Best tv shows like My Life Is Murder
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Plot Summary:
Investigator Alexa Crowe, cannot help fighting the good fight – whether it is solving murders or combatting the small frustrations of everyday life. Fearless and unapologetic, Alexa's unique skills and insights into the darker quirks of human nature, allows her to provoke, comfort and push the right buttons as she unravels the truth behind the most baffling of crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: confusing, captivating, non-linear, light, detective, colorful, dramatic, humorous, colourful
Best tv shows and movies like My Life Is Murder (2019):
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KMM (2012)
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Professor T (2021)
Plot Summary:
Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, advises the police. British version of the Belgian crime drama of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany, Belgium
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective, crime drama
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Il silenzio dell'acqua (2019)
Plot Summary:
The disappearance of a teenager is the starting point of an investigation that will bring to light the dark side of a small village by the sea. False tracks, hidden truths and secret relationships - nothing is quite what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, colorful, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, colourful
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Agatha Raisin (2014)
Plot Summary:
Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in her deceptively quaint town.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, captivating, feel good, emotional, witty, entertaining, ironic, light hearted
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HPI Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (2021)
Plot Summary:
Morgane is 38 years old. She raises her 3 children alone. She manages (or not) her 2 exes and her various credits. Her 160 IQ scores spoil her life a bit until the day when Morgane sees her destiny as a cleaning lady turned upside down. Her extraordinary abilities are spotted by the police who offer her a job as a consultant... Problem: Morgane hates cops.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: intellectual, tense, humorous, captivating, entertaining, detective
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Candice Renoir (2013)
Plot Summary:
Candice Renoir had put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who doesn’t make her job any easier, she is determined to turn her so-called weaknesses into strengths, solving the most complex cases with her common sense, her acute observation and her practical nature seasoned by a busy daily routine. Only Candice can catch a killer because she knows the chemical composition of a window-cleaning product or determine the hour of a murder from the cooking-time of kebabs… Candice is only naive on the outside, and nobody can resist her!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, semi serious, detective, feel good, witty, suspenseful, serious
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Jack Irish (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don’t want to be found – dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000)
Plot Summary:
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British Comedy Drama series, produced by Working Title Films for BBC One. It is a remake of the 1960s television series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and stars Vic Reeves as Hopkirk and Bob Mortimer as Randall, Emilia Fox as Jeannie, and Tom Baker as Wyvern.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, humorous, captivating, suspense, detective
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Private Eyes (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: captivating, detective, semi serious, tense, exciting, suspense, detective series
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The Afterparty (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a high school reunion’s afterparty ends in a stunning death, everyone is a suspect. A detective grills the former classmates one by one, uncovering potential motives as each tells their version of the story—culminating in the shocking truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: funny, captivating, suspense, disturbing, exciting, humorous, dark comedy
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Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000)
Plot Summary:
If Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former professor, forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Bell. This series recounts the fictional murder investigations that Bell might have undertaken with the assistance of young student Doyle.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, detective, period drama
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Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators (2018)
Plot Summary:
Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, ironic, witty, detective, crime drama, semi serious, tense, satirical, comedy drama
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Murder, She Baked: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on the New York Times bestselling book, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke, the film will take viewers on a mouthwatering mystery that centers on Hannah Swensen, shop owner of the Cookie Jar where much of the town's gossip percolates along with the strong coffee. But when a mysterious murder occurs, Hannah turns into a culinary detective and finds herself trying to solve the crime while getting caught in an unexpected romantic mystery of her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, sweet, feel good, captivating, romantic, entertaining, semi serious, psychological, thrilling
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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Plot Summary:
Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, serious, clever, detective, crime drama, dramatic, period piece, historical drama, costume drama
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The Five (2016)
Plot Summary:
When they were twelve years old, Mark, Pru, Danny and Slade were out together in the park. Mark’s five-year-old brother, Jesse, was annoying them. They were mean – told him to get lost. Jesse ran away. He was gone. Never seen again. Twenty years later, Danny – now a detective – learns some shocking news. Jesse’s DNA has been found at a murder scene. He is alive and out there. Somewhere.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspenseful, tense, detective, captivating, suspense, colorful, atmospheric, crime drama, crime thriller
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Home Before Dark (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young girl moves from Brooklyn to the small lakeside town her father left behind. While there, her dogged pursuit of the truth leads her to unearth a cold case that everyone in town, including her own father, tried hard to bury.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: inspirational, captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, sincere, spooky
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Vera (2011)
Plot Summary:
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, detective, crime drama, captivating, costume drama, hardboiled detective, suspenseful, stylized, tense
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New Tricks (2003)
Plot Summary:
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Murder in Suburbia (2004)
Plot Summary:
Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, rough, detective, tense, crime drama, captivating, suspense, mind bending, serious
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The Lava Field (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Reykjavik crime detective Helgi Marvin Runarsson is called in to investigate a suicide case on Snaefellsnes Peninsula, the case turns out to be far from simple. Pulled into a sinister trail of evidence, Helgi's own deeply hidden secrets are unearthed. Will Helgi turn a blind eye to murder in order to save the life of his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Iceland
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, noir, dark
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Vanished by the Lake (2015)
Plot Summary:
Homicide Detective Lise returns to her hometown for the first time since a local tragedy shattered her teens. Tragedy strikes again when a teenage girl vanishes under circumstances that mirror the disappearance of Lise's two best friends, Ana and Marion, fifteen years earlier: an unsolved case. Convinced there is a connection, Lise is determined to find the missing girl and answers to the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Level (2016)
Plot Summary:
A police detective finds herself at the centre of the most dangerous case of her life when she is seconded on to the investigation into the murder of a drugs trafficker. What nobody around her knows is that she is the missing witness that the police and the killer are searching for.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense
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Dry Water (2020)
Plot Summary:
Paulo Duarte dies. An apparent suicide that does not convince anyone - neither the police nor his sister Teresa, who decides to leave her life in Lisbon to find out what really happened to her brother. Teresa is not mistaken and Paul's death hides much more than it seems - an arms trafficking network led by Mauro Galdón, Teresa's successful businessman and godfather. The unexpected death of her brother causes Teresa to see her life change suddenly. Unable to wait for the results of the investigation, he moves from Lisbon to Vigo, to work at his brother's old company and investigate what happened to him. The events led to months of coordinated investigation between the judicial police of Spain and Portugal, under the watchful eye of Interpol.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon, only to find change is afoot, nothing is sacred, and no one is safe.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, detective, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, crime drama, tense, captivating, medical drama
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Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
Plot Summary:
The show follows the adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, detective, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, anthology
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Miss Scarlet and the Duke (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Eliza Scarlet’s father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, humorous, detective, costume drama, entertaining, romantic, light, atmospheric, colorful, slasher
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Dead Still (2020)
Plot Summary:
Memorial photographer Brock Blennerhasset makes a living out of photographing the dead in Victorian Ireland. When a series of murders threatens to sully Blennerhasset's reputation, a tenacious detective drags him into an investigation of Dublin's criminal underbelly.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Canada, Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, detective, historical drama
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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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Rizzoli & Isles (2010)
Plot Summary:
Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective. Jane, the only female cop in Boston's homicide division, is tough, relentless and rarely lets her guard down, while the impeccably dressed Maura displays a sometimes icy temperament — she is, after all, more comfortable among the dead than the living. Together, the best friends have forged a quirky and supportive relationship; they drop the protective shield in each other's company, and combine their expertise to solve Boston's most complex cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, realistic, detective, serious, crime drama, suspenseful
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Nancy Drew (2019)
Plot Summary:
Young Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college after high school graduation, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: captivating, enigmatic, tense, slasher, spooky, bleak, neo noir, suspense, detective, non-linear