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Plot Summary:
Ms. Ma is sent to jail after being accused of killing her daughter. She escapes in order to find the real murderer and starts solving other cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dorama, detective
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Shadow Island Mysteries: Wedding for One (2010)
Plot Summary:
TV Movie directed by Gary Yates. Claire is hosting her best friend's wedding. Guests arrive, old family conflicts resurface and the night before the wedding, the Groom goes missing. Only Claire knows of Danny's disappearance and she is determined to find him and bring him back before her best friend finds out.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Feluda Pherot (2020)
Plot Summary:
Feluda, Calcutta as well as South Asia's Brightest private Crime Detective, along with his comrade Jatayu and nephew Topshe, unravel mysteries at Hazaribagh and in Kathmandu.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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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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Voice (2019)
Plot Summary:
Shogo Higuchi (Toshiaki Karasawa) is a detective whose wife was murdered by a serial killer. Hikari Tachibana (Yoko Maki) is a voice profiler whose father was murdered. She has a special hearing ability which allows her to hear minutiae sounds that other people do not.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (2018)
Plot Summary:
A detective thinks about quitting his job. He takes on a female university student murder case that was disguised as a suicide. The detective becomes obsessed with solving the case. He has a young sister and she meets a man. The man does not remember when he was little. He is not a good person, but she has sympathy for him. The detective tries to push the man away from his younger sister. The detective suspects that the man is somehow involved in the female university student murder case. The man and the detective's younger sister fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, romantic, dorama, detective
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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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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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Evil Minds (2015)
Plot Summary:
A gifted criminal profiler lost someone important to him while he was helping the police solve a bizarre campus serial killing. The lost crippled his mind and left him unable to profile again. But when another serial killing threatened the city, he had to confront his inner demon in order to track down the serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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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 Ghost Detective (2018)
Plot Summary:
In this horror thriller drama, a detective who catches ghosts and his passionate assistant run into a mysterious woman and get involved in a bizarre incident.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, dorama, gothic, detective
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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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Final Cut (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Keisuke Nakamura was a high school student, his mother was accused of killing a girl and then his mother committed suicide. 12 years later, Keisuke Nakamura tries to find the girl's real killer and also take revenge upon those responsible for his mother's suicide. He targets people from the media who covered the case and he crosses paths with sisters who hold a key to what happened. Keisuke Nakamura falls in love with one of the sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Suspicion (2015)
Plot Summary:
Suspicion takes the POV of an individual whose curiosity becomes their worst nightmare, as the sights and sounds of a 'normal' neighborhood or community, transform into terrifying glimpses of an unfolding horror story.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Long Night (2020)
Plot Summary:
It was an open shut case with hundred of witnesses seeing the murder suspect trying to dispose of a body and a signed confession from the suspect himself. And yet when the case was ready for court, the prosecutor discovered that the case was not as it appeared. The murder was but a cover for another more shocking injustice. He spent ten years trying to uncover the truth, toiling away his youth, his career, his reputation, his family, and even his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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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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The Investigation (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Investigation explores the journey of a Mumbai Crime Branch ACP unravelling a murder mystery. Featuring Hiten Tejwani in the lead as the ACP and Leena Jumani as his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Dark Woods (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1989, the sister of Hamburg's LKA chief Thomas Bethge disappears without a trace. For almost three decades, he investigates the mysterious criminal case, before he gets on the trail of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Women Document Detectives (2018)
Plot Summary:
Detective Tomo Yashiro is ordered to transfer to the Sixth Special Investigations Unit. it is in charge of deciphering documents of unsolved cases she begins work in her new post along with a senior detective Risa Narum who is called the expert of document deciphering for her unusual ability to predict the personality and thoughts of a writer from writings.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative, detective
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The Lawyer (2018)
Plot Summary:
Frank Nordling is a young and exceptionally promising defense lawyer. When Frank learns the truth behind his parents' death, his whole world unravels. As children, Frank and his sister Sara witnessed their parents die in an explosion caused by a car bomb. As Frank finds out, they were murdered by one of the leaders in Copenhagen's criminal underworld, Thomas Waldman. In order to avenge his parents Frank must infiltrate Waldman's organization and become his personal lawyer and trusted confidant. To avoid putting those close to him in danger, Frank has to keep up appearances and play the game. But can he handle it? Is it worth the price? And who's really tricking whom?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France, Finland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Zekkyo (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman’s dead body is found in an apartment in Kokubunji, Tokyo. The decayed body seems like a half year has passed since its death and it is damaged by domestic cats that ate the body. The woman's death is thought to be a "lonely death" (someone died naturally without anyone noticing for a long period of time). Detective Ayano has doubts about that conclusion. The cats seemed like they were not house trained, which is odd for domestic cats. Detective Ayano wonders whether the cats were really owned by the dead woman. Detective Ayano then finds Suzuki Yoko’s bankbook in an empty fishbowl. It seems like the dead woman is 36-year-old Yoko.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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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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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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Who Killed Daigoro Tokuyama? (2016)
Plot Summary:
One morning, students find their homeroom teacher Tokuyama Daigoro’s body on the floor of the classroom. A strange school life begins as the students work hard to hide the presence of their teacher's corpse in their classroom. Other teachers from the Academy, their homeroom teacher's wife, his mistress, police, and reporters... One-by-one they visit the classroom and the students face the risk of being discovered. Is it possible to continue to hide it?! And who was it who killed him?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Stolen Face (2019)
Plot Summary:
Shirato Takamasa is a detective at the Investigation Cooperation Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. His job is to catch wanted criminals by only relying on their faces. One day, he sees Sunami's face who was a senior detective, but had a mysterious death 4 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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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
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Sketch (2018)
Plot Summary:
Detective Kang Dong-Soo's fiance is killed mysteriously. He works with a female detective who can see 3 days into the future. She sketches what she sees. They set out to capture the murderer. Kim Do-Jin is a former special forces member. His pregnant wife was killed and he plots revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, slasher