Mystery movies

Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

Vibe

Tense Claustrophobic Atmospheric Bleak Procedural

A weary detective just wants to finish his last week on the job, UNTIL a sadistic killer starts staging murders after the seven deadly sins and drags him and his hot-headed new partner into a citywide nightmare they cannot walk away from.

Themes

Deception and manipulation, Obsession with sin, Moral decay in urban setting, Police burnout under pressure, Cycle of victimization, Investigative ritual pattern

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Vibe

Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Measured Gritty

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Detective Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.

Themes

Class inequality, Loyalty under pressure, Betrayal and suspicion, Deception and violence, Informant risk, Authority and resistance

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A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.

The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.

Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'surfing the net'. While de-bugging a new high-tech game for a cyber friend, she comes across a top secret program and becomes the target of a mysterious organization who will stop at nothing to erase her identity and her existence, in order to protect the project.

Vibe

Tense Claustrophobic Atmospheric Bleak Restrained

In a town that never forgets a rumor, a housekeeper once suspected of killing her husband stands over her wealthy employer’s dead body. With a witness pointing at her and a hard-nosed detective digging, her estranged journalist daughter returns home and uncovers buried memories that could destroy them both.

Themes

Caregiving under pressure, Moral ambiguity in justice, Family violence and fear, Domestic abuse dynamics, Economic leverage and control, Repressed memory risk

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A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.

An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.