A telephone operator living an empty, amoral life finds God and loses him again.
Year: 1991
Director: Michael Tolkin
Cast: Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Darwyn Carson
Run time: 100 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
The Rapture
Murder Most Foul
When Miss Marple joins a theatrical company after a blackmailer is murdered, several members of the troupe are also dispatched by this mysterious killer.
Year: 1964
Director: George Pollock
Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell
Run time: 90 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cherish
After a martini-induced rampage, a fantasy-prone young woman is placed under house arrest.
Year: 2002
Director: Finn Taylor
Cast: Robin Tunney, Tim Blake Nelson, Brad Hunt
Run time: 99 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Without a Trace
This film, centering on a child’s abduction, casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes…
Year: 1983
Director: Stanley R. Jaffe
Cast: Kate Nelligan, Judd Hirsch, David Dukes
Run time: 120 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Jack Strong
The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the communist block’s top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law.
Year: 2014
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski
Cast: Marcin Dorocinski, Maja Ostaszewska, Patrick Wilson
Run time: 128 mins.
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ghosts of Hamilton Street
In this award-winning student film, a troubled writer questions his sanity as people in his life vanish without a trace…
Year: 2003
Director: Mike Flanagan
Cast: Scott Graham, Zak Jeffries, Kristin Carter
Run time: 106 mins.
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Drama
Call Northside 777
Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a ten year old murder case.
Year: 1948
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb
Run time: 112 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Last Hours in Suburbia
When Grace is accused of playing a role in a deadly accident, her best friend reaches out from beyond the grave to unveil the truth behind what happened.
Year: 2012
Director: John Stimpson
Cast: Maiara Walsh, Liz Vassey, Erica McDermott
Run time:
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Timescape
Before they can complete renovations on their new inn, Widower (Ben Wilson) and daughter (Hillary) are…
Year: 1992
Director: David Twohy
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Ariana Richards, Emilia Crow
Run time: 99 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Slaughter Is the Best Medicine
Vet leads his team of disbanded mercenaries into the treacherous Gallows Wood on one last mission to capture the elusive Professor Black. What was meant to be a simple extraction mission soon becomes a terrifying journey into madness.
Year: 2014
Director: Rishi Thaker
Cast: Nigel Woodings, A.D. Barker, Andrew Gibney
Run time: 97 mins.
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
They Wait
A young mother and her six-year-old son come face to face with the mysteries of two murders and a great crime against the Chinese community into which they have recently arrived from Shanghai.
Year: 2007
Director: Ernie Barbarash
Cast: Jaime King, Terry Chen, Pei-pei Cheng
Run time: 99 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The Drowning Pool
A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is being blackmailed.
Year: 1975
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa
Run time: 108 mins.
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Ragini MMS
Out to relax and have fun at a farmhouse, a couple experience horror at the hands of an unknown entity.
Year: 2011
Director: Pawan Kripalani
Cast: Kainaz Motivala, Rajkummar Rao, Mangala Ahire
Run time:
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
And Soon the Darkness
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?
Year: 1970
Director: Robert Fuest
Cast: Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès
Run time: 99 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Monday, April 28, 2014
Passion of Mind
A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams.
Year: 2000
Director: Alain Berliner
Cast: Demi Moore, Eloise Eonnet, Hadrian Dagannaud-Brouard
Run time: 105 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Painless
Set in Catalonia, Painless weaves two stories: in one, starting during the Spanish Civil War and running through to the ’60s…
Year: 2012
Director: Juan Carlos Medina
Cast: Àlex Brendemühl, Tómas Lemarquis, Ilias Stothart
Run time: 100 mins.
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Mortuary
A family moves to a small town in California where they plan on starting a new life while running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, which is suspected to be on haunted ground.
Year: 2005
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Dan Byrd, Denise Crosby, Rocky Marquette
Run time: 94 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The Other One
A drama with supernatural influences, The Other One follows a young woman named Amber who has returned to her childhood home…
Year: 2014
Director: Josef Steiff
Cast: Grace McPhillips, Nancy Sellers, Jesse Bob Harper
Run time: 94 mins.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The List of Adrian Messenger
Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a trip. When his plane is blown out of the sky…
Year: 1963
Director: John Huston
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, George C. Scott
Run time: 98 mins.
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama
House of the Long Shadows
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a ,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like “Wuthering Heights” in twenty-four hours…
Year: 1983
Director: Pete Walker
Cast: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
Run time: 100 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Harry, He's Here to Help
Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel’s life… and things take a sinister turn.
Year: 2000
Director: Dominik Moll
Cast: Laurent Lucas, Sergi López, Mathilde Seigner
Run time: 117 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Harlequin
A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man…
Year: 1980
Director: Simon Wincer
Cast: Robert Powell, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan
Run time: 95 mins.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Tall in the Saddle
When a stranger arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who sent for him has been murdered…
Year: 1944
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond
Run time: 87 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Western, Romance
Unforgettable
Unsuccessfully framed for his wife’s murder, Dr. David Krane attempts to find the real culprit by utilizing…
Year: 1996
Director: John Dahl
Cast: Ray Liotta, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Coyote
Run time: 117 mins.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery
They Might Be Giants
In a Manhattan psychiatric hospital a man, convinced he is Sherlock Holmes, is treated by a female doctor who happens to be named Watson.
Year: 1971
Director: Anthony Harvey
Cast: George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford
Run time: 98 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Comedy, Romance
Waterland
Tom Crick, a high school history teacher, is having trouble connecting – with his class, with his wife…
Year: 1992
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, Ethan Hawke
Run time: 95 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Black Dahlia Haunting
While investigating the murder of her father by her blind younger brother, a young woman disturbs the vengeful spirit of Elizabeth Short, known in legend as “The Black Dahlia”.
Year: 2012
Director: Brandon Slagle
Cast: Devanny Pinn, Britt Griffith, Noah Dahl
Run time: 80 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
The Spiral Staircase
A serial killer (circa 1916) is targeting women with ‘afflictions’; one night during a thunderstorm, mute Helen feels menaced.
Year: 1945
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore
Run time: 83 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Dagon
A boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring.
Year: 2001
Director: Stuart Gordon
Cast: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño
Run time: 95 mins.
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt
An uproar is caused when some mutilated cadavers are discovered, giving way to the legend of the “Werewolf of Allariz”…
Year: 2004
Director: Paco Plaza
Cast: Julian Sands, Elsa Pataky, John Sharian
Run time: 90 mins.
Genre: Drama, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Echoes from the Dead
Julia has lived with the guilt of her son’s disappearance for 21 years. As she returns to her childhood home on Öland, old truths and lies are stirred up. Who can she trust, and what happened to her 5-year old son?
Year: 2013
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Cast: Lena Endre, Tord Peterson, Thomas W. Gabrielsson
Run time: 99 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Demonlover
Two corporations compete for illicit 3D manga pornography, sending spies to infiltrate each other’s operations.
Year: 2002
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Connie Nielsen, Gina Gershon, Chloë Sevigny
Run time: 129 mins.
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth
The Evangelion saga from TV is artfully recounted, with some additional scenes, in part one see: “Shin…
Year: 1997
Director: Hideaki Anno, Masayuki
Cast: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura
Run time: 101 mins.
Genre: Animation, Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Remember It
Year: 2015
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Secret Agent
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
Year: 1936
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young
Run time: 86 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs is called in to investigate when a liberal street preacher…
Year: 1970
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair
Run time: 108 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Cat o' Nine Tails
A newspaper reporter and a retired, blind journalist try to solve a series of killings connected to a pharmaceutical company’s experimental, top-secret research projects and in so doing, both become targets of the killer.
Year: 1971
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak
Run time: 115 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Asylum
A young psychiatrist interviews four inmates in a mental asylum to satisfy a requirement for employment…
Year: 1972
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom
Run time: 88 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Six Years
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Friday, April 25, 2014
Bunny Lake Is Missing
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Year: 1965
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier
Run time: 107 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Slim Susie
A young man returns to his hometown to look for his missing sister.
Year: 2003
Director: Ulf Malmros
Cast: Tuva Novotny, Jonas Rimeika, Björn Starrin
Run time: 97 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Moon-Spinners
Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome…
Year: 1964
Director: James Neilson
Cast: Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, Pola Negri
Run time: 118 mins.
Genre: Family, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
The 4th Floor
A woman inherits a rent-controlled apartment and is terrorized by a neighbor.
Year: 1999
Director: Josh Klausner
Cast: Juliette Lewis, William Hurt, Shelley Duvall
Run time: 90 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After the Thin Man
Nick investigates the case of a missing man and later a murder that is connected to Nora’s family.
Year: 1936
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
Run time: 112 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Rinne
A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
Year: 2005
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Cast: Yûka, Karina, Kippei Shîna
Run time: 96 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Unearthed
An unknown creature terrorizes an archeological dig in the middle of a desolate New Mexico town.
Year: 2007
Director: Matthew Leutwyler
Cast: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Luke Goss, Beau Garrett
Run time: 93 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The Secret Village
Two strangers research a mysterious outbreak of mass hysteria in a small village.
Year: 2013
Director: Swamy M. Kandan
Cast: Jonathan Bennett, Ali Faulkner, Stelio Savante
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Sardonicus
A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father’s grave causes Sardonicus’ face to freeze in a horrible grimace…
Year: 1961
Director: William Castle
Cast: Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe
Run time: 89 mins.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
The Boston Strangler
A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.
Year: 1968
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
Run time: 116 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Hierro
After her son goes missing, a broken mother returns months later to the island of El Hierro to identify a body. She finds out her son is not the only one missing.
Year: 2009
Director: Gabe Ibáñez
Cast: Elena Anaya, Bea Segura, Mar Sodupe
Run time: 94 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller