Mystery movies

Knight Moves (1992)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Lambert, Christopher | Lane, Diane | Skerritt, Tom | Baldwin, Daniel | Wilbee, Codie Lucas | Murray, Joshua | Turner, Frank C. | Thompson, Don | Leitch, Megan | Diakun, Alex | Mayne, Ferdy | Isabelle, Katharine | Wilson, Mark | O'Byrne, Kehli | Mankuma, Blu
Directors: Schenkel, Carl
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A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster’s innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.

Sleuth (1972)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Caine, Michael | Law, Jude | Pinter, Harold | Cawthorne, Alec | Channing, Eve
Directors: Branagh, Kenneth
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Milo Tindle and Andrew Wyke have something in common, Andrew’s wife. In an attempt to find a way out of this without costing Andrew a fortune in alimony, he suggests Milo pretend to rob his house and let him claim the insurance on the stolen jewelry. The problem is that they don’t really like each other and each cannot avoid the zinger on the other. The plot has many shifts in which the advantage shifts between Milo and Andrew.

Scoop (2006)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Johansson, Scarlett | Bell, Geoff | Fulford, Christopher | Lindsay, Nigel | McShane, Ian | Woolgar, Fenella | Mantle, Doreen | Schneider, David | Syal, Meera | McNally, Kevin | Kerr, Robyn | Stirling, Richard | Dunk, Jim | Garai, Romola
Directors: Allen, Woody
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A young journalist student, Sondra Pransky, travels from America to England to interview a famous actor. After the not-so-complete interview her friend and she go to a magic show. When selected to take part in one of the acts Sondra is contacted by a recently deceased famous journalist who is determined to give her his last scoop. He tells her that the son of Lord Lyman, Peter Lyman, is the tarot card killer. Dragging along Sid Waterman, a kooky magician, Sondra attempts to discover who Peter Lyman really is and if he is a killer. What she doesn’t realize is that while she is trying to protect the country of England her heart might be what is really in jeopardy.

Pelican Brief, The (1993)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Washington, Denzel | Shepard, Sam | Heard, John | Goldwyn, Tony | Sikking, James | Atherton, William | Culp, Robert | Tucci, Stanley | Cronyn, Hume | Lithgow, John | Heald, Anthony | Woodeson, Nicholas | Anderson, Stanley | Finn, John
Directors: Pakula, Alan J.
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Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who’s also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the preseident’s men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he adivises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend’s friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the president and all what they have are theories, he asks her to help him but she wants to leave the country. When Grantham’s editor tells him that they have nothing that he should drop cause the man she implicated is extremely powerful. Grantham’s about to drop it when she says that she will help him. But can they stay alive?

Kiss the Girls (1997)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Judd, Ashley | Elwes, Cary | Goldwyn, Tony | Sanders, Jay O.
Directors: Gary Fleder
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Washington DC detective Dr. Alex Cross travels to North Carolina to investigate the apparent kidnapping of his niece. Aided by escaped kidnapee Kate McTiernan, Cross hunts down the kidnapper, who operates under the pseudonym “Casanova”.

Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Saxon, John | Blakley, Ronee | Langenkamp, Heather | Wyss, Amanda | Garcia, Jsu | Depp, Johnny | Fleischer, Charles | Whipp, Joseph | Englund, Robert | Shaye, Lin | Unger, Joe | Craven, Mimi | Shea, Jack | Call, Ed | Lipton, Sandy
Directors: Craven, Wes
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On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson and a group of her friends including Tina Gray, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger. Nancy must think quickly, as Freddy tries to pick off his victims one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save you?

Thing, The (1982)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Brimley, Wilford | Carter, T.K. | Clennon, David | David, Keith | Dysart, Richard A. | Hallahan, Charles | Maloney, Peter | Masur, Richard | Moffat, Donald | Polis, Joel | Waites, Thomas G. | Weisser, Norbert | Franco, Larry J. | Irwin, Nate
Directors: Carpenter, John
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An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realises that an alien life-form with the ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don’t know who may already have been taken over.

Dark City (1998)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Genres: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Sewell, Rufus | Hurt, William | Sutherland, Kiefer | Connelly, Jennifer | O'Brien, Richard | Richardson, Ian | Spence, Bruce | Friels, Colin | Bluthal, John | Butel, Mitchell | George, Melissa | Gallacher, Frank | Singer, Ritchie | Monjo, Justin | Bell, Nicholas
Directors: Proyas, Alex
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John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.

Prophecy, The (1995)

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Walken, Christopher | Koteas, Elias | Madsen, Virginia | Stoltz, Eric | Mortensen, Viggo | Plummer, Amanda | Snyder, Moriah 'Shining Dove' | Goldberg, Adam | Hytner, Steve | Quinn, J.C. | Shenah, Emma | Nelson, Albert | Nelson, Shawn | Conforto, Emily | Jessup, Sioux-z
Directors: Widen, Gregory
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Angels come to Earth to find a human soul that can end the war in heaven. Humans are caught up in this battle and must find a way to stop the angel Gabriel before he takes the soul back from where the angel Simon has hidden it.

Killing Me Softly (2002)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hart, Ian | McElhone, Natascha | Fiennes, Joseph | Graham, Heather | Thomsen, Ulrich | Jason Hughes
Directors: Chen Kaige
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A London website designer ops out of her comfortable but ordinary relationship with a nice boyfriend when she forms a dangerously obsessive bond with a handsome, mysterious mountaineer, who turns out to have some secrets.