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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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Dr. M (1990)
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
Similar in 77%
Access Denied (1996)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful computer programmer is framed by her fraudulent lover and sent to prison. When she gets out she agrees to cooperate with a scheme of a fellow-inmate to defraud a bank, in order to have enough money to escape from her (by then) ex-lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sensual, independent film
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Predskazaniye (1993)
Plot Summary:
A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer uses this bizarre situation to change his life and take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags:
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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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Torquemada's Curse (2022)
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Genere: Mystery
Country: Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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Esteefa (2015)
Plot Summary:
A police officer investigates a series of crimes, with each investigation spanning two episodes out of 26 separate episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Mystery
Country: Egypt
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Filip Traum (1990)
Plot Summary:
A story based on "The Mysterious Stranger" novel by Mark Twain.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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World of the Depraved (1967)
Plot Summary:
Two police detectives are assigned to investigate the murders of several young women at a health club.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, sexploitation film
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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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Sex Files: Portrait of the Soul (1998)
Plot Summary:
What does 200 years of Evil look like?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, France, Netherlands, Ireland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow's Foot (1971)
Plot Summary:
The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna, to solve the murder of his father. Step by step, he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in secret service machinations and chemical weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger himself. Meanwhile, he also realizes that there is no connection between his father's murderess and those dubious activities. Her motive for killing him goes back much futher, to a court hearing during the Third Reich.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Dial: Help (1988)
Plot Summary:
A psychic finds herself tapping into the "energy" of a deceased phone operator. She also finds that her friends soon begin dying mysteriously. An investigator determines to track down the cause.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, erotic
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Radio Corbeau (1989)
Plot Summary:
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Man Without a Map (1968)
Plot Summary:
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surreal, absurd, detective, avant garde
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Without Apparent Motive (1971)
Plot Summary:
A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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Elle (1995)
Plot Summary:
The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for forgiveness.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Bulgaria, Chile, Switzerland, Portugal
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Evil Money (2014)
Plot Summary:
One million yen in elaborate fake bills that no one can tell are not the real deal were picked up by a homeless person. The bills begin to circulate like the blood flowing through blood vessels. These fake bills undermine the Japanese economy like a virus. In order to build a world that is not dominated by money, a plan to overturn the value of the root of money is launched. What is the fate of the man with such a tremendous plan? A millionaire, an undercover agent, community representative, and a genius appraiser that specializes in distinguishing counterfeit bills, speculation is placed on each. Everything leads to a conspiracy of dark organizations trying to destroy the Japanese economy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 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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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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Meurtrière (2015)
Plot Summary:
Meurtrière is the second movement of a triptych by Philippe Grandrieux whose common thread is anxiety. Each movement, White Epilepsy, Meurtrière, Unrest, consists of a performance, a film and an installation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, experimental
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Invert: Jozuka Hisui Toujoshu (2022)
Plot Summary:
Jozuka Hisui is a psychic with green eyes and has the ability to feel the souls and bring the dead back. Together with her partner Chiwasaki Makoto, Hisui works hard as a "medium detective" and catches the culprits despite their perfect plans and alibis.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective
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Detective versus Detectives (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kitagawa Keiko plays Sasaki Rena, a detective who risks her life investigating detectives for her dead sister. Beautiful, intelligent, and with a great memory, the talented woman judges situations and chooses the most appropriate course of action. Her brutal past surrounding her sister's death inspires her to learn everything she can about detectives, leading her to visit the Suma Research Company. As the sole member of the Anti-Detective Department responsible for investigating and pursuing unethical detectives, she is a solitary lady detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Perfect Stranger (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan and Anaïs Hopkins have only been married a few months, but life together is a nightmare. Anaïs is unstable, cold in bed and often away visiting her sister. Or is she? When Jonathan learns that his estranged father has left him a huge fortune, all he needs is a divorce. Things are looking up when absent Anaïs gets into a serious car accident. At the hospital, Jonathan finds another woman in his wife's place - an incredibly beautiful woman. But she's paralyzed and unable to speak. Why was this perfect stranger's handbag filled with his wife's identification? Where is the real Mrs. Hopkins?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Undercover (1995)
Plot Summary:
A female cop goes undercover in a high price whorehouse to find a murderer and discovers she likes the assignment more than she should.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: detective, sexploitation film, cult film
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Nothing Underneath (1985)
Plot Summary:
Thriller in Milan, Italy, where a serial killer uses scissors to assassinate top-models. A Yellowstone park ranger, from Usa, arrives in the city to protect his sister, but she has vanished. The guy will meet a lot of people and will know the (sometimes dangerous) world of international jet-set. But soon the killer will search for him too.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, detective, slasher horror
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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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Helen West (2002)
Plot Summary:
Helen West is crusading senior prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service. Her life is complicated by her ongoing affair with a senior police officer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 289 min
Plot tags: detective
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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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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