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Plot Summary:
A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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The Hatter's Ghost (1982)
Plot Summary:
A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: neo noir, anthology, cult film
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Confidentially Yours (1983)
Plot Summary:
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discover that Marie-Christine Vercel (Caroline Sihol), Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is the prime suspect. But his secretary, Barbara Becker (Fanny Ardant), while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: black and white, noir, neo noir, art house, detective, psychological, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Bodily Harm (1995)
Plot Summary:
Homicide cop Rita Cates takes a murder case where the victim is a Las Vegas stripper. The investigation immediately takes a perverse turn when she discovers the prime suspect: a psychotic ex-cop with whom she once had a torrid affair. That initial affair drove Cates' husband to suicide, but it doesn't stop her from picking up where she left off. In the heat of passion, she jeopardizes the case, her career and her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, surprise ending, twist ending, independent film
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So Sweet... So Perverse (1969)
Plot Summary:
Industrialist Jean is living a jet set life in late sixties Paris. Things are not so well at home with his frigid wife Danielle. He meets their new neighbour, Nicole, and they become lovers. But she has a sadistic ex-boyfriend, Klaus, which keeps showing up. It soon transpires that Danielle and Nicole are conspiring against Jean, Klaus being the hitman hired to murder him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, slasher, cult film
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Priest of Evil (2010)
Plot Summary:
Detective Sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crimes Unit is an honest and conscientious cop;one of the city's very best;who loses his daughter in tragic circumstances. Despite the support he receives;Timo is unable to recover from his loss.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: twist ending, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, neo noir, detective, twisted
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Blade (1973)
Plot Summary:
A homicide detective goes after a woman-hating serial killer, who uses knives to murder his victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, independent film, detective, slasher horror
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Naked Violence (1969)
Plot Summary:
Some youngsters rape and kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, detective
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Terroir (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy wine maker Jonathan Bragg (Keith Carradine) hires Tuscan wine detective (Gaetano Guarino) to discover the source of a mysterious bottle of wine. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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I Am What I Am (1967)
Plot Summary:
Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but Jane thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his second wife, Jane's mother in law. In the same Night Club Bernard finds the blackmailer corpse and Jane near him, but he believes she is innocent. So Bernard and Jane run away followed by a dwarf, the blackmailer's men, who believe Bernard killed their boss and of course, the Police. They believe that Jerome, Jane's brother, can help them to solve the case. But Jane doesn't know where he is, or so she says. Corpse after corpse, Bernard will find out the truth. But will the truth help him?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, sexy, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, sexual, psychedelic
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Nothing Underneath (1985)
Plot Summary:
Thriller in Milan, Italy, where a serial killer uses scissors to assassinate top-models. A Yellowstone park ranger, from Usa, arrives in the city to protect his sister, but she has vanished. The guy will meet a lot of people and will know the (sometimes dangerous) world of international jet-set. But soon the killer will search for him too.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, detective, slasher horror
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is accused of murdering her debauched neighbor after dreaming it. Was she set up, or did she really do it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychosexual thriller, surprise ending, erotic, psychedelic, suspense, experimental, mondo, sensual
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Deadly Daphne's Revenge (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young hitchhiker is picked up by four drunken hunters, one of whom rapes her. A tough prosecutor has all four of the men indicted for the crime, which results in a suicide and a murder-for-hire plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Someone Is Bleeding (1974)
Plot Summary:
On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, sexual, crying
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Illustrious Corpses (1976)
Plot Summary:
A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian Communist Party. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, detective, gloomy, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
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Rojo (2018)
Plot Summary:
A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of a successful lawyer gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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The Forget-Me-Not Murders (1994)
Plot Summary:
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Uncovered (1994)
Plot Summary:
While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, suspense, sexy, crying, independent film, detective
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Dangerous Love (1988)
Plot Summary:
A psychopath kills members of a video dating club and records their deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Reaper (2000)
Plot Summary:
Horror novelist Luke Sinclair retreats to a small town to finish writing his latest book. A young woman is murdered in the woods nearby, in circumstances similar to those in his bestselling novel, "Reaper". Faced with increasing pressure from a suspicious local sheriff, as well as the advances of a female FBI investigator, he must uncover the killer before he or she strikes again, further implicating him in the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film
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Wandering Eye (2011)
Plot Summary:
Neglected by her workaholic husband, a young wife, Maren Abbott, meets a man through Wandering Eye - a networking website designed to facilitate extramarital liaisons. Charming as he is, she realizes she can't go through with the affair. When he is found brutally murdered in their hotel room, infidelity is the least of Maren's worries as she finds herself in the cross-hairs of a serial killer who uses the website to trawl for his next victims. Written by Incendo Media.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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My Dear Killer (1972)
Plot Summary:
Following the mysterious decapitation of an insurance investigator, Police Inspector Peretti is put onto the case, but all the clues lead to an unsolved case of kidnapping and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, slasher, suspense, cult classic, scary, tense, rough, mind bending, bleak, serious
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Too Beautiful to Die (1988)
Plot Summary:
The models of an agency are invited to a party by the owner of the agency, Alex. During the party, Alex is playing games in his computer and it looks like the girls have the house to themselves, but there's another guest…. and an accident happens - a fatal accident. This will start a string of murders - all those that were at that party begin to fall one by one. The police intervene, investigations are made, but the killer is like an elusive shadow….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, suspense, slasher horror
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Chorabali (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sumon is compelled to grow up in the city's underworld as mafia lord Osman Ali's killer machine. After killing a pregnant woman carrying Osman Ali's illegitimate child, Sumon's conscience leads him to defy Ali's order.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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A Private Affair (2002)
Plot Summary:
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing for six months. After interviewing Rachel's family, friends and classmates, Francois is attacked and injured by an anonymous assailant and becomes reluctant to continue his search. But when Rachel's body is found, Francois is drawn deeper into the investigation as he discovers the dead girl's secret life.
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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Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 1990, as a boy, Giulio was chased through the woods by two women after spying on them practicing witchcraft. Now a young film student in Turin, he watches his neighbors in the flats across from his third floor apartment, especially Sasha when she's naked or arguing with her mother. Giulio's girlfriend is disgusted with his voyeurism, but, after a murder occurs, Giulio is convinced that two relative strangers, just as in Hitchcock and Highsmith's "Strangers in a Train," have agreed to murder each other's bête noir. He follows his suspects, ends up with an intruder and a broken foot, and may be in real danger. Is he more than a peeping Tom?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, creepy, expressionism
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Random 11 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Prodigy detective Mitsuko Unagi is on the hunt for a notorious serial killer known only as "Eleven". 10 years earlier, on February 29th 2006, a series of murders began, involving 11 randomly selected victims killed simultaneously in various parts of Tokyo. The killings continue over the next decade, leaving the police with no evidence, no witnesses, and the killer always one step ahead. But now something has changed, and the killer has changed his pattern, giving Detective Unagi the one chance to finally get closer to solving the mystery of the Random 11.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, action thriller, psychological thriller
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The Crimes That Bind (2018)
Plot Summary:
Michiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was strangled to death. Mutsuo Koshikawa is the owner of the apartment and he goes missing. Detectives including Yuhei Matsumiya who is a cousin of Detective Kyoichiro Kaga , have difficulties in solving the case. They can't find a connection between Michiko Oshitani and Mutsuo Koshikawa. They soon learn that Michiko Oshitani came to Tokyo to visit Hiromi Asai . They graduated from the same school, but there isn't a connection between Hiromi Asai and Mutsuo Koshikawa. Detective Yuhei Matsumiya finds something near Michiko Oshitani's body. That something has the names of 12 bridges surrounding the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Detective Kyoichiro Kaga learns of the clue and becomes agitated. There's a connection with his late mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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Eyes of Crystal (2004)
Plot Summary:
While hunting a cultured, intelligent and vicious psychopath, Inspector Amaldi comes face to face with the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his own past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, psychological thriller, disturbing, detective
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The Crimson Rivers (2018)
Plot Summary:
Old-school police detective Pierre Niemans and his former student Camille Delaunay tackle complex, brutal murder cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, captivating, detective
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The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, surreal, dark, disturbing, grindhouse, neo noir, stylized, suspense, creepy