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Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie. An American woman getting involved in a diamond theft in South Africa. Nor Poirot nor Marple.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful
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Murder Is Easy (1982)
Plot Summary:
American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial killer in her village and is going to report it to Scotland Yard. When she's murdered after disembarking the train. Williams vows to pursue the case himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Living to Die (1990)
Plot Summary:
A burned-out private detective in Las Vegas gets involved in blackmail and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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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
Similar in 86%
Seven Dials Mystery (1981)
Plot Summary:
When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent (Cheryl Campbell) teams up with the dashing Jimmy Thesinger (James Warwick) to solve the dastardly deeds. Their sleuthing leads them into a world of espionage and international intrigue as they discover a secret society known as "The Seven Dials" and the attempted theft of top-secret government documents.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: tense, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Murder with Mirrors (1985)
Plot Summary:
Marple has been summoned to the lavish country estate of her old friend Carrie Louise Serrocold (Bette Davis). Carrie's stepson has been killed, and she fears that his won't be the last corpse to befoul the estate. She's right, and the game is afoot for Miss Marple once more.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Murder Most Foul (1964)
Plot Summary:
A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation. The third Miss Marple film starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, black and white, suspense, slasher, crime drama, independent film, mind bending
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The Alphabet Murders (1965)
Plot Summary:
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, parody, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (1987)
Plot Summary:
Miss Jane Marple is staying at an elegant hotel from her childhood compliments of her nephew Raymond. Also there is international adventurer Bess Sedgwick and Lady Selena Hazy (Joan Greenwood in her next to last performance). A doorman working at the hotel turns out to be from Bess' past, and when he is killed, she is the prime suspect. But what does his murder have to do with the disappearance of an elderly vicar staying at the hotel, and a string of robberies over the last few months? Miss Marple must find out before the murderer strikes again!!!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: detective, clever, serious, captivating, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987)
Plot Summary:
When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: detective, spooky, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Murder She Said (1961)
Plot Summary:
Miss Marple believes she’s seen a murder in a passing by train yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own. Her inquisitions lead her to a mountain top. The first of four films starring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple that all achieved cult status.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, clever, black and white, slasher, crime drama, cult classic, detective, cult film
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Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
Plot Summary:
Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: detective, clever, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1991)
Plot Summary:
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jane Doe sets out to track down a killer who is targeting fellow CSA agents.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting
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Garage Sale Mystery: All That Glitters (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer Shannon (Lori Loughlin) has a gift for finding rare treasures hidden in garage sales that she can resell at her consignment store, Rags to Riches, and for get her involved in the criminal investigations that happen at the very second-hand sales she frequents. When her friend Martin (Michael Kopsa) turns up murdered just hours after auctioning off an abandoned storage unit full of unique items to Jennifer, she is immediately pulled on the case as a key eyewitness. Working with Detective Lynwood (Kevin O'Grady), Jennifer helps single out a disgruntled customer as the prime suspect, while she and her business partner, Danielle (Sarah Strange), sift through boxes from the auction. As her husband Jason (Steve Bacic) worries about her safety, she starts to get over her head when there is a break-in at her store and a run-in with Martin's angry wife. They must race to save a life and put their own on the line. Will they succeed before times runs out?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful
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Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jessica Fletcher is off to solve another murder mystery, this time in Ireland.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, rough, captivating, suspense, uplifting
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Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the murder of his mother. Calgary can prove that Jack was innocent. In spite of opposition from a hostile family, he is determined to solve the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, independent film, rough, mind bending, neo noir
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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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Dead Man's Folly (1986)
Plot Summary:
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, talky, detective, mind bending, clever, contemplative, detective series
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (1989)
Plot Summary:
On Vacation, Miss Marple discovers that death of a British Officer is actully a murder and must solve the the case before the murderer strikes again.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: detective, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, talky
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Appointment with Death (1988)
Plot Summary:
Emily Boynton, stepmother to the three Boynton children -- Lennox, Raymond and Carol -- and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children and her daughter-in-law Nadine on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. In Jerusalem, the great detective Hercule Poirot meets up with a woman friend, Dr. Sarah King, who falls in love with Raymond Boynton to Emily's disapproval. Lady Westholme, her secretary Miss Quinton and lawyer Cope are following them too. The children discover the second will and Emily succeeds in rubbing the rest the wrong way, causing much hatred towards her. At a dig, Emily is found dead. Poirot investigates.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: talky, slasher, independent film, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, light, romantic
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992)
Plot Summary:
A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of the killer before he or she can strike again.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: detective, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Murder on the Orient Express (2001)
Plot Summary:
Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London onboard the luxurious Orient Express. But, the train comes to a sudden halt when a rock slide blocks the tracks ahead. And all the thrills of riding the famous train come to a halt when a man discovered dead in his compartment, stabbed nine times. The train is stranded. No one has gotten on or gotten off. That can only mean one thing: the killer is onboard, and it is up to Hercule Poirot to find him. [from imdb.com].
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, tense, suspenseful, mind bending, thought provoking, captivating, serious, realistic, contemplative, stylized
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A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
Plot Summary:
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, talky
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: 4:50 from Paddington (1987)
Plot Summary:
When Miss Marple's visiting friend sees a woman being strangled on a passing train, they immediately report it to the police. Inspector Slack sees Miss Marple as a bit of a busy body and drops the investigation after only a few days. Miss Marple however determines that there is only one spot along the line where a body could have been dumped and it happens to be very near the Crackenthorpe estate. She asks her niece, Lucy Eyelesbarrow, to go there undercover as a domestic. She soon finds the dead woman's body at which time the police take on a renewed interest but it is left to Miss Marple to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: detective, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Plot Summary:
Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, suspenseful, clever, tense, talky, enigmatic, dark, twisted, realistic
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Murder in Three Acts (1986)
Plot Summary:
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective series
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Death on the Nile (2022)
Plot Summary:
Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won't give her a promised dowry, writer Salome Otterbourne is facing a libel suit brought by Linnet, Salome's daughter Rosalie wants to protect her mother, American Andrew Pennington has been embezzling from the Ridgeway family, and former friend Jacqueline de Bellefort is upset that Linnet stole her fiance, Simon, away from her. Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot must unravel the mystery when Linnet (and some of the others) turn up dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 180000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: detective, captivating, costume drama, artsy, non-linear, suspense, surprise ending, clever, entertaining, dramatic
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Lucky Day (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nora Barkin is an aspiring actress who supports herself by working for a courier service. No sooner has Nora's friend and coworker Bill Reagan jubilantly announced that he possesses a lottery ticket worth 13 million dollars than Bill is killed by an unknown assailant. Though discouraged from doing so by investigating detective Marinello, Nora insists upon trying to solve Bill's murder herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending
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Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jessica Fletcher discovers a shocking old family secret that leads her on a journey to the deep South to bring to light the mysterious details surrounding the death of a slave owned by one of her long dead ancestors in the mid-1800s.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, enigmatic
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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