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
Non-Stop / Non Stop (2014)
Action | Mystery | Thriller
Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New York to London, he receives a series of mysterious text messages ordering him to have the government transfer $150 million into a secret account, or a passenger will die very 20 minutes. What follows is a nail-biting cat and mouse game played at 40,000 feet, with the lives of 200 passengers hanging in the balance.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, Anson Mount, Bar Paly, Corey Stoll
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Incendies (2010)
Drama | Mystery | War
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.
Starring: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard, Abdelghafour Elaaziz, Allen Altman
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Bipolar (2014)
Mystery | Thriller
Harry Poole, an introverted young man, suffers from bipolar disorder. He enrolls in a clinical trial run by the famous Dr. Lanyon, whose miracle drug is destined to help people like him lead a more balanced life. Under constant video surveillance, Harry quickly experiences positive results and turns into a new man, more charismatic and charming. He even manages to seduce Anna, a young nurse who looks after him. Harry, fully embracing his rebirth, creates a new personality for himself. "Edward Grey" is born, the man he has always wanted to be: outgoing, bold and fearless. Unfortunately, the doctor abruptly discontinues the clinical trial. Cases of rage and confusion have been reported among other test subjects and the medication is pulled. Anna, taking pity, gives Harry a parting gift: a large supply of the pills, with which he continues his own "trial" at home. Intoxicated by the freedom and power of his new identity as "Edward", Harry slowly surrenders himself to his dark alter ego and the battle for his soul begins.
Starring: Andrew J. West, Emma Bell, Lenny Jacobson, Lenny Jacobson, Taylor Nichols, Andrew Howard, Beatrice Rosen, Brent Jennings
Director: Jean Veber
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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 Mentalist (TV Series 2008-2015)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The Mentalist tells the tale of Patrick Jane, who is employed as an independent consultant working with the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He had been making a living as a psychic, and he would assist the police on cases — until his life changed when he lost the two most important people in his life to one of those serial killers he was helping track. He now uses his refined observation skills to help the CBI solve cases. He works with Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon, Agents Kimball Cho and Wayne Rigsby and the rookie Grace Van Pelt.
Starring: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Amanda Righetti, Owain Yeoman
Creator: Bruno Heller
The Americans (TV Series 2013- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The Americans is a period drama about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President. The arranged marriage of Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, who have two children – 13-year-old Paige and 10-year-old Henry, who know nothing about their parents' true identity – grows more passionate and genuine by the day, but is constantly tested by the escalation of the Cold War and the intimate, dangerous and darkly funny relationships they must maintain with a network of spies and informants under their control.
Starring: Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati, Noah Emmerich, Annet Mahendru, Richard Thomas, Susan Misner, Alison Wright, Lev Gorn, Margo Martindale, Costa Ronin
Creator: Joseph Weisberg
Watchmen (2009)
Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi
In an alternate reality, it's 1985, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" – which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime- fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching The Watchmen?
Starring: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Director: Zack Snyder
Frequencies / OXV: The Manual (2013)
Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
OXV: THE MANUAL is being billed as the world's first Scientific-Philosophical romance. Boy meets girl in a not-quite-here, not-quite-now world where one simple discovery has forever changed all human interaction. The film could perhaps best be described as a combination of 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', '(500) Days of Summer' and 'Primer'.
Starring: Daniel Fraser, Eleanor Wyld, Dylan Llewellyn, Georgina Minter-Brown, Owen Pugh, David Broughton-Davies, David Barnaby, Timothy Block, Ria Carroll
Director: Darren Paul Fisher
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Original Gangster / Full English Breakfast (2014)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Through flashbacks, Full English Breakfast follows the violent career of Dave Bishop (Dave Courtney) a small-time London villain who kills his way to the top of Britain's drugs empire. Now happily 'retired' on the Kent coast Dave becomes embroiled in a bloody battle of wits with Al Qaeda terrorists who want to take over his criminal empire. Adding to the old mobster's woes is his younger trophy wife (Lucy Drive) wanting to play away with his new driver (Jamie Bannerman).
Starring: Dave Courtney, Lucy Drive, Jerry Anderson, Sukhraj Singh, Jamie Bannerman, Nigel St Lewis
Director: Manish Patel
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Tarzan / Tarzan 3D (2013)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Mystery | Romance
Tarzan and Jane Porter face a mercenary army dispatched by the evil CEO of Greystoke Energies, a man who took over the company from Tarzan's parents, after they died in a plane crash.
Starring: Kellan Lutz, Jo Osmond, Robert Capron, Jaime Ray Newman, Brian Bloom, Spencer Locke, Mark Deklin
Director: Reinhard Klooss
