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Mystery movies

Suspenseful puzzles and 'whodunnits' that keep you guessing until the final, shocking revelation.

Subgenres include: Whodunit, Locked-Room Mystery, Investigation Mystery.

Glengarry Glen Ross

1101. Glengarry Glen Ross

Crime Drama Mystery
7.7

19921h 40min

United States

Director: James Foley

Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it.


Raising Cain

1102. Raising Cain

Thriller Crime Mystery
6.1

19921h 32min

United States

Director: Brian De Palma

Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a dark and troubled past. Grappling with the consequences of this past on his own psyche and the influence of his returning father and violent brother Cain, Carter becomes involved in a series of murders and kidnappings. Meanwhile, his wife Jenny rekindles an old love affair, placing herself in the crosshairs of her increasingly unstable husband.


Dust Devil

1103. Dust Devil

Horror Mystery Thriller
6.2

19921h 43min

Namibia, South Africa

Director: Richard Stanley

A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.


Unlawful Entry

1104. Unlawful Entry

Thriller Mystery
6.4

19921h 52min

Japan, United States

Director: Jonathan Kaplan

Happily married Michael and Karen Carr call the police after Karen is held at knife point during a failed robbery attempt in their home. Before long, one of the responding officers, Officer Pete Davis, helps arrange the installation of a new security system, taking extra interest in the couple's case. As a result, the grateful Carrs invite him to stay for dinner and they strike up an unexpected friendship. However, as the lonely policeman develops an intense fixation on Karen, his take on friendship develops into a dangerous obsession soon becoming the Carrs' worst nightmare.


In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

Themes

Family secrets, Investigative pressure, Double life concealment, Sexual exploitation, Drug addiction, Small town scrutiny

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The Player

1106. The Player

Mystery Drama Thriller Comedy
7.5

19922h 4min

United States

Director: Robert Altman

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?


Thunderheart

1107. Thunderheart

Crime Mystery Thriller
6.8

19921h 59min

United States

Director: Michael Apted

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.


Basic Instinct

1108. Basic Instinct

Thriller Mystery
7.1

19922h 8min

United States, France

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.


Knight Moves

1109. Knight Moves

Mystery Thriller
6.1

19921h 56min

Germany, United States

Director: Carl Schenkel

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.


Bugsy

1110. Bugsy

Crime Drama Mystery
6.8

19912h 16min

United States

Director: Barry Levinson

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.