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Plot Summary:
Based on true stories about real homicide investigations in the south of Sweden between 1989-2004. The six-part series explores the murder of 10-year-old Helen Nilsson in Hörby, southern Sweden, a seemingly impossible case that remained unsolved for 15 years. On the March 1989 night when Helen disappeared, there were around 20 suspected paedophiles living in Hörby.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, tense
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The Victim (2019)
Plot Summary:
A grieving mother is accused of identifying online the man she believes killed her son. But is he really a notorious child murderer or a tragic victim of mistaken identity?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Framed By the Killer (2021)
Plot Summary:
Elaborate who done it murder mysteries where every episode explores a case that points police to one suspect only to later discover that person was framed by the actual killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Suspicion (2015)
Plot Summary:
Suspicion takes the POV of an individual whose curiosity becomes their worst nightmare, as the sights and sounds of a 'normal' neighborhood or community, transform into terrifying glimpses of an unfolding horror story.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Long Night (2020)
Plot Summary:
It was an open shut case with hundred of witnesses seeing the murder suspect trying to dispose of a body and a signed confession from the suspect himself. And yet when the case was ready for court, the prosecutor discovered that the case was not as it appeared. The murder was but a cover for another more shocking injustice. He spent ten years trying to uncover the truth, toiling away his youth, his career, his reputation, his family, and even his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Murders in... (2013)
Plot Summary:
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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The Investigation (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Investigation explores the journey of a Mumbai Crime Branch ACP unravelling a murder mystery. Featuring Hiten Tejwani in the lead as the ACP and Leena Jumani as his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Dark Woods (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1989, the sister of Hamburg's LKA chief Thomas Bethge disappears without a trace. For almost three decades, he investigates the mysterious criminal case, before he gets on the trail of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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All the Sins (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lauri Räihä, a criminal investigator from Helsinki, is sent to investigate two murders that have occurred in the northern Finnish town where he grew up. The assignment offers Lauri a way out of confronting his own problems.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland, Estonia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, detective, contemplative
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Murders in Rochefort (2019)
Plot Summary:
Police captains Emma and Adrien look for a killer who would use a silver bullet… on multiple victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Women Document Detectives (2018)
Plot Summary:
Detective Tomo Yashiro is ordered to transfer to the Sixth Special Investigations Unit. it is in charge of deciphering documents of unsolved cases she begins work in her new post along with a senior detective Risa Narum who is called the expert of document deciphering for her unusual ability to predict the personality and thoughts of a writer from writings.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative, detective
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The Lawyer (2018)
Plot Summary:
Frank Nordling is a young and exceptionally promising defense lawyer. When Frank learns the truth behind his parents' death, his whole world unravels. As children, Frank and his sister Sara witnessed their parents die in an explosion caused by a car bomb. As Frank finds out, they were murdered by one of the leaders in Copenhagen's criminal underworld, Thomas Waldman. In order to avenge his parents Frank must infiltrate Waldman's organization and become his personal lawyer and trusted confidant. To avoid putting those close to him in danger, Frank has to keep up appearances and play the game. But can he handle it? Is it worth the price? And who's really tricking whom?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France, Finland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Snow Angels (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two days before Christmas, while Sweden is paralyzed by a heavy snowstorm, five-week-old baby Lukas inexplicably disappears from his home. Experienced police officer Alice thinks that something is not right in the parents' stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland
Duration: 341 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, clever
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Zekkyo (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman’s dead body is found in an apartment in Kokubunji, Tokyo. The decayed body seems like a half year has passed since its death and it is damaged by domestic cats that ate the body. The woman's death is thought to be a "lonely death" (someone died naturally without anyone noticing for a long period of time). Detective Ayano has doubts about that conclusion. The cats seemed like they were not house trained, which is odd for domestic cats. Detective Ayano wonders whether the cats were really owned by the dead woman. Detective Ayano then finds Suzuki Yoko’s bankbook in an empty fishbowl. It seems like the dead woman is 36-year-old Yoko.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Viso d'angelo (2011)
Plot Summary:
TV miniseries in four parts. A serial killer mysteriously leaves a signature species, a rosary in the hands of his victims. Inspector Roberto Parisi, a specialist in this type of crime, but that hides a dark past, will be responsible for conducting investigations.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 400 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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Maigrets Night at the Crossroads (2017)
Plot Summary:
A complex tale of murder, deceit and greed set in an isolated country community.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, detective, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, retro, multicultural
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Capitani (2019)
Plot Summary:
The body of a teenage girl is found in the forest near the rural village of Manscheid, deep in the North of Luxembourg. Luc Capitani, a gruff detective from the South of the country, is put in charge of the case. Having trouble navigating the closed, communal and protective mentality of the northerners, Capitani finds himself unwillingly dependent on the help of Elsa Ley, a young and intrepid local policewoman. The officers quickly find themselves entangled in a web of secrets and lies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg
Duration: 312 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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Cold Case: Shinjitsu No Tobira (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Gap Dong (2014)
Plot Summary:
20 years ago Moo-Yeom’s father was a suspect in the "Gap Dong” serial murder case. Because of the detectives’ oppressive investigation, Moo-Yeom’s father killed himself. Now, Moo-Yeom is a detective and works to capture the killer Gap Dong. The statue of limitations has expired for the serial murder case and Moo-Yeom resigns to the belief that Gap Dong is dead. New clues though for Gap Dong appears in front of Moo-Yeom and he sets out to catch him once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Suspects (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in London, each episode is a self-contained story, starting with a news report, then following the team of three detectives as they investigate the circumstances the crime. The cases themselves are hard-hitting with contemporary themes, such as the search for a soldier with PTSD, a murder that has been made to look like an assisted suicide and the gang rape of a young teenager.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama
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Wallander (2005)
Plot Summary:
Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, bleak, gloomy
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The Investigation (2020)
Plot Summary:
Copenhagen Police's Homicide unit, headed by Jens Møller, tries to solve the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, intellectual, suspenseful, detective, contemplative
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Monster (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the dark and remote landscape of northern Norway, a brutal murder reveals a mass grave which links old cases to missing people. Local police woman Hedda is put on the case with special investigator Joel Dreyer who comes from the metropolitan south. Their different backgrounds, personalities and methods immediately set them against each other. But when the investigation begins to spiral out of control, both detectives resort to questionable moves in order to stay on the case and protect their secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: tense, detective, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Pembrokeshire Murders (2021)
Plot Summary:
Detective superintendent reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, psychological, detective
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Unit 1 (2000)
Plot Summary:
Rejseholdet is a Danish television crime series starring Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Brygmann. Produced by Danmarks Radio, the program aired 32 episodes spanning four seasons from 2000 to 2004. Each episode revolved around an elite mobile police task force called "Unit One" that travels around Denmark helping local police solve crimes. Cases portrayed in the show were loosely based upon actual incidents of sensational crimes such as murders, kidnappings, cross-border sex traffic and child pornography. Rejseholdet won the 2002 International Emmy Award for best drama series.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, noir, detective, realistic
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Beautiful to Die For (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eva, a police inspector returns to the quiet village where she grew up to be next to her sister Rachele, a single mother. She finds herself investigating the mysterious disappearance of Gioia, an aspiring showgirl.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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The Killing (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode covering twenty-four hours of the investigation. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the story of the murdered victim's family alongside the police investigation. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: psychological, gloomy, tense, detective, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, captivating, atmospheric, noir
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Chasing Shadows (2014)
Plot Summary:
Chasing Shadows' follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, crime drama, captivating, suspense
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Des (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of one of the most infamous cases in UK criminal history, that of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Told through the prism of three men, the series explores the personal and professional consequences of coming into contact with a man like Nilsen.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: tense, detective, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, thrilling, contemplative, moody
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The Chestnut Man (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is found brutally murdered in a Copenhagen playground. Above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts. Adapted from the acclaimed novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, brutal, tense, captivating, psychological, detective, twisted, suspense, disturbing, serious
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A Confession (2019)
Plot Summary:
Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher intends on catching a killer of a missing woman, even if that may cost him his career and reputation.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama, crime thriller