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Plot Summary:
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal ? What is her purpose?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, stylized, dark comedy, retro, anthology, art house, postmodern, perverse, psychological
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The Murdered House (1988)
Plot Summary:
After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one stormy night. Only Sébastien, then a four-month old baby, was spared. Whilst Sébastien is being seduced by Charmaine, Dupin is killed by someone else. Sébastien’s next victim, the miller Didon Pujol, is also murdered before he has a chance to take his revenge. Sébastien realises that someone is watching his every move and is going to extraordinary lengths to protect him. But who, and why..?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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The Burning Court (1962)
Plot Summary:
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, gothic, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, suspenseful
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Last Known Address (1970)
Plot Summary:
Marceau Léonetti (Lino Ventura), a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne (Marlène Jobert). Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, crime drama, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Zift (2008)
Plot Summary:
Moth is freed on parole after spending time in prison on wrongful conviction of murder. Jailed shortly before the Bulgarian communist coup of 1944, he now finds himself in a new and alien world - the totalitarian Sofia of the 60s. His first night of freedom draws the map of a diabolical city full of decaying neighborhoods, gloomy streets and a bizarre parade of characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, bleak, realistic, dark comedy, psychological, neo western, tense, rough, thought provoking
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Princess Aurora (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman gets killed in a department store. No one imagines this could lead to serial murders, but two days after the first murder, another homicide occurs. A woman is suffocated to death and the only evidence left at the crime scene is a sticker of the cartoon character "Princess Aurora". A veteran detective OH suspects an attractive and lively woman named JUNG Soon-jung as the murderer. However, he does not tell anyone -not even his partner- that Jung also happens to be his ex-wife. Again and again, the Princess Aurora sticker is found... each with a dead body.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, emotional, suspenseful, psychological, detective, action thriller, twisted, realistic
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Rider on the Rain (1970)
Plot Summary:
A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, rough, realistic, retro, neo noir, anthology
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Murder Is a Murder (1972)
Plot Summary:
Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, non-linear, crying, detective, french noir
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Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
Plot Summary:
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: bleak, enigmatic, harsh, cynical, political, art house, biting, social, spiritual, artsy
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This Man Must Die (1969)
Plot Summary:
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, anthology, twisted, psychological, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Merci pour le Chocolat (2000)
Plot Summary:
A mystery set in the environs of Lausanne concerning several plots which wind their way through the elegant homesteads of a couple of well-heeled French-Swiss denizens. Mika is the couture-attired, oh-so-perfect head of Muller Chocolates--a company that manufactures Swiss chocolates. Andre is her suave, concert pianist husband whose first wife died years ago in a mysterious car accident. When Jeanne, a beautiful young woman, enters the home of Mika and Andre, raising questions about her possible relationship to the family, tensions mount, alliances shift, and all the while, Mika prepares and faithfully serves her special recipe for hot chocolate each evening.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, tense, suspenseful, art house, neo noir, slasher, anthology, clever, serious
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Just Before Nightfall (1971)
Plot Summary:
A married man (Michel Bouquet) who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical
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The Breach (1970)
Plot Summary:
An innocent woman falls prey to the machinations of her abusive husband, his wealthy father, and a shady family friend.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Frozen Silence (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1943, during the midst of World War II, a serial murderer appears in the Blue Division, volunteer body of Spanish soldiers who fought on the Russian front with German troops. After finding the body of a Spanish soldier who has been stuck in the shoulder and has a knife inscription ("Look at God looking at you"), an investigation is initiated by the soldier in charge Arturo Andrade, police inspector who takes the job with precision and professionalism, aided by Sergeant Estrada. They begin to suspect that behind this murder dark secrets of the past are hidden.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain, Lithuania
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic
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Hukkle (2002)
Plot Summary:
Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no good, some folk-singers at a wedding, etc. While most of the film is a series of vignettes, there is a sinister and often barely perceptible subplot involving murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious, dark comedy, confusing, dark, disturbing, art house
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We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)
Plot Summary:
A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, neo noir, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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The Missing Gun (2002)
Plot Summary:
In this tense thriller, Ma Shan (Wen Jiang) is a Chinese police detective who awakes one morning after a night of heavy drinking at his sister's wedding reception to discover that his gun has been stolen. Since only police officers are allowed to carry firearms, Ma Shan is alarmed about the deadly possibilities of the theft, and he sets out to find his weapon; however, the memories of Ma Shan's friends are as hazy as his own regarding the wedding, and no one can tell who drove him home. The situation comes to a head when Ma Shan's former girlfriend arrives in town for a visit and is soon found shot dead with the bullets matching those used in his gun.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, crying
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The Butcher (1970)
Plot Summary:
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, cynical, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, neo noir, slasher, surreal, anthology, perverse
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Band of Outsiders (1964)
Plot Summary:
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: black and white, cult classic, neo noir, atmospheric, witty, talky, stylized, postmodern, art house, visual
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Hammett (1982)
Plot Summary:
"This is an entirely imaginary story about the writer Dashiell Hammett, who... in the words of one of his most gifted contemporaries... helped get murder out of the vicar's rose garden and back to the people who are really good at it. The detective story has not been the same since." So begins Hammett, the atmospheric and exciting tale of a young mystery writer who really lives the hard-boiled life he writes about -- and learns to dig beneath the surface of his characters to reveal their deeper, darker motivations.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, detective, metafiction, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, meta, eighties
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Still of the Night (1982)
Plot Summary:
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, detective, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological thriller, serious, realistic, stylized
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Inspector Lavardin (1986)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, captivating, neo noir, clever, cynical, surprise ending
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He Died with His Eyes Open (1985)
Plot Summary:
On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois, a French murder mystery based upon a novel of the same name, is an unusual, involving film with excellent performances by its entire cast. Police Inspector Staniland (Michel Serrault) is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he meets Barbara (Charlotte Rampling), the mistress of the murder victim. Barbara confesses to the crime, but Staniland, based on his observations and experience, does not believe her. He then sets out to find the truth, with surprising results. Both Serrault and Rampling are outstanding in this well-directed, well-paced film. On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois was also released as He Died With His Eyes Open and won the Jury Prize at the 1985 Montreal World Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, detective, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Malice Aforethought (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Edmund Bickleigh is married to a particularly overbearing woman who reminds him at every turn that he is living in her house. But the good doctor has outside interests to help him cope.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Mystery, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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The American Friend (1977)
Plot Summary:
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, talky, serious, captivating, disturbing, rough, realistic
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The Owls (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two middle-aged, lesbian couples accidentally kill a younger lesbian and hide the body, without reporting it to the authorities. Their guilt and long-kept, dark secret comes back to haunt them, as an unexpected stranger shows up in their lives, bringing tension and discord. Little do they know that this mysterious stranger has a plan which includes all four of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from a story by William Irish, it's a noirish tale of a man who orders a mail-order bride but receives instead a con woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, anthology, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, detective, french noir
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Black Widow (1987)
Plot Summary:
Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can't prove anything with conventional detective work. With no other option, she goes undercover, pursuing the same man as Catherine, and hoping that Catherine will slip up and reveal her true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, surprise ending, erotic, noir, tense, sensual
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Ripley's Game (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, suspenseful, stylized, neo noir, absurd, atmospheric, crime thriller, intense
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Gone but Not Forgotten (2005)
Plot Summary:
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has entered a web of duplicity revenge & multiple murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful