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Under the Salt (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, uncover truth, teenage life, funeral home, social misfits, danger, youth, gory, who done it, violence spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
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From Darkness (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 233 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Claire Church, a former police officer who moves away to the remote Western Isles in an attempt to escape the past and violence that still haunts her. Soon, Claire is pulled back into an investigation she thought she long left behind, ...
Style: detective, tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: british police, serial killer, murder investigation, policewoman, murder, police investigation, countryside, british, investigation, violence, society, family relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland
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 8.0
 6K
No Offence (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Keeping these streets clean is a Herculean task, enough to demoralize even the keenest rookie – but there’s a reason why this hotchpotch of committed cops are on this force, on this side of town. Drug labs, arsonists, neo-Nazis and notorious ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, detective, dark comedy ...
Plot: detective inspector, policewoman, british police, police station, serial killer, workplace, workplace situations, police, murder investigation, law enforcement, fighting crime, police investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: northern england, england, manchester
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 8.5
 274K
Hannibal (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1680 min.
TV show
Story: Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, cannibal, psychopath, mind game, cannibalism, death, murder, psychiatrist, mental patient, graphic violence, fbi, mental health ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.6
 73K
21 Bridges (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A disgraced NYPD detective after being thrust into a citywide manhunt for a cop killer, is given a shot at redemption.
Style: detective, neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder investigation, nypd, police officer killed, police, corrupt cop, conspiracy, fbi agent, hostage, corruption, chase, murder, nightclub ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s
Place: new york, philadelphia, grand central station manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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Those Who Kill (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follows Catherine Jensen, a recently promoted homicide detective who enlists the help of Thomas Schaeffer, a forensic psychologist, to track down serial killers and relentlessly seeks the truth behind the disappearance of her brother.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, policewoman, female detective, profiler, forensics, criminal psychologist, murder investigation, investigation, police investigation, police detective, missing person, crime investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, usa
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 6.8
 161K
A Simple Favor (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Mommy vlogger Stephanie joins her best friend Emily's husband, Sean, to investigate her sudden disappearance from their small town.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, enigmatic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: missing person, investigation, ruse, deception, murder, murder investigation, blackmail, female friendship, dark past, missing woman, small town, death ...
Time: 2010s
Place: new york, london, michigan, connecticut
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All Good Things (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: murder, disappearance, mentally unstable, overbearing parent, divorce, abusive husband, investigation, dysfunctional marriage, missing person, twists and turns, justice, obsession ...
Time: 80s, year 2010, future, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, los angeles, vermont ...
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The Mess You Leave Behind (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story: A teacher starts her job at a high school but is haunted by a suspicious death that occurred there weeks before and begins fearing for her own life.
Style: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot: sex scene, murder investigation, marriage, blackmail, suicide, teacher student relationship, marital problem, relationships, male female relationship, crime solving, unhappy marriage, family relations ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain
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Strangers From Hell (2019)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Yoon Jong-Woo is a man in his 20's. He has lived in a small town for all of his life, but he gets a job at a small office in Seoul. Yoon Jong-Woo moves out to Seoul and stays at a cheap apartment which shares its kitchen and bathroom with other ...
Style: scary, dorama, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot: murderer, psychopath, murder, victim, murder investigation, graphic violence, sociopath, investigation, society, uncover truth, who done it, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seoul
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 7.1
 22K
FBI (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.
Style: suspense, disturbing, exciting, captivating, detective ...
Plot: fbi, crime investigation, investigation, fbi agent, police detective, federal bureau of investigation, partners against crime, female detective, fighting crime, murder investigation, police investigation, homicide detective ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york
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 7.6
 49K
The Serpent (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 458 min.
TV show
Story: The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, anime, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, murder investigation, private investigation, danger, incompetent police, police investigation, tourist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, incompetent official, murder, medicine, criminal ...
Time: 70s
Place: bangkok thailand, thailand, india, nepal, paris france ...
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 7.4
 37K
Marcella (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Marcella is shocked to the core of her being when her husband Jason leaves her unexpectedly, confessing he no longer loves her. Heartbroken, Marcella returns to the Met’s Murder Squad. Ten years ago Marcella gave up her fast-tracked police career ...
Style: detective, crime drama, enigmatic, tense, captivating ...
Plot: female protagonist, serial killer, female detective, police, murder, british police, murder investigation, homicide detective, female police officer, female police detective, investigation, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: london
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 6.6
 8K
Mystery Road (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl.
Style: detective, serious, captivating, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: desert, investigation, murder investigation, small town, murder, who done it, police, estrangement, outback, heroes, law enforcement, australian aboriginal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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The Little Murders of Agatha Christie (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: In 1930s France, Superintendent Larosière has a passion for beautiful women and solving cases, while hapless young inspector Lampion just tries to keep up. Later series, are set in the mid-'50s, where suave Commissioner Laurence unravels ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot: murder mystery, investigation, whodunit, murder investigation, odd couple, murder, partners against crime, partner, law enforcement, womanizer, red herring, private detective ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: france
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 7.2
 108K
Clue (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss ...
Style: parody, funny, surprise ending, black comedy, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, kids
Plot: whodunit, butler, multiple suspects, murder mystery, murder, mansion, investigation, twists and turns, old dark house, mystery killer, blackmail, dark and stormy night ...
Time: year 1954, 90s, 50s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: new england
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Concrete Evidence: A Fixer Upper Mystery (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: When Mac—Shannon’s new beau—first moved to Lighthouse Cove, he bought the historic lighthouse mansion that the town is named after. During renovation demolition, the bones of a teenage girl who went missing fifteen years ago were discovered. ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot: death of sister, crime investigation, murder investigation, skeleton, child murder investigation, murder mystery, uncover truth, murder, investigation, crime solving, unsolved crime, murderer ...
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The Lovely Bones (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
Style: emotional, dark, suspense, psychological, surreal ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, family drama, murderer, rape, loss of daughter, murder mystery, pedophile, teenage girl, missing child, death in the family, investigation ...
Time: 70s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1973, 2000s
Place: usa, pennsylvania, delaware
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 6.8
 14K
Stitchers (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A young woman is recruited into a secret government agency to be “stitched” into the minds of the recently deceased, using their memories to investigate murders.
Style: captivating, serious, detective, enigmatic, suspenseful
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, secret government organization, supernatural, female protagonist, computer genius, law enforcement, uncover truth, family problems, scientist, memory, murder investigation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Prime Suspect (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 207 min.
TV show
Story: A female police detective investigates a series of serial murders while dealing with sexist hostility from her male comrades.
Style: detective, suspense, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, female detective, murder mystery, police detective, murder, police, obsession, investigation, sexism, uncover truth, murder investigation ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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 6.1
 48K
Anon (2018)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears ...
Style: tech noir, detective, tense, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hacker, distopia, technology, serial killer, murder investigation, investigation, surveillance, mind control, dystopia, female assassin, police, police officer ...
Time: future, near future
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 8.6
 18K
Foyle's War (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an ...
Style: clever, serious, captivating, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: world war two, investigation, police investigation, police detective, war crime, spy, detective inspector, police, espionage, homicide detective, whodunit, murder investigation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, new mexico, london
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Bungo Stray Dogs (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Nakajima Atsushi was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Dazai Osamu, and he and his ...
Style: anime, exciting, captivating, emotional, humorous ...
Plot: investigation, supernatural ability, literature, friendship, battles, group of criminals, supernatural, gunfight, mafia, teamwork, paranormal investigation, supernatural power ...
Time: 2010s
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In the Valley of Elah (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Style: detective, touching, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: guilt, investigation, army, military, army investigation, war crime, cover up, murder investigation, character study, uncover truth, parent child relationship, loss of son ...
Time: year 2007, year 2004, 21st century
Place: iraq, new mexico, afghanistan, persia, tennessee ...
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 7.2
 2K
The Plague (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Seville, 16th century. During a terrible plague epidemic, the corpses of several murdered people are found, as an omen of the end of the world. Seville was one of the main cities of the Western world. Known as the Great Babylon, it was home to ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, gothic, detective ...
Plot: plague, pandemic, politics, murder investigation, religion, friendship, death, revenge, promise, tudors, inquisition, danger ...
Time: 16th century
Place: spain
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Minority Report (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Minority Report follows the unlikely partnership between a man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past, as they race to stop the worst crimes of the year 2065 before they happen. Set in Washington, D.C., it is 10 years after the demise ...
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, psychological
Plot: police detective, female detective, changing the past or future, police investigation, murder investigation, friendship, danger, love and romance, rivalry, death, counselor, super powers ...
Time: future
Place: washington d.c., usa
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A Haunting in Venice (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of ...
Style: detective, witty, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: murder mystery, whodunit, murder, murder investigation, medium, ghost, seance, victim, children, secret, murderer, investigation ...
Time: post world war two, 20th century, 1940s, year 1947
Place: venice, italy
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 6.8
 284K
Bad Boys (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate ...
Style: buddy comedy, humorous, exciting, funny, action comedy ...
Audience: manly, girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot: two man army, drug lord, buddy, buddy cop, partners against crime, law enforcement, police, police corruption, police investigation, murder, african american, murder investigation ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: miami, florida, usa, north america
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 7.9
 49K
The Affair (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: crumbling marriage, infidelity, adultery, husband wife relationship, sex scene, sexual relations, strong sexual content, writers, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, dishonesty ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 6.4
 88K
The Raven (2012)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
Style: gothic, psychological, gothic horror, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder mystery, police investigation, who done it, riddles and clues, writer's life, unconventional method, murder investigation, murder, writers, edgar allan poe ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2012, edwardian era, 1800s ...
Place: maryland, baltimore, usa, paris france
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