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Plot Summary:
An international oil drilling company hires private investigator Varg Veum to find their missing systems designer, Arne Samuelsen. Varg discovers the headless body of a woman jammed into the fridge in Arne's apartment - and is promptly knocked unconscious. When he wakes up the body is gone and the Police has arrived.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Varg Veum - Black Sheep (2011)
Plot Summary:
Varg Veum promises his girlfriend that he will find her sister who has vanished.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Storage (2009)
Plot Summary:
Working at an underground city storage facility, a young man discovers evidence of a murder and vows to bring the killer to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, interesting
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Varg Veum - At Night All Wolves Are Grey (2011)
Plot Summary:
Varg Veum investigates a case where his good friend Even, a highly decorated ex-army officer, is falsely accused of bombing Armakon, a weapons storage facility.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective
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The Boy Next Door (2008)
Plot Summary:
A novelist (Dina Meyer) moves to a little town to write her next novel. She loves to get inspiration and as time goes by she gathers information about her neighbor, a young and wealthy guy whom she observes and picture from her window most of the time. Soon, she gets involved in a crime and most of the evidence is pointing at her due to her lonely life and life style. She needs to fight to demonstrate her innocence and that's what will be the plot of the movie till the end.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Vares: Gambling Chip (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette - only to lose her in a horrible way. After dating Sole a few weeks, her body is found in a bird-watching tower. The investigations come to a standstill, until Vares promises to solve a mystery of messy denunciation letters. Before the letters reveal their secret, a lot of things happen. A gun-for-hire, Stahanov, gets an assignment. Sole's brother finds his wife in the arms of a wrong man and goes on a rampage, accompanied by a black cat. In the end the clues lead to a familiar person and more death in unavoidable.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful
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Varg Veum - Buried Dogs (2008)
Plot Summary:
Racial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum seeker dies at the hands of the Police. Shortly afterwards, a right-wing politician is targeted by a gunman at a public rally and his wife is fatally wounded. Another member of the right-wing party, Marit Holm, approaches private investigator Varg Veum, insisting she is being stalked.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Bitter Flowers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Karsten Aslaksen, chief engineer of a large chemical company, disappears without trace. His married lover, a successful politician named Vibeke Farang, approaches private investigator Varg Veum to track him down discreetly.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, mind bending, realistic
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Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man really. Jack is an expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. He helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, detective
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Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death (2011)
Plot Summary:
Varg Veum investigates the murder of a married couple; prime suspect is the stepson, but Veum does not think he is guilty. Not even when he confesses.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective
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Jack Irish: Black Tide (2012)
Plot Summary:
Life's gone pear-shaped for Jack Irish. He's back to takeaway Chinese for one after his girlfriend Linda abandoned him for a career in Sydney, a flashy Brisvegas type is muscling in on the racetrack action, and his cabinet-making still leaves a lot to be desired. So when an old teammate of his dad's turns up looking for help, it's a welcome distraction for Jack. Des Connors' son Gary has gone missing, having nicked off with all Des's money. But sometimes prodigal sons go AWOL for a reason. As Jack begins to dig he discovers Gary was a man with something to hide and a very good reason to disappear - or be disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, detective, suspenseful
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Cry in the Woods (2004)
Plot Summary:
An unfortunate bank robber takes an escaped mental patient, wanted for murder, as hostage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting, tense
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Telling Lies (2008)
Plot Summary:
The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone calls chart the certain ruin of young Phil's day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another. Told entirely in animated captions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Varg Veum - Fallen Angels (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jakob Aasen has hired his old friend, private investigator Varg Veum, to spy on his wife Rebecca, whom he suspects of infidelity. Against his better judgement Varg accepts the job, and in an ironic twist he and Rebecca rekindle their former love. Meanwhile a serial killer is targeting members of Jacob's band and their families.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, detective
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Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy (2012)
Plot Summary:
Varg Veum tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to avoid her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective, serious, suspenseful
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The Fjällbacka Murders: In the Eye of the Beholder (2012)
Plot Summary:
Erica's sister Anna is visiting at the same time as the TV program "Antiques cubed" is in town to record at the castle in Fjällbacka. When Anna runs into the TV host for the show, Claes Wager, sparks quickly evolve into a flirt between the two of them. During preparation at the castle Anna is the one to find Linda Hamrin unconscious from an overdose of medicine. Both Erica and Patrik are dragged into the case when only a day later a man, Hasse Wennerman, is killed and the rumors of an affair that led to Linda's overdose spiral up into a big conflict. The old painting, Hasse Wennerman brought to the antique show, is also missing and when it is found among Annas belongings, Erica gets a hard time trying to prove her sisters innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, stylized
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Swallow, Cat, Rose, Death (2006)
Plot Summary:
What's in a name but murder? Münster comes across the strangled body of a young woman in her home and surprises the murderer who is still on the premises. Though the murderer escapes, a rare book is found at the scene with a dedication by the killer. When another victim is uncovered, Van Veeteren's literary expertise is put to the test as it becomes clear they are dealing with a serial murderer who kills using names taken from 19th century crime novels. Which name will he use for his next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Varg Veum - Yours 'till Death (2008)
Plot Summary:
Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, realistic, neo noir, detective, serious
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Plot Summary:
A woman accused of murdering her husband is found innocent, only to be terrorized by the real killer once she is set free.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, detective, deep, realistic, cynical
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Carambole (2005)
Plot Summary:
This film is based upon the book with the same name, by Håkan Nesser, one of Swedens most appreciated "crime-authors".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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I Know What I Saw (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mourning the loss of her father, who committed suicide, Mackenzie starts having hallucinations of killing people. They seem so real that she's convinced she's been committing these crimes; however, she can find no evidence to support this. Is she losing her marbles, or is there something sinister at work around her?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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American Crime (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes. This might just be the career opportunity, which she has hoped for. When she herself becomes a target and suddenly disappears, the case attracts a colleague from the nationally syndicated television show "American Crime" as well. Together with Jessie's camera-man and later joined by her producer he tries to solve the mysterious case. Written by Oliver Heidelbach (IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Favor (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kip's perfect life is put in jeopardy when the waitress with whom he's having a casual fling is accidentally killed in their motel room. Desperate, he turns to childhood friend and loser, Marvin, to help get rid of the body. Marvin agrees which begins the unraveling of their friendship and ultimately leads both to murderous acts they never thought themselves capable of.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, twisted, realistic, independent film
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Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty (2008)
Plot Summary:
After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, neo noir, detective, crime drama
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Jack Rises (2013)
Plot Summary:
A London detective tracking a serial killer finds the killers "truth or die" methods take him to New York to solve the case.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 600
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Country: UK
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Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, detective
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
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The Killing Game (2011)
Plot Summary:
Eve Duncan is contacted, 10 years after the disappearance and murder of her 7-year-old daughter Bonnie, by a man claiming to be her killer. Taunted by his clues about Bonnie's case and his threats to kill again, she throws herself into her career as a forensic sculptor and works to close the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Lucky Day (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Two homicide detectives find their careers - and lives - on the line when they get caught up in a case of murder and betrayal in high-society Savannah.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, detective, tense, suspense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Cold in July (2014)
Plot Summary:
How can a split-second decision change your life? While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of low-life burglar Freddy Russell. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father, Ben, rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, realistic, psychological, suspense, atmospheric, tricky, bleak, serious