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Plot Summary:
Wang Shicong, chairman of the famous group, died tragically at home. The prosecutor Liang Wenchao and his wife, Abang, learned during the investigation that the deceased’s long-term partner, Dr. Wan, and his ex-wife’s Son Wang Tianyou, young newlywed wife Li Yan, and even the dead ex-wife, each suspect has an intricate connection. As more clues gradually surfaced, they gradually discovered the rich. The amazing secret hidden behind the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, Taiwan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, sexy, detective
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Doppelg?nger II: The Red Box (2020)
Plot Summary:
October 16, 1817: a farmer discovers the corpse of Luigia Bacchi, the woman missing a few days before. At the cemetery, the night before, it was stolen the dead body of Victoria Clementi, the suicidal girl alleged murderer of Luigia Bacchi. The investigations are closed hastily. The Inspector Augusto Donati begins a personal investigation that led him to reconnect these two deaths with an infanticide committed few months earlier. Meanwhile,on July 23, 2017, Anna Persico, perfectly lookalike Vittoria Clementi, continues to be haunted by her doppelganger. Police investigates on the disappearance of Angela, the best friend of Anna, and on the kidnapping of Chiara Ferrari, a girl missing for months, found alive and exactly identical to Luigia Bacchi.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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Sirens and Screams (2015)
Plot Summary:
This film is shot in a continuous 78-minute take. The story takes place in a city ravaged by crisis, poverty and crime. The people who remained belong mostly to the low class, and they're struggling to survive through various criminal activities. One of the last prosperous citizens was murdered, and we're following a large cast of characters in their quest to find his corpse. One of the characters has different plans, but he gets involved in the quest against his will.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Croatia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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24 Little Hours (2020)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful ex-con goes on a 24 hour killing spree, never saying a word. The discredited detective investigating the case is convinced there is more to it than the evidence suggests.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Bad Investigate (2018)
Plot Summary:
Romeu, a corrupt cop, hires the services of Cid and Alex, to catch a notorious criminal, who left Mexico and is on his way to Galicia, Spain to find the killer of his brother, also trying to catch the same criminal is an FBI agent.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Portugal
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, suspense, entertaining
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A Shot Through the Wall (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young Chinese-American cop unravels after accidentally shooting an innocent African-American man through a wall.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Wandering Eye (2011)
Plot Summary:
Neglected by her workaholic husband, a young wife, Maren Abbott, meets a man through Wandering Eye - a networking website designed to facilitate extramarital liaisons. Charming as he is, she realizes she can't go through with the affair. When he is found brutally murdered in their hotel room, infidelity is the least of Maren's worries as she finds herself in the cross-hairs of a serial killer who uses the website to trawl for his next victims. Written by Incendo Media.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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Berenice Seeks (2017)
Plot Summary:
Berenice is a dedicated female taxi driver in Rio de Janeiro. She is consumed by her job and the little free time she has needs to be divided between raising her son Thiago, a teenager exploring his sexuality, and her troubled relationship with her husband Domingos, a police reporter. The scars of the worn-out relationship, ruined by her husband's violent outbursts, have erased her femininity and led her into a great existential emptiness. The murder of Isabelle, a beautiful transgender woman, on Copacabana Beach, ignites her investigative side and transforms her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, queer cinema
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Design of Death (2012)
Plot Summary:
The violent death of an unpopular village resident is initially blamed on an infectious disease, but an investigation shows that everybody in the village had a reason to murder him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy
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Deception of the Novelist (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Deception of the Novelist revolves around Justin’s character as a famous novelist who receives a large inheritance after his father’s passing. He rents out one of his inherited properties to a Japanese/Chinese woman named Elaine and they embark on an affair, causing rifts in his marriage with Jeanna Ho. One night, Elaine is suddenly found dead in the balcony of the house. When police start their investigation, they realize that there are a lot of suspicious factors to the case leading them to suspect that this is not their normal kidnapping or revenge against an unfaithful husband case.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of the infamous Theatre Grand Guignol the story revolves around iconic actress Paula Maxa - the most famous of the Grand Guignol's leading ladies and the titular Most Assassinated Woman, who was graphically slain on stage multiple times a day.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, weird
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Double Xposure (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Song Qi stumbles upon her boyfriend's affair with her best friend, her life quickly starts falling apart and she is subsequently drawn into a quicksand of revenge and murder. Though all is not as it seems and Song Qi will have to embark on a twisted journey into her past and the very depths of her own mind.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Big Shot (2019)
Plot Summary:
Chinese remake of korean film Veteran.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crime drama
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Stealing Paradise (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a brilliant engineer whose breakthrough design is stolen and patented by a colleague. When the colleague is found murdered, she becomes the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, talky
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Masquerade Night (2021)
Plot Summary:
An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at the countdown party Masquerade Night that will be held at Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. Detective Kosuke Nitta must go undercover and work again at the Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. There, he meets Naomi Yamagishi, who works as a concierge. Without any information about the criminal, except that the person will be in attendance, Detective Kosuke Nitta works feverishly to find the criminal among the 500 attendees.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: tense, clever, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, talky, stylized, detective
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A Smell of Blood (2015)
Plot Summary:
Murder strikes a family-run perfume business, and everyone is a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Theevram (2012)
Plot Summary:
Harsha Vardhan is out to avenge his wife's murder. But it will be a tough job when Alexander, the police officer of the city, is very cautious of what is happening around.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspense thriller
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Return (2018)
Plot Summary:
Choi Ja-Hye is a lawyer and Dokgo Young is a detective with a hot temper. They work together on a murder case where the suspects are children from the elite class.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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In Family We Trust (2018)
Plot Summary:
It’s a drama about conflicts in a big family, involving murder and a police investigation. The title is a twist on the idiom, blood is thicker than water. Because of the conflicts, their family bonds aren’t strong. When one relative mysteriously dies, the true colors of everyone in the family are about to be revealed. Yi, the eldest brother and Pete, the second brother, try to find out the truth. Patsorn and Cris, their mother, are the biggest suspects. Both of them need to prove their innocence. But the more Yi and Pete investigate, the more dirt they find on the family and everyone becomes a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Operation Moscow (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 1993, a large number of Chinese businessmen poured into Russia's gold rush. Among them, there were a few distinctive faces. They snoop on the small traders, seek help between gangland and police. They are a secret group dispatched by the Chinese police. Their goal in this trip is find out information clues that Chinese and Russian K3 train robberies which was shocking the word and arrest all the suspects secretly. Led by Chen Erli (Xia Yu) - the head of the Chinese police team, after the team overcame numerous obstacles and suffered many tribulations, launching a tortuous pursuit in a distant foreign land.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Luther (2021)
Plot Summary:
French adaptation of the British series Luther (2010).
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, clever, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, talky, stylized
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The Grave (2019)
Plot Summary:
An earthquake in the north uncovers a large hole in a nature reserve. Inside the hole, three human skeletons are found. The plot thickens when DNA tests reveal that the DNA belongs to three living people.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Crimes That Bind (2018)
Plot Summary:
Michiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was strangled to death. Mutsuo Koshikawa is the owner of the apartment and he goes missing. Detectives including Yuhei Matsumiya who is a cousin of Detective Kyoichiro Kaga , have difficulties in solving the case. They can't find a connection between Michiko Oshitani and Mutsuo Koshikawa. They soon learn that Michiko Oshitani came to Tokyo to visit Hiromi Asai . They graduated from the same school, but there isn't a connection between Hiromi Asai and Mutsuo Koshikawa. Detective Yuhei Matsumiya finds something near Michiko Oshitani's body. That something has the names of 12 bridges surrounding the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Detective Kyoichiro Kaga learns of the clue and becomes agitated. There's a connection with his late mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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Silence of the Rain (2020)
Plot Summary:
When executive Ricardo is found shot dead in the seat of his car without suspicion, Inspector Espinosa and police officer Daia are in charge of the case and soon begin to investigate the people closest to the victim. But when everyone involved in the case mysteriously disappears, the situation takes on unexpected proportions.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Suffering (2017)
Plot Summary:
Pablo Rouviot is a renowned psychoanalyst. His life changes completely when Paula arrives to his office and asks him to prove that his brother, a man with serious psychological problems and accused for the murder of his father, is in no able condition to be judged.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Baishe Srabon (2011)
Plot Summary:
Several murders have taken place through out the city of Kolkata. A Serial killer is believed to be responsible. The mods operandi being that the killer always caries out the murder according to verses in Bengali poetry. He leaves behind the verses next to the victim. The police are baffled. There lead detective struggles to solve the case. This leads to his superiors deciding to bring back an ex-cop to help solve the case. The ex-cop was suspended for orchestrating a fake encounter and is well known for his bad temperament. Now the ex-cop and the lead detective must work together to catch the serial killer before another innocent loses his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, talky, inspirational, dark, suspense thriller
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Angels (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hameem Haider (Indrajith) is a police officer who meets with an accident while investigating a series of murders and is forced to take a break from his duties. Years later the unsolved murders are picked up by a reality TV show.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Viso d'angelo (2011)
Plot Summary:
TV miniseries in four parts. A serial killer mysteriously leaves a signature species, a rosary in the hands of his victims. Inspector Roberto Parisi, a specialist in this type of crime, but that hides a dark past, will be responsible for conducting investigations.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 400 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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Capitani (2019)
Plot Summary:
The body of a teenage girl is found in the forest near the rural village of Manscheid, deep in the North of Luxembourg. Luc Capitani, a gruff detective from the South of the country, is put in charge of the case. Having trouble navigating the closed, communal and protective mentality of the northerners, Capitani finds himself unwillingly dependent on the help of Elsa Ley, a young and intrepid local policewoman. The officers quickly find themselves entangled in a web of secrets and lies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg
Duration: 312 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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Character (2021)
Plot Summary:
A kind man aspires to become a manga writer, but villains and evil deeds do not come easily to him, for he has little experience or natural inclination for them. Things take a surprise turn when he comes across a family who were described as idealized that are no more. He uses the real-life situation for his work.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: manga, scary, tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, comic
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The Void (2021)
Plot Summary:
Esma is a beautiful, ambitious and strong woman who is the second boss of her father's law firm. Filiz is a stubborn but fragile lawyer candidate. One murder will cross the paths of these two different women. But how?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing