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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 260 min
Plot tags: clever, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, detective
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Blood of the Vine (2011)
Plot Summary:
Benjamin Lebel, an internationally-acclaimed wine expert, finds himself helping the local police inspector on cases combining murders and Grand Crus.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, clever, serious, suspenseful, realistic, witty
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Swedish Dicks (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two unlicensed Swedish private investigators try to make a living in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, feel good, captivating, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, detective, cult classic
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The Perfume Of The Lady In Black (2005)
Plot Summary:
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, clever, realistic, surreal, talky, stylized
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My Roommate is a Detective (2020)
Plot Summary:
Shanghai, 1927. A deduction genius pairs up with a detective and a newspaper reporter to solve mysterious cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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Lonely Street (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bubba Mabry, a gullible private detective, becomes the prime suspect in a tabloid reporter's murder after being hired to snoop on him by a mysterious celebrity.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective
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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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Four Women and a Funeral (2005)
Plot Summary:
Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall is an Austrian crime television series, first aired on the Austrian television channel "ORF eins" in 2005. The show also aired in Switzerland on "SF1", in Germany on RTL Crime and on the Franco-German TV network "arte" - dubbed in French. The sending-rights were sold to Slovenia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukranie and Russia.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death (2011)
Plot Summary:
Varg Veum investigates the murder of a married couple; prime suspect is the stepson, but Veum does not think he is guilty. Not even when he confesses.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective
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Agatha Christie's Hjerson (2021)
Plot Summary:
Swedish murder investigator Sven Hjerson forms an unexpected detective duo with stubborn TV producer Klara after several years of isolation. Will she also manage to recruit him for her new TV show?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, Germany, Finland, UK
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Agatha Raisin (2014)
Plot Summary:
Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in her deceptively quaint town.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, captivating, feel good, emotional, witty, entertaining, ironic, light hearted
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Private Eyes (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: captivating, detective, semi serious, tense, exciting, suspense, detective series
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Ellery Queen (1975)
Plot Summary:
Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Maigret (1991)
Plot Summary:
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, captivating, stylized, detective, exciting, witty
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Campion (1989)
Plot Summary:
Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, period drama
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A BUTTERFLY EFFECT –The Murder Analysis Team– (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kisaragi Toko is a detective in the Investigation 1 Section 11 of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Her senior, Detective Hideaki Takano, has decided to move to the Public Security Bureau. Hideaki Takano’s transfer will be carried out in 1 week. During this time, a murder takes place. A wealthy man is found dead in his home. His throat has been cut and a blue flower placed within the wound. Also, the victim's wife Mayumi is missing. A newspaper then receives an email from Kurasuta 16, professing themselves as the murderer. The email also implies the location of Mayumi. Since Detective Hideaki Takano is soon to transfer to the Public Security Bureau, Toko Kisaragi feels more pressure and responsibility to solve the crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, psychological, atmospheric, unusual plot structure, serious, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Dirk Gently (2010)
Plot Summary:
Dirk Gently is a British comedy detective drama TV series based on characters from the Dirk Gently novels by Douglas Adams. The series was created by Howard Overman and stars Stephen Mangan as holistic detective Dirk Gently and Darren Boyd as his sidekick Richard MacDuff. Recurring actors include Helen Baxendale as MacDuff's girlfriend Susan Harmison, Jason Watkins as Dirk's nemesis DI Gilks and Lisa Jackson as Dirk's receptionist Janice Pearce. Unlike most detective series Dirk Gently features broadly comic touches and even some science fiction themes such as time travel and artificial intelligence. Dirk Gently operates his Holistic Detective Agency based on the "fundamental interconnectedness of all things", which relies on random chance methods to uncover connections between seemingly-unrelated cases. He claims that he follows the principles of quantum mechanics, and although the majority of his clients suspect he may be a conman he often produces surprising results. With the help of his assistant, Richard MacDuff, Dirk investigates a number of seemingly unrelated but interconnected cases. An hour-long pilot episode loosely based on plot elements from Adams' 1987 novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was broadcast on BBC Four on 16 December 2010 and was watched by 1.1 million viewers. Critical reception was generally positive. A full series of three one-hour episodes was subsequently commissioned in March 2011 and was broadcast on BBC Four in March 2012. The series was the first continuing drama series produced for the digital channel.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: detective, humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, touching, hilarious, offbeat, suspenseful, witty
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Partners in Crime (1983)
Plot Summary:
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime is a 1983 British television series based on the short stories of the same name by Agatha Christie. It was directed by John A. Davis and Tony Wharmby, and starred James Warwick and Francesca Annis in the leading roles of husband and wife sleuths Tommy and Prudence 'Tuppence' Beresford. Reece Dinsdale co-starred as Albert in all except episodes 3 and 5. The series follows the adventures and exploits of the Beresfords, who have recently taken over the running of a detective agency based in London, and each episode features one of the stories from the book. Among these are a quest for missing jewels, the investigation of poltergeists and a story involving poisoned chocolates. The series followed the short stories closely with two notable exceptions: First, the detective parodies, although alluded to on occasion, were for the most part dispensed with. Secondly, the story arc of the blue Russian letters and the search for the agent known as Number 16 were also dispensed with. For this reason three chapters were not adapted. The series' original run was immediately preceded by transmission on 9 October 1983 of the same production team's adaptation of Christie's second novel The Secret Adversary, which also starred Annis and Warwick in the same roles and which acted as an introduction for viewers to Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective, atmospheric, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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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 Little Murders of Agatha Christie (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1930s France, Superintendent Larosière has a passion for beautiful women and solving cases, while hapless young inspector Lampion just tries to keep up. Later series, are set in the mid-'50s, where suave Commissioner Laurence unravels knotty crimes with the help of reporter Alice.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, slasher, detective, period drama
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (1987)
Plot Summary:
Miss Jane Marple is staying at an elegant hotel from her childhood compliments of her nephew Raymond. Also there is international adventurer Bess Sedgwick and Lady Selena Hazy (Joan Greenwood in her next to last performance). A doorman working at the hotel turns out to be from Bess' past, and when he is killed, she is the prime suspect. But what does his murder have to do with the disappearance of an elderly vicar staying at the hotel, and a string of robberies over the last few months? Miss Marple must find out before the murderer strikes again!!!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: detective, clever, serious, captivating, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
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A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001)
Plot Summary:
Genius detective Nero Wolfe and his right-hand man, Archie Goodwin, solve seemingly impossible crimes.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: realistic, detective, clever, serious, suspenseful
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Forgotten Girls (2007)
Plot Summary:
A detective works to solve a string of cases involving missing girls.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Plot Summary:
Rosemary & Thyme is a British television mystery series starring Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV in 2003. The third series ended in August 2007. The theme is murder mysteries in the setting of professional gardening jobs. It was created by Brian Eastman to entertain his wife, Christabel Albery, who is an avid gardener. The show was directed by Brian Farnham, Simon Langton, and Tom Clegg. Clive Exton, who helped create the show, contributed 10 of the 22 scripts.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, captivating, clever, detective, semi serious, crime drama, suspenseful
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The Last Detective (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Last Detective is an ITV drama starring Peter Davison as Dangerous Davies. The first series aired in 2003 with three more seasons succeeding this. The first consisted of a pilot and three episodes, the second and the third series both consisted of four normal episodes and the fourth series increased the run to five episodes and the duration of each individual episode to 90 minutes as opposed to the previous 70-minute format. As of 2007 this series had 17 episodes in total.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, clever, realistic, suspenseful, dark, crime drama, semi serious
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The Undertaker (2013)
Plot Summary:
A detective leaves the force to take over the family business as an undertaker at the same time as he is being investigated for murder. His close encounters with corpses and his earlier police training lead him to see things some of his ex-colleagues miss and he investigates the crimes he encounters in an unofficial capacity often to the dismay of he official police.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Crime
Country: Switzerland
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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The Lake (2019)
Plot Summary:
Driving home from a New Year's Eve party, Chief Inspector Taras Birsa notices a police car by the road. He stops, and inadvertently gets involved in an investigation of a brutal murder of a young woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Crime
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Death of a Girl (2015)
Plot Summary:
Police officer Hella Christensen is on her way to her new job in Kiel. But she doesn't get far because a dead girl was found at the pier in her hometown. Hella's new superior, Simon Kessler, has already arrived from Kiel and is awaiting her on the bridge. Hella recognizes the dead person immediately: it is 14-year-old Jenni, daughter of her neighboring family. Kessler orders the recently defunct local office to be used to investigate the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
Plot Summary:
The show follows the adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, detective, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, anthology
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Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
Plot Summary:
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, realistic, captivating, detective, serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, crime drama, spiritual
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Murder on the Orient Express (2001)
Plot Summary:
Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London onboard the luxurious Orient Express. But, the train comes to a sudden halt when a rock slide blocks the tracks ahead. And all the thrills of riding the famous train come to a halt when a man discovered dead in his compartment, stabbed nine times. The train is stranded. No one has gotten on or gotten off. That can only mean one thing: the killer is onboard, and it is up to Hercule Poirot to find him. [from imdb.com].
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, tense, suspenseful, mind bending, thought provoking, captivating, serious, realistic, contemplative, stylized