Best tv shows like A Private Affair
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Plot Summary:
Marina Quiroga, a daring upper-class girl with a detective's soul, sets off to catch the serial killer that has been terrorizing her town with her faithful butler Hector's help.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, period drama
Best tv shows and movies like A Private Affair (2022):
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Gora (2022)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is targetting the literary greats of Kolkata. Private 'defective' Gourab Sen, aka Gora, has a reputation as a serial killer specialist. No wonder it falls upon the eccentric detective to unmask the killer!.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags:
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23 Morde (2019)
Plot Summary:
Self proclaimed serial killer Max Rapp is in prison for the murder of 23 people. Detectives Tara Scholl and Henry Kloss suspect he is innocent of these crimes. However, if Rapp isn't a serial killer how is he able to slip into the minds of them? His mind functions predatory in nature, because of this, his skills prove vital in uncovering who is really behind these cases.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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Deadloch (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two vastly different female detectives are thrown together to solve the murder of a local man in the sleepy seaside hamlet of Deadloch.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Reyka (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1994 South Africa, the daughter of a multiracial couple is kidnapped. She escapes and as an adult becomes a detective. Continuing to deal with her past trauma, Reyka Gama uses her skills to raise her child and solve mysteries that have challenged others.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: detective
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Anonymous Detective (2012)
Plot Summary:
Katsunori Takahashi, from the hit series Hitoshi Tadano, is back in a new detective drama that blends the suspense from investigating and solving cases with comedy and colorful adult situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags:
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Band of Gold (1995)
Plot Summary:
Band of Gold is a British drama series written by Kay Mellor and produced by Granada Television. It was originally shown on ITV between 1995 and 1997. Starring Geraldine James, Cathy Tyson, Barbara Dickson and Samantha Morton, the series revolves around the lives of a group of women who live and work in Bradford's red-light district.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 290 min
Plot tags:
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Sidetracked (2001)
Plot Summary:
It is autumn and the people in the otherwise peaceful small town Ystad settle down. But for Kurt Wallander broken idyll of a young woman burned to death in a cornfield. Soon after hitting a serial killer with a series of increasingly brutal murder. What is the relationship between a retired attorney general, a successful art dealer and an ordinary petty thief? Why scalp killer his victims?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: detective
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Plenilune (1999)
Plot Summary:
Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade in a small town in Spain, murdering young girls and leaving their bodies in a nearby forest.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: detective
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Devices and Desires (1991)
Plot Summary:
A particularly vicious serial killer is stalking the Norfolk coast in the vicinity of the Larksoken nuclear power station. The press have branded him 'The Whistler' because witnesses have heard a hymn being whistled in the vicinity of the murders. His trademark is the letter 'L' carved on the forehead of his victims. L for Larksoken? At first, his victims seem to be chosen entirely at random - women in the wrong place at the wrong time - but then two women employed at the nuclear power station are murdered in quick succession.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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Pie in the Sky (1994)
Plot Summary:
Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Paradise (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two murders shake the Finnish community of Fuengirola, a group that made this tiny corner of Málaga their own little Finnish paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Hilkka Mäntymäki, a veteran crime detective aged 60, is travelling from Helsinki to help the local police on a case that will soon claim new victims. Because escaping the cold and the dark is much easier than leaving your own past behind.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Spain
Duration: 370 min
Plot tags:
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Screw (2022)
Plot Summary:
Rob Williams' darkly comic crime drama portrays prison as you've never seen it before: through the embattled and inspiring characters who work there.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: humorous
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Sebastian Bergman (2010)
Plot Summary:
Swedish crime drama series about forensic psychologist Sebastian Bergmann.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, detective, gloomy
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Touching Evil (2004)
Plot Summary:
Returning from a year-long psychological leave of absence after surviving an almost-fatal gunshot wound to the head, Detective David Creegan is assigned to the FBI's Organized and Serial Crime Unit – a rapid-response, elite crime investigation squad – where he and his new partner, Detective Susan Branca, find themselves committed to saving lives and solving cases. In spite of his inability to abide by common sense and the laws he's sworn to uphold, Creegan, with the help of Branca, works on hunting down the most vicious criminals on the streets.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, crime drama
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In the Red (1998)
Plot Summary:
A series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And the killer regularly calls about his handiwork, but only to a street-wise, and usually rather tipsy, radio reporter, about to be sacked for his habitual irreverence toward his station and the BBC. And while everything seems to point to a lead singer of a rock group famous for the "In The Red" music which has been connected to the killings, in typical British mystery fashion, there are also other sub-plots to be considered.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, dark comedy
