Mystery

  • Nacho Vigalondo – Los cronocrímenes AKA Timecrimes (2007)

    2001-2010MysteryNacho VigalondoSci-FiSpain

    Nacho Vigalondo’s time-travel thriller opens with Hector, a married commoner, living in the Spanish countryside, spying on a beautiful woman undressing in the woods near his property. Being a time traveller, he finds her assaulted and he, in turn, is attacked by a weird man whose head is swathed in pink bandages. A total disquieting mansion was thus created on the top of a hill. Fleeing, Hector encounters a scientific facility where a scientist persuades him to hide in a time machine. Travelling back in time just a few hours, he observes himself.

    All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama and suspense will lead to an unthinkable sort of crime. Who’s the murderer? Who’s the victim?Read More »

  • Erika Calmeyer – Storm (2022)

    2021-2030DramaErika CalmeyerMysteryNorway

    Elin’s son dies in a drowning accident, but together with her daughter Storm (10) she tries to restart, but when the rumors start that Storm pushed her brother into the water she has to protect her daughter and still find the truth.Read More »

  • Kåre Bergstrøm – Klokker i måneskinn AKA Watches in Moonlight (1964)

    1961-1970HorrorKåre BergstrømMysteryNorway

    Four men are gathered to play a game of bridge, when the conversation turns to unnatural and occult events, while the scientist among them tries to give the experiences a natural explanation.Read More »

  • Tony Wharmby – Seven Dials Mystery (1981)

    1981-1990CrimeMysteryTony WharmbyUnited Kingdom

    Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent is a pert, aggressive young aristocrat that insinuates herself into a series of murders, stolen state secrets, and a mysterious secret society.

    This film is based on a novel by Agatha Christie.Read More »

  • Nicolas Pariser – Le parfum vert AKA The Green Perfume (2022)

    2021-2030CrimeFranceMysteryNicolas Pariser

    In the middle of a performance at la Comédie-Française, an actor dies on stage, poisoned. Martin, member of the troupe and friend of the victim, becomes the center of everyone’s attention. Suspected by the police, he’s also chased by a mysterious organization, Le Parfum vert, that seems to have ordered the murder.Read More »

  • Godfrey Grayson – The Pursuers (1961)

    1961-1970CrimeGodfrey GraysonMysteryUSA

    imdb says:
    A group of former concentration camp prisoners has formed an underground network to hunt Nazi leaders, who are still on the loose. At a secret meeting in Paris they discuss what to do with the former Auschwitz commandant Karl Brochmann, who since 12 years lives in London under the false identity of Karl Luther. They decide to take the law in their own hands, and send their member David to London. He starts his commission by scaring Luther, to see his reactions. Luther is already nervous, because the newspapers are writing about the capture of Eichmann. When he finds out that somebody has broken into his apartment and painted a swastika on his mirror, he gets terrified. He empties his bank account, packs a bag with all his cash and runs away, followed by David. He stumbles into a night club, where the criminal owner soon finds out that Luther is an expedient target for extortion. The singer Jenny feels pity for him, and offers him to hide in her apartment. It turns out that she is a Jew and was a prisoner in Auschwitz as a child. Pursued not only by the Nazi hunters but also the gangsters, Luther makes a last attempt to flee the country.Read More »

  • Robert Lieberman – Fire in the Sky (1993)

    1991-2000DramaMysteryRobert LiebermanUSA

    An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975. His co-workers endure ridicule and contempt as they are wrongly accused of murder.Read More »

  • Thomas Hardiman – Medusa Deluxe (2022)

    2021-2030DramaMysteryThomas HardimanUnited Kingdom

    A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest. Extravagance and excess collide, as the death of a contestant sows seeds of division in a community whose passion for hair verges on obsession.Read More »

  • Raymonde Carasco – Rupture (1989)

    1981-1990ArthouseFranceMysteryRaymonde Carasco

    Joa (Bulle Ogier), an archaeologist from Mexico, comes to Paris in search of her sister Anna (Mireille Perrier), of whom she is suddenly without news. Anna, a theater actress, was in the title role in Sade’s “Justine” when she disappeared. The investigation leading Joa to the people who have known her sister, turns into an initiatory quest. Her journey, her stroll through a subterranean marginal Paris, leads also to the emergence of a new woman.Read More »

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