#2. He Walked by Night (1948)

Storyline: In post WW II, Los Angeles, a cop's killed in the middle of the night. With no leads, the chief of police assigns Sgts. Jones and Brennan to investigate and apprehend the killer. They target low-level criminals, such as Paul Reeves, hoping he'll lead them to bigger fish, specially, the one who shot and killed the cop.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: thief, sergeant, police chief, forensic expert, informant, gripping, suspenseful ...

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#3. Highlander (1986)

Storyline: In New York City, the owner of a sophisticated antique shop Russell Edwin Nash is challenged to a sword fight in the parking lot of the Madison Square Garden by a man called Iman Fasil that is beheaded by Russell. He hides his sword and is arrested by the police while leaving the stadium. Russell recalls his life in the sixteenth century in Scotland, when he is Connor MacLeod, and is fatally wounded in a battle against another Clan. However, he surprisingly survives and his Clan believes he has a pact with the devil and expels him from their lands. Then he meets Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, who explains that he is immortal unless he is beheaded. Further, the immortals dispute a game killing each other and in the end only one survives receiving a prize with the power of the other immortals. Russell is released by the police, but the snoopy forensic agent Brenda J. Wyatt is attracted by the case since she found fragments of an ancient Katana and follows Russell. But the also ...

Plot Keywords: immortal, warrior, forensic expert, police detective, highlander, friend, spectacular ...

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#4. Mystery Street (1950)

Storyline: Vivian, a B-girl working at "The Grass Skirt," is being brushed off by her rich, married boyfriend. To confront him, she hijacks drunken customer Henry Shanway and his car from Boston to Cape Cod, where she strands Henry...and is never seen again. Months later, a skeleton is found (sans clothes or clues) on a lonely Cape Cod beach. Using the macabre expertise of Harvard forensic specialist Dr. McAdoo, Lt. Pete Morales must work back from bones to the victim's identity, history, and killer. Will he succeed in time to save an innocent suspect?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: forensic expert, barmaid, boyfriend, suspect, dark, intricate, bar ...

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#5. The Kingdom (2007)

Storyline: After a terrorist attack on an American housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where families and FBI Agent Francis Manner are murdered, FBI agent Ronald Fleury blackmails the Saudi Arabian consul to get five days of investigation in the location. He travels with agent Grant Sykes, Janet Mayes and Adam Leavitt to avenge their friend and try to find those responsible for the bombing. The agents find all sorts of difficulties in their investigation, but they are supported by Colonel Faris Al Ghazi that advises the team how to act in a hostile environment.

Plot Keywords: special agent, fbi agent, forensic expert, technician, reporter, police officer, tense ...

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#7. The Bone Collector (1999)

Storyline: Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Amelia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father's suicide and thinking she's next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer.

Plot Keywords: forensic expert, policewoman, nurse, serial killer, detective, quadriplegic, chilling ...

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#8. So Close (2002)

Storyline: The brothers Chow Nunn and Chow Lui's giant computer company is facing a tense crisis - a powerful computer virus is rapidly wiping out their computer network. At the last minute a cyber-friend arrives to join the battle. The mysterious 'Angel.com' battles the virus and saves the company. Invited by Chow Lui for a visit in person, Angel.com arrives in the form of the beautiful Lynn. But it turns out Lynn is a professional assassin with amazing high-tech and kung fu skills. She kills Chow Lui with cyanide hidden in a pair of sunglasses. She's aided by her sister Sue, who operates the pair's World Panorama surveillance system, which allows them to tap into any video security system in the world. Young cop Kong Yat Hong and her partner Mark are put on the case. Hong has a brilliant mind and immediately senses she's dealing with a killer with very special skills. Realizing they are facing a tough adversary, Lynn and Sue become fascinated with Hong as well. Lynn runs into Yan, the cousin of an old friend who died. Lynn and Yan shared an unspoken love in the past which is now rekindled in the open, and Lynn begins to question whether she wants to continue to be an assassin. Chow Nunn was behind his older brother's death. He hired Angel.com to kill Lui because Lui opposed Nunn's business plans, and also because Nunn is carrying on a secret affair with Lui's wife. But when Hong's investigation starts to point to Nunn, Nunn becomes worried and decides to hire Angel.com for another hit ^Ö only so he can double-cross them, wipe them out and prevent them from leading the police back to him. Yan tells Lynn he loves her and wants to marry her. After battling an attack by robbers with her amazing martial arts skills, she tells Yan her family's history. Her father invented the World Panorama for use by the authorities, but was turned down. Suspiciously, word of the device got out to the underworld and both parents were brutally killed in front of the girls' eyes by criminals eager to get their hands on the invention. Bereft at the loss of their parents and disillusioned with the law, the sisters turned professional assassins, killing criminals for other criminals. Lynn tells Sue she wants to stop their criminal life and get married ^Ö she won't accept Chow Nunn's order for the second killing. But Sue, angry and feeling abandoned by Lynn, decides to carry out the killing herself. Lynn realizes what's happening and rushes to save Sue, who doesn't have the skills to carry out the hit. They are attacked by Chow's men but escape. Now the assassin and the cop must join forces - so Sue can avenge her sister's death and Hong can prove her innocence in a spectacular confrontation at Chow Nunn's headquarters...—<christian_wong2002@yahoo.com>

Plot Keywords: assassin, sister, forensic expert, chairman, police detective, frenetic, incredible ...

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#9. Kiss the Girls (1997)

Storyline: Alex Cross, a Washington D.C. cop and forensic psychologist learns that his niece who is going to college in North Carolina is missing. So he goes there and learns that the police think she's among the victims of someone who kidnaps young girls and holds them captive and kills them who dubs himself Cassanova after the great lover. Later Kate, one of his victims, escapes and tries to help Cross find his niece.

Plot Keywords: forensic expert, psychologist, doctor, psychopath, criminal, police detective, creepy ...

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#10. Along Came a Spider (2001)

Storyline: Detective/psychologist Alex Cross loses his partner in an out of control 'bust.' He stops working and cannot forgive himself. He is drawn back to work reluctantly when a senator's daughter is kidnapped and the kidnapper seems to want to deal with Alex personally.

Plot Keywords: detective, forensic expert, senator, daughter, special agent, serial killer, suspenseful ...

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#11. Freeze Frame (2004)

Storyline: Ten years ago, after being accused of a hideous murder of a mother and her twin daughters, Sean Veil became paranoid, filming himself along twenty-four hours a day to have an alibi if necessary. The small time psychologist Saul Seger became a famous forensic profiler and writer with the case and every now and then he accuses Sean Veil of the crime. The reporter Katie Carter believes in Sean's innocence. When the body of the missing Mary Shaw is found, Sean has to prove where he was five years ago. However, the tapes that can prove that he is not guilty have mysteriously disappeared from the storage shelf and Sean suspects that Saul has stolen them to incriminate him.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: recluse, detective, forensic expert, reporter, suspenseful, gripping, dark ...

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#12. When the Bough Breaks (1993)

Storyline: On July 4th, in Houston, a teenager finds a human hand in the sewer. Captain Swaggert is investigating the discovery of seven hands, found over several years, each one precisely severed and with a number tattooed on the palm. At this point, he has no leads. The highly qualified Special Investigator, Audrey Macleah, is assigned to join the team and give support to the investigation. When the police department receives a call from a medical doctor in an institution, Audrey meets with the doctor and the doctor introduces an autistic boy Jordan Thomas. There she sees seven hands that the boy had drawn on the wall. Audrey dedicates her attention to Jordan and discovers that he is connected to the serial-killer.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: detective, forensic expert, young boy, psychic, autistic child, killer, dark ...

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#13. Who Killed Pasolini? (1995)

Storyline: Detectives Munro and Sanders are assigned to investigate the murder of an adult film star named Buddy Blue. The hunk was actually killed during the shooting of an orgy scene. Munro finds out the victim was hated by almost everyone including smart blondie co-star Ivy Saxon. For a guy who is divorced and had no sex for a year, the porn industry is not the safest environment for those who need to be objective.—Marcelo Hargreaves

Plot Keywords: detective, teen boy, forensic expert, actress, lawyer, judge, intricate ...

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#14. Cut off (2018)

Storyline: On a small isolated island, Linda has to play a life-or-death game: she has to perform an autopsy to find the secret clues hidden in the corpse. If she doesn't help forensic surgeon Paul Herzfeld, she will never find her missing daughter.

Plot Keywords: forensic expert, serial killer, daughter, psychopath, murder victim, housekeeper, disturbing ...

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#15. Angels Don't Sleep Here (2000)

Storyline: Michael Daniels (Dana Ashbrook) comes back to his hometown after being away for 20 years. But his return is not for leisure or to catch up with friends and family. Michael, now a forensics expert, is visiting home to get to the bottom of the disappearance of his twin brother, who's been missing for over a decade. Michael's attempts at solving the mystery are thwarted by a corrupt mayor, Harry S. Porter (Roy Scheider), and cop Russell Stark (Robert Patrick), who's in the politician's pocket.

Plot Keywords: police detective, partner, mayor, forensic expert, twin, district attorney, suspenseful ...

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