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The Victims' Game (2020)
Plot Summary:
After discovering his estranged daughter's link to mysterious murders, a forensic detective with Asperger's syndrome risks everything to solve the case.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, dark fantasy
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Midnight Sun (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kahina Zadi, 32, a French police officer travels to Kiruna in Sweden to investigate the bestial murder of a French citizen. Together with Anders, a Swedish prosecutor of Sami origin, she begins an investigation. Soon new killings start to happen and the first victim turns out to be the tip of a very dark iceberg. The victims seemingly have nothing in common more than that they are all being killed in a well-planned and vicious manner. In their hunt for the truth, both Kahina and Anders are forced to deal with their own past that they have repressed. A personal journey through a painful past becomes the key to succeed in preventing the violent killings that affects the small mining community of Kiruna.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 440 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, detective, suspense, atmospheric, noir, dark
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Deep Water (2016)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned a brutal murder case in Bondi, where they begin to uncover mounting evidence to suggest the killing is connected to a spate of unexplained deaths, "suicides" and disappearances throughout the 80s and 90s. Haunted by the disappearance of her teenage brother, Tori's fascination with the case soon turns to fixation. When more ritualistic murders occur with the same bizarre signature, Tori and Nick will need to put their relationships, their careers and their lives on the line to finally reveal the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, crime drama, queer cinema
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The ABC Murders (2018)
Plot Summary:
It's 1933, and an older and greyer Hercule Poirot has fallen out of the public eye. When he receives anonymous letters threatening murder, he must take matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, enigmatic, stylized, bleak, detective, art house
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Clarice (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1993, six months after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Agent Clarice Starling returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world of Washington, D.C.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, crime thriller, psychological thriller, mystical
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To Serve and Protect (1999)
Plot Summary:
Three generations of Dallas police officers join together to track down the deadliest serial killer ever to terrorize Texas.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, exciting, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Rellik (2017)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer thriller told in reverse, unravelling the truth behind a series of murders as DCI Gabriel Markham hunts down a brutal killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, dark, thought provoking, detective, hardboiled detective, detective series
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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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Signs (2015)
Plot Summary:
Antonio Cruz is a good country doctor who hides a secret that has filled him with resentment and anger. One day he snaps and decides to kill a neighbor for each sign of the zodiac. His sister Laura, a police officer, and her ex-husband Paul, the neighboring town prosecutor, investigate the mysterious crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, slasher, disturbing, detective
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Thorne: Sleepyhead (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thorne Sleepyhead: follows DI Tom Thornes investigation into a mysterious serial killer. His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate. Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel, she is aware of everything going on around her, but she is unable to move or communicate. In leaving Alison alive, the police believe the killer's made his first mistake.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense, dark, detective, scary, realistic
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Wicked City (2015)
Plot Summary:
“Wicked City” follows a unique case set in a noteworthy era of L.A. history, starting with a murder case from 1982 centered on the rock ’n’ roll, cocaine-infused revelry of the Sunset Strip. Alliances are formed to solve a serial murder case.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, suspense, tense, realistic, detective, period drama
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We Hunt Together (2020)
Plot Summary:
Explore the intoxication of sexual attraction, the dangerous power of emotional manipulation, and how finding a volatile form of solace in another can have dire consequences as two conflicted coppers track down a pair of deadly killers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, detective, psychological thriller, hardboiled detective, crime thriller, detective series
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The Bletchley Circle (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II. Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean have returned to their normal lives, modestly setting aside the part they played in producing crucial intelligence, which helped the Allies to victory and shortened the war. When Susan discovers a hidden code behind an unsolved murder she is met by skepticism from the police. She quickly realises she can only begin to crack the murders and bring the culprit to justice with her former friends. The Bletchley Circle paints a vivid portrait of post-war Britain in this fictional tale of unsung heroes.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, detective, serious, suspenseful, realistic, crime drama, intellectual, period piece, costume drama, historical drama
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Dark Angel (2016)
Plot Summary:
Drama about the real-life Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: costume drama, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, period piece, historical drama, period 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