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Plot Summary:
In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Italy, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961)
Plot Summary:
The first of the "Dr. Mabuse" films not directed by Fritz Lang, the French/German/Italian Return of Dr. Mabuse stars Wolfgang Preiss in the title role. Supposedly dead and buried, Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, once more using hypnotized flunkeys to carry out his dirty work. While the doc's longtime foe Inspector Lohmann (Gert Froebe) probes and prods in his usual methodical fashion, hotshot American detective Lex Barker and dauntless girl reporter Daliah Lavi take the more direct approach to weed out Mabuse. This time around, the diabolical doctor wants to sabotage a nuclear reactor, then take over the world (he never does anything by halves). Return of Dr. Mabuse was released in Europe as Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse, Le Retour Du Docteur Mabuse and FBI Contro Dr. Mabuse; in some American cities, it was shipped out as Phantom Fiend.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: action thriller, psychotronic, eurospy
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The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute (including female staff members) in order to complete his own evil mind-control ray. Dr. Mabuse has this impressive and horribly scarred man-monster that kills for him while the entire police force desperately tries to catch him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)
Plot Summary:
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: action thriller, neo noir, psychotronic, poliziottesco, eurospy
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Fritz Lang (2016)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, sincere, disturbing, detective, black and white, exciting
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School Day of the Dead (2000)
Plot Summary:
Some students decide to set up a play written by one of their classmates, who has commited suicide. The play is based on a tragic and mysterious legend about a love affair between two teachers at the school long ago. Some girls then accidentally stumble over some information about the legend, and the girl who commited suicide. Shortly after, the girls start turning up dead in seeming accidents.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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One Must Live Dangerously (1975)
Plot Summary:
Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their infidelity "halves".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective
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Dead on Sight (1994)
Plot Summary:
A psychic woman has visions of the Clock Killer's past and future murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film, weeping
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Club V.R. (1996)
Plot Summary:
Apparently, the charming lover, Tam, died during his last virtual reality session at club V.R. The coroner believes he died of heart failure, but detective Drew (Kate Rodger) does not agree. To prove he was murdered, she wears the VR electro-suit and plugs into his virtual reality floppy disks. Upon hearing and watching him, she becomes part of his sessions and he begins to talk to her about his death - and other things.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Perfumier (2022)
Plot Summary:
To regain her sense of smell and get back her lover, a detective joins forces with a perfume maker who uses deadly methods to create the perfect scent.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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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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Terror Stalks the Class Reunion (1992)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young detective goes to the rescue of a teacher kidnapped by a former student.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective
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Motel (1984)
Plot Summary:
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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Blood Relatives (1978)
Plot Summary:
A Montreal police inspector (Donald Sutherland) cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, twist ending, independent film, detective
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Scream and Scream Again (1970)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, detective, grindhouse, cult classic, classic horror
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The Game Is Over (1966)
Plot Summary:
Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Great Alibi (2008)
Plot Summary:
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Heads or Tails (1980)
Plot Summary:
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix who, according to her husband Edouard (Michel Serrault), fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more, Baroni begins his inquiry.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective
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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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Poliziotti (1995)
Plot Summary:
When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)
Plot Summary:
At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows….
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, political thriller
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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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The Absent One (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 1994 two young twins are found brutally murdered in a summer cottage. A number of clues points in the direction of a group of young upper class students from a nearby boarding school, but the case is closed as a local outsider pleads guilty and is convicted for the murders. When the case ends up on Carls Mørck’s desk 20 years later, he soon realises that something is terribly wrong. As Carl and Assad start investigating the case, they are led on to an old emergency call from a desperate girl who seems to know the secrets of the murders. Soon they are plunged into an intense search for the girl, Kimmie, who has been missing since the murders happened. But Carl and Assad are not the only ones trying to track her down as the girl’s testimonial is of great danger to a group of influential men at the top of society who will do all they can to keep her silent.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, noir, dark, gloomy, detective, suspense, crime drama
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The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)
Plot Summary:
Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret: her father is the infamous “Marsh King,” the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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The Man on the Balcony (1993)
Plot Summary:
A serial-killer attacks and murders young girls in the parks of Stockholm. The police have trouble finding any evidence to find the killer. But when a newsstand is robbed in one of the parks while the murderer strikes again, police inspector Martin Beck believes that the robber may be an important witness. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Lady Against the Odds (1992)
Plot Summary:
A private detective becomes involved in a new cast when her partner's guardian is murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1991)
Plot Summary:
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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He Died with His Eyes Open (1985)
Plot Summary:
On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois, a French murder mystery based upon a novel of the same name, is an unusual, involving film with excellent performances by its entire cast. Police Inspector Staniland (Michel Serrault) is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he meets Barbara (Charlotte Rampling), the mistress of the murder victim. Barbara confesses to the crime, but Staniland, based on his observations and experience, does not believe her. He then sets out to find the truth, with surprising results. Both Serrault and Rampling are outstanding in this well-directed, well-paced film. On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois was also released as He Died With His Eyes Open and won the Jury Prize at the 1985 Montreal World Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, detective, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Plain Truth (2004)
Plot Summary:
An unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 958
Genere: Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, clever
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Plot Summary:
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, dark, atmospheric, clever, stylized, suspense, psychological, political, mysterious
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The Black Dahlia (2006)
Plot Summary:
Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, detective, stylized, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, realistic, period piece, visual