Category Archives: Mystery
Vivarium
Release 2019
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Director: Lorcan Finnegan
Writers: Lorcan Finnegan, Garret Shanley, Garret Shanley
Stars: Imogen Poots, Danielle Ryan, Molly McCann, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonathan Aris
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8368406/
A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.
Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears
Release 2020
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Director: Tony Tilse
Writers: Deb Cox
Stars: Essie Davis, Ashleigh Cummings, Rupert Penry-Jones, Miriam Margolyes, Jacqueline McKenzie
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9010738/
After freeing a young girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, Phryne Fisher begins to unravel a mystery concerning priceless emeralds, ancient curses and the truth behind the suspicious disappearance of Shirin's forgotten tribe.
The Invisible Man
Release 2020
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Director: Leigh Whannell
Writers: Leigh Whannell, Leigh Whannell, H.G. Wells
Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051906/
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Brahms: The Boy II
Release 2020
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Director: William Brent Bell
Writers: Stacey Menear
Stars: Katie Holmes, Owain Yeoman, Christopher Convery, Ralph Ineson, Anjali Jay
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9173418/
After a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their young son soon makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms.
The Postcard Killings
Release 2020
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Director: Danis Tanovic
Writers: Liza Marklund, Liza Marklund, James Patterson
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Famke Janssen, Naomi Battrick, Ruairi O'Connor, Cush Jumbo
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4106514/
A New York detective investigates the death of his daughter who was murdered while on her honeymoon in London; he recruits the help of a Scandinavian journalist when other couples throughout Europe suffer a similar fate.
Spenser Confidential
Release 2020
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Director: Peter Berg
Writers: Sean O'Keefe, Brian Helgeland, Ace Atkins
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Colleen Camp, Iliza Shlesinger, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8629748/
When two Boston police officers are murdered, ex-cop Spenser teams up with his no-nonsense roommate, Hawk, to take down criminals.
The Last Thing He Wanted
Release 2020
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Director: Dee Rees
Writers: Joan Didion, Dee Rees, Marco Villalobos
Stars: Rosie Perez, Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Willem Dafoe, Edi Gathegi
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7456312/
A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel.
Black Christmas
Release 2019
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Sophia Takal
Writers: Sophia Takal, April Wolfe
Stars: Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10481868/
A group of female students are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young sorority pledges discover that the killer is part of an underground college conspiracy.
The Good Liar
Release 2019
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Director: Bill Condon
Writers: Jeffrey Hatcher, Nicholas Searle
Stars: Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Russell Tovey
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5563334/
Consummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with the ultimate stakes.
Motherless Brooklyn
Release 2019
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Director: Edward Norton
Writers: Jonathan Lethem, Edward Norton
Stars: Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385887/
In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.