Clockers (1995)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.
Starring: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington, Keith David
Director: Spike Lee
The Motel Life (2012)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, Dakota Fanning
Director: Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky
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Galileo XX / Galileo XX: Utsumi Kaoru no Saigo no jiken Moteasobu (2013)
Drama | Mystery
A spin-off drama of TV series "Galileo" centers on a detective working with Dr. Yukawa, Utsumi (Kou Shibazaki).
Starring: Kô Shibasaki, Kazuki Kitamura, Yûsuke Santamaria, Hiroshi Shinagawa, Yûya Yagira, Yuriko Yoshitaka
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani
The Other Side of Sleep (2011)
Drama | Mystery
Rebecca Daly's first feature film The Other Side of Sleep is the haunting journey of Arlene (Antonia Campell Hughes). Arlene is a ghost in her own life. She lives in a small town in the midlands – surrounded by field after field, woodlands and laneways to disappear down and never come back. One morning she wakes in the woods beside the body of a young woman. Someone watches from the trees. The body is soon discovered and suspicion spreads through the community. Increasingly drawn to the girl's family – her grieving sister and accused boyfriend, Arlene barricades herself in at night, afraid to sleep. Haunted by grief buried and delayed, Arlene's sleeping and waking realities soon blur. And all this time someone is watching her.
Starring: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Sam Keeley, Cathy Belton, Olwen Fouere, Vicky Joyce
Director: Rebecca Daly
Sorum / Goosebumps (2001)
Drama | Horror | Mystery
Yong-hyun moves into a creepy apartment which seems somehow familiar to him. His apartment was formerly occupied by a writer who burned to death in his room, but that doesn't seem to bother the detached young taxi driver. Across the hall from him is Jin-young who endures daily beatings from her husband. Her husband knows of a brutal murder that occurred about 30 years ago within the walls of this building and mysteriously touches on all their lives. Strange secrets begin to reveal themselves sending the characters down a path of terror…
Starring: Jin-Young Jang, Myung-min Kim, Ju-bong Gi, An Jo, Young-hoon Park
Director: Jong-chan Yun
Galileo / Garireo (TV Series 2007- )
Drama | Mystery
In "Galileo," Fukuyama Masaharu plays a genius physicist and university associate professor, Yukawa Manabu, who solves difficult mysteries. Affectionately known as Tantei Galileo ("Detective Galileo"), Yukawa is brilliant, an all-round sportsman, tall and handsome but eccentric. Yukawa's partner is a rookie cop, Utsumi Kaoru (Shibasaki Kou), a hot-blooded woman with a strong sense of justice.
Starring: Masaharu Fukuyama, Ikkei Watanabe, Kô Shibasaki, Kazuki Kitamura, Yû Sawabe, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Hiroshi Shinagawa
Creator: Yasushi Fukuda, Keigo Higashino
Paperhouse (1988)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
An 11-year-old girl has disturbing dreams in which she finds herself inside of a house she has drawn that is occupied by a young disabled boy.
Starring: Ben Cross
Director: Bernard Rose
The Killing (TV Series 2011- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
From writer, executive producer and series showrunner Veena Sud (Cold Case), The Killing is based on the wildly successful Danish television series Forbrydelsen and tells the story of the murder of a young girl in Seattle and the subsequent police investigation. The Killing ties together three distinct stories around a single murder including the detectives assigned to the case, the victim's grieving family, and the suspects. Set in Seattle, the story also explores local politics as it follows politicians connected to the case. As the series unfolds, it becomes clear that there are no accidents; everyone has a secret, and while the characters think they've moved on, their past isn't done with them.
Starring: Mireille Enos, Joel Kinnaman, Billy Campbell, Michelle Forbes, Brent Sexton, Kristin Lehman, Eric Ladin, Jamie Anne Allman, Liam James, Evan Bird, Seth Isaac Johnson, Tom Butler, Annie Corley
Creator: Veena Sud
Top of the Lake (2013) (TV Mini-Series)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A twelve-year-old girl stands chest deep in a frozen lake. She is five months pregnant, and she won't say who the father is, insisting it was 'no one'. Then she disappears. Robin Griffin, the investigating detective, will find this the case that tests her to her limits.
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Thomas M. Wright, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Skye Wansey, Geneviève Lemon, Robyn Malcolm, Holly Hunter
Creator: Jane Campion, Gerard Lee, Garth Davis
Mysteries of Lisbon / Mistérios de Lisboa (2010)
Drama | Mystery
Mysteries of Lisbon plunges us into a veritable whirlwind of adventures and escapades, coincidences and revelations, sentiments and violent passions, vengeance, love affairs, all wrapped in a rhapsodic voyage that takes us from Portugal to France, Italy, and as far as Brazil. In this Lisbon of intrigue and hidden identities, we encounter a series of characters all somewhat linked to the destiny of Pedro da Silva, orphan in a boarding school. Father Dinis, a descendent of the aristocratic libertines, later becomes a hero who defends justice, a countess maddened by her jealousy and set on her vengeance, a prosperous businessman who had mysteriously made his fortune as a bloodthirsty pirate; these and many more all cross in a story set in the 19th century and all searching for the true identity of our main character.
Starring: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, Clotilde Hesme
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Five Dolls for an August Moon / Island of Terror / 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto (1970)
Mystery | Thriller
Five Dolls for an August Moon is Mario Bava's deliriously mad spin on an Agatha Christie-style whodunit. A space-age island retreat is visited by a group of friends and business associates-one of whom is a scientist who has invented a revolutionary chemical process. Soon the vacationers start dying, and the survivors begin to wonder who has the most to gain from these murders most foul.
Starring: William Berger, Ira von Fürstenberg, Maurice Poli, Edwige Fenech, Howard Ross, Helena Ronee
Director: Mario Bava
The Uninvited (1944)
Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Romance
Seeking respite from the bustle of London life, writer Roderick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland, Dial M for Murder and The Lost Weekend) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey, The Philadelphia Story) move into a neglected clifftop mansion and set about making it their home. However, it isn't long before an unnerving presence makes itself felt: an eerie chill lingers in the rooms and distant wailing is heard at night. Despite Roderick's cynicism, it becomes increasingly clear that the house is haunted – but why in such a snug haven would the dead trouble the living?
Starring: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Stickney, Barbara Everest, Alan Napier
Director: Lewis Allen
The Black Dahlia Haunting (2012)
Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery
A young woman is visiting Los Angeles from New York City after learning that her younger brother, who is blind, is a murderer. She soon discovers that her brother has been drawing the face of a woman he could have never possibly met: Elizabeth Short, the victim in the unsolved "Black Dahlia" murder from 1947.
Starring: Devanny Pinn, Britt Griffith, Noah Dahl, Alexis Iacono, Brandon Slagle, Cleve Hall, Jessica Cameron
Director: Brandon Slagle
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Solo (2013)
Mystery | Thriller
Attempting to move past a family tragedy the summer previous, 17-year-old Gillian takes a job as a counselor at a remote summer camp. As part of her initiation, she must spend two nights by herself on the camp's island, an intimidating collision of rock and wilderness carved out of the lake, supposedly haunted by the ghost of a camper who disappeared suspiciously decades before. When Gillian's 'solo' is interrupted by a local man responding to a distress call, what was meant to be a peaceful time alone in nature devolves into something disturbingly different. As her paranoia mounts, a horrifying secret is uprooted and Gillian finds herself in desperate fight to survive.
Starring: Annie Clark, Daniel Kash, Richard Clarkin, Steven Love, Alyssa Capriotti
Director: Isaac Cravit
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Ghost Ship (2002)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Julianna Margulies, Gabriel Byrne and Isaiah Washington are aboard a mysteriously adrift luxury liner hexed by a seafaring collector of souls.
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Isaiah Washington, Karl Urban
Director: Steve Beck
SPEC: Sho / SPEC: Flying / SPEC ~Keishichou Kouanbu Kouan Daigoka Mishou Jiken Tokubetsu Taisakugakari Jikenbo~ Shou (2012)
Drama | Mystery
Set on year after the fight between detectives Saya Toma (Erika Toda), Takeru Sebumi (Ryo Kase) and Satoshi Chii (Yuu Shirota). More confrontations ensues between the detectives at the Unidentified Crimes Unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Takeru Sebumi (Ryo Kase) returns after taking a break due to his eye problems. Kenzo Ichiyanagi (Denden) is appointed section chief, while Kotaro Nonomura (Raita Ryu) is demoted. New member Shu Yoshikawa (Kazuki Kitamura) joins the team.
Starring: Erika Toda, Ryo Kase, Saki Fukuda, Kohki Okada
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Parkland (2013)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Recounting the chaotic events that occurred in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, Parkland weaves together the perspectives of a handful of ordinary individuals suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances: the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital; Dallas' chief of the Secret Service; an unwitting cameraman who captured what became the most watched and examined film in history; the FBI agents who nearly had the gunman within their grasp; the brother of Lee Harvey Oswald, left to deal with his shattered family; and JFK's security team, witnesses to both the president's death and Vice President Lyndon Johnson's rise to power over a nation whose innocence was forever altered.
Starring: Zac Efron, Tom Welling, Ron Livingston, Marcia Gay Harden, Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacki Weaver
Director: Peter Landesman
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.
Starring: Stacy Chbosky, Ben Messmer, Samantha Robson, Ivar Brogger, Lou George, Amy Lyndon, Michael Lawson, Ron Harper, Kim Kenny
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Silent Night (2012)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
The police force of a remote Midwestern town search for a killer Santa Claus who is picking off citizens on Christmas Eve.
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Jaime King, Brendan Fehr, Donal Logue, Lisa Marie, Ali Tataryn, Ellen Wong
Director: Steven C. Miller
Thesis on a Homicide / Tesis sobre un homicidio (2013)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Roberto Bermudez, a specialist in criminal law, is convinced that one of his students committed a brutal murder. It leads him to start an investigation that becomes his obsession.
Starring: Ricardo Darín, Natalia Santiago, Alberto Ammann
Director: Hernán Goldfrid
