Best Mystery Movies – page 2
246K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychological, inspirational, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, rape, last will and testament, unwanted pregnancy, incest, twists and turns, civil war, pregnant from rape, incest rape, torture, lebanese civil war, family problems ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, year 2009, year 1970, y2k ...
Place:
middle east, lebanon, quebec, nebraska, montreal ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
Style:
suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense, detective, intense ...
Plot:
racism, small town, prejudice, african american, murder mystery, racial tension, police officer, police procedural, civil rights, false accusation, police, murder ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s, 1930s
Place:
mississippi, southern usa, usa, north carolina, america ...
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465K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
plot twist, superhero, father son relationship, invulnerability, security guard, swimming pool, self discovery, twists and turns, train crash, good versus evil, supernatural power, a vision ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, y2k, future, 20th century ...
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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273K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA, Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as ...
Style:
sexy, melancholic, touching, sexual, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, coming of age, holocaust, nazi, first love, trial, world war two, older woman younger man sex, sex, unlikely couple ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1966, year 1958, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
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46K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...
Style:
creepy, frightening, scary, sexy, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, violent, sadism, investigation, videotaping, macabre, voyeurism, death, violence, loser, research ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, madrid, europe
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225K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, tech noir, mind bending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
memory, investigation, alternate reality, cyberpunk, distopia, amnesia, alien race, dream, virtual reality, mind control, memory loss, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, year 1998, distant future, 1940s, 90s ...
Place:
persia
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191K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her. A thriller that unfolds entirely on computer screens.
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, detective ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, missing person, father daughter relationship, social media, missing child, mysterious disappearance, internet, search and rescue, disappearance, instagram, presumed dead, missing daughter ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, future, year 2015, year 1971 ...
Place:
persia, california, pittsburgh
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Spain, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, ...
Style:
surprise ending, clever, enigmatic, twist ending, mysterious ...
Plot:
psychic, supernatural, mind game, supernatural ability, nightmare, uncover truth, surveillance, paranormal, clairvoyance, levitation, obsession, partner ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2011, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, columbus ohio, seattle
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530K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Style:
realistic, brutal, harsh, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
revenge, cia, drug cartel, drug smuggling, hitman, brutality, fbi, fbi agent, black ops, cia agent, vigilantism, murder ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
mexico, usa, texas, tucson arizona, arizona ...
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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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290K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, whodunit, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, investigation, motel, murder, mental disorder, split personality, mental illness ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, nevada
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374K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double ...
Style:
neo noir, detective, atmospheric, cult classic, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
private detective, corruption, femme fatale, investigation, police, whodunit, murder, twists and turns, conspiracy, murder mystery, father daughter incest, domestic violence ...
Time:
20th century, year 1937, 1930s, year 1974
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, eastern europe, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.
Style:
clever, captivating, serious, sexy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom, lawyer, court, courtroom drama, legal, murder, twists and turns, trial, legal investigation, mind game, hotshot lawyer, arrest ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, peru, san francisco, las vegas ...
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France, Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne ...
Style:
exciting, intense, action thriller, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
cia, conspiracy, spy, espionage, secret agent, corruption, secret service, escapades, hitman, tough guy, fighting the system, one man army ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
langley virginia, new york, moscow russia, tangier morocco, paris france ...
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151K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn’t real when the lights went out…and now her little brother, Martin, is experiencing the same unexplained and ...
Style:
dark, creepy, suspenseful, scary, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, paranormal, supernatural, macabre, child in peril, mental illness, darkness, brother sister relationship, haunted, depression, paranormal phenomena, sibling relationship ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
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80K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, mind bending, cerebral, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, revenge, medieval, determination, uncover truth, asian, mentally challenged, mother, mental disorder, police brutality, overprotective mother ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, east asia, korea, tokyo
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348K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and ...
Style:
touching, visually appealing, period piece, visually stunning, fairy tale ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
steampunk, orphan, friendship, filmmaking, boy, childhood, street kid, longing, robot, harry potter, magical, destiny ...
Time:
year 2011, post world war one, 20th century, year 1931, 1930s ...
Place:
paris france, france, madagascar, iran, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 206 min.
Story:
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, detective, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, native american, courtroom, genocide, fbi, interracial marriage, greed, true crime, serial murder, american indian, oil, oil field ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, washington d.c.
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608K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited ...
Style:
neo noir, visually appealing, sexy, philosophical, stylized ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
superhero, alternate reality, moral dilemma, anti hero, superhuman powers, cold war, alternate history, conspiracy, human nature, parallel world, masked vigilante, one against many ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 2000s, 1940s, future ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c., america, los angeles, vietnam ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about ...
Style:
neo noir, detective, realistic, enigmatic, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, police, murder mystery, rape, police investigation, twists and turns, unsolved crime, police detective, murder investigation, murderer, suspicion, investigation ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, year 1986, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
south korea, east asia, korea, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Style:
disturbing, detective, touching, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
investigation, military, guilt, army investigation, murder investigation, cover up, war crime, veteran, evidence, loss of son, war on terror, trauma ...
Time:
post world war two, year 2007, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
iraq, new mexico, afghanistan, tennessee, persia ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
Style:
suspense, clever, touching, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, investigation, rape, murder, murder mystery, murderer, lawyer, writers, justice, passion, investigator, homicide ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, y2k, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
latin america, argentina, south america, harvard university, buenos aires argentina
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410K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
Style:
gothic, dark, scary, atmospheric, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick, teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, witch, ghost, murder, investigation, supernatural horror, magical, witchcraft, small town, horseman, goth, legends and myths ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century, 90s, year 1999 ...
Place:
new york, new york state, britain, america, madagascar
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A college student relives the day of her murder over and over again as she tries to discover her killer's identity.
Style:
slasher, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, horror for children
Plot:
time loop, time travel, college, college student, mystery killer, murder, dying repeatedly, twists and turns, repeated event, surprise birthday party, masked villain, masked killer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
arizona, louisiana
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.
Style:
neo noir, detective, suspenseful, funny, dark ...
Audience:
date night, kids
Plot:
private detective, closeted homosexual, small town, murder mystery, private investigator, missing girl, investigation, kidnapping, murder, evidence, murder investigation, who done it ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
After Dr. Bill Hartford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, psychological, artsy, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
marriage, secret society, christmas, orgy, voyeurism, obsession, sex, disguise, dream, adultery, doctor, nudity ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, seattle, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.
Style:
gothic, suspense, postmodern, psychological horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
murder, time travel, fashion designer, rape, nostalgia, nightmare, brothel, female serial killer, plot twist, grandmother granddaughter relationship, female teacher, suicide of mother ...
Time:
60s, 2020s, year 1960, year 1969, year 1965 ...
Place:
london, england
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78K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Style:
surprise ending, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
twists and turns, murder, investigation, missing person, uncover truth, corpse, adulterous husband, haunted by the past, vengeance, morgue, spouse killer, adultery ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, barcelona
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389K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: "Get Jack Reacher!" So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher ...
Style:
detective, exciting, suspenseful, serious, saga ...
Audience:
girls' night, family friendly, teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
loner, sniper, one man army, investigation, murder, vigilante, vigilantism, lone hero, hitman, tough guy, expert, gunfight ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, iraq, seattle, pennsylvania, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style:
gloomy, political thriller, sincere, political, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surveillance, cold war, spy, communism, berlin wall, stasi, politics, redemption, espionage, iron curtain, life philosophy, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
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