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Plot Summary:
Junior reporter Frank Hardy and Joe, his computer-hacker brother, work together to crack mysteries.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: detective, juvenile
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Invert: Jozuka Hisui Toujoshu (2022)
Plot Summary:
Jozuka Hisui is a psychic with green eyes and has the ability to feel the souls and bring the dead back. Together with her partner Chiwasaki Makoto, Hisui works hard as a "medium detective" and catches the culprits despite their perfect plans and alibis.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective
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And Then There Were None (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hotel “Shizen no Shima” is located on an small, remote island. The owner of the hotel invites 10 people to the island, but when they arrive they learn that the owner is not there. These 10 people do not know why they are there or what will happen to them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 215 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Snake Bearer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Norwegian Miniseries based on Unni Lindell's mystery novel by the same title.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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For Life (2020)
Plot Summary:
A tough police investigator and her team are currently solving murder cases. 15 years later she's at a completely different and more dangerous place.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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Ruby Skye P.I.: The Haunted Library (2012)
Plot Summary:
Is a ghost haunting the spooky old O'Deary Library? Teen detective Ruby Skye can't believe it. But how else do you explain the creepy shadows, the late-night noises, and the flying books!? As Ruby starts her investigation, a second mystery drops into her lap. Ava O'Deary - the owner of the library - dies and her Last Will and Testament is missing. Before you say "long lost relative", O'Deary descendants descend with plans to squander Ava's fortune, burn the books and turn the historic library into condos. Ruby can't let that happen. Ruby soon finds herself in a battle of wits with a ghost and a race against time to find Ava's will and save the library.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Family, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: detective
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Detective versus Detectives (2015)
Plot Summary:
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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Katts and Dog (1988)
Plot Summary:
Katts and Dog is a French and Canadian-produced television series which ran from 1988 to 1993. It was known as Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop in the United States where it originally aired on CBN Cable/The Family Channel and Rintintin Junior in France on La Cinq. CTV broadcast the series within Canada. When the episodes were filmed the dog’s name was “Rudy”. When the series was aired in the U.S. and France, the name was dubbed as “Rinty” to go with the new title. However, some episodes of Katts and Dogg have the American dubbing where "Rudy" is called "Rinty" throughout the episode. The episode Hit and Run is an example of this. When the series went out in Britain, it kept the title Katts and Dog, but the dog's name was changed to “Rinty.” The show is about the life of Canine Officer Hank Katts and his canine partner who fight crime and the forces of evil. The show’s early episodes begin with Hank just finishing up Police Academy. Later on, it shows the first meeting between Katts and Rudy/Rinty. It also shows the life of Hank’s nephew, Steve, through the death of his mother and his adoption by Officer Katts. A 1991 TV movie had Officer Katts and Rudy visit Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Family
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: detective
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Merlina (1983)
Plot Summary:
Detective agency Merlina has four members. The brains and chief is Marie-Ann Meerschaut, called Merlina by her friends. Her codename is "gemini". Her niece Ann De Schrandere is a detective at the agency. Her codename is "sagittarius". Polycarpus Fernandus Augustus 'Pol' Tack is a detective as well - Kind of - His codename is "aquarius". Last but not least: Napoleon, the genius who created a lot of inventions to assist the team in their missions. His codename is "libra". Together they fight crime and injustice. No mystery remains unraveled for the best detective agency in the country.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: Belgium
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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Visit to Minotaur (1987)
Plot Summary:
The apartment of the famous violin player Lev Polyakov has been robbed. Among other things, thieves took a violin made by Antonio Stradivari, which is a priceless masterpiece. Inspector Tikhonov have to investigate this crime. Also, Antonio Stradivari's life story is told.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 350 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra (1983)
Plot Summary:
Holmes and Dr. Watson help a young lady who is receiving anonymous letters 10 years after her father passed away under shady circumstances. They find themselves in an enigma involving a treasure, murder and a love interest for Watson.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: detective
Similar in 87%
Belascoaran, PI (2022)
Plot Summary:
Héctor Belascoarán leaves his corporate job and dull marriage to become an independent detective and tackle shocking criminal cases in 1970s Mexico City.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes is a Canadian mystery TV series that originally aired from 1997 to 2000. The show was created by Ellis Iddon and Phil Meagher who had produced a successful series of books with Harper Collins, teaming up with Credo and Forefront to develop the TV series. Filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the series follows the life of Shirley Holmes, the great grand-niece of Sherlock Holmes who, with the help of ex-gang member Bo Sawchuk, tackles a variety of mysteries in and around the fictional Canadian city of Redington. On some occasions, she found herself matching wits with archnemesis Molly Hardy. The show has been broadcast in over 80 countries and has been dubbed in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Norwegian, Polish and Turkish. Her performance in the show led to actress Meredith Henderson being nominated for a Gemini Award in 1998 and winning one in 1999. The show itself was twice nominated for a Gemini Award in the category "Best Children's or Youth Program or Series" in 1998 and eventually won it in 1999. In the spring of 1998 Susin Nielsen won a Gemini Award in the category "Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Program" for her screenplay of the episode "The Case of the Burning Building". In the same year, Elizabeth Stewart won a WGC Award from the Writers Guild of Canada for her writing of the episode "The Case of the Maestro's Ghost".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Family, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo is a youth-oriented action mystery television series that ran on Nickelodeon between 1996 and 1998. A total of 41 episodes of 30 minutes each were produced. Episodes were taped at the now defunct Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida. Starring Irene Ng as the title character, the series revolves around the adventures of a young teenage girl who lives with her innkeeper grandfather and works as a non-sworn intern at the local police department where she helps out with odds and ends around the office. Occasionally an intriguing case comes to Shelby's attention, prompting her to apply her unique insight and enlist the help of her friends to solve it. Her supervisors, however, do not appreciate her help, as she is only a teenager. Her grandfather also does not want her getting involved in cases, often reminding her, "We are not detectives with warrant badges, we are innkeepers with brooms." Many of the stories, with three clear suspects, keep the audience guessing until the truth is ultimately explained. The show is set in the cities of Cocoa Beach, Florida and Boston, Massachusetts. On December 28, 2011, TeenNick aired the episode "The Smoke Screen Case" on the The '90s Are All That block.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Crime, Family, Mystery, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Ghostwriter (1992)
Plot Summary:
Ghostwriter is an American television program created by Liz Nealon and produced by the Children's Television Workshop and BBC One. It began airing on PBS on October 4, 1992, and the final episode aired on February 13, 1995. The series revolves around a close knit circle of friends from Brooklyn who solve neighborhood crimes and mysteries as a team of young detectives with the help of an invisible ghost named Ghostwriter. Ghostwriter can communicate with the kids only by manipulating whatever text and letters he can find and using them to form words and sentences. The series was filmed on location in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: detective, educational, suspenseful
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Devices and Desires (1991)
Plot Summary:
A particularly vicious serial killer is stalking the Norfolk coast in the vicinity of the Larksoken nuclear power station. The press have branded him 'The Whistler' because witnesses have heard a hymn being whistled in the vicinity of the murders. His trademark is the letter 'L' carved on the forehead of his victims. L for Larksoken? At first, his victims seem to be chosen entirely at random - women in the wrong place at the wrong time - but then two women employed at the nuclear power station are murdered in quick succession.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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Helen West (2002)
Plot Summary:
Helen West is crusading senior prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service. Her life is complicated by her ongoing affair with a senior police officer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 289 min
Plot tags: detective
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Shroud for a Nightingale (1984)
Plot Summary:
British TV mini series.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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Cover Her Face (1985)
Plot Summary:
Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh investigates the death of Alice Liddell who ran a home for unwed mothers. One of those residents is Sally Jupp who was a witness in a drugs smuggling and murder investigation in London. Sally works at the local manor house for the Maxies and it is apparent that eldest son Stephen has more than just a passing interest in her. The night after they announce their engagement, Sally is found strangled in her bed. The question is whether her death is related to the London investigation or a completely different reason altogether. Her engagement created a good deal of ill feeling among the Maxies and several guests in the house with any one of them having a motive to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 291 min
Plot tags: detective
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Investigation Held by ZnaToKi (1971)
Plot Summary:
Soviet detective television series.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, detective series
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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1972)
Plot Summary:
When one of the more venerable members of the Bellona Club passes away in the reading room, Lord Peter Wimsey is brought in to determine the time of death for testamentary purposes. But the more he investigates, the more complicated things seem.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: detective, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty, talky, stylized
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The Files of Young Kindaichi (2022)
Plot Summary:
Kindaichi Hajime is a high school student and a private detective with an IQ of 180. He solves murder cases that are riddled with difficult clues. Kindaichi Hajime works with his childhood friend Nanase Miyuki and Kenmochi Isamu. Kenmochi Isamu is now the chief inspector of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, shounen
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Satan's Stratagem (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ďáblova lest is a Czech crime movie. The movie was making in Benedict's abbeys of Saint Václav in Broumov, the Church of Saint Margaret in Podlažice and City Museum, Chrast by Chrudim.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, detective, exciting, contemplative
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The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
Plot Summary:
This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: anthology, detective, dark fairy tale
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Garage Sale Mystery (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer Shannon can always find a diamond in the rough, when it comes to garage sales, that is. Whether it's a new antique to sell at her consignment shop, an Atari game for her son or a piece of furniture for her handy husband Jason to refurbish, she has made a career out of her treasure hunting prowess. When a string of burglaries hits her town, Jennifer's keen eye for detail and her natural problem solving instincts even help her see the connection between these burglaries and local garage sales! Jennifer works with Detective Adam Iverson to investigate her theory that the perpetrators of the burglaries are fellow garage sale regulars. The case escalates to dangerous levels when Jennifer discovers the dead body of her friend. Even though the deceased's husband, Ben Douglas, finds nothing missing in their house, and the police label the death as accidental, Jennifer suspects that the death may be related to the burglaries.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, psychological, detective
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Masterpiece Mystery (1980)
Plot Summary:
A weekly public television program presenting British produced mystery dramas to American audiences. Each program was a dramatization of a well-known mystery novel, with many programs continuing over several weeks. Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot were the most commonly featured sleuths, but a wide variety of other authors' works were also shown.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anthology, detective, dark fairy tale, mind bending, serious, suspenseful
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye (1985)
Plot Summary:
When a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a murderer with a penchant for nursery rhymes.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: detective, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977)
Plot Summary:
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl detective Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries was unusual in that it often dealt with the characters individually, in an almost anthological style. That is, some episodes featured only the Hardy Boys and others only Nancy Drew.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, feel good, serious, realistic, suspenseful, vintage
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A Certain Justice (1998)
Plot Summary:
The story is about the murder of Venetia Aldridge, a QC (Queen's Council) in a London "Chambers" and a very ambitious barrister who has a track record of winning her cases. She doesn't necessarily prove that her clients are innocent, she simply disproves the prosecution's case against them. In the course of her career ,she has made enemies and one of them kills her and she is found in a very ritualistic setting.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Hardy Boys (2020)
Plot Summary:
When the Hardy boys, Frank and Joe and their father, Fenton arrive in Bridgeport they set out to uncover the truth behind the recent tragedy that has changed their lives, and in doing so, uncover something much more sinister.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, period piece, period drama
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The Bletchley Circle (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II. Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean have returned to their normal lives, modestly setting aside the part they played in producing crucial intelligence, which helped the Allies to victory and shortened the war. When Susan discovers a hidden code behind an unsolved murder she is met by skepticism from the police. She quickly realises she can only begin to crack the murders and bring the culprit to justice with her former friends. The Bletchley Circle paints a vivid portrait of post-war Britain in this fictional tale of unsung heroes.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, detective, serious, suspenseful, realistic, crime drama, intellectual, period piece, costume drama, historical drama