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Plot Summary:
Sim Jae-Bok is married with two children. Due to hardships she went through, she has a wild temper. She gets involved in an unexpected case and begins to regain her true self.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Best tv shows and movies like Perfect Wife (2017):
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The Girl on a Bulldozer (2022)
Plot Summary:
Haeyoung is a hopeless girl. She lives with her father who runs a Chinese restaurant, and a younger sibling. One day, her father has a mysterious accident, which places her in a position of responsibility. She is now not only the head of the house and must look after her younger sibling, but also an investigator tasked with finding the truth about the accident, and a fighter standing against the ugly world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Babel (2019)
Plot Summary:
A prosecutor who started his career as a newspaper reporter faces a life-changing event when his father dies in an unexplained accident, and his mother takes her own life. With his life shattered in pieces, he will stop at nothing to discover what happened and get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, dorama
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Naked Fireman (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kang Chul Soo (Lee Joon Hyuk) is an enthusiastic fireman. He poses as a nude model to make money for his sick friend. He is then targeted as the criminal of an arson-murder case that took place 10 years. Kang Chul Soo and mysterious heiress Han Jin Ah (Jung In Sun) try to find the real culprit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Temptation (2014)
Plot Summary:
To pay a debt, a married man receives billions of won from a woman. In return for the money, the man gives himself to the woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, suspense, psychological, captivating, emotional, disturbing
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Detectives of Seonam Girls' High School (2014)
Plot Summary:
There are a lot of dark secrets at Seonam Girls High School, but nothing is too difficult to solve for the school's Sherlockian group of private investigators. Mentored by their teacher Ha Yeon Joon, these beautiful and intelligent sleuths use investigatory finesse to solve hot-button cases, including abortion, bullying and suicide.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, dorama, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Besy (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by a world-famous writer Feodor Dostoevsky.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense
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Love and Glory (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the fief of Tosa on the island of Shikoku. He served Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Chiyo (1557-1617) was his wife, and was known in history for her dedication and devotion to her husband (like Matsu was to Toshiie in Toshiie to Matsu). She is the daughter of a samurai who served the feudal lord Asai.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Over Water (2018)
Plot Summary:
John Beckers gains one last chance from his wife Marjan and their two children to get his life back on track. After a visit to rehab, John starts his new job at the freight company of his father-in-law. The port of Antwerp is a whole new world for the former TV star. It’s a harsh environment, but also one with its own rules and traditions. John fights his old demons as well as new temptations, but quickly enters a dangerous arena but also a very lucrative trade of the docks: cocaine. John Beckers came to work at the port, but finds increasingly extreme ways to make the port work for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Woman with a Suitcase (2016)
Plot Summary:
A successful career woman gets framed for a crime and works her way back up after serving her time. She was once an office manager with a thriving career, but that takes a major hit when she is penalized for violating the Attorneys-at-Law Act and sent to prison for it. The drama follows the success story as she comes back as an ex-con, and follows her dream to become an outstanding lawyer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Shinzanmono (2010)
Plot Summary:
Shinzanmono is a detective Japanese television drama, part of the Spring 2010 season of the Japanese TBS Network. It is based on the latest novel in the "Kyoichiro Kaga" series by mystery author Keigo Higashino and is set and filmed in the Ningyo-cho area of Nihonbashi, Tokyo. This series was followed by a special "Akai Yubi" aired on January 3, 2011 and a feature film The Wings of the Kirin, released on January 28, 2012.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Enemy in My House (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman becomes the babysitter of a rich family and tries everything in her power to get the life she has always dreamed of.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Undercover (2021)
Plot Summary:
“Undercover” depicts the story of Han Jung Hyun, who has been hiding his identity for a long time, and Choi Yeon Soo, a human rights lawyer who becomes the first head of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit to fight for justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Conspiracy in the Court (2007)
Plot Summary:
Conspiracy in the Court, is a 2007 Korean historical drama broadcast on KBS2. The mystery thriller revolves around a murder case set in Hansung, the capital of Korea during the latter years of the Joseon dynasty when the nation was experiencing a rapid influx of western influences. Featuring a band of newcomers in the leading roles, Conspiracy in the Court entails a story of four young visionary idealists and King Jeongjo, Joseon's popular 22nd monarch who fought for commoners' rights and bureaucratic reformation. Despite low ratings averaging 6.00%, it was lauded for its high standard of content and art direction.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kaseifu no Mita is a 2011 Japanese television drama series. The story revolves around a family who is grieving over their mother's recent suicide. They hired Mita as a housekeeper to upkeep the house, which has been thrown into disarray. Mita, who is played by actress Nanako Matsushima, will do anything that her employer orders her to do, except smiling or revealing her past.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Socialphobia (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman is attacked by Internet users after posting provocative remarks online. Using her personal information, they go to her place but what they find is her body; she took her own life. Who made her kill herself? Or, was she killed by someone else?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: social, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lethal Seduction (2005)
Plot Summary:
Miranda Wells is an attorney with a sideline in immigration fraud and murder. Miranda's assistant, Carla, is unaware of her criminal activities. Rick Benes, a journalist setting out to expose Miranda, poses as David Lopez, an illegal immigrant, and takes a job in the office. Carla stubbles on incriminating files and Rick Benes pursuit of the story is threatened when he becomes infatuated with Miranda. Carla is attacked and her husband murdered, Miranda is the chief suspect. As the investigation progresses and Carla disappears from hospital, it is clear that Miranda will stop at nothing including murdering again to stay out.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The return of Lucas (2016)
Plot Summary:
The return of Lucas tells the story of a well-off family who loses his eldest son, Lucas, 4 years old on the beach. Elena, his mother, is obsessed with finding him because he feels he is alive and never stops looking for him, neglecting his other children, Catalina and Juan, and her husband, Reynaldo, who took charge of the family and the company. After 20 years of the disappearance of Lucas, a photo of his son arrives at the mother's hands. A new track to follow that renews Elena's hopes of finding her son. Until one day, a young man shows up at the house of the Diaz Ayala family claiming to be Lucas. Will he be his lost son?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Peru
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, telenovela
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Angela Black (2021)
Plot Summary:
Angela Black leads a seemingly idyllic life with two beautiful sons and a charming, hard-working husband while covering the fact that she is a victim of domestic violence. Until one day when Angela is approached by Ed – a Private Investigator - and he smashes her already strained domestic life to pieces.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Running Mates: Human Rights (2019)
Plot Summary:
The ‘Human RIghts Promotion’ team helps out people who are in need to protect and secure their human rights.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Blue Murder: Killer Cop (2017)
Plot Summary:
A floating body, a drug deal gone wrong, and two former detectives the perpetrators. Life imprisonment is the end of Roger Rogerson's story. The last Blue Murder ended with his expulsion in disgrace from the NSW Police Force. In this instalment, Rogerson struggles to make a living in a world that's rapidly changing, caught between the pressures of criminals, police and a love that might save him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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The Promise (2020)
Plot Summary:
What's the worst that can happen to a police officer? Definitely an unresolved investigation. This is what happens on Boxing Day 1999. Charlotte Meyer, an 11-year-old girl, disappears without a trace. Captain Pierre Castaing, in charge of the investigation, fails to find her. Where did she go? The mystery remains intact ... A few hundred kilometers away, a young investigator finds herself confronted with a similar disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hammarvik (2020)
Plot Summary:
When police officer Johanna Strand returns to her hometown Hammarvik to attend her mother's funeral, she expects to stay only for a few nights but the body of a young woman is found and she decides to stay and investigate what happened.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, soap opera
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Mysterious Personal Shopper (2018)
Plot Summary:
Hong Se Yeon works as a personal shopper. She is outgoing and a positive person, but she is betrayed by people whom she loved. She begins to take revenge on those who betrayed her. Meanwhile, Eun Kyung Hye is the only child of a CEO. Her life looks perfect, but she has a fear that she will get abandoned. Because of her fear, she has an impulse control disorder and gets compulsive.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Adi: Zehra (2018)
Plot Summary:
Zehra comes to the world as the daughter of a conservative Turkish family in Frankfurt. The incredible story of Zehra, starting at the home of the poor and enthusiastic family in Germany, and continuing with a rich family of Istanbul with secrets and a terrible crime. The story is full of emotions of two mother praying for the same person. And Zehra then start living in Istanbul but there are secrets waiting in Istanbul.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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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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CSI: Crime Scene Talks (2011)
Plot Summary:
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Untouchable (2017)
Plot Summary:
The city of Bukcheon has been dominated by the Jang family for 3 generations. Jang Joon-Seo is the second son of family leader Jang Beom-Ho. A woman who Jang Joon-Seo loves dies. After that, he tries to reveal the truth about her death and a secret from his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Negotiator (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a modern society in which violent crimes are on the rise, there is a team that tries to resolve cases without bloodshed. It is the metropolitan police's special team, known by the abbreviation SIT (Special Investigation Team). The SIT doesn't get into action after a case but heads to the site just as a crime is being committed. They are on the front-line of risky missions, facing off against criminals; tenaciously conducting negotiations with criminals. As a result of the rigid police hierarchy that can curb the conduct of negotiators, the SIT is also a male-dominated society controlled with strict discipline. There is one female negotiator, Usagi Reiko, who bravely fights at the frontline. She is isolated in the male world of the SIT but courageously fights against crime as well as her organisation.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Confession (2019)
Plot Summary:
A sickly man with a strong mind has spent most of his childhood in a hospital. He is involved in a case of "double jeopardy," the principle that one cannot be tried for the same crime twice following either a conviction or an acquittal.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Missing Bride (2017)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela