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Key Features:
Police investigation, Murder mystery, Family secrets, Moral ambiguity, Struggling protagonist, Small-town setting, Social commentary, Crime, Thriller, Mystery, India, Betrayal, Deception
Tone:
serious, suspense-driven, gritty
Target Audience:
Crime thriller fans, Mystery lovers, Viewers interested in social commentary, Fans of Indian cinema
Emotional Arc:
Intrigue → Suspense → Revelation

Raat Akeli Hai

2020-07-31
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When a newly married landlord is murdered, a misfit cop’s investigation is complicated by the victim’s secretive family and his own conflicted heart.

Genres
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Cast
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Padmavati Rao, Shweta Tripathi Sharma, Aditya Srivastava, Nishant Dahiya, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Khalid Tyabji, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Ila Arun
Crew
Honey Trehan, Smita Singh
Rating
6.849(76 votes)
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Manorama Six Feet Under

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Talvar(2015)
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A hardened cop deals with three conflicting perspectives involving a brutal double murder. The case is complicated as the prime suspects are the parents who supposedly killed their teenage daughter.



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Officer Shivani Shivaji Roy is stationed at Kota where she goes against a ferocious serial killer who rapes and murders women.



Ugly
Ugly(2013)
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A team of the best cops in Mumbai is dispatched to find a girl who has gone missing from her father's car. As the hunt for the kidnapper begins, fingers suspiciously point to closer home.



Raazi
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7.213

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Raajneeti
Raajneeti(2010)
6.293

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Baazigar
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A young man with a vendetta against a business tycoon seduces and kills his eldest daughter and then proceeds to his younger daughter but she begins to suspect her new lover's ulterior motive.



Article 15
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A young IPS officer’s new posting in rural India has him confronting caste disparities and uncomfortable truths in the face of a gruesome crime. When three girls go missing in the fictional village of Lalgaon, two of them are found dead and there is no trace of the third one. Where is she and who is responsible for this heinous act?



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7.045

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36 China Town
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An inspector heads to 36 China Town to investigate a murder, where every suspect is hiding a secret.



Bhool Bhulaiyaa
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NRI Siddharth Chaturvedi and his wife Avni return to Siddharth's family's ancestral Varanasi palace while disregarding warnings of a curse and paranormal phenomena. Soon enough, inexplicable events begin occuring, which forces Siddharth to consult the eccentric psychiatrist Aditya Shrivastav to help solve the mystery.



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6.4

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Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani

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Theri
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Parineeta
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Aiyaary
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