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Plot Summary:
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, serious, suspenseful, dark, mind bending, realistic, tragic ending, independent film, clever
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First Degree (1995)
Plot Summary:
When prominent businessman Andrew Pyne is found shot in a New York alley, one of the NYPD's best, Rick Mallory, suspects a Galeno Mob hit. When he and his partner, Amos Turzo try to question Pyne's widow, Hadley, they are quickly ushered out by her mother-in-law Margeaux. Later when Rick comes back to search Pyne's apartment, he finds material linking the dead man with Endtook, the Galeno's company. The police raid Joe Galeno's house and find the gun that killed Pyne. Joe Galeno is arrested and Rick returns to the Pyne apartment to tell Hadley. She is very distraught, and as Rick comforts her, they become engaged in an ardent affair. Joe Galeno's cousin, Alonzo, is convinced Joe is innocent. He hires Rico Perrini, Rick's former partner, now a private detective, to work on the case. Rico tracks down Pyne's rumored killer, a low-life thug named Tony Fabian, who confesses that Hadley paid him to kill her husband. Rick is now under suspicion and transferred out of homicide. Rick knows.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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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
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Ten Little Indians (1974)
Plot Summary:
Ten people are invited to a hotel for a weekend getaway by a Mr. U. N. Owen, who mysteriously isn't in attendance. When the group gets together for their first dinner, a record is played in which Mr. Owen accuses each guest of committing various unpunished crimes, which sets off a series of murders in the hotel.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, Spain, UK, Iran
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious, fairy tale, realistic, slasher, psychotronic, detective
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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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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)
Plot Summary:
Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: detective, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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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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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987)
Plot Summary:
Miss Marple receives a most interesting request from Mr. Jason Rafiel, with whom she'd struck an acquaintance some years before. He would like her to solve a crime but, does not tell her what it might be, who might have been involved or where it might have occurred. In fact, he can't be sure that a crime was committed at all. The only information she gets is a booking on a tour of stately homes and gardens so, along with her nephew and godson Lionel, she sets off to see what she can learn. When they reach the village of Abbey Ducis, it begins to make sense. Not only did Mr. Rafiel live in the area it is also where his son Michael was accused, though never convicted, of murdering his fiancée, Verity Hunt. Father and son were long estranged but Michael lives rough and has so ever since. There is also the apparent coincidence that another young woman, Nora Brent, went missing at the same time as Verity and was last being seen in Michael Rafiel's car.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, suspenseful, realistic, mind bending
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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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Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Plot Summary:
Miss Marple and Mr Stringer are witness to the death of the very old and rich Mr. Enderby by heart attack. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don’t believe them thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself. A cult film starring Margaret Rutherford.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: black and white, slasher, twist ending, crime drama, detective, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, talky
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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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Murder on the Home Front (2013)
Plot Summary:
At the height of the London blitz, Dr Lennox Collins, pioneer of the new forensic science, is enlisted by DI Wilkins after prostitute Mary Williams is strangled and a swastika carved on her tongue.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, period piece, clever, serious, suspenseful
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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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Ten Little Indians (1987)
Plot Summary:
A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, tension, suspenseful, realistic, tense, bleak, scary, fairy tale
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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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Grantchester (2014)
Plot Summary:
Drama series set in 1953, against the backdrop of the real hamlet of Grantchester. The drama focuses upon the life of Sidney Chambers, a charismatic, charming clergyman who turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, detective, crime drama, period piece, slasher, costume drama, historical drama, realistic, suspenseful
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Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
Plot Summary:
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, realistic, captivating, detective, serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, crime drama, spiritual
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Death on the Nile (1978)
Plot Summary:
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: clever, detective, suspense, captivating, atmospheric, mind bending, talky, enigmatic, scenic, surprise ending
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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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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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Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Plot Summary:
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, talky, thought provoking, stylized, entertaining, clever, funny
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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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Knives Out (2019)
Plot Summary:
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 750000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, exciting, captivating, detective, witty, suspense, disturbing, psychological, twisted, intellectual