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Plot Summary:
Investigator Sergey Shumov has a mystery on his hands. On a platform near a Moscow-Sevastopol train station the police have found a young man without documents and no memory. In near perfect detail, he can recall historical dates, songs of his favorite band, but can't recollect his name or say where he’s from. And frustrating Shumov’s search for answers even further are the young man’s personal belongings that offer not one clue to his identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: twisted
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The Buffalo (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple, Shokufeh and Iman who plan to flee Iran travel to the port city of Anzali to meet a man who is to smuggle them across the border. They await him by the side of a lagoon. They accidentally drop their bag of money and jewelry into the lagoon. Iman tries to jump in and find the bag but drowns in the process. A diver called Bahram the Buffalo is assigned to find Iman’s body in the lagoon and a relationship begins to develop between him and Shokufeh….
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Sweet Dreams (1996)
Plot Summary:
A girl awakes from a coma to find her world has collapsed around her and she remembers nothing. But as she does remember she finds out all is not how it should be and someone is out to get her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Revenge Is My Destiny (1971)
Plot Summary:
Chris Robinson plays an eyepatched Vietnam vet named Ross Archer, who comes home to find that his wife had left him and become involved with some shady business dealings.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Box for Rob (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rob Spencer's world begins to unravel when a murder takes place in his town, bringing back a flood of disturbing childhood memories. But things only get worse when he's suspected of being the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative, independent film, twisted
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A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
Plot Summary:
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them shoots them; their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags:
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The Rook (1994)
Plot Summary:
Martin Donovan plays John Abbott, a church investigator looking into a murder. The world is similar to England in the mid to late 1800s but with odd touches such as primitive computers etc. The sets are similar to Brazil, as is the look of a lot of the movie although much more reserved and somewhat more sinister. The movie revolves around a man, Abbott, who starts supremely self confident but eventually has to deal with his own failings and flaws.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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Station (1981)
Plot Summary:
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags:
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The Pacifist (1970)
Plot Summary:
Barbara (Monica Vitti) is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an unpleasant start of battery and stalking, with Pierre Clémenti's louche all-around dropout.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: political
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Footsteps (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jason Davis is a reporter who gets an anonymous tip that turns him into an eyewitness to a judge's murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Cold Side of the Pillow (2017)
Plot Summary:
The true life events of four friends come to screen with a story of self-discovery, pain of friendship, love of loss.
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Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, France, Hungary
Duration:
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Flight of a Bird (1988)
Plot Summary:
Polyot Ptitsy has been given the gift of seeing his deceased brother, but when a new love interest is in trouble he must choose between saving a life or continuing to see his brother everyday.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags:
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64: Part 2 (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: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags:
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The Murder in China Basin (1999)
Plot Summary:
Accused of murder, a man enlists the help of his ex-wife to find the true killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Murder in the Hamptons (2005)
Plot Summary:
After multi-millionaire Ted Ammon is found bludgeoned to death at his East Hampton estate, the fingers point to his estranged wife, Generosa Rand, and her lover, an electrician named Danny Pelosi.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending
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Deceptions (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a wealthy socialite kills her husband, she claims self-defense. The cop assigned to the case is suspicious but becomes obsessed with the sensual young woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Murder Without Conviction (2004)
Plot Summary:
Recently released from her vows as a nun, Christine Bennett is discovering "life on the outside." After a visit to her mentally-handicapped cousin Gene, Christine becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder mystery surrounding James and Edward Talley, twin savant brothers accused of killing their mother on Good Friday.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, gloomy
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Gukoroku - Traces of Sin (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tanaka is going through a tough time trying to support his younger sister Mitsuko, recently arrested and hold up in jail. As an investigative reporter, he immerses himself into a story about a shocking murder case gone cold; a family was brutally murdered a year ago and the case remains unsolved.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: disturbing, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful
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Pluto (2012)
Plot Summary:
is a story about elite high school seniors, the top 1%, who are prepared to go to extremes to get into prestigious universities. A student who has ranked number one at an esteemed school dies in a remote mountain. Finding out why and the ultimate impact of his death make up the bulk of this thriller’s elaborate narrative, whose shocking conclusion could lead us to comment, “We’ve seen a devil.” Despite a structure that freely weaves together past and present, and a cast of appealing actors including Lee David, Gung Jun and Kim Kkot-bi, the most remarkable thing about the film is the theme itself. It touches on and raises the critical issue of the demands of Korea’s education system, which are becoming more extreme and competitive by the day.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, twisted, bleak, non-linear
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Cafe Society (1995)
Plot Summary:
New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found in one Broadway bar or the other, in the company of disreputable persons like pimps and prostitutes. One day,a shady cop, aided by Mickey's own girlfriend, Patricia, decides to accuse him of running a prostitution network. A scandal breaks out.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, slasher, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Robber Bride (2007)
Plot Summary:
Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they've uncovered a homicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Gang of Four (1989)
Plot Summary:
Four inseparable high-school seniors gain from each other the courage to face the harsh realities of their rapidly approaching adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: stylized, psychological, serious, realistic, witty, suspense
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Humanity (1999)
Plot Summary:
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ask more questions than it answers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, erotic, bleak, disturbing, detective, depressing, neo noir, captivating, controversial
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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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UV (2007)
Plot Summary:
During the absence of Philipp, in his house appears the stranger, who calls himself Boris. He says that he was the school comrade of Philipp and it arrived to visit old friend. Boris charms all households and remains to await Philipp. Only one Andre- Pierre distrustful relates to the stranger.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Into the White Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji. As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, twisted, realistic, suspenseful
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I Love Your Work (2003)
Plot Summary:
A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds Gray of his own life before becoming famous. A dark psychological drama, I Love Your Work explores the pressures of fame and the difference between getting what you want and wanting what you get.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, mindfuck, gloomy, crying, freeze frame
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Agnes of God (1985)
Plot Summary:
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, intense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, talky, slasher, clever, contemplative
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Shock Corridor (1963)
Plot Summary:
Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself recognition. With the assistance of a psychiatrist and his girlfriend, Barrett convinces the doctors at the institution to commit him. Once inside, he begins his investigation -- and gradually loses his mind.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, psychological, bleak, atmospheric, surreal, harsh, grindhouse
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Under the Sand (2000)
Plot Summary:
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, enigmatic, melancholic, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, surreal, art house
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992)
Plot Summary:
A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of the killer before he or she can strike again.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: detective, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful