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Plot Summary:
Is a ghost haunting the spooky old O'Deary Library? Teen detective Ruby Skye can't believe it. But how else do you explain the creepy shadows, the late-night noises, and the flying books!? As Ruby starts her investigation, a second mystery drops into her lap. Ava O'Deary - the owner of the library - dies and her Last Will and Testament is missing. Before you say "long lost relative", O'Deary descendants descend with plans to squander Ava's fortune, burn the books and turn the historic library into condos. Ruby can't let that happen. Ruby soon finds herself in a battle of wits with a ghost and a race against time to find Ava's will and save the library.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Family, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Darklings (1999)
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A bed-ridden teen believes he has witnessed the murder of a neighbor by another neighbor. He then recruits friends to attempt to prove the death when no body is found.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective
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Torquemada's Curse (2022)
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Genere: Mystery
Country: Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Italy
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Plot tags: detective
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The Osbournes Want to Believe (2020)
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During each hour-long episode, Jack will reveal a series of mind-blowing paranormal clips from the great beyond for his parents, Ozzy and Sharon, to witness. From Bigfoot to UFOs, poltergeists, creepy dolls and unexplained apparitions, the couple will review – and critique – each caught-on-camera moment, a compilation of Jack’s favorite pieces of evidence.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: creepy
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Sally Floss: Digital Detective (2022)
Plot Summary:
In response to the financial crisis set forth by COVID-19, a shy teenager starts an internet-based detective agency to save her family home. She solves mysteries through digital footprints, virtual interviews, a brilliant mind, and an inherited intuition she never knew she had.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
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Cossacks-Robbers (1980)
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In Krasnodar district, during the first years after World War II, a detective story - in which a group of children from a southern seaside town help to neutralize a gang of ruthless thieves - emerges out of young Shurka's discovery of a headless, toy riding horse in a water cave wherein he had taken shelter from a sudden storm separately from his friends with whom he had been swimming in the once mine-infested coastal waters.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Family, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: detective
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Summer With The Ghosts (2003)
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A young girl and her new friend investigate a series of supernatural happenings in the Austrian children's film SUMMER WITH THE GHOSTS. Caroline departs from her home in Montreal to join her father a famous film director on the set of his latest film in Austria. When she arrives however she learns of a series of accidents and problems on the film set with everyone at odds to explain how they happened. Suspecting that someone means to sabotage the film she begins to investigate the ancient castle being used as the set. Along with her newfound friend Jakob she discovers that the film's difficulties may in fact have a supernatural cause.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Family
Country: Canada, Austria
Duration: 85 min
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Ghoster (2022)
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When a mysterious letter appears on the day they are being evicted, Elizabeth and her father can’t believe their luck to discover they've inherited Echoville Manor, a sprawling, thirty-seven room estate. Upon arriving, Elizabeth finds that the mansion is inhabited by the world’s cutest spirit, Ghoster, who has been trapped within a mirrored prison there for fifty years. Together, they must uncover the secrets to Echoville to free Ghoster before the nefarious Yuto captures her soul as well in his quest for immortality.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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One Must Live Dangerously (1975)
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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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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1995)
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Two runaway kids hide in a museum. Once they are locked inside overnight, they try to solve a mystery about a statue supposedly carved by Michaelangelo, known as "The Angel". Will they solve the mystery in time?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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Mind Games (2001)
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A former nun turned criminal profiler is called in to investigate the horrific ritualistic murders of two middle aged women. Her unorthodox approach means that she has to deal not only with solving a murder but also winning the trust of her sceptical colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: detective
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Detective versus Detectives (2015)
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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 Ghost of Greville Lodge (2000)
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Teenager James Greville has lived in children's homes his whole life, so he is surprised when a Great Uncle invites him to his country manor for a holiday. While exploring the sprawling Greville Lodge he soon discovers that it has many secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Family, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, gothic
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Totally True Love (2011)
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When the new boy in class, Jørgen, moves into the haunted house down the road Anne’s world turns upside-down; she falls head over heals in love with him. All the girls in Anne’s class fall for Jørgen as well, including beautiful blonde pony-tailed Ellen. But that is of no hindrance to Anne; she is willing to go further than anyone to win him over. When done in the name of love, everything is allowed…isn’t it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Family, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, semi serious, surreal, heartfelt, offbeat, realistic, stylized
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Cut, Color, Murder (2022)
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When a beauty pageant creator is found dead, a savvy hairdresser works with a detective and risks everything to clear the names of those she loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 971
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
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The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1997)
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The Adventures of Shirley Holmes is a Canadian mystery TV series that originally aired from 1997 to 2000. The show was created by Ellis Iddon and Phil Meagher who had produced a successful series of books with Harper Collins, teaming up with Credo and Forefront to develop the TV series. Filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the series follows the life of Shirley Holmes, the great grand-niece of Sherlock Holmes who, with the help of ex-gang member Bo Sawchuk, tackles a variety of mysteries in and around the fictional Canadian city of Redington. On some occasions, she found herself matching wits with archnemesis Molly Hardy. The show has been broadcast in over 80 countries and has been dubbed in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Norwegian, Polish and Turkish. Her performance in the show led to actress Meredith Henderson being nominated for a Gemini Award in 1998 and winning one in 1999. The show itself was twice nominated for a Gemini Award in the category "Best Children's or Youth Program or Series" in 1998 and eventually won it in 1999. In the spring of 1998 Susin Nielsen won a Gemini Award in the category "Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Program" for her screenplay of the episode "The Case of the Burning Building". In the same year, Elizabeth Stewart won a WGC Award from the Writers Guild of Canada for her writing of the episode "The Case of the Maestro's Ghost".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Family, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: detective
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Ghostwriter (1992)
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Ghostwriter is an American television program created by Liz Nealon and produced by the Children's Television Workshop and BBC One. It began airing on PBS on October 4, 1992, and the final episode aired on February 13, 1995. The series revolves around a close knit circle of friends from Brooklyn who solve neighborhood crimes and mysteries as a team of young detectives with the help of an invisible ghost named Ghostwriter. Ghostwriter can communicate with the kids only by manipulating whatever text and letters he can find and using them to form words and sentences. The series was filmed on location in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: detective, educational, suspenseful
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Blinker (1999)
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A series of mysterious events and the pestering motor gang 'The Red Vampires' turns the idyllic holiday of Blinker and his friends into a thrilling adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Family, Mystery
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Clubhouse Detectives (1997)
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Late one night, Billy and Kade Ruckman see their neighbor, Michael Chambers, murder a woman, but Chambers has a story all set to convince their mother Vicky, that it was just a rehearsal scene from an opera. The only ones who can help them find the body in Chambers' house before he moves and gets rid of all evidence, are their friends, Jimmy, Eddie, and J.J., who are determined to find the body before Chambers finds them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween (2008)
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It's Roxy's first Halloween in serenity falls and it looks like it's going to be a bust until Roxy discovers that her classmate Stefan is actually a vampire from Transylvania...or so she thinks. The truth she comes to find is actually much darker.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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Annabelle Hooper and the Ghosts of Nantucket (2016)
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Vacationing on historic Nantucket Island, a teenage mystery writer and her friends must outwit two scheming thieves to solve the secret behind a legendary ghost story.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, spooky
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001)
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The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 579
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
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Grave Misconduct (2008)
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A fledgling mystery writer sees an opportunity to advance her career after the death of a novelist/friend but faces dire consequences when a series of vicious murders occur, implicating her.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency (2009)
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13-year-old Sam Steele Jr. forms his own private detective agency to emulate his father, Des Moines detective Sam Steele, and helps track down a jewel thief.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost (2007)
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After moving to an eerie old house in the country, nine-year-old super sleuth Roxy Hunter stumbles into a world filled with unsolved mysterieus, secret plots and spooky spirits! Now, Roxy and her best friend and boy genius Max, must race to save their home, re-unite a lost love and uncover the true villain. Is it the Moody Ghost...or something even spookier?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, detective
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Mrs. Ashboro's Cat (2004)
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Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs. Ashboro and her pet cat, Margaret. When strange things start happening in the house, all fingers point to the presence of Margaret, who died the same day as Mrs. Ashboro. But why has she come back to haunt them?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, spooky, psychotronic
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The Hardy Boys (1995)
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Junior reporter Frank Hardy and Joe, his computer-hacker brother, work together to crack mysteries.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: detective, juvenile
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Phantom of the Megaplex (2000)
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A young man working at a cinema on a special premiere night, finds that the films being shown are full of strange and eerie occurrences.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
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Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009)
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The story of how Mystery Inc. was formed.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, detective, exciting, suspenseful, slapstick
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Finding Kelly (2000)
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The surprisingly intricate, nimble plot is about a couple of kids who play amateur detectives one summer in the hopes of collecting a $5,000 reward offered to anyone able to find a missing 17 year old girl. The girl and boy are best friends who have a great, unforced camaraderie with each other. None of the tiresome sniping and bickering that goes on in so many other films of this ilk. And they are given some wonderfully smart, observant dialogue, tons of it. In fact, the film is overflowing with it, much of it tricky and the two actors handle it all like a couple of seasoned pros.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
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Roxy Hunter and the Secret of the Shaman (2008)
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Serenity Fall's favorite super sleuth is on the case again! The town is alarmed when a priceless crystal turns up missing. The only suspect seems to be a strange man living in the woods known as Shaman. It's up to Roxy Hunter (Aria Wallace) and her best friend Max to discover the identity of the true thief and recover the precious jewel. Could it be the Shaman? Or is it the person no one would ever suspect? In the tradition of Nancy Drew and Harriet the Spy, here comes the irrepressible Roxy Hunter. In the young sleuth's second adventure, a priceless crystal goes missing on the eve of Serenity Fall's 150th anniversary celebration, leading the entire town to suspect a bizarre recluse known as the Shaman living in the woods. It's up to Roxy and her best friend Max to sort the matter out.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, captivating, entertaining, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, semi serious