Best movies like White Night
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Plot Summary:
A pawnbroker is found murdered in a remote town in a derelict building. Three people come under suspicion but all of them have perfect alibis and the investigation comes to a standstill. Almost fifteen years pass and the lead inspector decides to re-investigate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, erotic, psychological, romantic comedy, twisted
Best tv shows and movies like White Night (2009):
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The Case of Itaewon Homicide (2009)
Plot Summary:
On the night of April 8, 1997, an innocent college student was brutally murdered in a burger shop washroom for no apparent reason. 2 Korean-American teenagers are brought for questioning and are charged with murder and possession of lethal weapon and withholding evidence. Neither is remorseful for their heinous crimes and blames each other for the killing.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating
Similar in 76%
Tipping Point (2007)
Plot Summary:
A medical student is desperate to solve a murder to prove that she's not having a psychological breakdown, as her family and friends believe her to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Manmadhan (2004)
Plot Summary:
Manmadhan movie revoles around Two brothers look a same (Silambarasan) who is the younger one is a play boy who enjoys his leisure time partying with girls, while the older Simbu is a calm type. But he has another face. A psychotic.Problems starts when the girls, who parties with the younger Simbu are murdered one by one.Meanwhile a lady doctor, Mandhira Bedi has been called to treat the older Simbu who has a mental disorder. She founds out that he is the killer whom the police are looking for. This brings the twist in the story. Why he is the killing.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, erotic, surprise ending
Similar in 88%
Inteqam: The Perfect Game (2004)
Plot Summary:
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Uday Dhirendra Thakur, is a rogue cop, known for his relentlessness in pursuing criminals, and bringing them to justice, failing which, killing them in false encounters. It is this reputation that gets him transferred to crime detection, and counseling at the hands of Dr. Mehak.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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Maayavan (2017)
Plot Summary:
A series of murders are happening in the city, and a cop realises that they are all eerily similar. Can he find out the link and capture the murderer before it is too late?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspense thriller
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Out of Control (2009)
Plot Summary:
Against her father's wishes, a young female cop in Chicago pursues her dream of becoming a detective when she's brought on to investigate a major murder case.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Ice Princess (2007)
Plot Summary:
Errica returns to her hometown for her parents funeral and her childhood friend murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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64: Part I (2016)
Plot Summary:
1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years were over as the prefecture's police to be unsolved greatest stain, and statute of limitations approached it. In 2002, Yoshinobu Mikami, an ex-detective who was assigned as the investigator of the "Rokuyon" case 14years ago, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department against his will. As a newly assigned Public Relations Officer, he was troubled with the relation between the reporters, new case has occurred. And that new case traced "Rokuyon" case exactly.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Night and Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
Working on a series of harrowing cases, forensic pathologist, Sara Grau, finds the key to a case in which she has unwittingly become a prime target. Sophisticated Spanish crime thriller.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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The Village: Achiara's Secret (2015)
Plot Summary:
Achiara is a quiet, peaceful village with hardly any crime. But on her first day of school there, English language instructor Kim So-yoon discovers a buried corpse. As the townspeople speculate on the identity of the dead person and the reason she was killed, So-yoon and policeman Park Woo-jae become determined to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: sexy, enigmatic, disturbing, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, detective
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Anjaam Pathiraa (2020)
Plot Summary:
A psychologist with a keen interest in criminology gets entangled in a tough serial killer case which the police find hard to crack.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Sleeping Forest (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company insists that the incident is a self defense case, but after an investigation there's doubts in that claim. Then, the director of the Takayanagi Ballet Company is poisoned to death. Are the cases related?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Cheerleader Murders (2016)
Plot Summary:
A high school student whose father and sister were recently murdered begins her own investigation after two of her fellow cheerleaders are kidnapped. She sets out on a rescue mission, but the killer may already be hot on her trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Shameless (2015)
Plot Summary:
A homicide detective tries to flush out a mob enforcer by befriending the suspect's beautiful girlfriend, but soon develops romantic feelings for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, crime drama, detective
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Forensic (2020)
Plot Summary:
A forensic analyst and an investigation officer are on a chase to hunt down a gruesome serial killer and crack one of the most famous cold cases in the history of their departments.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, twisted, exciting, contemplative
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The Black Widow Killer (2018)
Plot Summary:
