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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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The Ninth (2019)
Plot Summary:
Petersburg at the end of the 19th century was embraced by a massive enthusiasm for the occult sciences and esotericism. British medium Olivia Reed arrives in the capital of the Russian Empire on tour and gathers crowds of people at her public spiritualistic sessions. At this time, a series of ritual mysterious murders takes place in the city. Girls are abducted on the streets, their mutilated bodies are found in various parts of the city. The investigation is carried out by a young police officer Rostov and his assistant Ganin. With each new victim, things are becoming more confused. Suspicion leads Rostov to Olivia, and he decides to turn to her in the hope that her genuine or imaginary ability to summon the spirits of the dead can help to get on the trail of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, mysterious, atmospheric, suspense, neo noir, bleak, noir
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The Vanishing of Pato (2010)
Plot Summary:
Based on the historical novel by Andrea Camilleri, The Vanishing of Patò is set in Vigàta, the town that Detective Montalbano fans know and love...but it's 1890, Easter weekend. Two rival investigators look into the disappearance of Antonio Patò, a quiet accountant who vanishes after his performance as Judas in the town's annual Passion Play.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, semi serious, tense, psychological, humorous, realistic, witty, biting
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Photocopier (2021)
Plot Summary:
When photos of her at a party cause her to lose a scholarship, a student investigates whether something devastating happened to her that night.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark, cult film
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Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
Plot Summary:
A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and help to foil an audacious robbery.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Partners in Crime (2012)
Plot Summary:
Prudence and Bélisaire Beresford have decided to take things easy. But when a rich Russian heiress disappears, Prudence can't resist and Bélisaire is forced onto the adventure. Their investigation will put them on the trail of a mysterious scientist who holds the secret to eternal youth.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, talky, captivating, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Turkish Gambit (2005)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is going to see her fiancée - a soldier of the Russian army. Erast also knows that there is a spy somewhere in the Russian army, everyone is under suspicion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Bulgaria
Duration: 208 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, tense, romantic, rough, bleak, suspenseful
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My Killer (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young detective in the Northern Russian region of Yakutia is dealing with a seemingly simple murder case. The investigation becomes a dangerous journey into the world of illegal mining and gold trafficking in which life has no value.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, detective
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Satan's Stratagem (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ďáblova lest is a Czech crime movie. The movie was making in Benedict's abbeys of Saint Václav in Broumov, the Church of Saint Margaret in Podlažice and City Museum, Chrast by Chrudim.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, detective, exciting, contemplative
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Krik sovy (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in 1957. In the center of the plot - taking place in the small town of mysterious crimes, the investigation of which involved a policeman Balakhnin and KGB agent Mitin.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, harsh
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Masquerade Hotel (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three murder cases take place in Tokyo. Numbers are left at the murder scenes, possibly hinting at where the next murder will take place. An investigation begins of the serial killer and Detective Kosuke Nitta (Takuya Kimura) works on the case. He believes the next murder will take place at Hotel Koruteshia Tokyo. To catch the killer, Kosuke Nitta goes undercover and begins working at the front desk of the hotel. Naomi Yamagishi (Masami Nagasawa) works at the front desk of Hotel Koruteshia Tokyo. She is selected to train Kosuke Nitta for his front desk job, but they can't get along. Kosuke Nitta is focused on catching the killer, but Naomi Yamagishi prioritizes the safety of the guests. As they begin to understand each others differences, they also begin to build a trust between each other. Who is the murderer? --asianwiki.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Kuttrame Thandanai (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man is slowly going blind and cannot afford the surgery to fix his eyes. When he witnesses a young woman's murder, the killers offer him a large sum of money to remain quiet.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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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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64: Part I (2016)
Plot Summary:
1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years were over as the prefecture's police to be unsolved greatest stain, and statute of limitations approached it. In 2002, Yoshinobu Mikami, an ex-detective who was assigned as the investigator of the "Rokuyon" case 14years ago, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department against his will. As a newly assigned Public Relations Officer, he was troubled with the relation between the reporters, new case has occurred. And that new case traced "Rokuyon" case exactly.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Agatha Christie's Hjerson (2021)
Plot Summary:
Swedish murder investigator Sven Hjerson forms an unexpected detective duo with stubborn TV producer Klara after several years of isolation. Will she also manage to recruit him for her new TV show?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, Germany, Finland, UK
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Magpie Murders (2022)
Plot Summary:
Book editor Susan Ryeland is given an unfinished manuscript by best-selling mystery writer Alan Conway featuring Conway’s longtime main character, detective Atticus Pünd. When she attempts to attain the final chapters from Conway, she finds herself in the middle of a shocking mystery case of her own that will change her life in ways she never expected.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, detective
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The State Counsellor (2005)
Plot Summary:
Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be Fandorin. There are initials BG on the handle of the knife Khrapov was stabbed with, the initials belong to a terrorist organization which keeps both capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in fear. This time Fandorin is not the only one trying to solve the crime, general Pozharski, a famous detective takes over the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, thought provoking, captivating, rough, realistic, serious
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The Ruby in the Smoke (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Victorian England, Sally Lockhart receives an anonymous note sending her on a mysterious quest. Her father has recently died and feeling suffocated living with her elderly aunt moves in with newfound friends, a photographer and his sister. She is soon made aware that the mysterious Mrs. Holland is out to kill her. In the end, she realizes the solution to the mystery is rooted in events that occurred long ago when she lived with her father in India and a recurring dream she has had ever since.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, costume drama, period drama, weird
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Eeram (2009)
Plot Summary:
A police officer investigates his former lover's death which is believed to be a suicide by others.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)
Plot Summary:
As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, disturbing
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Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984)
Plot Summary:
Holmes (Peter Cushing) and Dr. Watson (John Mills) ponder cases in which the victims seem to have been scared to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: detective, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Without a Clue (1988)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but finds that he has done too good a job building Holmes up in the public's mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, hilarious, light, entertaining, detective, spoof, witty, satirical, romantic comedy
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Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru (2016)
Plot Summary:
A former cop looks back on the case which left him disabled and forced him to quit the force.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, tense, captivating, intense, dark, crime thriller, twisted, unpredictable, detective
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Murderer (2009)
Plot Summary:
A Hong Kong-set mystery centered on a detective who has been framed for a series of gruesome murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Sovereign (2008)
Plot Summary:
For two months a serial killer has been terrorizing the city of St. Petersburg. Every Wednesday a girl between 9 and 12 years old is the victim. The brutality of the maniac plunges city residents into horror. Parents are afraid of leaving their children alone on the street. The press reinforces the atmosphere of fear and hysteria.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, detective
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The 12th Suspect (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set in a teahouse in Myeong-dong, Seoul right after the end of the Korean War, The 12th Suspect follows the suffocating psychological showdown that takes place between a detective and the 11 suspects who find themselves caught up in a murder case.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama, detective
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John Luther (2022)
Plot Summary:
Devikulam Police Station SI John Luther is a committed police officer, who even risks his life for policing. During an interrogation, he suffers ruptured eardrums and hearing loss. Will he be able to complete an investigation which he had to leave halfway?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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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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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
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Death on the Nile (1978)
Plot Summary:
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: clever, detective, suspense, captivating, atmospheric, mind bending, talky, enigmatic, scenic, surprise ending
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Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Plot Summary:
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, talky, thought provoking, stylized, entertaining, clever, funny