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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
Best tv shows and movies like Deadloch (2023):
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In the Spirit (1990)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves back to New York and hires a ditzy New Age woman to redecorate her apartment in this Odd Couple styled comedy. The movie takes a turn as the two escape to a New Age retreat in upstate New York to get away from a murderer who is pursuing them. Melanie Griffith also shows up briefly as a hooker as the two hide out acting as hookers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Magnus (2019)
Plot Summary:
Magnus - perhaps the police's worst investigator - is set to solve a murder from another world, and then we mean a completely different world.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 786
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: surreal
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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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Big Man - Boomerang (1988)
Plot Summary:
A disastrous weapon was stolen from a governmental producing facility. Jack Clementi gets called by the insurer Lloyds to investigate the crime. They hope to prevent a mass panic or even worse. While investigating Jack Clementi gets away from attempted murder and has to learn separate false stories from true ones. Time pressure and sudden fatalities increase the level of difficulty.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, Austria, Norway
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Der Bulle von Tölz (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Bull of Tölz is commissioned by Sat.1 German crime series.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective
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Reporting for Duty (2023)
Plot Summary:
When Suzano assumes the role of police chief at a new precinct, the timid newbie will have to prove his mettle to his fearless squad.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, detective
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The Detectives (1993)
Plot Summary:
The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: sitcom, detective, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody, detective series
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Marks' Mountain (2010)
Plot Summary:
20 years ago a half-frozen boy was rescuded in the mountains after his parents apparent sucide. He gets released from a mental institution and his girlfriend notices him talking about a dark mountain shadow. Meanwhile a murder happens in a residential area in Tokyo. Assistant Inspector Goda Yuichiro takes on the investigation. Soon an official of the Ministery of Justice gets murdered in a similar fashion pointing towards a serial killer. Yet, Goda receives a strange order from above: he's not to further investigate in this direction. He senses a huge mystery behind the case and starts chasing after the psychopath killer called Marks. Somehow a journalist's research about a corrupt construction magnate and another unsolved murder that happend in the mountains 13 years ago are also linked to the case.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Revenge Office (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of women create a organisation named "Kättemaksukontor" to fight for the rights of women and help solve murder mysterys for the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Estonia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery (2022)
Plot Summary:
A holiday-hating detective is forced to solve a murder — and save Christmas — with help from famous trainees who must improv their way through the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: detective, christmas special
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The Snake Bearer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Norwegian Miniseries based on Unni Lindell's mystery novel by the same title.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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Old School (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ted McCabe, a retired cop, and Lennie Cahill a retired crim, get together to solve crimes, unravel scams and make some cash, while avoiding the wrath of the police and the underworld.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, realistic, witty, serious
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Leipzig Homicide (2001)
Plot Summary:
SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, exciting, intellectual, suspenseful
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (2002)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 260 min
Plot tags: clever, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, detective
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A Private Affair (2022)
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
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Swedish Dicks (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two unlicensed Swedish private investigators try to make a living in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, feel good, captivating, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, detective, cult classic
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The Perfume Of The Lady In Black (2005)
Plot Summary:
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, clever, realistic, surreal, talky, stylized
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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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Extralarge: Miami Killer (1991)
Plot Summary:
Agent Blake finds the corpse of a child. It is one of a long chain. The murderer is called The Miami Killer by the newspapers. Extralarge assists the police in their investigation. All the murdered children suffered from some kind of ailment and the murderer knew his or her victims very well. The successive victim appears to be Elsie who is asthmatic and Extralarge suspects father Marthy and Elsie's teacher. Then Elsie is kidnapped. Can she be saved?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Shroud for a Nightingale (1984)
Plot Summary:
British TV mini series.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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Cover Her Face (1985)
Plot Summary:
Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh investigates the death of Alice Liddell who ran a home for unwed mothers. One of those residents is Sally Jupp who was a witness in a drugs smuggling and murder investigation in London. Sally works at the local manor house for the Maxies and it is apparent that eldest son Stephen has more than just a passing interest in her. The night after they announce their engagement, Sally is found strangled in her bed. The question is whether her death is related to the London investigation or a completely different reason altogether. Her engagement created a good deal of ill feeling among the Maxies and several guests in the house with any one of them having a motive to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 291 min
Plot tags: detective
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Rosa Roth (1994)
Plot Summary:
Rosa Roth is a no-nonsense police commissioner stationed in Berlin, who has a small team of operatives she trusts with her life. Whatever happens on the field, takes a toll on them personally as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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The Pleasure Principle (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious murders has been committed in four post-communist cities: Warsaw, Prague, Odesa, and Leipzig. The investigations are carried out by three absolutely different in many aspects criminal police officers. Independently of one another, they soon come to the conclusion that all four murders are connected. Now, to solve the crimes they have to work together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, Russia
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough
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Murder Most Horrid (1991)
Plot Summary:
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anthology, detective, dark comedy, parody
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Catching Milat (2015)
Plot Summary:
A two-part mini-series following the police effort in the 1990s to catch serial killer Ivan Milat, who kidnapped, tortured and killed backpackers along the Hume Highway before disposing of their bodies in the Belanglo State Forest.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful
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Les Norton (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1985, the series will follow the exploits of a country bloke from outback Queensland. On the run from a troubled past, he blows into Sydney where he lands a job as a bouncer at an illegal casino. A classic fish out of water who is desperate to get home, he soon finds himself seduced by the city’s illicit charms and dragged into a web of underground criminality.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, interesting
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The Thin Blue Line (1995)
Plot Summary:
The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson set in a police station that ran for two series on the BBC from 1995 to 1996. It was written by Ben Elton.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, detective, not serious, realistic, witty, hilarious, atmospheric, double entendre, alternative comedy
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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 Little Murders of Agatha Christie (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1930s France, Superintendent Larosière has a passion for beautiful women and solving cases, while hapless young inspector Lampion just tries to keep up. Later series, are set in the mid-'50s, where suave Commissioner Laurence unravels knotty crimes with the help of reporter Alice.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, slasher, detective, period drama
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Forgotten Girls (2007)
Plot Summary:
A detective works to solve a string of cases involving missing girls.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful