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Plot Summary:
Han Ji-hyuk, an NIS agent gone MIA, returns after one year to join a new team as he searches for his lost past.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Tentacle 8 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious computer virus wipes out highly classified personnel files at the NSA, prompting a top secret investigation. RAYMOND BERRY, an NSA operative is thrown into a detention center, where he is suspected of crimes against the United States. He fights to stay alive, hoping to reunite with TABITHA, a CIA agent he has recently fallen in love with. Ray discovers that Tabitha is not who she says she is, complicating his plans to escape his former life and start over in anonymity.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Taxi Driver (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of a deluxe taxi driver who gets revenge on behalf of his passengers. It is based on the webtoon Deluxe Taxi by Carlos and Lee Jae-jin.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Feluda (2017)
Plot Summary:
In this 21st century adaptation of Satyajit Ray’s famous mystery novels, the brilliant private investigator navigates the busy streets of Dhaka to resolve a puzzling death of a Bangladeshi man in Kolkata.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Art of Crime (2017)
Plot Summary:
Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander Pardo, his friend who becomes, therefore, his new superior. A clever investigator, but a stranger to everything related to culture, Antoine will have to work with Florence Chassagne, renowned art historian, who lives, speaks and breathes culture, to the point that - fruit of her great imagination - it happens to her in the midst of daydreams, to see and talk to the great artists who have disappeared as if they were familiar to her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Woman of 9.9 Billion (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jung Seo Yeon happens to get 9.9 Billion won (U$D 9 Million) and she fights against the world. Jung Seo Yeon and her family suffered from violence by her father. She left their home and started a new life with an affectionate man, but her happy life ended. She struggles to look for happiness in her life. Kang Tae Woo is an ex-detective. He attempts to reveal the truth behind the death of his younger sibling.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Byomkesh (2017)
Plot Summary:
The time is 1930s, and crime is culminating. One man can uproot the sin: Satyanweshi Byomkesh Bakshi. Hoichoi Originals brings Bengal’s popular sleuth in an all-new but familiar avatar.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, saga, detective
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Death Notify (2014)
Plot Summary:
A series of serial killings is exposed and creates a stir among the public. A killer called "Darker" has been leaving a death notification card after killing scumbags who evaded the law. To counter the provocation of the mysterious killer, the police creates a special investigation team.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Lost Without Trace (2020)
Plot Summary:
Anna and Victoria left their homes at 8 a.m. And never came back. An investigator from Saint Petersburg arrived to a small Latvian town in an attempt to find the connection between the two missing women.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Latvia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Now and Then (2022)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of college graduation, six best friends embark on an epic weekend to celebrate—but it takes a fatal turn. Nearly 20 years later, the survivors are reluctantly reunited by a blackmail text threatening to expose the truth about that fateful night.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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FBI: International (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follow the elite agents of the FBI's International Fly Team as they travel the world with the mission of protecting Americans wherever they may be.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Spy City (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a defector is murdered, British agent Fielding Scott is assigned to track down a mole in his own ranks in 1961 Berlin. His investigation leads him into a deadly web of crime, betrayal and paranoia. Who can Scott trust in the city of spies?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling
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Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current (2016)
Plot Summary:
Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where the currents repeat every 6 hours.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Big Mouth (2022)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer, caught up in a murder case, becomes a notorious and genius con artist overnight, in order to fight against a huge conspiracy and survive.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Children of Nobody (2018)
Plot Summary:
Cha Woo Kyung is a child counselor who works at a children’s center. Her life seems perfect since he is married to a great husband and is pregnant. However, her perfect life doesn't last long, when an accident changes her life. She then meets Kang Ji Hun, a detective who is hurt for hiding his troubling past but is strict toward criminals and believes they should be punished to the full extent.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Detective Chinatown (2020)
Plot Summary:
Strange crimes occur in Thailand as the ranking for the world's best detective sees a shift. New detectives come into the picture to tackle three difficult cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, detective, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Missing Noir M (2015)
Plot Summary:
Gil Soo-Hyun is extremely intelligent. At the age of 10, he attended Harvard University. After graduating there, he decided to work at the FBI and worked there for 10 years. Afterwards, he decided to come back to South Korea. He now works as the leader of the Special Missing Persons Unit. The unit deals with about 1% of special missing cases involving violent crimes. His appearance borders on perfection, but he holds a secret. Detective Oh Dae-Young joins the Special Missing Persons Unit. He has worked as a detective for 20 years and he has an obsession in observing the law. He is known as a master of missing person cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Witnesses (2021)
Plot Summary:
When 10 year old girl is kidnapped from the natural history museum, the police questions eight key witnesses to uncover the truth and find the child before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Medical Examiner Dr. Qin: The Survivor (2018)
Plot Summary:
龙番市发生连环杀人案，死者均为女性，尸体无一例外的丢失了身体的某一部位。警法五人组不断穿梭于各大案发现场和解剖室中，寻找背后真相。暗黑的屋子，诡异的灯光，整齐摆放的透明玻璃罐里装的竟然是丢失的心脏！接二连三的命案，迷雾重重的案情，秦明将如何为逝者代言，讲述真相？面对不断杀人的凶手，最后的幸存者到底是谁？让秦明自责没有抓到的凶手和本案是否有关联？隐藏在死者身上的十字架和最后那句“十年前那个人回来了”究竟代表了什么？.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, 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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Mad Dog (2017)
Plot Summary:
Choi Kang-Woo is a former detective, but he now works as a veteran insurance investigator. He leads a team that attempts to reveal insurance fraud cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Vilangu (2022)
Plot Summary:
Paridhi, a cop undergoing a stressful personal situation, must solve a mysterious murder case that has put the police department on its toes.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Strip (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Strip is an Australian television drama series that screened on the Nine Network. The series premiered on the Nine Network at 8:30pm on 4 September 2008 but was moved to a later 10:30pm timeslot from 13 November 2008. The show did not return for a second season, due to disappointing ratings. The Strip was released on DVD on 4 July 2009.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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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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Dead Beautiful (2010)
Plot Summary:
As group leader of the Judicial Police in Paris, Martin is responsible for investigating the most atrocious and misogynistic crimes committed against society. Distrustful of everyone, he bears the marks of both his past successes and failures. Luckily, the ladies in his life are on hand to assist him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Taken Down (2018)
Plot Summary:
Taken Down is a crime drama series set in Dublin. The first series investigates the violent death of a young Nigerian migrant found abandoned close to a Direct Provision Centre, where refugees await the hope of asylum. The investigation brings us into a twilight world of the new Ireland where slum landlords and criminals prey on the vulnerable.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Strike Force (2014)
Plot Summary:
A boisterous homicide detective is partnered with a neurotic narc to fight organized crime in the Dutch city of Tilburg.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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CRISIS: Special Security Squad (2017)
Plot Summary:
Inami and Tamaru work at the Public Security Mobile Investigation Unit Special Investigation Team, a team made up of specialists with different expertise. Inami tackles criminals with showy maneuvers, while Tamaru corners criminals with cool calculation. Together, the team tackles terrorists, new religious cults, military spies, secret narcotics organisations and complicit politicians.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective, suspense
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The Man Who Smiled (2003)
Plot Summary:
An old friend of Kurt Wallander, solicitor Sten Torstensson, visits him one day to tell him that his father has passed away close to Brösarp under peculiar circumstances. Kurt does not take his friend's worry seriously. Shortly after, the friend is found brutally murdered and Wallander realises too late that he was wrong. In the hunt for the killer Wallander finds a conspiracy of crimes that leads him to a company that handles transplantations of human organs. Behind the company he finds the image of a man. An elegant and self-confident man who writes his own rules. But who is he? Who gives himself the right to judge over other people? Whose morals decide what is right and wrong? Kurt Wallander is not one of them. In "The man who smiled" he gets himself into crossfire of immorality, betrayal, lies and everything else a man will do to be loved.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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FBI: Most Wanted (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Fugitive Task Force relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list. Seasoned agent Jess LaCroix oversees the highly skilled team that functions as a mobile undercover unit that is always out in the field, pursuing those who are most desperate to elude justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, detective, psychological thriller, psycho film
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FBI (2018)
Plot Summary:
The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, disturbing, captivating, detective, psychological thriller, psycho film