Category Archives: Mystery
Small Town Crime
Release 2017
Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms
Stars: John Hawkes, Anthony Anderson, Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5751998/
An alcoholic ex-cop (Hawkes) finds the body of a young woman and, through an act of self-redemption, becomes hell-bent on finding the killer but unwittingly puts his family in danger and gets caught up with several dark characters along the way.
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
Release 2017
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Director: Shawn Christensen
Writers: Shawn Christensen, Jason Dolan
Stars: Janina Gavankar, Michelle Monaghan, Elle Fanning, Margaret Qualley
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291566/
Sidney Hall finds accidental success and unexpected love at an early age, then disappears without a trace.
Mute
Release 2018
Genre Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Duncan Jones
Writers: Michael Robert Johnson
Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Seyneb Saleh
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464763/
A mute bartender goes up against his city's gangsters in an effort to find out what happened to his missing partner.
Wunderland
Release 2018
Genre Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, War
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Director: Steven Luke
Writers: N/A
Stars: Tom Berenger, Wade Everett, Steven Luke, Andrew Stecker
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5815078/
Christmas 1944, The Germans make one final push against the attacking allied armies in the West. Lt. Robert Cappa and his platoon of 2nd Infantry Division soldiers have been ordered to hold a vital road junction against the German aggressors. Cappa and his men must find their faith and strength to stand against their enemy in the epic fight know as "The Battle of The Bulge."
The Cloverfield Paradox
Release 2018
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Director: Julius Onah
Writers: Oren Uziel
Stars: Elizabeth Debicki, Daniel Brühl, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Chris O'Dowd
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2548396/
After a scientific experiment aboard the space station involving a particle accelerator has unexpected results, the astronauts find themselves isolated. Following their horrible discovery, the space station crew must fight for survival.
Murder on the Orient Express
Release 2017
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Director: Kenneth Branagh
Writers: Michael Green
Stars: Paapa Essiedu, Yassine Zeroual, Asan N'Jie, Michael Rouse
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3402236/
When a murder occurs on the train he's travelling on, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.
Suburbicon
Release 2017
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Director: George Clooney
Writers: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, George Clooney, Grant Heslov
Stars: Steve Monroe, Gavin Wilde, Landon Gordon, Hope Banks
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491175/
As a 1950s suburban community self-destructs, a home invasion has sinister consequences for one seemingly normal family.
Jigsaw
Release 2017
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Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Writers: Pete Goldfinger, Josh Stolberg
Stars: Matt Passmore, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Hannah Emily Anderson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3348730/
Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect: John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for ten years.
Wonderstruck
Release 2017
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Director: Todd Haynes
Writers: Brian Selznick
Stars: Millicent Simmonds, Julianne Moore, Cory Michael Smith, James Urbaniak
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5208216/
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Release 2017
Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writers: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Alicia Silverstone, Raffey Cassidy, Barry Keoghan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5715874/
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.