A single mother fears for her life and that of her daughter when they become targets of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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911 Nightmare (2016)
Plot Summary:
Officer Chris McCullers was gravely injured in a shootout and now works on 911-dispatch. Resentful that her career has ended up here, Chris receives a call from a scared kid and dismisses it as a prank. The next day, she learns that the call was all too real: there's been a murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Cursed Lesson (2020)
Plot Summary:
Online fashion model Hyo-jeong faces imminent threat of being unemployed because of the younger and more fashionable generation coming after her. While relying on surgical procedures and treatments, Hyo-jeong hears about a mysterious yoga class that helps make perfect body shape from her old high school classmate, Ga-yeong. Hyo-jeong eventually attends the yoga class with three classmates: Mi-yeon, a boxer who failed to keep her body fit, Ji-won, who has unstable mental condition, and Ye-na, a movie star who is morbidly obsessed with her appearance. Meanwhile, police start to investigate the enigma behind this yoga class after finding out that a murder in the neighborhood was committed by a woman named Bo-ra, a former yoga class student.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, sexy
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Fatal Intuition (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jang-woo had only his sister to live for until she is brutally murdered. During a ritual to send her spirit to heaven, he comes across a suspicious man, who manages to escape from the scene. He begins to suspect a local pharmacist and keeps an eye on him. Although Jang-woo is absolutely convinced that the pharmacist is the killer, no one believes him because the pharmacist is considered the kindest man in town. But he gets help from a possessed woman named Si-eun who foresees how people die. Their pursuit begins and Si-eun predicts yet another murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Secret Scandal (2013)
Plot Summary:
A reporter and a prosecutor investigate the death of an actress, and in the process come into conflict with a group of very powerful people. Based on the true story of actress Jang Ja-yeon's suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Mord in Eberswalde (2013)
Plot Summary:
Heinz Gödicke (Ronals Zehrfeld) is the chief commissioner of the People's Police in the small town of Eberswalde in Brandenburg. Gödicke is called when two bestial murdered children are found in the forest. The investigator tries to get involved in the perpetrators - a rarely used method at the People's Police - and the perpetrator so on the track. The Stasi-Major Witt (Florian Panzer) is no friend of this procedure and leaves the commissioner only reluctantly free hand in the investigation. The matter does not go to the authorities fast enough and is then simply put to the files. When another murder occurs, it becomes clear that Gödicke was much closer to the enlightenment of the act than everyone thought.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Bordertown: The Mural Murders (2021)
Plot Summary:
A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, “Making the world a better place”, is linked to a voting circulating in social media, where people can vote for persons that world would be a better place without. Soon the first body is found and Sorjonen must find the person who has named himself as The Judge.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Labyrinth (2003)
Plot Summary:
Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders. Is Claude really guilty of the crimes, or is he a victim of his own mind?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, mystical, mystic, suspense thriller, intellectual
Similar in 75%
Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru (2016)
Plot Summary:
A former cop looks back on the case which left him disabled and forced him to quit the force.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, tense, captivating, intense, dark, crime thriller, twisted, unpredictable, detective
Similar in 77%
Grudge (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ahead of a promotion, a police chief becomes entangled in a deadly incident and uncovers an intrigue fueled by grudge that threatens his colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, tense, confusing, suspenseful
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Parot (2021)
Plot Summary:
A police inspector tries to find out who has murdered numerous inmates who could have been released from prison thanks to the cancellation of the controversial Parot doctrine.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political thriller
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Mouse (2021)
Plot Summary:
A psychopath’s ruthless serial murders have left the entire nation gripped with fear and chaos. A honest and justice-seeking rookie police officer and a veteran detective with tragic past, face against the killer. After the encounter with the psychopath, their lives totally change.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, detective, psychological thriller
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Marnow Murders (2021)
Plot Summary:
The city of Schwerin is melting – it is the hottest summer in years. Detectives Lona Mendt and Frank Elling are on the trail of a serial murderer, who seems to choose his victims randomly. But nothing is as it seems. The detectives have apparently made some powerful enemies that will do everything in their power to keep the truth from coming to light. The further along with their investigation Frank Elling, a devoted husband and father, and the aloof Lona Mendt get, the bigger the obstacles become.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Partners for Justice (2018)
Plot Summary:
Baek Beom has worked as a forensic doctor for 10 years. He has a bad personality, but he is excellent with his work. Baek Beom does not open his mind to other people. Eun Sol is a rookie prosecutor with a warm heart. She has a bright personality and she comes from wealth family background. The forensic doctor and prosecutor work together to solve cases.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, detective