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Plot Summary:
Nineteen-year-old Anna, living at the end of the nineteenth century in the town of Zatonsk, unexpectedly discovers that she possesses supernatural powers. The spirits of the dead literally haunt her, begging to help. Aided by her visions, Anna manages to investigate and solve a number of mysterious crimes which have baffled the police. An experienced detective, 37-year-old Yakov Shtolman, who is assigned to the police department and teams up with Anna and becomes her partner in hunting down criminals.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mysterious, captivating, intellectual, breathtaking, detective, tense, detective series
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The Ninth (2019)
Plot Summary:
Petersburg at the end of the 19th century was embraced by a massive enthusiasm for the occult sciences and esotericism. British medium Olivia Reed arrives in the capital of the Russian Empire on tour and gathers crowds of people at her public spiritualistic sessions. At this time, a series of ritual mysterious murders takes place in the city. Girls are abducted on the streets, their mutilated bodies are found in various parts of the city. The investigation is carried out by a young police officer Rostov and his assistant Ganin. With each new victim, things are becoming more confused. Suspicion leads Rostov to Olivia, and he decides to turn to her in the hope that her genuine or imaginary ability to summon the spirits of the dead can help to get on the trail of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, mysterious, atmospheric, suspense, neo noir, bleak, noir
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Ruby Herring Mysteries: Silent Witness (2019)
Plot Summary:
When consumer news reporter, Ruby Herring stumbles onto a murder, the intrepid redhead inadvertently discovers a knack for crime solving. With the reluctant help of a handsome detective, Ruby finds a new career covering crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, twist ending, exciting
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The Ghost Detective (2018)
Plot Summary:
In this horror thriller drama, a detective who catches ghosts and his passionate assistant run into a mysterious woman and get involved in a bizarre incident.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, dorama, gothic, detective
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Recipes for Love and Murder (2022)
Plot Summary:
Tannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Your Turn To Kill (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nana and Shota are a newlywed couple and Nana is 15 years older than Shota. Nana works as a designer and Shota works as a gym trainer. They both enjoy mystery. The newlywed couple then move to an apartment and they attend a resident’s meeting there. Nana and Shota become involved in murder cases that take place at the apartment. Residents get murdered one by one. Some residents have a motive, but those suspects have an alibi. Because of this, an arrest has yet to be made.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Agatha Raisin (2014)
Plot Summary:
Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in her deceptively quaint town.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, captivating, feel good, emotional, witty, entertaining, ironic, light hearted
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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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Houdini and Doyle (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge and often Stratton is put in the middle. The trio will take on cases that involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists…or are they a ruse to conceal murder?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery
Country: Canada, UK
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, intellectual, enigmatic, detective, period drama, detective series
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The State Counsellor (2005)
Plot Summary:
Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be Fandorin. There are initials BG on the handle of the knife Khrapov was stabbed with, the initials belong to a terrorist organization which keeps both capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in fear. This time Fandorin is not the only one trying to solve the crime, general Pozharski, a famous detective takes over the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, thought provoking, captivating, rough, realistic, serious
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The InBetween (2019)
Plot Summary:
Cassie Bedford has visions... whether she likes it or not. Sometimes she encounters unsettled spirits who need her help. When her father, Detective Tom Hackett, and his new partner, former FBI agent Damien Asante, need assistance, Cassie reluctantly uses her abilities and helps solve some of the city’s most challenging cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, bleak, detective, suspenseful
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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Plot Summary:
Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, serious, clever, detective, crime drama, dramatic, period piece, historical drama, costume drama
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Framed By the Killer (2021)
Plot Summary:
Elaborate who done it murder mysteries where every episode explores a case that points police to one suspect only to later discover that person was framed by the actual killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Suspicion (2015)
Plot Summary:
Suspicion takes the POV of an individual whose curiosity becomes their worst nightmare, as the sights and sounds of a 'normal' neighborhood or community, transform into terrifying glimpses of an unfolding horror story.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Long Night (2020)
Plot Summary:
It was an open shut case with hundred of witnesses seeing the murder suspect trying to dispose of a body and a signed confession from the suspect himself. And yet when the case was ready for court, the prosecutor discovered that the case was not as it appeared. The murder was but a cover for another more shocking injustice. He spent ten years trying to uncover the truth, toiling away his youth, his career, his reputation, his family, and even his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Women Document Detectives (2018)
Plot Summary:
Detective Tomo Yashiro is ordered to transfer to the Sixth Special Investigations Unit. it is in charge of deciphering documents of unsolved cases she begins work in her new post along with a senior detective Risa Narum who is called the expert of document deciphering for her unusual ability to predict the personality and thoughts of a writer from writings.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative, detective
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Unforgotten (2015)
Plot Summary:
'Unforgotten' follows modern police team DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan, who gradually unravel long-forgotten secrets which have a dramatic impact on their investigation and the four potential suspects. The slow revelation of the secrets will also affect the personal lives of both Sunny and Cassie.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, realistic, crime drama, tense, suspenseful, clever, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric
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The Duo (2002)
Plot Summary:
Das Duo is a German television series.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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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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Fast Forward (2009)
Plot Summary:
Schnell ermittelt is an Austrian television series.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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Crossing Jordan (2001)
Plot Summary:
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, realistic, tense, clever, serious, medical drama, crime drama, captivating, suspenseful
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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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Slad (2018)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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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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Atypical Crime Investigator, Hinako Todo (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hinako Todo (Haru) is a first-year detective who graduated from the police academy at the top of her class. She always carries with herself a bottle of shichimi chili peppers which was left by her late mother and sprinkles shichimi over everything she eats. Despite her a bit quirky/cheerful demeanor, she holds dark secrets locked deep within her heart… Hinako became a detective, because she wants to find the line between people who kill and those who don't. Once her "crime-solving switch" is on, nothing can stop Hinako from tackling even the most bizarre crime cases. Armed with her overwhelming memory and unstoppable curiously, will Hinako be able to find answers to her question through seeking to solve various crimes?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon, only to find change is afoot, nothing is sacred, and no one is safe.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, detective, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, crime drama, tense, captivating, medical drama
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Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
Plot Summary:
The show follows the adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, detective, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, anthology
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Miss Scarlet and the Duke (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Eliza Scarlet’s father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, humorous, detective, costume drama, entertaining, romantic, light, atmospheric, colorful, slasher
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The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015)
Plot Summary:
Inspector John Marlott investigates a series of crimes in 19th Century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: tense, stylized, suspenseful, detective, costume drama, enigmatic, gothic, suspense, captivating, atmospheric
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The Closer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Jean Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, sincere, tense, serious, detective, suspense, inspirational, bloody, thrilling
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Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
Plot Summary:
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, realistic, captivating, detective, serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, crime drama, spiritual