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Plot Summary:
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: detective
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No Pockets in a Shroud (1974)
Plot Summary:
Michel Dolannes resigns from a major newspaper as a journalist to launch a new journal 'Le Cosmopolite' which reveals all kinds of shady deals.One day, he is killed but who is the killer?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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The Scarlet Camellia (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this Japanese drama, a young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. First she torches her parents' villa, and then slaughters all her lascivious mother's lovers. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her. Unbeknownst to him, the girl plans on turning herself in, but not before she kills one more person--her real father. Later she changes her mind, but when his good wife learns of his philandering, she commits suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: jidai geki, detective
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He matado a un hombre (1964)
Plot Summary:
Coutrroom drama: after being victimized by an abusive boyfriend, a woman goes on trial for murder. Sequel to Historia de un canalla.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Axe (1969)
Plot Summary:
A breathtaking story in which a woman goes in search of her husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Romania, Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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The Glass Cell (1978)
Plot Summary:
A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Midwives (2001)
Plot Summary:
It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of a homebirth. As time passes, the woman in labor meets with difficulties and Sibyl concludes that it would be preferable for the woman to deliver her baby in the hospital. Though a dead telephone line and bad weather prevents Sibyl from going anywhere. Black ice and a persisten snowstorm makes transportation an impossibility. Early in the morning, the woman dies from what they believe to be a stroke and in all the chaos, Sibyl promptly decides to do a C-section to save the baby. The baby survives, but the mother is dead and tragedy is obvious. Yet, it's only going to get worse for Sibyl as her assistant is certain that the woman was still alive when Sibyl performed the C-section. Sibyl is charged with manslaughter, brought before the court and her life is and will forever be changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective
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A Crime (1993)
Plot Summary:
"Un Crime" takes place over a single night, between 10pm and 6am. It takes place in a single setting - a millionaire's apartment in Lyon. The film is about the conflict between two men, alone, face to face in the closed world of the apartment. The first man is a famous lawyer named Dunand. The second is Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel, Dunand's rich client, twenty years his junior. Throughout the night, Dunand tries to track down the truth. Did Frédéric kill his father and mother, in particularly barbarous circumstances ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Enough Rope (1963)
Plot Summary:
Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Last Time Forever (2006)
Plot Summary:
A small-time divorce lawyer gets involved with an alluring married woman, and together they draw her rich husband into a blackmail scheme.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, detective
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The Christmas Tree (1969)
Plot Summary:
A French-American millionaire (William Holden), his girlfriend (Virna Lisi) and his war buddy (Andre Bourvil) try to grant his dying son's every wish.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Color of Lies (1999)
Plot Summary:
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: art house, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy, detective
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The Verdict (1974)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Human Capital (2013)
Plot Summary:
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, social, twisted, gloomy
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The Clockmaker of St. Paul (1974)
Plot Summary:
Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visits and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Courted (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a feared judge of the French court, Xavier Racine, encounters a French-Danish juror, Ditte Lorensen-Coteret, at a murder trial, their shared past is slowly uncovered.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, sincere, humorous
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Angel's Leap (1971)
Plot Summary:
In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a Thailand plantation with an Asian wife and child. Back in Marseilles, however, because a no-holds-barred gang war has broken out, Louis' large collateral family is wiped out, and he is family are slated for destruction.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Dictator's Guns (1965)
Plot Summary:
Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo, first of all to advise him regarding the acquisition of a sailing boat. After a thorough inspection of a prospective vessel, the "Dragoon", Cournot reports his positive appraisal to Mr Hendrix and initiates the negotiations with Mrs Osborne, the owner of the craft. Barely a couple of days later, Cournot finds himself in a bind as the police questions him about the exact kind of cruise he was supposed to organize for his principal. For the "Dragoon" is gone; Mr Hendrix has disappeared; Mrs Osborne is not aware of any deal; and the corpses of mysterious individuals, victims of a violent death, are found on the beaches of Santo Domingo.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Maigret (2022)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify him and then understand what happened to the victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Heart Blackened (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tae-san is a man who truly has everything: money, fame, power and two women he loves: his only daughter, Mira, and his fiancée, Yuna, a chart-topping popstar. He wants them to get along, but Mira doesn’t treat kindly her stepmother-to-be.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: captivating, twisted, entertaining
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The Girl with a Bracelet (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lise (16 years old) is accused of murdering her best friend. As the trial starts, her parents stand right by her side. But once her secret life is revealed in court, the truth becomes indistinguishable.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, social
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Just Before Nightfall (1971)
Plot Summary:
A married man (Michel Bouquet) who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical
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The Young Lieutenant (2005)
Plot Summary:
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, bleak, neo noir, light, captivating, detective, rough, suspenseful, no music
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Flag in the Mist (1965)
Plot Summary:
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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The Sicilian Clan (1969)
Plot Summary:
Roger Santet is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio Manalese. They conspire to steal a large cache of jewels from an exhibit in Rome. As they are preparing for the heist, the mobster's American friend Tony Nicosia suggests that a better way to get the rocks would be to hijack the transport plane while it is en route to New York. The dogged inspector Le Goff is using all the available resources to thwart their plans. Though the heist itself is successful, Santet finds himself trapped by the mob because of his fling with Manalese's daughter-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: noir, neo noir, crime drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, french noir
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host (1993)
Plot Summary:
Dr Sheila Carlin is good friends with Della who calls Perry in when she is being pestered by someone. On the theory that it could be somebody that she works with at a radio stations she arranges Perry to be interviewed by Winslow Keene who is also the station's owner. Winslow enrages the rest of the talk show hosts on the station by informing them of changes that he is making to their time slots. That night, Winslow is shot by a hit man hired by someone at the station and Sheila is set up for the murder. She calls in Perry and as usual Perry, Della and Ken swing into action to find out who really did it.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Verdict (2013)
Plot Summary:
When his wife's murderer is released due to a procedural error, Luc will do everything in his power to stop it from happening... He is going to take justice into his own hands and will then compete with the constitutional state which let him down.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, emotional, realistic, splatter
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Pasha (1968)
Plot Summary:
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, microfilm
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New Trial (2017)
Plot Summary:
A taxi driver is found dead, and Hyun-woo, the only witness, charged with a murder and serves 10 years in prison. While offering pro bono services, a lawyer Junyoung meets Hyun-woo, and they begin their journey to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, suspense, realistic, intense, crime drama, detective
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SK1 (2014)
Plot Summary:
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear
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Silent Witness (2011)
Plot Summary:
Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of murdering his first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, serious, suspenseful