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Plot Summary:
Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland’s liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 448 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, suspense, erotic, neo noir
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A Grain of Truth (2015)
Plot Summary:
A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth….
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo noir
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Bad Banks (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ambitious Jana is confronted with the unscrupulous machinations of the world of finance. Her working life is determined by egotism, the pressure to succeed and machismo. She soon has to decide how far she is prepared to go for her career.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, captivating, serious, rough
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The Mechanism (2018)
Plot Summary:
A scandal erupts in Brazil during an investigation of alleged government corruption via oil and construction companies. Loosely inspired by true events.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, political, interesting
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In the Shadow (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, suspense, detective, noir, stylized, period piece
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Kidnap and Ransom (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kidnap and Ransom is a British television three-part miniseries, originally shown on ITV in January 2011 with a second series following in February 2012. The series follows the work of a British hostage negotiator Dominic King, played by Trevor Eve, who is also executive producer of the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, dark, detective, exciting, serious, fast
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Lost Without Trace (2020)
Plot Summary:
Anna and Victoria left their homes at 8 a.m. And never came back. An investigator from Saint Petersburg arrived to a small Latvian town in an attempt to find the connection between the two missing women.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Latvia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Greyzone (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a brilliant drone engineer, Victoria, is taken hostage in her own home, a series of dangerous events are set into motion in this high octane thriller.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, disturbing, brutal, detective
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Five Days (2007)
Plot Summary:
Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, captivating, psychological, exciting, suspense, tense, bleak, detective
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Wisdom of the Crowd (2017)
Plot Summary:
A tech innovator creates a cutting-edge crowd-sourcing hub to solve his own daughter's murder, as well as revolutionizing crime solving in San Francisco.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, exciting, thought provoking, suspenseful, stylized, detective
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Huss (2021)
Plot Summary:
When Katarina Huss starts as a police officer, she must learn to cope with the hard everyday life on the streets of Gothenburg. At the same time, her colleagues seem to be hiding something and soon she is drawn into a tangle of corruption and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Enemy Within (2019)
Plot Summary:
Erica Shepherd is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison. Against every fiber of his being but with nowhere else to turn, FBI Agent Will Keaton enlists Shepherd to help track down a fiercely dangerous and elusive criminal she knows all too well. While Shepherd and Keaton have different motivations for bringing the enemy to justice, they both know that to catch a spy… they must think like one.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, disturbing, suspense, captivating, detective, action adventure, suspenseful
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Caliphate (2020)
Plot Summary:
National Security agent Fatima receives a tip that a terrorist attack against Sweden is in the planning stage. Meanwhile Sulle, a teenage girl in Stockholm, gets interested in her student assistent who opens doors to a new and fascinating world - the true path. Kalifat is a thriller about the intermingled fates of five young women who get caught up in the seducing and destroying force of religious fundamentalism.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, disturbing, tense, slasher, dramatic, masterpiece
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Allegiance (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alex O'Connor, a young idealistic CIA analyst specializing in Russian affairs, learns a shocking secret and his close-knit, affluent family is about to be split apart when it's revealed that his parents, Mark and Katya, are covert Russian spies deactivated decades ago. But today the Kremlin has re-enlisted them into service as they plan a terrorist operation inside the U.S. border that will bring America to its knees.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, suspense, interesting
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Wisting (2019)
Plot Summary:
Empathetic, meticulous and relentless - the only thing to escape Larvik detective William Wisting in his hunt for Norway's most notorious criminals is a happy family life. And when two mysterious deaths interrupt Wisting's Christmas, it is the beginning of a showdown with the deadliest killer of them all.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, captivating, disturbing, exciting, clever, suspense, stylized
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The Woods (2020)
Plot Summary:
Paul Copeland is looking to solve the murder of his sister back in 1994.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 306 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, disturbing, suspense, tense, detective, crime thriller
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Paranoid (2016)
Plot Summary:
The murder of a female GP in a rural playground in front of numerous witnesses draws a group of detectives into an ever-darkening mystery that takes them across Europe, aided by mysterious notes sent by the "Ghost Detective".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, noir, exciting, contemplative
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Ragdoll (2021)
Plot Summary:
Detectives look to untangle the case of the Ragdoll Killer, who has killed six people and sewn their bodies into the shape of one grotesque body nicknamed the Ragdoll.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 280 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, thrilling, detective
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Furia (2021)
Plot Summary:
Policeman Asgeir moves to an idyllic town in the west part of Norway. After a local conflict, he meets a mysterious woman named Ragna, and soon they are both trapped in a network of right-wing radical forces that threaten Europe.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Wanted (2005)
Plot Summary:
Wanted was a 2005 American primetime police drama television series broadcast on the TNT network. The series was created by Louis St. Clair and Jorge Zamacona, and executive produced by Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent and Jorge Zamacona.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Klangor (2021)
Plot Summary:
A desperate father looks for his missing daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ironside (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ironside is an upcoming American drama television series that is scheduled to premiere in the 2013–14 television season on NBC. It will air on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern/9 p.m. Central, after Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It is a remake of the 1960s television series Ironside and is set to premiere on October 2, 2013.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, detective, suspenseful
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The Return of the Dancing Master (2004)
Plot Summary:
Former policeman is tortured and murdered and his friend and former colleauge investigates the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Finland
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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The Man Who Smiled (2003)
Plot Summary:
An old friend of Kurt Wallander, solicitor Sten Torstensson, visits him one day to tell him that his father has passed away close to Brösarp under peculiar circumstances. Kurt does not take his friend's worry seriously. Shortly after, the friend is found brutally murdered and Wallander realises too late that he was wrong. In the hunt for the killer Wallander finds a conspiracy of crimes that leads him to a company that handles transplantations of human organs. Behind the company he finds the image of a man. An elegant and self-confident man who writes his own rules. But who is he? Who gives himself the right to judge over other people? Whose morals decide what is right and wrong? Kurt Wallander is not one of them. In "The man who smiled" he gets himself into crossfire of immorality, betrayal, lies and everything else a man will do to be loved.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Bloodlands (2021)
Plot Summary:
Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, crime drama, thrilling, intellectual, contemplative
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Black Sun (2017)
Plot Summary:
A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1930s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, detective, interesting, period drama, detective series
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Blood out of Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Mire (2018)
Plot Summary:
The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they start their own investigation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, thought provoking, suspenseful, crime thriller, dark, sinister
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Hidden Assets (2021)
Plot Summary:
A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Belgium, Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, crime drama
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The Mantis (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jeanne Deber, known as "La Mante", the famous serial murderer who terrorized France more than 20 years ago, is forced by the police to come out of isolation to track down her copycat. She agrees to collaborate on one condition: to have only one interlocutor, Damien Carrot, her son, who became a cop because of the crimes of his mother, and who refuses all contact with her since her arrest.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, detective, surprise ending, dark, crime drama, exciting, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Golden Boy (2013)
Plot Summary:
Golden Boy is an American crime drama series created by Nicholas Wootton, which is produced by Berlanti Television and Warner Bros. Television. CBS placed a series order on May 13, 2012. The series ran on CBS from February 26 to May 14, 2013 and aired Tuesdays at 10:00 pm ET. On May 10, 2013, CBS canceled the series after one season.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, rough, touching, disturbing, detective, tense