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Plot Summary:
A woman artist is hired by a wealthy woman to paint a mural in a room however she finds out that the woman wants her to do more than paint the mural as hidden family secrets are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Warning Shot (1966)
Plot Summary:
Pounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman (David Janssen) works his own case.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Les Abysses (1963)
Plot Summary:
A bourgeois family, who is harassed and humiliated, ruins their young maids without pay for several years.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Love Kills (1991)
Plot Summary:
Glamorous fashion photographer Rebecca is getting even. Angered by her husband's infidelity, she takes a lover - a mysterious hunk she fist met during a photo shoot. He's exciting. He's handsome. And, after a night of lovemaking, he confesses he's a hit man hired by her husband to kill her. The stranger also says he's had a change of heart and wants to be Rebecca's protector. But Rebecca's husband, a renowned psychologist, insists the man is a former patient with a hidden, twisted agenda. Both men can't be right. Both could be lying. As the circle of suspense closes in on her, one thing is clear to Rebecca. Any choice she makes could be more than wrong...it could be fatal.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Detached (2009)
Plot Summary:
Detached is a contemporary Scrooge tale set in the Hollywood Hills that follows Chadh Campbell, an unscrupulous mortgage broker, as he receives a stream of anonymous holiday greetings during Christmas Eve and Day. As Chadh searches for the perpetrator of this "festive" assault he must face the unfavorable reality of just how many people he's harmed during his life, forcing him to confront how emotionally detached from those around him he's become.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Sinister Monk (1965)
Plot Summary:
A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult film
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Mother's Deadly Son (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Exclusive (1992)
Plot Summary:
The famous TV journalist Marcy Singer receives an anonymous phone call that orders her to the Blue Moon bar. When she arrives, she finds 6 corpses. Urged by her new boss, she investigates the case, and soon learns about evidence against her own husband Reed.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, mysterious
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Do You Know Me (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ellie Carter is recently graduated and has it all. While celebrating with friend and boyfriend, she comes across a milk carton with a picture of a missing child that looks a lot like her. As a prank, they call the toll free number and she realizes that this person could be her. The more she finds out, the closer she gets to getting herself and beloved ones killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Parallel Corpses (1982)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Death will return (1961)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from Nikos Foskolos’ theatrical play. On a terribly stormy night, in a secluded hotel, the owner, Brigadier Norton, is murdered. Prime suspects: his daughter Elena, his second wife Liza, Liza’s niece and her fiancé, Norton’s physician, and the hotel staff. Inspector Fox and his assistant, policeman Petridis, are assigned the investigation of the crime. While the suspects’ questioning is under way, some more people arrive at the hotel: detective Tilemachos Christofis with his assistant Aliki, and lieutenant Karalis, a sworn enemy of the victim, complicating things even more.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, suspense
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Jigsaw (1968)
Plot Summary:
After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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10 Days of a Good Man (2023)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer turned private investigator takes on a missing person case, propelling him on an unexpected and life-altering quest.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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10 Days of a Bad Man (2023)
Plot Summary:
Battered, broken and bereaved, a private investigator must muscle his way through a tangle of lies to uncover the truth behind a mansion murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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Smoke Screen (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sandra Brown’s “Smoke Screen” follows newswoman Britt Shelley (Jaime Pressly), who shockingly wakes up in bed next to the dead body of Detective Jay Burgess and is suspected of foul play. Five years prior, Jay’s lifelong friend Raley Gannon (Currie Graham) also woke up next to a dead body. After learning of Britt’s scandal and the similarities between their two cases, he realizes she might be his only chance for vindication. As the two unravel their mysterious cases together, they find themselves caught in a dangerous political cover-up involving arson and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, mind bending
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Marlowe (2022)
Plot Summary:
Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to track down her former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Spain, France, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, interesting
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Heads or Tails (1980)
Plot Summary:
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix who, according to her husband Edouard (Michel Serrault), fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more, Baroni begins his inquiry.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective
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Girl (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman returns to her small hometown intent on killing her abusive father only to discover someone murdered him the day before. As the girl searches for answers, she uncovers a family legacy more dangerous than she'd imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological, dark
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The Man from Rome (2022)
Plot Summary:
A computer hacker penetrates Vatican security and sends an urgent anonymous plea to the pope. Handsome Father Quart, of the church's Institute of External Affairs, an arm of the Vatican intelligence, is dispatched to investigate. The message of the hacker concerns a crumbling 17th century Baroque church in the heart of Seville that apparently "kills to defend itself".
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Colombia, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: thrilling
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The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)
Plot Summary:
Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret: her father is the infamous “Marsh King,” the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Cold Moon (2016)
Plot Summary:
Cold Moon takes place in tiny Babylon, Fla., where the granddaughter of Clark’s character is murdered by a mysterious assailant, her body sunk into the black waters of the Styx River — the river where her parents disappeared from their boat a decade earlier. Suspicion falls on a duplicitous banker and his wealthy father, played by Stewart and Lloyd.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, road movie
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The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
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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Manhattan Night (2016)
Plot Summary:
Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, social, independent film, novela
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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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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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Deadly Sanctuary (2015)
Plot Summary:
Feisty, flame-haired reporter, Kendall O'Dell is drawn into an evil web of conspiracy beyond anything she could have ever imagined when she accepts a position at a small newspaper in isolated Castle Valley, Arizona. In the mix is a vanished reporter, two dead teenage girls and an attractive cowboy. Kendall's life hangs in the balance as she strives to uncover the horrifying secret.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, tense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, surprise ending, noir, cult classic
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Psycho II (1983)
Plot Summary:
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" demands and begins to question his own sanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, bloody, splatter, surprise ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Ten Little Indians (1965)
Plot Summary:
Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion.When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in uniquely macabre Agatha Christie-style.It is based on Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the most-printed books of all time.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, talky, psychological, tense, black comedy, black and white, surprise ending, psychotronic, detective, fairy tale
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Crooked House (2017)
Plot Summary:
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, detective, captivating, surprise ending, tense, disturbing, light, clever, gothic
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Perfect Stranger (2007)
Plot Summary:
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending, intense, tense, rough