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Plot Summary:
Osawa Eriko is a beautiful career woman who has just returned from training in the U.S. and is appointed as the "boss" of this division. But despite her intelligence and capabilities, she can never understand a man's heart, so she remains unable to find a husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Sniffer the Investigation Officer (2016)
Plot Summary:
A consultant who has a superhuman sense of smell and assists in solving cases by smelling the scents left behind at crime scenes. He usually lives with a nasal plug, but once he removes it, and takes one sniff with his keen sense of smell, he will know the person’s age, gender, what he or she ate and even lifestyle. Besides investigating cases, he is researching whether people’s emotions have scent too. He has a daughter with Katayama Megumi.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Absolute Zero (2010)
Plot Summary:
Zettai Reido is a Japanese police procedural television drama. The first season, subtitled Mikaiketsu Jiken Tokumei Sōsa, was set in a fictional version of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department division that specializes in investigating cold cases, which is based on an actual division established in Japan in 2009. The first season aired from April 13 to June 22, 2010 on Fuji TV's Kakku time-slot. It premiered to a 18% rating. A special two-hour long episode which served as conclusion to the first series was aired on July 8, 2011.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, tense, realistic
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MR.BRAIN (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ryusuke Tsukumo is a quirky, yet brilliant neuroscientist working for the National Research Institute of Police Science. Wielding a unique perspective and psychology, Tsukumo tackles the nation's most baffling crimes and scandals, going head-to-head with the most brilliant and twisted criminal minds. But his eccentricities and poor social timing can also aggravate people and circumstances, further complicating matters.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Agathe Koltès (2016)
Plot Summary:
French detective story, with English subtitles, with very successful detective but neglectful mother coming to work for her successful detective daughter in a small town in coastal France. The fact that they are related remains a secret and a point of issue for the resentful daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Barcelona Crime (2017)
Plot Summary:
With its expert and attractive crime squad run by these two, Barcelona can be proud of its homicide team: Xavi, independent, impulsive, enigmatic, with a well-functioning network of contacts on the city‘s dark side; and his charming partner Fina, a single mother and self-confident beauty. They‘re never far behind the plotters and schemers who prefer to do their dark dealings after sunset. Their cases take them throughout the Catalan metropolis – out to its suburbs and deep into the heart of the medieval city. With puzzling mysteries waiting to be solved, Xavi and Fina have lots to do before crimes are mercilessly stopped.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Galileo (2007)
Plot Summary:
Galileo is a Japanese television drama based on Detective Galileo, a novel by mystery writer Keigo Higashino. It narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while the two pair up to solve many mysterious cases. Galileo SP was aired on October 4, 2008 on the same day as the release of the film The Devotion of Suspect X. A second series began airing on Fuji TV on April 15, 2013. The second movie, titled Midsummer's Equation, premiered in both Japan and Hong Kong on June 29, 2013.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense
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Redemption (2022)
Plot Summary:
DI Colette Cunningham's no nonsense approach to policing has earned her the respect of her Merseyside Police colleagues. She seems unflappable, until she gets a call from the Garda in Dublin after the body of a young woman is discovered.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Detective Inspector Irene Huss (2007)
Plot Summary:
Police investigator Irene Huss lives in Gothenburg, Sweden, and tries to balance between murder investigations and family life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Annika (2021)
Plot Summary:
The sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed, as she heads up a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) that is tasked with investigating the unexplained, brutal, and seemingly unfathomable murders.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Running Mates: Human Rights (2019)
Plot Summary:
The ‘Human RIghts Promotion’ team helps out people who are in need to protect and secure their human rights.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, 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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Lucky Seven (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Seven Rakkīsebun is a 2012 Japanese television drama broadcast by Fuji Television from January 16 to March 19, 2012. It stars Jun Matsumoto and Eita.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, 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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Pacific Criminal (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jackson Bellerose, a police investigator from Martinique, transfers to Nouméa, New Caledonia after working for some time in metropolitan France. His rigid personality clashes immediately with the relaxed tropical attitudes of his new colleagues, particularly Gaspard Watson, an ethnic European in his mid-fifties going through a messy divorce. His other colleague Clarissa Huarau is more understanding but is having her own problems with her rebellious teenage daughter. Jackson has considerable problems adjusting to the New Caledonian way of life and certain aspects of Melanesian culture. Anybody familiar with the BBC series "Death in Paradise" will have no problem understand the setting. In spite of their differences, the team solve a number of cases, gradually learning to appreciate each other and also helping in personal affairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Roba (2012)
Plot Summary:
A new captain comes to take over the police station. Old behaviors and installed management will be questioned and put into debate. Police drama that tells the life of the policemen of the station of Roba, in the south of Helsinki. Winner of the Venla award for the best drama series in 2013.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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Little Giants (2017)
Plot Summary:
