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Plot Summary:
When accused of a murder eerily parallel to a plot in his novel, a best-selling crime writer must navigate a web of hidden enemies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Lebanon
Duration:
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North Mission Road (2003)
Plot Summary:
North Mission Road is a documentary style show on truTV that details "unique and compelling" cases of the Los Angeles County Coroner Department. The name of the show is based on the road on which the office of the Los Angeles County Coroner is located.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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Lakeside Murders (2021)
Plot Summary:
The series follows Inspector Sakari Koskinen and his team in the Violent Crimes Unit as they try to solve murders in a Finnish lakeside city of Tampere.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland
Duration: 43 min
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Triptych (2023)
Plot Summary:
After learning she was separated at birth from her two identical sisters, Rebecca embarks on a perilous journey to uncover the truth about her origins.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
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Sylvia's Cats (2016)
Plot Summary:
When her marriage fails Sylvia is forced to move with her children into a brothel on the Chaussée d'Amour. Out of financial necessity she decides to exploit the bar. Meanwhile a detective tries to solve an old murder case.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min
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In The Vault (2017)
Plot Summary:
One month into college, a freshman dies. Was it Murder? Or Suicide?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
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Killer Cases (2020)
Plot Summary:
"Killer Cases" brings all the emotion, drama, and suspense from chilling murder trials. It's a journey through the criminal justice process that gives viewers an inside look at real cases like never before.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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Close to Home: Murder in the Coalfield (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a grisly murder brings Detective Maik Briegand back to his small hometown, he finds himself dredging up bodies, clues and his own past traumas.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
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Cheekh (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mannat, Haya and Nayab are all close friends. Wajih, Yawer , Shayaan and Haya are siblings. Mannat is married to Shayaan. Her In-Laws are shown as quite wealthy. However, Nayab is poor. Her mother passed away and she lives with her father Ramzaan , greedy step-mother and her 2 step-sisters. The story starts when Nayab gets murdered after a rape attempt and physical violence on the night of her friend Haya's engagement.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration:
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Another Love (2023)
Plot Summary:
The brutal murder of Hamdi Atilbay in the forest crosses the paths of young prosecutor Leyla, who wants to leave her messy past behind and now establish her new order, and Kenan, an ambitious journalist who has a regular and famous life. However, this murder heralds the destruction of not only their love, but also the truth they know about their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 130 min
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A Season in Purgatory (1996)
Plot Summary:
True story about a kid from rich family with political ties who covers up a suspicious death of a young woman. This comes back to haunt him later.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
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The Romeo Section (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in Vancouver, THE ROMEO SECTION is an hour-long serialized espionage drama following spymaster Professor Wolfgang McGee, an academic who secretly manages a roster of espionage assets. These assets, referred to as Romeo or Juliet spies, are informants engaged in intimate long or short term relations with state intelligence targets. Wolfgang is a semi-retired Romeo operator, having worked his way up from youth in an unnamed and officially deniable “service” under the umbrella of Canada’s Intelligence Community.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min
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Yokoyama Hideo Suspense (2010)
Plot Summary:
There are four episodes based on short stories by mystery novelist Yokoyama Hideo. Each episode depicts a stand-alone murder mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Jack Taylor: In Purgatory (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jack and Darragh are hired by the head of a large software company to find out who has stolen valuable games data from the company. Jack takes an liking to the main suspect, but when she is killed, Jack suspects his employer and vows to bring him down.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 91 min
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Outlier (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is found killed at a camping resort and criminal psychologist Maja Angell believes that the police have arrested the wrong man.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 360 min
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Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie (2022)
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Vivek, a diligent cop, takes charge of the investigation of the murder of a beautiful young girl, Velonie. The rumours about her that spring up post her death threatens to irrevocably damage Velonie's image, Vivek must wade through a web of half-truths and confusing leads to solve the case.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 50 min
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Black Snow (2022)
Plot Summary:
In 1995, seventeen-year-old Isabel Baker was murdered. The crime shocked the small town of Ashford and devastated Isabel's Australian South Sea Islander community. The case was never solved, the killer never found. In 2020, the opening of a time capsule unearths a secret that puts cold-case detective James Cormack (Fimmel) on the trail of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: thrilling
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Devices and Desires (1991)
Plot Summary:
A particularly vicious serial killer is stalking the Norfolk coast in the vicinity of the Larksoken nuclear power station. The press have branded him 'The Whistler' because witnesses have heard a hymn being whistled in the vicinity of the murders. His trademark is the letter 'L' carved on the forehead of his victims. L for Larksoken? At first, his victims seem to be chosen entirely at random - women in the wrong place at the wrong time - but then two women employed at the nuclear power station are murdered in quick succession.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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Inspector Ricciardi (2021)
Plot Summary:
Naples, 1932. Detective Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi leaves no crime unsolved, being able to see the ghosts of people who have died violently and listen to their last thought. But this extraordinary gift is both a blessing and a curse!.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective
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Shroud for a Nightingale (1984)
Plot Summary:
British TV mini series.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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Cover Her Face (1985)
Plot Summary:
Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh investigates the death of Alice Liddell who ran a home for unwed mothers. One of those residents is Sally Jupp who was a witness in a drugs smuggling and murder investigation in London. Sally works at the local manor house for the Maxies and it is apparent that eldest son Stephen has more than just a passing interest in her. The night after they announce their engagement, Sally is found strangled in her bed. The question is whether her death is related to the London investigation or a completely different reason altogether. Her engagement created a good deal of ill feeling among the Maxies and several guests in the house with any one of them having a motive to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 291 min
Plot tags: detective
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Hellground (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 240 min
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Graveyard (2022)
Plot Summary:
Police Commissioner Önem leads a special investigations unit that solves tough cases involving violence against women.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min
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Saints & Sinners (2007)
Plot Summary:
Saints & Sinners is a telenovela which premiered on March 14, 2007 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on the American television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced this limited-run serial, based on the a 2000 TV Azteca telenovela titled La Calle de las Novias. Two hour installments aired on Wednesday evenings through April, when the show moved to a one-hour slot on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. The network dropped the serial from its time after the July 18, 2007 broadcast. Most episodes were left unaired in the U.S.. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has not announced plans to release this series on DVD and/or Blu-ray.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
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Dalziel and Pascoe (1996)
Plot Summary:
A British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, detective, crime drama, tense, realistic, witty, suspenseful
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Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Plot Summary:
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: clever, detective, witty, thought provoking, thrilling, suspenseful, realistic, serious, iconic
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Murder on the Cape (2017)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-work fisherman has an affair with a fashion writer wintering on the Cape. She returns two years later with his child, and when she is murdered, the fisherman is the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Home Before Dark (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young girl moves from Brooklyn to the small lakeside town her father left behind. While there, her dogged pursuit of the truth leads her to unearth a cold case that everyone in town, including her own father, tried hard to bury.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: inspirational, captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, sincere, spooky
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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2018)
Plot Summary:
A writer gets caught up in a murder investigation involving his mentor, an esteemed American author. Based on the book of the same name, by Joël Dicker.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, detective, meditative
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Mare of Easttown (2021)
Plot Summary:
A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 179000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, captivating, sentimental, atmospheric, anthology, anime, deep, crime drama, action thriller
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Watson, finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, gothic, spiritual, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama