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Plot Summary:
When the lover of a an oil magnate's spoiled daughter is murdered, her brother-in-law must determine whether the killer is his own ex-wife, the dead woman's lover or somebody else entirely.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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The Safe House (2002)
Plot Summary:
The brutal murder on her parents leaves daughter and only witness, Finn, injured and traumatised. The police places her at the remote house of trauma psychologist, Dr. Sam Graham. As Finn begins to recover, the cleaner who had first discovered the murdered couple dies suspiciously. When Finn and Sam's boyfriend, Danny, disappears, Sam must put herself and her little daughter at risk to uncover the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Third Secret (1964)
Plot Summary:
A prominent London Psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. The truth, however, turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: noir, surprise ending
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Tik Tik Tik (1981)
Plot Summary:
A fashion photographer gets embroiled in a series of grisly murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags:
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Flagrant Désir (1986)
Plot Summary:
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers maintains. Or rather murder, as the American inspector Morrison suspects. If so, why? What secrets this family keeps?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Serena (1962)
Plot Summary:
Scotland Yard investigate when a woman, apparently the estranged wife of a London painter, is murdered with a shotgun in rural Surrey at the same time as the artist's striking model with her long black hair disappears.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: noir, independent film
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Dynasty: The Reunion (1991)
Plot Summary:
Blake Carrington has just been released from prison and he is trying to reclaim his empire. And he is also reunited with his beloved Krystle, who until recently was in a coma for sometime. For years he has suspected a foreign consortium of being behind his downfall, and it is true, and these men have brainwashed Krystle to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags:
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Footsteps (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jason Davis is a reporter who gets an anonymous tip that turns him into an eyewitness to a judge's murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Sleeping Waters (1992)
Plot Summary:
Whatever happened to my father?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Mushroom (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her professional career. He is befriended by an older female artist who is fond of hallucinogenic mushrooms. When his wife is late for their anniversary celebration, he drinks and takes mushrooms with the artist. He wakes up to find she has died and is fearful he may have accidentally killed her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Friendships, Secrets and Lies (1979)
Plot Summary:
Six former sorority sisters are suspected of murder when a baby's skeleton is found in the ruins of the sorority house.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: political
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Sway (2006)
Plot Summary:
A murder investigation reveals a deep-rooted sibling rivalry in director Miwa Nishikawa's brooding family drama. On the one-year anniversary of his mother's death, Tokyo art and fashion photographer Takeru (Joe Odagiri) returns to his small hometown in order to pay his respects. But all is not well back home, and when Takeru's authoritative father questions his sincerity, the frustrated son strikes back with accusations of violent conduct. Though the situation is initially diffused by Takeru's older brother Moniru (Teruyuki Kagawa), who stayed behind to run the family business, tensions once again start to run high when Tekeru, Moniru, and pretty childhood friend Cheiko (Yoko Maki) decide to celebrate their reunion by taking a hike in the wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, emotional, serious, suspenseful
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The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972)
Plot Summary:
A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency, helped by an ex-con and various parolees.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Murder in Peyton Place (1977)
Plot Summary:
A former resident of the town of Peyton Place, now wealthy and powerful, secretly returns to the town and sets in motion a spate of killings designed as revenge for past wrongs.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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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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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 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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Unnatural & Accidental (2006)
Plot Summary:
Unnatural & Accidental is the feature length dramatic film adaptation of the stage play entitled, The Unnatural and Accidental Women by renowned Metis playwright Marie Clements and is based loosely around the "unnatural and accidental" downing deaths of native women living on skid row. Rebecca has returned home to be with her dying father. His last wish is that she track down her mother, an aborig.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young theatre director is accused of killing a more famous Broadway director. Perry takes his case.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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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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Hart to Hart: Harts in High Season (1996)
Plot Summary:
One of the final entries in the series of romantic suspense adventures takes Jennifer and Jonathan Hart off to Sydney, Australia, where they plan to purchase a wildlife reserve from Jennifer’s old flame, the handsome and mysterious Elliott Manning.Manning challenges Jonathan, and their old rivalry is rekindled, with Hart besting Manning every time. When Manning begins to behave strangely toward Jennifer, a series of disturbing events reveals that this rivalry is no longer so good-natured, and the Harts find themselves bait in a trap.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen (1990)
Plot Summary:
The chief suspects in the murder of an author are the numerous colleagues whom he continuously plagiarized.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (1993)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a cosmetics company is unveiling a new cream which she claims she's been using. She's been keeping her age a secret and now reveals that she's 60 and owes her appearance to the cream. She's later killed and the formula missing. Her husband is arrested and Perry defends him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss (1993)
Plot Summary:
On the set of a popular daytime soap opera 'Mile High', actress Kris Buckner is being forced off by co-star Mark Stratton. When she says that she'll 'kill him before she leaves the show', she makes herself the prime suspect when Stratton is murdered by someone poisoning him. As an old friend, Perry Mason comes to the help of Kris and agrees to defend her. Meanwhile Ken goes in search of information with the help of fan of the show.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer (1990)
Plot Summary:
Perry Mason defends the husband of a famous rock singer who was found being killed after having had a tremendous discussion with her husband and her manager.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter (1990)
Plot Summary:
A young woman from Las Vegas wants Perry Mason to defend her father.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion (1991)
Plot Summary:
Della's friend is accused of murdering a rival fashion magazine editor.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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The Man from London (2007)
Plot Summary:
One night Maloin, a switchman at a seaside railway station situated by a ferry harbour, witnesses a terrible event.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, black and white, psychological, atmospheric, bleak, contemplative, captivating, art house, confusing
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Brigham City (2001)
Plot Summary:
Wes Clayton is a lawman and a bishop in a Mormon community called Brigham. The town is shaken when a woman from California is found murdered. Clayton and his young deputy work with an FBI agent sent to investigate. As a civil and spiritual leader in the frightened town, Clayton must uncover the town's deepest secrets, find the murderer and keep Brigham from ripping itself apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, suspense, serious, independent film, mind bending, suspense thriller, realistic, light
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Bordertown: The Mural Murders (2021)
Plot Summary:
A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, “Making the world a better place”, is linked to a voting circulating in social media, where people can vote for persons that world would be a better place without. Soon the first body is found and Sorjonen must find the person who has named himself as The Judge.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jessica Fletcher discovers a shocking old family secret that leads her on a journey to the deep South to bring to light the mysterious details surrounding the death of a slave owned by one of her long dead ancestors in the mid-1800s.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, enigmatic