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Plot Summary:
In an alternate 1930's Prohibition-era New York City, it's not liquor that is outlawed but the future production of highly sentient robots known as automatons. Automata follows former NYPD detective turned private eye Sam Regal and his incredibly smart automaton partner, Carl Swangee. Together, they work to solve the case and understand each other in this dystopian America.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: interesting
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The Name of the Game (1968)
Plot Summary:
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, vintage
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Natural Born Narco (2022)
Plot Summary:
Chronicles the origins of notorious real-life drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, inspired in the acclaimed telenovela.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags:
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Tom Swift (2022)
Plot Summary:
Tom Swift is thrust into a world of sci-fi conspiracy and unexplained phenomena after the shocking disappearance of his father. Tom takes to the road on a quest to unravel the truth, leaving behind the comforts of his usual moneyed lifestyle, all while fighting to stay one step ahead of an Illuminati-scale group hell-bent on stopping him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: dramatic, confusing, suspense, mysterious, suspenseful
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News of a Kidnapping (2022)
Plot Summary:
The early 90s, Colombia. The government tries to combat drug trafficking with extradition laws. Maruja Pachón and Beatriz Villamizar - the wife and sister of congressman Alberto Villamizar - are kidnapped by the Extraditables. The police begin a search for clues that could help them close in on the kidnappers, and Alberto joins the operation to rescue his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Colombia
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags:
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In From the Cold (2022)
Plot Summary:
Exposed as an ex-Russian spy, an American single mom must juggle family life and unique shape-shifting skills in a battle against an insidious enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending
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4400 (2021)
Plot Summary:
4400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them. As the government races to analyze the potential threat and contain the story, the 4400 themselves must grapple with the fact that they've been returned with a few "upgrades", and the increasing likelihood that they were all brought back now for a specific reason.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, interesting
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The Ark (2023)
Plot Summary:
100 years in the future, planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life. With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags:
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Guerrilla (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of one of the most explosive times in U.K. history, Guerrilla tells the story of a politically active couple whose relationship and values are tested when they liberate a political prisoner and form a radical underground cell in 1970s London.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, interesting
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John Doe (2002)
Plot Summary:
John Doe is an American science fiction drama television series that aired on Fox during the 2002–2003 TV season.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, detective, mind bending
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The Pretender (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Pretender is an American television series that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series starred Michael T. Weiss as Jarod, a genius and former child prodigy with the ability to become anyone he wants to be, i.e., to flawlessly impersonate anyone in virtually any line of work. Patrick Bauchau and Andrea Parker co-starred as Sydney, Jarod's childhood teacher and mentor, and Miss Parker, a childhood friend. They are both operatives for a mysterious organization called "The Centre", which took Jarod from his parents as a child and developed his special talents with the intention of making him one of their agents, while also using his brilliant intellect for their own evil purposes. After escaping from their custody, Jarod begins traveling the country, searching for clues to his true identity while posing as a doctor, police officer, attorney, or some other character who helps those in trouble. The Centre's directors are determined to return Jarod to The Centre to further their mysterious plan. A team of operatives, led by Miss Parker, attempts to find and capture The Pretender. Jarod's extreme intelligence combined with his childlike innocence create a memorable and endearing character that was popular with viewers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, disturbing, bleak, suspense, detective, action adventure, suspenseful, vintage
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La Brea (2021)
Plot Summary:
An epic adventure begins when a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles, pulling hundreds of people and buildings into its depths. Those who fell in find themselves in a mysterious and dangerous primeval land, where they have no choice but to band together to survive. Meanwhile, the rest of the world desperately seeks to understand what happened. In the search for answers, one family torn apart by this disaster will have to unlock the secrets of this inexplicable event to find a way back to each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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Crime Story (1986)
Plot Summary:
Crime Story is an American TV drama, created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson, that premiered in 1986 and ran for two seasons on NBC. The executive producer was Michael Mann, who had left his other series Miami Vice to oversee Crime Story and direct the film Manhunter. The show premiered with a two-hour pilot — a movie which had been exhibited theatrically — and was watched by over 30 million viewers. It was then scheduled to follow Miami Vice on Friday nights, and continued to attract a record number of viewers. NBC then moved the show to Tuesdays at 10 pm opposite ABC's Moonlighting, hurting its ratings to the point that NBC ordered its cancellation after only two seasons. Set in the early, pre-Beatles 1960s, the series depicted two men — Lt. Mike Torello and mobster Ray Luca — with an obsessive drive to destroy each other. As Luca started with street crime in Chicago, was "made" in the Chicago Outfit and then sent to Las Vegas to monitor their casinos, Torello pursued Luca as head of a special Organized Crime Strike Force. Torello, his friend Ted Kehoe, and Luca had grown up in Chicago's "The Patch" neighborhood, also called "Little Sicily" or "Little Italy" and the haunt of the Forty-Two Gang. The show attracted both acclaim and controversy for its serialized format, in which a continuing storyline was told over an entire season, rather than being episodic, as was normal with shows at the time.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, detective, tense, captivating, anime, serious, realistic, neo noir
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Hightown (2020)
Plot Summary:
Amid the drug trade on Cape Cod, a body washes ashore and is discovered by an irreverent National Marine Fisheries Service officer, Jackie Quinones, who is determined to help solve the murder even if the state cops want her nowhere near the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: bleak, captivating, suspense, scary, suspenseful, detective, exciting
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The Feed (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, people’s minds are connected to The Feed, giving them instant connectivity. When something or someone invades it, everyone is at risk.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, intellectual, apocalyptic
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Emergence (2019)
Plot Summary:
A police chief takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, enigmatic, suspense, colorful, exciting, detective, colourful
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Vegas (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ralph Lamb wants to be left in peace to run his ranch, but Las Vegas is now swelling with outsiders and corruption which are intruding on his simple life. Recalling Lamb's command as a military police officer during World War II, the Mayor appeals to his sense of duty to look into a murder of a casino worker – and so begins Lamb’s clash with Vincent Savino, a ruthless Chicago gangster who plans to make Vegas his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, rough, tense, detective, captivating, realistic, spaghetti western, neo western
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Wiseguy (1987)
Plot Summary:
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, detective, sincere, bleak, gloomy
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Mob City (2013)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a decades-long conflict between the Los Angeles Police Department, under the determined leadership of Police Chief William Parker, and ruthless criminal elements led by Mickey Cohen, a one-time boxer who rose to the top of L.A.'s criminal world. The series is a fast-paced crime drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and '50s. It's a world of glamorous movie stars, powerful studio heads, returning war heroes, a powerful and corrupt police force and an even more dangerous criminal network determined to make L.A. its West Coast base.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, detective, anime, crime drama, dark drama
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A Rooster for Esculapio (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young working-class man comes from Misiones (an Argentinian province) to Buenos Aires, with a fighting rooster, looking for his brother, and gets involved with low life characters, who introduce him to a world of crime.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, interesting
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Silo (2023)
Plot Summary:
In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant underground silo that plunges hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags:
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Flashforward (2009)
Plot Summary:
When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For some, the future is hopeful, while for others, it is unexpected. For a few, it doesn't seem to exist. Knowing their fate will alter each person's life, destinies will be changed.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: mind bending, suspenseful, stylized, surreal, apocalyptic, tense, thought provoking, captivating, futuristic, cliffhanger
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Plot Summary:
An ex-cop entered a prison as convicted under a false identity in order to infiltrate within a group of prisoners that has just kidnapped the teenage daughter of an important national judge.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, thought provoking, detective, hispanic, hood, exciting, interesting
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Touch (2012)
Plot Summary:
Martin Bohm, a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his autistic, mute 11-year-old son, Jake. Their relationship and their lives take an extraordinary turn when he discovers his gifted son has the ability to see things that no one else can and the patterns that connect seemingly unrelated events.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, suspenseful, touching, intellectual, spiritual, dramatic, gloomy, emotional, interesting
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Mr. Mercedes (2017)
Plot Summary:
A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again. Based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, captivating, neo noir
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Jericho (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, epic, mysterious, anthology, rough
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The Expanse (2015)
Plot Summary:
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 168000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense, erotic, spiritual, political, satirical, detective
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Gotham (2014)
Plot Summary:
Before there was Batman, there was GOTHAM. Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 239000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, detective, neo noir, bleak, atmospheric, offbeat, intellectual, humorous
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Halka (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two different young men coming together from different places stand side by side and fight against a conspiracy. They go after a past that doesn't leave behind. They bring to account of old notebooks, dirty cases, big and small lies. They're in a life with the Mafia, money, intrigue. They face against Halka, the terrifying face of which they have yet to know.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, captivating, cynical, interesting
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Westworld (2016)
Plot Summary:
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 525000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, thought provoking, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, suspense, futuristic, intellectual, spiritual, mind blowing
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The 100 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the books by Kass Morgan, this show takes place 100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity. The last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 270000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized, intellectual, humorous, sitcom, juvenile, action packed