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Plot Summary:
A police detective who loses everything to a criminal organization seeks payback when he gains special abilities through biotechnology.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense, stylized, detective
Best tv shows and movies like Rugal (2020):
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Duel (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jang Deuk-Cheon is the chief of a crime squad. At home, he is kind and friendly father to his daughter. He meets a human clone and gets involved in a shocking case. A battle takes place between human clones.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, sincere, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, hardboiled detective, detective series
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Taxi Driver (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of a deluxe taxi driver who gets revenge on behalf of his passengers. It is based on the webtoon Deluxe Taxi by Carlos and Lee Jae-jin.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bad Guys (2014)
Plot Summary:
To combat rising violent crimes, the Police Chief asks Detective Oh Goo Tak to form a team consisting of criminals. He is currently suspended from the police force for using excessive force. He then gathers team members: Park Woong Chul who is a gangster, Lee Jung Moon who is the youngest serial killer with extraordinary intelligence and Jung Tae Soo who is a contract killer. Police Inspector Yoo Mi Young also joins the team and she tries to have these guys work as a team by dealing with them rationally and sometimes emotionally.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspenseful, rough, bleak, detective, dorama
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Hwayi: A Monster Boy (2013)
Plot Summary:
A 5 member gang, led by Seok-Tae (Kim Yun-Seok), kidnaps a baby boy named Hwa-Yi and raises the baby like their own son. The baby boy is now 17 years old (Yeo Jin-Goo) and has turned into a lethal killer. Taking part in his father's gang, Hwa-Yi learns about his own past. Hwa-Yi pulls out his gun to find out who he really is.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller, scenic, crime drama, action thriller, psychotronic
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Luca (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ji-O has a special power and a secret, but he doesn't know who he really is. He is chased by mysterious figures, while he tries to find answers to numerous questions that surround him. Goo-Reum is a detective. When she decides on a course of action, she won't change no matter what. Her parents disappeared when she was only a young child. Goo-Reum chases after the truth behind her parents' disappearance. She meets Ji-O and her life changes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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The Chaser (2012)
Plot Summary:
Although he was poor, detective Baek Hong Suk made an honest living. However, his poor yet happy family is shattered when his 15-year-old daughter dies. When people tarnish the name of his daughter, who means everything to him, Hong Suk vows to reveal the truth behind his daughter’s wrongful death and digs up the truth. In his search, he comes to face a stronger mastermind than expected.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, disturbing
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Arne Dahl: A Midsummer Night Dream (2015)
Plot Summary:
A series of brutal murders of Polish women who secretly hiding in Sweden becomes the new A - team first case. The victims prove to be key witnesses in a major lawsuit against the Polish mafia . Three of them have been found murdered in the space of a few days , two missing and the hope is that they are still alive. Detective Kerstin Holm get command when the hunt for a ruthless killer and his shady victim begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective, gloomy
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The Fury (2016)
Plot Summary:
Detective Kunes has a problem once again: he's lambasted the boyfriend of his ex-wife, and is threatened with dismissal from the police service. His high-ranking (female) boss has a solution for him: "removing" him on an internships in a back-of-beyond borderland region. But there's a fly in the ointment. His real mission is to unravel the two-year old case of the murder of policewoman Wágnerová, the investigation of which has reached an impasse. But the crime rate in the borderlands is one of the highest in the whole country - involving smuggling, drug production, poaching, prostitution and murders. Kunes has to deal with one difficult case after another, and it takes quite some time before he can start doing what he's sent to do, and then he does it in fact by coincidence.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Crime (2014)
Plot Summary:
The peaceful lives of the residents inhabiting a seaside town are shaken following a series of macabre crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 789
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2016)
Plot Summary:
London cop and compulsive gambler Harry Clayton is on the verge of losing everything. On the night when his huge debts are to be called in, he meets the enigmatic Eve, who gives him a mysterious bracelet said to endow the wearer with immense luck. Harry's fortunes suddenly begin to shift, but he also soon finds himself sucked into a sinister crime wave sweeping through the city.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, spiritual, action adventure
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Comrade Detective (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the 1980s, millions of Romanians tuned in to Comrade Detective, a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show that has now been digitally remastered and dubbed into English for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: parody, exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, funny, detective, unpredictable
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La unidad (2020)
Plot Summary:
A secret unit of cops is assembled to stop a terrorist band from attacking Spain after their leader is arrested there.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: political, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, heroic, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, entertaining
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TekWar (1994)
Plot Summary:
TekWar is a North American television series, based on the TekWar novels ghost-written by Ron Goulart from outlines by William Shatner and developed for television by Stephen Roloff. The series follows Jake Cardigan, a former police officer turned private investigator working for Cosmos, a private security firm owned and operated by Walter Bascom. The series was broadcast in Canada on CTV and in the United States on USA Network and the Sci Fi Channel. The series, which was a co-production between Atlantis Films and Universal Television premiered on January 17, 1994 and ended on February 9, 1996.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, cyber, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Memorist (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Dong Baek was a high school student, he suddenly gained a supernatural power. Whenever he touches somebody, he can read that person's memory. Dong Baek reveals his memory reading ability to people and he becomes a detective. He is gung-ho to catch as many criminals as possible. He encounters a mysterious serial murder case.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, detective
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Voice (2017)
Plot Summary:
It's 3 minutes for hearers, but a life for the callers. A crime thriller chasing even the slightest sounds to rescue people's lives calling for urgent help.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, psychological, exciting, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Criminal Minds (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on the US TV series of the same name, profilers investigate cases from the perspective of the criminals to solve them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, suspense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
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Ten Dead Men (2008)
Plot Summary:
You can’t outrun your past. That is the extremely painful lesson that Ryan (Brendan Carr)is learning right now, as spectres of his past life of crime have returned to haunt him, destroying the only person he holds dear, and nearly killing him in the process. Ryan decides that if he cannot escape then he must confront them head-on in what can only be called a desperate suicide run.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller
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RoboCop (1994)
Plot Summary:
RoboCop: The Series is a 1994 television series based on the film of the same name. It stars Richard Eden as the title character. Made to appeal primarily to children and young teenagers, it lacks the graphic violence that was the hallmark of RoboCop and RoboCop 2. RoboCop has several non-lethal alternatives to killing criminals, which ensures that certain villains can be recurring. The OCP Chairman and his corporation are treated as simply naïve and ignorant, in contrast to their malicious and immoral behavior from the second film onward.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 920 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, bleak, detective, cyber, semi serious, futuristic, canadian science fiction
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RoboCop: Prime Directives (2001)
Plot Summary:
Thirteen years after the original Robocop, Delta City, considered to be "The Safest Place On Earth!", has become a futuristic city owned and operated by OCP, and RoboCop, Alex Murphy has begun to feel his age. Murphy finds himself nearly obsolete, and must deal with the fact that his now-grown son James is an OCP executive, unaware that his father is still alive. Also, Murphy's former partner, John Cable, has returned to Delta City as its new Security Commander. But slowly, new enemies arise, and Murphy and Cable begin an investigation into a mysterious villain known as the Bone Machine, unaware that they are coming dangerously close to exposing an evil group of OCP executives known as The Trust... which James Murphy is a part of. Desperate to prevent their sinister plans from being revealed, The Trust programs Murphy to kill John Cable.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 375 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, futuristic, detective, cyber, bleak, serious, stylized
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Dark Heart (2016)
Plot Summary:
Detective Inspector William Wagstaffe and his team investigate a string of horrifyingly brutal murders during an August heat wave in London.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, hardboiled detective, detective series
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Pagan Peak (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a gruesomely staged body is found, propped up on a mountain pass in the Alps close to the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate. For German detective Ellie, this is the first real challenge of her career; her Austrian counterpart Gedeon though seems to have lost any ambitions in his job. Very soon, they discover more crime scenes with symbolically posed victims, reminiscent of pagan rituals. It all seems to be part of a bigger, sinister plan. Ellie finds herself under increasing pressure to understand the deranged killer's motives so she can stop him. The hunt leads them ever deeper in the dark valleys and archaic Alpine customs - and the paranoid world of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, detective, slasher, rough, bleak, interesting
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Dead Lucky (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two feuding detectives hunt down a cop-killer who leaves a trail of broken lives across Sydney.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Serve and Protect (2017)
Plot Summary:
Fresh off the Academy, talented rookie officer Alicia joins the police station in Distrito Sur. While she learns the ropes from veteran detective Miralles and streetwise agent Batista, she will try to find out the truth about her mother's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, telenovela
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Signal (2016)
Plot Summary:
Detectives from the present and a detective from the past communicate via walkie-talkie to solve a long-time unsolved case.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: captivating, detective, touching, suspenseful, dorama, serious, non-linear, romantic drama, suspense, dark
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My Name (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yoon Ji-woo's father dies suddenly. She wants to desperately take revenge on whoever is responsible for her father's death. Yoon Ji-woo works for drug crime group Dongcheonpa. Choi Moo-jin is the boss of the drug gang. With the help of Choi Moo-jin and to uncover the reason for her father's death, Yoon Ji-woo joins the police department and becomes a mole for the drug group. Yoon Ji-woo is assigned to work in the drug investigation unit in the police department. Her partner there is Detective Jeon Pil-do.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: dorama, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, clever, dark, detective
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Blood out of Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Tin Star (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of Jim Worth, an expat British police officer starting a new life with his family as police chief in Little Big Bear, an idyllic town near the Rocky Mountains. When his small town is overrun by migrant workers from a massive new oil refinery – the wave of drugs, prostitution and organised crime that follows them threatens to sweep away everything in its wake.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, suspenseful, rough, suspense, psychological thriller, detective
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Chicago P.D. (2014)
Plot Summary:
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city's street crimes and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city's major offenses - organized crime, drug trafficking, high profile murders and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, realistic, crime drama
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Reacher (2022)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 158000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, exciting, intellectual, dark, detective, anime, perverse
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Powers (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, are assigned to investigate cases involving people with superhuman abilities, referred to as “Powers.” Set amidst today’s paparazzi culture, Powers asks the questions, what if the world was full of superheroes who aren't actually heroic at all? What if all that power was just one more excuse for mischief, mayhem, murder, and endorsement deals?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, scenic, detective, serious, suspenseful