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Plot Summary:
Inspired by actual events. When Melissa Cooper's body is found hanging from a swing set, the 27-year-old's death is initially ruled a suicide. But two weeks later a young man, Adam, comes forward claiming he murdered Melissa on the orders of her husband, Daniel Cooper.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, disturbing, queer cinema
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The Widows of Thursdays (2009)
Plot Summary:
The closed community of "Altos de la Cascada", a private neighborhood of high-priced houses, is moved by the discovery of three corpses that appear floating in a pool and rushes to frame it as an accident. It is the starting point so that through the life of some married couples who live there, Tano (Pablo Echarri) -manager of a multinational- and Teresa (Ana Celentano), Ronnie (Leonardo Sbaraglia) who lives at the expense of his wife Mavy , a real estate agent (Gabriela Toscano), the pusillanimous Martin (Ernesto Alterio) and his dissatisfied wife Lala (Gloria Carrá) and the newcomers Gustavo (Juan Diego Botto) and Carla (Juana Viale), the film attempts a description of the social sector that makes up that type of community and, by extension, to a broader sector of society at the time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, tense, realistic
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I'm a Killer (2016)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events from the 1970s, the story revolves around a young detective who becomes the head of a police unit focused on catching a rampant serial killer of women, nicknamed 'The Silesian Vampire'.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, crime thriller
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Cadaver (2022)
Plot Summary:
A pathologist and a police commissioner try to solve a series of murders involving a prisoner. Their journey leads to shocking revelations!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, dramatic, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
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Scorn (2000)
Plot Summary:
Darren Huenemann, a spoiled 18-year old plots to have two classmates murder his mother and grandmother so he can inherit their fortunes. His worship of Caligula leads him to treat all like those in the Roman Imperial Court, manipulating, threatening and cajoling those who would stand in his way. Based on a true story of the early Nineties in British Columbia.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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My First Client (2019)
Plot Summary:
A success-hungry lawyer meets a young sister and brother suffering from domestic abuse and digs into their case.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, disturbing
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Hukkle (2002)
Plot Summary:
Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no good, some folk-singers at a wedding, etc. While most of the film is a series of vignettes, there is a sinister and often barely perceptible subplot involving murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious, dark comedy, confusing, dark, disturbing, art house
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McBride: Anybody Here Murder Marty? (2005)
Plot Summary:
When Tracy, an aspiring singer breaks up with her longtime boyfriend Joe on the set of a popular talk show, everyone assumes it's nothing more than tv tabloid hijinks. But when the talk show host turns up dead, all evidence points to Joe. McBride must take center stage and clear his client of murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, realistic, detective
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McBride: The Doctor is Out...Really Out (2005)
Plot Summary:
In this particular episode, McBride's client is double-crossed during a custody case by his psychiatrist. The client later confesses to McBride that he believes he accidentally shot the doctor when he confronted him in his home. When McBride goes to the murder scene, the doctor is, as the title says, out - as in gone! A search for the body begins, with time of the essence. David Bowe has a nice comic turn as the panicked client. Former child star Sydney Penny plays one of the suspects, and she has grown up to be a very beautiful young woman. Soap star John Ingle is the confused head of the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, realistic
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Murder Ordained (1987)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a minister who's feeling unhappy in his marriage who then has an affair with a church employee, who is also married, and who also has affairs, and whose husband is unwilling to divorce her. One day the minister's wife is found dead, in what appears to be an auto accident, but the highway patrolman who investigated the accident doesn't think that it's an accident but doesn't have enough evidence to justify an investigation. Later, when the woman's husband is killed an investigation begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Masquerade Hotel (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three murder cases take place in Tokyo. Numbers are left at the murder scenes, possibly hinting at where the next murder will take place. An investigation begins of the serial killer and Detective Kosuke Nitta (Takuya Kimura) works on the case. He believes the next murder will take place at Hotel Koruteshia Tokyo. To catch the killer, Kosuke Nitta goes undercover and begins working at the front desk of the hotel. Naomi Yamagishi (Masami Nagasawa) works at the front desk of Hotel Koruteshia Tokyo. She is selected to train Kosuke Nitta for his front desk job, but they can't get along. Kosuke Nitta is focused on catching the killer, but Naomi Yamagishi prioritizes the safety of the guests. As they begin to understand each others differences, they also begin to build a trust between each other. Who is the murderer? --asianwiki.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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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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The Odds (2011)
Plot Summary:
A murder mystery set in the world of illegal teenage gambling. A 17-year old must find his best friends' killer before the game is exposed.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2017)
Plot Summary:
Librarian and real crime buff Aurora “Roe” Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted to see him dead. When his body is found outside of Aurora’s home, she then becomes the main suspect. Determined to find the killer and clear her name, Aurora can't help but to get involved once again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, psychological
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The Commander (2003)
Plot Summary:
Commander Clare Blake has risen to the top of her profession in the male-dominated Metropolitan Police Service and is now the head of the serious crimes unit. Some years previously she arrested James Lampton for murder. He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison but is now out on parole and is a successful author with a best-selling book. Blake's colleagues however, especially DCI Mike Hedges, believe Lampton is responsible for another murder and are out to prove his guilt. Things become complicated when Blake and Lampton become intimate and the question arises whether he is being honest with her or is simply a master manipulator.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Sparkling Cyanide (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Still of the Night (1982)
Plot Summary:
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, detective, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological thriller, serious, realistic, stylized
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Stolen (2009)
Plot Summary:
A detective becomes obsessed with solving a child's 50-year-old murder, uncovering striking similarities between the case and his son's disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy, detective, extraordinary
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Posers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Four Hardcore party posers are suddenly facing an unknown killer when one of them disappears.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, bleak, realistic, detective
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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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Malice Aforethought (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Edmund Bickleigh is married to a particularly overbearing woman who reminds him at every turn that he is living in her house. But the good doctor has outside interests to help him cope.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Mystery, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Guilty Hearts (2002)
Plot Summary:
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. Someone kills Carrow's wife after she learns of the affair between Jenny and her husband. The murderer is caught and confesses, but that confession leads to new lies which tear apart Jenny Moran's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Shepherds and Butchers (2016)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: South Africa, USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, powerful
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Shock to the System (2006)
Plot Summary:
A gay detective tries to solve the murder of a college student.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective, sexual, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, sexy
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The Wandering Soul Murders (2001)
Plot Summary:
Widowed Joanne Kilbourn is an ex-police officer turned criminology professor. Her husband Ian was the Ontario provincial Attorney General when he was murdered, the murder never solved. Her current home life is on the most part a happy one, except that her eldest son Peter has had an on-again, off-again relationship with a young woman named Christy Sinclair, the relationship which is now on-again. There is something about Christy that does not sit right with Joanne. Joanne's professional life takes a turn when she is asked by an old colleague to act as the on-air crime and justice expert for a local television news show. The first story on which she is to report is the Little Flower Killings, a series of murders of prostitutes. The story has a personal connection to the Kilbourn's as the latest victim, Debbie Morin, was an employee of Joanne's daughter Mieka, who knew nothing about Debbie's past. The lead investigator for the police department on this case is Inspector Philip Millard,.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, mind bending
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Undercover Cheerleader (2019)
Plot Summary:
Autumn is a beautiful transfer student who goes undercover as a cheerleader to do an exposé on the cruel culture of the squad for her school newspaper. But when someone begins viciously attacking cheerleaders, she starts to fear for her own life.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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She Made Them Do It (2013)
Plot Summary:
"She Made Them Do It" follows the twisted life of Sarah Pender (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) a charismatic, intelligent young woman who would become one of the country’s most sought after fugitives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, crime thriller
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Manhunt (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the Klarsfelds, a Franco-German couple who devoted themselves to bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. Their pursuit of Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," takes them to South America, where he has found refuge. After 12 years of investigations, undercover work and battles with authorities, they succeed in having him captured and brought to justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Too Late to Say Goodbye (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jenn Corbin seems to have it all; the perfect husband, children and life. But when this suburban wife and mother in an upscale Atlanta suburb, commits suicide, authorities discover a marriage of secrets and betrayal. While the investigation seems to be leading to the final conclusion that her death was a suicide, bits and pieces of the couple’s lives come to the surface. These discoveries soon convey that looks can be deceiving and people are not necessarily what they appear to be!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Boston Strangler (1968)
Plot Summary:
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, disturbing, rough, suspense, detective, suspenseful, slasher, psychosexual thriller, retro
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Who Killed Atlanta's Children? (2000)
Plot Summary:
From 1979 to 1981, 29 African-American males, mostly children, were either missing or found murdered in metro Atlanta. The cases plagued the city until 1982, when Wayne Wiiliams was convicted of the murders of two adult men. Authorities then considered the other cases closed. Some of the parents of the slain children were critical of the way the cases were handled and believed there was some sort of cover up. Nearly four years after the conviction of Williams, "Spin" magazine editor Ron Larson and reporter Pat Laughlin come to Atlanta in search of the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere, thought provoking