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Plot Summary:
Forensic psychiatrist Fokke Augustinus makes an unexpected career change when he inherits his father's mansion in Groningen where he becomes involved with a criminal organization with a marijuana plantation on his father's land.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, atmospheric, humorous, suspenseful, interesting
Best tv shows and movies like Hollands Hoop (2014):
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The Holiday (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Kate, a woman who discovers that her husband is having an affair during a luxurious holiday somewhere in the Mediterranean. The troubled couple are sharing a villa with four of Kate’s closest friends, one of which is the adulterous partner, but she doesn’t realise that the guilty party could be prepared to kill in order to keep their secret safe.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Blood of the Vine (2011)
Plot Summary:
Benjamin Lebel, an internationally-acclaimed wine expert, finds himself helping the local police inspector on cases combining murders and Grand Crus.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, clever, serious, suspenseful, realistic, witty
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Lovers' Lane Murders (2021)
Plot Summary:
Chilling and eerie connect similarities to four brutal double murders between 1986-1990. Now, a team of former FBI special agents intends to bringing them to justice and providing answers to the victims' families.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Road to Murder (2020)
Plot Summary:
After his father was driven to suicide, Kubota Kazuma and his cousin vow to kill the man responsible for his death. However, given that neither of them have ever killed someone, it requires a lot of planning and a lot of help to achieve the perfect crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Fat Tony & Co (2014)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Tony Mokbel; how he grew entangled with the country’s most notorious underworld figures, how he built his massive fortune, and how he became a fugitive on a yacht bound for Greece, desperate to escape mounting criminal law battles.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, realistic
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Tommy (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Sri Lanka
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Forgotten (1999)
Plot Summary:
Ben Turner is living an idyllic life in the sleepy English countryside. Happily married and father to a six-year-old daughter, things couldn't be better until a dark reminder from his past turns up in the morning mail.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Thriller, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, tense, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Mother Goose (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sonja (Alexandra Rapaport) lives a rather carefree life with her beloved family. The husband Frederick's marijuana business providing family finances a silver lining. But life is shattered and Sonja forced to play a dangerous game with both organized crime and police to protect their children. She can no longer be sure which ones are her friends and who she can trust.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, tense, noir, detective
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The Hunt with John Walsh (2014)
Plot Summary:
There are among the thousands of fugitives who avoid criminal prosecution in the United States every year. Find out more about these fugitives and join John Walsh in his quest to track them down and bring them to justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating
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The Left Wing Gang (2009)
Plot Summary:
Crime story about a notorious gang of criminals and the policeman who went for broke to catch them. The gang were radical left-wing activists. In 1989, seven of them were charged with being behind a series of the most professional robberies in the history of Denmark. The many millions stolen in the gang's activities were transferred to the terror organization PFLP with the aim of supporting anti-Israeli Palestinians. The assumed leader of the gang, Jan Weimann, never revealed his double life to his wife or friends, and police superintendent Jørn Moos, who was in charge of the investigation, staked his career to catch the gang members.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, suspenseful, stylized, interesting
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The Mind of a Murderer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Michelle Ward goes behind bars to interview violent murderers and offer insight into what drives people to kill. From her early doctorate research on psychopathy, to her ongoing study of criminal behavior, she possesses a unique ability to push murderers to the limit, getting them to admit things they wouldn't confess to anyone else. She is trained to go beyond excuses and get to the psychological core of why people commit heinous acts - and she does it alone in a room, face-to-face with coldblooded killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, thrilling
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Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy (2012)
Plot Summary:
Varg Veum tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to avoid her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective, serious, suspenseful
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South (2019)
Plot Summary:
The series develops around cases of homicides that occurred during the summer, at the time of the economic and social crisis that affected Portugal.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Crime
Country: Portugal
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Paris Criminal Investigations (2007)
Plot Summary:
Paris enquêtes criminelles is a French television series broadcast since May 3, 2007 on TF1.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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Vienna Crime Squad (2005)
Plot Summary:
SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Crime
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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MosGaz. Delo N1 (2012)
Plot Summary:
1962. Moscow. Vladimir Ionesyan, nicknamed "Mosgaz," became he first officially recognized serial killer in the Soviet Union. His bloody deeds and his moniker are still used by Russian mothers to frighten their children.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Crime
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: realistic, tense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, psychological, bleak
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Garage Sale Mystery: The Deadly Room (2015)
Plot Summary:
A sleuthing garage sale maven suspects foul play when her friend dies in an old house with a cursed reputation. Even though police evidence - and even webcam footage of the death – point to natural causes – this mysterious death in a cursed” home poised for multi-million dollar sale seems too coincidental. Putting her keen instincts to work, she examines a few key suspects. As she digs into this deadly mystery, she uncovers clues that bring her closer to the truth, and even put her own life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, enigmatic, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful
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Aurora (2010)
Plot Summary:
Aurora is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States–based television network Telemundo. Telemundo aired this serial from November 1, 2010 to May 20, 2011. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. It stars Sara Maldonado, Eugenio Siller, and Jorge Luis Pila as the protagonists. Though Aurora was nominated for The Best Bad Girl, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Novela Soundtrack, it won no awards.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: emotional, novela, psychological, sentimental, captivating, soap opera, serious, telenovela
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Family Values (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
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The Straits (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set among the turquoise waters and lethal wildlife of Australia’s Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait, The Straits is an exotic, darkly humorous crime drama. The Montebellos are not your average Australian family. Modern day smugglers, their family business is transporting drugs into Australia and guns and exotic wildlife out, making use of ties of blood and loyalty in the Torres Strait Islands.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized
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Lady of Steel (2014)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of Vicenta Acero, the feared coyote who now leads the dynasty of illicit dealings once under the control of her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Colombia
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense, sexy, soap opera, telenovela
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Black Widow (2010)
Plot Summary:
Carmen, the daughter of a notorious Amsterdam drug lord, reluctantly takes charge of the family's smuggling business in order to clear her husband's debts.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, atmospheric, interesting
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Anti-Social (2015)
Plot Summary:
Central London, today; Dee is an anarchic street-artist confronting the system, Marcus is an armed robber on a jewellery store crime-wave. For the two brothers, being Anti-Social is a way of life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime
Country: Hungary, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating
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Outlaw Country (2012)
Plot Summary:
A crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty where music, love, hope and tragedy collide. Created as a pilot for a TV Series which was not taken up, this has now been aired as a TV Movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, independent film, rough
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The Fear (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Brighton crime boss turned entrepreneur and the disintegration of a criminal mind. (From IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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Spotless (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in London, SPOTLESS is the story of a troubled crime scene cleaner, Jean, whose tidy life is turned upside down when his outlaw brother Martin crash lands into his world, entangling them in the deadly dynamics of organized crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Tulskiy Tokarev (2010)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Metástasis (2014)
Plot Summary:
A Colombian remake of the U.S. TV show Breaking Bad. After he is diagnosed with cancer, Walter Blanco teams up with José Miguel Rosas in order to sell crystal meth.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, bleak, serious, gloomy
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Ray Donovan (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, clever, tense, stylized, realistic, crime drama, erotic, neo noir, dramatic
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The Driver (2014)
Plot Summary:
Taxi driver, Vince McKee, finds his life taking an unexpected turn after he accepts an offer to drive for a criminal gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, realistic, suspense, serious, suspenseful