SPEC: Close~Incarnation / SPEC: Closed – Zen no hen (2013)
Action | Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".
Starring: Erika Toda, Ryô Kase, Raita Ryû, Kazuki Kitamura, Chiaki Kuriyama
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
The January Man (1989)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A fired cop, the brother of the police commissioner, is reinstated in order to track down a brutal serial killer who has eluded the city for 11 months. In the process of figuring out the killer, the cop falls in love with the mayor's daughter.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Danny Aiello, Rod Steiger, Alan Rickman
Director: Pat O'Connor
The Uninvited / A Tale of Two Sisters (2009)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Anna returns home after spending time in the hospital following the tragic death of her mother. Her recovery suffers a setback when she discovers her father has become engaged to her mother's former nurse. That night, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her of Rachel's intentions. Together, Anna and her sister try to convince their father that his current fiancée is not who she pretends to be, and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother.
Starring: Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel, David Strathairn, Maya Massar, Kevin McNulty
Director: Charles Guard, Thomas Guard
Péril en la demeure / Peril / Death in a French Garden (1985)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family's inquisitive neighbor. One night, David is mugged but rescued from injury by a stranger, Daniel, who also becomes David's friend and admits to being a hit man. Video tapes of their activities appear in the lovers' mail; David thinks they're from the neighbor, Daniel is sure the husband is onto the affair and hired the mugger. After Daniel tells David that he's been hired to kill the husband, an elaborate manipulation plays out, with murder, suicide, a payoff, more videos, and a surprise pairing.
Starring: Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia, Christophe Malavoy, Michel Piccoli
Director: Michel Deville
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Horror | Mystery
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Starring: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, David Oxley, Francis De Wolff
Director: Terence Fisher
Tightrope (1984)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood, Marco St. John, David Valdes
Director: Richard Tuggle
Enemy (2013)
Mystery | Thriller
A man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini, Sarah Gadon, Stephen R. Hart, Jane Moffat
Director: Denis Villeneuve
True Blood (TV Series 2008-2014)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
The series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid living in Louisiana who can read people's minds, and how her life is turned upside down when the Vampire Bill, walks into her place of employment two years after vampires 'came out of the coffin' on national television.
Starring: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Chris Bauer, Nelsan Ellis, Carrie Preston, Alexander Skarsgård, Todd Lowe, Deborah Ann Woll, Kristin Bauer van Straten
Creator: Alan Ball
Shutter (2008)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
For photographer Ben (Joshua Jackson) and his new wife Jane (Rachael Taylor), his new assignment – a lucrative fashion shoot in Tokyo – was supposed to be a kind of working honeymoon. With this exotic professional opportunity and the limitless possibilities of a new marriage, Ben and Jane arrive in Japan. But as they make their way on a mountain road leading to Mt. Fuji, their new life together comes to, literally, a crashing halt. Their car smashes into a woman standing in the middle of the road, who has materialized out of nowhere. Upon regaining consciousness after the accident, Ben and Jane cannot find any trace of the girl Jane believes she hit with the car.
Starring: Joshua Jackson, Megumi Okina, David Denman, John Hensley, Rachael Taylor, James Kyson
Director: Masayuki Ochiai
Winter's Tale (2014)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
In early 20th-century New York City, a charming thief's courtship with a dying girl is complicated when he is spirited to the present day after a conflict with a demon disguised as a gangster.
Starring: Will Smith, Jennifer Connelly, Matt Bomer, Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jessica Brown Findlay
Director: Akiva Goldsman
Black Butler / Kuroshitsuji (2014)
Action | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
An orphaned aristocrat summons a demonic butler to aid her, at the price of her soul.
Starring: Hiro Mizushima, Ayame Gôriki, Mizuki Yamamoto, Yûka, Takurô Ohno
Director: Kentarô Ohtani, Kei'ichi Sato
I'll Follow You Down (2013)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later – one that may bring him home.
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Haley Joel Osment, Rufus Sewell, Victor Garber
Director: Richie Mehta
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Da Vinci's Demons (TV Series 2013-2015)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | History | Mystery
Written by David S. Goyer, the series follows the "untold" story of Leonardo Da Vinci: the genius during his early years in Renaissance Florence. As a 25-year old artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time as he begins to not only see the future, but invent it.
Starring: Tom Riley, Laura Haddock, Gregg Chillin, Eros Vlahos, Blake Ritson, Elliot Cowan, Hera Hilmar, James Faulkner, Lara Pulver, David Schofield, Ian Pirie, Alexander Siddig
Creator: David S. Goyer
True Detective (TV Series 2014- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Dramatic reenactments of true stories of professional and amateur detectives solving real-life mysteries. Segments also include interviews with the actual participants.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, Tory Kittles
Creator: Nic Pizzolatto
Flag in the Mist / Sweet Revenge / Kiri-no-hata (1977)
Drama | Mystery
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in KitaKyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death. Meanwhile, through the actions of a crusading young journalist, Otsuka is informed of Masao's death. His curiosity piqued, he requests the file and reviews the evidence. Otsuka also has an adoring mistress who owns a bar. By coincidence (?), the real murderer is an associate of one of her employees. Kiriko, now working as a hostess in a different bar, is asked by a friend to tail her boyfriend, whom she suspects of cheating. The boyfriend is murdered in the bar owner's flat, and Kiriko grabs the chance to set her revenge plan into action. Kiriko rigs the crime scene to falsely incriminate the bar owner, who is subsequently jailed. Otsuka's mistress out of the way, Kiriko sets out to seduce and entrap Otsuka, against the advice of the crusading journalist.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Rentarô Mikuni, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Haruko Kato
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Claire (2013)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Jack is the high school football hero. He couldn't care less when Claire, a girl he didn't know, is struck and killed by a drunk driver. But when Jack discovers a photo of Claire where she is staring directly at him, things change. Clues pile up that indicate Claire may have had an interest in Jack. He plunges into Claire's life, learning little by little who she was. His interest in Claire sparks issues within his own social circle as he uncovers friends who had wronged her in the past. His own life soon spirals out of control as curiosity turns to obsession and high school drama escalates, pushing his friends, future and sanity to the edge. The final blow comes in the form of a terrifying question: Did he unknowingly play a role in Claire's death?
Starring: Aidan Bristow, Cory Driscoll, Avital Ash, Carolina Castro, Landon Ashworth, Corsica Wilson, Tybee Diskin, Jennifer Baute, Randy Harken
Director: Dan Ast
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Midnight FM / Simya-ui FM (2010)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Late night radio host Sun-Young begins her final radio program. She plans to take her ill daughter to America the following morning. During the show, Sun-Young receives a startling text message. A man named Dong-Su instructs her to follow his directions and not tell anyone.
Starring: Soo Ae, Ji-tae Yu, Dong-seok Ma, Song-hyeon Choi, Da-eun Sin, Man-shik Jeong, Min Kyu Kim
Director: Sang Man Kim
The Children / The Day (2008)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
You brought them into the world. They will take you out. A family anticipates a Christmas filled with sledding, laughter and hot cocoa as they head to their vacation home in the secluded backcountry… The holiday cheer takes a fast turn for the worse after a mysterious flu-like virus sweeps through the kids. One by one the children become deadly. Amidst the suspicion, mayhem and murder, the parents fight for survival against their own twisted offspring.
Starring: Hannah Tointon, Rachel Shelley, Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield
Director: Tom Shankland
Grand Piano (2013)
Mystery | Thriller
Moments before his comeback performance, a concert pianist who suffers from stage fright discovers a note written on his music sheet.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Kerry Bishé, John Cusack, Tamsin Egerton, Allen Leech, Don McManus
Director: Eugenio Mira
The 'Burbs / Life in the Burbs (1989)
Comedy | Horror | Mystery
An overstressed suburbanite and his paramilitaric neighbor struggle to prove their paranoid theory that the new family in town is a front for a cannibalistic cult.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman, Rick Ducommun, Henry Gibson
Director: Joe Dante
