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 7.5
 12K
The Five (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When they were twelve years old, Mark, Pru, Danny and Slade were out together in the park. Mark’s five-year-old brother, Jesse, was annoying them. They were mean – told him to get lost. Jesse ran away. He was gone. Never seen again. Twenty years ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, detective, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: crime solving, childhood friend, murder, missing person, investigation, crime investigation, police detective, murder mystery, secret, crime scene, forensics, twists and turns ...
Place: britain
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 7.7
 23K
Prodigal Son (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The son of a notorious serial killer becomes an acclaimed criminal psychologist who uses his unique insight into how killers think to help the NYPD.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: serial killer, haunted by the past, psychological trauma, expert, murder investigation, maniac, police, criminal psychologist, repressed memory, profiler, childhood trauma, homicidal maniac ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york
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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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Desperate Housewives (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama-mystery series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It aired Sundays at 9 P.M. Eastern/8 P.M. Central, on ABC from October 3, 2004, until May 13, 2012. ...
Style: witty, humorous, sexy, soap opera, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: housewife, female friendship, neighbor, suburban life, family life, social relations, investigation, lifestyle, friends, couple relations, family relations, infidelity ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, teen, soap opera ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, lesbian, high school life, blackmail, gossip and rumors, threat, haunted by the past, teenage life, mysterious character, friendship, youth, friends ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
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 8.2
 23K
Hustle (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot: cons and scams, thief, criminal heroes, heist, con artists, leader, exploitation, blackmail, fake identity, coworker relationship, caper, hustler ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, britain
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 7.6
 33K
Lost Girl (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Lost Girl focuses on the gorgeous and charismatic Bo, a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who ...
Style: sexy, exciting, serious, captivating, supernatural thriller ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, lgbt, female protagonist, succubus, supernatural ability, werewolf, danger, private detective, evil force, seduction, imaginary, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 7.9
 138K
The Sinner (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A young mother kills in a fit of unexplainable rage a seemingly stranger. An inquisitive detective obsesses over the case, attempting to get to the bottom of the true motive behind the act.
Style: psychological thriller, anthology, psychological, melancholic, detective ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: murder, murder investigation, psychological trauma, investigation, past coming back to haunt, crime investigation, memory loss, amnesia, drug, manslaughter, forensics, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
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 7.0
 7K
Gracepoint (2014)
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When a young boy is found dead on an idyllic beach, a major police investigation gets underway in the small California seaside town where the tragedy occurred. Soon deemed a homicide, the case sparks a media frenzy, which throws the boy's ...
Style: tense, realistic, bleak, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder investigation, small town, murder, murder mystery, police investigation, small town life, homicide detective, missing child, social relations, investigation, law enforcement, crime investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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 6.9
 45K
Numb3rs (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a ...
Style: tense, suspense, detective, thrilling, realistic ...
Plot: mathematics, genius, prodigy, fbi, murder investigation, police detective, partners against crime, workplace, brother brother relationship, federal bureau of investigation, police, law enforcement ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 8.5
 170K
The Expanse (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Style: futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, space travel, space opera, human in outer space, spacecraft, spaceship, space station, investigation, space colony, alien life-form, space wars, conspiracy ...
Time: future, near future, 24th century, 23rd century
Place: space western, hawaii
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 6.7
 11K
Nancy Drew (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Young Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college after high school graduation, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery.
Style: captivating, enigmatic, tense, spooky, slasher ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: supernatural, investigation, amateur detective, danger, teenager, friendship, murder, crime investigation, interracial, love and romance, homicide detective, paranormal ...
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 8.1
 354K
Wednesday (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Wednesday Addams is sent to Nevermore Academy, a bizarre boarding school where she attempts to master her psychic powers, stop a monstrous killing spree of the town citizens, and solve the supernatural mystery that affected her family 25 years ago ...
Style: dark fantasy, gothic, exciting, dark comedy, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: supernatural, academy, teenage girl, friendship, student, high school, goth girl, werewolf, obsession, addams family, boarding school, witch ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new england, vermont
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 8.4
 110K
The Americans (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI ...
Style: exciting, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, undercover, kgb, mole, double life, working undercover, investigation, double agent, fbi, top secret ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., soviet union, usa
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 7.5
 137K
Lupin (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, thief, revenge, police, father son relationship, black, heist, criminal, prisoner, father, father figure, missing person ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france, paris france
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 8.5
 530K
Westworld (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
TV show
Story: A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be ...
Style: psychological thriller, stylized, serious, thought provoking, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, consciousness, moral dilemma, murder, technology gone awry, man versus machine, scientist, escapades, wild west, human android relationship ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco
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 8.7
 634K
Black Mirror (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to ...
Style: serious, philosophical, thought provoking, anthology, clever ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: technology, dystopia, twists and turns, human nature, satire, dystopian future, social decay, society, computers and web, media satire, alternate reality, media ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future
Place: england, london
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 8.3
 359K
Homeland (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: terrorism, espionage, cia, spy, national security, investigation, treason, war on terror, terrorist, danger, secret service, top secret ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: israel, langley virginia, usa, iraq, new york ...
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 8.9
 133K
Gravity Falls (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.
Style: captivating, exciting, offbeat, anime, adult animation ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family friendly, adult ...
Plot: supernatural, friendship, small town, youth, twins, magical, child protagonist, mysterious place, summer vacation, monster, imaginary, good versus evil ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, california
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Behind Her Eyes (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 298 min.
TV show
Story: A single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife.
Style: enigmatic, captivating, twist ending, mystical, suspense ...
Plot: lucid dream, friendship, body swapping, mental disorder, psychopath, sociopath, mental illness, twists and turns, soul transference, supernatural, secret, employer employee relationship ...
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 7.8
 26K
Mr. Mercedes (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again. Based on ...
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, stephen king, murder, psychopath, investigation, police investigation, murder investigation, violence, murderer, sociopath, cruelty, killer ...
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 8.9
 373K
Death Note (2006)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and ...
Style: anime, manga, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, manly, boys' night
Plot: mind game, anti hero, secret identity, rivals, vigilante, police, battle of wits, supernatural, heart attack, law enforcement, supernatural ability, intelligence ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan
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 7.8
 125K
Revenge (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's going to make them pay.
Style: captivating, serious, soap opera, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: high society, vengeance, pretense, hidden identity, strong female character, twists and turns, revenge, enemy, half sister, suspicion, haunted by the past, victim ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 7.1
 10K
Maigret (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 87 min.
TV show
Story: A serial killer strikes in post-war France and it's up to Jules Maigret, a dedicated police commissioner, to hunt the murderer down.
Style: detective, captivating, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological ...
Plot: murder of a prostitute, serial killer, police detective, police investigation, undercover, murder suspect, police inspector, suspect, false confession, prostitute, justice, police officer ...
Time: 1950s, year 1955
Place: united kingdom, paris france, france
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Dexter: New Blood (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 529 min.
TV show
Story: Set 10 years after Dexter Morgan went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, he is now living under an assumed name in Upstate New York, far from his original home in Miami.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, serial murder, murder, missing person, vigilante, secret identity, homicidal maniac, murderer, killing spree, kidnapping, murder investigation, killings ...
Time: 2020s
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 8.0
 566K
The Witcher (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Poland, Hungary, USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The witcher Geralt, a mutated monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. Based on Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher Saga.
Style: dark fantasy, exciting, atmospheric, captivating, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: medieval, supernatural, fantasy world, monster, magic, anti heroine, deadly creature, elf, sorceress, destiny, prophecy, violence ...
Time: medieval times
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 7.9
 24K
Strike (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving ...
Style: detective, tense, suspenseful, serious, talky ...
Plot: investigation, private detective, multiple suspects, female partner, mind game, private investigator, danger, antisocial behavior, police investigation, riddles and clues, misfit, alienation ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: oxford university, united kingdom, britain, london, england
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 7.6
 12K
Bordertown (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Peculiar detective Kari Sorjonen escapes the hustle and bustle of big city to a small border town.
Style: detective, noir, captivating, tense, enigmatic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: border, crime investigation, small town, nordic, police detective, family relations, police, teenage girl, corruption, eccentricity, danger, serial killer ...
Place: finland, russia
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 7.8
 25K
Devious Maids (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The series centers on four Latina maids working in the homes of Beverly Hills’ wealthiest and most powerful families, and a newcomer who made it personal after a maid was murdered and determined to uncover the truth behind her demise, and in the ...
Style: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: female friendship, secret, maid, secrets, female protagonist, couple relations, murder mystery, murder, male female relationship, chambermaid, workplace situations, workplace ...
Place: beverly hills
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Maigret in Montmartre (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Maigret investigates the random murders of a Countess and a showgirl and discovers a dark secret that links their past lives at the Grand Hotel in Nice.
Style: detective, enigmatic, clever, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, murder investigation, husband wife relationship, publicity, police interrogation, police, murder mystery, police officer, serial killer, secret service, countess, police inspector ...
Place: united kingdom
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