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Plot Summary:
Moscow, 1956. Four women who are tied by the military past: work in the special department of the GRU, 11 years later converge again to conduct investigations and help the investigating authorities in especially complicated cases. With phenomenal analytical skills, Irina, Anna, Sophia and Katerina risk themselves, as well as the well-being of their own families, in order to get on the trail of criminals who threaten the lives of ordinary people and the whole country. Cipher is a Russian television detective based on the British mini-series The Bletchley Circle. The working title of the series is "The Ciphers". The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television, Lean-M and the Pobeda Production Association. The premiere of the television series took place on March 11, 2019 on Channel One.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min
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Shanghai Dawn (2015)
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Detective Tian found that a homicide case suspect is his first girlfriend Hermione. During the course of investigation, he discovered his friend agent Lee was also involved. Tian gradually unearthed a huge political conspiracy behind the case, for which he was caught in dangerous situation.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Mystery
Country: China
Duration:
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35 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
Murder mystery series in which each season begins with the discovery of a dead body, jumps back 35 days (or hours) to introduce the situation and characters, then proceeds forward through time to arrive at the initial scene and reveal the killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 49 min
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Saintly Woman (2014)
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When I was 17-years-old, Maria was a college student and worked as a private tutor. Her student was me. She left a last message to me, "when you graduate from college and become an adult, can you become my lover?," and then she disappeared. 10 years later, I meet her again. She is now a suspect in a serial murder case and I am a lawyer.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Testimony of N (2014)
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University student Sugishita Nozomi, Naruse Shinji, Ando Nozomi and Nishizaki Masato end up coming upon the scene of the murder of the Noguchi couple, because of a plan they had devised. Nishizaki is arrested at the scene and is given a 10-year prison term because of his voluntary confession. 10 years later, Takano Shigeru, a former police officer who has misgivings about the verdict of this case, starts to pursue the truth. He is convinced that it all began as a result of an incident caused by Nozomi and Naruse on an island in the Seto Inland Sea in the summer 15 years. “They committed a crime at that time. It was for the sake of each N.”.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: suspense
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A Fading Summer (2015)
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A major newspaper has informally decided to employ a female university student. However, shock ripples within the newspaper because of a weekly magazine’s scoop that she is the daughter of the criminal in a serious case. This was the kidnapping of a newborn baby at a big hospital 20 years ago. The criminal demanded a ransom from the director of the hospital instead of the parents. But after the criminal had the large sum of money in hand, he died in an accident while being pursued by the police. The baby was never found. Kaji Hidekazu, a former hotshot journalist who has become deadwood in the wake of an incident, is ordered by the newspaper to re-investigate the kidnapping case. He finds out the shocking, tragic truth which had been kept under wraps.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
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Call Me The Shadow: Adventures of a Housewife Detective (2011)
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Full-time homemaker, Serina, is madly in love with her elite securities manager husband, Takefumi. But ever since they got married two years ago as two incurably infatuated lovers, her husband has changed. He has begun to find her unmitigated affection towards him to be “over the top” and “irksome.” As a result, he has begun to avoid her. Then one evening returning from a dinner party, Serina finds herself caught up in a little incident where she encounters a private detective named Haruki. She ends up taking a job working at his office. Though somewhat clumsy and wielding no particular talent to speak of, Serina gradually realizes that she was made for detective work. And in the process of striving for the affection of the husband she loves, she too finds herself changing and growing into a beautifully strong and independent woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Yokokuhan: The Pain (2015)
Plot Summary:
Eiji Sakuma is a judge. He also leads the group Shinbunshi in secret The group holds court on a video site and imposes punishment against defendants. Detectives, including Erika Yoshino, attempt to take down the group.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
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Detective versus Detectives (2015)
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Kitagawa Keiko plays Sasaki Rena, a detective who risks her life investigating detectives for her dead sister. Beautiful, intelligent, and with a great memory, the talented woman judges situations and chooses the most appropriate course of action. Her brutal past surrounding her sister's death inspires her to learn everything she can about detectives, leading her to visit the Suma Research Company. As the sole member of the Anti-Detective Department responsible for investigating and pursuing unethical detectives, she is a solitary lady detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective
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Summer Crush (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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JK Is a Snow Woman (2015)
Plot Summary:
A love story between Snow Women sisters and a male high school student.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Heaven (2017)
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An incident is talked about all over Japan. The case involves the Doizaki couple that killed their 15-year-old daughter and hid her body under their house for 16 years. One day, housewife Toshiko Hagitani visits Shigeko Maehata who works for a small editing company. Toshiko tells Shigeko that her 12-year-old son Hitoshi might have a special ability to see other people's memories. She pulls out a picture drawn by Hitoshi. The picture has a girl with a grey colored face lying in a house that has a bat shaped weather vane on its roof. The picture seems to depict the incident involving the Doizaki couple. Shigeko decides to do some research, but Hitoshi dies in a car accident. Meanwhile, the attorney for the Doizaki couple tells their second daughter Seiko that the couple has cut off all ties with her. Around that time, a female high student is confined.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Sam Has 7 Friends (2006)
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Sam Has 7 Friends was a 2006 web television series drama created, produced, and funded by the production company Big Fantastic and subsequently bought and distributed by the web TV studio Vuguru. The series appeared on YouTube, Revver, iTunes and its own web site. The show revolved around its tagline, "Samantha Breslow has seven friends. On December 15, 2006, one of them will kill her," with each episode bringing Sam one day closer to her death.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend (2005)
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She's an avid mystery lover and bookseller, for whom crime has been comfortably confined to the pages of her favorite novels-until a real-life murder turns a weekend of fun and games into a chilling whodunit.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, mind bending
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Unfair (2006)
Plot Summary:
A no-nonsense detective with a reputation for pushing limits investigates a rash of brutal murders connected by a series of cryptic short stories.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: clever, serious, suspenseful, stylized, detective, realistic
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Mystery Woman: Snapshot (2005)
Plot Summary:
Amateur sleuth Samantha Kinsey's latest case has her trying to figure out who killed her best friend Barbara after she was left out of her family's will and every one of the family members become suspects.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, mind bending, realistic, stylized
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Diamond Hunters (2011)
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In November 1980, the widow of A. Tolstoy was robbed. Antiques are taken out of the apartment, but, most importantly, the Royal Lily brooch, made for Louis XV, disappears of extraordinary beauty. Since Tolstoy's widow has extensive connections both in the USSR and abroad, the case receives a wide resonance, the most serious forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are involved in the investigation, the Interior Minister Shchelokov personally monitors the progress of the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, disturbing
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HUNTER - Women After Reward Money (2011)
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On a return flight to Japan, cabin attendant Isaka Rei arrests a thief at Narita Airport’s International Terminal, and receives a reward of 1 million yen. However, she is half-forced to resign from her job as a cabin attendant because of this roundup. Furthermore, her younger sister, Akane, has made her a guarantor and disappeared, leaving her 10-year-old daughter, Haru behind. Rei starts to live with a reluctant Haru at ‘Shunkato’, the small eating house that Akane has been running. There is a firsthand account of Akane meeting a ‘Shunkato’ customer on the day she went missing. Rei brings the photograph of the man whom Akane met to Tsukishima Police Precinct, and learns that there is a 1 million yen bounty because he is a wanted criminal. The lack of motivation of the attending detective, Gondo Takeshi of the precinct’s Community Safety Division, spurs her to decide that she has to arrest this criminal who has some sort of connection to her sister. And so, Rei becomes a bounty hunter together with the ladies who gather at ‘Shunkato’.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Lost ID (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shinichi Todo is handsome and smart. He is loved by family, friends and his girlfriend. Everything in his life seems to go well, but, one day, someone with the same name is arrested. After that, his smooth life changes. An imposter takes his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Bull Doctor (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bull Doctor is a Japanese television drama series that aired on NTV from 6 July to 14 September 2011.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, intellectual, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, talky
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Keigo Higashino Mysteries (2012)
Plot Summary:
11 mysteries, 11 actors. Japan's favorite mystery author, the world of Higashino Keigo comes to life on screen through an assortment of short stories.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspense, stylized
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Ms. Ma, Nemesis (2018)
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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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Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder (2005)
Plot Summary:
Murder is something to sing about when Mystery Woman Samantha Kinsey-an expert in pulp fiction, and increasingly proficient when it comes to real-life crime-untangles a record-breaking murder. Mystery Woman bookshop owner, Samantha Kinsey, has offered to host a charity concert for a once-famous folk-rock trio out to recapture their old fame flame. But sweet success hits the ultimate sour note when the band's promoter is found murdered in his hotel room. Sam and her partner in crime, Philby, investigate, digging up deadly secrets of private indiscretions, professional greed, and personal vengeance that put a twisted spin on fame and fortune-and bring a whole new meaning to a Top Ten hit.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, mind bending
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Goodbye, My Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Somebody founds a body of 40-year old woman in the park in Moscow. Police closes the case thinking that she died by natural causes. But her husband Sotnikov, who is a financial analytic and mathematic is sure that she was murdered. Having no legal or medical skills, he starts his own investigation and finds the proof of the murder but also he finds out that his wife had an affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: clever, disturbing, captivating, realistic, detective
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Mystery Woman (2003)
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A famous writer is found hanged in his office. At first, all police investigations conclude that it was suicide, but when Samantha Kinsey, owner of Seller 'Mystery Woman' starts his own investigation, he discovers that there is chance that has been committed murder. The film is the first in a long series of American TV movies called" Mystery Woman", in which Samantha Kinsey, the owner of a bookshop specializing in thrillers and suspense is involved in the resolution of real cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Private School (2011)
Plot Summary:
in this TV series there is a school and in that school have been many secrets, students from this school find out that a teacher has gone missing so they start to look for him this then leads into a long journey which gets into a difficult situation where it's hard to escape from (season 4 and I think season 3). At the end many things get revealed and the series comes to an end. This TV series is very emotional and funny at the same time.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense
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Crystal's Beating (2016)
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From a gruesome murder to a series of bomb blasts, it's explosive storytelling from beginning to end! This “Crystal's Beating” (Suishō no Kodō) is the sequel to the immensely popular crime suspense drama series “Cocoon of Stone” (Ishi no Mayu), and the long-awaited second instalment in the “Murder Analysis Team” (Satsujin Bunseki-han) series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Wakefield (2021)
Plot Summary:
Nikhil Katira is a psychiatric nurse working at Wakefield, a facility perched on the edge of Australia's spectacular Blue Mountains. There's one problem - while his patients are getting better, he's getting worse.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, tense, captivating, interesting
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Ferris Wheel at Night (2013)
Plot Summary:
A drama about three families who live in an upscale neighborhood. On the surface, it appears they have attained wealth and happiness, but trouble brews behind closed doors.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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The Locked Room (2012)
Plot Summary:
Enomoto Kei is a security "otaku" working for a security firm, devoted to improving the securities system on a daily basis. He is not an easy person to familiarize oneself with, always collected and calm, unapproachable, a maniac in Physics, Science, Architecture and profound in other basic theoretical foundation. He is certain and proud of the fact that there is no key which he cannot unlock. One day, Kei is asked to help reveal a mystery behind a locked room murderer. While he lacks any interest in solving the mystery, he is inevitably intrigued by the term, "Closed Doors" and decides to take on the position. He works side by side with Aoto Junko and Serizawa Gou, who are lawyers working at a major law firm. Junko is pure and forward, acting upon her instincts while Serizawa is a prideful elitist who sees time as money, and therefore, will not take on any job that is unprofitable. Possessing a vast amount of knowledge and acute insightfulness, Kei is able to unlock the closed doors and unravel the secrets leading to the solution. Never before has there been a drama focused solely on closed doors.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa (2016)
Plot Summary:
Criminologist Himura Hideo gets so much pleasure out of being in crime scenes that he's even confessed to having wanted to kill someone. Constantly seeking out the ultimate crime, he is indeed a man with quite a few issues. Mystery writer Arisugawa Arisu, on the other hand, keeps a close eye on Himura's investigations and writes about them but at times completely misses the point. Not at all the type of guy you'd call dependable, Arisugawa nonetheless professes to be the protector of the clumsy Himura. Although these two men appear like they have no business being in crime scenes, they mitigate each other's shortcomings and use their compelling logic to unravel the elaborately woven tricks left behind by the criminals. It's almost as if Himura and Arisugawa use incredible magical powers to tease out unimaginable truths!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective