Mystery

  • Laura Citarella – Trenque Lauquen (2022)

    Laura Citarella2021-2030ArgentinaDramaMystery

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    With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.Read More »

  • Baltasar Kormákur – Mýrin aka Jar City (2006)

    2001-2010Baltasar KormákurCrimeIcelandMysteryNordic Noir

    A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.Read More »

  • Peter Weir – Picnic at Hanging Rock [Director’s Cut] (1975)

    1971-1980AustraliaDramaMysteryPeter Weir

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    Desire as persistent and intense as the sunshine on a bright summer day is what teases out madness in Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. The objects, or goals, of these desires are disparate, though they all spiral out following the 1900 disappearance of three young women and a teacher from the Appleyard School during a trip to the small titular ridge on St. Valentine’s Day. The vanishing of these women is central to the plot, but Weir’s film is never as fascinated with the reasons for this absence as it is with the characters left in its inexplicable wake. Cliff Green’s script, adapted from Joan Lindsay’s novel of the same name, never goes about teasing what could have happened to these women at Hanging Rock, instead focusing on the wild cupidity that erupts in the surrounding community in reaction to the mystery.Read More »

  • Anatoliy Vasilyev – Saiylyk AKA Summer House (1992)

    1991-2000Anatoliy VasilyevMysteryRussiaThriller

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    The recent commercial and critical flourishing of Sakha cinema – within the Republic, across Russia, and on the global stage – has been remarkable. But no film culture emerges ex nihilo. There are always predecessors, inheritances, and vocabularies from which to build. In purely filmmaking terms, the origins of today’s “Sakhawood” lie in Soviet cinema history as well as in the early pioneers of the post-communist Republic; on a deeper cultural level, they derive from the shared visual and spiritual language of the people themselves. As their broad acclaim demonstrates, the recent wave of films have a universal appeal. But they also stand as proof of the vitality and creativity of a very particular worldview. All of this is encapsulated in Anatoly Vasiliev’s striking and (until now) rarely seen Summer House.Read More »

  • Bruce Kessler – Death Moon (1978)

    USA1971-1980Bruce KesslerHorrorMystery

    A manager is sent to vacation by his doctor due to symptoms of stress. He chooses Hawaii, because that’s where his grandfather worked as a missionary. He doesn’t know that his grandpa and all male successors are cursed by the Voodoo clan. Every night he transforms into a werewolf and horribly slays young women.Read More »

  • Henry Levin – I Love a Mystery (1945)

    1941-1950Henry LevinHorrorMysteryUSA

    The first of a short-lived series of films based on Carleton E. Morse’s classic radio serial, this is a movie version of one of the show’s most popular stories, “The Decapitation of Jefferson Monk.”

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    A detective tries to protect a man who has predicted his murder will take place in three days.Read More »

  • Spencer Gordon Bennet & Fred C. Brannon – The Black Widow (1947)

    1941-1950AdventureFred C. BrannonMysterySpencer Gordon BennetUSA

    The Editor of the Daily Clarion newspaper hires amateur criminologist Steve Colt to solve a series of murders, all involving poisonous spider bites.
    Meanwhile, King Hitomu has sent his daughter Sombra to the United States to fulfill his plan for global domination. There she poses as a fortune teller and, with a gang of henchmen, attempt to steal a prototype Atomic Rocket Engine.
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  • Jonathan Lynn – Clue (1985)

    1981-1990ComedyJonathan LynnMysteryUSA

    In this spoof of McCarthy-era paranoia and 1950s wholesomeness, the characters and plot are drawn from the popular Parker Brothers board game of the same name [known as Cluedo in UK]. On a dark and stormy night in 1954, six individuals with ties to Washington are assembled for a dinner party at the swanky mansion of one Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving). Boddy’s butler, Wadsworth (Tim Curry), assigns each guest a colorful name: Mr. Green (Michael McKean), Col. Mustard (Martin Mull), Mrs. Peacock (Eileen Brennan), Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd), Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren), and Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn). Read More »

  • Ti West – X (2022)

    2021-2030HorrorMysteryTi WestUSA

    In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.Read More »

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