Survivors of a suspension-bridge collapse learn there’s no way you can cheat Death.
Year: 2011
Director: Steven Quale
Cast: Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell, Arlen Escarpeta
Run time: 92 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Friday, January 31, 2014
Final Destination 5
Color of Night
A color-blind psychiatrist Bill Capa is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend’s therapy group, all of whom have a connection to a mysterious young woman that Capa begins having intense sexual encounters with.
Year: 1994
Director: Richard Rush
Cast: Bruce Willis, Jane March, Rubén Blades
Run time: 121 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Drama
Following
A young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.
Year: 1998
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell
Run time: 69 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The Ghost
A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
Year: 2010
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams
Run time: 128 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Red Lights
Psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant study paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who has resurfaced years after his toughest critic mysteriously passed away.
Year: 2012
Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy
Run time: 113 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Black Death
Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
Year: 2010
Director: Christopher Smith
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Carice van Houten
Run time: 102 mins.
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Original Sin
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp. Remake of François Truffaut’s 1969 film ‘Mississippi Mermaid’
Year: 2001
Director: Michael Cristofer
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane
Run time: 116 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Case 39
A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she ever expected.
Year: 2009
Director: Christian Alvart
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Ian McShane, Jodelle Ferland
Run time: 109 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Buried
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it’s a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Year: 2010
Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, José Luis García Pérez, Robert Paterson
Run time: 95 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
From Hell
In Victorian Era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders by Jack The Ripper.
Year: 2001
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Cast: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm
Run time: 122 mins.
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The Negotiator
In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.
Year: 1998
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse
Run time: 140 mins.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Mildred Pierce
After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but can’t win the approval of her spoiled daughter.
Year: 1945
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
Run time: 111 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
[Rec]
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Year: 2007
Director: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
Cast: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano
Run time: 78 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Max Payne
Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a police detective whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin out to avenge her sister’s death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.
Year: 2008
Director: John Moore
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges
Run time: 100 mins.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
North by Northwest
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
Year: 1959
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Run time: 136 mins.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
State of Play
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the congressman, his old college friend.
Year: 2009
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck
Run time: 127 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Doubt
A Catholic school principal questions a priest’s ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.
Year: 2008
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Cast: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
Run time: 104 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Grudge
An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
Year: 2004
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Clea DuVall
Run time: 92 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Exam
The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Year: 2009
Director: Stuart Hazeldine
Cast: Adar Beck, Gemma Chan, Nathalie Cox
Run time: 101 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
A Perfect Getaway
Two pairs of lovers on a Hawaiian vacation discover that psychopaths are stalking and murdering tourists on the islands.
Year: 2009
Director: David Twohy
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Steve Zahn, Timothy Olyphant
Run time: 98 mins.
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Jeepers Creepers
A brother and sister driving home for spring break encounter a flesh-eating creature in the isolated countryside that is on the last day of its ritualistic eating spree.
Year: 2001
Director: Victor Salva
Cast: Gina Philips, Justin Long, Jonathan Breck
Run time: 90 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Chloe
A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.
Year: 2009
Director: Atom Egoyan
Cast: Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson
Run time: 96 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Phone Booth
Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist’s sniper rifle.
Year: 2002
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker
Run time: 81 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Sherlock Holmes 3
The plot is unknown at this time.
Year: ????
Director:
Cast:
Run time:
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
My Soul to Take
A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
Year: 2010
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Denzel Whitaker
Run time: 107 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Without a Paddle
After their friend dies, three men decide to fulfill their childhood promise by going on a camping expedition for the lost D.B. Cooper bounty, with calamitous results.
Year: 2004
Director: Steven Brill
Cast: Matthew Lillard, Seth Green, Dax Shepard
Run time: 95 mins.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
9
A rag doll that awakens in a post-apocalyptic future holds the key to humanity’s salvation.
Year: 2009
Director: Shane Acker
Cast: Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover
Run time: 79 mins.
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Chinatown
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption and murder.
Year: 1974
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Run time: 130 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Enemy of the State
A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated crime.
Year: 1998
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight
Run time: 132 mins.
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Ghost Ship
A salvage crew that discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea soon notices, as they prepare to tow it back to land, that “strange things” happen…
Year: 2002
Director: Steve Beck
Cast: Julianna Margulies, Gabriel Byrne, Ron Eldard
Run time: 91 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Eastern Promises
A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Year: 2007
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Run time: 100 mins.
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Monday, January 27, 2014
The Devil You Know
Kathryn Vale (Lena Olin) is a reclusive ex-movie star with a dark secret and a daughter hoping to follow in her mother’s movie-star footsteps…
Year: 2013
Director: James Oakley
Cast: Lena Olin, Rosamund Pike, Dean Winters
Run time:
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Dead Silence
A widower returns to his hometown to search for answers to his wife’s murder, which may be linked to the ghost of a murdered ventriloquist.
Year: 2007
Director: James Wan
Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta, Donnie Wahlberg
Run time: 89 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Blue Velvet
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Year: 1986
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper
Run time: 120 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The Uninvited
Anna Rydell returns home to her sister (and best friend) Alex after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother, aloof father, and the presence of a ghost in their home.
Year: 2009
Director: Charles Guard, Thomas Guard
Cast: Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks
Run time: 87 mins.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Fracture
An attorney intent on climbing the career ladder toward success, finds an unlikely opponent in a manipulative criminal he’s trying to prosecute.
Year: 2007
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn
Run time: 113 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
End of Days
At the end of the century, Satan visits New York in search of a bride. It’s up to an ex-cop who now runs an elite security outfit to stop him.
Year: 1999
Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney
Run time: 121 mins.
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Along Came a Spider
A congressman’s daughter under Secret Service protection is kidnapped from a private school by an insider who calls Det. Alex Cross, sucking him into the case even though he’s recovering from the loss of his partner.
Year: 2001
Director: Lee Tamahori
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Michael Wincott, Monica Potter
Run time: 104 mins.
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Anastasia
The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family hooks up with two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.
Year: 1997
Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Cast: Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd
Run time: 94 mins.
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Mystery, Romance
Christine
A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.
Year: 1983
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul
Run time: 110 mins.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Edge of Darkness
As homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the death of his activist daughter, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence.
Year: 2010
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston
Run time: 117 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Super Troopers
Five Vermont state troopers, avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up, try to save their jobs and out-do the local police department by solving a crime.
Year: 2001
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Cast: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, André Vippolis
Run time: 100 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The 13th Warrior
In A.D. 922, an Arab ambassador is exiled from his homeland and ends up meeting a group of warrior Norseman, who he soon discovers he is destined join.
Year: 1999
Director: John McTiernan
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Vladimir Kulich
Run time: 102 mins.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Devil
A group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them.
Year: 2010
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Cast: Chris Messina, Caroline Dhavernas, Bokeem Woodbine
Run time: 80 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Rear Window
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Year: 1954
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Run time: 112 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Gone
A woman is convinced her kidnapper has returned when her sister goes missing.
Year: 2012
Director: Heitor Dhalia
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley
Run time: 94 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Saturday, January 25, 2014
The Deep
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters…
Year: 1977
Director: Peter Yates
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Dick Anthony Williams
Run time: 123 mins.
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Meet Joe Black
A media mogul acts as a guide to Death, who takes the form of a young man to learn about life on Earth and in the process, fall in love with his guide’s daughter.
Year: 1998
Director: Martin Brest
Cast: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani
Run time: 178 mins.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
The Pledge
A retiring police chief pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
Year: 2001
Director: Sean Penn
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Clarkson
Run time: 124 mins.
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The Stepfather
Michael returns home from military school to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend. As the two men get to know each other, he becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand.
Year: 2009
Director: Nelson McCormick
Cast: Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward
Run time: 101 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
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