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Plot Summary:
Live-action drama series that takes place before the events that begin the story of Detective Conan, the anime series.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, anime, detective
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The Moonstone (2016)
Plot Summary:
Charismatic adventurer Franklin Blake is on the most important quest of his life - to solve the disappearance of the priceless Moonstone and win back Rachel Verinder, his one true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective, costume drama, period drama
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Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo and the Kyoto Shinsengumi Murder Case (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kudo Shinichi and Mori Ran are invited to the set of a jidaigeki in Kyoto. On their airplane ride to Kyoto, a murder mystery arises. As well, when they finally reach the set in Kyoto, they become involved in another murder mystery. Will Kudo Shinichi be able to solve the mystery?….
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, anime
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Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge (2006)
Plot Summary:
In order to uphold his title of High School Detective, a teen sleuth must protect his classmates from kidnapping after receiving a threatening letter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, semi serious, anime
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Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge! The Mystery of the Legendary Strange Bird (2011)
Plot Summary:
This story takes place 100 days before Kudo Shinichi became Edogawa Conan. Kudo Shinichi, a high school detective, arrives in Jugoya Town with Mori Ran and others. In this town a legend exists, claiming that a gigantic bull-headed shrike attacks the townspeople and kills them. The town was about to hold a festival in 3 days to put the giant bird's spirit to rest. While being led on a tour of the bull-headed shrike Shrine by Sonoko's parent's friend, Mr. Wakura, a crime related to the legend occurs. Starting with Kosaka, member of the Wakura family are slowly murdered in the same way.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, intellectual, suspense, realistic, disturbing, talky, anime
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Agatha Christie's Hjerson (2021)
Plot Summary:
Swedish murder investigator Sven Hjerson forms an unexpected detective duo with stubborn TV producer Klara after several years of isolation. Will she also manage to recruit him for her new TV show?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, Germany, Finland, UK
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Hello, Detective Hedgehog (2017)
Plot Summary:
Detective Goro Nanase and his colleagues of "Akatsuka Detective Office" are based in Shimo-Akazuka of Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. The detectives take on a string of challenging cases that no one else wants to take on.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, detective
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Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2020)
Plot Summary:
Comic creator Rohan Kishibe, along with his partner-cum-editor, Kyōka Izumi, challenge various incidents beyond human knowledge.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense
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The Memorandum of Kyoko Okitegami (2015)
Plot Summary:
Okitegami Kyoko is a beautiful private detective who has a deep love for money. She is also known as the Forgetful Detective. Her memory is reset when she sleeps at night, which means she can strictly adhere to confidentiality requirements. She solves all her cases within a day, whatever they may be. She is the world's fastest detective! There is something really important that Kyoko must never forget, and it is written on her body with a magic pen. “I am Okitegami Kyoko, detective. My memory is reset after one day.” Meanwhile, even though Yakusuke Kakushidate has a crush on Kyoko Okitegami, he is always mistaken by her as the culprit of a case. No matter how close he gets to Kyoko, she totally forgets about him by the next day.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Eyes (2005)
Plot Summary:
Eyes is an ABC television series starring Tim Daly as Harlan Judd. Eyes follows the firm of Judd Risk Management which uses marginally legal means to investigate individuals and crimes where law enforcement would fall short. With the help of high-tech gadgets, Harlan Judd and his employees recover money for victims as well as investigate individuals for clients but still manage to keep plenty of secrets from one another. In May 2005, having rescheduled the sixth episode twice, ABC announced that they would not be airing the remaining episodes until June at the earliest. They later announced that it would not be picked up for a second season and that the remaining episodes would remain unaired. New Zealand television station TV2 picked up this show and aired the complete series, all twelve episodes, in the second half of 2005. These episodes appeared online via BitTorrent soon after. The show was also partially aired on Singapore television station Mediacorp Channel 5, with the pilot episode and episodes #106 to #112 being skipped. Episode #111 was an exception, and was aired as the fifth episode. The show was also aired in full on France cable television station Canal Jimmy in 2006. In the beginning of 2008 the show was aired in full on Polish television station TVN 7. The series was shown on the Nine Network in Australia in 2007.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, semi serious
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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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Byomkesh (2017)
Plot Summary:
The time is 1930s, and crime is culminating. One man can uproot the sin: Satyanweshi Byomkesh Bakshi. Hoichoi Originals brings Bengal’s popular sleuth in an all-new but familiar avatar.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, saga, detective
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Death Notify (2014)
Plot Summary:
A series of serial killings is exposed and creates a stir among the public. A killer called "Darker" has been leaving a death notification card after killing scumbags who evaded the law. To counter the provocation of the mysterious killer, the police creates a special investigation team.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Jack Irish (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don’t want to be found – dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Vincent (2005)
Plot Summary:
Vincent is an ITV drama series. An initial series was made and aired in 2005 and starred Ray Winstone, in the title role, and Suranne Jones as two members of a team of private eyes hired by people to spy on their partners or indeed anyone else they need to keep tabs on. The four part series also starred Angel Coulby, Ian Puleston-Davies, Joe Absolom, Eva Pope and Philip Glenister. A second series was broadcast in the autumn of 2006.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective, crime drama, realistic
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Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current (2016)
Plot Summary:
Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where the currents repeat every 6 hours.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo Returns! Showdown with the Black Organization (2007)
Plot Summary:
Shinichi Kudo returns as the young Conan to investigate a murderous letter sent to a beauty pageant winner who demands affection.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anime
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The Long Call (2021)
Plot Summary:
Detective Matthew Venn returns to the small North Devon community he grew up in with his husband and begins investigating a murder whilst coming to terms with his own traumatic past, having been excommunicated by his family and the church community they lived in.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller that delves into the reality of power. It follows the story of three men and women whose lives are destroyed by a tragic accident as they become a team that uncovers corruption and fights against people with power.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective, psychological, political, twisted
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Mad Dog (2017)
Plot Summary:
Choi Kang-Woo is a former detective, but he now works as a veteran insurance investigator. He leads a team that attempts to reveal insurance fraud cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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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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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
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Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, disturbing, crime drama
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 367
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Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 479
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Country: Ireland
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Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 189
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Country: Germany
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Two junior investigators come together against a new breed of criminal, the uber rich and powerful corporations, individuals and governments who hide behind legitimate facades.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Don't Call It Mystery (2022)
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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
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Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, detective
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Plot Summary:
Kindaichi's best friend is involved with the school film club where members are found murdered. Can he protect her before she become the next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Hidden Assets (2021)
Plot Summary:
A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Belgium, Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, crime drama