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Plot Summary:
Set in the Shanghai Bund in the 1940s, it revolves around a female detective who solve multiple cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, clever, captivating, witty, stylized
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Detective L (2019)
Plot Summary:
Shanghai in 30s: An intriguing crime case emerges amidst the bustling city. A beautiful new graduate of police academy, Qin Xiaoman, joins the investigation unit. The famous detective Luo Fei becomes her colleague and neighbour.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, captivating
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Amazing Detective Di Renjie (2004)
Plot Summary:
Di Renjie is Tang dynasty magistrate and statesman, who investigates mysterious murders.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, cynical, costume drama
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Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
Plot Summary:
Film based on the characters of the English writer Arthur Conan Doyle. It tells a hypothetical meeting in Madrid between the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, clever, intellectual, suspense, suspenseful, witty, talky
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Super Jimmy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Police captain Déa Versini works with Jimmy. They are inseparable and have formed a perfect partnership on the streets. There is no case they can’t crack! But their relationship is shaken up by the arrival of a new lieutenant, Matthieu Belcourt. Is it possible for them to work as a trio? Unlikely… given that Jimmy is Déa’s imaginary friend!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: semi serious, thought provoking, witty, clever, touching, captivating
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Beautiful Mind (2016)
Plot Summary:
Lee Young-O is an excellent neurosurgeon with zero sympathy. One day, he becomes involved in bizarre patient deaths. He also falls in love and recovers his humanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Twenty Your Life On (2020)
Plot Summary:
Being someone with no power nor looks nor money, Jiang Xiaoguo has always envied her three roommates. Duan Jiabao who comes from a wealthy family has simple desires. She is carefree and only cares about chasing after celebrities and eating good food. Luo Yan may despise her mother's tendency to become too overbearing, but at least she can rest assured that her future is in good hands. Liang Shuang is beautiful and a go-getter. Even though she is only a college senior, she has already proven herself more than capable to adapt to society. However, she does not know that every person will have their own crosses to bear. Duang Jiabao gets a taste of first love only to realize that she and her friend have fallen for the same man. In trying to understand her mother, Luo Yan learns her mother's long-kept secret. Meanwhile, Liang Shuang still needs to learn how not to hurt the people who care for her. In one year, the four ladies gradually become closer.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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Phantom Detective (2016)
Plot Summary:
HONG Gildong is an infallible private detective with an exceptional memory and quirky personality. While chasing the only target he failed to find, he gets entangled in a much bigger conspiracy than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, captivating, suspenseful, intense, neo noir, crime drama
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The Sommerdahl Murders (2020)
Plot Summary:
A love triangle between Dan Sommerdahl, his wife Marianne Sommerdahl and their best friend Flemming Torp occurs as they try to solves killings in Helsingør.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, psychological, touching, captivating, suspenseful, detective
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Samrat & Co. (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young, beautiful and rich girl, Dimpy Singh, approaches Samrat Tilakdhari, a private investigator, with a strange case. Their garden got ruined for reasons that appear natural but are not known; leading horticulturists have examined the fading plants but they have not been able to identify the probable reason. Further, her father's favorite horse died; once again the reason for the pre-mature death remains a mystery. That's not the end; Dimpy's father Mahendra Pratap Singh, otherwise a very strong and balanced man, has been experiencing deteriorating health. All these aspects when combined makes the case sound weird and that grabs the attention of Samrat. Samrat along with his assistant friend, Chakradhar Pandey, visits the huge estate of Mahendra Pratap Singh. As he starts investigating, he discovers lots of mysterious facts.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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VIP (2019)
Plot Summary:
The staff in charge of catering to the desires of a department store's top clientele try to keep their not-so-luxurious personal lives afloat.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sweet, captivating, disturbing
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Gourmet Detective (2015)
Plot Summary:
Famed culinary consultant Henry Ross is a charming food industry insider in San Francisco. When suspicious sabotage ends in a shocking murder at his friend’s five-star restaurant, Henry is put on the case with strong-willed police detective and single mom, Maggie Price. Despite Maggie’s protests, they must work together to decipher the clues and investigate all of San Francisco’s top culinary pros.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, psychological, detective
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Graceful Family (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mo Seok-hee is an only child and her father runs the large company MC Group. She is beautiful, smart and rich. Mo Seok-hee appears like she is arrogant, but she struggles over her mother’s death. Her mother was killed 15 years ago. Meanwhile, Heo Yoon-do is a lawyer, but he doesn’t even have an office. He solves small problems of neighborhood residents at a restaurant. He is full of love. Miraculously, Heo Yoon-do is headhunted to join the TOP team at MC Group. The TOP team manages the affairs of the family who runs the MC Group. Their job includes covering up immoral or illegal behaviors done by the family.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, suspense
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Cain (2012)
Plot Summary:
A cynical experienced homicide detective based in Marseilles, France is crippled in the line of duty and depends on a wheelchair to get around. He is accompanied by a young ,vivacious female detective who's been forced on him to train as a condition of his ability to continue to work as a field detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, intellectual, suspenseful, detective
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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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Bancroft (2017)
Plot Summary:
A dark and compelling thriller centering on Detective Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft, a female detective with an explosive secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, intellectual, captivating, hardboiled detective, psychological, detective series
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The Drug Hunter (2018)
Plot Summary:
An educated chemical engineer becomes an undercover officer against drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, stylized
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Queens of Mystery (2019)
Plot Summary:
Matilda Stone is a perennially single female detective whose three aunts are well-known crime writers that help her solve whodunit style murders as well as set her up on blind dates.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, clever, intellectual, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, psychological, exciting
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Jericho (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and written by Stewart Harcourt and starred Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Michael Jericho, who is loved by the public but who is embarrassed by his status as a hero. The series was set in London in 1958. The series was shown in the United States in 2006 and 2007 as part of the PBS Mystery! series and by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: intellectual, psychological, exciting, captivating, detective, odd, detective series
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Maigret (1991)
Plot Summary:
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, captivating, stylized, detective, exciting, witty
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Professor T. (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jasper Teerlinck, an eccentric professor, is an adviser to the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful
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Dr. Frost (2014)
Plot Summary:
Baek Nam Bong (Song Chang Ui) is known as Dr. Frost. He became a professor in psychology at early age. He is extremely bright, but he has difficulties sympathizing with others due to an injury to his frontal lobe as a child. During the day, he now works as a counselor at the campus counseling center and at night he works as a bartender. He then begins to work with a teaching assistant, Yoon Sung Ah (Jung Eun Chae) at the counseling center. Yoon Sung Ah is enthusiastic with the clients needing counseling. They work together to solve problems who go there for help.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, clever, intellectual, captivating, witty, odd
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MR.BRAIN (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ryusuke Tsukumo is a quirky, yet brilliant neuroscientist working for the National Research Institute of Police Science. Wielding a unique perspective and psychology, Tsukumo tackles the nation's most baffling crimes and scandals, going head-to-head with the most brilliant and twisted criminal minds. But his eccentricities and poor social timing can also aggravate people and circumstances, further complicating matters.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Nero Wolfe (2012)
Plot Summary:
Interesting modern actualization made by Italian broadcasting service (RAI) of immortal, well-known characters created by the genial American novelist Rex Stout.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, intellectual, captivating, witty, stylized, detective series
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Doctor John (2019)
Plot Summary:
Cha Yo-Han—an arrogant but genius doctor of anesthesiology—and Kang Shi-Young—a smart, warm resident of anesthesiology—work together to help people with mysterious cases of acute or chronic pain.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, witty, detective, medical drama
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Moonlighting (1985)
Plot Summary:
Moonlighting is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 66 episodes. Starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd as private detectives, the show was a mixture of drama, comedy, and romance, and was considered to be one of the first successful and influential examples of comedy-drama, or "dramedy", emerging as a distinct television genre. The show's theme song was performed by jazz singer Al Jarreau and became a hit. The show is also credited with making Willis a star, while providing Shepherd with a critical success after a string of lackluster projects. In 1997, the episode "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" was ranked #34 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2007, the series was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-Time." The relationship between David and Maddie was included in TV Guide's list of the best TV couples of all time.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 3073 min
Plot tags: talky, detective, feel good, realistic, witty, semi serious, soap opera, hilarious, sentimental, humorous
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Mind Games (2014)
Plot Summary:
Clark and Ross Edwards are brothers and partners in a unique agency committed to solving clients’ problems using the hard science of psychological manipulation. Clark is a former professor and a world-renowned expert in the field of human behavior. He has a checkered history due to bipolar disorder, which sometimes results in quirky, manic episodes. His older brother Ross is a slick con man who spent time in prison. Each in their own way knows what makes people tick. Drawing from the most cutting edge research in psychology, they can a tailor a plan to influence any situation. It’s a little bit science, a little bit con artistry plus a smattering of Jedi mind tricks. The brothers, along with their team of master manipulators are offering clients an alternative to fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, psychological, offbeat
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Dead Beautiful (2010)
Plot Summary:
As group leader of the Judicial Police in Paris, Martin is responsible for investigating the most atrocious and misogynistic crimes committed against society. Distrustful of everyone, he bears the marks of both his past successes and failures. Luckily, the ladies in his life are on hand to assist him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Van der Valk (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of the city of Amsterdam, Piet Van der Valk and his team investigate a series of high-profile cases immersed in the worlds of art, politics, addiction, mysticism and the fashion industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, intellectual, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Truth Be Told (2019)
Plot Summary:
Descend into the world of true-crime podcasts. New evidence compels podcaster Poppy Parnell to reopen the murder case that made her a media sensation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, intellectual, suspenseful, detective
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Dr. Richter (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Andrei Richter is a pain medication-dependent, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius who leads a team of diagnosticians at the 100th Clinic Hospital in Moscow.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: captivating, witty, psychological, emotional, talky