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Plot Summary:
A sitcom centering around the genius CID Mok Tsok Tung and Vivi Lee Wai Wai, an insurance agent.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Xango from Baker Street (2001)
Plot Summary:
Rio de Janeiro, 1886. A precious Stradivarius violin presented to Emperor Dom Pedro II is stolen. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to solve the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Brazil, Portugal
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Region (2003)
Plot Summary:
The protagonist of the picture is the senior police lieutenant Pavel Kravtsov (actor Sergey Bezrukov). He is a rather strange person. If someone has to handcuff, apologizes and asks if they are too tight. Kravtsov is ambitious and honest, young and serious. This is what prevents him from making a career in the city police. Fate throws him into the remote village of Anisovka, where the place of the district police officer was vacant.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 630 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining
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Murders at BarLume (2013)
Plot Summary:
Massimo is a graduate in mathematics who, after winning a Totocalcio board, buys the BarLume and becomes the surly barman. Invariably Massimo finds himself investigating, in every episode, some crimes that take place in his town on the Tuscan Riviera, Pineta, collaborating with the Police commissioner Vittoria Fusco. His instinct as a detective always finds inspiration in some conversations, which is forced to sit in his bar, by four old-fashioned old men: his uncle Ampelio (later replaced by his former father-in-law Emo), Pilade, Gino and Aldo. Massimo is also the boss of Tiziana, the handsome and prosperous waitress of BarLume, the erotic dream of everyone.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, detective
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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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Father Son Therapy (2016)
Plot Summary:
A cop and his son have to put away their differences while undercover on a therapeutic trip.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Hotel Margaret (2022)
Plot Summary:
Hungary's favorite influencers arrive at a prestigious awards ceremony in Tihany to find out who has become the most successful videographer of the year. During the award ceremony, after the shooting of a faulty confetti cannon, the winner collapses on stage. Was there an accident or an intentional murder?.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Hungary
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious
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River's Edge: The Ohkawabata Detective Agency (2014)
Plot Summary:
Muraki works for a small detective office situated in downtown Tokyo. He takes frequent naps in between cases, during which he often have dreams with premonitions of his next client's case. Their clients come up with strange requests that sometimes seem impossible to solve.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, semi serious
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Prescription Police (2006)
Plot Summary:
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed. Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby. So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, detective
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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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Mischievous Detectives (2017)
Plot Summary:
A comedic mystery that follows two genius high schoolers and a female police detective as they solve cases that arise while following the disappearances of the boys’ parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 9 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Bitter Blood (2014)
Plot Summary:
A rookie detective assigned to the Ginza Police Station finds himself partnered with his estranged father. Together with the rest of the team, they solve crimes as an old adversary plots to take revenge on father and son.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, detective
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Harina (2022)
Plot Summary:
The misadventures of Lieutenant Harina and his partner, Officer Ramírez, a very special police couple, who find themselves with the opportunity of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Kontio & Parmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
Veteran police lieutenant Kontio will have to work closely with a new partner, a much younger female officer Parmas. Small Town Police Department of Valkeakoski, Finland, will never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Finland
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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The Weather Girl Knows (2013)
Plot Summary:
Haruko Abe (Emi Takei) received her meteorologist license at the age of 11. She is a genius weatherwoman. Haruko now works as a meteorologist on a morning information program. Due to her incredibly blunt personality, a lot of people at her workplace dislikes her. Meanwhile, Haruko tries to solve cases with Detective Gota Aoki (Tadayoshi Okura), using her extensive knowledge of the weather.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, detective
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The Professionals (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: Slovakia
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Murderville (2022)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric detective Terry Seattle teams up with clueless celebrity guest stars to investigate a series of murders in this improvisational crime comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 33 min
Plot tags: funny, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, detective, satirical, offbeat
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Code 404 (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, an undercover Detective Inspector gunned down and killed during a botched sting is brought back via an experimental Artificial Intelligence project. Full of glitches, he’s got to track down the person who shot him, prove himself as a cop so as not to get shut down, and save his marriage and his friendship, all with his partner Carver to boot.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, funny, detective
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Los hombres de Paco (2005)
Plot Summary:
Los hombres de Paco is a Spanish comedy television series, originally aired from 9 October 2005 to 19 May 2010 on the Antena 3. The series has also been broadcast in Argentina, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Morocco, Romania, Serbia, Italy, Slovakia and Turkey. It was created by Daniel Écija and Álex Pina, and starred numerous actors; primarily Paco Tous and Pepón Nieto.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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MPD: Animal Unit (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tomozo Sudo is a detective. Due to an incident, he is excluded from investigative work. He is then assigned to work in a division responsible for taking care of animals whose owners are suspects or missing. Keiko Usuki is a police constable and works in the same division. She loves animals more than humans. Keiko develops inferences from clues from animals left behind at crime scenes. Tomozo and Keiko work together to solve cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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I Love Tokyo Legend - Kawaii Detective - (2012)
Plot Summary:
Tsukiko Otonashi is a fashionista who is too beautiful to be a detective. She is also intrigued by urban legends so much so that she believes all crimes are somehow linked to these legends. She even conducts her investigations in such a way as to prove them to be true. Tsukiko also likes to make use of whatever she can. She especially likes to enlist the help of crime lab officer Hitoro Katsuura, who happens to have a crush on her. Many other unique characters will make appearances as she investigates the crimes related to urban legends, using odd and exquisite techniques.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, detective, sad
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Teddy Go! (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kazuko Yamase is a 23-year-old, broken-hearted freeter. One day, she sees a knitted teddy bear that really appeals to her. She decides to buy it. Later, the knitted teddy bear suddenly speaks! Within the teddy bear, Yasuo Amano's spirit lives. He is the person who knitted the teddy bear and he was also detective. Kazuko then becomes involved in a case with Yasuo and helps to solve the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, detective
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Innocence, Fight Against False Charges (2019)
Plot Summary:
This work is a human drama that attorney, Taku Kurokawa challenges reversal play with weapons, passion, and science as a weapon to cause "miracle" to clear false charges. Kurokawa who plays Sakaguchi actively opposes fake crime defense, which is said to be impossible, reproduces the events that occurred on the scene in an experiment and tries to elucidate the incident. In addition, Naoki Fujiki appears as a new American lawyer, Kazuaki Wakakura who is swayed by the pioneer, Haruna Kawaguchi , a scientist who lends power to Taku, Kyoichiro Akiro.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Josephine Klick (2014)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Luna & Sophie (2018)
Plot Summary:
Luna Kunath (Caroline Erikson) and Tamara Meurer (Anjua Pahl) work together in the Potsdam murder commission. Luna is single, strong, assertive, funny, empathic, sporty and fast in the head. It is an excellent policewoman whose carefree always accompanies with a little naivety and brings you again and again in brenzy situations. Tamara, however, has more mature, adult. The two of the boss Bernhard Henschel (Michael Lott) and the colleagues David Grünbaum (Omar El-Saeidi), Christoph Westermann (Hendrik von Bültzingslöwen), lail-sure Thomas Brandner (Yung No) and legal physician Werner Vense (Bernd Stegemann). Potsdam, Berlin's pretty little sister, confronts the commissars again and again with a wide variety of life effects. However, the team not only determines in Potsdam, but must always be out of the surrounding area. Because the crime does not stop at the city limit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Raid (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the Kaliningrad remand prison, Major Andrei Ryzhov commits suicide, accused of exceeding his authority. Four of his colleagues - Oleg Kaplan, Pavel Karpenko, Oksana Golikova and Fyodor Vachevsky - are confident of the innocence of their former leader and, in order to restore his good name, begin their own investigation of the incident.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Slad (2018)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Never Too Late for Justice (2016)
Plot Summary:
A special team of the LKA Berlin rolls up unresolved criminal cases from the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Paradox (2012)
Plot Summary:
A bright, young officer joins General Police Headquarters to investigate one of its lead inspectors and the criminal cases he's working on.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Murder by the Lake (2014)
Plot Summary:
With Germany, Switzerland and Austria sharing its shores, Lake Constance has stories to tell. German homicide inspector Micha Oberländer and his Austrian partner Hannah Zeiler try to discover its secrets and have a few of their own.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Duval and Moretti (2008)
Plot Summary:
Inspectors Duval and Moretti, inseparable cops and friends, work under the leadership of Paloma Ruiz, a commissioner with the iron hand, with the help of their favorite informer, Caesar.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing