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Plot Summary:
In 1997, a mysterious ghost saved humankind and then disappeared. The mysterious ghost appears again 24 years later and helps a serial killer escape. Kim Sae Ha, Jung Sae Byeok and Song Eo Jin pursue the ghost for different reasons.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Best tv shows and movies like Grid (2022):
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Egregor (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Ukranian flight engineer must infiltrate a highly secretive cult in order to save his abducted son who some believe to be the chosen one that will allow their religion to rule all mankind.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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iSmart Shankar (2019)
Plot Summary:
A contract killer goes on the run after eliminating a target and eventually finds himself linked to a slain cop whose memory is transferred to his brain.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Burning Ice (2017)
Plot Summary:
To protect the woman he loves, a white collar worker unintentionally becomes involved in a murder case and is from then on a suspect. In the blink of an eye, his quiet and boring life gets completely shaken up as he suddenly is both being chased by the police as well as gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sijipeuseu: The Myth (2021)
Plot Summary:
An unfathomable incident introduces a genius engineer to dangerous secrets of the world — and to a woman from the future who's come looking for him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, dorama, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Channeling (2013)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on people who seek validation by broadcasting their lives to as big an audience as possible.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Train (2020)
Plot Summary:
Several skeletons are discovered on the tracks of a closed train station. However, one of the dead victims walks into the police station. Where did all these dead bodies come from, and who is committing all of these murders? The world split into two on the night of a murder 12 years ago, and Do Won chases after the hidden truth in the parallel universe. This drama shows the contrast between two different worlds, divided by two different choices.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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God's Gift - 14 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kim Soo Hyun experiences the unfathomable when her daughter is kidnapped and murdered. Discovering a miraculous ability to go back in time exactly two weeks before the event, Soo Hyun races against the clock to unravel the plot and save her daughter. But when a private investigator sheds new light on the crime, Soo Hyun uncovers a secret far more treacherous than she could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Inspector Koo (2021)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive ex-cop reenters the game as an insurance investigator, searching for clues in crime scenes perfectly staged by a serial killer in her midst.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, tense, captivating, disturbing
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House of the Disappeared (2017)
Plot Summary:
After 25 years of imprisonment for familicide, a mother comes back home where her son disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, twisted
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The Chaser (2012)
Plot Summary:
Although he was poor, detective Baek Hong Suk made an honest living. However, his poor yet happy family is shattered when his 15-year-old daughter dies. When people tarnish the name of his daughter, who means everything to him, Hong Suk vows to reveal the truth behind his daughter’s wrongful death and digs up the truth. In his search, he comes to face a stronger mastermind than expected.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, disturbing
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November Story (2021)
Plot Summary:
A celebrated crime novelist suffering from Alzheimer's is found at a murder scene with no memory of what happened. Now, it is up to his daughter to save him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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The Village: Achiara's Secret (2015)
Plot Summary:
Achiara is a quiet, peaceful village with hardly any crime. But on her first day of school there, English language instructor Kim So-yoon discovers a buried corpse. As the townspeople speculate on the identity of the dead person and the reason she was killed, So-yoon and policeman Park Woo-jae become determined to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: sexy, enigmatic, disturbing, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, detective
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Alice (2020)
Plot Summary:
It’s the year 2050 and time travel exists thanks to Alice, the mechanism through which the intriguing practice is made possible. But a rumor based on a prophecy beings to spread about time travel coming to an end. When You Min Hyuk and Yoon Tae Yi are sent to the year 1992 to find out about the prophecy, Tae Yi realizes she’s pregnant and decides to stay in the past by herself. She changes her name to Park Sun Young and eventually gives birth to a beautiful son named Park Jin Gyeom, whose mental health suffers due to radiation exposure. Fast forward to the year 2010, and Sun Young is murdered by someone. 10 years after her death, her son Jin Gyeom is on a mission to find who is responsible for his mother’s death. But while searching, he runs into Yoon Tae Yi, a physics professor who looks exactly like this mother. What will become of these individuals caught tragically between time and space?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, intellectual, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Memorist (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Dong Baek was a high school student, he suddenly gained a supernatural power. Whenever he touches somebody, he can read that person's memory. Dong Baek reveals his memory reading ability to people and he becomes a detective. He is gung-ho to catch as many criminals as possible. He encounters a mysterious serial murder case.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, detective
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Bad and Crazy (2021)
Plot Summary:
A superhero drama about Soo Yeol who has lived his whole life as a materialistic police detective, but changes into a champion for justice and fights against police corruption when a hidden persona called “K” awakens inside him.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, action thriller
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The Wall (2019)
Plot Summary:
Fermont: A remote mining colony in the endless frozen hell that is Canada's far North. The body of a young exotic dancer is found and the Quebec City police sends one of their toughest, most experienced detectives to investigate. Céline sure is always up for a challenge. Being cooped up in the massive structure that is the colony – the inhabitants simply call it “The Wall” – soon presents her with some challenges that exceed her investigative efforts.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, contemplative
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Who's Stalking Me? (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following a near-death experience when an attacker breaks into her home, Amanda can't shake the feeling that she's still in harm's way. In comes the handsome and stern Detective James Dawson to save the day and keep an especially close eye on Amanda. Taken by his generosity and commitment, Amanda begins to feel safer--unaware that she's letting the real threat get closer than ever.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
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Big Mouth (2022)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer, caught up in a murder case, becomes a notorious and genius con artist overnight, in order to fight against a huge conspiracy and survive.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Gap Dong (2014)
Plot Summary:
20 years ago Moo-Yeom’s father was a suspect in the "Gap Dong” serial murder case. Because of the detectives’ oppressive investigation, Moo-Yeom’s father killed himself. Now, Moo-Yeom is a detective and works to capture the killer Gap Dong. The statue of limitations has expired for the serial murder case and Moo-Yeom resigns to the belief that Gap Dong is dead. New clues though for Gap Dong appears in front of Moo-Yeom and he sets out to catch him once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Detective Chinatown (2020)
Plot Summary:
Strange crimes occur in Thailand as the ranking for the world's best detective sees a shift. New detectives come into the picture to tackle three difficult cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, detective, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Missing Noir M (2015)
Plot Summary:
Gil Soo-Hyun is extremely intelligent. At the age of 10, he attended Harvard University. After graduating there, he decided to work at the FBI and worked there for 10 years. Afterwards, he decided to come back to South Korea. He now works as the leader of the Special Missing Persons Unit. The unit deals with about 1% of special missing cases involving violent crimes. His appearance borders on perfection, but he holds a secret. Detective Oh Dae-Young joins the Special Missing Persons Unit. He has worked as a detective for 20 years and he has an obsession in observing the law. He is known as a master of missing person cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Wilder (2017)
Plot Summary:
A detective returns to his home town in the Swiss mountains to remember her brother who died in an accident many years ago along with several other children. After a murder in town, she stays and starts to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Mrs. Cop (2015)
Plot Summary:
After long and grueling hours immersed in brutal crime investigations, lead detective Choi Young Jin must face the particular horrors of singlehandedly raising her daughter Ha Eun. Any way you look at it, Young Jin's got her work cut out for her, but it's only a matter of time before her professional and personal worlds collide in new and disastrous ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Shining Girls (2022)
Plot Summary:
Years after a brutal attack left her in a constantly shifting reality, Kirby Mazrachi learns that a recent murder is linked to her assault. She teams with veteran reporter Dan Velazquez to understand her ever-changing present—and confront her past.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, thrilling
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Through the Darkness (2022)
Plot Summary:
It deals with the beginning of profilers who had to look into their minds to chase away demons that could not be called human beings in the days when the word profiling was unfamiliar and there was no concept of psychopaths, when a series of vicious criminals such as Yoo Young Chul, Jung Nam Gyu, and Kang Ho Soon appeared. It will be another kind of drama that will give you a sense of immersion and tension that you've never experienced before. The original author, Profiler Kwon Il Yong, became a police officer in 1989 and became the first profiler in Korea in 2000. His name was made public when he profiled serial killers such as Yoo Young Chul and Jung Nam Kyu. Kim Nam Gil will once again attempt a strong transformation by acting as a profiler of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's criminal behavior analysis team, which looks deeper into humans than anyone else and takes a more delicate look at others.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cerebral
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One Ordinary Day (2021)
Plot Summary:
A drama that explores the criminal justice system from an extremely popular perspective through the fierce story of two men surrounding the murder of a woman. Hyun Soo, an ordinary college student, suddenly becomes the primary suspect in a murder case. Shin Joong Han is the only lawyer willing to help Kim Hyun Soo. Having just barely passed law school, Shin Joong Han's involvement in Kim Hyun Woo's case eventually takes his unremarkable life to new heights.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sad
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Crystal's Beating (2016)
Plot Summary:
From a gruesome murder to a series of bomb blasts, it's explosive storytelling from beginning to end! This “Crystal's Beating” (Suishō no Kodō) is the sequel to the immensely popular crime suspense drama series “Cocoon of Stone” (Ishi no Mayu), and the long-awaited second instalment in the “Murder Analysis Team” (Satsujin Bunseki-han) series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dark Hole (2021)
Plot Summary:
A creature action thriller series about the desperate survival of the survivors among the mutant humans who drank a mysterious black smoke from the sinkhole and soon turned into monsters and quickly became a pandemonium.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Minority Report (2015)
Plot Summary:
Minority Report follows the unlikely partnership between a man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past, as they race to stop the worst crimes of the year 2065 before they happen. Set in Washington, D.C., it is 10 years after the demise of Precrime, a law enforcement agency tasked with identifying and eliminating criminals... before their crimes were committed. To carry out this brand of justice, the agency used three precogs - "precognitives" Dash, Arthur and Agatha - who were able to see the future. Now, in 2065, crime-solving is different, and justice leans more on sophisticated and trusted technology than on the instincts of the precogs.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense