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Plot Summary:
Jaakko, a mushroom entrepreneur, finds out too late that he has been fatally slow-poisoned by persons unknown. He sets out to find the culprits before he dies.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 258 min
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Capitu (2008)
Plot Summary:
A melancholy Dom Casmurro, who writes a book to tell his vision of his own story and also to restore, in old age, the moments lived in adolescence alongside the great love of his life, Capitu, a girl who seduced him with her "hangover eyes".
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
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Public Enemy (2016)
Plot Summary:
Freed after 20 years in prison, the child killer Guy Beranger found refuge with the monks in Vielsart, a small village in Belgian's Ardennes. He is placed under the protection of a young Federal Police's inspector, Chloé Muller. A little while after his release, a little girl disappears.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: crime drama, psychological thriller
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Hotel Beau Séjour (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hotel Beau Séjour. Kato, covered in blood, wakes up without any recollection of what happened the night before. Moreover, nobody seems to see or hear her. Slowly it sinks in: she's dead. Who did this to her? And how come a handful of people can still see her, as if she's among the living? Why them specifically? In her search to uncover the truth Kato will discover that a lot of secrets lie dormant under the surface of her supposedly peaceful village community.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: captivating, crime drama, suspenseful, contemplative, detective, anthology, noir, visually appealing
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Anxious People (2021)
Plot Summary:
A bank robber holds the visitors of an open house hostage and then promptly vanishes, leaving the police baffled — and suspicious of everyone.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, funny, fun
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Tellus (2014)
Plot Summary:
As a group of Finish ecoterrorists escalate their attacks, they are pursued by an environmentally conscious detective who's less radical about his activism and tries to save the earth in his own personal way.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Mayo (2006)
Plot Summary:
Charismatic detective Gil Mayo wise-cracks his way through a variety of murder mysteries alongside his sexy colleague, Alex Jones. Matters aren't simple between the old flames as flirtation could become something more - but who will make the first move? Life is further complicated by Gil's precocious teenage daughter Julie, who he's bringing up by himself after the disappearance of his wife. The detective does come up with a novel way to deal with the piles of bills he keeps receiving though - hiding them in the cupboard!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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SKY Castle (2018)
Plot Summary:
The satirical comedy takes place in a four-story apartment building in the suburbs of Seoul inhabited by a number of professionals: doctors, judges, prosecutors, professors, and their wives. The wives are from prestigious and highly educated backgrounds, and part of the plot will feature their efforts to get their children admitted into universities. Some grew up in families with multiple generations of doctors or lawyers, and their ambitions will be depicted with realism and comedy.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: feel good, dorama, emotional, dark comedy, humorous, light, entertaining
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Dandelion Dead (1994)
Plot Summary:
This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Hold Me Tight (2018)
Plot Summary:
A married couple faces a crisis involving death. They look back at their past together and recognize the importance of love between them and their family. Nam Hyun-Joo (Han Hye-Jin) married her university senior Kim Do-Young (Yoon Sang-Hyun). They live a happy life as a husband and wife. Kim Do-Young works as an architect and was once thought of as a genius in his field. His refusal to make compromises and stickto his style has caused difficulties with his job. One day, Nam Hyun-Joo asks for a divorce and Kim Do-Young's first love Shin Da-Hye (Yu In-Young) appears.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: inspirational, touching, heartbreaking, emotional
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Live (2018)
Plot Summary:
The police officers at South Korea's busiest patrol division toil day and night as keepers of law and peace -- but the reality is far from orderly.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, dorama, sincere, tense, captivating, realistic
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Beyond Paradise (2023)
Plot Summary:
After leaving paradise and seeking a quieter life, Humphrey has taken a job as Detective Inspector in his fiancée Martha's hometown. But with the high crime rate, maybe things will be louder than expected.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags:
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The Typist (2018)
Plot Summary:
Freya Becker is a typist with the homicide division of the Berlin police. Freya’s daughter, Marie, disappeared 11 years ago without a trace, and Freya is determined to uncover the truth, whatever the cost.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Commish (1991)
Plot Summary:
Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He's a tough yet compassionate boss, a loving husband and father, and a hands-on law enforcer with an unorthodox style of bending the rules. From parenthood to politics, from sex crimes to murder cases, one man takes it day-to-day with offbeat humor and street- smart skill.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, realistic, semi serious, detective, offbeat
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Les Norton (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1985, the series will follow the exploits of a country bloke from outback Queensland. On the run from a troubled past, he blows into Sydney where he lands a job as a bouncer at an illegal casino. A classic fish out of water who is desperate to get home, he soon finds himself seduced by the city’s illicit charms and dragged into a web of underground criminality.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, interesting
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Nevskiy (2016)
Plot Summary:
Police captain Pavel Semyonov serves in one of the residential areas of St. Petersburg. Pavel is used to breaking up drunken fights and entering drug dens alone to make another arrest. He knows that if he thinks and argues, he will simply be killed. And he is used to first acting, and then sorting it out, because he really wants to stay alive, because his wife Yulia and son Sasha are waiting for him at home. Risking his life, he saves the daughter of a businessman. In gratitude, Latyshev, the girl's father, facilitates the transfer of Pavel to Nevsky Prospekt, to the very center of the big city, where it is prestigious and profitable to serve ... And soon Pavel begins to suspect that his transfer to the Central District was carried out by Latyshev with some far-reaching plans. And when Pavel goes on the trail of a mysterious killer named Rafael, everything is completely confused. But in a difficult situation, Pavel can always rely on his friends from the sleeping area.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak, intense
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The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry (2010)
Plot Summary:
When three women put their careers above their personal relationships in their quest to succeed, would they change anything about their lives now that they’re in their 30s? Lee Shin Young is a reporter for the UBN broadcasting company. Jung Da Jung works as a Korean-English translator. Kim Boo Ki works as a popular restaurant consultant. The women are all 36 years old and good friends. When one gets married and discovers married life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, another develops a condition that sidelines her career, and the other suddenly finds a baby at her doorstep, they help each other deal with the challenges facing modern career women.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, humorous
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The Indian Detective (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Toronto police officer gets involved in a homicide investigation while visiting his father in Mumbai.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, feel good, humorous, captivating, detective
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Strawberry Night (2012)
Plot Summary:
Reiko Himekawa is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work and gain the respect of the policeman.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Wild Bill (2019)
Plot Summary:
U.S. police chief Bill Hixon lands in the British town of Boston, Lincolnshire, with his 14-year-old daughter Kelsey in tow hoping they can flee their painful recent past. But this unfamiliar, unimpressed community will force Bill to question everything about himself and leave him asking whether it's Boston that needs Bill, or Bill that needs Boston?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dramatic, detective
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Burke's Law (1994)
Plot Summary:
Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, thrilling, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Crime Story (1986)
Plot Summary:
Crime Story is an American TV drama, created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson, that premiered in 1986 and ran for two seasons on NBC. The executive producer was Michael Mann, who had left his other series Miami Vice to oversee Crime Story and direct the film Manhunter. The show premiered with a two-hour pilot — a movie which had been exhibited theatrically — and was watched by over 30 million viewers. It was then scheduled to follow Miami Vice on Friday nights, and continued to attract a record number of viewers. NBC then moved the show to Tuesdays at 10 pm opposite ABC's Moonlighting, hurting its ratings to the point that NBC ordered its cancellation after only two seasons. Set in the early, pre-Beatles 1960s, the series depicted two men — Lt. Mike Torello and mobster Ray Luca — with an obsessive drive to destroy each other. As Luca started with street crime in Chicago, was "made" in the Chicago Outfit and then sent to Las Vegas to monitor their casinos, Torello pursued Luca as head of a special Organized Crime Strike Force. Torello, his friend Ted Kehoe, and Luca had grown up in Chicago's "The Patch" neighborhood, also called "Little Sicily" or "Little Italy" and the haunt of the Forty-Two Gang. The show attracted both acclaim and controversy for its serialized format, in which a continuing storyline was told over an entire season, rather than being episodic, as was normal with shows at the time.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, detective, tense, captivating, anime, serious, realistic, neo noir
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A Touch of Frost (1992)
Plot Summary:
A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R.D. Wingfield. Writing credit for the three episodes in the first 1992 series went to Richard Harris, with screenplays credited to Wingfield. The series stars David Jason as Detective Inspector William Edward "Jack" Frost, an experienced and dedicated detective who frequently clashes with his superiors. In his cases, Frost is assisted by a variety of different detective sergeants, with each bringing a different slant to the particular case. Comic relief is provided by Frost's interactions with the bureaucratically minded Superintendent Norman Mullett, played by Bruce Alexander. A number of young actors had their major debut as supporting cast in the show, including Matt Bardock, Ben Daniels, Neil Stuke, Nathaniel Parker, Mark Letheren, Colin Buchanan, Jason Maza, Damian Lewis and Marc Warren.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, sincere, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty
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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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Deep Water (2016)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned a brutal murder case in Bondi, where they begin to uncover mounting evidence to suggest the killing is connected to a spate of unexplained deaths, "suicides" and disappearances throughout the 80s and 90s. Haunted by the disappearance of her teenage brother, Tori's fascination with the case soon turns to fixation. When more ritualistic murders occur with the same bizarre signature, Tori and Nick will need to put their relationships, their careers and their lives on the line to finally reveal the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, crime drama, queer cinema
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Murder in the First (2014)
Plot Summary:
Murder in the First follows homicide detectives Terry English and Hildy Mulligan as they investigate a multitude of tragedies in San Francisco.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, detective, tense, suspense, suspenseful, sexy
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OCTB (2017)
Plot Summary:
Undercover detective Chen Feng Xiang in a crack after a large group of cadres transferred to civilian, but in eight years after being an anti-black group to recapture. As the current rivers and lakes on the most troublesome triad leader are Chen Feng Xiang then younger brother Zhang Zhi Qiang, Feng Xiang re-out of the "rivers and lakes." He joined Zhang Shaojun led by the anti-black team and the new villain tostart dealing with the hands of the old friends and enemies, which makes Feng Xiang once dilemma. There are three years since the return of Hong Kong, gangs intend to take advantage of a big ticket. Feng Xiang in the investigation of a case of the disappearance of the leader, but found a century of Hong Kong triad history of the shaking big conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Disappearance (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in Lyon, the show traces the increasing trauma of the Morel family who fall apart when their 17-year-old daughter fails to return home from a night out. As the hours pass and the police investigation builds, The Disappearance explores every parent’s worst nightmare. There are similarities to Broadchurch in that the lead detective has a complicated backstory while the family members and friends each appear to be hiding something.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, detective, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, atmospheric, noir
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The Thin Blue Line (2021)
Plot Summary:
Swedish drama series about police officers in Malmö, their tiring work and the difficulties of keeping their personal and professional life separate.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, contemplative
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If Tomorrow Comes (1986)
Plot Summary:
This mini-series focuses on two people, Tracy Whitney and Jeff Stevens. In the beginning, Tracy was an innocent, who was in love and pregnant, with the son of an affluent family. Obviously her family did not approve of her. She would sent ot prison for a crime she didn't commit. Eventually, she got released. She then set out to get back at the people who framed her. She would try to rebuild her life but her prison record would always be a hindrance. She would be offered a job, stealing jewelry. Jeff is con-man who thought he found true love, but when he learned that his wife did not feel about him as he did, decided to con some of her friends and divorce her. Their paths would cross when Tracy after stealing what she was contracted to, meets up with some policemen, one of whom is Jeff. Apparently her boss tried to double cross her but she manages to outwit them.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 304 min
Plot tags: romantic, entertaining, tense, sexy, thought provoking, feel good, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, sincere
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Hinterland (2013)
Plot Summary:
Tom Mathias comes to Aberystwyth having abandoned his life in London. He's a brilliant but troubled man. Despite his faults he is an excellent detective, who knows that the key to solving the crime lies not in where you look for truth, but how you look. From the windswept sand dunes of the coastline to the badlands of the hinterland, Y Gwyll is a series of four two-hour stories that are original and local, yet timeless and universal.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, detective, serious, tense, bleak, crime drama, dark, suspense, noir, grindhouse