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Plot Summary:
Weeks after his wife's suspicious death, Dr Martin MacNeill moves in his mistress under the guise of a live-in nanny. Shocked by her father's actions, his daughter begins to question everything she's known about him while uncovering a web of lies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Crimes of Passion: King Lily of the Valley (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spring is in the air and Puck and Einar, as well as Christer Wijk are invited to a wedding in Skoga. The day before the wedding, the bride-to-be enters a flower-shop in order to inspect her bridal bouquet of lily of the valley, but suddenly vanishes without at trace. When she eventually turns up again, it is Christer who finds her. She lies dead outside her home with a bouquet of lily of the valley in her hand. Everybody close to the bride are suspects, not least her best friend, whom Christer has just begun flirting with. Everybody seems to have something to hide. Question is: are their secrets connected to the murder?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Crimes of Passion: Death of a Loved One (2013)
Plot Summary:
Puck has been invited by her tutor at the university to celebrate midsummer at his secluded cottage on an island together with a group of friends, among them Einar Bure. Puck and Einar are having a secret relationship, and he is the reason she says yes to the invitation. Having been out on a romantic spree with Einar, Puck finds one of the female guests murdered. Einar contacts his friend Christer Wijk, but upon Christer's arrival, the dead body has disappeared. The contact with the outside world is broken when the island's only boat goes missing. They are trapped on the island - and someone among them is a killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, period piece
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The Holiday (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Kate, a woman who discovers that her husband is having an affair during a luxurious holiday somewhere in the Mediterranean. The troubled couple are sharing a villa with four of Kate’s closest friends, one of which is the adulterous partner, but she doesn’t realise that the guilty party could be prepared to kill in order to keep their secret safe.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Crimes of Passion: No More Murders (2013)
Plot Summary:
Puck and Einar decide to spend the last weeks of their vacation in Einar's idyllic childhood town Skoga. Pucks father Johannes Ekstedt, professor in Egyptology, has a household cat called Thotmes III that joins the couple. They get to borrow both Einar's sisters beautiful old wooden house as well as her highly competent housekeeper. But after the first night, the idyll crumbles. Einar finds a dead body on the lawn, a young man stabbed to death by a dagger. Christer Wijk enters the stage and with the help of Pucks observations the mystery approaches its tragic solution.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, detective, period piece
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Final Vision (2017)
Plot Summary:
Capt. Jeffery McDonald is convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1979 for the murders of his wife and two children at their Fort Bragg home.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Work Wife (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a tense few months following a miscarriage and an unemployment spell, things are finally looking up for Sean (Kevin Sizemore) and Lisa Miller (Elizabeth Harnois) when Sean lands his dream job at an advertising firm. But when Sean’s assistant, Jen (Cerina Vincent), his self-proclaimed “Work Wife,” begins vying for his affection, it soon becomes clear that she will stop at nothing to rip their marriage apart and claim him as her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Heart Blackened (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tae-san is a man who truly has everything: money, fame, power and two women he loves: his only daughter, Mira, and his fiancée, Yuna, a chart-topping popstar. He wants them to get along, but Mira doesn’t treat kindly her stepmother-to-be.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: captivating, twisted, entertaining
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Invisible Killer (2009)
Plot Summary:
Zhang Yao, the leader of the Haidao vice squad, accidentally captured suspect Gao Fei, who used a fake ID. According to his confession, Gao Fei is a player of the online game "World of Warcraft" and he once met a beautiful young woman Ju Yue at a party. They began to date. One night, Cheng Tao, Lin Yan's husband, unexpectedly found the saucy chat record between Gao Fei and his wife. In a blaze of anger, he posted an anonymous letter online condemning them . His story drew more attention than expected. Net-friends started a "cyber manhunt" and the private information of Gao Fei and Ju Yue were posted online. They also issued a wanted circular for Gao Fei and Ju Yue. To protect his family and himself, Gao Fei lost his job and hid on an island with a fake ID. After Gao Fei left the police station, Zhang Yao answered a call that a headless female body was found on the dock.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime
Country: China
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Dark Nest (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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My Murder (2012)
Plot Summary:
A chance meeting with a girl leads to murder as a teenage boy is engulfed by a web of lies in this innovative and gripping factual drama. My Murder tells the true story of Shakilus Townsend, a 16-year-old boy who was led to his death by the 15-year-old he thought of as his girlfriend, in what became known as the honey trap killing.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Broken Shore (2013)
Plot Summary:
An evocative crime thriller that captures the chilling action and sharp wit of Peter Temple's acclaimed novel The Broken Shore. In this gripping adaptation, Detective Joe Cashin uncovers a web of lies, betrayal and police corruption in a small coastal town where tensions are at boiling point and the shocking face behind the community's respectable mask is slowly unveiled.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
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S Storm (2016)
Plot Summary:
No sooner is a team at ICAC set up to investigate irregularities/corruption in soccer/football official gaming/betting in Hong Kong before a suspect is assassinated.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Road to Murder (2020)
Plot Summary:
After his father was driven to suicide, Kubota Kazuma and his cousin vow to kill the man responsible for his death. However, given that neither of them have ever killed someone, it requires a lot of planning and a lot of help to achieve the perfect crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Lakeside Murder Case (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One night, one of the wives confesses to her husband that she has killed his mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Murder at Honeymoon Hotel (2016)
Plot Summary:
Da Zhi is a doorman at a luxury hotel. He uses his vacation in exchange of a presidential suite at the hotel to satisfy his wife's wish. However, the manager gives the presidential suite to a celebrity and breaks the deal with him. He tries to ask bargain with the movie star, but strange things happen during his dealing, and a conspiracy begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Mystery at the Opera (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Paris opera house is about to give a performance of Carmen, when a young usherette is killed in one of the boxes. Faustine must prove her fiancé’s innocence before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Primal Doubt (2007)
Plot Summary:
When an ex-romance author who is trapped in an unsatisfying marriage, decides to give love another chance with a man she met over the Internet, she finds herself caught up in a terrifying murder mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Man in 3B (2015)
Plot Summary:
Daryl Graham (Lamman Rucker) has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neighbors, both male and female alike, can't stop talking about him. From his extreme attractiveness to his undeniable swag, Daryl is the man every woman wants and every man wants to be. Connie (Brely Evans), an unhappy wife, turns to Daryl for help losing weight, hoping to fix her marriage. But when Daryl starts making Connie feel beautiful again, she questions whether her marriage is worth saving. Benny (Robert Ri'chard), a spoiled teenager raised by a single father, looks up to Daryl. When an unexpected event occurs, Benny is left questioning everything he's ever known to be true. Krystal (Nafessa Williams), Daryl's first love, wants to make things work with her current boyfriend. Yet having Daryl back in her life sends her happy home spiraling out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Too Late to Say Goodbye (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jenn Corbin seems to have it all; the perfect husband, children and life. But when this suburban wife and mother in an upscale Atlanta suburb, commits suicide, authorities discover a marriage of secrets and betrayal. While the investigation seems to be leading to the final conclusion that her death was a suicide, bits and pieces of the couple’s lives come to the surface. These discoveries soon convey that looks can be deceiving and people are not necessarily what they appear to be!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Girl Is in Trouble (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 985
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Menendez: Blood Brothers (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lyle and Eric Menendez were nice, educated boys from Beverly Hills, which makes the murder of their parents even more inexplicable. Never-before-seen details emerge in this investigation into their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Happy Face Killer (2014)
Plot Summary:
Serial killer Keith Jesperson murders at least eight women over a five-year span and taunts authorities with disturbing letters and scribbled confessions signed with a happy face.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Yara (2021)
Plot Summary:
The murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio shocks the little town of Brembate di Sopra, Italy. To bring the culprit to justice, prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri only has one tenuous lead: a bit of DNA that's not much help without a database to compare it to. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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CopyCat Killers (2016)
Plot Summary:
Go behind the headlines of real-life murder cases which copy memorable slayings seen in Hollywood movies. Each episode features a mystifying murder scene and law enforcement’s hunt for the killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Thing About Pam (2022)
Plot Summary:
Based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in her husband Russ’ conviction, though he insisted he did not kill her. His conviction later was overturned, but the brutal crime set off a chain of events that would expose a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 258 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Real Murders of Orange County (2020)
Plot Summary:
Horrific and salacious cases rock Southern California's wealthy coastal community. From a murder-for-hire gone wrong to families turning on their own, viewers hear the harrowing tales of when privilege leads to problems and greed leads to murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Smother (2021)
Plot Summary:
On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Katsuragi Murder Case (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Katsuragi Household that runs a small store may appear serene. But as the younger son Minoru commits a murder on the street, the family is exposed to the public. Is there anybody that is behind this murder case?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Blame (2021)
Plot Summary:
While on vacation in rural Wisconsin, five friends seek refuge in a lone building after their vehicle crashes in a vicious snowstorm. With no cell service, the group splits up to find help but when they reunite, one of them is found dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase ‘serial killer’.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological