Mystery/Whodunit
see all genres ›There's a killer on the loose. But who is it? Next to "boy meets girl," this less pleasant scenario might be the movies' most basic formula.
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Charade
Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant return to work with director Stanley Donen in the stylish and serpentine CHARADE, a blend of espionage thriller and romantic comedy that is today frequently described as the best movie Alfred Hitchcock never made. Bored and rich Reggie Lampert (Audrey Hepburn)...Watch Movie
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
An American writer (Tony Musante) traveling in Rome is the only witness to an attempted murder by a sinister man in a raincoat and black leather gloves, though he is powerless to do anything to stop him. With a feeling that something is not quite right about the scene he has...Watch Movie
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The Draughtsman's Contract
Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway's sumptuous brainteaser catapulted him to the forefront of international art cinema. Adorned with intricate wordplay, extravagant costumes and opulent photography, Greenaway's first narrative feature weaves a...Watch Movie
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Tell No One
TELL NO ONE is based on Harlan Coben's international best selling thriller about pediatrician Alexandre Beck who still grieves the murder of his beloved wife Margot Beck eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a...Watch Movie
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Blood and Black Lace
An unscrupulous business operating under the guise of a top fashion house becomes a murder scene after someone is pushed to the edge. The saga begins when a beautiful model is brutally murdered and her boyfriend is suspected of the crime. But is he guilty or is someone waiting...Watch Movie
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The Stranger
Having directed two undisputed masterpieces, CITIZEN KANE and THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, Orson Welles delved into the suspense film, crafting a baroque postwar thriller that drew upon the style of his previous work, while laying the groundwork for his later film noir classics THE LADY FROM...Watch Movie
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A Time to Kill
In the grounds of a dark, deserted mansion, a blackmailer collects money from his victim. Meanwhile, Peter (John Horsley, THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN), chemist and philanderer, realises that the drinks of himself and his mistress, Madeline, have been poisoned. He phones Dr. Cole but...Watch Movie
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Li'l Quinquin
Bruno Dumont proves as eccentric and engaging a director of comedy as he is of enigmatic art house drama with LI'L QUINQUIN, a four-part miniseries with the strangest genre mix this side of TWIN PEAKS. There is a tale of adolescent boredom and mischievous antics over a summer vacation in rural...Watch Movie
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her beloved uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his...Watch Movie
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Five Dolls for an August Moon
FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON is Mario Bava's deliriously mod spin on an Agatha Christie-style whodunit. Bava was so closely associated with the horror genre that this twisting mystery was never released in the U.S. but it is deliciously entertaining all the same. A space age...Watch Movie
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Silver Lode
A stranger in town becomes the target of a lynch mob in Allan Dwan's feverish Western noir, made at the height of the nation's "Red Scare" witch hunts and now acclaimed as one of the most concise anti-McCarthy parables ever made by Hollywood. About to marry the lovely Rose (Lizabeth Scott) on the...Watch Movie
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The Drummond Will
A deeply affectionate modern retelling of the classic comedies and murder mysteries from the Ealing era of British cinema, THE DRUMMOND WILL imagines what it would be like to be stuck in a world where the strange rules of Ealing cinema apply. A world where life continues quite...Watch Movie
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Dreams of a Life
Nobody noticed when thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent died in her apartment in North London in 2003. Three years later when her skeleton was discovered, her heating and television were still on. Who was Joyce Vincent and how could her death have gone unnoticed for so long?...Watch Movie
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Le Pont du Nord
LE PONT DU NORD is an entrancing puzzle film with the city of Paris as a continually shifting game board. It is one of director Jacques Rivette's most mysterious and haunting works, a dark companion piece to CELINE and JULIE GO BOATING. Marie has just been released from prison, and encounters the...Watch Movie
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The Psychic
A clairvoyant woman, inspired by a vision, smashes open a section of wall in her husband's home and finds a skeleton behind it. Along with her psychiatrist, she seeks to find the truth about who the person was and who put her there. Soon enough, she starts to realize the possibility that she may...Watch Movie
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Satan's School for Girls
Unwilling to accept the official ruling of her sister's death as a suicide, Elisabeth (Pamela Franklin) enrolls at her sister's boarding school under an assumed name to find the truth. The truth, as the film's title makes abundantly clear, involves a Satanic cult with sinister...Watch Movie
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Strange Behavior
The Ozploitation classic, and one of the most unique shockers of the '80s, returns like never before: Michael Murphy, Dan Shor and Fiona Lewis star in this grisly saga of bizarre experiments, butchered teens, New Zealand doubling for suburban Illinois and a killer in a Tor...Watch Movie
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Small Town Murder Songs
When a young, unidentified woman is found dead by the lake (the victim of a brutal and violent crime), Walter, an aging small town police officer (Peter Stormare), is called to the scene of the town's first murder investigation in decades. Haunted by his past, and hampered by...Watch Movie
