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Plot Summary:
The continuation of Lauren's mysterious background as her identity becomes the focus of an intense media circus.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags:
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The Reason (2004)
Plot Summary:
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: semi documentary
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Triangulo (1972)
Plot Summary:
The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 82 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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Zero Focus (1961)
Plot Summary:
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, twisted
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Set Me Free: Vol. I (2016)
Plot Summary:
A troubled young woman runs away from home, unaware from the outside world that she has been missing and presumed dead for 20 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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The Legend of the Mask (1990)
Plot Summary:
A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Get Lost! (2018)
Plot Summary:
Instead of making the planned trip to India, the 27 year old Fem becomes a backpacker in her hometown; Amsterdam. Fem does not dare to tell her boyfriend the truth and she gets tangled up in a crazy lie.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Honeymoon (2010)
Plot Summary:
Handsome silver spoon Texan Trevor Forrest can't always control his tendencies to flirt and gamble, even on honeymoon cruise to Tahiti with Lindsey Ross Forrest, which may compromise their business ambitions. The ship captain asks FBI agent Gwen Merced, on cruise, to investigate discretely when Trevor goes missing, probably fallen or pushed overboard as blood traces are found. It's unclear whether the Hungarian business trio Luka, Max and Ben are innocent flirtatious gamblers like Trevor or criminals, but others have hidden agendas too.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 973
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending
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Dream Lock (2022)
Plot Summary:
A middle aged man Rohan Roy is a Doctor, not happy in his married life embarks on an extra marital affair with his neighbor Jennifer. He soon realizes his mistake and tries to get rid of the girl, but she seems nowhere to compromise and gets psychotic about Rohan. After a few days Jennifer disappears without a trace and Rohan dreams that he kills Jennifer, when he wakes up; he discovers blood stains on his cloths and suspects it was real. A day later Rohan finds Jennifer's dead body in his car. Rohan seeks the help of his friend Vijay, a detective, to solve the puzzling mystery of Jennifer's death and Rohan's dreams. As Vijay unravels the mystery, dangerous new truths come to light.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Black Snow (2017)
Plot Summary:
Accused of killing his brother during adolescence, Salvador lives alone in the middle of Patagonia. Several decades later, his brother Marcos and his sister-in-law Laura, come to convince him to sell the lands they share by inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, neo noir, disturbing, twisted, psychological
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Quiet is the Night (1978)
Plot Summary:
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, freeze frame, poliziottesco
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Gukoroku - Traces of Sin (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tanaka is going through a tough time trying to support his younger sister Mitsuko, recently arrested and hold up in jail. As an investigative reporter, he immerses himself into a story about a shocking murder case gone cold; a family was brutally murdered a year ago and the case remains unsolved.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: disturbing, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful
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Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
Plot Summary:
A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an unusual court-martial, while investigating the deepening mystery behind the attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: action thriller, serious, realistic, suspense, crying, independent film, period drama
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Charlotte (1974)
Plot Summary:
Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, and where a lust for pushing limits meets it ultimate conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Sunrise (2014)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Joshi is a grieving father searching for his daughter Aruna, kidnapped years ago when she was six. In his despair, life converges with a recurring dream in which Joshi pursues a shadowy figure who leads him to 'Paradise', a night-club where teenage girls dance to a leering crowd. He is convinced he will find Aruna there and vows to bring her back to Leela, his broken wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: India, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Endless Night (1972)
Plot Summary:
A shiftless dreamer, Michael Rogers (Hywel Bennett) fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl, Ellie Thomsen (Hayley Mills) who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride. Secrets from his past and sinister ties to their houseguest Greta (Britt Ekland), lead to a terrible turn of unexpected events.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, slasher, black and white, pastoral, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious
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Trap for Cinderella (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young girl suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, touching, realistic, psychological thriller, atmospheric, gloomy, neo noir, lgbt cinema, crying
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Wetherby (1985)
Plot Summary:
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Intrigo: Death of an Author (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, serious, suspense, realistic
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The Commander (2003)
Plot Summary:
Commander Clare Blake has risen to the top of her profession in the male-dominated Metropolitan Police Service and is now the head of the serious crimes unit. Some years previously she arrested James Lampton for murder. He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison but is now out on parole and is a successful author with a best-selling book. Blake's colleagues however, especially DCI Mike Hedges, believe Lampton is responsible for another murder and are out to prove his guilt. Things become complicated when Blake and Lampton become intimate and the question arises whether he is being honest with her or is simply a master manipulator.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Sparkling Cyanide (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Face of an Angel (2014)
Plot Summary:
Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend — a mystery that carries him from the gin-soaked jazz clubs of Harlem to the slums of Brooklyn to the gilded halls of New York's power brokers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: neo noir, enigmatic, period piece, independent film, costume drama, crime drama, cult classic, detective, suspense, captivating
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Dead Again (1991)
Plot Summary:
In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under hypnosis both the woman and Church seem to have a strange link back to the Strauss murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological thriller, surprise ending, twisted, detective, noir
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Death on the Nile (1978)
Plot Summary:
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: clever, detective, suspense, captivating, atmospheric, mind bending, talky, enigmatic, scenic, surprise ending
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A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
Plot Summary:
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, talky
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Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Plot Summary:
Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, suspenseful, clever, tense, talky, enigmatic, dark, twisted, realistic
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Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Plot Summary:
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, talky, thought provoking, stylized, entertaining, clever, funny
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Death on the Nile (2022)
Plot Summary:
Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won't give her a promised dowry, writer Salome Otterbourne is facing a libel suit brought by Linnet, Salome's daughter Rosalie wants to protect her mother, American Andrew Pennington has been embezzling from the Ridgeway family, and former friend Jacqueline de Bellefort is upset that Linnet stole her fiance, Simon, away from her. Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot must unravel the mystery when Linnet (and some of the others) turn up dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 180000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: detective, captivating, costume drama, artsy, non-linear, suspense, surprise ending, clever, entertaining, dramatic
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The Ghost Writer (2010)
Plot Summary:
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. In director Roman Polanski's tense drama, the author realizes that his discovery threatens some very powerful people who will do anything to ensure that certain episodes from Lang's past remain buried.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 169000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, atmospheric, political thriller, captivating, political, tricky, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, psychological thriller