The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death. Filmed in VistaVision
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick, Royal Dano, Mildred Dunnock
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
The Twilight Zone (TV Series 1959-1964)
Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The Twilight Zone was a popular American anthology series. The series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. They may be scary or just thought-provoking. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. But, no matter what, it's "a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of the imagination."
Starring: Rod Serling
Creator: Rod Serling
Masks (2011)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
In the 70s Matteusz Gdula invented an acting method that was supposed to make every actor "shine". Still, lots of his students die mysteriously and Gdula commits suicide. His method gets banned. Now: Stella, an ambitious, but rather untalented drama student, gets accepted at the "Matteusz Gdula"-school. When she bears witness to some strange occurrences, she gets drawn into the bizarre and deadly web that surrounds the dark secret of the school…
Starring: Michael Balaun, Lucyna Bialy, Lisa Blaschke, Franziska Breite, Zübeyde Bulut
Director: Andreas Marschall
Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983 / The Red Riding Trilogy: 1983 (2009)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The seemingly untouchable, corrupt West Yorkshire police, and the true evil mastermind behind the child abductions and murders of the last 14 years, can't resist doing it again. Against them, a fat useless lawyer, and one remorseful copper.
Starring: David Morrissey, Jim Carter, Warren Clarke, Sean Bean, Sean Harris, Steven Robertson, Mark Addy
Director: Anand Tucker
Death Warrant (1990)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery
The Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate in some murders of prisoners and jailors
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, Art LaFleur, Patrick Kilpatrick, Al Leong
Director: Deran Sarafian
Double Xposure / Erci puguang (2012)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
When Song Qi stumbles upon her boyfriend's affair with her best friend, her life quickly starts falling apart and she is subsequently drawn into a quicksand of revenge and murder. Though all is not as it seems and Song Qi will have to embark on a twisted journey into her past and the very depths of her own mind…
Starring: Bingbing Fan, Shaofeng Feng, Joan Chen, Siyan Huo, Wei Kong, Anlian Yao
Director: Yu Li
Rope (1948)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Starring: James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Douglas Dick, Cedric Hardwicke, Edith Evanson, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
The Twilight Zone (TV Series 1959-1964)
Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The Twilight Zone was a popular American anthology series. The series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. They may be scary or just thought-provoking. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. But, no matter what, it's "a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of the imagination."
Starring: Rod Serling
Creator: Rod Serling
Freedomland (2006)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Late one night in a working class New Jersey suburb, a bloodied woman staggers mute and dazed into the emergency room at the Dempsy Medical Center. After treatment for shock and hysteria, Brenda Martin recounts to Dempsy police detective Lorenzo Council a horrific tale of being carjacked on the isolated strip of undeveloped land that divides Dempsy's urban housing projects from the blue collar town of Gannon, where she lives. She claims she was forced out of her car by a black man, but during the interrogation Council senses he's not getting the whole story. Only after hours of questioning does Brenda finally break down and confess that her four-year-old son, Cody, was asleep in the back seat of the stolen car. Led by activist Karen Collucci, members of the communities of Dempsy and Gannon unite in a search for the missing child, but the criminal investigation into the alleged kidnapping by a suspect who is presumed to be a local from the projects soon ignites long-simmering racial tensions between the two towns.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Samuel L. Jackson, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe
Director: Joe Roth
The Client (1994)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the district attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family.
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Renfro, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony LaPaglia, J.T. Walsh
Director: Joel Schumacher
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame / Di Renjie zhi tongtian diguo (2010)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
In 689 A.D., the Empress Wu Zetian is building a 66 m high statue of Buddha for her inauguration as the first empress of China under the objections and conspiracy of the other clans. When the engineer responsible for the construction mysteriously dies by spontaneous combustion, the superstitious workers are afraid since the man removed the good luck charms from the main pillar. There is an investigation of Pei Donglai and another investigator that also dies after withdrawing the amulets. Empress Wu assigns her loyal assistant Shangguan Jing'er to release the exiled Detective Dee from his imprisonment to investigate with Donglai and Jing'er the mystery of the deaths. They ride in a mystic and epic adventure to unravel the mystery.
Starring: Andy Lau, Bingbing Li, Carina Lau, Tony Leung, Chao Deng
Director: Hark Tsui
The Vampire Diaries (TV Series 2009-2017)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Romance | Teen | Thriller
As the school year begins, Elena Gilbert is immediately drawn to a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore. Elena has no way of knowing that Stefan is a vampire struggling to live peacefully among humans, while his brother Damon is the embodiment of vampire violence and brutality.
Starring: Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Kat Graham, Candice Accola, Zach Roerig, Michael Trevino, Nina Dobrev, Steven R. McQueen, Matthew Davis
Creator: Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec
The Pact (2012)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
As a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother's death, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Agnes Bruckner, Caity Lotz, Mark Steger, Haley Hudson, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Sam Ball
Director: Nicholas McCarthy
Homeland (TV Series 2011- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody returns home eight years, after going missing in Iraq. Carrie Mathison, a driven CIA officer, suspects he might be plotting an attack on America.
Starring: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend, F. Murray Abraham, Damian Lewis, Morena Baccarin, Jackson Pace, Morgan Saylor
Creator: Gideon Raff
Head / Hedeu (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Genius medical scientist Kim Sang-Chul (Oh Dal-Su), a renown expert in the field of stem cell research, kills himself. After an autopsy, the head of Kim Sang-Chul mysteriously disappears. Meanwhile, delivery service man Hong-Jae (Ryu Deok-Hwan) is in the process of delivering Kim Sang-Chul's head without knowing the contents of the package. Hong-Jae unintentionally learns the contents of the package and is kidnapped by Baek-Jung (Baek Yun-Shik). In the process Hong-Jae is able to hide Kim Sang-Chul's head. Hong-Jae's older sister Hong-Joo (Park Yeh-Jin) is a hot-blooded news reporter. Because of her impulsiveness Hong-Jae is suspended from her job. Nevertheless Hong-Jae still works to land a scoop on a popular entertainer. Hong-Joo then receives a phone call from Baek-Jung demanding she brings Kim Sang-Chul's head to him or her brother will die.
Starring: Yeh-jin Park, Yun-shik Baek, Deok-Hwan Ryu, Dal-su Oh, Jin-mo Ju
Director: Un Cho
Supernatural (TV Series 2005- )
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) are two brothers with a special talent. Well-versed in the supernatural after their father became convinced that their mother was captured by unholy spirits, Dean and Sam dedicated their young lives to hunting down these otherworldly terrors. But adulthood saw Sam drift away from these preternatural activities, instead choosing to settle down in a life of domestic bliss with his girlfriend. But when the Winchesters' dad goes missing, both Dean and Sam know what they have to do – leading to some epic cross-country trips as the brothers try to find their father.
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins
Creator: Eric Kripke
Lost Highway (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.
Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty
Director: David Lynch
Minority Report (2002)
Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for "Precrime," a special unit of the police department that arrests murderers before they have committed the actual crime. Precrime bases its work on the visions of three psychics or "precogs" whose prophecies of future events are never in error. When Anderton discovers that he has been identified as the future killer of a man he's never met, he is forced to become a fugitive from his own colleagues as he tries to uncover the mystery of the victim-to-be's identity. When he kidnaps Agatha (Samantha Morton), one of the precogs, he begins to formulate a theory about a possible frame- up from within his own department.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Lois Smith, Peter Stormare
Director: Steven Spielberg
Behind the Walls / Derrière les murs (2011)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Centre of France, 1922. Suzanne, a young novelist lacking inspiration decides to isolate herself in the countryside to write her new book. As Suzanne discovers a sealed-up room in the basement of her house, she starts writing oddly easily. Visions and nightmares soon strike her while the villagers grow worried as several little girls mysteriously disappear…
Starring: Laetitia Casta, Thierry Neuvic, Jacques Bonnaffé
Director: Julien Lacombe, Pascal Sid
Paradise Murdered / Geuk-rak-do Sal-in-sa-geon (2007)
Mystery | Thriller
Geukrakdo, a small island off the southern coast of South Korea, is home to 17 villagers, scratching out a motley, but tight-knit existence. One morning the villagers wake up to find a neighbor has been murdered, and in very bloody fashion. With communication and transportation from the island cut off, a group of villagers led by doctor Woo Seong (Park Hae Il) spearhead the search for the most likely culprit, an odd island resident who has conveniently disappeared. As the investigation continues, more victims are claimed and fingers begin to point as the increasingly desperate villagers turn against each other, letting loose inner and outer demons.
Starring: Chi-Wook Ahn, Nae-sang Ahn, Ju-bong Choi, Man-Shik Jung, Yae-rin Jung, Byung-Choon Kim, In-Moon Kim
Director: Han-min Kim
