Best tv shows like Acquitted
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Plot Summary:
After having success in Asia, businessman Aksel Borgen is asked back to his hometown in Norway to save an important local firm despite it being 20 years since he was sentenced and later acquitted for murdering his high school sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, noir
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White Sands (2021)
Plot Summary:
To solve the brutal murder of a young German surfer, two officers are secretly sent to the tourist paradise Hvide Sande on Denmark's west coast. No one in the city trusts the police, so they go undercover as a happily married couple from the big city.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 333 min
Plot tags: tense, clever, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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La Garçonne (2020)
Plot Summary:
Louise, framed for murder, sees the only solution is to pose as her twin brother who has just been assigned a job as a detective. The discovery of the body of a woman modelling for artists leads her into the decadent world of high society.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 305 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, talky, detective
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Eyewitness (2014)
Plot Summary:
Eyewitness is a gripping, fast-paced thriller seen through the eyes of two teenagers whose clandestine meeting unravels into a nightmare of murder, corruption and gang warfare.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, atmospheric, noir
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The World Between Us (2019)
Plot Summary:
A ten-part hour-long series that follows the aftermath of a mass-shooting where all parties involved - the killer, the victims, the victims’ families, the media and the defense teams, whose fates are all intertwined.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Pregau (2016)
Plot Summary:
A policeman gets into a spiral of events, in which assault, extortion and murder are proven means.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, clever, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Third Eye (2013)
Plot Summary:
A police detective is trying to locate his missing daughter, while solving other cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, noir
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Concrete Evidence: A Fixer Upper Mystery (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Mac—Shannon’s new beau—first moved to Lighthouse Cove, he bought the historic lighthouse mansion that the town is named after. During renovation demolition, the bones of a teenage girl who went missing fifteen years ago were discovered. If Shannon has any chance of getting the renovation back on track, she’ll need to tackle the cold case.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, emotional
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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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Death of a Pilgrim (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Nordic crime mini-series on the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and the fall of the welfare state.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 233 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, detective
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All the Sins (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lauri Räihä, a criminal investigator from Helsinki, is sent to investigate two murders that have occurred in the northern Finnish town where he grew up. The assignment offers Lauri a way out of confronting his own problems.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland, Estonia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, detective, contemplative
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Blood (2018)
Plot Summary:
Cat Hogan returns to West Meath upon her mother's sudden death - she has an accident at home and died (or was it an accident?). Blood is about old secrets, older betrayals, mind games and the lies family tell each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2018)
Plot Summary:
A writer gets caught up in a murder investigation involving his mentor, an esteemed American author. Based on the book of the same name, by Joël Dicker.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, detective, meditative
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The Thing About Pam (2022)
Plot Summary:
Based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in her husband Russ’ conviction, though he insisted he did not kill her. His conviction later was overturned, but the brutal crime set off a chain of events that would expose a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 258 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Norskov (2015)
Plot Summary:
Norskov is a police drama that takes place in an industrial city in northern Denmark. The city is raw and unsentimental, and the financial crisis has left its mark, but there is still a lot of community spirit and empowerment. In the series we follow the policeman Tom Noack, who returns to the city he left almost 20 years ago, and his two childhood friends who in the meantime have become the mayor and primary contractor.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, noir, detective
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Mad Dog (2017)
Plot Summary:
Choi Kang-Woo is a former detective, but he now works as a veteran insurance investigator. He leads a team that attempts to reveal insurance fraud cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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María Marta: The Country Club Crime (2022)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of one of the most notorious crimes in Argentina, the series intimately follows all those involved in the case, and those who are still seeking an answer to the question: Who killed María Marta?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 321 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hammarvik (2020)
Plot Summary:
When police officer Johanna Strand returns to her hometown Hammarvik to attend her mother's funeral, she expects to stay only for a few nights but the body of a young woman is found and she decides to stay and investigate what happened.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, soap opera
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Beautiful to Die For (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eva, a police inspector returns to the quiet village where she grew up to be next to her sister Rachele, a single mother. She finds herself investigating the mysterious disappearance of Gioia, an aspiring showgirl.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Dry Water (2020)
Plot Summary:
Paulo Duarte dies. An apparent suicide that does not convince anyone - neither the police nor his sister Teresa, who decides to leave her life in Lisbon to find out what really happened to her brother. Teresa is not mistaken and Paul's death hides much more than it seems - an arms trafficking network led by Mauro Galdón, Teresa's successful businessman and godfather. The unexpected death of her brother causes Teresa to see her life change suddenly. Unable to wait for the results of the investigation, he moves from Lisbon to Vigo, to work at his brother's old company and investigate what happened to him. The events led to months of coordinated investigation between the judicial police of Spain and Portugal, under the watchful eye of Interpol.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Traveller (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hunting down killers to help bereaved families get justice is more than just a job; it’s a duty for Thomas Bareski, a retired, hotshot police detective eager to reopen unsolved murder cases in a mission to find the culprits.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)
Plot Summary:
Istanbul police commissioner Mehmet Özakin is in charge of serious crime, mainly murder investigations, mostly in the Turkish metropolis. A very modern Turk, he uses up to date Western methods, without prejudice, assisted by bachelor Mustafa Tombul. Even his private life is progressive, his wife Sevim being on the former imperial capital's university staff.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Out of the Blue (2008)
Plot Summary:
Out of the Blue is an Australian serial drama commissioned by the BBC, produced by Australia's Southern Star Entertainment. It began screening on BBC One on weekday afternoons on 28 April 2008. The programme attracted lower than desired ratings figures, prompting the broadcaster to shift it to its second channel BBC Two from 19 May 2008. The BBC eventually decided not to commission a second series, and the final episode aired on 29 January 2009. The rights to show the first series in Australia were purchased by Network Ten, while in the UK, Channel 5 has picked up the repeat rights to Out of the Blue, and began airing all 130 episodes on digital sister channel Fiver in February 2009.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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CSI: Crime Scene Talks (2011)
Plot Summary:
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Don't Call It Mystery (2022)
Plot Summary:
University student Kuno Totono is the type who constantly questions what is taken for granted in society and develops his own theories based on his vast knowledge and unique set of values. One day in autumn, the police come to see him. His university schoolmate has been murdered at a park nearby and the police apparently regard Totono with suspicion. He is asked to come with them for questioning. In the interrogation room, the police are manipulated by Totono who tends to digress from the topic and poke at their contradictions. He even correctly guesses that one of them is troubled about not getting along with the wife and ends up giving advice. However, Totono’s fingerprints are eventually discovered on the murder weapon.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, detective
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The Chief (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, psychological
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Missing Bride (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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Never Say Never (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young man goes to great lengths to enter the drug syndicate to finish the undercover mission that his girlfriend started. Fang Han (Qin Junjie) and his girlfriend were childhood friends. She was an exceptional cop and undercover. Upon finding out that she was killed, Fang Han is overwhelmed with grief. He receives a secret code that only he can understand and accepts a mission to infiltrate the drug ring himself. Acting impulsively and always putting himself on the line of fire gets him noticed by their target Gu Tao (Xue Haowen) who begins to trust him. As they encounter countless dangers, Fang Han inches closer to finding his girlfriend's killer and to bringing down the syndicate once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Unlikely Murderer (2021)
Plot Summary:
After the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, Stig Engström managed to elude justice right up to his death through a combination of audacity, luck, and a perplexed police force.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 228 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Thaw (2022)
Plot Summary:
Set in Szczecin, Poland, the series begins after the body of a young woman is discovered under the melting ice. It asks ‘Who was she? Why did she die? Who did she leave behind?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Poland
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing