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Plot Summary:
An unexpected inspector drops by a lavish party of a notable family in order to investigate the suicide of a pregnant girl. This breaks the joy and peace of the party which is meant to celebrate a couple's engagement. Everyone claims that they do not know the girl. However, the inspector does find something suspicious there with the help of a diary and a photo. An astonishing truth is gradually revealed: six of the noble family members are closely related to the girl's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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7 Women and a Murder (2021)
Plot Summary:
When their family patriarch is stabbed, seven women, each with ulterior motives, become trapped together in a mansion to solve the puzzle of his murder. This is the Italian remake of François Ozon's 8 Women.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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The Massively Mixed-Up Middle School Mystery (2015)
Plot Summary:
When the ultimate prank sends their principal under water, it's up to Everett, Alyssa and Riley to put their super detective skills to the test, catch the perp, and save their school's first dance in 40 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 39 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The King's Case Note (2017)
Plot Summary:
A clever king of Joseon and his brilliant chronicler hunt for the truth behind a crime that threatens the throne and the stability of the country.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, detective, period piece
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School of Youth: The Corruption of Morals (2014)
Plot Summary:
Troublemakers Mok-won, Ryu and Hak-moon are far from passing the state examinations. Three female students enter the school during a new spring term and the atmosphere changes. Then one day, Mok-won and Ryu are taken to around the back of the school and molested by an unknown woman. The three of them start an investigation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, period piece
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Lady Winsley (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Lady Winsley, the famous American novelist, is discovered dead on the remote Turkish island of Büyükada, the great detective Fergün is sent from Istanbul to solve the murder case. With the help of Azra, the beautiful local hotel tenant, he must confront stubborn members of the island community to untangle well-guarded family secrets and discover who the murderer is.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France, Turkey, Belgium
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, independent film
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Oh! My Gran (2020)
Plot Summary:
A man's daughter is the victim of a brutal hit-and-run car accident. The only witness is the man's dementia-ridden old mother who barely remember any details. The two must work together to find the culprit.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Father Son Therapy (2016)
Plot Summary:
A cop and his son have to put away their differences while undercover on a therapeutic trip.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Men Suddenly in Black (2003)
Plot Summary:
Four men attempt to fool around as much as they can before their wives return from a 14-hour Buddhism trip to Thailand.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, black comedy
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72 Tenants of Prosperity (2010)
Plot Summary:
Kung and Kin's rivalry goes way back to the seventies when they fought over the same girl, who eventually became Kung's wife. Now they run competing phone stores right across from each other on Mongkok's busiest street, and stretch their minds trying to outdo each other with crazy promotions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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To Catch the Uncatchable (2004)
Plot Summary:
A sitcom centering around the genius CID Mok Tsok Tung and Vivi Lee Wai Wai, an insurance agent.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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River's Edge: The Ohkawabata Detective Agency (2014)
Plot Summary:
Muraki works for a small detective office situated in downtown Tokyo. He takes frequent naps in between cases, during which he often have dreams with premonitions of his next client's case. Their clients come up with strange requests that sometimes seem impossible to solve.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, semi serious
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Prescription Police (2006)
Plot Summary:
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed. Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby. So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, detective
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Mischievous Detectives (2017)
Plot Summary:
A comedic mystery that follows two genius high schoolers and a female police detective as they solve cases that arise while following the disappearances of the boys’ parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 9 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Busty Cops 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
Busty cops 2 was a complex work that conjoined beautiful women, wild animals and awe inspiring CGI in a brilliant display of cinematic excellence.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sex comedy
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Bitter Blood (2014)
Plot Summary:
A rookie detective assigned to the Ginza Police Station finds himself partnered with his estranged father. Together with the rest of the team, they solve crimes as an old adversary plots to take revenge on father and son.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, detective
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S Storm (2016)
Plot Summary:
No sooner is a team at ICAC set up to investigate irregularities/corruption in soccer/football official gaming/betting in Hong Kong before a suspect is assassinated.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Murder, Take One (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman is killed in a hotel room. The ensuing police investigation is conducted in front of TV cameras for the entire country to watch as it unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, twisted
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The Ice Princess (2007)
Plot Summary:
Errica returns to her hometown for her parents funeral and her childhood friend murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Harry Wild (2022)
Plot Summary:
A recently retired English professor discovers a real knack for investigation and cannot help but interfere with the cases assigned to her police detective son.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, detective, thrilling
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The Weather Girl Knows (2013)
Plot Summary:
Haruko Abe (Emi Takei) received her meteorologist license at the age of 11. She is a genius weatherwoman. Haruko now works as a meteorologist on a morning information program. Due to her incredibly blunt personality, a lot of people at her workplace dislikes her. Meanwhile, Haruko tries to solve cases with Detective Gota Aoki (Tadayoshi Okura), using her extensive knowledge of the weather.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, detective
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Murderville (2022)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric detective Terry Seattle teams up with clueless celebrity guest stars to investigate a series of murders in this improvisational crime comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 33 min
Plot tags: funny, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, detective, satirical, offbeat
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Psych 3: This Is Gus (2021)
Plot Summary:
In preparation for a shotgun wedding before the birth of Baby Guster, Shawn and Gus go rogue in an attempt to track down Selene’s estranged husband, as Lassiter grapples with the future of his career.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Detective Chinatown 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Driven by the desire for the huge reward, Tang Ren (by Wang Baoqiang) tricked Qin Feng (by Liu Haoran) to New York, to attend the World Detective Contest,. Later on, behind the crazy competition, Qin and Tang discovered the real hidden facts of this contest.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Detective Chinatown (2015)
Plot Summary:
After being rejected from the police college, a mannerly man travels to Bangkok where he and an energetic distant relative must solve a murder case.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, detective
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Mr. Donkey (2016)
Plot Summary:
From the same team that brought you “Goodbye Mr Loser” comes the hilarious dark comedy "Mr Donkey". In order to pay for the donkey that brings them water, a countryside village registers it as a teacher at its local school. But when the charity group that funds the school visits for an inspection, the village has to find ways to hide their secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Sleeping Forest (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company insists that the incident is a self defense case, but after an investigation there's doubts in that claim. Then, the director of the Takayanagi Ballet Company is poisoned to death. Are the cases related?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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I Love Tokyo Legend - Kawaii Detective - (2012)
Plot Summary:
Tsukiko Otonashi is a fashionista who is too beautiful to be a detective. She is also intrigued by urban legends so much so that she believes all crimes are somehow linked to these legends. She even conducts her investigations in such a way as to prove them to be true. Tsukiko also likes to make use of whatever she can. She especially likes to enlist the help of crime lab officer Hitoro Katsuura, who happens to have a crush on her. Many other unique characters will make appearances as she investigates the crimes related to urban legends, using odd and exquisite techniques.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, detective, sad
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Midsummer's Equation (2013)
Plot Summary:
Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oceanside town to speak on a panel. But when a man turns up dead outside the inn where he's staying, Yukawa begins to unravel the connections that tie the victim to the activist daughter of the innkeepers, and a precocious boy who first appears on a train—and keeps popping up. It's a Sherlock Holmes mystery with an environmental twist, and one that should please fans of a classic whodunnit.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Atypical Crime Investigator, Hinako Todo (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hinako Todo (Haru) is a first-year detective who graduated from the police academy at the top of her class. She always carries with herself a bottle of shichimi chili peppers which was left by her late mother and sprinkles shichimi over everything she eats. Despite her a bit quirky/cheerful demeanor, she holds dark secrets locked deep within her heart… Hinako became a detective, because she wants to find the line between people who kill and those who don't. Once her "crime-solving switch" is on, nothing can stop Hinako from tackling even the most bizarre crime cases. Armed with her overwhelming memory and unstoppable curiously, will Hinako be able to find answers to her question through seeking to solve various crimes?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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All's Well, Ends Well 2009 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Kei's eldest sister Sandra is a hot-tempered magazine editor and her temperament has left her single all this while. One of the family rules is that none of the siblings could get married before their eldest sister. Kei seeks help from the famous Casanova, Koo Chai, to pretend to court his eldest sister and lure her into the mood of love.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, romantic comedy