Popular Mystery Movies - Page 427
Sherlock Jones
2018
Sherlock Jones
2018
Quirky Rhian Jones is an aspiring detective. Determined to find and crack her first case, the 10 year old lives out her detective fantasies around her small home town in the Welsh valleys.The Cycle
2003
The Cycle
2003
star 4.6A naked, blood-soaked man throws a corpse into a dimly lit basement. The cadaver lands against another body.Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
1960
star 7.3Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.The Skin Horse
2013
Stain on the Snow
1954
Stain on the Snow
1954
star 6.3"La neige était sale" is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (Daniel Gélin) dejectedly vows that he, too, will live a life of debauchery. Part of his self-degradation program is to kill someone, and since the story takes place during the Nazi occupation of France, he chooses a German officer as his victim. His steady descent into psychosis and depravity becomes his ultimate undoing.The Keeper
1976
The Keeper
1976
star 4.4The Keeper of Underwood Asylum has the mental patients of the wealthiest families in British Columbia. The rest of the family members have been dying under mysterious circumstances, so Biggs hires private investigator Richard Driver, who puts his assistant, Maybelline, in the asylum pretending she is his cousin and that they came from a family where the parents were all first cousins to each other and they decided to keep their love platonic for genetic reasons. Then he tries to get Inspector Clarke to check him in as a narcoleptic who didn't wake up with his body. They all know what the keeper has been doing, but it is a matter of proving it, and avoiding the hypnotized Biggs twins and Danny, who he is able to keep catatonic with his machine. Inspector Clarke gives driver a lot of trouble, and the kid giving shoe shines looks down on everybody, knowing more.Babel
2025
Babel
2025
Hunting Daze
2024
Hunting Daze
2024
star 5.4Nina, a young and headstrong exotic dancer, finds herself stranded in the far North. She convinces her recent customers, five men on a bachelor hunting trip, to put her up for a few days. In this masculine microsociety, by turns hilarious and philosophical, Cynthia starts to feel a sense of belonging she never has before. But a mysterious stranger’s arrival changes the course of this improvised holiday forever. Both raw and dreamlike, Hunting Daze offers up a unique universe where humour, horror, the uncanny, and the sensual combine.The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021
star 6.5Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.A Woman's Devotion
1956
A Woman's Devotion
1956
star 4.5An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the ex-GI comes to believe he might be responsible, as he has long stretches where he can't remember anything.Somebody Killed Her Husband
1978
star 5A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.That Beautiful Somewhere
2007
star 3.9A detective teams up with a young female archaeologist to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumoured to have curative powers. It is the story of two wounded souls searching for healing and redemptionDe Stedeling
1984
De Stedeling
1984
star 6.5A man from the city walks around the country side. He tries to find out what farmers are hiding below the plastic belts on their territory.Witness Statement
2025
Witness Statement
2025
star 9.5After a theft at a local jewellers, detective, Theo Hopkins has to investigate 3 different accounts of the crimeMidnight Taxi
2009
Midnight Taxi
2009
star 5Xu Zi is living beyond their means living by writing, in his girlfriend Hayashi's encouragement, he was determined to be self-reliant, and became a taxi drivers, strange things come one after another. A lot of weird things since appeared. Xu Zi and Hayashi decided to reveal the layers of mystery.Ieoh Island
1977
Ieoh Island
1977
star 6.6A company hopes to open a spa hotel named after Ieodo, a mythical island inhabited by the souls of drowned sailors. During a study trip to the proposed location of the hotel, a journalist disappears under mysterious circumstances. One of the contractors goes to Ieodo's neighboring island, populated by widows of the dead sailors, to unravel the mystery.A Trap
1965
A Trap
1965
star 7.1When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.More Than Murder
1984
More Than Murder
1984
star 4.9Private eye Mike Hammer tries to clear his friend, Captain Chambers, who has been framed for cocaine possession.Ashes
2012
Ashes
2012
star 5.1One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer's, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in hospital he realises the extra stress Frank is put under and decides to break him out in the hope of returning him to his family. As the two travel across the country, beginning to bond along the way, it soon transpires that both Frank and Jamie are at odds with their past.
