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Plot Summary:
Thriller about the murder by poisoning of a famous lawyer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
Best tv shows and movies like An Impossible Crime (2001):
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Dr. M (1990)
Plot Summary:
In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Italy, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: detective
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Loos (1989)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer must defend a nightclub owner accused of committing a crime-of-passion.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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School Day of the Dead (2000)
Plot Summary:
Some students decide to set up a play written by one of their classmates, who has commited suicide. The play is based on a tragic and mysterious legend about a love affair between two teachers at the school long ago. Some girls then accidentally stumble over some information about the legend, and the girl who commited suicide. Shortly after, the girls start turning up dead in seeming accidents.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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The Vanity Serum (2003)
Plot Summary:
The vips of italian television disappear in a mysterious way. Two detectives, Lucia and Franco, try to investigate in this mystery, drowning into a strange world, where the leader is the powerful star Sonia Norton.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Fallen Heroes (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fallen Heroes is a 2007 Italian crime-drama film directed by Paolo Franchi. It entered the competition at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. Wikipedia.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Lesson in Murder (2022)
Plot Summary:
Masaya is a university student, but he attends a school that's not his ideal school. His days are generally gloomy. One day, he receives a letter from serial killer Haimura. He was convicted for nine murders and received the death penalty. Back when Haimura was committing his murders, he ran a bakery store. At that time, Masaya was a middle-school student and a customer at his bakery store. According to the letter, Haimura confesses to having committed eight murders, but he insists that he did not commit the last murder. Masaya begins to investigate the last murder case involving Haimura.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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My Body Hungers (1967)
Plot Summary:
Marcia, a sexy bucolic orphan, hitch-hikes to the city to meet up with her sister, who has promised her a job at the roadhouse where she works as a hostess. She has no qualms about sleeping with her driver in order to be safeguarded to her destination. Once she arrives, she discovers that her sister has recently been violently murdered -- in a stangulation by garter belt. Marcia takes her sister's job in order to go undercover in finding the murderer. She thus imperils her own life while making discoveries about her sister's former lifestyle and the seamy antics of the local civic leaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Passing Fancy (2005)
Plot Summary:
"Passing Fancy" is a film about the devastating effects that emotional and sexual abuse reap on the human mind. In this story the abuse leads to drugs, deception, insanity and eventually murder. With few clues to go on, Detective Rodriguez is assigned to the case and charged with the task of bringing a beautiful, murdering seductress to justice. After being sentenced to a life term at a mental institution for the criminally insane, the convicted murderer fights for her freedom while falling in love with the man who put her there.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Fanny Straw-Top (1984)
Plot Summary:
In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, eros
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Sleeping Waters (1992)
Plot Summary:
Whatever happened to my father?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Parallel Corpses (1982)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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The Murdered House (1988)
Plot Summary:
After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one stormy night. Only Sébastien, then a four-month old baby, was spared. Whilst Sébastien is being seduced by Charmaine, Dupin is killed by someone else. Sébastien’s next victim, the miller Didon Pujol, is also murdered before he has a chance to take his revenge. Sébastien realises that someone is watching his every move and is going to extraordinary lengths to protect him. But who, and why..?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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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 São 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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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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Such a Lovely Town... (1979)
Plot Summary:
Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery which provides the inhabitants with work. In a fit of anger, he kills his wife (Edith Scob). A judge (Jean Carmet) tries to prove his culpability, but it's not an easy task, because there is a political and social pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Mortal Sins (1989)
Plot Summary:
A PI hired to find a killer is led to a corrupt televangelist.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: detective
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Where Is the Third King? (1967)
Plot Summary:
A classic criminal story set between Poland and South America.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Subho Mahurat (2003)
Plot Summary:
Shubho Mahurat (2003) is an award-winning Indian Bengali feature film directed by Rituparno Ghosh. An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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I'm a Killer (2016)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events from the 1970s, the story revolves around a young detective who becomes the head of a police unit focused on catching a rampant serial killer of women, nicknamed 'The Silesian Vampire'.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, crime thriller
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A Perfect Friend (2006)
Plot Summary:
"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many mysteries Julien has to resolve. Who is Marl?ne, the beautiful woman who claims to be his girlfriend? Why doesn't his real girlfriend, Anna, return his calls? What made him walk out on his job as a leading investigative reporter? Julien relies on Lucas, his best friend and.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Six Sex Scenes and a Murder (2008)
Plot Summary:
Nick's made poor choices professionally and personally. A man feared and envied by many, he's lived a life seduced by crime, money, beautiful women, and burlesque. Now he wants out and he's got 24 hours to find an exit. He's helped by the love of his life, ex-burlesque dancer, Regan Price and by his brother Tony, owner of The Uptown Bar. (Julie Rubio).
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, neo noir
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Thirsty for Love, Sex and Murder (1972)
Plot Summary:
türkish Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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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 Fifth Cord (1971)
Plot Summary:
Luigi Bazzoni (Le Orme) directed this outstanding giallo thriller starring Franco Nero as a hard-drinking newspaperman who gets involved in a string of brutal murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, erotic, scary, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic
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The Killer is on the Phone (1972)
Plot Summary:
A woman whose husband was murdered five years previously, is stalked by his killer, who wants to eliminate her as a potential witness. What he doesn't know is that the shock of his murder caused her to have amnesia, and she doesn't remember anything.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror
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Too Beautiful to Die (1988)
Plot Summary:
The models of an agency are invited to a party by the owner of the agency, Alex. During the party, Alex is playing games in his computer and it looks like the girls have the house to themselves, but there's another guest…. and an accident happens - a fatal accident. This will start a string of murders - all those that were at that party begin to fall one by one. The police intervene, investigations are made, but the killer is like an elusive shadow….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, suspense, slasher horror
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Secret of the Blackbirds (1983)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, enigmatic, detective, surprise ending
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Sparkling Cyanide (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Azazel (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on Boris Akunin's novel 'Azazel' (English title 'The Winter Queen') set in Moscow in 1876. The novel started a long series quite popular in Russia. In 'Azazel' a young police officer - Erast Fandorin - investigates an odd suicide of some rich young man and finds a complex conspiracy, trying to take over most European countries - from Britain to Ottoman Empire - with the best intentions, of course.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 208 min
Plot tags: tense, surprise ending, humorous, captivating, suspense, detective
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Nine Guests for a Crime (1977)
Plot Summary:
Nine members of the same family go to an island, where nobody lives - but the head of the family owns a nice house there. Problem is that he and his three sons keep a dark secret, and this dark secret begins to haunt them as soon as they are on the island. One by one falls victim to a mysterious killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending