Category Archives: Mystery
The Quarry
Release 2020
Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Scott Teems
Writers: Scott Teems, Andrew Brotzman, Damon Galgut
Stars: Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Bobby Soto, Bruno Bichir
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10151054/
A drifter (Shea Whigham) kills a traveling preacher and takes his place at a small-town church, but the police chief (Michael Shannon) suspects foul play.
The Rhythm Section
Release 2020
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Director: Reed Morano
Writers: Mark Burnell, Mark Burnell
Stars: Blake Lively, Richard Brake, Elly Curtis, David Duggan, Matilda Ziegler
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7134096/
A woman seeks revenge against those who orchestrated a plane crash that killed her family.
The Turning
Release 2020
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Director: Floria Sigismondi
Writers: Carey W. Hayes, Chad Hayes, Henry James
Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince, Barbara Marten, Joely Richardson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7510346/
A young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after their parents' deaths. A modern take on Henry James' novella "The Turn of the Screw."
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.