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Plot Summary:
China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial center Judge Dee and his three wives spend the night at a Taoist monastery. Soon the judge discovers that the secluded place holds a secret - the former abbot died of unnatural causes. After a number of mysterious events and more cases of murder Dee tracks down the true villain.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crime thriller
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The Girl in the Empty Grave (1977)
Plot Summary:
The police chief of a small town begins an investigation after a young woman, who was supposed to have died several months previously, shows up at the funeral of her parents, who had been murdered. (IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary
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The Sobbing Stone (2005)
Plot Summary:
Science can't explain it. No one can. A seemingly ordinary stone has been brought to the attention of four of the best paranormal experts in the world. As the hours progress, they find out why. The stone emits sounds, in no particular order, and no one can record them. But why? And how can it do this? This chilling discovery haunts them to the core of their minds and souls... but they can't escape the Sobbing Stone. What they find is a kind of truth that will change their lives forever. The Sobbing Stone... you've got to hear it... to believe.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film, amateur film
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The Arrival of Joachim Stiller (1976)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of Freek Groenevelt and Simone Marijnissen whose lives are taken over by Joachim Stiller.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Mystery
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Love Statue (1965)
Plot Summary:
Wimpy struggling Greenwich Village painter Tyler Westin is in love with gorgeous, but mean and snippy cabaret dancer Lisa, who treats Tyler like dirt and constantly belittles him. Sultry nightclub singer Mashiko turns Tyler on to LSD. After a nightmarish three day acid trip, Tyler returns to his shabby apartment to find Lisa murdered. Is Tyler responsible for her death? Or did someone else kill Lisa?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Torquemada's Curse (2022)
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Genere: Mystery
Country: Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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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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The Glass Cage (1964)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives investigate the murder of a local businessman by a mysterious woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychosexual thriller, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Death Cruise (1974)
Plot Summary:
Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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To Catch a Spy (2021)
Plot Summary:
When the newly renovated Hotel Optima in Malta has a grand reopening, Chloe and her team from Destination Traveler Magazine, head over to cover the travel scene in Malta and sees someone fall to their death, right past her hotel window.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery
Country: Malta, USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, melancholic, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Did I Kill My Mother? (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's mother is found dead in the home they both live in a year after her fathers unsolves suspicious murder. The police think the daughter may be responsible so she and her friends must prove she is innocent.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Carnal Innocence (2011)
Plot Summary:
A famous violinist Caroline Waverly returns to her home town. A killer is on the streets, and Caroline may be a target for murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 994
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating
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Yurigokoro (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ryosuke has a bright future. He just opened a successful restaurant and hopes to tie the knot soon with his alluring girlfriend. But then his father declares he has pancreatic cancer and his betrothed vanishes without a trace. In his father’s belongings, he discovers a secret diary, which starts with an ominous sentence: “Without remorse, I take a life …” Ryosuke is completely spellbound and reads on, discovering that the document is actually the confession of a murderer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, crying
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One and the Same (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman, Lola, is invited to a secret facility, she discovers an experiment beyond space and time. After uncovering her own past life as a teenage boy named Robbie, she embarks on a malevolent path for justice against the ex-con who killed him.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, disturbing, unusual plot structure
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Crossword Mysteries: Riddle Me Dead (2021)
Plot Summary:
Tess gets invited to be a part of a popular game show, but when the host is unexpectedly murdered, she and Detective Logan O'Connor seek to uncover who was behind it all.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating
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The Mystery Cruise (2013)
Plot Summary:
"The Mystery Cruise" centers around best friends and impending business partners, Alvirah Meehan (Gail O'Grady), a lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and Regan Reilly (Michelle Harrison), a private investigator. After rescuing the diamond-collared pooch of a wealthy socialite (Carol Higgins Clark), the two heroines set off with their spouses to join Regan's mom, Nora Reilly (Colleen Winton), a world famous mystery writer, on a luxurious three day cruise around the San Juan Island off the coast of Washington. The cruise serves as the setting for a mystery game created to promote the release of Nora's latest book. As the boat calmly sets sail, everyone is enjoying getting into character, especially Alvirah, who may or may not be the games "murderess." But troubled waters lie ahead when Alvirah gets a hunch that a real killer may be on board and, together with Regan, the pair teams up to solve the high seas whodunnit.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical
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Lies Between Friends (2010)
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Fourteen years after graduation, a group of college friends convenes one weekend for a bridal shower for one of their own. The principal character, Joss (Gabrielle Anwar), and her freshman year roommate and best friend in college, Cait (Thea Gill), have been estranged for years, ever since Joss learned that her fiancé had been visiting Cait on the night he died in a motorcycle accident. As part of a recovery program, Cait wants to make up with Joss, but she dies before she can explain. Was her death an accident, a suicide, or something more sinister?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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While My Pretty One Sleeps (1997)
Plot Summary:
When the fashion world meets the underworld, it's murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Jane Doe: Ties That Bind (2007)
Plot Summary:
DNA evidence and camera footage places a corrupt CEO as the prime suspect in the murder of a company whistle-blower, but Jane Doe believes the real killer may be a twin sibling.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, serious
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McBride: Fallen Idol (2006)
Plot Summary:
The police have arrested a Latino teenager caught pawning a murdered attorney's stolen Rolex. To complicate matters, the suspect's sister wants McBride to defend her brother - despite the fact that the victim was a close friend of McBride's.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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McBride: It's Murder, Madam (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mystery drama starring John Larroquette and Marta Dubois. A cop-turned-lawyer helps an aspiring actress accused of killing a woman running a dating service.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, realistic
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Gunn (1967)
Plot Summary:
The madam of a floating bordello hires private eye Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) to prove a gangster killed a crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
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Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
When a woman dies in a supposed accident, her parents suspect their son-in-law of foul play. When the police begin to agree, the murder suspect vanishes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Killing for the Prosecution (2018)
Plot Summary:
Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office that deals with violent cases, where he will work with Takeshi Mogami, whom he admires. When a money lender is killed and it is suspected that someone from Mogami’s past is the perpetrator, the team prepares to do his best in order to prove the alleged criminal’s guilt.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery (2013)
Plot Summary:
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team arrive in Three Pines to solve the unusual murder of a much-loved woman and find dark secrets shadowing this usually peaceful village.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: clever, suspense, tense, captivating, realistic
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The Ice Princess (2007)
Plot Summary:
Errica returns to her hometown for her parents funeral and her childhood friend murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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64: Part I (2016)
Plot Summary:
1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years were over as the prefecture's police to be unsolved greatest stain, and statute of limitations approached it. In 2002, Yoshinobu Mikami, an ex-detective who was assigned as the investigator of the "Rokuyon" case 14years ago, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department against his will. As a newly assigned Public Relations Officer, he was troubled with the relation between the reporters, new case has occurred. And that new case traced "Rokuyon" case exactly.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: An Inheritance to Die For (2019)
Plot Summary:
A matriarch is poisoned during a family wedding reception and Aurora Teagarden vows to get to the bottom of the crime, especially when her mother, a friend of the dead woman, stands to inherit the bulk of the massive estate. 11th installment in Aurora Teagarden Mysteries.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, psychological
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Sleeping Forest (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company insists that the incident is a self defense case, but after an investigation there's doubts in that claim. Then, the director of the Takayanagi Ballet Company is poisoned to death. Are the cases related?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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A Murder of Quality (1991)
Plot Summary:
At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband's hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife's death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other's little secrets and then gossip about them - or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré's 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre"s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political thriller, crime thriller, rough, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Midsummer's Equation (2013)
Plot Summary:
Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oceanside town to speak on a panel. But when a man turns up dead outside the inn where he's staying, Yukawa begins to unravel the connections that tie the victim to the activist daughter of the innkeepers, and a precocious boy who first appears on a train—and keeps popping up. It's a Sherlock Holmes mystery with an environmental twist, and one that should please fans of a classic whodunnit.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective