Mystery Movies

star 3

Honeycrisp

2017

Honeycrisp

2017

star 3
Honeycrisp tells the story of Hannah and Greta Lawton - two estranged sisters with a turbulent past who meet up to clean out their suddenly deceased parents cabin and repair - or end - their relationship.

Umon's First Exploit

1929

The movie begins with a mysterious murder and Umon Kondo, a Doshin, so called drag-ass Umon, who dallies away lying sprawled all day long, launches an investigation.
star 7.2

A Trap

1965

A Trap

1965

star 7.2
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
star 5.7

Highway 13

1948

Highway 13

1948

star 5.7
Hank Wilson is a driver for a truck for a big transportation company which is in financial straits. He is in love with Doris Lacy, a waitress at the truck-stop where the company has its truck fleet serviced. Frequent accidents near the place leads the company to hire a private detective to investigate, and when the detective is murdered Hank is arrested as a suspect. The insurance company that covers the fleet has him released and he is sent back to work with instructions to investigate the accidents on his own. The trail leads to the uncle of Doris, and one of the part-owners of the company.
star 6.3

The Jigsaw

2014

The Jigsaw

2014

star 6.3
The purchase of a mystery Jigsaw Puzzle from a strange and unsettling vendor leads a man to an evening of frightening consequences.
star 5.7

Under the Salt

2008

Under the Salt

2008

star 5.7
A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films - who's strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes.

The Strangled Truth

0000

Two policemen, intent on their dangerous mission to uncover the truth at all costs. Putting into question the price of their friendship.
star 1.2

Cracka

2020

Cracka

2020

star 1.2
A present day white supremacist gets thrust back in time where the African Americans rule and the whites are the enslaved.

Split Images

1992

A journalist knows more about a grizzly murder than is good for her. All her evidence points toward a mysterious millionaire but no one will believe her.
star 5

Come to Harm

2022

Come to Harm

2022

star 5
When his mother relapses, Oliver is forced to go look for his younger brother in the world of crime throughout the night.
star 3.6

15 Till Midnight

2010

15 Till Midnight

2010

star 3.6
Parallel worlds collide as a secret society policing this phenomena track a man whose wife has seemingly disappeared.

Trapped

1931

Trapped

1931

The Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from Detective Story Magazine.

Three Pints and a Rabbi

2021

star 5
When three dazed and confused strangers wake up in a pub to a dead woman lying on the table with hefty chunks of flesh missing, they must figure out what happened to her in order to ensure they don't meet the same fate.
star 5.8

The Bride of Darkness

1945

The Bride of Darkness

1945

star 5.8
Sylvie, a young woman who believes to be cursed, lives in the town of Carcassonne with her guardian, Mr. Toulzac. He is a retired teacher who wishes to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. Sylvie meets Roland, a composer who instills new hope into her troubled mind. Mr. Toulzac then asks her then to renounce the world and go down a secret tomb he has just found.

They Have Changed Their Face

1971

star 6.6
A mid-level automotive company employee is summoned to the mountain villa of owner Giovanni Nosferatu, only to discover a glossy netherworld where capitalism is the new vampirism, and escape may be impossible.

Ascension

2018

Ascension

2018

After his wife disappears a man uses a sensory deprivation tank to solve the mystery.
star 10

Being Within

2022

Being Within

2022

star 10
Indulging in frivolous passions and contemplating the essence of being, a young woman reflects her feelings that seem to be doomed and rejuvenating at the same time.
star 5.5

Inez & Doug & Kira

2019

Inez & Doug & Kira

2019

star 5.5
When a bipolar woman commits suicide, her sister and her sister's fiancé become entangled in an attempt to discover what pushed her to the brink.
star 4.4

Exposure

2001

Exposure

2001

star 4.4
A photographer's life becomes dangerous when one of his models is murdered.