Mystery Movies

Off-Key

2022

Off-Key

2022

Hugh Bliss plays a thrifted harmonium that turns charity shop customers into merchandise.

Trick Shinsaku Special

2005

star 6.7
Ueda joins other professors to debunk a spirtualist, Midorikawa Shouko, who claims she knows when people will die. The professors die one by one. Introduction of Yabe's Otaku assistant, Akiba.

Operation Abduction

1958

star 4
The Secret Service abducts a "rocket scientist" to better protect him against gangsters acting for Chinese agents.
star 4.4

Tumbledown

2013

Tumbledown

2013

star 4.4
Inspired by true events, Todd Verow’s Tumbledown is an explosive cocktail- an emotional rollercoaster ride through the dark sides of sexuality. A complicated love triangle develops after hunky Jay meets bartender Nick and invites him to spend the weekend with him and his partner in their country cabin. Soon, copious amounts of sex, drugs and alcohol lead to a dark obsession and even darker complications. Always bold and never less than riveting, Tumbledown is sure to leave you breathless.
star 8.5

Frog and Wombat

1998

Frog and Wombat

1998

star 8.5
Alli and Jane had their neighborhood under control... until their new principal moved in next door.

Girls School Screamers

1986

star 5.6
Seven girls from the local Catholic school are chosen to go inventory the Wells estate. It sounds like a fun weekend until the girls hold a séance to try and contact Jennifer Wells, a 20-year-old who died mysteriously on the grounds in 1939. Their weekend gets even stranger when it is revealed one of the girls, Jackie, is a dead ringer for the deceased.

The Rain

2021

The Rain

2021

A man finds himself lost, walking the empty streets of an unnamed city, with a fading mindscape. He has lost something, but what? It's got something to do with a writer that supposedly killed himself a couple of months back; It's got something to do with a Peter Stillman.

The Raven Red Kiss-Off

1990

Straight to video movie featuring the private detective Dan Turner, based on the pulp magazine character created by Robert Leslie Bellem.
star 5.7

Kill or Be Killed

1950

Kill or Be Killed

1950

star 5.7
An innocent man accused of a murder hides out aboard a steam ship in South American.

The Breathing Method

0000

Upcoming adaptation of the Stephen King novella of the same name.

Temptation

2007

The mysterious death of a young village lass leads to the investigation of those who knew her and what they may have to gain from her death. Told from the perspectives of the different characters, the film examines how one's view may lead to varying interpretations of the same incidents.
star 7

One True Love

2008

One True Love

2008

star 7
Finally after three years of courtship, Migs, a medical intern, marries simple and unassuming Joy, a nurse in the hospital of Migs' residency. Several days before the wedding, his first love and childhood best friend Bela, a sophisticated woman, returns from Canada, still single and in love with Migs. The young couple meets an unfortunate incident turning their newly-found bliss into a tragic existence. Living with Migs turns out to be an agonizing experience as his new state of mind gets more complicated as days pass. A creature of serenity, Joy refuses to name her pains and secretly vows to make Migs remember their love that was inexplicably lost and waiting to be rekindled; faithful that along the way, his heart will remember what his mind forgets.

Amori morbosi di una contessina

1977

star 2
The search for a hidden treasure in a villa pits four friends against each other. Originally filmed under the title "Fate la nanna coscine di pollo" in 1977, this apparently sat on a shelf until more explicit sex footage (featuring Ajita Wilson) was added to the works for the 1983 release.
star 5.5

Electric July

2014

Electric July

2014

star 5.5
In the burning heat of July, Thomas and Victor, two 14 years old teenagers, are bored to death and want to escape. Victor decides to take Thomas to an abandoned bridge. He will have to confront his fears and desires.
star 4

The Lost Tribe

1983

The Lost Tribe

1983

star 4
Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what could have happened, a situation complicated by their city's police suspecting that one of the brothers murdered a local prostitute who was found with a strange tribal charm on her body matching one found in Max's abandoned hut. What most certainly isn't helping matters is the strange behavior of Max's daughter as she seems to have visions beyond possibility, warnings of a supernatural threat and her uncle's fate - and she's the film's narrator, to boot. Edward decides to go to the island to find out exactly what happened, but the deeper he goes into the mystery the more perilous and unknowable his world becomes, leading towards a shocking fate that raises more questions than it answers. (cont. http://view-from-the-paperhouse.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-threat-of-ancient-echoes-lost-tribe.html)

The Peddler of Lies

1920

At a party thrown at the Metcalf estate, the Marquise D'Irancy's Sultana diamond disappears when the lights go out during a power failure. Suspected of the crime is William Kirkland, the wastrel son of the wealthy Kirkland family, but William's sister Diana comes to his defense. Aiding her in the investigation is Clamp, a wandering peddler.

Cry

2002

Cry

2002

Lia is terrified. She's covered with blood and the walls aren't clean either. A mysterious voice is calling out from the other room.

The Pleasure Buyers

1925

star 1
Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own, murdered a high-society crook called Genne Cassenas.

If I Were 1000 Years Old

1983

A long time ago, On a french island, a bunch of villagers saved a girl from being sacrifice by the local lord. To this day the place is cursed and each years, mysterious knights comes out of the fog, while a woman disappear.