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Plot Summary:
True stories of murder and mayhem morph into urban legends like the bogeyman or the monster under the bed - haunting our childhoods and scaring us throughout our lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: History, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology
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Shanghai Dawn (2015)
Plot Summary:
Detective Tian found that a homicide case suspect is his first girlfriend Hermione. During the course of investigation, he discovered his friend agent Lee was also involved. Tian gradually unearthed a huge political conspiracy behind the case, for which he was caught in dangerous situation.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Mystery
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Important Witness Private Detective (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kei Maneki works as a model. He has bad luck with murder cases taking place when he works. Kei Maneki becomes an important witness in these murder cases. To clear his name, Kei Maneki and his model friends Itsuki Suo and Toma Shimon attempt to solve the murder cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Haunted Museum (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follow the frightening and hellish tales behind the spooky relics on display in Zak Bagans' Las Vegas museum, by way of scripted shorts produced by Eli Roth and his accredited team, and with featured commentary from Bagans himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Accident, Suicide or Murder (2019)
Plot Summary:
Exploring the unbelievable true stories of suspicious deaths by retracing the investigation from start to finish, dissecting the red flags and undeniable evidence, and strange behavior that put the tragedy in question.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)
Plot Summary:
Li Lian Hua is a countryside doctor who travels dragging around a lotus tower. He accidentally becomes "famous" and gets pulled into the pugilistic world that he no longer wants to have any connections with.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 959
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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Luoyang (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set in the ancient capital Luoyang during the era of 13 dynasties, it revolves around three people who come together to investigate a series of mysterious incidents involving the conspiracy to overthrow Empress Wu Ze Tian. Adapted from the novel Luoyang by Ma Bo Yong.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: costume drama, suspense, historical drama
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School Tales the Series (2022)
Plot Summary:
Unspeakable horrors roam the halls of high school in this anthology featuring ghost stories directed by seasoned Thai horror directors.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 384 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Detective versus Detectives (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kitagawa Keiko plays Sasaki Rena, a detective who risks her life investigating detectives for her dead sister. Beautiful, intelligent, and with a great memory, the talented woman judges situations and chooses the most appropriate course of action. Her brutal past surrounding her sister's death inspires her to learn everything she can about detectives, leading her to visit the Suma Research Company. As the sole member of the Anti-Detective Department responsible for investigating and pursuing unethical detectives, she is a solitary lady detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective
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Shadow Bound (2013)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Veritas. It is an old place. A place with a long memory. A city of shadows and hidden terrors long forgotten by the modern world of 1931. But some things in the shadows are best left forgotten... SHADOW BOUND follows famed pulp horror writer, Jack Pickman, as he returns to his childhood home after the mysterious death of his estranged father. Upon his arrival Jack discovers his brother has been institutionalized in an asylum. Reeling from this news, Jack begins his investigation and discovers evidence insisting his father's last case may have been to blame for his untimely death. Jack sets out with his two childhood friends, Charlie Naughton and Lanette Treves, to uncover the truth about the strange happenings in Veritas. As the investigation unfolds they realize just how vast the conspiracy is and how dark the shadows truly are in their quiet little town. Jack and his new found allies find themselves in a desperate race to save the word from an ancient evil that has.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, gothic, suspenseful, stylized, silent, scary, serious, black and white, lovecraft, silent film
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Folklore (2018)
Plot Summary:
Bringing together some of the most talented Asian directors working within the genre sphere, this new anthology series creates an atmosphere unlike anything that’s come out of the region before.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Horror
Country: Singapore
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anthology, mystical, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, dark fantasy
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Urban Gothic (2000)
Plot Summary:
Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a low budget and broadcast in a later time-slot, it nonetheless acquired a following. It has also since been repeated on the Horror Channel. Set around London there is an underlying story thread that only becomes clear in the last episodes of each series. Each episode was different in style from the others, running the gamut of documentary-style independent film to spoof, to slick dramas similar in style to The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anthology, gothic, scary, suspenseful, dark fairy tale, spooky
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The Endless Game (1989)
Plot Summary:
A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them and why.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags:
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The Amazing Grace of Σ (2021)
Plot Summary:
Muqi, a young pop star becomes more and more arrogant, especially with his manager Nagatsuki, a long-time friend who suddenly commits suicide. Muqi finds himself crushed by sadness and guilt. At the funeral, he meets Master Bensheng, guru of a cult his friend belonged to. If at first, he finds comfort within his place, cracks may soon appear in the caring appearances of the cult members.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, spiritual
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Extreme Measures (2018)
Plot Summary:
The stories of real people who are tormented by the past and take extreme measures to solve the murders of loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Dark/Web (2019)
Plot Summary:
A horror anthology series that explores the dangers of a totally connected world.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, erotic
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Crooked House (2008)
Plot Summary:
A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s and the present day.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, gothic, slasher, period drama
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Mystery Woman: Snapshot (2005)
Plot Summary:
Amateur sleuth Samantha Kinsey's latest case has her trying to figure out who killed her best friend Barbara after she was left out of her family's will and every one of the family members become suspects.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, mind bending, realistic, stylized
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The Holzer Files (2019)
Plot Summary:
Paranormal investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza, equipment expert Shane Pittman and researcher Gabe Roth investigate terrifyingly true hauntings from the recently discovered case files of America's first ghost hunter, Dr. Hans Holzer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, bleak, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful, creepy
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Haunted (2002)
Plot Summary:
Haunted is an American television program first aired in September 2002 on UPN. The program, which was filmed in Vancouver, was canceled in November 2002 due to low ratings. As a result, only seven of the completed episodes were aired. However, all eleven filmed episodes have subsequently been shown in international airings of the show. In August 2007, the series aired on HDNet. The series then began airing on Sci Fi in September 2007 and January 2008. In 2009, Chiller began airing this program as part of their daily marathon line-up. It plays there sporadically. A marathon of the entire series ran all day on October 31, 2010 on Universal HD.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, detective, scary, enigmatic, bleak, anthology, neo noir
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Glory Days (2001)
Plot Summary:
Wunderkind author Mike Dolan achieved literary fame at age 21 with a steamy expose on his seemingly idyllic Maine town. Four years later, he hasn't written another word and reluctantly returns home in search of an antidote ... where he is welcomed back with all the warmth of a lynch mob.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric
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Scream Queens (2015)
Plot Summary:
The super-charged comedy-horror series is a modern take on the classic whodunit with a killer cast. .
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: slasher, semi serious, scary, dark comedy, realistic, anthology, horror comedy, slang, suspenseful, funny
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Slasher (2016)
Plot Summary:
Thirty years ago, in the sleepy community of Waterbury, a killer known as “The Executioner” murdered Sarah Bennett's parents. Now Sarah and her husband Dylan have returned to town, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying murders centered around the seven deadly sins.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, anthology, suspenseful, perverse, spooky, suspense, slasher horror, rough, serious
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Suspicion (2015)
Plot Summary:
Suspicion takes the POV of an individual whose curiosity becomes their worst nightmare, as the sights and sounds of a 'normal' neighborhood or community, transform into terrifying glimpses of an unfolding horror story.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Prosecution Elite (2023)
Plot Summary:
An Ni, a prosecutor of the Jiangcheng Procuratorate, was assigned by Chief Prosecutor Xu Ailin to handle the case investigating a missing college student who jumped off into a lake. She started with Zhao Jikai, the General Manager of Huiquan Games, and found connection between him and overseas organizations that promote bullying, leading to the arrest of the crime perpetrators. While Huiquan Games’ stocks price plummeted, Yin Huiquan donates to Jiangxiao Academy which would in turn corrupt minors in the guise of charity. The student Li Xiaowen and other victims come forward, publicly denouncing the unorthodox means of Jiangxiao Academy to control youngsters. An Ni presents solid evidences in the court, leading to the academy’s shut down and punishment of those who were involved. Yan Qin, who took over the Huiquan Games, misappropriated the funds to invest in the development of a copper mine. However, this investment venture was a Ponzi scheme by an online financial fraud gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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Little Boy Blue (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story that shocked a nation, this powerful four-part factual drama, from BAFTA winning writer and executive producer Jeff Pope (Appropriate Adult, The Widower), centres on the devastating impact on a city of an innocent child’s murder amid a wave of gang violence. In August 2007, while walking home from football practice in his England kit, 11-year-old Rhys Jones was unwittingly caught in the crossfire of a gang war. Shot in the neck outside the Fir Tree pub in Liverpool’s Croxteth, he died in his mother’s arms. Made with the support of Rhys’s parents, Melanie and Steve, Little Boy Blue explores their ordeal and looks at the agonising dilemmas of witnesses faced with becoming pariahs for speaking up. It tells the story of the long and extensive investigation, led by Merseyside Police SIO David Kelly, that eventually brought Rhys’s murderer and his associates to justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective, crime drama
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The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ray Winstone heads a cast of acclaimed actors in four H. G. Wells stories.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anthology, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark fairy tale
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The Twilight Zone (2019)
Plot Summary:
Tales of science fiction, fantasy and the occult, exploring humanity's hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways. Next stop ahead The Twilight Zone.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anthology, atmospheric, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, twist ending, psychological, intellectual, slasher, dark fairy tale
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Millennium (1996)
Plot Summary:
A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, detective, cliffhanger, dark, neo noir, vintage
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The Atlanta Child Murders (1985)
Plot Summary:
The city of Atlanta, Georgia, is terrorized by a rash of child murders occurring in its black community. When a black photographer is arrested for the crimes, controversy erupts over whether he is the actual killer or a scapegoat offered up by the city's mostly black leadership. Based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 245 min
Plot tags:
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Two Sentence Horror Stories (2017)
Plot Summary:
An anthology series featuring updated tales of horror and haunting for the digital age, inspired by the viral fan fiction of two sentence horror stories.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: anthology, philosophical, thought provoking, realistic, dark, slasher, psychological, psychological horror, surprise ending, suspense