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Plot Summary:
In El Hierro, the most remote island of the Canary Archipelago, a murder has occurred. Candela, an experienced judge with a strong character, must instruct the case as she takes up her position in a destination where she doesn't fit in. The island, an abrupt and changing landscape, is the home of a small community with singular traditions, where nobody enters or leaves unnoticed and where secrets are hard to keep. The murderer is surely one of the islanders. Everybody believes it is Diaz, a shady local businessman, who seems to fit the bill. But nothing is that easy, neither with Candela, nor with Diaz. They are both out to find the murderer. She is out to do her job to the best of her ability; he is out to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Rig 45: Murder at Sea (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Andrea, a damage regulator from Benthos Oil, is sent out to Rig 45 two days before Christmas to investigate a fatal accident, the rig is hit by a hurricane and all communications lost. Soon, the crew realize that the accident is in fact a murder, and they now know that they are in real danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Tomorrow Is Ours (2017)
Plot Summary:
The bay of Sète. A violent explosion. Among the chaos, a mother looks for her son. Was he aboard one of the boats that crashed into each other? Was he involved in what very quickly appears to be a murder? Determined to protect her child, her life is completely turned around when the body of a woman is discovered on the beach, that of her own sister, whom she hasn't seen in over fifteen years.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, realistic, disturbing, soap opera
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Briarpatch (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dogged investigator Allegra Dill returns to her border-town Texas home after her sister is murdered. What begins as a search for a killer turns into an all-consuming fight to bring her corrupt hometown to its knees.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anthology, detective, action adventure, atmospheric, noir
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Taqdeer (2020)
Plot Summary:
Freezer van driver Taqdeer spirals into a dark game of destiny after he finds the unclaimed dead body of a woman in his truck.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, epic
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MosGaz. Delo N3: Pauk (2015)
Plot Summary:
The third film of the project about Cherkasov's task force is "Goznak". Based on another famous story - the robbery of the State Bank of the Armenian SSR in 1977, when the Kalachyan brothers swept the treasury for one and a half million rubles (two million dollars at the then exchange rate). It was the largest kidnapping in the Soviet Union. 1967 year. Moscow. A fashion model from the House of Fashion was killed. A group of Major Cherkasov arrives at the crime scene. He urgently introduces his man, Sonya Timofeeva, into the Fashion House, whose main task is to obtain information about the relationship between the employees of the Fashion House. Soon, another fashion model dies. And simultaneously with this murder, a very daring crime is taking place - the robbery of Goznak.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Traces (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set against the stunning Scottish landscape in and around Dundee, three compelling female characters — Emma Hedges, Prof. Sarah Gordon and Prof. Kathy Torrance — join forces to uncover the truth about an unsolved murder case that's very close to home.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, atmospheric, captivating, disturbing, psychological, crime drama, neo noir
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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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Fearless (2017)
Plot Summary:
Emma Banville, a human rights lawyer known for defending lost causes, sets out to prove the innocence of Kevin Russell, who was convicted for the murder of a school girl 14 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense, rough, detective, crime drama
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Ice Cold Murders: Rocco Schiavone (2016)
Plot Summary:
Weed smoking, foulmouthed Rocco Schiavone is an offbeat Deputy Commissioner of the State Police. For disciplinary reasons he is transferred to the Alpine town of Aosta, far from his beloved Rome. The sophisticated but cranky Roman despises the mountains, the cold, and the provincial locals as much as he disdains his superiors and their petty rules. But he loves solving crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, disturbing, bleak, detective, crime drama, hardboiled detective, interesting, detective series
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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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Single-Handed (2007)
Plot Summary:
Single-Handed is an Irish television drama series, first broadcast on RTÉ Television in 2007. Set and filmed in the west of Ireland, it focuses on the life of a member of the Garda Síochána, Sergeant Jack Driscoll. Three two-episode, single-story series aired one each on consecutive nights in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Series Four, consisting of three stories told over six episodes, began in RTÉ One November 2010. The series is partially inspired by garda corruption in County Donegal.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, crime drama, psychological, suspense, sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Presumed Guilty (2018)
Plot Summary:
A terrible event leads an investigator in Paris to come back to his birth town ten years after leaving it, where he has to confront the ghosts of his past and an unsolved mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, detective
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Balthazar (2018)
Plot Summary:
Facing a series of complex murder cases, new police commander Hélène Bach must learn to work with the brilliant yet exasperating Raphaël, who can make the dead speak like no-one else.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, realistic, disturbing, serious, detective
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I Know Who You Are (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man ends up in hospital after a car accident. He does not remember his name, but it is soon discovered he is a famous attorney. To make things worse, the police start to suspect him of having murdered his missing niece.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspenseful, psychological, sincere, realistic, enigmatic, suspense, captivating, disturbing
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Young Wallander (2020)
Plot Summary:
An incendiary hate crime stirs civil unrest, fast-tracking rookie cop Kurt Wallander to detective in this origin story for the popular character.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, unusual plot structure, disturbing, detective, action adventure
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Suits (2018)
Plot Summary:
Choi Kyung Seo is a legendary lawyer at the top law firm in South Korea. He has charisma and an attractive appearance. He hires Go Yeon Woo as a rookie lawyer for the law firm. Go Yeon Woo has excellent memory.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dorama
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A Case for Two (1981)
Plot Summary:
