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Plot Summary:
US TV version of the classic Sherlock Holmes story.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: detective, psychotronic
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Best tv shows and movies like The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972):
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Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times with a tale that he had invented a method of suspended animation that he had utilized on himself. Awakened by an earthquake, he is helped by Amy Winslow, who lives at 1994 Baker Street in San Francisco. There he is joined by a new group of Baker Street Irregulars led by Zapper. His battles lead him to the evil Moriarty clan led by James Moriarty Booth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Return of Charlie Chan (1972)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Chan comes out of retirement to investigate a murder case aboard the yacht of a wealthy Greek shipping tycoon.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, detective, tension, suspense
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The Cater Street Hangman (1998)
Plot Summary:
With the help of a feisty aristocratic woman, a working-class Scotland Yard inspector hunts for a serial killer of young women in Victorian London.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, period drama
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Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
Plot Summary:
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, detective, period drama
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Nightkill (1980)
Plot Summary:
The wife of a wealthy industrialist finds herself caught-up in a web of intrigue & murder which was created by her own deceit. When she tries to escape the results of her actions, she too falls victim to deception.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 869
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, detective, neo noir, erotic, independent film
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)
Plot Summary:
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov -Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: detective, natural horror
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Curse of the Black Widow (1977)
Plot Summary:
Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, psychotronic
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Apparition of Evil (2014)
Plot Summary:
Chilling paranormal portmanteau following a researcher who stumbles across a collection of disturbing video evidence she has obtained from a mysterious source including a location recce made by two young filmmakers, Cain and Dion, who venture to the Australian outback in search of an interesting location for their next movie only to discover an ancient swamp spirit called Raluul, and a video diary of a man called Karl Hendry who starts hearing unusual noises once he finds a mysterious doll-house in the attic of his new house in the North of England.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: anthology, tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense, dark fairy tale
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The Sign of Four (1983)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Holmes & Watson (2018)
Plot Summary:
Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a murder at Buckingham Palace. They soon learn that they have only four days to solve the case, or the queen will become the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: ironic, humorous, not serious, feel good, parody, absurd, detective, spoof, funny, perverse
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Horror
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, detective, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
Plot Summary:
Director Paul Morrissey applies a hefty dose of humor to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective story in this interpretation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Comedian Peter Cook takes on the role of brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, who's not so gifted here as he relegates much of the investigation of demonic dogs to his bumbling sidekick, Watson (Dudley Moore), while he spends time with his mother and searches for an assistant.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, detective, spoof, natural horror, independent film, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, witty, not serious
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The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: detective, detective series
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Cold Blood Canyon (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Mr. and Mrs. Myers move into their highly coveted Beverly Hills home, they wonder why the price tag is too good to be true. Their daughter, Danielle, discovers the truth when a neighbor tells her one of the previous owners was murdered there years ago. When Danielle falls prey to the hauntings of the ghostly victim who lived there, Danni's dream home turns into the house from hell after she is tortured and attacked by the evil apparition. After Danielle's cries go unheard by her oblivious parents, she realizes she must get out of the house as quickly as possible or she is going to be the next victim of an even greater threat.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious
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Furnace (2007)
Plot Summary:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, detective, scary, rough, bleak, serious
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Plot Summary:
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, atmospheric, clever, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, period drama
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)
Plot Summary:
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television and originally broadcast on the ITV Network. There were two series of 13 fifty-minute episodes; the first aired in 1971, the second in 1973. The programme presented adaptations of short mystery, suspense or crime stories featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes took its inspiration – and title – from a series of published anthologies by Hugh Greene, elder brother of author Graham Greene and the former director-general of the BBC. Hugh Greene is credited on the programme as a creative consultant. The authors and detectives featured on the programme include: ⁕Robert Barr ⁕Guy Boothby ⁕Ernest Bramah ⁕R. Austin Freeman ⁕Jacques Futrelle ⁕Adalbert Goldscheider, a.k.a. "Balduin Groller" ⁕George Griffith.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anthology, detective, dark fairy tale
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Altar (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, demonic, esoteric, offbeat, surprise ending
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Secret of the Blackbirds (1983)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, enigmatic, detective, surprise ending
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The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
Plot Summary:
West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: detective, period piece, gothic horror, psychological thriller, exciting, dramatic, costume drama, psychological horror, surprise ending, gothic
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)
Plot Summary:
Sir Charles Baskerville dies on the moor under mysterious circumstances and rumors abound about a demonic hound. When the American heir arrives to take charge, a family friend calls in Holmes and Watson to get to the heart of the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective, gothic, spooky, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, vintage
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called in to unravel a mysterious curse that has plagued the Baskerville family for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead, his heir, Sir Henry, begs Holmes to save him from the terrifying supernatural hound that has brought fear and death to his household.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, atmospheric, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, stylized, natural horror, psychotronic
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Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984)
Plot Summary:
Holmes (Peter Cushing) and Dr. Watson (John Mills) ponder cases in which the victims seem to have been scared to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: detective, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000)
Plot Summary:
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a longstanding curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Enigmatic sleuth Sherlock Holmes is on the case to uncover the truth about a monstrous, supernatural hound who roams the moors, waiting to attack the latest heir to the Baskerville estate. Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, detective, suspense, natural horror, scary, mind bending, serious, psychotronic
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Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002)
Plot Summary:
Early in his crime-solving career, Sherlock Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty from cornering the heroin market.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mind bending, clever, serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychedelic, detective, tragic, period drama
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The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002)
Plot Summary:
The scene of the crime is Whitechapel, the same London district notorious for the recent attacks of Jack the Ripper. Three monks are found dead, the apparent victims of a vampire - now, someone else is out for blood. Or is it something else? As bizarre events unfold, the answer is left to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to find.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense, gothic, realistic, detective
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A Study in Terror (1965)
Plot Summary:
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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The Sign of Four (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance; this leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: detective, realistic, exciting, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, stylized, atmospheric, thought provoking, intellectual
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)
Plot Summary:
The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very loose ends.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, detective
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Murder by Decree (1979)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, gothic, serious, factual, stylized, psychotronic, gothic horror