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Plot Summary:
Two murders shake the Finnish community of Fuengirola, a group that made this tiny corner of Málaga their own little Finnish paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Hilkka Mäntymäki, a veteran crime detective aged 60, is travelling from Helsinki to help the local police on a case that will soon claim new victims. Because escaping the cold and the dark is much easier than leaving your own past behind.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Spain
Duration: 370 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like The Paradise (2020):
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Cape Town (2015)
Plot Summary:
Cape Town. Police captain Mat Joubert used to be the best, solved every crime, got every killer. But that was a year ago, before his wife Lara was murdered while working undercover. Mat's been on a downward spiral ever since, haunted by a blurred past, uncertain which role he played in the murder of his wife. Now Mat is an out of shape chain smoker who is ambivalent about the crime-ridden world around him. Gradually, Mat begins to overcome the ghosts of his past. But in order to stop the violence of his current cases he must relive the nightmare of his wife's murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: hardboiled detective, detective series
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23 Morde (2019)
Plot Summary:
Self proclaimed serial killer Max Rapp is in prison for the murder of 23 people. Detectives Tara Scholl and Henry Kloss suspect he is innocent of these crimes. However, if Rapp isn't a serial killer how is he able to slip into the minds of them? His mind functions predatory in nature, because of this, his skills prove vital in uncovering who is really behind these cases.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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Reyka (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1994 South Africa, the daughter of a multiracial couple is kidnapped. She escapes and as an adult becomes a detective. Continuing to deal with her past trauma, Reyka Gama uses her skills to raise her child and solve mysteries that have challenged others.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: detective
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May God Save Us (2016)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, summer 2011. Economic crisis. 15-M movement and 1.5 million pilgrims waiting for the Pope’s arrival live side by side in a Madrid that’s hotter and more chaotic than ever. In this context, detectives Velarde and Alfaro must find what seems to be a serial killer. Their against-the-clock hunt will make them realise something they’d never imagined: neither of them are so very different from the killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, psychological thriller, noir, clever, crime drama, twisted
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Detective Inspector Irene Huss: The Torso (2007)
Plot Summary:
On a beach in Gothenburg found parts of a dismembered man's body. The only thing that is going on, a tattoo on the torso. Irene Huss find a similar previous cases that will take her to Copenhagen, where she is forced to look for a friend's daughter who disappeared. Likfyndet will be the prelude to more nasty murders that lead Irene in Copenhagen underworld.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, surprise ending
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The Zone (2017)
Plot Summary:
The disastrous meltdown of a nuclear power plant in Northern Spain created a contaminated no-go zone and left the nearby provincial city and inhabitants in a state of shock and mourning. Three years later, while the city prepares for the commemoration ceremony, a mutilated body is found in a warehouse. Police inspector Hector Uria's search for the murderer takes him deep into the no-go zone and into his own past.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 971
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Remember (2017)
Plot Summary:
It's a horrific crime scene. A couple and their baby are found savagely murdered in their living room. The bodies are covered in blood, but bear no wounds. The couple's 7-year-old daughter, Madeleine, is miraculously unhurt. But the traumatized girl has lost her memory and can't utter a single word. Why was she left unscathed? There's another troubling question: the doors of the house were locked from the inside, and there's no sign of a break-in. Captain Belgarde takes over the case and brings in Marie Kempf, a psychiatrist who lost her own daughter, Lila, several years earlier. Belgarde investigated that case too, ruling it a suicide. Reluctant at first, Marie agrees to help on the condition that Belgarde reopen her daughter's case, which she refuses to believe was a suicide. They strike a deal and Marie takes Madeleine to her house to treat her, hoping to get the little girl to start talking and rekindle her memory.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Rabbies (2017)
Plot Summary:
Although Czech republic is country free of rabbies, some cases of infected animals appear near one of villages in Sumava region. Virologist Pavel Rogl, that is in his thirties, has task to inspect the situation, supervise the vaccination and find the source of infection. He is also charged to elaborate an expertise for team of police detectives, that are investigating mysterious double homicide. It is possible, that murders are connected to infection. Is it a human murderer, or big beast that escaped?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective, poliziottesco
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Special Affairs Team TEN (2011)
Plot Summary:
"Special Affairs Team TEN" is a criminal investigation unit that tackles the most violent crimes in South Korea. These crimes usually have less than a 10% rate for arrests. They chase the most notorious killers who attempt to commit the perfect crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, semi serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, thought provoking, touching, bleak, captivating, psychological thriller, psychological
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Touching Evil (2004)
Plot Summary:
Returning from a year-long psychological leave of absence after surviving an almost-fatal gunshot wound to the head, Detective David Creegan is assigned to the FBI's Organized and Serial Crime Unit – a rapid-response, elite crime investigation squad – where he and his new partner, Detective Susan Branca, find themselves committed to saving lives and solving cases. In spite of his inability to abide by common sense and the laws he's sworn to uphold, Creegan, with the help of Branca, works on hunting down the most vicious criminals on the streets.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, crime drama
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From Darkness (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of Claire Church, a former police officer who moves away to the remote Western Isles in an attempt to escape the past and violence that still haunts her. Soon, Claire is pulled back into an investigation she thought she long left behind, by her former lover and colleague DCI John Hind and his new DS Anthony Boyce.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 233 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, crime drama
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The Deal (2015)
Plot Summary:
A cop catches a serial killer who murdered his sister but never finds her body. The lack of closure torments him and drives his brother-in-law insane, who makes a deal with the mafia for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Fifth Woman (2002)
Plot Summary:
The 5th woman unfolds autumn 1994. An elderly man found in a gillrad pitfall impaled to death on the sharp sharpened bamboo poles, ecstatic praise of crows. Shortly afterwards disappears a florist without a trace and he also found executed in the forest. Kurt Wallander and his colleagues will soon understand that the attacks is all about revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 229 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, bleak, realistic, gloomy
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The Victims' Game (2020)
Plot Summary:
After discovering his estranged daughter's link to mysterious murders, a forensic detective with Asperger's syndrome risks everything to solve the case.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, dark fantasy
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This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (2000)
Plot Summary:
This is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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American Gothic (2016)
Plot Summary:
A prominent Boston family attempts to redefine itself in the wake of a chilling discovery that links their recently deceased patriarch to a string of murders spanning decades — amid the mounting suspicion that one of them may have been his accomplice.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, slasher, anthology, enigmatic, disturbing
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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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The Woods (2020)
Plot Summary:
Paul Copeland is looking to solve the murder of his sister back in 1994.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 306 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, disturbing, suspense, tense, detective, crime thriller
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The Snow Girl (2023)
Plot Summary:
When a little girl goes missing during a parade in Málaga, a young newspaper journalist becomes fiercely determined to help Amaya's parents find her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 273 min
Plot tags:
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Messiah (2001)
Plot Summary:
After two horribly mutilated bodies are discovered, DCI Red Metcalfe is assigned the case.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, captivating, realistic, crime drama, detective, psychological thriller
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Ragdoll (2021)
Plot Summary:
Detectives look to untangle the case of the Ragdoll Killer, who has killed six people and sewn their bodies into the shape of one grotesque body nicknamed the Ragdoll.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 280 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, thrilling, detective
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Legacy, a Kate McDougal Investigation (2016)
Plot Summary:
A dead body is discovered in the Eastern Townships Lake (in province of Quebec, Canada). Then a second one is discovered. A hunt is launched to catch a serial killer in the region.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Thorne: Sleepyhead (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thorne Sleepyhead: follows DI Tom Thornes investigation into a mysterious serial killer. His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate. Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel, she is aware of everything going on around her, but she is unable to move or communicate. In leaving Alison alive, the police believe the killer's made his first mistake.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense, dark, detective, scary, realistic
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Wicked City (2015)
Plot Summary:
“Wicked City” follows a unique case set in a noteworthy era of L.A. history, starting with a murder case from 1982 centered on the rock ’n’ roll, cocaine-infused revelry of the Sunset Strip. Alliances are formed to solve a serial murder case.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, suspense, tense, realistic, detective, period drama
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Fatma (2021)
Plot Summary:
Reeling from tragedy, a nondescript house cleaner embarks on a murderous streak as she searches for her missing husband and reckons with old wounds.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Through the Darkness (2022)
Plot Summary:
It deals with the beginning of profilers who had to look into their minds to chase away demons that could not be called human beings in the days when the word profiling was unfamiliar and there was no concept of psychopaths, when a series of vicious criminals such as Yoo Young Chul, Jung Nam Gyu, and Kang Ho Soon appeared. It will be another kind of drama that will give you a sense of immersion and tension that you've never experienced before. The original author, Profiler Kwon Il Yong, became a police officer in 1989 and became the first profiler in Korea in 2000. His name was made public when he profiled serial killers such as Yoo Young Chul and Jung Nam Kyu. Kim Nam Gil will once again attempt a strong transformation by acting as a profiler of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's criminal behavior analysis team, which looks deeper into humans than anyone else and takes a more delicate look at others.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cerebral
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The Return of the Dancing Master (2004)
Plot Summary:
Former policeman is tortured and murdered and his friend and former colleauge investigates the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Finland
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Respect (2020)
Plot Summary:
The protagonist of the story, Ercüment Çözer rebels against disrespect and rudeness that we tend to avoid, ignore and eventually forget. Ercüment Çözer is a sociopath obsessed with the idea of respect. However, this time, he is not alone on his obsessive journey. The young lovers Helen and Savas, who have just stepped foot into the real world, find themselves in the middle of difficult situations after being mistreated by a group of people and end up being responsible for a chain of murders that take place in Istanbul. The concept of disrespect instantly turns into a social and mediatic struggle between the two generations. As for the mediatic follow up, Turkey’s most famous morning show host, Hasret will undertake it, however, nobody knows that she is also about to take part in this journey on another level. By getting to the core of this obsession, we will be witnessing the reflection it has on society.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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We Hunt Together (2020)
Plot Summary:
Explore the intoxication of sexual attraction, the dangerous power of emotional manipulation, and how finding a volatile form of solace in another can have dire consequences as two conflicted coppers track down a pair of deadly killers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, detective, psychological thriller, hardboiled detective, crime thriller, detective series
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The Mantis (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jeanne Deber, known as "La Mante", the famous serial murderer who terrorized France more than 20 years ago, is forced by the police to come out of isolation to track down her copycat. She agrees to collaborate on one condition: to have only one interlocutor, Damien Carrot, her son, who became a cop because of the crimes of his mother, and who refuses all contact with her since her arrest.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, detective, surprise ending, dark, crime drama, exciting, captivating, realistic, suspenseful