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Plot Summary:
Murder in the First follows homicide detectives Terry English and Hildy Mulligan as they investigate a multitude of tragedies in San Francisco.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, detective, tense, suspense, suspenseful, sexy
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The Killer Inside (2014)
Plot Summary:
Psychological crime series following the investigations of interrogation experts Julie Beauchemin and Maxime Moreli.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic
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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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One Lane Bridge (2020)
Plot Summary:
During a murder investigation in Queenstown, an ambitious young detective reawakens a spiritual gift that endangers the case, his career and his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crime drama, contemplative
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London Kills (2019)
Plot Summary:
With a documentary style delivery, this drama tells the story of a team of top murder detectives with each episode featuring a different murder while also following a serialized story involving the lead detective’s missing wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, detective
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The Detail (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three fiercely talented female homicide investigators work tirelessly to solve crimes while navigating the complicated demands of their personal lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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MIU404 (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Mobile Investigative Unit (MIU) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department attempts to solve cases within 24 hours.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Trace (2007)
Plot Summary:
A new governmental body is created to solve X-file and high-crime cases. Federal Expert Service brings together specialists in various areas: software development, ballistics, forensic, and investigators. FES is doing the whole range of expertise and research, and it investigates the most complex and intricate crimes. Launched as an experiment, FES trains young professionals and assists other special organizations, like FSB and MVDs branches, in solving crimes. Any investigator or detective, people from the Prosecutor's Office and a police officer can ask FES for help. A futuristic office was created especially for shooting: a laboratory, a meeting room, a morgue, an interrogation room, and so on.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
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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 Tower (2021)
Plot Summary:
A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, crime thriller
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The Victim (2019)
Plot Summary:
A grieving mother is accused of identifying online the man she believes killed her son. But is he really a notorious child murderer or a tragic victim of mistaken identity?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, 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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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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Honour (2020)
Plot Summary:
Based on the heartbreaking true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner murdered by her own family for falling in love with the wrong man, Honour follows Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode's passionate search to discover the fate of missing 20-year old Banaz.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama
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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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Inspector George Gently (2007)
Plot Summary:
Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, clever, realistic, dark, period drama
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Spiral (2005)
Plot Summary:
Spiral is a French television police drama series created by the TV production company Son et Lumière. The first eight episodes series started on Canal+ in France on 13 December 2005. It returned for a second series, partly funded by the BBC, of eight episodes on 12 May 2008, a third series of twelve episodes on 3 May 2010 and a fourth series of twelve episodes on 3 September 2012. A fifth and sixth series have been ordered. Spiral has been a great export success, with sales to broadcasters in some 70 countries, among them Australia, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The series was first shown in the UK on BBC Four during the summer of 2006. It was the channel's first French-language drama series, attracting a modest but loyal audience and firm critical approval. On 13 September 2009, BBC Four started showing the second series, on 2 April 2011 the third series and on 9 February 2013 the fourth series. In Australia, the first series was broadcast in 2008 on SBS One, the second series on SBS Two from September 2009 and the third series on SBS Two from mid-2012. Spiral debuted in North America via Netflix in September 2012; in November 2012, the small public-broadcasting network MHz Worldview began transmitting the series in the US.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective, noir, crime drama, bleak, realistic, stylized
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Law & Order Los Angeles (2010)
Plot Summary:
Law & Order: LA, originally titled Law & Order: Los Angeles, is an American police procedural and legal drama television series set in Los Angeles, where it was produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and developed by Blake Masters, it premiered on NBC on September 29, 2010, as a spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama Law & Order. The show received a full season pickup on October 18, 2010. On January 18, 2011, however, NBC announced that it was putting the series on hold indefinitely. According to a representative of the show, the scheduling change was not caused entirely by the recent cast shake-up. The network later announced a return date for the series, April 11, 2011; and the final episode scheduled for July 11, 2011. Law & Order: LA was canceled by NBC on May 13, 2011.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, detective, crime drama, rough, bleak, gloomy
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Shetland (2013)
Plot Summary:
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, crime drama, serious, stylized, detective, suspense, realistic, noir, suspenseful
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Crossing Jordan (2001)
Plot Summary:
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, realistic, tense, clever, serious, medical drama, crime drama, captivating, suspenseful
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Diagnosis Murder (1993)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic, exciting, humorous, suspense, medical drama, thrilling
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Beautiful to Die For (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eva, a police inspector returns to the quiet village where she grew up to be next to her sister Rachele, a single mother. She finds herself investigating the mysterious disappearance of Gioia, an aspiring showgirl.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
Plot Summary:
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, telenovela
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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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Law & Order (1990)
Plot Summary:
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It originally aired on NBC and, in syndication, on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24, 2010. At the time of its cancellation, Law & Order was the longest-running crime drama on American primetime television. After The Simpsons, both Law & Order and Gunsmoke tied for the second longest-running scripted American primetime series with ongoing characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, realistic, rough, clever, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, dramatic, thrilling
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The Closer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Jean Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, sincere, tense, serious, detective, suspense, inspirational, bloody, thrilling
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Hinterland (2013)
Plot Summary:
Tom Mathias comes to Aberystwyth having abandoned his life in London. He's a brilliant but troubled man. Despite his faults he is an excellent detective, who knows that the key to solving the crime lies not in where you look for truth, but how you look. From the windswept sand dunes of the coastline to the badlands of the hinterland, Y Gwyll is a series of four two-hour stories that are original and local, yet timeless and universal.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, detective, serious, tense, bleak, crime drama, dark, suspense, noir, grindhouse
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Bosch (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch who pursues justice at all costs. But behind his tireless momentum is a man who is haunted by his past and struggles to remain loyal to his personal code: “Everybody counts or nobody counts.”.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, exciting, detective, neo noir, tense, crime drama, mind blowing, crime thriller, gloomy
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Unforgettable (2011)
Plot Summary:
Former Syracuse, New York, police detective Carrie Wells has hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to visually remember everything. She reluctantly joins the New York City Police Department's Queens homicide unit after her former boyfriend and partner asks for help with solving a case. The move allows her to try to find out the one thing she has been unable to remember, which is what happened the day her sister was murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, detective, thrilling, tense, realistic, exciting