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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: detective
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I'm a Detective (1971)
Plot Summary:
A seriously injured young man was found on a Georgian military road. Investigator Georgy Mikeladze finds out that the victim - the navigator of the Tallinn Shipping Company - was rolling in his new Volga on vacation days. The investigator goes to the criminal and, having connected employees of the Riga criminal investigation department to the case, arrests the robber.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective
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Dateline Diamonds (1965)
Plot Summary:
In this swinging romp through 1960s London, the frenzied manager of mod-rockers the Small Faces (made up of Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane) gets into trouble when he agrees to use the band to smuggle diamonds out of the country. Songs include the Small Faces' "I've Got Mine," "It's Too Late," "Come On Children" and "Don't Stop What You're Doing" and The Chantelles' "I Think of You" and "Please Don't Kiss Me.".
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: noir, independent film
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Dangerous Men (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dangerous Men has many characters like Mina whose life is shattered when two bikers with rape on their minds attack and kill Daniel, her fiancé. Driven by grief, she embarks on a killing rampage, wreaking vengeance upon all the men that she seductively lures into her trap. In her twisted world, cops and killers are all the same - David, Daniel's brother, is a cop who relentlessly pursues the killers, while facing a nest of drug dealers, followed by the FBI and the police SWAT team, also in hot pursuit. Mina, a victim of violence, carrying a twisted obsession for justice, is caught between opposing forces in a world of dangerous men.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Theft by Deception (2010)
Plot Summary:
In an attempt to save his crumbling marriage, a police detective extorts a recently paroled art thief into stealing valuable paintings to present to his wife as gifts.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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Bayside Shakedown (1998)
Plot Summary:
Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that while Aoshima looks after the streets, Muroi would make life easier for the cops on the beat. One day in Bayside, a series of events turns the small station upside down. A corpse is found in the river, then the Police Commissioner is kidnapped, leading to the Metropolitian Police Department to take over the investigation which is led by Murai. Will he be true to his pact with Aoshima and co-operate with the local police? In the meantime, the murder investigation leads to a morbid web page and a deadly chat room in cyberspace.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 941
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: detective
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Jigsaw (1962)
Plot Summary:
A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: noir, offbeat, detective, independent film, british noir
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The Return of Charlie Chan (1972)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Chan comes out of retirement to investigate a murder case aboard the yacht of a wealthy Greek shipping tycoon.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, detective, tension, suspense
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An Obsession (1997)
Plot Summary:
An Obsession is Aoyama's remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog ("Nora inu," 1949). The basic plot situation is the same: a cop, after losing his gun to a killer, sets out on a search for the criminal who in the end is all too disturbingly similar to the hero. Under Kurosawa's humanistic world view, Stray Dog presented the fundamentally shared nature of Japanese suffering amidst the Occupation and postwar poverty. An Obsession, however, is different.The film begins with a fin-de-siecle, apocalyptic sense of insanity which Kurosawa's humanism could never tolerate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, detective, cult film
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To the Last Limit (1991)
Plot Summary:
An ex-convict Viktor Dremov, who is also an ex-boxer, tries to mend his ways and start a new life but his former girlfriend is marrying another man (some old antiquarian), while local thugs rob him of his car and press him constantly trying to make him work for them. Being framed and hunted he should kill them all before he becomes a broken or a dead man.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Permanent (2014)
Plot Summary:
Six unrelated people must push through their past and the mob underworld to discover what has controlled each of them all these years. Sex, Drugs, Guns and God have created a series of events which will leave each of them changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Avenge Every Second (2007)
Plot Summary:
Einar and Davy find themselves in a frightening position, when they realize that their employer, Miami Crime boss Ricky want them dead. They both escape hoping nobody will find them. But in four years time a lot can happen!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Stone (1974)
Plot Summary:
In this classic Aussie counterculture flick, an undercover narc named Stone (Ken Shorter) is dispatched to infiltrate a satanic biker gang after one of its members witnesses a political assassination -- and the killer decides to take out the whole crew. Stone learns to live by a twisted code of honor based on fast riding and fast living but realizes that if his cover gets blown, his fellow riders.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, hood, cult classic, rough, serious, realistic, saga, suspenseful, stylized, independent film
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Riddled with Deceit: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020)
Plot Summary:
Former detective Jeff Jackson teams up with Dr. Zee Madieras to track down their friend's missing emerald brooch, a thief, and also... a murderer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, stylized
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The Entreaty (1967)
Plot Summary:
Based on the poems “Aluda Ketelauri” and “The Guest and the Host” by the classic of Georgian literature Vazha Pshavela This film opens Tengiz Abuladze’s trilogy (“The Plea”, “The Wishing Tree”, “Repentance”), which discusses the subject of common human values using original national material. The death of heroes, the knights of truth and good, leads the Poet to the conclusion that the evil is invincible. Exhausted by struggle and privations, the Poet lays down his arms. He is visited then by all of his favorite heroes. They put out candles by dipping them into a beer cup – a ritual Khevsuri gesture meaning renunciation. And only after seeing what misfortune and harm the rejection of fighting the evil results in, the Poet takes up arms again.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 869
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: spiritual, crying, avant garde
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Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975)
Plot Summary:
Dramatization of an actual homicide investigation. In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, one man show
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Snatch Up (2018)
Plot Summary:
A golf bag filled with cash sets off a furious chase between an unemployed man, a delivery man, gangsters, a killer, and a cop.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama, Crime, Action
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Slams (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict (Jim Brown) who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020)
Plot Summary:
When an art gallery robbery leads to the death of the contemptible gallery manager, former Boston detective Jeff Jackson teams up with local doctor - and old flame - Dr. Zee Madeiras, to catch the killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: stylized, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
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The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther Diamond, Chief Inspector Dreyfus is forced to assign Inspector Clouseau to a team of international detectives and experts charged with catching the thief and retrieving the stolen artifacts.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: hilarious, detective, feel good, humorous, exciting, not serious, surprise ending, realistic, fast, scary
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Farewell, Friend (1968)
Plot Summary:
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as the attempt to crack the safe's combination.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: retro, manga, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, crying, detective, freeze frame
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A Mind to Murder (1995)
Plot Summary:
Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of his team, DS Sarah Hillier. His superiors order him back to work to investigate the murder of the Director of the Steen Clinic, which specializes in psychiatric cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, realistic
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Coast Mafia (2014)
Plot Summary:
Shin, a good family friend and business partner of the DeLeon family, assumes his role as head of the Coast Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Chicago Overcoat (2009)
Plot Summary:
The fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film, detective
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The Walker (2007)
Plot Summary:
An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, contemplative, political, suspense, slasher, clever, captivating
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Unnaipol Oruvan (2009)
Plot Summary:
A common man tries to fight terrorism by making anonymous calls to cops. Will he succeed ?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, surprise ending
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Trouble Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set up the death of a collector for a rival gang lord. It looks like it's up to T to hold a gang war from breaking out, keep the police off his back, and earn his fee from Chalky and Pete.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, crime drama, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense
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Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo Returns! Showdown with the Black Organization (2007)
Plot Summary:
Shinichi Kudo returns as the young Conan to investigate a murderous letter sent to a beauty pageant winner who demands affection.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anime
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Bad Country (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective
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Death on the Nile (2022)
Plot Summary:
Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won't give her a promised dowry, writer Salome Otterbourne is facing a libel suit brought by Linnet, Salome's daughter Rosalie wants to protect her mother, American Andrew Pennington has been embezzling from the Ridgeway family, and former friend Jacqueline de Bellefort is upset that Linnet stole her fiance, Simon, away from her. Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot must unravel the mystery when Linnet (and some of the others) turn up dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 180000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: detective, captivating, costume drama, artsy, non-linear, suspense, surprise ending, clever, entertaining, dramatic
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21 Bridges (2019)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced NYPD detective after being thrust into a citywide manhunt for a cop killer, is given a shot at redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, captivating, independent film, entertaining