, USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, melancholic, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Who Killed My Husband (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sophie's husband is killed in the line of duty as a police officer, now she goes undercover to solve his last case as she deals with her gravely ill daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema (1987)
Plot Summary:
Real estate broker and former boxer enters an old cinema in the decadent downtown SĂŁo Paulo and meets an intriguing and mysterious woman, very much alike the leading lady of the film. He gets involved with her and her problems and in no time is being accused of a crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Bull (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bull is a darkly comic neo-noir set among the heatwave-baked skyscraper canyons of the Toronto financial district. A hapless stockbroker named Charlie finds himself caught up in a twisty web where no one — no one at all — is telling the truth. Charlie isn't very good at his job — something his powerbroker boss Jay explains to him in exactly so many words. But then Jay also offers him an opportunity: a vague and somewhat shady opportunity, sure, but Charlie doesn't have much choice. And before long Charlie finds himself mixed up with all manner of dangerous characters, persistent detectives, beautiful women wearing surprisingly little, and a threatening and mysterious individual named Roland Gow.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Radio Corbeau (1989)
Plot Summary:
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery (1994)
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Hand Grenade (2017)
Plot Summary:
A family brought together by friendship and love. Two couples and their desire to conceive a child, but someone has a secret that will tear the family apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Motion Sickness (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lost on a train of thought tunneling through the dark night of his unconscious, a former rabbinical student struggles to resolve a paralyzing conflict between his mind and his body.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, surreal, disturbing
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The Man Without a Map (1968)
Plot Summary:
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surreal, absurd, detective, avant garde
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Deep Sleep (1990)
Plot Summary:
An emotionally disturbed young woman who is obsessed with the death of her father delves into the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Lies Between Friends (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fourteen years after graduation, a group of college friends convenes one weekend for a bridal shower for one of their own. The principal character, Joss (Gabrielle Anwar), and her freshman year roommate and best friend in college, Cait (Thea Gill), have been estranged for years, ever since Joss learned that her fiancé had been visiting Cait on the night he died in a motorcycle accident. As part of a recovery program, Cait wants to make up with Joss, but she dies before she can explain. Was her death an accident, a suicide, or something more sinister?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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While My Pretty One Sleeps (1997)
Plot Summary:
When the fashion world meets the underworld, it's murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Crimes of Passion (2005)
Plot Summary:
While in competition for a job promotion, the female competitor sues her male counterpart for sexual harassment. Blackmail and murder follow closely behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Thriller, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, touching, surprise ending
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Gunn (1967)
Plot Summary:
The madam of a floating bordello hires private eye Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) to prove a gangster killed a crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
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Save Me (1994)
Plot Summary:
An accountant (Hamlin) beleaguered by personal and professional problems gets involved with a femme fatale (Anthony) and her mysterious psychiatrist (Ironside).
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, neo noir, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, sexual, hot
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The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1986)
Plot Summary:
After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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P.J. (1967)
Plot Summary:
Reluctant New York City private eye P.J. Detweiler is hired as a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison. In truth, Orbison plans a deadly intrigue in which P.J. is to play a central part. Meanwhile, complications ensue as P.J. gradually falls in love with Maureen. (Wikipedia).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, thrilling
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Darker Than Amber (1970)
Plot Summary:
Rod Taylor plays John D. MacDonald's famous Florida PI Travis McGee. Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Carribean cruise to bring the killer to justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, cult film
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Rogue's Gallery (1968)
Plot Summary:
A private eye gets in trouble when he tries to help a woman in distress.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective
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The Lightest Darkness (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a neurotic private eye who struggles to finish the case takes a train voyage, his own dark secrets begin to reveal themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, captivating, disturbing, surreal, independent film, detective
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The Return of Frank Cannon (1980)
Plot Summary:
Private detective Frank Cannon comes out of retirement to investigate the murder of an ex-girlfriend's husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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Too Late (2015)
Plot Summary:
Explores the tangled relationship between a troubled private investigator and the missing woman he's hired to help find.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, captivating, tense, enigmatic, suspense, scary, noir, dark, crime drama
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Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery (2013)
Plot Summary:
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team arrive in Three Pines to solve the unusual murder of a much-loved woman and find dark secrets shadowing this usually peaceful village.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: clever, suspense, tense, captivating, realistic
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The Missing Person (2009)
Plot Summary:
Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing the missing person back to his wife in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, detective, thrilling, clever
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Hammett (1982)
Plot Summary:
"This is an entirely imaginary story about the writer Dashiell Hammett, who... in the words of one of his most gifted contemporaries... helped get murder out of the vicar's rose garden and back to the people who are really good at it. The detective story has not been the same since." So begins Hammett, the atmospheric and exciting tale of a young mystery writer who really lives the hard-boiled life he writes about -- and learns to dig beneath the surface of his characters to reveal their deeper, darker motivations.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, detective, metafiction, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, meta, eighties
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A Private Affair (2002)
Plot Summary:
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing for six months. After interviewing Rachel's family, friends and classmates, Francois is attacked and injured by an anonymous assailant and becomes reluctant to continue his search. But when Rachel's body is found, Francois is drawn deeper into the investigation as he discovers the dead girl's secret life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, detective, deep, realistic, cynical
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The American Side (2016)
Plot Summary:
Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, tense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, surprise ending, noir, cult classic
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Trouble Is My Business (2018)
Plot Summary:
Private eye Roland Drake cracks cases and romances femme fatales in 1940's Los Angeles while corrupt cop Det Barry Tate rules the city. A tale told in the classic style of film noir. Drake has fallen on hard times in a harsh world. He has been evicted from his office and disgraced by a missing persons case. Ruined in the public eye and with the police. it seems like it's all over for Roland Drake. Then, redemption walks in - with curves. The owner of those curves is a sexy, dark haired beauty named Katherine Montemar. She wants his help. The chemistry is immediate and her concern for the disappearance of her family members pulls him into her case - and into bed.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, hardboiled detective, noir
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White Orchid (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shy and reserved, Claire Decker, 30ish, is a part-time investigator for Social Services. Typically, she solves cases where senior citizens have died alone, leaving no indication of who must handle their estate. This time however, Claire is reluctantly drawn into a puzzling murder case. The local police have been unable to solve the horrific crime, or even decipher the victim's true identity. A beautiful and enigmatic young blond, known only as "The White Orchid," has been brutally murdered. As Claire is drawn deeper and more intimately into the dead woman's life, she finds herself taking dangerous chances and pushing personal and professional boundaries. As she gets closer to the truth, Claire must effectively become the charismatic "White Orchid" in order to solve the mysterious crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense