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Plot Summary:
Shortly after police discovers the murder of three friends, police inspector Wallander finds his friend and colleague Svedberg dead. First, it is believed that Svedberg killed himself but Wallander soon discovers links between Svedberg, the three friends and a fourth person, a young woman in a mental hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Jigsaw (1962)
Plot Summary:
A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: noir, offbeat, detective, independent film, british noir
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Death Notice (2022)
Plot Summary:
In Hong Kong, a vigilante serial killer leaves death notices, stating when and how he will murder a victim. Even if the victim reports it to the police and receives protection, the killer can easily break through and execute them. In response, the police set up a special task force and reveals a major conspiracy hidden behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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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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The Execution (2021)
Plot Summary:
For more than 10 years, Russian police forces have tried to stop the country’s smartest and most wanted serial killer. But even when he gets caught, nobody can prove his guilt. As the manhunt intensifies, the investigation grows increasingly personal between the detective and the suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags:
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The Pyramid (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in the middle of winter in Ystad and the main character is the middle-aged policeman Kurt Wallander, who this time investigating a drug tangle. It starts with his own goddaughter Eva found dead after taking an overdose. It turns out that heroin is unusually strong and Kurt are now beginning their search for those behind the drugs. But he has a big problem. His boss will not let him look for the person who he suspects has sold the new heroin , but she wants them to look for another drug dealer named Yngve Holm. But Kurt defy the boss's orders and go again and again to Malmo to try to unravel the case. Eventually he gets a hold of the person he suspected. He'll take some photos of him and shows them for their guddotters friend Emma who were drug dealers. She takes Kurt to a friend who claims to have seen the man. The man in the photo is called Heinrich Pasila. Wallander thinks one recognizes Pasila from an earlier murder of guddotterns mother, where the offender is found.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Lysande Landning (1987)
Plot Summary:
Harry Friberg has received a photo assignment at Lindarängen's airport in Stockholm. The assignment turns into a nightmare when the photographer is invited to a crayfish party by the company's director.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: period piece
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Hassel 09 - Botgörarna (1992)
Plot Summary:
Roland Hassel gets involved in a tangle of lies, betrayal and industrial espionage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Hassel 06 - Offren (1989)
Plot Summary:
Criminal detective Roland Hassel and his colleague Bolinder is investigating a criminal gang involved in the meat packing business. Bolinder is murdered in front of Hassel and the criminals are out to kill Hassel, the only witness.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Hassel 01 - Anmäld försvunnen (1986)
Plot Summary:
Valentin Karlberg is reported missing in Stockholm and Detective Roland Hassel must find him before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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The Police Murderer (1994)
Plot Summary:
A woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at the same time become, without their knowledge, suspects for the murder. They are chased by a large number of police but only Martin Beck believes them to be innocent.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The White Lioness (1996)
Plot Summary:
In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization. In Skåne, southwest of Sweden, is given to the real estate agent Louise Åkerblom by missing and the case is assigned to Inspector Wallander. Just start research supposedly empty building explodes. An unusual weapon, a transmitter Russian and index finger of a man of color are found in the wreckage of the building.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Evil Judgment (1984)
Plot Summary:
A girl starts her own investigation after the police fail to catch a local serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, independent film
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Sidetracked (2001)
Plot Summary:
It is autumn and the people in the otherwise peaceful small town Ystad settle down. But for Kurt Wallander broken idyll of a young woman burned to death in a cornfield. Soon after hitting a serial killer with a series of increasingly brutal murder. What is the relationship between a retired attorney general, a successful art dealer and an ordinary petty thief? Why scalp killer his victims?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Preacher (2007)
Plot Summary:
A boy finds a dead woman. When police move the corpse they find the skeletons of two women who disappeared in the seventies.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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The Chosen (2005)
Plot Summary:
A couple of brutal and mysterious murders point to Uppsala University. Johan, a last year student at the police academy, gets involved in the investigation. He enrolls a course at the University in order to, under cover, track down the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Dogs of Riga (1995)
Plot Summary:
