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Plot Summary:
To solve the brutal murder of a young German surfer, two officers are secretly sent to the tourist paradise Hvide Sande on Denmark's west coast. No one in the city trusts the police, so they go undercover as a happily married couple from the big city.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 333 min
Plot tags: tense, clever, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Rebel (2017)
Plot Summary:
After her brother is slain by police, Oakland police officer Rebecca “Rebel” Cole becomes disillusioned with the system and is forced to take matters into her own hands and become a private investigator and a champion for her community.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, detective
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Siege (2012)
Plot Summary:
On the 7th of May 2009, Senior Constables Len Snee, Grant Diver and Bruce Miller arrived at 41 Chaucer Rd in Napier to serve a search warrant on Jan Molenaar for the growing of cannabis. This was just a routine warrant, something they had done countless times. What was meant to be an ordinary procedure turned into three of New Zealand’s darkest days and ended with one police officer dead, two officers critically injured and a member of the public fighting for his life. In some fifty hours Jan Molenaar made a permanent and devastating imprint upon the national psyche of New Zealand as he changed the lives of individuals, families, a police community, and a city. The siege was one of the worst and unexpected cases of violence both Napier and New Zealand had witnessed and it was all the more shocking because of its ordinary suburban backdrop.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Troubled Waters (2019)
Plot Summary:
Returning to her hometown following a police blunder that had dramatic consequences, investigator Marianne must resolve a murder as soon as she arrives. She throws herself into this affair that upsets the community and her own family.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lovers' Lane Murders (2021)
Plot Summary:
Chilling and eerie connect similarities to four brutal double murders between 1986-1990. Now, a team of former FBI special agents intends to bringing them to justice and providing answers to the victims' families.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Murder Chose Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
Homicide detective, Rod Demery, races against the clock to catch criminals running loose on the streets of Shreveport, Louisiana.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Evil, I (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sourcing the most intimate and incriminating thoughts from the dark recesses of a murderer’s mind, see real homicide investigations through the eyes of horrific serial murderers, with insight from tragic family members and detectives on the case.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Zodiac Murders (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Zodiac Murders series does not aspire to rank among other popular crime serials; it seeks to become one of a new, modern style. The line connecting all its parts are the signs of the zodiac. Each of the twelve episodes deals with a mysterious crime, of characteristics associated with the respective sign. Apart from the standard crime investigation elements, in each episode we can follow a "private" line, represented by an amorous triangle kept secret, formed by major Holina, the intelligent and competent head of the investigation team, his subordinate captain Rostia Bor, confined to wheelchair due to an accident, and his wife, psychologist Sabina, who studies and uses astrology for psychological personality analysis, thus helping the two detectives in their work.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Crime
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, poliziottesco
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Nippon Noir (2019)
Plot Summary:
Who is the killer? Who stole the $10 million? The doubts, lies, suspicion, and betrayal are unstoppable as one detective launches an evil mutiny in this unconventional police mystery drama where nothing goes as you predicted.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Leo Mattei - Special Unit (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on Paris, France, Léo Mattëi leads a police force dedicated to protecting and saving children at risk or solving crimes in which minors are involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Crime, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, intellectual, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Unfair: the answer (2011)
Plot Summary:
After detective Natsumi Yukihira brings an end to the police hospital terrorist case, Natsumi is transferred to the Nishimonbetsu Police Station in Hokkaido. Meanwhile, a series of grotesque murders occurs in downtown Tokyo involving nails placed in the body of the victims. The fingerprint of Natsumi's ex-husband, freelancer journalist Kazuo Sato, is found on the the body of a victim and Kazuo is placed on the most wanted list. Soon after, Kazuo finds Natsumi and hands her a USB memory stick. The device contains information on a secret organization within the police department. Kazuo tells Natsumi that the series of murders are warnings and suspects become the next victims. Natsumi is then arrested as a suspect. Tokyo prosecutor Katsuaki Murakami appears at the Nishimonbetsu Police Station to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Masquerade Night (2021)
Plot Summary:
An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at the countdown party Masquerade Night that will be held at Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. Detective Kosuke Nitta must go undercover and work again at the Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. There, he meets Naomi Yamagishi, who works as a concierge. Without any information about the criminal, except that the person will be in attendance, Detective Kosuke Nitta works feverishly to find the criminal among the 500 attendees.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: tense, clever, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, talky, stylized, detective
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A Smell of Blood (2015)
Plot Summary:
Murder strikes a family-run perfume business, and everyone is a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Borderland (2017)
Plot Summary:
Gritty police thriller about a German father-daughter team working with French colleagues to battle organized crime in the German border town of Kehl.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Partners: The Movie III (2014)
Plot Summary:
A news report circulates about a man who died after being kicked by a horse on a small island located 300km away from Tokyo. National Police Agency director Takeru Kanbe assigns Vice Director Mineaki Kai the task of making sure rumors surrounding the incident are fully investigated. Soon, partners Ukyo Sugishita and Tooru Kai are dispatched to the island to conduct the investigation. When Ukyo and Tooru arrive on the island, which is privately owned by a wealthy businessman, they discover a unit of former Self-Defense Forces personnel who have set up a small community as they participate in training exercises. While Ukyo initially expected to be investigating an accidental death, he quickly becomes convinced it was actually murder. However, when they finally manage to uncover conclusive evidence of this, the soldiers attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set during the 14th year of Chenghua Emperor's reign, Tang Fan, a sixth rank official and Sui Zhou, an embroidered uniform guard, join hands to crush a conspiracy to maintain peace and order for the people.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, talky
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Operation Moscow (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 1993, a large number of Chinese businessmen poured into Russia's gold rush. Among them, there were a few distinctive faces. They snoop on the small traders, seek help between gangland and police. They are a secret group dispatched by the Chinese police. Their goal in this trip is find out information clues that Chinese and Russian K3 train robberies which was shocking the word and arrest all the suspects secretly. Led by Chen Erli (Xia Yu) - the head of the Chinese police team, after the team overcame numerous obstacles and suffered many tribulations, launching a tortuous pursuit in a distant foreign land.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Evil Minds (2015)
Plot Summary:
A gifted criminal profiler lost someone important to him while he was helping the police solve a bizarre campus serial killing. The lost crippled his mind and left him unable to profile again. But when another serial killing threatened the city, he had to confront his inner demon in order to track down the serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Fury (2016)
Plot Summary:
Detective Kunes has a problem once again: he's lambasted the boyfriend of his ex-wife, and is threatened with dismissal from the police service. His high-ranking (female) boss has a solution for him: "removing" him on an internships in a back-of-beyond borderland region. But there's a fly in the ointment. His real mission is to unravel the two-year old case of the murder of policewoman Wágnerová, the investigation of which has reached an impasse. But the crime rate in the borderlands is one of the highest in the whole country - involving smuggling, drug production, poaching, prostitution and murders. Kunes has to deal with one difficult case after another, and it takes quite some time before he can start doing what he's sent to do, and then he does it in fact by coincidence.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Storm Eye (2021)
Plot Summary:
A story about a team of agents is told from the perspective of An Jing and Ma Shang. Showing no fear in their mission to uphold justice, these officers work hard to protect national interests.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Deadly Tropics (2019)
Plot Summary:
On the Caribbean island of Martinique, in the middle of the tropics, several mysterious murders occur. Now it is up to the two investigators Mélissa Sainte-Rose and Gaëlle Crivelli to solve the case - even if the two women have very different views of law.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized
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The World Between Us (2019)
Plot Summary:
A ten-part hour-long series that follows the aftermath of a mass-shooting where all parties involved - the killer, the victims, the victims’ families, the media and the defense teams, whose fates are all intertwined.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Archivist (2020)
Plot Summary:
The main hero of "Archivist" is Henryk Mikos (Henryk Talar), an employee of the police archives who is above average memory and intelligence, who is trying to solve unexplained criminal cases from years ago. He is partnering with a young, ambitious policeman Zuza (Paulina Galazka).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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The Party (2014)
Plot Summary:
A huge party with guests who are hiding secrets and desires ends with a body floating in the pool: a murder where everyone is a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, novela
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Crack / System (2021)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary Warsaw. A homeless alcoholic dies. Commissioner Monika Brzozowska, who leads the investigation, senses that there is more to the case than just a scam. Subsequent crimes with a similar modus operandi confirm her suspicions. During the investigation it turns out that the former sins of the murdered are related to the mistakes of the commissioner's youth. Brzozowska, suffering from memory lapses, becomes entangled in a dangerous game that will force her to look back and fight again with the demons of the past. Demons that she had only apparently defeated years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Circle of Atonement (2015)
Plot Summary:
A policeman discovers a love affair between his teenage daughter and her teacher which leads him back to an unsolved murder case he investigated 10 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dark Woods (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1989, the sister of Hamburg's LKA chief Thomas Bethge disappears without a trace. For almost three decades, he investigates the mysterious criminal case, before he gets on the trail of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Murders in Rochefort (2019)
Plot Summary:
Police captains Emma and Adrien look for a killer who would use a silver bullet… on multiple victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Crimson Wedding (2018)
Plot Summary:
There is a party atmosphere in Provence: Sandra, the daughter of a couple of renowned local restaurant owners, is getting married, and her sister Alice comes home for the occasion. The family reunion is initially a carefree affair… but then tragedy strikes. A few hours after the ceremony, the bride is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. What at first looks like suicide could well be murder. When Vincent, a family friend, investigates, behind the veil of appearances, he stumbles on some very dark secrets….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Suspects (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in London, each episode is a self-contained story, starting with a news report, then following the team of three detectives as they investigate the circumstances the crime. The cases themselves are hard-hitting with contemporary themes, such as the search for a soldier with PTSD, a murder that has been made to look like an assisted suicide and the gang rape of a young teenager.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama
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The Long Goodbye (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and commits suicide. Tamotsu’s friend Banji Masuzawa works as a private detective, and has doubts about Tamotsu’s death, but the case is covered up by powerful media mogul Heizo Harada.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective