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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, disturbing
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The Case of Itaewon Homicide (2009)
Plot Summary:
On the night of April 8, 1997, an innocent college student was brutally murdered in a burger shop washroom for no apparent reason. 2 Korean-American teenagers are brought for questioning and are charged with murder and possession of lethal weapon and withholding evidence. Neither is remorseful for their heinous crimes and blames each other for the killing.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating
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Krik sovy (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in 1957. In the center of the plot - taking place in the small town of mysterious crimes, the investigation of which involved a policeman Balakhnin and KGB agent Mitin.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, harsh
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The Grave (2004)
Plot Summary:
Archaeologists dig up a mass grave in a Swedish forest. A special police group is set up to find out the murderers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 480 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Feluda (2017)
Plot Summary:
In this 21st century adaptation of Satyajit Ray’s famous mystery novels, the brilliant private investigator navigates the busy streets of Dhaka to resolve a puzzling death of a Bangladeshi man in Kolkata.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Murder Diary (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yeung Pik Sum suffers from Schizophrenia and her illness causes her son, Yip King Fung, to suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder. King Fung’s split personality, Chu Kei, becomes a handwriting expert and criminal profiler, who helps King-fung, an undercover agent, to uproot a criminal organization. However, a series of strange cases makes King Fung a murder suspect and his younger sister to be traumatized. Feeling guilty about abandoning her children, Pik Sum becomes a mental hospital assistant to protect her daughter, but she is unable to reconcile with King Fung... Superintendent Lip Shan invites King Fung to join the Special Crime Unit. Together with psychiatrist Wai Yui Kit, bomb disposal expert Yau Ngan Sing, forensic anthropologist Fong Yuen Chin, they deal with criminals with abnormal psychological conditions and solve complicated cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Art of Crime (2017)
Plot Summary:
Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander Pardo, his friend who becomes, therefore, his new superior. A clever investigator, but a stranger to everything related to culture, Antoine will have to work with Florence Chassagne, renowned art historian, who lives, speaks and breathes culture, to the point that - fruit of her great imagination - it happens to her in the midst of daydreams, to see and talk to the great artists who have disappeared as if they were familiar to her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Aurora Teagarden Mysteries (2015)
Plot Summary:
Aurora/Roe Teagarden, a librarian and amateur sleuth, investigates and solves murders with help from her friends in Real Murders Club.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Dragon Syndrome (2012)
Plot Summary:
Germany, 1953. Corrupt gang of Soviet officers appropriated jewelry seized from repressed citizens. The officers take the young scout Terekhov and collector Avdeev, who recently left not so distant places, to guard the myriad wealth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, serious, suspense, detective
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MosGaz. Delo N1 (2012)
Plot Summary:
1962. Moscow. Vladimir Ionesyan, nicknamed "Mosgaz," became he first officially recognized serial killer in the Soviet Union. His bloody deeds and his moniker are still used by Russian mothers to frighten their children.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Crime
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: realistic, tense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, psychological, bleak
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Hassel (2017)
Plot Summary:
Detective Roland Hassel's father figure and mentor, Yngve Ruda, is brutally murdered in the middle of the street. Devastated, Hassel decides to undertake his own covert investigation to find Ruda's killer and avenge him with the support of 'Triton', a special task force consisting of Hassel's most devoted co-workers. But Hassel's obsession with the case affects his family as well. As Hassel, his girlfriend Daniela and his 14-year-old stepdaughter Vida struggle to stay together as a real family they find themselves in a downward spiral taking them further and further into an abyss. Meanwhile, the evidence on Ruda's killer leads away from the street and up the corridors of power in Stockholm and Brussels. But Hassel's battle against crime and corruption knows no boundaries and he will stop at nothing.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, hardboiled detective, detective series
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I'm Not a Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
One livid dawn, a cold and damp wind blows as a man walks alone through the darkness. Deputy Police Superintendent Francesco Prencipe is on his way to meet his best friend, Judge Giovanni Mastropaolo whom he hasn't seen for almost two years. The men drive for two hours and exchange but a few words. Later that morning, the Judge is found dead, a single gunshot wound to his head. Francesco is the last person who saw him and his fingerprints are the only ones found in the house. But is he the murderer?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Showtrial (2021)
Plot Summary:
An anthology series of hotly contested criminal trials that divides the nation and take place in the full glare of the media spotlight.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 288 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anthology
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Parot (2021)
Plot Summary:
A police inspector tries to find out who has murdered numerous inmates who could have been released from prison thanks to the cancellation of the controversial Parot doctrine.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political thriller
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Estocolmo (2016)
Plot Summary:
"Stockholm: Lost Identity" narrates over 13 chapters with almost surgical detail the criminal, judicial and media research about the disappearance of a young woman by a network of trafficking. An attorney general, an undercover agent and a journalist will be immersed in a police plot that mixes suspense, drama and action where law and justice are two different sides of the same coin.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Be Reborn (2022)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, suspense, detective
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Medical Examiner Dr. Qin: The Survivor (2018)
Plot Summary:
龙番市发生连环杀人案，死者均为女性，尸体无一例外的丢失了身体的某一部位。警法五人组不断穿梭于各大案发现场和解剖室中，寻找背后真相。暗黑的屋子，诡异的灯光，整齐摆放的透明玻璃罐里装的竟然是丢失的心脏！接二连三的命案，迷雾重重的案情，秦明将如何为逝者代言，讲述真相？面对不断杀人的凶手，最后的幸存者到底是谁？让秦明自责没有抓到的凶手和本案是否有关联？隐藏在死者身上的十字架和最后那句“十年前那个人回来了”究竟代表了什么？.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Innocence, Fight Against False Charges (2019)
Plot Summary:
This work is a human drama that attorney, Taku Kurokawa challenges reversal play with weapons, passion, and science as a weapon to cause "miracle" to clear false charges. Kurokawa who plays Sakaguchi actively opposes fake crime defense, which is said to be impossible, reproduces the events that occurred on the scene in an experiment and tries to elucidate the incident. In addition, Naoki Fujiki appears as a new American lawyer, Kazuaki Wakakura who is swayed by the pioneer, Haruna Kawaguchi , a scientist who lends power to Taku, Kyoichiro Akiro.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Marnow Murders (2021)
Plot Summary:
The city of Schwerin is melting – it is the hottest summer in years. Detectives Lona Mendt and Frank Elling are on the trail of a serial murderer, who seems to choose his victims randomly. But nothing is as it seems. The detectives have apparently made some powerful enemies that will do everything in their power to keep the truth from coming to light. The further along with their investigation Frank Elling, a devoted husband and father, and the aloof Lona Mendt get, the bigger the obstacles become.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Killing Fields (2016)
Plot Summary:
True-crime thriller that follows a team of homicide detectives as they open an 18-year-old cold case that occurred in one of America's notorious body-dumping grounds, the Louisiana swamplands.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Detective Ellen Lucas (2003)
Plot Summary:
A crime series based in Regensburg, Bavaria.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Vilangu (2022)
Plot Summary:
Paridhi, a cop undergoing a stressful personal situation, must solve a mysterious murder case that has put the police department on its toes.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Strip (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Strip is an Australian television drama series that screened on the Nine Network. The series premiered on the Nine Network at 8:30pm on 4 September 2008 but was moved to a later 10:30pm timeslot from 13 November 2008. The show did not return for a second season, due to disappointing ratings. The Strip was released on DVD on 4 July 2009.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Death of a Girl (2015)
Plot Summary:
Police officer Hella Christensen is on her way to her new job in Kiel. But she doesn't get far because a dead girl was found at the pier in her hometown. Hella's new superior, Simon Kessler, has already arrived from Kiel and is awaiting her on the bridge. Hella recognizes the dead person immediately: it is 14-year-old Jenni, daughter of her neighboring family. Kessler orders the recently defunct local office to be used to investigate the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Murder Investigation Team (2003)
Plot Summary:
Murder Investigation Team is a British police procedural drama series produced by the ITV network as a spin-off from the long-running series, The Bill. The series is based around the cases of a Murder Investigation Team, who are linked to the Sun Hill borough of London, as featured in The Bill.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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Good and Evil (2009)
Plot Summary:
Il bene e il male is an Italian television series.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, poliziottesco
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Sea of Plastic (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mar de plástico (Spanish: Sea of Plastic) is a Spanish crime drama television series produced by Boomerang TV for Atresmedia. It airs on Atresmedia's main channel Antena 3. The series focuses on the investigation of a murder in the fictional town of Campoamargo, set in an area of the province of Almería known as the "sea of plastic" due to the numerous greenhouses that cover it, and the interracial conflicts that arise in the greenhouses. The pilot episode aired on 22 September 2015 on simulcast in Antena 3, Neox, Nova and Mega.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, multicultural, detective
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The Veil (2021)
Plot Summary:
Han Ji-hyuk, an NIS agent gone MIA, returns after one year to join a new team as he searches for his lost past.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Good Partner: The Invincible Lawyer (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sakisaka Kento is a lawyer with an outstanding career. He seems cool and handsome, but he is a zealous person who will confront things that are unreasonable and wrong head-on. There are times when he values the words of a single person and not a lawyer. Sakisaki is regarded as the ace of the law firm, but his only weak point is a lawyer at the same firm who also happens to be his ex-wife Natsume Yoshie. He has been raising their daughter Mizuki as a single father since their divorce. A stylish lawyer who holds her head high, Yoshie is down-to-earth and a perfectionist. These two rival lawyers often have well-reasoned legal arguments regarding the cases of their clients. However, when they wander off topic, they will call each other “papa” and “mama” the moment they lose their cool and start quarreling like a couple.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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One Ordinary Day (2021)
Plot Summary:
A drama that explores the criminal justice system from an extremely popular perspective through the fierce story of two men surrounding the murder of a woman. Hyun Soo, an ordinary college student, suddenly becomes the primary suspect in a murder case. Shin Joong Han is the only lawyer willing to help Kim Hyun Soo. Having just barely passed law school, Shin Joong Han's involvement in Kim Hyun Woo's case eventually takes his unremarkable life to new heights.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sad
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The Confidence (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ke Ying is a talented economics lecturer who is forced to help psychopath Feng Xiao Sheng gain real power within his corporation. The street smart Xiao Wu is a police informant, and when he discovers Fu’s company is laundering money with foreign bank accounts, he uses his position as Feng Xiao Sheng’s right-hand man to collect evidence. He befriends Ke Ying, and the two work together to destroy the criminal organization.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing