Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Michelle Williams, Mark Ruffalo, Ted Levine, John Carroll Lynch, Elias Koteas, Nellie Sciutto, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow and Emily Mortimer. Categories: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2010.
Mystery in Shutter Island
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) investigates the murder of a prominent physicist with the help of his daughter Vittoria (Ayelet Zurer). As the trail leads them to the Vatican, Robert and Vittoria find clues linking the murder, as well as the kidnapping of four cardinals, to the Illuminati, a powerful ancient group long thought to be extinct. With the group intending to carry out a terrorist attack during a papal conclave, Robert and Vittoria must discover the truth before more innocent lives are lost. Directed by Ron Howard. With Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, David Pasquesi, Cosimo Fusco and Armin Mueller-Stahl. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2009.
Mystery in Angels & Demons
District attorney Mark Hunter (Michael Douglas) has been putting the toughest criminals behind bars for years and is much admired. But when a young journalist (Jesse Metcalfe) decides to investigate him, he discovers Hunter is corrupt. To expose this trusted figure, the journalist comes up with a risky scheme in which he poses as a murder suspect. Directed by Peter Hyams. Categories: Drama, Mystery. Year: 2009.
Mystery in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Max (Shane West), is an unsuspecting young man who gets caught up in international espionage when he receives a mysterious package in the mail. It contains a cell phone that gives him instructions on where to go and what to do. When he follows these instructions, he receives huge amounts of money, but also discovers that people are trying to kill him. Edward Burns, Ving Rhames and Martin Sheen play government agents who tail him. But can he trust them? Directed by Greg Marcks. With Yuriy Kutsenko and Sandra De Sousa. Categories: Action, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2009.
Mystery in Echelon Conspiracy
Directed by Terry Gilliam. With Christopher Plummer, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger, Verne Troyer, Colin Farrell, Tom Waits, Jude Law and Lily Cole. Categories: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery. Year: 2009.
Mystery in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga play two loving parents who decide to adopt a third child. They hope to bring joy into her life and theirs, but Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), the girl they adopt, has a dark secret. She is no ordinary child, and anyone who crosses her soon finds that out, as they suffer accidents and even death. Her adopted parents don't know what to do with a girl who looks so angelic but is really anything but. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. With CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett, Karel Roden and Aryana Engineer. Categories: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2009.
Mystery in Orphan
Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin), the bumbling French detective, returns in a new adventure. Teaming up with an equally inept squad on international law enforcement officers, Clouseau must stop a globe-trotting thief who specializes in stealing historical artifacts. Directed by Harald Zwart. With Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia, Yuki Matsuzaki, Alfred Molina, Aishwarya Rai and John Cleese. Categories: Comedy, Mystery, Crime. Year: 2009.
Mystery in The Pink Panther 2
Robert Downey Jr. is the latest actor to play the famed British detective Sherlock Holmes. In this new version, he gets involved in a murder case where there is some suspicion that the victim rose from the dead. He has to contend with an arch-villain (Mark Strong) and an enticing femme fatale (Rachel McAdams). But with his trusty friend, Dr. Watson (Jude Law) by his side, he's ready for anything. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Categories: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery. Year: 2009.
Mystery in Sherlock Holmes
When a mysterious epidemic of blindness sweeps over a city and panics its citizens, the US Minister of Health (Sandra Oh) responds by placing the afflicted into strict quarantine. Meant to keep the newly blind safe until a cure is developed and order is restored, the plan proves to have unexpected consequences when a renegade patient (Gael García Bernal) proclaims himself ruler of the hospital and his followers take control of the facilities. Amongst the chaos, a woman (Julianne Moore) who followed her afflicted husband (Mark Ruffalo) into quarantine and has kept her health a secret, bands together with a group of strangers to find their way to freedom. Directed by Fernando Meirelles. With Alice Braga and Danny Glover. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2008.
Mystery in Blindness
In 1920s Los Angeles, Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie), a single mother and telephone operator, returns home from work to discover that her son Walter (Gattlin Griffith) is missing. After an unsuccessful five month search, police eventually return a boy to her who claims to be he son. When Christine refuses to accept the lie, the police brand her as a delusional, unfit mother. With nowhere left to turn, Christine gets a helping hand from Reverend Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich), who is determined to confront city authorities and expose the corruption in the LAPD. Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Colm Feore, Denis O'Hare and Jeffrey Donovan. Categories: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Based on a True Story. Year: 2008.
Mystery in Changeling
When a building-sized monster begins to wreak havoc upon New York City, a group of friends flee a going-away party armed with only a handheld camera. As they attempt to avoid the behemoth's path of destruction, the friends record their escape over previously recorded footage. With no time to spare, the group must make the difficult decision whether or not to stray from their course to locate a missing friend. Directed by Matt Reeves. With Michael Stahl-David, Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Odette Yustman and Mike Vogel. Categories: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Year: 2008.
Mystery in Cloverfield
Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) is born as an old man and physically ages backwards. Abandoned by his biological parents just after his birth, Benjamin struggles to live in a world where his appearance doesn't quite match up with what's inside of him. At 50, Benjamin falls in love with 30-year-old Daisy (Cate Blanchett). And, as Benjamin grows younger and Daisy grows older, the two must come to terms with the limits of their relationship and the unusual circumstances of Benjamin's life. Directed by David Fincher. With Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond and Elle Fanning. Categories: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance. Year: 2008.
Mystery in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Batman (Christian Bale) continues his quest to bring down the criminal organizations that plague the streets of Gotham with the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). But, when mob bosses make an alliance with a psychotic mastermind known as the Joker (Heath Ledger), Batman must use every weapon in his arsenal to put an end to the villain's deadly rampage. Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Michael Hall, William Fichtner and Michael Caine. Categories: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Based on a Comic. Year: 2008.
Mystery in The Dark Knight
In 1964, Father Brendan Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) brings the winds of change to a Catholic school in the Bronx. Already upset with Father Flynn challenging her strict way of running the school, Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) finds an even greater reason to face off against him when Sister James (Amy Adams) confesses that she suspects that he is abusing Donald Miller (Joseph Foster), the school's first black student. Beginning a crusade to discover the truth and remove Father Flynn from the school, Sister Aloysius moves forward with no proof but her moral certainity and enters a battle of wills that threatens to tear the community apart. Directed by John Patrick Shanley. With Viola Davis and Alice Drummond. Categories: Drama, Mystery. 2008.
Mystery in Doubt
With Voldemort's power growing, Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) continues to prepare Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) for the final confrontation that he knows is quickly approaching. To aid in Harry's training and help unlock Voldemort's secret defenses, Dumbledore recruits his old friend Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), whom he belives holds crucial information. Meanwhile, Harry gains possession of a powerful potions book that he discovers once belonged the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. As Harry improves his potions work and learns a few new powerful spells, his friends Ron (Rupert Grint Rupert Grint) and Hermoine (Emma Watson) struggle to maintain their friendship with their hormones pulling them in opposite directions. Directed by David Yates. With Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin and Hero Fiennes-Tiffin. Categories: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance. Year: 2008.
Mystery in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
After serving a 15 year prison sentence during which her family barely visited her, Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) finds herself welcomed into the crowded home of her younger sister Léa (Elsa Zylberstein). Initally uncomfortable with her new living arrangements, Juliette slowly opens up to her sister as she begins to feel a part of the family. Directed by Philippe Claudel. With Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill, Frédéric Pierrot and Claire Johnston. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Foreign Film. Year: 2008.
Mystery in I've Loved You So Long
Kit Kittredge (Abigail Breslin), an aspiring reporter, lives with her mother Margaret (Julia Ormond) in her family's boarding house during the Great Depression. When her father (Chris O'Donnell) leaves Cincinnati in search of work, Kit and her mother are left to fend for themselves, growing their own food while taking in an assortment of boarders, including young hobos Will (Max Thieriot) and Countee (Willow Smith). When a crime wave spreads over the city, Kit sets out to solve the crime with the help of her friends Stirling (Zach Mills) and Ruthie (Madison Davenport). Directed by Patricia Rozema. With Jane Krakowski, Joan Cusack, Glenne Headly and Stanley Tucci. Categories: Drama, Family, Mystery. Year: 2008.
Mystery in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
After two of Beth Raymond's (Shannyn Sossamon) friends suffer gruesome deaths, she tells police that before they died her friends received cell phone messages with recordings of their last moments. The calls were received days before they died, but each death occurred precisely when and how the messages foretold. The only person who believes her story is Detective Jack Andrews (Edward Burns), whose own sister was killed in the same terrifying way. Directed by Eric Valette. With Azura Skye and Margaret Cho. Categories: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2008.
Mystery in One Missed Call
Donna (Brittany Snow), a beautiful high school senior with a tragic past, looks forward to spending her prom night partying with her best friends. But, when the festivities are interrupted by a bloody murder, Donna realizes that a man, whom she hoped had left her life forever, has returned. As the killer closes in, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape his sadistic plot and survive what was supposed to be the best night of their lives. Directed by Nelson McCormick. With Scott Porter, Jessica Stroup and Dana Davis. Categories: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2008.
Mystery in Prom Night
Assigned to spend a night with a Los Angeles fire station, television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) follow the firemen on a call to an apartment building where a woman is suffering from an unidentified ailment. When residents begin being vicously attacked, everyone tries to evacuate, but finds that the building has been quarantined by the CDC. Trapped without any form of communication, Angela, the firemen and the remaining residents find that they are being hunted by an unknown evil lurking in the shadows. Directed by John Erick Dowdle. With Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short, Rade Serbedzija, Bernard White and Greg Germann. Categories: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2008.
Mystery in Quarantine
With Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) dead, Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) emerges as a hero. But, Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) suspects there is more to the story and begins looking into Hoffman's past. Sensing that his secret is in danger, Hoffman works to tie up loose ends, while Strahm attempts to uncover his connection to Jigsaw. Meanwhile, five seemingly unconnected people face a series of deadly traps that test their abilities to work as a team. Directed by David Hackl. With Julie Benz, Meagan Good, Mark Rolston, Carlo Rota, Greg Bryk and Laura Gordon. Categories: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2008.
Mystery in Saw V
When Ben (Joshua Jackson), a fashion photographer, and his new wife, Jane (Rachael Taylor), travel to Japan for a shoot in Tokyo, they arrive a few days early for a short, romantic honeymoon. But, their trip is interuppted when a car accident on a dark forest road results in the apparent death of a young local girl. When strange white blurs begin to appear in Ben's photos, Jane believes they are actually images of the girl's spirit, and that she is now following them. As Jane learns more about Ben's past and consults with experts in the field of paranormal photography, she learns that the dead girl may share a connection with her new husband and that Ben may not be the man she thought he was. Directed by Masayuki Ochiai. With Megumi Okina, David Denman, John Hensley and Maya Hazen. Categories: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2008.
Mystery in Shutter
After returning from a wedding to their remote vacation home, James Hoyt (Scott Speedman) and Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler) find that they are being watched by three eerie, masked individuals. As these wicked strangers begin cutting off their means of communication and destroy their car, James and Kristen realize that their lives are in great danger. When their home is finally invaded, the couple finds themselves in a violent, terrifying struggle with three people they've never met, whose sole purpose is to inflict horror and take innocent lives. Directed by Bryan Bertino. With Gemma Ward, Kip Weeks and Laura Margolis. Categories: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2008.
Mystery in The Strangers
Two FBI agents, Elizabeth Anderson (Julia Ormond) and Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman) arrive at a police station in the Santa Fe desert to investigate a series of murders. They interrogate three witnesses: a police officer, a methadone addict, and an eight-year-old girl whose family was murdered by masked men. Directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch. With Ryan Simpkins, Pell James and French Stewart. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2008.
Mystery in Surveillance
After finishing working as volunteers in China, Americans Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer) take the Trans-siberian Express train from Beijing to Moscow. Along the way, they meet Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) and Abby (Kate Mara), two fellow travelers, and make an instant bond. But, when Roy gets separated from the group, Jessie realizes that Carlos and Abby aren't who they seem to be. Trapped in a foreign land, Jessie must fight to escape from a drug conspiracy and reunite with her husband. Directed by Brad Anderson. With Ben Kingsley and Thomas Kretschmann. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2008.
Mystery in Transsiberian
When several women, including a young FBI agent, disappear under mysterious circumstances, agent Mosley Drummy (Xzibit) asks Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who now works as a staff physician at a hospital, to help him locate Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), the fugitive former lead of the the FBI's X-Files division. With Mulder on board, the group sets out to investigate the case along with Father Crissman (Billy Connolly), a disgraced former priest, who claims that God is sending him visions of the crimes, causing him to bleed from the eyes. Directed by Chris Carter. With Amanda Peet. Categories: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Based on a TV Series. Year: 2008.
Mystery in The X Files: I Want to Believe
Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is back and determined to discover the truth about his past once and for all. Still suffering from amnesia, Bourne teams up with a reporter (Paddy Considine) who has information about the organization that trained him. With the woman he loved murdered, Bourne will stop at nothing to fight his way through a group of highly-trained assassins to finally learn who he really is. Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Edgar Ramirez, Julia Stiles, Brian Cox, David Strathairn, Chris Cooper and Joan Allen. Categories: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2007.
Mystery in The Bourne Ultimatum
Anna (Naomi Watts), an innocent midwife trying to return a lost diary, runs into trouble when she learns that the book may hold secrets of a notorious crime family. Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), is tasked with recovering the evidence, setting off a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution. Directed by David Cronenberg. With Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent Cassel and Jerzy Skolimowski. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2007.
Mystery in Eastern Promises
Young, hotshot lawyer Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), who's set to join a prestigious civil-law firm, is tasked with prosecuting Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), a wealthy, brilliant structural engineer who confessed to killing his wife and entrapping her lover. After asserting his right to represent himself at his trial, Crawford sets out to expose Beachum's one weakness in order to orchestrate a crime with exact precision. Directed by Gregory Hoblit. With David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz and Billy Burke. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2007.
Mystery in Fracture
Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and Angela Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan), two private detectives in Boston, are hired to investigate a little girl's kidnapping when people in the neighborhood are reluctant to talk with police. When an arranged exchange with a drug dealer is botched, resulting in the girl's death, Patrick and Angela blame themselves and have difficulty moving past the tragedy. But, when another child goes missing, the pair picks up the investigation and discovers that things aren't always what they seem. Directed by Ben Affleck. With Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton, Amy Ryan and Amy Madigan. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery. Year: 2007.
Mystery in Gone Baby Gone
After a young soldier goes AWOL following his return from Iraq, his father, Hank (Tommy Lee Jones), a career military officer, and his mother, Joan (Susan Sarandon), work together with police detective Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron) to uncover the truth behind his mysterious disappearance. Directed byPaul Haggis. With Jason Patric, James Franco, Frances Fisher and Josh Brolin. Categories: Drama, Mystery. Year: 2007.
Mystery in In the Valley of Elah
Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin), a high school senior, wants to be a writer and plans on leaving for London to pursure his dream. But, before he can leave his hometown for good, Nick is brutally attacked by a troubled teen named Annie (Margarita Levieva) and her group of thugs in a case of mistaken identity. Left for dead, Nick awakes to find that he is invisible. He can see and hear everything around him, but no one sees him -- except for Annie. With no one else to help him, Nick must convince Annie to lead authorities to his body before it's too late. Directed by David S. Goyer. With Marcia Gay Harden, Chris Marquette, Alex O'Loughlin, Callum Keith Rennie and Michelle Harrison. Categories: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2007.
Mystery in The Invisible
In a series of three interconnected short films, a troubled actor, a television show runner and an acclaimed videogame designer (all played by Ryan Reynolds) find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways. As the actor finds himself under house arrest, the show runner deals with post-production on his new network drama and the game designer faces car trouble deep in an unpopulated stretch of woods. Directed by John August. With Hope Davis, Melissa McCarthy and Elle Fanning. Categories: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2007.
Mystery in The Nines
Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey), a good-natured dog-catcher, becomes obsessed with a cryptic novel given to him by his wife (Virginia Madsen) for his birthday. As Walter dives deeper into the book, he is mesmerized by the murder mystery's use of numerology that constantly returns to the number 23. Finding more and more connections between the book and his own life, Walter sets out to find the truth behind the story, putting himself and his family in danger. Directed by Joel Schumacher. With Logan Lerman, Danny Huston and Rhona Mitra. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2007.
Mystery in The Number 23
After quitting her job as a reporter for a New York paper, Rowena Price (Halle Berry) goes undercover to expose ad exec Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis), who she suspects is her best friend's killer. After taking a temp job at Hill's agency, Price enters into a dangerous online relationship with her boss. Aiding Price in her investigation is Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi), a friend from her paper who has a secret and possibly dangerous crush on her. Directed by James Foley. With Richard Portnow and Gary Dourdan. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2007.
Mystery in Perfect Stranger
Depressed housewife Linda Hanson's (Sandra Bullock) world is ripped apart when she receives word that her loving husband Jim (Julian McMahon) has been killed in a car accident. When she wakes up the next morning and finds that he is still alive, she believes the events of the previous day were all a bad dream. But, on the following day, Jim is dead again and Linda's sense of reality is shaken to its core. Desperate to save her family, Linda battles against time and fate to save the life she and Jim have built together. Directed by Mennan Yapo. With Nia Long, Amber Valletta and Peter Stormare. Categories: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2007.
Mystery in Premonition
Andrew Wyke (Michael Caine), a wealthy, aging writer of detective stories, matches wits with Milo Tindle (Jude Law), the struggling actor who is having an affair with older man's wife. When Wyke reveals that he is aware of the relationship, he challenges Tindle to a deadly game of cat and mouse set in the writer's sprawling, high-tech estate. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Categories: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2007.
Mystery in Sleuth
Based on the true story of one of the most notorious crimes in California history, this film stars Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart as two police detectives in 1940s Los Angeles. An aspiring actress (Mia Kirshner) is found murdered and mutilated and the detectives are put on the case. Bucky (Hartnett) begins a romance with a mysterious woman (Hilary Swank), who resembles the dead woman, and also gets involved in a love triangle with Lee (Eckhart) and his girlfriend (Scarlett Johansson). Directed by Brian De Palma. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2006.
Mystery in The Black Dahlia
Professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre after a body covered in mysterious writing is found. After escaping from a suspicious police inspector (Jean Reno), Langon and his new partner (Audrey Tautou) set off on an adventure as he attempts to unravel the code of the holy grail and solve the greatest mystery of all time. Directed by Ron Howard. With Ian McKellen, Paul Bettany and Alfred Molina. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Based on a Novel. Year: 2006.
Mystery in The Da Vinci Code
After Krista's (Brittany Murphy) dead body is found by a lonely caretaker (Toni Collette), a forensics graduate student (Rose Byrne), whose sister went missing as a child, believes the girl is her lost sibling. Meanwhile, a woman (Mary Beth Hurt) in an abusive relationship discovers a disturbing connection between her husband (Nick Searcy) and Krista's murder. And, Melora (Marcia Gay Harden), a mother searching for answers about her runaway daughter, finds help in her quest from another troubled young woman (Kerry Washington). Directed by Karen Moncrieff. With Piper Laurie, Giovanni Ribisi, Mary Steenburgen and Bruce Davison. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2006.
Mystery in The Dead Girl
Jake Geismer (George Clooney), an American journalist, finds himself in post-World War II Berlin covering the upcoming Potsdam Peace Conference. Having once run a news bureau in Berlin, Jake has also returned to find a lost love, Lena (Cate Blanchett). When Jake's seemingly wholesome and well-meaning driver, Corporal Tully (Tobey Maguire), is found murdered, Jake is drawn into the mystery of his death, puzzled by the idleness the American and Russian authorities. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Robin Weigert, Dave Power, Leland Orser and Tony Curran. Categories: Drama, Mystery, War. Year: 2006.
Mystery in The Good German
A drama inspired by true events about George Reeves (Ben Affleck), the actor who played Superman on the television series. After his suicide, a detective (Adrien Brody) is called in to investigate his death. The detective learns that Reeves was having an affair with the wife (Diane Lane) of a studio executive (Bob Hoskins). Was foul play involved, or did Reeves really take his own life? Directed by Allen Coulter. Categories: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery. Year: 2006.
Mystery in Hollywoodland
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Eisenheim (Edward Norton) is a gifted magician who falls in love with a woman (Jessica Biel) well above his social standing. When she becomes engaged to the Crown Prince (Rufus Sewell), Eisenheim uses his abilities to win her heart and, in turn, undermines the stability of the royal house of Vienna. Directed by Neil Burger. With Paul Giamatti. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller. Year: 2006.
Mystery in The Illusionist
On an annual fishing trip with his friends in the Australian outback, Stewart Kane (Gabriel Byrne) happens upon the body of a murdered young woman in the river. Rather than return to town and report the death immediately, Stewart and his friends continue fishing and report their gruesome find days later. When Stewart's wife, Claire (Laura Linney), discovers what happened, she is deeply trouble by her husband's inaction and questions her faith in their relationship. As Claire tries to make things right with the dead girl's family, her marriage is pushed to its limit and she risks losing her once peaceful life. Directed by Ray Lawrence. With Tatea Reilly, Sean Rees-Wemyss and Eva Lazzaro. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2006.
Mystery in Jindabyne
Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti), an unassuming building manager, rescues a mysterious young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) from the pool he maintains and discovers she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make her way back home. As Cleveland begins to fall in love with the woman, he convinces his tenants to help protect his new friend from the deadly creatures that are determined to keep her in our world. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. With Jeffrey Wright and Freddy Rodríguez. Categories: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2006.
Mystery in Lady in the Water
When DJ (Mitchel Musso) is left alone by his parents on Halloween, he tries to find out the truth about a scary house in the neighborhood. He and his friends Chowder (Sam Lerner) and Jenny (Spencer Locke) discover that the house is a living creature that drags in everyone it can get its hands on - and doesn't let them out. Now they have to convince a local cop and their mean babysitter (Maggie Gyllenhaal) to do something about this terrifying place. Directed by Gil Kenan. With Ryan Newman, Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara. Categories: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Mystery. Year: 2006.
Mystery in Monster House
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose as the thieves use the device to enter people's dreams and blur the line between reality and the unconscious. The authorities suspect that it was an inside job and enlist the help of a female therapist nicknamed Paprika to try to stop the machine before the world is sent into a permanent dream world. Directed by Satoshi Kon. With Megumi Hayashibara, Akio Ôtsuka, Tôru Furuya and Daisuke Sakaguchi. Categories: Animation, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Foreign Film. Year: 2006.
Mystery in Paprika
Fred Arctor (Keanu Reeves) works as an undercover cop investigating the trafficking of Substance D, a drug that produces split personalities in its users. Hooked on Substance D himself, Fred is also Bob, a notorious drug dealer. As Fred sets up a sting to tear down Bob's operation once and for all, Bob begins a complicated relationship with Donna (Winona Ryder), an addict who just might lead him to his downfall. Directed by Richard Linklater. With Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochrane. Categories: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Year: 2006.
Mystery in A Scanner Darkly
Harry Lesser (Dylan McDermott), a Jewish-American writer, is desperately trying to complete a novel and thinks that he is the last tenant in an abandoned New York apartment building. In fact, he is sharing the building with African American writer Willie Spearmint (Snoop Dogg), who is using the space to come to terms with his violent and socially oppressed past. The two men eventually work with and against one other to create their own stories. Directed by Danny Green. With Rose Byrne, Seymour Cassel and Niki J. Crawford. Categories: Mystery, Drama. Year: 2006.
Mystery in The Tenants
Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a teenage loner, investigates the death of his ex-girlfriend (Emilie de Ravin) after she reaches out to him unexpectedly just before her disappearance. To find the girl, Brendan must get help from his only peer, The Brain (Matt O'Leary), while staying one step ahead of an inquisitive assistant vice principal (Richard Roundtree). As the evidence begins to pile up and Brendan uncovers more and more secrets, this former outsider finds himself being drawn right into the middle of a deadly high school crime ring. Directed by Rian Johnson. With Nora Zehetner and Lukas Haas. Categories: Drama, Mystery. Year: 2005.
Mystery in Brick
Parisian talk-show host Georges Laurent's (Daniel Auteuil) comfortable life with his wife Anne (Juliette Binoche) is threatened when they begin to receive videos of their most private moments filmed with a hidden camera. With the police of little help, George and Anne must follow the clues in the tapes to find out who is behind the surveillance and what their motives might be. Directed by Michael Haneke. With Daniel Duval. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Foreign Film. Year: 2005.
Mystery in Caché
In an extremely rare decision, the Catholic Church officially recognizes the demonic possession of 19-year-old college freshman Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter). Told in flashbacks, this is the haunting trial of the priest (Tom Wilkinson) accused of negligence resulting in the death of the young girl and the lawyer (Laura Linney) who takes on the task of defending him. Directed by Scott Derrickson. With Campbell Scott. Categories: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2005.
Mystery in The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster), an aeronautical engineer who has recently lost her husband, and her daughter, Julia (Marlene Lawston), fly home from Berlin on a new aircraft that she helped design. But, when Julia goes missing at 30,000 feet, Kyle begins to question her sanity when no one on board will admit that the little girl was ever on the plane. With few clues, Kyle must overcome a corrupt crew and her own doubt to complete the desperate search. Directed by Robert Schwentke. With Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen and Sean Bean. Categories: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2005.
Mystery in Flightplan
After their adoptive mother is murdered during a seemingly random grocery store hold-up, the four Mercer brothers (Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin and Garrett Hedlund) band together to bring their personal form of justice to the people responsible for her death. But, as they track down the killer, they quickly realize that there is more to the murder than they thought and they are up against a bigger battle than they ever imagined. Directed by John Singleton. With Terrence Howard and Fionnula Flanagan. Categories: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2005.
Mystery in Four Brothers
Filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black) sets off with his crew to Skull Island to film his latest epic with leading lady Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts). Filming is interrupted, however, when natives kidnap Ann and a giant gorilla name Kong appears. Later, after being captured and put on display in New York, the giant beast escapes and searches for Ann while the city erupts in panic. Directed by Peter Jackson. With Adrien Brody, Colin Hanks and Jamie Bell. Categories: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2005.
Mystery in King Kong
Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.), a petty thief on the run from the law, stumbles into a movie audition and gets the part. This stroke of luck leads him to Hollywood where he meets Gay Perry (Val Kilmer), a homosexual private eye, and Harmony Faith Lane (Michelle Monaghan), a beautiful aspiring actress who turns out to be his childhood crush. While conducting some research for his movie role with Perry, Lockheart finds himself in the middle of an intricate murder investigation and sets out to uncover the case's sordid details. Directed by Shane Black. With Larry Miller and Corbin Bernsen. Categories: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2005.
Mystery in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
After escaping from the curse of a mysterious video tape that killed everyone else unfortunate enough to watch it, journalist Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her son, Aidan (David Dorfman), move from Seattle to a small coastal town in Oregon, hoping to leave the horrifying tragedy behind them. But, after being in their new home for only a short time, another death occurs which seems eerily familiar to Rachel. When her investigation once again leads her to possess the dreaded tape, Rachels destroys it, believing that they curse may be put to rest once and for all. Her hopes prove to be short lived, however, when she returns home to discover that Samara, the young girl depicted in the tape, has made an intimate connection with Aiden that may cos thim his soul. Directed by Hideo Nakata. With Simon Baker, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole, Sissy Spacek, Ryan Merriman and Emily VanCamp. Categories: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery. Year: 2005.
Mystery in The Ring Two
Even-tempered psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) attempts to thwart his patient Henry's (Ryan Gosling) plan to commit suicide on his 21st birthday. As Sam is drawn into the complex entanglements of Henry's problems, he loses his grip on his own life as the world around him gets increasingly surreal. Sam's relationship with his girlfriend and former patient Lila (Naomi Watts) suffers as a result, and eventually he is unable to determine where his consciousness ends and Henry's subconscious begins. Directed by Marc Forster. With Bob Hoskins, Elizabeth Reaser, Kate Burton and Janeane Garofalo. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2005.
Mystery in Stay
In the 1950's, Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon), a manic comedian, and Vince Collins (Colin Firth), his cool and collected straight man, are the most beloved entertainers in America. When a dead beauty is found in their hotel room, their reputations are sullied and their partnership comes to an end. But, due to their airtight alibis, neither showman is ever charged with the crime. Fifteen years later, Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman), a young female journalist, tries to uncover the truth behind the breakup and the events that led up to the unsolved murder. Directed by Atom Egoyan. With Maury Chaykin and Rachel Blanchard. Categories: Drama, Mystery. Year: 2005.
Mystery in Where the Truth Lies
Anna (Nicole Kidman) thought the pain was over. On the eve of her marriage to Joseph (Danny Huston) a young boy (Cameron Bright) arrives at her engagement party and claims to be the reincarnation of Sean (Michael Desautels), Anna's late beloved husband. Despite the disbelief of her friends and family, Anna is drawn into the uncanny memories of the young boy and begins to doubt the new life she is trying to make. Directed by Jonathan Glazer. With Lauren Bacall, Anne Heche and Ted Levine. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Romance. Year: 2004.
Mystery in Birth
When Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is framed for a botched CIA operation, he and Marie (Franka Potente) must leave the quiet village where they have been living and set out on the road once again. After promising retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, Bourne is forced to resume his life as a trained assassin and eliminate anyone who stands in his way. Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Brian Cox, Julia Stiles and Joan Allen. Categories: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Action, Drama. Year: 2004.
Mystery in The Bourne Supremacy
Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore), a grieving mother, is trying to get over the loss of her young son - until her psychiatrist (Gary Sinise) tells her that she made up the boy, that she has never been a mother and that even the man she thinks is her husband (Anthony Edwards) is a stranger. As Telly struggles to explain her apparent insanity, recurring encounters with a man whose tale seems eerily like her own convinces her that the truth is out there. Directed by Joseph Ruben. Categories: Thriller, Drama, New York. Year: 2004.
Mystery in The Forgotten
When Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar), an exchange student working in Japan, agrees to cover for a homestay nurse who doesn't show up for work, she discovers the Grudge, a terrifying curse that controls an othewise normal house in Tokyo. Anyone who falls under the Grudge dies a horrible death and passes the curse on to whoever next enters the house. Karen must uncover the secret to stopping the curse before it destroys her life. Directed by Takashi Shimizu. With Jason Behr, William Mapother, Bill Pullman and Ted Raimi. Categories: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2004.
Mystery in The Grudge
The third Harry Potter movie follows Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) in their third year at Hogwarts. A murderer, Sirius Black (Gary Oldman), known as evil Lord Voldemort's most devoted follower, has just escaped from prison and is coming for Harry. Evil guards called the Dementors are sent to capture him. But could the Dementors also have it in for Harry? Everything is not as it seems. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. With Tom Felton, Richard Griffiths and Michael Gambon. Categories: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery. Year: 2004.
Mystery in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale) is a lathe-operator dying from a lack of food and sleep deprivation. When his insomnia contributes to an accident that seriously injures a coworker, Trevor descends even deeper into a world of paranoia. As he tries to understand the meaning of cryptic notes left in his apartment and bizarre visions that are only visible to him, Trevor must face a terrible truth he has buried deep within his psyche. Directed by Brad Anderson. With Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, John Sharian and Michael Ironside. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2004.
Mystery in The Machinist
Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper) is a down-home politician running a gubernatorial campaign in Colorado. With his bad grammar and likeable simplicity, he's a popular choice with the people until he pulls in a corpse while pretending to fish in an environmental political ad. Knowing it can't be a coincidence, his campaign manager, Chuck Raven (Richard Dreyfuss), hires a private investigator (Danny Huston) to find out who planted the corpse. As the mystery unravels, it becomes clear that dozens of people are implicated in the damaging event. Directed by John Sayles. With James Gammon, Billy Zane, Maria Bello, Tim Roth and Daryl Hannah. Categories: Politics, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Year: 2004.
Mystery in Silver City
When reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) makes a connection between the recent disappearance of top scientists from around the globe and an attack by giant robots on New York City, she seeks the help of her ex-boyfriend, Sky Captain (Jude Law), the heroic leader of a skilled legion of pilots. Together with his colleague, Cpt. Franky Cook (Angelina Jolie), Sky Captain and Ms. Perkins set out to stop an evil mastermind hellbent on world domination. Directed by Kerry Conran. With Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Gambon, Ling Bai and Laurence Olivier. Categories: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Adventure, Action, Mystery. Year: 2004.
Mystery in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Having just solved a big case involving a serial killer, Jessica Shepard (Ashley Judd) is promoted and assigned a new partner, Mike Delmarco (Andy Garcia). When the two officers are called to investigate a crime scene, Jessica recognizes the victim as a former boyfriend. When the next case also happens to be one of Jessica's former flames, the police department starts to consider her a possible suspect. With Mike and John Mills (Samuel L. Jackson), her father’s former partner, as her only supporters, Jessica must find the person responsible before she ends up a victim herself. Directed by Philip Kaufman. With David Strathairn, Camryn Manheim and Mark Pellegrino. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2004.
Mystery in Twisted
In France near the end of World War I, five soldiers are convicted of injuring themselves in order to escape their military service and sent into the no man's land between the French and German trench lines. Although the men appear to have been killed in the battle that followed, Mathilde (Audrey Tautou) refuses to give up hope that her fiancé, Manech (Gaspard Ulliel), is still alive. During her search for Manech, Mathilde begins to uncover clues as to what actually took place on the battlefield. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Jodie Foster and Dominique Pinon. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War, Foreign Film. Year: 2004.
Mystery in A Very Long Engagement
In a quaint late nineteenth century village, life seems to be picture perfect. But as night falls, we learn that the isolated community lives in fear of the creatures that are said to reside in the woods around them. The villagers are so frightened that no one dares to venture into the woods for any reason. But, despite the advice of his elders, a curious young man named Lucius Hunt (Joaquin Phoenix) desires to step beyond the boundaries of the town into the unknown. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. With Bryce Dallas Howard, William Hurt, Adrien Brody and Sigourney Weaver. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2004.
Mystery in The Village
Directed by Paul McGuigan. With Josh Hartnett, Rose Byrne, Diane Kruger and Matthew Lillard. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller. Year: 2004.
Mystery in Wicker Park
Directed by Steven Brill. With Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard and Burt Reynolds. Categories: Adventure, Comedy, Mystery. Year: 2004.
Mystery in Without a Paddle
Halle Berry is an accomplished psychologist who works with disturbed patients in a mental hospital. After interviewing one of them, played by Penélope Cruz, the psychologist gets into a car accident caused by a young woman who suddenly appears in the road. Before she knows what is happening, the doctor finds herself a patient in the hospital where she used to work, accused of murdering her husband. Her former boss (Robert Downey Jr.) says she can trust him, but she isn't sure. Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Categories: Horror, Thriller, Mystery. Year: 2003.
Mystery in Gothika
Ten strangers get stuck in a Nevada motel during a storm, only to discover the guests are being killed off, one by one. Amanda Peet plays a prostitute who may never make it to a better life, while John Cusack is a limousine driver for a movie star. A cop (Ray Liotta) is there transporting a shackled killer to another prison. Directed by James Mangold. With John Hawkes and John C. McGinley. Categories: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2003.
Mystery in Identity
Jimmy (Sean Penn), Sean (Kevin Bacon) and Dave (Tim Robbins) were best friends until the day when Dave was abducted a man claiming to be a police officer. Years later, they find their lives thrust together again when Jimmy's daughter Katie (Emmy Rossum) is murdered. Sean, who is now a police detective, leads the investigation and questions Dave as a prime suspect. Jimmy, consumed with grief, sets out on a course of revenge to learn the truth, no matter the consequences. Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney, Kevin Chapman and Tom Guiry. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery. Year: 2003/.
Mystery in Mystic River
Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a talented reverse engineer who is hired by technology firms to work on top secret projects and have his short term memory erased when he completes the job. When Michael begins work on his newest project for powerful businessman James Rethrick (Aaron Eckhart), he believes that he will receive four billion dollars for his troubles. Instead, he awakens to discover that he has forfeited his money and sent himself an envelope full of random objects. To figure out just what happened during the last few months, Michael will need the help of his friend Shorty (Paul Giamatti) and bioscientist Rachel Porter (Uma Thurman), his beautiful ex-coworker. Directed by John Woo. With Colm Feore, Michael C. Hall and Kathryn Morris. Categories: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action, Mystery. Year: 2003.
Mystery in Paycheck
Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling), a famous British mystery author, seeks inspiration for her new novel by accepting an offer from her publisher to stay at his home in the South of France. Sarah finds the beautiful countryside and unhurried pace perfect for writing until John's lazy, carefree daughter Julie (Ludivine Sagnier) arrives unexpectedly. After Sarah's demure and reserved nature is jarred by Julie's reckless, sexually charged lifestyle, the line between her creative process and a possible real-life murder begins to blur. Directed by François Ozon. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2003.
Mystery in Swimming Pool
Discovered by a fisherman and riddled with bullets, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is near death and can remember nothing of his life before his rescue. As he begins to try to rebuild his memory, Bourne soon realizes that he is being hunted and takes off with a woman named Marie (Franka Potente) on a search to find out who he is and why people are out to kill him. Directed by Doug Liman. With Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Categories: Action, Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Adventure. Year: 2002.
Mystery in The Bourne Identity
In the second installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is preparing for a new year at Hogwarts when Dobby, a house elf, warns him to stay away. Strange things are happening at the school, as muggles (students born to families outside the magic world) are being paralyzed. Harry, along with his friends, Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson), vow to get to the bottom of the mystery. Kenneth Branagh plays a telegenic celebrity wizard. Directed by Chris Columbus. With Toby Jones and Tom Felton. Categories: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery. Year: 2002.
Mystery in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
In a future where criminals are caught before they commit a crime using premonitions of three precognitive triplets, John Anderton (Tom Cruise) works as an officer in the special unit responsible for capturing would-be criminals. But, when John himself is accused, he sets out on a one man crusade to prove his innocence using any means necessary. Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Steve Harris, Neal McDonough and Colin Farrell. Categories: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi. Year: 2002.
Mystery in Minority Report
After purchasing a brownstone in Manhattan's Upper West Side, recently divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) moves into her new home with her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) to start a new life. During their first night in the house, three thieves (Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam and Jared Leto) break in and force Meg and Sarah to retreat to the panic room, a hidden, fortified room meant to keep them safe. The only problem is that these burglars know all about this room, and have a personal reason for wanting to get inside. Directed by David Fincher. Categories: Crime, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2002.
Mystery in Panic Room
When four teenagers die exactly one week after watching a mysterious video tape, journalist Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) tracks down and watches the tape for herself. After witnessing the eerie, cryptic images it contains, Rachel is forced unravel the video's message as she races against time to save herself and a her son (David Dorfman) before the week is up. Her search leads her to a farm where a young girl was condemned to die in a well. Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Daveigh Chase, Martin Henderson and Shannon Cochran. Categories: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2002.
Mystery in The Ring
The Mystery Inc. team has been disbanded for two years when they each receive invitations to Spooky Island, an amusement park with a sinister secret. Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr.), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Velma (Linda Cardellini), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and Scooby must put aside their petty differences and reunite in an attempt to solve this mystery and free the young visitors of Spooky Island. Directed by Raja Gosnell. With Rowan Atkinson, Isla Fisher and Mark McGrath. Categories: Adventure, Mystery, Family, Comedy, Fantasy. Year: 2002.
Mystery in Scooby-Doo
In a small farm community, Graham Hess (Mel Gibson), the town's reverend, finds a series of gigantic crop circles in his corn field. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess's faith, which has been shaken since his wife's death. Together with his son Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix), Hess seeks out the truth and learns not to dismiss coincidences. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. With Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Year: 2002.
Mystery in Signs
After a series of assassination attempts on Senator Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman), Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is charged with escorting the former Queen to her home planet of Naboo. While Anakin uses the time alone to confess his love to Padmé, his teacher, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), investigates the death of a captured assassin and discovers that the Republic is building a secret clone army. As new love blooms and dark alliances come to light, the clone army is sent into battle with Republic's clone forces. Directed by George Lucas. With Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Jimmy Smits and Ian McDiarmid. Categories: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance. Year: 2002.
Mystery in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
John Forbes Nash (Russell Crowe) is a mathematical genius studying at Princeton University when he hallucinates for the first time. As his brilliance grows, so does his mental illness, caused by schizophrenia that even his love for Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) can't fix. After accepting a job as a cryptologist for the military, Nash's delusions explode and he must defeat the insanity threatening to destroy his life. Directed by Ron Howard. With Ed Harris, Christopher Plummer, Paul Bettany and Judd Hirsch. Categories: Biography, Drama, Mystery. Year: 2001.
Mystery in A Beautiful Mind
In this period comedy/crime drama, Woody Allen plays an insurance investigator in the 1940s. When Betty (Helen Hunt), is sent to reorganize his office, the two instantly dislike each other. But after they attend a magic show, they are hypnotized into carrying out heists for the magician. Dan Aykroyd is the cost-cutting boss who doesn't have a clue who is committing so many thefts, and Charlize Theron plays a rich girl who catches the thieves in the act. Directed by Woody Allen. Categories: Comedy, Crime, Mystery. Year: 2001.
Mystery in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
The Santa Lucia School shelters orphans and other abandoned childre, during the final days of the Spanish Civil War. Upon his arrival, 10-year-old Carlos (Fernando Tielve) is confronted with the hostility of the other children and the adults who run the school. Gradually, Carlos uncovers the dark ties that bind the Saint Lucia's inhabitants, including the secret that haunts them all. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Categories: Drama, Crime, Mystery, Horror, Foreign Film. Year: 2001.
Mystery in The Devil's Backbone
Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is your average 1980s suburban teenager, except that he is beset by visions of a giant, sinister rabbit and recently had an airplane engine fall through the roof of his bedroom. After the demonic bunny tells him that the world will end in 28 days, Donnie falls for the new girl in town (Jena Malone) and tries to make sense of his life before time runs out. Directed by Richard Kelly. With Holmes Osborne, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnell, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle, Seth Rogen and Drew Barrymore. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Independent Film. Year: 2001.
Mystery in Donnie Darko
The first film in the Harry Potter series, this tells the story of Harry's early life: How he grew up an orphan without knowing he has magic powers, and how he enrolls in Hogwarts and reclaims his place in the wizarding world. Daniel Radcliffe plays Harry, while Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are Ron and Hermione, his best friends. Richard Harris is Hogwarts head Prof. Dumbledore, while Maggie Smith is a formidable witch. John Cleese plays a scene-stealing ghost. Directed by Chris Columbus. With Tom Felton. Categories: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery. Year: 2001.
Mystery in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Liz (Thora Birch) and four of her friends (Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Keira Knightley and Laurence Fox) at a British high school go on what they think will be a fun adventure, climbing into an abandoned bunker from World War II. But this outing turns into a nightmare. They get stuck and start playing psychological games with each, which soon turn deadly. Directed by Nick Hamm. Categories: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2001.
Mystery in The Hole
Joe Dirt (David Spade), a white trash janitor with a huge mullet and an irrepressible sense of optimism, sets out on a cross-country trip to locate his parents, who he hasn't seen since a family vacation to the Grand Canyon when he was a kid. Eventually, Joe's wandering, misguided search leads him to Los Angeles, where shock-jock Zander Kelly (Dennis Miller) brings the overgrown goofball on the air to have fun at his expense. But, as Joe recounts his life story, Zander's opinion begins to change, and eventually the entire city is tuned in to hear his heartbreaking tale. Directed by Dennie Gordon. With Brittany Daniel, Adam Beach, Christopher Walken, Jaime Pressly and Kid Rock. Categories: Comedy, Adventure, Mystery, Romance. Year: 2001.
Mystery in Joe Dirt
Billy Byrne (Max Beesley) is the only person who knows that time is running out. Once thought to be the next big thing by London's glitterazzi, Byrne's fame is short lived and his world comes crashing down. Before he knows what's happening, Byrne is thrown straight into the dangerous London underground, a land of murderers, thieves and talent agents. Directed by Stephen Norrington. With Kate Ashfield and Stephen Dorff. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2001.
Mystery in The Last Minute
After traveling to Los Angeles in search of stardom, wide-eyed Hollywood hopeful Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) crosses paths with Rita (Laura Harring), an amnesic woman who has just been in a violent car accident. While tracking down clues that might explain the events leading up to Rita's memory loss, the pair becomes engulfed in a murderous conspiracy, which leaves them wondering where illusion ends and reality begins. Directed by David Lynch. With Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux, Brent Briscoe, Robert Forster, Patrick Fischler and Michael Cooke. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2001.
Mystery in Mulholland Dr.
Grace (Nicole Kidman) lives with her two children on a remote island in a huge mansion during World War II. Grace's husband is a soldier but Grace has given him up for dead. The children need to live in this isolated spot because they are extremely sensitive to sunlight. Everything is peaceful at first, but when three mysterious servants start working at the house, they reveal terrifying secrets. Directed by Alejandro Amenábar. With Fionnula Flanagan. Categories: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2001.
Mystery in The Others
Jack Nicholson stars as a police officer in a small town who is about to retire. Just before he works his final day, a 7-year-old girl is found murdered. He promises her mother that he will find out who killed her. But as he continues to work on the case, even after he leaves the force, one of his former colleagues (Aaron Eckhart) questions whether his interest in this case is as innocent as it appears. Directed by Sean Penn. With Dale Dickey. Categories: Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2001.
Mystery in The Pledge
Thorny (Jay Chandrasekhar), Rabbit (Erik Stolhanske), Mac (Steve Lemme), and Foster (Paul Soter) are state troopers stationed in no-man’s-land, Vermont. Bored to tears, they pull more than their fair share of pranks while on duty. However, when the state is forced to slash the budget, the state trooper squad fears that their station could be shut down. Suddenly, a dead man and a possible drug ring are unearthed. This could be just the opportunity they need to prove their worth to the governor (Lynda Carter). Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar. With Kevin Heffernan, Brian Cox, Daniel von Bargen, Marisa Coughlan and John Bedford Lloyd. Categories: Comedy. Year: 2001.
Mystery in Super Troopers
David Aames (Tom Cruise) is a wealthy, charismatic publishing executive who lives his life with little regard for others. Everything changes in an instant when a terrible car accident caused by his his sometimes-lover Julie (Cameron Diaz) leaves him disfigured and horribly depressed. Just when he has lost hope, David reconnects with Sofia Serrano (Penélope Cruz), a beautiful women whom he fell in love with after a brief meeting at a party. But, things are not quite what they seem, and eventually David's grasp on reality begins to weaken. Charged with Sophia's murder, David is interviewed by Dr. McCabe (Kurt Russell), and slowly begins to piece together what really happened to him. Directed by Cameron Crowe. With Jason Lee, Noah Taylor, Timothy Spall and Tilda Swinton. Categories: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery. Year: 2001.
Mystery in Vanilla Sky
A young man (Wiley Wiggins) who is asleep travels through his dreams trying to wake up. Along the way, he speaks with people about the difference between dreams and reality. Through his quest, he tries to understand the meaning and purpose of the universe, and discover a way back to the real world. Directed by Richard Linklater. With Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Categories: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery. Year: 2001.
Mystery in Waking Life
While boarding a flight for a school trip to France, Alex (Devon Sawa) has a terrifying premonition that the plane will explode. When events from his vision begin to happen for real, Alex becomes hysterical and tries to get everyone off the aircraft, but only succeeds in getting himself and some classmates thrown off the flight. When the plane does explode just after takeoff, Alex and his friends think that they have cheated death. But, after the survivors begin to die under mysterious circumstances, they realize that death has tracked them down and will not stop until their debt is paid. Directed by James Wong. With Ali Larter,Kerr Smith, Seann William Scott, Kristen Cloke and Amanda Detmer. Categories: Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Fantasy. Year: 2000.
Mystery in Final Destination
A group of alienated Los Angeles residents come together after a young man's death in this atmospheric film by Wim Wenders. Mel Gibson plays a detective investigating the incident. Harris Yulin is the young man's wealthy father. Milla Jovovich plays a burned-out prostitute and Jeremy Davies is a suicidal young man who loves her. Directed by Wim Wenders. With Jimmy Smits. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2000.
Mystery in The Million Dollar Hotel
Caught while pulling a bill-switching scheme at a deli, Juan (Gastón Pauls) is saved when fellow con-artist Marcos (Ricardo Darín) pretends to be a policeman and drags him out of the store. Once the two are acquainted, Marcos enlists Juan in a plot to sell a forged set of extremely valuable rare stamps, the Nine Queens. Directed by Fabián Bielinsky. With Leticia Brédice, Tomás Fonzi and Graciela Tenenbaum. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Foreign Film. Year: 2000.
Mystery in Nine Queens
Hoping her tragic past is behind her, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) works from her Northern California home as a women's crisis counselor. But, she soon discovers that a bloodthirsty killer is on the loose on the set of "Stab 3," the third movie based on the brutal events Sidney lived through. As the body count rises, Sidney is eventually lured out of hiding and back to Los Angeles to help the police track down the killer. Directed by Wes Craven. With David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Patrick Dempsey, Parker Posey, Jenny McCarthy, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Kennedy. Categories: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 2000.
Mystery in Scream 3
Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) is a quadriplegic ex-detective ready to end it all when a string of gruesome murders convinces him to hold it together long enough to find the killer. Bedridden and totally dependent on his live-in nurse Thelma (Queen Latifah), Lincoln must rely on young detective Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) to gather the clues, as she contends with her own unsettling past. Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Michael Rooker, Luis Guzmán and Mike McGlone. Categories: Mystery, Drama, Thriller. Year: 1999.
Mystery in The Bone Collector
Decorated policeman Nick Chen (Yun-Fat Chow) is assigned to defuse a turf war in Chinatown between the Triads and the Fukienese Dragons. As the action heats up, Chen is teamed up with young cop Danny Wallace (Mark Wahlberg), who is unaware of how power and influence have compromised his superiors. When Wallace is offered a bribe, Chen is forced to realign the loyalties that have helped him rise through the ranks. Directed by James Foley. With Brian Cox. Categories: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1999.
Mystery in The Corruptor
Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) is framed for her husband Nick’s (Bruce Greenwood) murder. After spending seven years in jail, she is released, armed with several important pieces of information: her husband is still alive, her son (Benjamin Weir) was put up for adoption, and if she kills her husband she cannot be tried for the crime. With the help of her parole officer, Travis (Tommy Lee Jones), the enraged Libby embarks on a journey to find her son and avenge the wrongs done to her. Directed by Bruce Beresford. With Jay Brazeau, John Maclaren, Roma Maffia and Annabeth Gish. Categories: Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Crime. Year: 1999.
Mystery in Double Jeopardy
After his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman) admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she saw briefly while the two were vactioning in Cape Cod, Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) is haunted by the idea of his wife being with another man. Pushed to an emotional brink, Bill finds himself in increasingly sexually charged situations as he succombs to an obsession with living out his fantasies. Eventually, Bill finds himself at a mysterious party at a huge mansion where masked participants engage in group sex. After being discovered as an outsider, Bill realizes that he is in over his head and that his life and marriage are in grave danger. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Sydney Pollack and Todd Field. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1999.
Mystery in Eyes Wide Shut
Scandals, cover-ups and sex are at the center of this thriller. John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe play army officers and former lovers who investigate the torture killing of the daughter (Leslie Stefanson) of a prominent general (James Cromwell). Their investigation leads them back to West Point, and to abuses by powerful men. Should they risk their own careers to bring the truth to light? James Woods plays a high-ranking officer with something to hide. Directed by Simon West. Clarence Williams III. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1999.
Mystery in The General's Daughter
Malcom Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a psychologist whose terrifying experience with a troubled patient convinces him to devote his life to helping disturbed children. He focuses on Cole (Haley Joel Osment), a young boy who is able to see anguished dead people inhabiting the world. As Crowe tries to cure Cole's tormenting visions, he moves closer and closer to a terrifying truth about his own life. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. With Toni Collette, Mischa Barton and Olivia Williams. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1999.
Mystery in The Sixth Sense
After a series of murders occur in the woods near Sleepy Hollow, constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is called in to investigate. As he gathers evidence, the tale of the vengeful headless horseman becomes harder to refute with his practical logic. Crane's growing relationship with Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci) compels him deeper into the woods, where he encounters the horror first hand. Directed by Tim Burton. With Miranda Richardson, Christopher Lee, Christopher Walken and Ian McDiarmid. Categories: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1999.
Mystery in Sleepy Hollow
After their youngest daughter commits suicide, Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon (James Woods and Kathleen Turner) react by isolating her four remaining sisters from social interaction, especially with the opposite sex. When Lux (Kirsten Dunst), the most promiscuous sister, begins to rebel, Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon answer back by placing the girls under virtual house arrest. Although it's meant to protect them, the isolation only intensifies the obsessions of the girls' male classmates, and ultimately leads them to tragedy. Directed by Sofia Coppola. With Josh Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Danny DeVito, Hayden Christensen and Giovanni Ribisi. Categories: Drama, Mystery. Year: 1999.
Mystery in The Virgin Suicides
For Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), bowling and drinking White Russians are a full-time job. When his rug is ruined by nihilist thugs who mistake him for a millionaire with the same name, he takes time out of his busy schedule to set the record straight. Joined by his bowling buddies (John Goodman and Steve Buscemi), the Dude eventually finds himself in the middle of a big mess after a botched ransom delivery. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. With John Turturro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore and Tara Reid. Categories: Cult Classics, Comedy, Mystery. Year: 1998.
Mystery in The Big Lebowski
John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) just woke up in a strange hotel, without a memory and wanted for several murders. Struggling to piece together his life, he discovers The Strangers, a group of supernatural beings able to put people to sleep and alter their lives. Alone in a mad city, Murdoch must attempt to reassemble his life and save it from these terrifying beings who want him dead. Directed by Alex Proyas. Starring William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland and Jennifer Connelly. Categories: Mystery, Thriller, Sci-Fi. Year: 1998.
Mystery in Dark City
On the night of a heavyweight championship fight, Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage), a cocky, corrupt Atlantic City cop, watches the bout with his old friend Kevin Dunne (Gary Sinise), who is working the security detail for the Secretary of Defense. When the Secretary is assassinated while Dunne is distracted by a mysterious redhead, Santoro begins to uncover a complex conspiracy involving a boxer, a drunken fan and a woman in a white wig. Directed by Brian De Palma. With John Heard, Carla Gugino and Luis Guzmán. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1998.
Mystery in Snake Eyes
After a group of Africans takes control of their slave ship, they are captured in American waters and charged with murder after reaching dry land. In a case that challenges the American legal system, Cinque (Djimon Hounsou), the man that lead the revolt, lawyer Roger Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey), abolitionist Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) and ex-president John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) argue for the freedom and civil rights of the captive Africans. Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Nigel Hawthorne and Stellan Skarsgård. Categories: Drama, History, Mystery. Year: 1997.
Mystery in Amistad
Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is an independent radio astronomer who rockets into celebrity after she finds a coherent radio signal emanating from deep space. Deciphering the message with the help of Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), Ellie discovers plans for building an advanced machine of unknown power. As Ellie prepares to test the device, she stands at the precipice of what may be the greatest moment in human history, or possibly its last. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With William Fichtner, James Woods and Angela Bassett. Categories: Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery. Year: 1997.
Mystery in Contact
On his 48th birthday, bored billionaire Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) receives an unusual gift from his brother, Conrad (Sean Penn): an invitation to a high-stakes game with mysterious, unknown rules. Once signed up, Nicholas enters a personally-tailored, all-encompassing experience, and is soon unable to distinguish between what is real and what is an illusion. Directed by David Fincher. With Deborah Kara Unger and James Rebhorn. Categories: Thriller, Action, Adventure, Mystery. Year: 1997.
Mystery in The Game
Forensic detective Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) is shaken by the sudden disappearance of his niece, Naomi (Gina Ravera), and heads to her North Carolina college campus to investigate. There, Alex meets Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd), a young woman who managed to escape from the same man who kidnapped Naomi. With seven women missing and two already found dead, Alex and Kate must work quickly if they are to save Naomi and the other girls before this sick, self-described "Cassanova" takes their lives. Directed by Gary Fleder. With Cary Elwes, Alex McArthur, Tony Goldwyn, Tatyana Ali, Jeremy Piven and Mena Suvari. Categories: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery. Year: 1997.
Mystery in Kiss the Girls
A brutal mass killing at an all-night coffee shop brings three cops with different attitudes and agendas onto the case. Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) is an straight-laced, by-the-book detective trying to live up to his family name. Bud White (Russell Crowe) is a tough, seasoned cop with a temper, whose ex-partner was one of the killer's victims. Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) a slick Hollywood cop, who takes down celebrities for the kickbacks and notoriety. Together, they uncover a deadly conspiracy involving crooked cops and a beautiful blonde (Kim Basinger). Directed by Curtis Hanson. With James Cromwell and Danny DeVito. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1997.
Mystery in L.A. Confidential
Fred Madison (Bill Pullman), a jazz musician, fears that his wife, Renee (Patricia Arquette), is having an affair. Suddenly, he finds himself accused of her murder and sent to jail. At the same time, a mechanic, Pete Dayton (Balthazar Getty), is seduced by Alice Wakefield (Patricia Arquette), a sultry temptress, who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend. Upon Fred's release from death row, the two men's lives begin to intertwine in surreal and inexplicable ways. They are further linked by the fact that Renee and Alice might actually be the same woman. Directed by David Lynch. With Robert Loggia and Robert Blake. Categories: Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Drama. Year: 1997.
Mystery in Lost Highway
Inspired by the original Woodsboro murderers, a new killer emerges, taking his first victims at the premiere of a movie based on a book about the killings by Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox). Once news of the copycat spreads, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), now in college, finds herself back in the public eye, and once again fearing for her life. Directed by Wes Craven. With David Arquette, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Jerry O'Connell, Jada Pinkett Smith, Portia de Rossi, Omar Epps, Heather Graham and Liev Schreiber. Categories: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1997.
Mystery in Scream 2
Four young, wealthy friends take a semi-retired mobster (Christopher Walken) hostage in order to use him as a bargaining chip to win the release one of the friends' sister, who has been kidnapped by real professionals. As time ticks by, the kidnapping becomes more and more complicated and the friends begin to fear that their plan will leave them all dead in the end. With Henry Thomas, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Denis Leary, Brad Garrett and Johnny Galecki. Categories: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime. Year: 1997.
Mystery in Suicide Kings
Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) is trying to do the right thing. An army officer haunted by a command mistake, he is selected to assess a helicopter commander's eligibility for the Medal of Honor. Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan) died in a heroic rescue attempt of a downed chopper and appears to be a hero. As Serling investigates, conflicting accounts from her crew cause him to question her actions. Directed by Edward Zwick. With Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty and Matt Damon. Categories: Action, Drama, War. Year: 1996.
Mystery in Courage Under Fire
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is a secret agent who specializes in performing the impossible. When everyone else on his team of agents is killed, Hunt becomes the target of a vast search for a traitor in his agency. Knowing he isn't the mole, Hunt must recruit his own rogue group to find the real double agent and take him to justice. Directed by Brian De Palma. With Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave and Henry Czerny. Categories: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Mystery. Year: 1996.
Mystery in Mission: Impossible
Already dealing with the anniversary of her mother's murder, teenager Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) finds herself the target of a vicious killer, who terrorizes her quiet hometown using tactics straight out of Hollywood's scariest films. As more of Sidney's friends and classmates are murdered, tabloid reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) attempts to exploit the story to bring attention to her new book, thinking that the killer must have ties to Prescott's horrific past. With the body count growing by the day, no one is safe and everyone is a suspect. Directed by Wes Craven. With David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy and Drew Barrymore. Categories: Cult Classics, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1996.
Mystery in Scream
Pet detective Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) returns to duty in a race against the clock to find a sacred white bat that could prevent a war between two African tribes. Joining explorer Fulton Greenwall (Ian McNeice), Ventura proves that his unique ability to screw up any situation extends outside of his country's borders. Directed by Steve Oedekerk. Categories: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery. Year: 1995.
Mystery in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
A mysterious disaster deep in the Congo sends primatologist Peter Elliot (Dylan Walsh), Travicom Project Supervisor Karen Ross (Laura Linney) and a team of scientists out into the African jungle looking for answers. What they find is a mythical city containing priceless diamonds and a group of hyper-intelligent killer gorillas who try their best to prevent anyone from leaving the Congo alive. Directed by Frank Marshall. With Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry and Grant Heslov. Categories: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi. Year: 1995.
Mystery in Congo
On the brink of retirement, Lt. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is forced to train his eager, ambitious replacement, Detective David Mills (Brad Pitt). Their first case draws them into the gruesome world of a psychotic serial killer who chooses his victims based on their violations of the seven deadly sins. As these two cops with very different methods work to stop the killer before he finishes his deadly work, they discover that they have become part of his diabolical plan. Directed by David Fincher. With Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey and R. Lee Ermey. Categories: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1995.
Mystery in Se7en
Verbal Kent (Kevin Spacey) is the only surviving member of a gang of criminals brought together for a waterfront drug heist. As Verbal recounts his story for the police chief (Chazz Palminteri), he describes the assembly of the gang (Benicio Del Toro, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollak and Gabriel Byrne) and how their plan went awry. Looming in the background is the mysterious Keyser Soze, a legendary, murderous criminal whom no one is sure even exists. Directed by Bryan Singer. With Pete Postlethwaite and Dan Hedaya. Categories: Crime, Thriller, Mystery. Year: 1995.
Mystery in The Usual Suspects
Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey), a screwball private eye and animal lover, is on the trail of Snowflake, the Miami Dolphins' beloved mascot, that has gone missing just a week before the Super Bowl. Racing to solve the case, Ace is joined by Dolphins publicist Melissa Robinson (Courteney Cox) and his cop friend, Emilio (Tone Loc), as he uses his crazy antics and uncanny investigative skills to blow the case wide open. Directed by Tom Shadyac. With Sean Young and Dan Marino. Categories: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1994.
Mystery in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Following the murder of two Supreme Court Justices, law school student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) researches the judges' records and cases pending before the court. When her professor (Sam Shepard) and his friend (John Heard) are killed soon after reading the resulting brief, which outlines who would benefit from the judges' deaths, Darby goes on the run in fear for her life. Turning to the only man she trusts, investigative reporter Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington), Darby sets out to uncover the truth, despite threats from a wealthy oil tycoon and the White House. Directed by Alan J. Pakula. With Tony Goldwyn, William Atherton, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Anthony Heald. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1993.
Mystery in The Pelican Brief
When a call girl is found dead after a celebration held at a Japanese company's corporate offices, American Detective Web Smith (Wesley Snipes) is put in charge of the case. Due to his inexperience with working in Japan, Smith is forced to recruit Captain John Connor (Sean Connery), an expert on Japanese politics and culture. As the two cops go after Eddie Sakamura (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), a powerful man who Connor has run into in the past, the conspiracy deepens and new questions surface. In the effort to learn the truth, Smith and Connor must overcome obstruction from the Japanese, a high-tech cover-up and anti-Japanese sentiments from members of their own team. Directed by Philip Kaufman. With Harvey Keitel, Tia Carrere and Steve Buscemi. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Action. Year: 1993.
Mystery in Rising Sun
Barney (Jeff Bridges) is a twisted chemistry teacher who has always dreamed of abducting a woman. When he finally gets his chance with Diane (Sandra Bullock), he watches with amusement as her boyfriend Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) tries hopelessly to find his girlfriend. Directed by George Sluizer. With Nancy Travis, Maggie Linderman, George Hearn and Lynn Hamilton. Categories: Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1993.
Mystery in The Vanishing
When a former rock star and nightclub owner (Bill Cable) is found murdered, Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) is put on the case. A recovering alcoholic and drug addict, Curran starts suspecting Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), an intelligent and manipulative novelist. As Curran becomes more involved with Tramell, everyone becomes a suspect and he realizes that he is in over his head. Directed by Paul Verhoeven. With George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Wayne Knight. Categories: Cult Classics, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1992.
Mystery in Basic Instinct
When John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner), an attorney from New Orleans, believes that the FBI isn't telling the whole story. As he begins a one man search for the truth, the details of that terrible day are revealed as the only criminal investigation connected to the assassination is brought to trial. Directed by Oliver Stone. With Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Vincent D'Onofrio, Joe Pesci, Walter Matthau, Sissy Spacek, Donald Sutherland and Jack Lemmon. Categories: Politics, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, History. Year: 1991.
Mystery in JFK
Sam (Patrick Swayze) and Molly's (Demi Moore) relationship is great except for the fact that Sam has difficulty saying I love you. When the couple is mugged after a night out at the theater, Sam is tragically shot and killed, but remains on earth as a ghost trapped between two worlds. Unable to move on to the otherside, Sam realizes that he will have to settle some unfinished business first. Seeking help from another ghost (Vincent Schiavelli), who trains him to move objects by concentrating his emotions, and bogus psychic Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg), Sam sets out to expose the hidden agenda behind his murder and to prove his love to Molly once and for all. Directed by Jerry Zucker. With Tony Goldwyn. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Romance. Year: 1990.
Mystery in Ghost
After finding a severed human ear in a field, Jeffrey Beaumont begins an investigation into a small-town murder mystery. With the help of a police detective’s daughter (Laura Dern), Jeffrey tracks down a beautiful nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini) and a psychopathic kidnapper (Dennis Hopper), and learns that his quiet suburb has a seedy underworld that he never knew existed. Directed by David Lynch. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1986.
Mystery in Blue Velvet
After witnessing a group of mad Norwegians crash their helicopter while pursuing and shooting at a dog, an American scientific expedition to Antarctica is left with no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks members of the team. Soon, R.J. MacReady (Kurt Russell) and the rest of the team realize that an alien who takes over the bodies of its prey is on the loose and could be anyone of them. Directed by Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon and Keith David. Categories: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Year: 1982.
Mystery in The Thing
George (James Brolin) and Kathy (Margot Kidder) Lutz are newly married and couldn't be happier. Together with their three kids, they move into a huge Long Island house. They seem to have made a good life for themselves until strange things begin to happen inside their new home. After a series of disturbing accidents, they call upon the help of a family priest, who is helpless to combat the terrible spirit preying upon this once happy household. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. With Rod Steiger, Don Stroud and Murray Hamilton. Categories: Cult Classics, Horror, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1979.
Mystery in The Amityville Horror
Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is a private detective working the case of a murdered engineer. Hired by Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway), the dead man's wife, Gittes uncovers a real-estate conspiracy involving millions of dollars in undeveloped land. During his investigation, Gittes gets mixed up with Noah Cross (John Huston), the murdered man's one-time business partner and a powerful suspect in this murky case. Directed by Roman Polanski. With Diane Ladd and Perry Lopez. Categories: Politics, Cult Classics, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Year: 1974.
Mystery in Chinatown
When African American detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) travels from Philadelphia to the rural South to visit his mother, he is falsely accused of murdering a rich white man shortly after arriving in town. After Tibbs' identity is established and he is cleared of the charges, the dead man's widow (Lee Grant) requests that he head up the murder investigation. After a rough start, Tibbs and racist police chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) put aside their differences and learn to work together to solve the crime. Directed by Norman Jewison. With Warren Oates and James Patterson. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Crime. Year: 1967.
Mystery in In the Heat of the Night
When New York City advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for a secret government agent by a group of murderous spies, he must flee across the country under hot pursuit. With Roger's life in great peril, he is joined by Eve (Eva Marie Saint), a beautiful woman committed to helping him escape this dangerous fiasco. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Josephine Hutchinson and Martin Landau. Categories: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Classic. Year: 1959.
Mystery in North by Northwest
San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson (James Stewart) is forced to retire when he develops vertigo after a colleague falls to his death. Fergusson thinks he can make easy money babysitting an old friend's wife (Kim Novak), who is apparently possessed by an ancestral spirit. As he follows the strange woman around San Francisco, details of her insanity emerge from an increasingly murky conspiracy that he is determined to unravel. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Barbara Bel Geddes and Tom Helmore. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Classic. Year: 1958.
Mystery in Vertigo
John Robie (Cary Grant) is a once famous burglar retired to a life of easy luxury on the French Riviera. When a series of jewel thefts too closely resemble his old style of burglary, he teams up with the stunning Frances Stevens (Grace Kelly), the daughter of one of the victims, to find the real thief before he himself is put behind bars. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams and Charles Vanel. Categories: Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Classic. Year: 1955.
Mystery in To Catch a Thief
A peaceful New England village is turned upside down when a man's body is found in the nearby woods. As the residents of the town try to figure out what to do with him, many of them feel responsible for his death. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Jerry Mathers and Shirley MacLaine. Categories: Mystery, Comedy, Classic. Year: 1955.
Mystery in The Trouble with Harry
L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is a professional photographer confined to his house after breaking his leg at a car race. Out of boredom, he starts spying on his neighbors from a window of his apartment, noting their schedules and relationships. When a young woman next door mysteriously disappears, Jeffries suspects foul play and asks his girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly) and nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter) to help him investigate. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Categories: Cult Classics, Mystery, Thriller, Classic. Year: 1954.
Mystery in Rear Window
Rollo Martins (Joseph Cotten) is a small time novelist who flies to Vienna at the request of his friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). Upon arrival, Martins learns that Lime recently died in a strange traffic accident. But after questioning Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli), Lime's lover, Martins realizes there is more to the story. Lime's involvement in the post-war Viennese black market offers clues as to what really happened. Directed by Carol Reed. With Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee and Wilfrid Hyde-White. Categories: Mystery, Thriller, Classic. Year: 1949.
Mystery in The Third Man
When Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) dies, he leaves a lifetime of public spectacle and private turmoil in his wake. His final word, "Rosebud,", inspires a newspaper to send out an agent to interview Kane's former wife Susan (Dorothy Comingore), business partner Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten) and others in an attempt to piece together his storied but distant life. Directed by Orson Welles. With Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins and Everett Sloane. Categories: Drama, Classic. Year: 1941.
Mystery in Citizen Kane
After his partner is killed while working a case, private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) discovers that the mysterious girl (Mary Astor) who hired them isn't who she says she is. As Sam uncovers more of the story, he learns of a plot to steal the Maltese Falcon, a priceless jewel-encrusted statue. Sam isn't a man to be messed with, and his rage over being manipulated by a bunch of criminals takes full force as he sets out to solve the case. Directed by John Huston. With Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. Categories: Mystery, Classic, Based on a Novel. Year: 1941.
Mystery in The Maltese Falcon