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Plot Summary:
Detached is a contemporary Scrooge tale set in the Hollywood Hills that follows Chadh Campbell, an unscrupulous mortgage broker, as he receives a stream of anonymous holiday greetings during Christmas Eve and Day. As Chadh searches for the perpetrator of this "festive" assault he must face the unfavorable reality of just how many people he's harmed during his life, forcing him to confront how emotionally detached from those around him he's become.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Love Kills (1991)
Plot Summary:
Glamorous fashion photographer Rebecca is getting even. Angered by her husband's infidelity, she takes a lover - a mysterious hunk she fist met during a photo shoot. He's exciting. He's handsome. And, after a night of lovemaking, he confesses he's a hit man hired by her husband to kill her. The stranger also says he's had a change of heart and wants to be Rebecca's protector. But Rebecca's husband, a renowned psychologist, insists the man is a former patient with a hidden, twisted agenda. Both men can't be right. Both could be lying. As the circle of suspense closes in on her, one thing is clear to Rebecca. Any choice she makes could be more than wrong...it could be fatal.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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The Lady in Question (1999)
Plot Summary:
In 1938, Jewish-rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is suspected. But was it the Nazis, or was it someone else? Det. Tony Rossini investigates, along with Larry "Cash" Carter, a theatre director connected to Mrs. Sachs and her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective
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Unstable (2005)
Plot Summary:
Friends become enemies after one of them is accused of committing a hate crime against a gay teenager during a weekend camping trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: cinema verite
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Frozen with Fear (2001)
Plot Summary:
Katherine Sullivan, an acute agoraphobic, witnesses the murder of her husband and speaks with the investigating detective. Then both the body and the detective disappear. Katherine hires private investigator Jack Mize to figure out, only Mize isn't so sure Katherine's version of reality is the truth.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Detour (1992)
Plot Summary:
A nightclub piano player (Tom Neal Jr.) hitchhikes to the West Coast and soon figures into two deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo noir
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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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Mother's Deadly Son (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Game (1991)
Plot Summary:
A group of seven strangers, including a dancer, a doctor, a teacher, and a disgraced former football player, are brought together on an island owned by the mysterious Osirus. There they are told that at some point in their lives, they crossed Osirus and now must face his revenge. The seven must reach a boat on the opposite side of the island before Osirus and his hunters track them down and kill them.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Prank Week (2017)
Plot Summary:
A campus urban legend myth comes true when fraternity brothers start to get killed off one by one by the infamous serial killer who used to live in the fraternity house 25 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, sexy, bloody, twist ending, underground film, parody, stylized, slasher, independent film, spoof
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The Ritual Killer (2023)
Plot Summary:
Unable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles, an anthropologist who hides an unspeakable secret. The line between sanity and madness thins as Boyd goes deeper into the killer’s world.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective
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Twenty Plus Two (1961)
Plot Summary:
Julia Joliet handles fan mail for movie stars. Now someone has a message for her, delivered at point-blank range. David Janssen (TV’s The Fugitive) brings his laconic cool to Twenty Plus Two as Tom Alder, a Los Angeles private eye who ties Joliet’s murder to the 12-year-old case of a schoolgirl heiress who went out for an ice-cream soda and never came back. As Alder pieces together the crime puzzle against a backdrop of hot jazz and hip Kennedy-era style, he edges closer to the truth…including the surprising truth about his own past.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, crime drama
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From Hollywood to Deadwood (1988)
Plot Summary:
When actress Lana Dark (Barbara Schock) disappears in the middle of a film shoot, putting an expensive stop to production, the studio hires gumshoes Raymond Savage (Scott Paulin) and Jack Haines (Jim Haynie) to track down the fleeing femme fatale in this thriller. The trail leads to Deadwood, S.D., where Haines and a smitten Savage find Lana restlessly lying low. But knowledge proves dangerous when Savage discovers the scam behind Lana's walkout.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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What We Did That Night (1999)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con Henry (Rick Schroder) returns to town after being released from prison and contacts his old college frat members about a murder that they committed years earlier. They have to return to move the body to a new location before it is uncovered by recent digging in the area. Now a lot older and bitter about going to prison Henry has planned revenge on his old friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Trick of the Eye (1994)
Plot Summary:
A woman artist is hired by a wealthy woman to paint a mural in a room however she finds out that the woman wants her to do more than paint the mural as hidden family secrets are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Red Herring (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Las Vegas homicide detective investigating his best friend uncovers a professional assassin.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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Falsely Accused (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman is falsely accused of murdering her brother, she must catch the real killer to prove her innocence. Along the way she encounters unexpected love, sadness, and hardships, as well as deep insights about the crime, herself, and her destiny.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Fallen Angels Murder Club: Heroes and Felons (2022)
Plot Summary:
The members of the Fallen Angels Murder Club must band together again as they search for answers surrounding the death of one of their own. Hollis Morgan finds herself at the center of the investigation when a journalist reporting on the murder also winds up dead. As bodies begin to stack up, and Hollis connects the dots, she must solve the murders before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 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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Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious reporter gets in their way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who became active around Christmas time.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective
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Stalked by My Mother (2016)
Plot Summary:
A daughter acuses her mother for killing her boyfriend but was it really the mother who did it or was it someone who has always been there?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, serious, suspense, mysterious, suspenseful
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Double Walker (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's ghost investigates the mysterious events that led to her own murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, christmas horror
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The Man in the Trunk (2019)
Plot Summary:
On an otherwise quiet night there is a startling knock at the door. Andrew Tucker answers the door to find an old friend whom he hasn't seen in years. The disheveled and absent friend comes to him with one request: "I need you to come with me but, I can't tell you where we're going." Andrew takes a chance but learns that every answer brings more questions. Nothing good ever comes knocking after midnight and Andrew's nightmare asks how far you would go to help a friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, psychological thriller, dark, art house
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6 Ways to Die (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sonny "Sundown" Garcia is the top cocaine distributor in the United States, which has made him a very rich and powerful man. It has also made him plenty of enemies. John Doe is just such a man. A nameless man of mystery, John lives to see Sundown not just dead, but to suffer six meaningful losses before his death—his fortune, his freedom, his love, his reputation, his most valuable possession and, finally, his life. John hires six hit-men, each one assigned to inflict one of the six meaningful losses upon Sundown.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, twisted
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Countdown (1996)
Plot Summary:
When Chris Murdoch falls obsessively in love with a Japanese girl attending University in Seattle (Kaori Ozaki) he murders Japanese men who have shown her kindness under the pretext of revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII. However the ruse involves the FBI in the case, and Agent Sara Daniels. However, the investigation is hampered when Yoko Sugimura of the Tokyo Police arrives to take Kaori back to her influential father. Despite their initial dislike, Sara and Yoko are forced to work together to stop Chris when his obsession is manifest with high explosives.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Night Rain (2022)
Plot Summary:
An actress is unwittingly hired by her stalker to make an independent movie about a famous unsolved Hollywood murder, but she and her group of young indie filmmakers soon find themselves the subject of their own terror.
IMDB Rating:
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Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Primal Doubt (2007)
Plot Summary:
When an ex-romance author who is trapped in an unsatisfying marriage, decides to give love another chance with a man she met over the Internet, she finds herself caught up in a terrifying murder mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Wild Indian (2021)
Plot Summary:
Decades after covering up his classmate’s murder, Michael has moved on from his reservation and fractured past. When a man who shares his violent secret seeks vengeance, Michael goes to great lengths to protect his new life with his wife and boss from the demons of his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Restitution (2011)
Plot Summary:
A true crime writer investigating a small town murder spree uncovers the devastating truth that changes the town forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Vanished (2018)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigates the disappearance of a woman's corpse from a morgue and tries to uncover the cause of her death.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, twisted
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Untraceable (2008)
Plot Summary:
Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds of his crimes on his website; the more hits the site gets, the faster the victim dies. Marsh and her team must find the elusive killer before time runs out.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: clever, psychological thriller, intense, surprise ending, scary, psychological, disturbing, detective, suspenseful, serious