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Plot Summary:
French adaptation of the British series Luther (2010).
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, clever, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, talky, stylized
Best tv shows and movies like Luther (2021):
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Remember (2017)
Plot Summary:
It's a horrific crime scene. A couple and their baby are found savagely murdered in their living room. The bodies are covered in blood, but bear no wounds. The couple's 7-year-old daughter, Madeleine, is miraculously unhurt. But the traumatized girl has lost her memory and can't utter a single word. Why was she left unscathed? There's another troubling question: the doors of the house were locked from the inside, and there's no sign of a break-in. Captain Belgarde takes over the case and brings in Marie Kempf, a psychiatrist who lost her own daughter, Lila, several years earlier. Belgarde investigated that case too, ruling it a suicide. Reluctant at first, Marie agrees to help on the condition that Belgarde reopen her daughter's case, which she refuses to believe was a suicide. They strike a deal and Marie takes Madeleine to her house to treat her, hoping to get the little girl to start talking and rekindle her memory.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Imperial Coroner (2021)
Plot Summary:
Young girl Chu Chu came from a family of coroners. She meets Prince Xiao Jinyu, a dignified prince in charge of criminal lawsuit who appeared weak and sickly. Prince Xiao lacks reliable manpower to investigate case, while Chu Chu lacks people to stepup, take charge and be a man. Together, they manage to unravel a shocking case that has dragged on for 18 years. After solving the case, she won the Emperor's approval and is finally certified as the Imperial Coroner, fulfilling her life goal.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, disturbing, talky
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The Lies Within (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kim Seo-hui’s life is changed forever when her politician father dies in a car crash and her husband disappears – all in one day. She enters the world of politics and join hands with small-town detective Jo Tae-sik to uncover the truth when she finds out that the car crash might not have been an accident after all.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, political
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Borderland (2017)
Plot Summary:
Gritty police thriller about a German father-daughter team working with French colleagues to battle organized crime in the German border town of Kehl.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful
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The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set during the 14th year of Chenghua Emperor's reign, Tang Fan, a sixth rank official and Sui Zhou, an embroidered uniform guard, join hands to crush a conspiracy to maintain peace and order for the people.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, talky
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Return (2018)
Plot Summary:
Choi Ja-Hye is a lawyer and Dokgo Young is a detective with a hot temper. They work together on a murder case where the suspects are children from the elite class.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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In Family We Trust (2018)
Plot Summary:
It’s a drama about conflicts in a big family, involving murder and a police investigation. The title is a twist on the idiom, blood is thicker than water. Because of the conflicts, their family bonds aren’t strong. When one relative mysteriously dies, the true colors of everyone in the family are about to be revealed. Yi, the eldest brother and Pete, the second brother, try to find out the truth. Patsorn and Cris, their mother, are the biggest suspects. Both of them need to prove their innocence. But the more Yi and Pete investigate, the more dirt they find on the family and everyone becomes a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Operation Moscow (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 1993, a large number of Chinese businessmen poured into Russia's gold rush. Among them, there were a few distinctive faces. They snoop on the small traders, seek help between gangland and police. They are a secret group dispatched by the Chinese police. Their goal in this trip is find out information clues that Chinese and Russian K3 train robberies which was shocking the word and arrest all the suspects secretly. Led by Chen Erli (Xia Yu) - the head of the Chinese police team, after the team overcame numerous obstacles and suffered many tribulations, launching a tortuous pursuit in a distant foreign land.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Miracle (2018)
Plot Summary:
During the incursion in a mob boss' hideout, Police finds a Virgin Mary plastic sculpture which weeps blood. There is no answer to the mystery, but the power of the enigma will make crazy the people who will get in touch with this event, derailing their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic
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Crime Is Her Game (2019)
Plot Summary:
Captain Gaby Molina investigates with great seriousness and success on cases not always easy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Typist (2018)
Plot Summary:
Freya Becker is a typist with the homicide division of the Berlin police. Freya’s daughter, Marie, disappeared 11 years ago without a trace, and Freya is determined to uncover the truth, whatever the cost.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Fury (2016)
Plot Summary:
Detective Kunes has a problem once again: he's lambasted the boyfriend of his ex-wife, and is threatened with dismissal from the police service. His high-ranking (female) boss has a solution for him: "removing" him on an internships in a back-of-beyond borderland region. But there's a fly in the ointment. His real mission is to unravel the two-year old case of the murder of policewoman Wágnerová, the investigation of which has reached an impasse. But the crime rate in the borderlands is one of the highest in the whole country - involving smuggling, drug production, poaching, prostitution and murders. Kunes has to deal with one difficult case after another, and it takes quite some time before he can start doing what he's sent to do, and then he does it in fact by coincidence.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Deadly Tropics (2019)
Plot Summary:
On the Caribbean island of Martinique, in the middle of the tropics, several mysterious murders occur. Now it is up to the two investigators Mélissa Sainte-Rose and Gaëlle Crivelli to solve the case - even if the two women have very different views of law.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized
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The Ending Planner (2012)
Plot Summary:
Saikō no Jinsei no Owarikata: Ending Planner is a Japanese television drama series. It premiered on TBS on January 12, 2012. The drama revolves around the members of the Ihara family who operate a funeral parlor in Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, dorama
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The Party (2014)
Plot Summary:
A huge party with guests who are hiding secrets and desires ends with a body floating in the pool: a murder where everyone is a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, novela
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The Grave (2019)
Plot Summary:
An earthquake in the north uncovers a large hole in a nature reserve. Inside the hole, three human skeletons are found. The plot thickens when DNA tests reveal that the DNA belongs to three living people.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Suffering (2017)
Plot Summary:
Pablo Rouviot is a renowned psychoanalyst. His life changes completely when Paula arrives to his office and asks him to prove that his brother, a man with serious psychological problems and accused for the murder of his father, is in no able condition to be judged.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Angels (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hameem Haider (Indrajith) is a police officer who meets with an accident while investigating a series of murders and is forced to take a break from his duties. Years later the unsolved murders are picked up by a reality TV show.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Murders in... (2013)
Plot Summary:
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Murders in Rochefort (2019)
Plot Summary:
Police captains Emma and Adrien look for a killer who would use a silver bullet… on multiple victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Snow Angels (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two days before Christmas, while Sweden is paralyzed by a heavy snowstorm, five-week-old baby Lukas inexplicably disappears from his home. Experienced police officer Alice thinks that something is not right in the parents' stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland
Duration: 341 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, clever
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Viso d'angelo (2011)
Plot Summary:
TV miniseries in four parts. A serial killer mysteriously leaves a signature species, a rosary in the hands of his victims. Inspector Roberto Parisi, a specialist in this type of crime, but that hides a dark past, will be responsible for conducting investigations.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 400 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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Capitani (2019)
Plot Summary:
The body of a teenage girl is found in the forest near the rural village of Manscheid, deep in the North of Luxembourg. Luc Capitani, a gruff detective from the South of the country, is put in charge of the case. Having trouble navigating the closed, communal and protective mentality of the northerners, Capitani finds himself unwillingly dependent on the help of Elsa Ley, a young and intrepid local policewoman. The officers quickly find themselves entangled in a web of secrets and lies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg
Duration: 312 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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Crimson Wedding (2018)
Plot Summary:
There is a party atmosphere in Provence: Sandra, the daughter of a couple of renowned local restaurant owners, is getting married, and her sister Alice comes home for the occasion. The family reunion is initially a carefree affair… but then tragedy strikes. A few hours after the ceremony, the bride is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. What at first looks like suicide could well be murder. When Vincent, a family friend, investigates, behind the veil of appearances, he stumbles on some very dark secrets….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Suspects (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in London, each episode is a self-contained story, starting with a news report, then following the team of three detectives as they investigate the circumstances the crime. The cases themselves are hard-hitting with contemporary themes, such as the search for a soldier with PTSD, a murder that has been made to look like an assisted suicide and the gang rape of a young teenager.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama
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Silent Road (2021)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected event comes to disturb the seemingly calm life of a strong society. The tracks of a school bus are suddenly lost, one morning. Inside the bus are nine elementary school students, children of wealthy and powerful families, along with the driver and an attendant. Police investigations are moving in uncharted waters and everything shows that it has to do with a group abduction, but a young journalist unexpectedly finds himself at the center of events. An entire society is being shaken. A puzzle of suspects is formed, secret passions and intrigues are revealed. The masks fall and the hidden lives of the protagonists come to light. Faced with a nightmarish reality, the heroes are forced to face their own demons. Will they manage to cross the "Silent Road" to reach the truth, atonement and finally redemption?.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Eken Babu (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Bangali Babu of the detective world, Eken Babu travels to Shantiniketan. Will he smell a mystery in a murder?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Mystery
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Void (2021)
Plot Summary:
Esma is a beautiful, ambitious and strong woman who is the second boss of her father's law firm. Filiz is a stubborn but fragile lawyer candidate. One murder will cross the paths of these two different women. But how?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing