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Plot Summary:
The police chief of a small town begins an investigation after a young woman, who was supposed to have died several months previously, shows up at the funeral of her parents, who had been murdered. (IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary
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Vanishing Act (1986)
Plot Summary:
In the Rocky Mountains, Harry Kenyon seeks out his missing wife Chris in the Winter Parade. Harry meets Lieutenant Rudameyer and tells that him he is from San Francisco and has just married Chris, from Philadelphia, in Las Vegas. They traveled to the Rockies on honeymoon and they had an argument the previous day, and Chris left their isolated cabin in her car. Harry also says that he is worried about her disappearance since she is not a good driver. Harry returns to his cabin and receives a phone call from the local priest, Father Macklin, who summons him to go to the church. Father Macklin tells says Chris is in the church waiting for him. When Harry sees Chris, he tells that she is not his wife; but the woman knows details of their lives and Harry is discredited by the evidences. Is a stranger impersonating Chris or is Harry delusional?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: thrilling, surprise ending
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They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
Plot Summary:
An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of relationships centering on the victim; the scattered trail of evidence ranges from a mysterious photograph to the victim's own dog. During the investigation, the sheriff meets and becomes romantically involved with a woman whose connection to the murder is ambiguous.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Torquemada's Curse (2022)
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Genere: Mystery
Country: Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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Accident, Suicide or Murder (2019)
Plot Summary:
Exploring the unbelievable true stories of suspicious deaths by retracing the investigation from start to finish, dissecting the red flags and undeniable evidence, and strange behavior that put the tragedy in question.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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Curious Caterer: Dying for Chocolate (2022)
Plot Summary:
Goldy is a spirited single mom who’s thrust into the role of town sleuth to help solve a friend’s mysterious death. With the clock ticking to find the culprit, Goldy strikes up an unlikely partnership with Detective Tom Schultz, who leans into Goldy’s local knowledge. As their relationship shows signs of becoming something more, the suspect list rises. Will Goldy narrow in on the killer before the killer narrows in on her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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To Catch a Spy (2021)
Plot Summary:
When the newly renovated Hotel Optima in Malta has a grand reopening, Chloe and her team from Destination Traveler Magazine, head over to cover the travel scene in Malta and sees someone fall to their death, right past her hotel window.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery
Country: Malta, USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, melancholic, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Did I Kill My Mother? (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's mother is found dead in the home they both live in a year after her fathers unsolves suspicious murder. The police think the daughter may be responsible so she and her friends must prove she is innocent.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Carnal Innocence (2011)
Plot Summary:
A famous violinist Caroline Waverly returns to her home town. A killer is on the streets, and Caroline may be a target for murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 994
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating
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One and the Same (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman, Lola, is invited to a secret facility, she discovers an experiment beyond space and time. After uncovering her own past life as a teenage boy named Robbie, she embarks on a malevolent path for justice against the ex-con who killed him.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, disturbing, unusual plot structure
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Crossword Mysteries: Riddle Me Dead (2021)
Plot Summary:
Tess gets invited to be a part of a popular game show, but when the host is unexpectedly murdered, she and Detective Logan O'Connor seek to uncover who was behind it all.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating
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The Inn (2004)
Plot Summary:
A television reporter investigates a small town's dark secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, bleak, slasher
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The Mystery Cruise (2013)
Plot Summary:
"The Mystery Cruise" centers around best friends and impending business partners, Alvirah Meehan (Gail O'Grady), a lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and Regan Reilly (Michelle Harrison), a private investigator. After rescuing the diamond-collared pooch of a wealthy socialite (Carol Higgins Clark), the two heroines set off with their spouses to join Regan's mom, Nora Reilly (Colleen Winton), a world famous mystery writer, on a luxurious three day cruise around the San Juan Island off the coast of Washington. The cruise serves as the setting for a mystery game created to promote the release of Nora's latest book. As the boat calmly sets sail, everyone is enjoying getting into character, especially Alvirah, who may or may not be the games "murderess." But troubled waters lie ahead when Alvirah gets a hunch that a real killer may be on board and, together with Regan, the pair teams up to solve the high seas whodunnit.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical
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Lies Between Friends (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fourteen years after graduation, a group of college friends convenes one weekend for a bridal shower for one of their own. The principal character, Joss (Gabrielle Anwar), and her freshman year roommate and best friend in college, Cait (Thea Gill), have been estranged for years, ever since Joss learned that her fiancé had been visiting Cait on the night he died in a motorcycle accident. As part of a recovery program, Cait wants to make up with Joss, but she dies before she can explain. Was her death an accident, a suicide, or something more sinister?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)
Plot Summary:
Betty Lou is a librarian in a very small town. Her husband is a police detective who takes her for granted. Betty Lou is the ultimate mouse. After a gangland figure is mysteriously murdered in town, Betty Lou finds the murder weapon, but can't get anyone's attention to tell them (we're talking very mousey, here). Finally in a fit of frustration she fires the gun in a restroom and when taken to the police station insists she is the murderer. It has the desired effect, people do pay attention to her. With hints at social graces from the hookers in her cell block, she's on her way.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, funny, light, romantic, atmospheric, sexy, clever
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Jane Doe: Ties That Bind (2007)
Plot Summary:
DNA evidence and camera footage places a corrupt CEO as the prime suspect in the murder of a company whistle-blower, but Jane Doe believes the real killer may be a twin sibling.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, serious
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Shenanigans (2012)
Plot Summary:
A famous novelist invites five friends for dinner. He prepared everything: good wine, small presents for everyone, a good meal and... his suicide as dessert.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful
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McBride: It's Murder, Madam (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mystery drama starring John Larroquette and Marta Dubois. A cop-turned-lawyer helps an aspiring actress accused of killing a woman running a dating service.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, realistic
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Drive In Massacre (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, psychotronic, detective, grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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The Pale Horse (1997)
Plot Summary:
Writer Mark Easterbrook has a vested interest in solving the murder of a priest. That's because Mark himself is under suspicion. But to save his reputation and put the real killer behind bars, he'll have to go through a mysterious list of names that's suddenly turned up and may hold the key to the murderer's identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, talky, suspense
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Gunn (1967)
Plot Summary:
The madam of a floating bordello hires private eye Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) to prove a gangster killed a crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
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Winter Kill (1974)
Plot Summary:
Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and find the sniper before he (or she) kills again, and before the town council relieves him of duty.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spooky, scary, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Killjoy (1981)
Plot Summary:
Story of a young woman's murder and the people who become involved with it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: crime thriller, tense, serious, suspenseful, soap opera
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Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery (2013)
Plot Summary:
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team arrive in Three Pines to solve the unusual murder of a much-loved woman and find dark secrets shadowing this usually peaceful village.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: clever, suspense, tense, captivating, realistic
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Redemption in Cherry Springs (2021)
Plot Summary:
After fallout from a story, reporter Melanie goes home to Cherry Springs for a break. When a friend disappears, she uses her skills to get to the truth, to the local detective's dismay.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Ice Princess (2007)
Plot Summary:
Errica returns to her hometown for her parents funeral and her childhood friend murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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64: Part I (2016)
Plot Summary:
1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years were over as the prefecture's police to be unsolved greatest stain, and statute of limitations approached it. In 2002, Yoshinobu Mikami, an ex-detective who was assigned as the investigator of the "Rokuyon" case 14years ago, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department against his will. As a newly assigned Public Relations Officer, he was troubled with the relation between the reporters, new case has occurred. And that new case traced "Rokuyon" case exactly.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Man in the Woods (2020)
Plot Summary:
On a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her friends, a disgraced quarterback, a shunned ex-cop, and the headmaster's wife, agree to go search for her. As they do, they confront the lies, ghost stories, and demonization that their idyllic school was built on.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sleeping Forest (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company insists that the incident is a self defense case, but after an investigation there's doubts in that claim. Then, the director of the Takayanagi Ballet Company is poisoned to death. Are the cases related?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Random 11 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Prodigy detective Mitsuko Unagi is on the hunt for a notorious serial killer known only as "Eleven". 10 years earlier, on February 29th 2006, a series of murders began, involving 11 randomly selected victims killed simultaneously in various parts of Tokyo. The killings continue over the next decade, leaving the police with no evidence, no witnesses, and the killer always one step ahead. But now something has changed, and the killer has changed his pattern, giving Detective Unagi the one chance to finally get closer to solving the mystery of the Random 11.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, action thriller, psychological thriller
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Midsummer's Equation (2013)
Plot Summary:
Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oceanside town to speak on a panel. But when a man turns up dead outside the inn where he's staying, Yukawa begins to unravel the connections that tie the victim to the activist daughter of the innkeepers, and a precocious boy who first appears on a train—and keeps popping up. It's a Sherlock Holmes mystery with an environmental twist, and one that should please fans of a classic whodunnit.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective