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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.

Shadows and Fog

1111. Shadows and Fog

Comedy Mystery Crime
6.7

19911h 25min

United States

Director: Woody Allen

With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.


Kafka

1112. Kafka

Drama Mystery Science Fiction
6.8

19911h 38min

France, United States

Director: Steven Soderbergh

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.


Shattered

1113. Shattered

Mystery Thriller
6.5

19911h 38min

United States

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who has supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more...


Cast a Deadly Spell

1114. Cast a Deadly Spell

TV Movie Mystery Comedy Horror Fantasy
6.4

19911h 36min

United States

Director: Martin Campbell

In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.


Dead Again

1115. Dead Again

Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
6.8

19911h 47min

United States

Director: Kenneth Branagh

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.


Homicide

1116. Homicide

Drama Crime Mystery Thriller
6.9

19911h 42min

United States

Director: David Mamet

While investigating the ruthless murder of an elderly woman, a Jewish police detective unravels a bizarre conspiracy involving a Zionist organization.


Jacob's Ladder

1117. Jacob's Ladder

Drama Mystery Horror
7.4

19901h 53min

United States

Director: Adrian Lyne

After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.


Pacific Heights

1118. Pacific Heights

Thriller Drama Mystery
6.4

19901h 42min

United States

Director: John Schlesinger

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.


Narrow Margin

1119. Narrow Margin

Action Thriller Crime Mystery
6.6

19901h 37min

United States

Director: Peter Hyams

An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.


The Two Jakes

1120. The Two Jakes

Crime Drama Mystery Romance
6.1

19902h 17min

United States

Director: Jack Nicholson

Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.