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Plot Summary:
Two detectives investigate the murder of a local businessman by a mysterious woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychosexual thriller, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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The Sobbing Stone (2005)
Plot Summary:
Science can't explain it. No one can. A seemingly ordinary stone has been brought to the attention of four of the best paranormal experts in the world. As the hours progress, they find out why. The stone emits sounds, in no particular order, and no one can record them. But why? And how can it do this? This chilling discovery haunts them to the core of their minds and souls... but they can't escape the Sobbing Stone. What they find is a kind of truth that will change their lives forever. The Sobbing Stone... you've got to hear it... to believe.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film, amateur film
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Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (1974)
Plot Summary:
China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial center Judge Dee and his three wives spend the night at a Taoist monastery. Soon the judge discovers that the secluded place holds a secret - the former abbot died of unnatural causes. After a number of mysterious events and more cases of murder Dee tracks down the true villain.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crime thriller
Similar in 79%
The Love Statue (1965)
Plot Summary:
Wimpy struggling Greenwich Village painter Tyler Westin is in love with gorgeous, but mean and snippy cabaret dancer Lisa, who treats Tyler like dirt and constantly belittles him. Sultry nightclub singer Mashiko turns Tyler on to LSD. After a nightmarish three day acid trip, Tyler returns to his shabby apartment to find Lisa murdered. Is Tyler responsible for her death? Or did someone else kill Lisa?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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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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Death Cruise (1974)
Plot Summary:
Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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From Hollywood to Deadwood (1988)
Plot Summary:
When actress Lana Dark (Barbara Schock) disappears in the middle of a film shoot, putting an expensive stop to production, the studio hires gumshoes Raymond Savage (Scott Paulin) and Jack Haines (Jim Haynie) to track down the fleeing femme fatale in this thriller. The trail leads to Deadwood, S.D., where Haines and a smitten Savage find Lana restlessly lying low. But knowledge proves dangerous when Savage discovers the scam behind Lana's walkout.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Inspector Mom: Kidnapped in Ten Easy Steps (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes undercover at a dance studio to save her best friend from a kidnapper.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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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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Yurigokoro (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ryosuke has a bright future. He just opened a successful restaurant and hopes to tie the knot soon with his alluring girlfriend. But then his father declares he has pancreatic cancer and his betrothed vanishes without a trace. In his father’s belongings, he discovers a secret diary, which starts with an ominous sentence: “Without remorse, I take a life …” Ryosuke is completely spellbound and reads on, discovering that the document is actually the confession of a murderer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, crying
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Mature Woman: Wife-Hunting (2006)
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Danger lurks around every corner. A psychopathic serial killer is tying up, raping and murdering Tokyo's sexy young women! Kathy is trying to divorce her husband, all the while conducting a hot affair with her divorce attorney, Sean. As she walks through the park one day, she witnesses the killer disposing of the dead body of his latest victim. The killer begins stalking her, throwing her otherwise normal life into a paranoid frenzy.Mr. Pink (Yutaka Ikejima) masterfully directs this suspenseful Pink-Film retelling of Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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 Man in the Maze (2011)
Plot Summary:
While doing research in the woods, four college friends find a mysterious and troublesome trail. Megan, Alex, Christi, and P.T. soon find that they may not be the only ones on the trail and that the dark figure following them is much more than he seems.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, independent film
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Lies Between Friends (2010)
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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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Truth is in Heaven (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1983 an English journalist travels to Italy to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young vatican girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 78%
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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McBride: Fallen Idol (2006)
Plot Summary:
The police have arrested a Latino teenager caught pawning a murdered attorney's stolen Rolex. To complicate matters, the suspect's sister wants McBride to defend her brother - despite the fact that the victim was a close friend of McBride's.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, 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
Similar in 81%
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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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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McBride: Dogged (2007)
Plot Summary:
The annual LA Kennel Club Dog Show gets treated to an unexpected surprise when a backstage murder incriminates the winning canines' handler.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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
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Atypical Crime Investigator, Hinako Todo (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hinako Todo (Haru) is a first-year detective who graduated from the police academy at the top of her class. She always carries with herself a bottle of shichimi chili peppers which was left by her late mother and sprinkles shichimi over everything she eats. Despite her a bit quirky/cheerful demeanor, she holds dark secrets locked deep within her heart… Hinako became a detective, because she wants to find the line between people who kill and those who don't. Once her "crime-solving switch" is on, nothing can stop Hinako from tackling even the most bizarre crime cases. Armed with her overwhelming memory and unstoppable curiously, will Hinako be able to find answers to her question through seeking to solve various crimes?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa (2016)
Plot Summary:
Criminologist Himura Hideo gets so much pleasure out of being in crime scenes that he's even confessed to having wanted to kill someone. Constantly seeking out the ultimate crime, he is indeed a man with quite a few issues. Mystery writer Arisugawa Arisu, on the other hand, keeps a close eye on Himura's investigations and writes about them but at times completely misses the point. Not at all the type of guy you'd call dependable, Arisugawa nonetheless professes to be the protector of the clumsy Himura. Although these two men appear like they have no business being in crime scenes, they mitigate each other's shortcomings and use their compelling logic to unravel the elaborately woven tricks left behind by the criminals. It's almost as if Himura and Arisugawa use incredible magical powers to tease out unimaginable truths!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Unaired (2010)
Plot Summary:
S.P.I is entering its third season as the most watched Paranormal Hunting program with its Halloween premiere. The team is investigating a haunted garage/basement on secluded property and prepping to create some soaring ratings with scary content. Upon investigation however, they see that what they all fabricate, may in fact be very real.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: dark, psychotronic, suspense, scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, independent film