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Plot Summary:
Political and social processes in recent and current Turkish political history.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, political, entertaining
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The Woman Who Buys the Local Newspaper (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. How did this woman know the novel is serialized in the newspaper? And why does she want to start reading it in the middle of the story? Which article was she actually interested in? Sugimoto cannot help making his own investigations about Yoshiko, but the more he searches, the more astonishing facts come to light.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, exciting, contemplative
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Godfather's Story (2013)
Plot Summary:
Godfather's story is the story of the greatest of Czech post-revolutionary 'entrepreneurs'. His activities often crossed the edge of the law, and his life ended bullet assassin.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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True Fiction (2018)
Plot Summary:
An MP's son-in-law and mayoral candidate takes a trip with his girlfriend to a vacation home and meets a mysterious neighborhood boy and his friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dead on Arrival (2017)
Plot Summary:
A pharmaceutical sales rep visits a small town in Louisiana on business. He finds himself in a dark world of corruption and murder with 24 hours to live, running from the police, the mob and a sheriff that wants him dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The State-Mafia Pact (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story about how the pact beetween Italian State and Mafia was inked with innocence blood.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, thought provoking
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And Tomorrow the Entire World (2020)
Plot Summary:
Luisa, a 20-year-old law student, joins a cell of the Antifa group when she and her friends Alfa and Lenor get to know about an upcoming attack planned by a local neo-Nazi gang. As they try to find out more, the three youngsters delve deeper into the scene linked to right-wing movements and their political connections, to the point where they will understand how much they are willing to go further, in order to defend their own beliefs.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, hood
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Monster (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, anamorphic
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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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Herod's Law (1999)
Plot Summary:
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, political, dark comedy, clever, witty, biting, black comedy, manga, mesmerizing, humorous
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Tabloid Truth (2014)
Plot Summary:
Woo-gon, a passionate manager who lost everything due to stock advertisements and a specialist gets together to find out the truth behind the rumors that have shaken up the country. From precious information to distribution, this crime chasing movie surrounds the invisible truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, twisted
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Asura: The City of Madness (2016)
Plot Summary:
A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city’s corrupt mayor, in this scintillating crime drama from Korean maestro Kim Sung-soo (The Warrior).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, noir, crime drama
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Making a Killing (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three morticians get caught in a web of greed and deceit, involving buried treasure and a tangled love affair, in this modern day crime mystery that is based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense
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Z Storm (2014)
Plot Summary:
This is a story about the biggest financial fraud attempted in Hong Kong, directed at the Government of Hong Kong and involved all 7 million Hong Kong citizens... no one is free from the scheme. Within the four decades of guarding Hong Kong's financial integrity, the ICAC has never come across an opponent so huge and so well organized as in the Z Torrent file... shadowy figures from the underworld of South America, Italy and Europe all ready to plot against the estimated 150 million dollars of Hong Kong citizens' tax money which was pooled in a fund called the WELFARE FUND. High profile chartered accountants, high ranking law enforcers, power lawyers, the super entrepreneurs; they all have their shares of play but none can really grasp the big picture; they are there only for what they desire most.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Azooma (2012)
Plot Summary:
A mother goes to extreme measures against her daughter's attacker after after feeling that the local law enforcement have failed her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Money (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two wealthy businessmen are about to get away with $5 million in ill-gotten money until their plans are revealed by an uninvited house guest.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, twisted
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Intimacy (2022)
Plot Summary:
A rising politician's career is threatened when a surreptitiously recorded video of her sex life is leaked to the public.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, political drama
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Nota (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sitting Chief Minister Vinodhan, who is facing imprisonment in an illegal assets case, makes his son, Varun the temporary CM until his return. The disinterested young man gradually wakes up to the sorry state of affairs and tries to bring in a change.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: political, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the 1969 bombing at a major national bank in Milan and its aftermath.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, bleak, political, sincere, controversial
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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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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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Bordertown (2007)
Plot Summary:
The opening titles explain that American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products.Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American news reporter for the "Chicago Sentinel" wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan (Martin Sheen) assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, serious, suspense, captivating, tragic
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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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People I Know (2002)
Plot Summary:
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, stylized, intense, cynical, bleak, intellectual, clever, serious, realistic, witty
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Tycoon (2002)
Plot Summary:
During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, France, Germany
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: serious, cynical, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller, suspense, biting, clever
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City Hall (1996)
Plot Summary:
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: political, tense, suspense, thought provoking, realistic, talky, neo noir, inspirational, cult classic, serious
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Prophecy (2015)
Plot Summary:
The cyber crime investigation division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department finds a video on website "YOURTUBE." In the video, a man covered by a newspaper, warns that a fire will be set at a food processing company. More crime notices are soon found involving violent crimes. Geitsu is the main guy behind the group "Shinbunshi," which has posted the videos. He used to work as a temporary employee at an IT company, but was unfairly dismissed. He then begins doing manual labor work and meets the other members of "Shinbushi.".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
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The Kingdom (2021)
Plot Summary:
After his running mate's murder, a controversial televangelist becomes Argentina's presidential candidate. But nothing about him is as holy as he seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: captivating, political, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Murder at 1600 (1997)
Plot Summary:
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, political, tense, rough, detective, political thriller, action adventure, neo noir, serious
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State of Play (2009)
Plot Summary:
Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 158000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspense, political thriller, clever, political, tense, suspenseful, detective, exciting, tricky, psychological
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The Pelican Brief (1993)
Plot Summary:
Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, political thriller, political, clever, exciting, intense, realistic, serious