Z (1969)
Crime | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles.
Starring: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
Director: Costa-Gavras
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Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
Drama | Horror | Mystery
A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction–with even more grotesque results!
Starring: Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe, Oskar Homolka, Vladimir Sokoloff, Erika Peters
Director: William Castle
Michael Clayton (2007)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Michael Clayton is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach. Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
Starring: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe, Amy Hargreaves
Director: Tony Gilroy
Four Brothers (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin and Garrett Hedlund co-star in this gripping tale of brotherly love, betrayal and revenge from acclaimed filmmaker John Singleton. After their adoptive mother is gunned down during a grocery store holdup, the estranged brothers reunite to seek revenge and take matters into their own hands. Defying police orders, the four begin turning their old Detroit neighborhood upside down searching for the mastermind behind the brutal killing. Along the way, they discover they are bound by ties thicker than blood in this emotionally powerful, action-packed drama.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin, Garrett Hedlund, Terrence Howard. Sofía Vergara
Director: John Singleton
Experiment in Terror (1962)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A woman is terrorized by a man with an asthmatic voice who plans to use her to steal $100,000 from the bank where she works.
Starring: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ned Glass, Clifton James, Dick Crockett
Director: Blake Edwards
The Time Being (2012)
Mystery
An artist meets a mysterious and wealthy benefactor and their relationship is not what it appears to be.
Starring: Wes Bentley, Sarah Paulson, Corey Stoll, Ahna O'Reilly, Jeremy Allen White, Frank Langella
Director: Nenad Cicin-Sain
Infernal Affairs / Mou gaan dou (2002)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Two men. Two moles. Yan is your typical undercover cop, tough, smart, and extremely hard- boiled. Before graduating the police academy, Yan is sent by his official to infiltrate the triads. Ming is one of Hong Kong's most decorated cops. However, his awards and promotions are only illusions. Sam, his triad boss, sent him to join the academy to become an officer. With tips from Sam against their triad rivals, Ming steadily becomes one of Hong Kong's elite. But all things, no matter good or evil, must come to an end. So begins the face-off. Only one man, one mole will survive.
Starring: Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Kelly Chen, Sammi Cheng
Director: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Patlabor 2: The Movie / Patlabor 2 / Kidô keisatsu patorebâ: The Movie 2 (1993)
Animation | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The date is 2002, three years after the events of Patlabor: The Movie. The destruction of a United Nations Labor team in South East Asia begins the build-up to a deadly terrorist plan that threatens to send shockwaves throughout Japan's military. With evidence of an impending military takeover, the scattered members of the original SVD (Special Vehicle Division) must gather to defend the city against danger.
Starring: Mîna Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Michihiro Ikemizu, Issei Futamata, Daisuke Gôri, Shigeru Chiba, Osamu Saka, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Tomomichi Nishimura
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Patlabor: The Movie / Patlabor 1 / Kidô keisatsu patorebâ: Gekijô-ban (1989)
Action | Animation | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The year is 1999. Japan has concentrated 45% of its entire labor force in the ambitious Babylon Project, designed to save the Tokyo Bay area from being submerged as an effect of the sea level increment. For this purpose, a 500-meter wide and 150-meter high multy-level platform, called the Ark, has been built on the sea. The suicide of a mysterious man on the massive Babylon Project construction site sets off a cascade of events that may signal the eventual destruction of Tokyo. What is the connection between the suicide, the new Mobile Police AV-X0 Zero Labor, and a military prototype Labor suddenly gone berserk?
Starring: Toshio Furukawa, Mîna Tominaga, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Yô Inoue, Michihiro Ikemizu, Issei Futamata
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Ghost / Gôsuto (2010)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A man tries to solve his lover's murder by communicating with her spirit through the help of a medium.
Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Seung-heon Song, Kirin Kiki, Sawa Suzuki, Satoshi Hashimoto
Director: Tarô Ohtani
Warehouse 13 (TV Series 2009-2014)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
After saving the life of the President in Washington D.C., a pair of U.S Secret Service agents are whisked away to a covert location in South Dakota that houses supernatural objects that the U.S. Government has collected over the centuries. Their new assignment: retrieve some of the missing objects and investigate reports of new ones.
Starring: Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Eddie McClintock, Genelle Williams, Allison Scagliotti, CCH Pounder, Aaron Ashmore
Creator: Jane Espenson, D. Brent Mote
The Mighty Quinn (1989)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.
Starring: Denzel Washington, James Fox, Mimi Rogers, M. Emmet Walsh, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Art Evans, Esther Rolle
Director: Carl Schenkel
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
Three astronouts after a crash landing find themselves stranded in an upside-down planet–a place where talking apes are in charge and mute humans are hunted and enslaved by the tyrannical primates.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Trance (2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Danny Boyle helms this psychological thriller about an auctioneer falling foul of a gang of ruthless art thieves. When upmarket art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy) double-crosses the gang responsible for the daring daylight robbery of a priceless painting by Goya, he incurs the wrath of the gang's violent leader, Franck (Vincent Cassel). In the aftermath of a beating where he is knocked unconscious, Simon claims to be suffering from amnesia and is therefore unable to remember where the painting is, provoking Franck into hiring female hypnotist Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson) to find the answer. But as Elizabeth delves ever deeper into Simon's subconscious, the lines between fantasy and reality converge, threatening to consume all as a series of shocking events spiral violently out of control.
Starring: James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel, Danny Sapani, Tuppence Middleton, Simon Kunz
Director: Danny Boyle
Abandoned (2010)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished. An administrator can find no record of him, and a police search turns up nothing. Increasingly frantic, Mary's taken to a staff psychiatrist, who pronounces her unstable. Now she must not only find her missing boyfriend, but prove her own sanity as well.
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Dean Cain, Mimi Rogers, Peter Bogdanovich
Director: Michael Feifer
The Devil You Know (2013)
Mystery | Thriller
Kathryn Vale (Lena Olin) is a reclusive ex-movie star with a dark secret and a daughter hoping to follow in her mother's movie-star footsteps. When Kathryn attempts to make a career comeback, she is threatened by an anonymous blackmailer. The resulting events force Kathryn to confront the truth about herself and those around her.
Starring: Lena Olin, Rosamund Pike, Dean Winters, Molly Price, Jennifer Lawrence
Director: James Oakley
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Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case, eventually returning to solitude in the desert.
Starring: Robert Blake, Mitchell Ryan, Elisha Cook, Jr., Billy Green Bush, Royal Dano, Peter Cetera
Director: James William Guercio
The Ring Two / The Ring 2 (2005)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Six months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole, Sissy Spacek
Director: Hideo Nakata
The Boston Strangler: The Untold Story (2008)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders.
Starring: David Faustino, Andrew Divoff, Kostas Sommer, Joe Torry, Corin Nemec, Jen Nikolaisen, Tara Shayne, Beth Shea
Director: Michael Feifer
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Trance (2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Danny Boyle helms this psychological thriller about an auctioneer falling foul of a gang of ruthless art thieves. When upmarket art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy) double-crosses the gang responsible for the daring daylight robbery of a priceless painting by Goya, he incurs the wrath of the gang's violent leader, Franck (Vincent Cassel). In the aftermath of a beating where he is knocked unconscious, Simon claims to be suffering from amnesia and is therefore unable to remember where the painting is, provoking Franck into hiring female hypnotist Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson) to find the answer. But as Elizabeth delves ever deeper into Simon's subconscious, the lines between fantasy and reality converge, threatening to consume all as a series of shocking events spiral violently out of control.
Starring: James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel, Danny Sapani, Tuppence Middleton, Simon Kunz
Director: Danny Boyle
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