Shinichiro Kosaka is a detective of the major cases unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and on the path to become captain of the unit when he makes a mistake during an investigation. Kosaka was subsequently demoted to precinct duty, where he finds his new colleagues taking on small cases tirelessly with a sense of justice untinged by workplace politics and internal disputes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Mallorca Files (2019)
Plot Summary:
Amongst the vibrant international community of the eponymous Spanish island, a British and a German detective with very different approaches to policing have a clash of personalities. Despite - or perhaps because of - their very different approaches, the sleuths form a perfect complementary partnership as they seek to solve a new crime on the island each week.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, crime drama
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White Collar Blue (2002)
Plot Summary:
White Collar Blue is an Australian television series made by Knapman Wyld Television for Network Ten from 2002 to 2003. Starring Peter O'Brien as Joe Hill and Freya Stafford as Harriet Walker, the series dealt with a division of the police force working in the city of Sydney and the personal and professional tensions affecting their work and lives. In the pilot episode, Harriet is introduced as the new face to Kingsway station, transferring from the "White Collar" federal police to the "Blue Collar" New South Wales Police. Throughout the series Harriet must deal not only with her husband's brutal murder and the revelation of his adultery, but with learning to adjust and fit into her new surroundings. Joe is Harriet's new partner, and isn't exactly welcoming to her as an addition to the team. With two daughters from previous marriages, Joe needs to juggle his homelife, his dedication to the job and his relationship with Nicole Brown, played by Jodie Dry. The other cops at the station are Ted Hudson, played by Richard Carter, Sophia Marinkovitch and Theo Rahme, and each have their own secrets and problems to deal with. The series was axed after two seasons, however it can be found on cable TV both in Australia and overseas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Forensic Heroes II (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bomb disposal expert Ivan Yeung returns from England and happens to come across a grenade case by accident. Ivan's skills are highly appreciated by senior chemist Ko Yin-Bok and he is invited to join the Forensic Division. Meanwhile, other members of the team are caught in an explosive incident that ends up changing team dynamics.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Trident (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three aging police officers working in support positions are drawn back to front line operations when their best friend, Xia, is killed on the day of his retirement after asking to tag along on one last drug raid. In the ensuing investigations, the three friends, Pan, Cui and Xu, uncover various criminal enterprises while also dealing with old grudges and grievances. The stories are told with flashbacks to their early days on the force when they solved cases together while Xia covered for them and kept them unified. The show also depicts the toll policing takes on the individual characters and their families, combined with doses of humor, suspense and lessons on duty, honor and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Strike Force (2014)
Plot Summary:
A boisterous homicide detective is partnered with a neurotic narc to fight organized crime in the Dutch city of Tilburg.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Tokyo Dogs (2009)
Plot Summary:
Kanade Takakura is an elite detective from the New York Police department. He has a very keen sense of judgement but is cold and inflexible. Kanade lost his father in a murder as a young boy, which drove him to become a detective. Maruo Kudo is a former motorcycle gang member now special detective with the Japanese police department. These two opposite characters team up on a case in which secrets are held by a young lady named Yuki Matsunada.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dorama, detective
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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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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 Noble Detective (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man identifies himself as “Kizoku” ("Aristocrat") and works as a private detective for a hobby. Nobody knows his age, address or anything about his family. The actual deductions and investigations are carried out by his employees including his butler, maid and chauffeur. He only has a good time talking to the women involved in the cases. Meanwhile, Aika Takatoku works as a private detective. She competes with the Aristocrat Detective to solve cases.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Negotiator (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a modern society in which violent crimes are on the rise, there is a team that tries to resolve cases without bloodshed. It is the metropolitan police's special team, known by the abbreviation SIT (Special Investigation Team). The SIT doesn't get into action after a case but heads to the site just as a crime is being committed. They are on the front-line of risky missions, facing off against criminals; tenaciously conducting negotiations with criminals. As a result of the rigid police hierarchy that can curb the conduct of negotiators, the SIT is also a male-dominated society controlled with strict discipline. There is one female negotiator, Usagi Reiko, who bravely fights at the frontline. She is isolated in the male world of the SIT but courageously fights against crime as well as her organisation.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Ichikei's Crow (2021)
Plot Summary:
Michio Iruma is a former lawyer. He now works as a judge in the first criminal court (commonly known as "Ichikei") of the Tokyo District Court. He is an unusual judge. To avoid issuing wrong judgements, Michio Iruma seeks out the truth in cases by performing on-site inspections by himself. Due to this, lawyers and prosecutors are afraid of him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Emergency Interrogation Room (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yukiko Makabe takes a transfer to a special interrogation team "Kintori".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bloodhound (2015)
Plot Summary:
Police Lieutenant Colonel Alexandra Kushnir was transferred from the Department of Internal Affairs of a large city to a small seaside town and appointed head of the criminal investigation department. The men's team is wary of the new leadership. But thanks to her logic, Alexandra successfully solves serious crimes. She is quickly gaining credibility among new colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, 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