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series. In contrast, the attorney character has changed several times. The first attorney was Dr. Dieter Renz. Dr. Renz retired in episode #60 and was replaced by Dr. Rainer Franck. In episode #149, Dr. Franck took a job as a law school teacher, and was replaced by Dr. Johannes Voss. In episode #182, Dr. Voss was shot dead by an escaping criminal, and was in turn replaced by Dr. Markus Lessing. Most of the episodes follow a simple pattern. Someone is murdered, and the police arrest the most likely suspect. The suspect, claiming to be innocent, hires the attorney in the series as his lawyer. The attorney does all the paperwork, talks with the police and attends court. Meanwhile, Matula does all the actual research and detective work - "gets his hands dirty", so to speak. Matula often gets into fights, and even though he is in his early sixties, he often knocks out the bad guys. In the end, the original suspect usually turns out to be innocent after all, and the real culprit is found.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, realistic, detective
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They Were Ten (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ten people, five women, five men, are invited to a luxury hotel on a deserted tropical island. They soon realize they are completely isolated, cut off from the rest of the word and all means of communication, which rapidly becomes their worst nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, psychotronic
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Garage Sale Mystery: All That Glitters (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer Shannon (Lori Loughlin) has a gift for finding rare treasures hidden in garage sales that she can resell at her consignment store, Rags to Riches, and for get her involved in the criminal investigations that happen at the very second-hand sales she frequents. When her friend Martin (Michael Kopsa) turns up murdered just hours after auctioning off an abandoned storage unit full of unique items to Jennifer, she is immediately pulled on the case as a key eyewitness. Working with Detective Lynwood (Kevin O'Grady), Jennifer helps single out a disgruntled customer as the prime suspect, while she and her business partner, Danielle (Sarah Strange), sift through boxes from the auction. As her husband Jason (Steve Bacic) worries about her safety, she starts to get over her head when there is a break-in at her store and a run-in with Martin's angry wife. They must race to save a life and put their own on the line. Will they succeed before times runs out?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful
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Possessions (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young French woman living in Israel is accused of the murder of her husband on the day of their wedding. As the bride struggles to prove her innocence, mysterious happenings surround her. Is she guilty or could she be the victim?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Thou Shalt Not Kill (2015)
Plot Summary:
Stubborn and determined detective Valeria Ferro endeavors to solve the challenging puzzle behind crimes motivated by jealousy, vendettas and repressed anger to seek the truth and justice. All as she struggles with her own demons and the phantoms of her past that come back to life when her mother is released from jail after serving a seventeen-year prison sentence.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, rough, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, thought provoking
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Face to Face (2019)
Plot Summary:
Bjørn investigates the killing of his daughter. People around him believe she might have committed suicide, but he doesn't accept that. Both the stakes and the suspense rise relentlessly as Bjørn inches closer to the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing, detective, crime thriller, hardboiled detective, detective series
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Pagan Peak (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a gruesomely staged body is found, propped up on a mountain pass in the Alps close to the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate. For German detective Ellie, this is the first real challenge of her career; her Austrian counterpart Gedeon though seems to have lost any ambitions in his job. Very soon, they discover more crime scenes with symbolically posed victims, reminiscent of pagan rituals. It all seems to be part of a bigger, sinister plan. Ellie finds herself under increasing pressure to understand the deranged killer's motives so she can stop him. The hunt leads them ever deeper in the dark valleys and archaic Alpine customs - and the paranoid world of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, detective, slasher, rough, bleak, interesting
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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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Vienna Blood (2019)
Plot Summary:
Max Liebermann, a student of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around the grand cafes and opera houses of 1900s Vienna.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, enigmatic, disturbing, detective, gothic, period piece, historical drama, period drama, detective series
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Monster (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the dark and remote landscape of northern Norway, a brutal murder reveals a mass grave which links old cases to missing people. Local police woman Hedda is put on the case with special investigator Joel Dreyer who comes from the metropolitan south. Their different backgrounds, personalities and methods immediately set them against each other. But when the investigation begins to spiral out of control, both detectives resort to questionable moves in order to stay on the case and protect their secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: tense, detective, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Thorne: Sleepyhead (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thorne Sleepyhead: follows DI Tom Thornes investigation into a mysterious serial killer. His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate. Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel, she is aware of everything going on around her, but she is unable to move or communicate. In leaving Alison alive, the police believe the killer's made his first mistake.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense, dark, detective, scary, realistic
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Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021)
Plot Summary:
Detective Elliot Stabler returns to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss. Stabler journeys to find absolution and rebuild his life, while leading a new elite task force that is taking apart the city’s most powerful criminal syndicates one by one.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective, deep
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Sea of Plastic (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mar de plástico (Spanish: Sea of Plastic) is a Spanish crime drama television series produced by Boomerang TV for Atresmedia. It airs on Atresmedia's main channel Antena 3. The series focuses on the investigation of a murder in the fictional town of Campoamargo, set in an area of the province of Almería known as the "sea of plastic" due to the numerous greenhouses that cover it, and the interracial conflicts that arise in the greenhouses. The pilot episode aired on 22 September 2015 on simulcast in Antena 3, Neox, Nova and Mega.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, multicultural, detective
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The Lincoln Lawyer (2022)
Plot Summary:
Sidelined after an accident, hotshot Los Angeles lawyer Mickey Haller restarts his career — and his trademark Lincoln — when he takes on a murder case.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological