Best British Mystery Movies
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Best British Mystery Movies
TOP Movies: An Inspector Calls (2015), The Postcard Killings (2020), The Prestige (2006), In Fabric (2018), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Red Road (2006), Wind River (2017), Insomnia (2002), The Lady Vanishes (2013), In Fear (2013), Conclave (2024), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988), Scream VI (2023), A Dark Place (2018), Host (2020), In Darkness (2018), The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), Death on the Nile (2022), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Calvary (2014).
List of Best Movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A mysterious Inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guests following the suicide of a young woman.
Style:
surprise ending, thought provoking, serious, period piece, talky ...
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, inspector, whodunit, uncover truth, introspection, law enforcement, family problems, haunted by the past, justice, rich and poor ...
Time:
year 1912, 1910s, 20th century, edwardian era
Place:
england, britain, united kingdom
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of the killer before he or she ...
Style:
detective, mind bending, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
whodunit, murder mystery, amateur detective, female detective, murder, hollywood, poisoning, beach, who done it, destiny, riddles and clues, actor's life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A New York detective teams investigates the death of his daughter who was murdered while on her honeymoon in London, and recruits the help of Scandinavian journalist when other couples throughout Europe suffer a similar fate.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder investigation, psycho killer, ex husband ex wife relationship, maniac, brutality, homicide detective, murder, police investigation, investigation, coroner, honeymoon ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
stockholm sweden, munich germany, amsterdam, madrid, london ...
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1.6M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, clever, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, plot twist, secret, magic, magician, rivalry, illusionist, stage magic, uninhibited rivalry, deception, secrets ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, future, edwardian era, turn of the century ...
Place:
london, peru, colorado, los angeles, britain ...
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15K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store, In Fabric follows a cursed dress as it passes from person to person with devastating consequences.
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, surreal, absurd, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nightmare, absurdism, supernatural, car accident, blood, fired from the job, witch, couple relations, sexual relations, occult, public masturbation, cursed object ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 70s, 80s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Style:
suspense, detective, suspenseful, surprise ending, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, whodunit, investigation, murder mystery, murder, twists and turns, justice, private detective, railway, multiple suspects, conspiracy, nobility ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1935, 70s
Place:
new york, turkey, persia, britain, greece ...
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14K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Jackie is a CCTV operator. Each day, she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she hoped ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, clever, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
video surveillance, revenge, haunted by the past, stalking, rape, voyeurism, sexual relations, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, vengeance, danger ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
glasgow scotland, britain, europe, scotland
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311K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: UK, France, USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, neo western, neo noir, surprise ending ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, snow, fbi, rape, native american reservation, murder investigation, winter, violence, fbi agent, forest, native american ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
wyoming, usa
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339K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
small town, murder, police investigation, psychopath, investigation, investigator, character study, police corruption, murder mystery, insomnia, death, guilt ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, persia, usa, north america, los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It's Yorkshire in 1974, and fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, detective, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, violence, investigation, journalism, police brutality, strangulation, conspiracy, justice, journalist, uncover truth, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2009, year 1974, 80s
Place:
england, britain, northern england, europe, yorkshire ...
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Beautiful and wealthy young socialite Iris Carr is used to being at the heart of her social group, but when her friends' raucous and unsociable behaviour escalates whilst on holiday in the Balkans she resolves to seek out some tranquillity and ...
Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, period piece ...
Plot:
female protagonist, missing person, disappearance, amateur detective, twists and turns, investigation, fall in love, danger, dishonesty, mind game, train, missing woman ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Nine years on, another Morley child has gone missing on her way home from school. Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent ...
Style:
gloomy, detective, atmospheric, brutal, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, british police, police investigation, wrongful conviction, justice, interrogation, uncover truth, clergy, dishonesty, confined, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place:
europe, england, yorkshire
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After 6 years of brutal murders the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire, but things become more difficult for the ...
Style:
tense, gloomy, suspenseful, cerebral, detective ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, police corruption, murder, police investigation, who done it, conspiracy, dead prostitute, uncover truth, police detective, dishonesty, riddles and clues ...
Time:
80s, year 2009, year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place:
europe, england, yorkshire, london
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11K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal fears of the dark and the unknown give way to fear that you have let the evil in, or that it is already there.
Style:
slasher, realistic, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychopath, stranger, serial killer, brutality, paranoia, maniac, survival, forest, scarecrow, stalking, danger, wilderness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, england, somalia
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251K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, ...
Style:
surprise ending, religious drama, political thriller, psychological thriller, informative ...
Plot:
pope, religion, lgbtq, surprise twist, plot twist, terrorism, intersex, clergy, vatican, ambition, nun, terrorist bombing ...
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Sir Charles Baskerville dies on the moor under mysterious circumstances and rumors abound about a demonic hound. When the American heir arrives to take charge, a family friend calls in Holmes and Watson to get to the heart of the mystery.
Style:
detective, gothic, spooky, tense, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sherlock holmes, curses spells and rituals, dog attack, folk horror, whodunit, supernatural, private detective, riddles and clues, who done it, estate, danger, mysterious character ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.
Style:
clever, entertaining, action thriller, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
sherlock holmes, steampunk, intelligence, riddles and clues, detective inspector, hotshot, private detective, twists and turns, hotshot hero, mind game, conspiracy, buddies ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, year 2011, edwardian era, 2010s ...
Place:
england, london, paris france, britain, europe ...
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147K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
Style:
slasher, slasher horror, dark, meta, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, characters killed one by one, mystery killer, asthmatic, killer, characters murdered one by one, roommate roommate relationship, secret relationship, therapist, father daughter relationship, shrine, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation to prove the boy was murdered.
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, dark, crying
Plot:
missing child, amateur detective, dead child, small town, child molester, investigation, child abuse, mental disorder, drowning, parent child relationship, injustice, garbage collector ...
Place:
pennsylvania
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49K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown — but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realize they might not survive the ...
Style:
suspense, scary, enigmatic, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
evil, found footage, fear, ghost, internet, evil spirit, paranormal activity, seance, friend, supernatural horror, supernatural, psychic ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.
Style:
suspense, sexy, erotic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, blind woman, musician, murder, murder investigation, criminal underworld, secret identity, revenge, bosnian war, disabled character, abduction, attempted murder ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, bosnia, london
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying ...
Style:
scary, suspense, bad ending, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, witch, supernatural horror, autopsy, morgue, witchcraft, nudity, mutilation, corpse, dead woman, supernatural power, mysterious death ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2017
Place:
new england, salem massachusetts, london
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won't give her a promised dowry, writer Salome ...
Style:
detective, captivating, costume drama, non-linear, surprise ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder mystery, whodunit, investigator, murder, honeymoon, murder investigation, private detective, boat, police inspector, justice, investigation, unrequited love ...
Time:
1930s, pre world war two, year 1937, 1910s, 2020s ...
Place:
egypt, belgium, london
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy, Canada, Japan, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting ...
Style:
fairy tale, atmospheric, visually appealing, surreal, gothic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, date night ...
Plot:
fantasy world, magic, escape from reality, imaginary kingdom, magical, transformation, alice in wonderland, teenage girl, imaginary, cat, animal, dream ...
Time:
19th century, year 2010, 1870s, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place:
england, cornwall, london, china
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68K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, meditative, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
death threat, priest, confession, catholic priest, death, small town, existentialism, clergy, character study, human nature, goodhearted, social relations ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An aging con artist cannot believe his luck when he meets a wealthy widow and marks her as his next target. But she hides a secret of her own.
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, captivating, atmospheric, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
delusion, elderly, rich woman, deception, ruse, criminal, embezzler, online dating, male female relationship, money, old woman, lie ...
Time:
year 1948, year 2019, year 1943, year 2009, 2000s ...
Place:
usa, england, london, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
senior citizen, missing person, flashback, alzheimer's disease, dementia, disappearance, old woman, forgetfulness, sister, girlfriend, aging, uncover truth ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an unsolved 50-year old case. Holmes' memory isn't what it used to be, ...
Style:
clever, sexy, tense, period piece, sad ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
sherlock holmes, private detective, elderly, uncover truth, character study, one last case, who done it, haunted by the past, memory, retirement, husband wife relationship, confusion ...
Time:
year 2015, 1940s, future, edwardian era, 1910s ...
Place:
england, japan, britain, europe, asia ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only ...
Style:
suspense, period piece, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
organized crime, tailor, murderer, gangster, englishman, gang, irish mob, mobster, mob hit, fighting crime, criminal gang, changing lives ...
Time:
1950s, year 1956, 50s
Place:
chicago, london
Is relevant?
104K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must visit Portland to find the mysterious person who stole his beloved foraging pig.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, bloody, inspirational ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cooking, recluse, cabin in the woods, forest, mausoleum, wilderness, loner, fight club, human animal relationship, grief, wildlife, animal human communication ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
portland oregon, oregon
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