A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to help but when he returns to his home country he is mysteriously murdered. Kurt flies to Riga to find out why and is drawn into complex conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Thesis on a Homicide (2013)
Plot Summary:
Roberto is a specialist in Criminal Law whose life is thrown into chaos when he becomes convinced that Gonzalo, one of his best students, has committed a brutal murder right in front of the Faculty of Law. Determined to uncover the truth he begins a personal investigation that will soon become an obsession.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, suspenseful, tense, mind bending, crime drama, mind blowing, serious, ambiguous ending
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Murder at the Savoy (1993)
Plot Summary:
A famous industrialist is murdered at a restaurant in Malmoe. Police inspector Martin Beck in Stockholm gets the case. The suspects lead to people involved in illegal arms deals. But who was the biggest criminal, the murderer or the industrialist?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Loves Music, Loves To Dance (2001)
Plot Summary:
In order to solve the mystery of her best friend's murder, Darcy decides to date each one of her friend's on-line pals to see which one of them might have something to do with it.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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In the Name of the Law (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for drunks or criminals they can beat up with their batons. Lately witnesses saw them pick up a drunk who later was found dead. The four policemen deny any knowledge. Police inspector Jarnebring gets the case and finds out that these four policemen have been reported for 22 cases of police brutality. Shortly after, another criminal dies in their van.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: action thriller, eighties
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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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Johan Falk: Slutet (2015)
Plot Summary:
The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's family, to try to kill his wife, could be the biggest mistake the organization has done. GSI closes up around Johan's family, and the final battle begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Borkmann's Point (2005)
Plot Summary:
Van Veeteren finds retiring from the police force is easier said than done when two decapitated bodies are found in quick succession. The matching MO in the two grisly murders brings the investigation teams of Maardam and Kaalbringen together - a collaboration that is not without its problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, realistic
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Carambole (2005)
Plot Summary:
This film is based upon the book with the same name, by Håkan Nesser, one of Swedens most appreciated "crime-authors".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Mord in Eberswalde (2013)
Plot Summary:
Heinz Gödicke (Ronals Zehrfeld) is the chief commissioner of the People's Police in the small town of Eberswalde in Brandenburg. Gödicke is called when two bestial murdered children are found in the forest. The investigator tries to get involved in the perpetrators - a rarely used method at the People's Police - and the perpetrator so on the track. The Stasi-Major Witt (Florian Panzer) is no friend of this procedure and leaves the commissioner only reluctantly free hand in the investigation. The matter does not go to the authorities fast enough and is then simply put to the files. When another murder occurs, it becomes clear that Gödicke was much closer to the enlightenment of the act than everyone thought.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Tightrope (1984)
Plot Summary:
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, detective, sexual, intense, neo noir, suspense, sexy, tricky
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The Fifth Woman (2002)
Plot Summary:
The 5th woman unfolds autumn 1994. An elderly man found in a gillrad pitfall impaled to death on the sharp sharpened bamboo poles, ecstatic praise of crows. Shortly afterwards disappears a florist without a trace and he also found executed in the forest. Kurt Wallander and his colleagues will soon understand that the attacks is all about revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 229 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, bleak, realistic, gloomy
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The Crimson Rivers (2018)
Plot Summary:
Old-school police detective Pierre Niemans and his former student Camille Delaunay tackle complex, brutal murder cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, captivating, detective
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The Man Who Smiled (2003)
Plot Summary:
An old friend of Kurt Wallander, solicitor Sten Torstensson, visits him one day to tell him that his father has passed away close to Brösarp under peculiar circumstances. Kurt does not take his friend's worry seriously. Shortly after, the friend is found brutally murdered and Wallander realises too late that he was wrong. In the hunt for the killer Wallander finds a conspiracy of crimes that leads him to a company that handles transplantations of human organs. Behind the company he finds the image of a man. An elegant and self-confident man who writes his own rules. But who is he? Who gives himself the right to judge over other people? Whose morals decide what is right and wrong? Kurt Wallander is not one of them. In "The man who smiled" he gets himself into crossfire of immorality, betrayal, lies and everything else a man will do to be loved.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Horsemen (2009)
Plot Summary:
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, detective, scary, suspenseful, suspense, tense, serious, surprise ending, rough