Best tv shows like Who Killed Daigoro Tokuyama?
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Plot Summary:
One morning, students find their homeroom teacher Tokuyama Daigoro’s body on the floor of the classroom. A strange school life begins as the students work hard to hide the presence of their teacher's corpse in their classroom. Other teachers from the Academy, their homeroom teacher's wife, his mistress, police, and reporters... One-by-one they visit the classroom and the students face the risk of being discovered. Is it possible to continue to hide it?! And who was it who killed him?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Feluda, Calcutta as well as South Asia's Brightest private Crime Detective, along with his comrade Jatayu and nephew Topshe, unravel mysteries at Hazaribagh and in Kathmandu.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Mystery
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Duration:
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New student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi works as the homeroom teacher. Students begin to talk among themselves that they have seen new transfer student Kanji in a dream. Yuiko Koto also had a night mare. In her nightmare, a boy that looks transfer student Kanji appeared as a prince. Ayami Mutoi tries to keep that to herself. She actually likes the prince in her dream.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Plot Summary:
11 high school girls awaken bound to the floor of a dining room and must discover why they are there and how they can escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anime, queer cinema
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Alibi Breaker (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a local shopping street in Nano prefecture, far from the metropole, young Tokino Mitani runs a clocksmith that she inherited from her grandfather all by herself. Her main job is to repair watches and clocks, but she is about to start a side business, a service to break alibis for a fee of 5000 yen per case with a guarantee that the fee is billed only when the alibi is broken. . One day, Tokino meets Yoshiyuki Saji, a detective who is newly assigned to the prefectural police department. Saji cannot break a very solid alibi at a case he is working on and secretly asks Tokino to break it. The case is very challenging, but will Tokino lead him to solve the case!?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, detective
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Ms. Ma, Nemesis (2018)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 65
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Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Achiara is a quiet, peaceful village with hardly any crime. But on her first day of school there, English language instructor Kim So-yoon discovers a buried corpse. As the townspeople speculate on the identity of the dead person and the reason she was killed, So-yoon and policeman Park Woo-jae become determined to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration:
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Plot Summary:
An eighth grade student kills himself but not before writing the names of the students who victimized him. Their parents are called into the school and a battle goes on regarding the will.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Reminiscence (2017)
Plot Summary:
Three childhood friends reunite over a murder case.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 362
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Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 45
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Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 62
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 378
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Country: Japan
Duration:
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Sakisaka Kento is a lawyer with an outstanding career. He seems cool and handsome, but he is a zealous person who will confront things that are unreasonable and wrong head-on. There are times when he values the words of a single person and not a lawyer. Sakisaki is regarded as the ace of the law firm, but his only weak point is a lawyer at the same firm who also happens to be his ex-wife Natsume Yoshie. He has been raising their daughter Mizuki as a single father since their divorce. A stylish lawyer who holds her head high, Yoshie is down-to-earth and a perfectionist. These two rival lawyers often have well-reasoned legal arguments regarding the cases of their clients. However, when they wander off topic, they will call each other “papa” and “mama” the moment they lose their cool and start quarreling like a couple.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 25
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Country: Japan
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A drama about three families who live in an upscale neighborhood. On the surface, it appears they have attained wealth and happiness, but trouble brews behind closed doors.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Plot Summary:
21 female high school students are locked in a classroom and their footage is shown all over the world in real time. The only way to escape is to receive many "likes" from the audience.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 23
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 77
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 118
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