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Inspector George Gently (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.
Style: detective, suspenseful, serious, crime drama, clever ...
Plot: murder investigation, police investigation, police, whodunit, law enforcement, police detective, partner, chief of police, partners against crime, murder, police procedural, investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, future
Place: england, europe
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 6.0
 661
Entanglement (2011)
Genre: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A member of a therapy group is found dead. A prosecutor and a police officer try to solve the mystery of his death.
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: murder investigation, police officer, partner, investigation, police investigation, vengeance, murderer, murder mystery, chase, who done it, evidence, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
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MosGaz. Delo N1 (2012)
Genre: Crime
Country: Russia
TV show
Story: 1962. Moscow. Vladimir Ionesyan, nicknamed "Mosgaz," became he first officially recognized serial killer in the Soviet Union. His bloody deeds and his moniker are still used by Russian mothers to frighten their children.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, serial killer, homicide detective, crime investigation, murder, maniac, investigator, murder investigation, serial murder, killings, fear, dark secret ...
Place: ussr, moscow russia, soviet union
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Through the Darkness (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: It deals with the beginning of profilers who had to look into their minds to chase away demons that could not be called human beings in the days when the word profiling was unfamiliar and there was no concept of psychopaths, when a series of vicious ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, serial killer, murder mystery, secret, uncover truth, murderer, fighting crime, crime solving, crime investigation, police procedural, investigation ...
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 6.4
 68K
Solace (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.
Style: suspense, twist ending, surprise ending, intense, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, psychic, investigation, police investigation, psychology, murder investigation, whodunit, premonition, seeing the future, twists and turns, supernatural, brutality ...
Time: year 2015
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 6.6
 65K
Copycat (1995)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
Style: suspense, detective, psychological thriller, psychological, surprise ending ...
Plot: serial killer, psychology, psychopath, agoraphobia, police investigation, murder mystery, twists and turns, maniac, violence, paranoia, police detective, mind game ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: san francisco, persia, usa, california
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See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: The film is the first known dramatisation of one of the most notorious killing sprees in British history and was made to mark the fortieth anniversary of Hindley and Brady's trial. It was made with the full backing of the victims' ...
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, murder, investigation, death of child, rivalry, life is a bitch, true crime, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship, killer ...
Time: 60s, year 1964, year 1966, year 1963, year 1965
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, manchester
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 158 min.
Story: This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
Style: suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, rough, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: serial killer, hacker, investigation, rape, murder mystery, sexual abuse, missing person, journalist, strong female character, twists and turns, murder investigation, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 60s, year 1966, 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe, london
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 8.5
 83K
Bosch (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch who pursues justice at all costs. But behind his tireless momentum is a man who is haunted by his past and struggles to ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, detective, neo noir ...
Plot: police, determination, police detective, law enforcement, murder investigation, police investigation, suspicion, murder, coworker, homicide detective, father daughter relationship, lapd ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 6.7
 9K
Rosewood (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. is a brilliant private pathologist who uses wildly sophisticated technology and his drive to live life to the fullest to help a tough-as-nails detective and the Miami PD uncover clues no one else can see.
Style: captivating, tense, serious, philosophical, cliffhanger ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female detective, pathologist, family relations, friendship, heart condition, police detective, analysis, murder investigation, laboratory, twists and turns, female police detective, african american protagonist ...
Place: usa, miami
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 7.2
 9K
Battle Creek (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: In this mismatched buddy cop dramedy, an amazingly handsome, happy-go-lucky FBI agent is paired with a local, hard scrabble Michigan homicide detective. As they solve crimes together, their polar opposite methods only slightly outweigh their disdain ...
Style: detective, realistic, cynical, witty, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, partners against crime, police partner, police station, murder investigation, police investigation, fighting crime, law enforcement, female boss, initially antagonists, friendship, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: michigan, usa
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A Killer Within (2004)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered ...
Style: suspenseful, mind bending, tense, serious, rough ...
Plot: murder, husband wife relationship, who done it, legal, dishonesty, law enforcement, legal action, false accusation, murder investigation, female bartender, female nudity, skinny dipping ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.8
 15K
Whitechapel (2009)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 817 min.
TV show
Story: Whitechapel is a British television drama series produced by Carnival Films, in which detectives in London's Whitechapel district deal with murders which replicate historical crimes. The first series was first broadcast in the UK on 2 February ...
Style: serious, rough, detective, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, police detective, murder investigation, jack the ripper, forensics, police investigation, victim, murderer, law enforcement, team, traditional versus modern, hunt down ...
Time: victorian era, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, east end london
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The Face of an Angel (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: journalism, murder investigation, murder, filmmaking, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, justice, innocence, delusion, forensics, interview, writers, secrets ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe, baltimore, florence, new york ...
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 6.3
 146
Blue Murder (2001)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Blue Murder is a Canadian crime drama television series, featuring stories that reflected the turbulence of urban life and the crimes that make headlines. The Blue Murder squad members were an elite group of big-city investigators out to solve some ...
Style: detective, captivating, tense
Plot: murder investigation, investigation, police detective, female detective, police, murder, police officer, partners against crime, partner, crime investigation, fighting crime, teamwork ...
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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 8.8
 214K
Twin Peaks (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1505 min.
TV show
Story: The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into ...
Style: atmospheric, psychological, mind bending, enigmatic, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, small town, surrealism, murder, nightmare, supernatural, investigation, secret, hallucination, mysterious death, mysterious villain, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1990, year 1989
Place: washington state, hawaii, washington d.c., usa
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 7.6
 47K
Devs (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 409 min.
TV show
Story: Young computer engineer Lily Chan investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.
Style: intellectual, captivating, enigmatic, exciting, philosophical ...
Plot: murder investigation, virtual reality, hacker, quantum physics, cold blooded murder, conspiracy, artificial intelligence, computer, technology, robot, murder mystery, investigation ...
Time: future
Place: san francisco
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 5.6
 116
In the Woods (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A charred body is found in Brocéliande Forest with a shocked and speechless 13-year-old boy next to it. What is he doing there? How is he involved? Two gendarmes and an unconventional child psychiatrist try to clear up the mystery.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: murder investigation, crime investigation, murder mystery, investigation, unsolved crime, crime solving, sleuth, police investigation, psychiatrist, forensics, puzzle, cold case ...
Place: france, brittany
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 8.7
 10K
Mouse (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story: A psychopath’s ruthless serial murders have left the entire nation gripped with fear and chaos. A honest and justice-seeking rookie police officer and a veteran detective with tragic past, face against the killer. After the encounter with the ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, detective, psychological thriller
Plot: investigation, serial killer, murder, serial murder, murder mystery, psycho killer, psychopath, murder investigation, police officer, homicide detective, killings, homicidal maniac ...
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 7.0
 92K
Fallen (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
Style: detective, twist ending, surprise ending, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, serial killer, murder, devil, psychopath, good versus evil, possession, twists and turns, police detective, psychic, demon, demonic possession ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york, philadelphia
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 7.8
 44K
Law & Order (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It originally aired on NBC and, in syndication, on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered ...
Style: detective, realistic, tense, serious, clever ...
Plot: crime investigation, law and order, police, legal, murder investigation, homicide detective, dedicated lawyer, trial, police officer, lawyer, rivalry, punishment ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, 2020s, 2010s ...
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 7.4
 5K
Midnight Sun (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 440 min.
TV show
Story: Kahina Zadi, 32, a French police officer travels to Kiruna in Sweden to investigate the bestial murder of a French citizen. Together with Anders, a Swedish prosecutor of Sami origin, she begins an investigation. Soon new killings start to happen and ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, detective, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, frenchwoman, murder, conspiracy, murder investigation, homicide detective, female protagonist, danger, nordic, small town, twists and turns, sapmi ...
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
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 5.8
 444
Tribal (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The department of Federal Justice attempts to save political face under the mask of inclusion and collaboration as they take control of the Tribal Police Force that governs the four Indian Reserves that surround the city. Interim Tribal Chief ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, bleak, stylized ...
Plot: murder investigation, police detective, law enforcement, suspicion, police corruption, corrupt cop, investigator, law enforcer, police investigation, partner, profanity, partners against crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A chronicle of the two major police investigations by LAPD Detective Greg Kading into the deaths of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
Style: factual, tense, suspense, captivating, detective ...
Plot: rapper, police, murder investigation, murder, conspiracy, friendship, corruption, uncover truth, feud, police investigator, interview, shooting ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, las vegas
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 7.5
 8K
Vienna Blood (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Max Liebermann, a student of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around the grand cafes and opera houses of 1900s Vienna.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, tense, detective ...
Plot: murder investigation, police investigation, murder, investigation, twists and turns, doctor, disorder, buddies, good versus evil, danger, escapades, private detective ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1900s
Place: vienna, austria
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 7.4
 27K
Vigil (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva and DS Kirsten Longacre lead an investigation on land ...
Style: enigmatic, captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: lesbian, murder, murder investigation, policewoman, female police detective, murder mystery, submarine, investigation, lesbian relationship, conspiracy, puzzle, intelligence agency ...
Time: 2020s
Place: britain, united kingdom, scotland
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 6.1
 3K
The Badge (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A sheriff begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although he is homophobic, his investigation causes him to be rejected by others, forcing him to seek help ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: transsexual, gender, murder investigation, murder, uncover truth, political corruption, fighting the system, politics, investigation, dishonesty, sheriff, gender bending ...
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans
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Guilty of Romance (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A detective probes the brutal murder of a woman in a red light district while a housewife hides her double life as a prostitute from her husband.
Style: erotic, disturbing, rough, stylized, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prostitute, murder, erotica, strong sexual content, murder investigation, submissive woman, brothel, adultery, porn, japanese girl, rape, strangulation ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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 7.2
 94K
Gosford Park (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.
Style: suspense, period piece, biting, detective, costume drama ...
Plot: murder, country estate, society, estate, high society, murder investigation, murder mystery, butler, servant, twists and turns, unrequited love, hunting ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1932, pre world war two, year 2001 ...
Place: england, detroit
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 7.9
 277K
The Blacklist (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, clever ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: fbi, investigation, unlikely partners, master criminal, law enforcement, danger, intrigue, secret, mind game, killings, murder investigation, criminal ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, washington d.c.
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