Category: Mystery

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2010s / Mystery / Thriller

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Daniel Craig stars as investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who ends up losing a major and very public libel lawsuit, not because he wasn’t right, but because he lacked the evidence to prevail.  His reputation...

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1940s / Adventure / Mystery / Thriller

Saboteur (1942)

Robert Cummings (Dial M for Murder, Kings Row) stars as Barry Kane, a worker at a military aircraft production plant who ends up taking the rap mistakenly for the murder of his best friend/coworker...

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2010s / Action / Mystery / Science Fiction / Thriller

Source Code (2011)

Oh, how to relate the plot? Jake Gyllenhaal (Prince of Persia, Jarhead) stars as Air Force Captain Colter Stevens, a U.S. pilot in the War in Afghanistan who finds himself inhabiting the body of a...

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2000s / Drama / Mystery

Mystic River (2003)

Clint Eastwood (Blood Work, Space Cowboys) directs the Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale, Payback) adaptation of the popular Dennis Lehane novel of the same name revolving around the build-up of mystery surrounding the assault and apparent...

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1960s / Mystery / Thriller

The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

Based on the first of the Elleston Trevor (written as Adam Hall) series of Quiller spy novels, The Quiller Memorandum (the book was called “The Berlin Memorandum” outside of the United States) mixes the heroics, romance...

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2000s / Mystery / Thriller

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

A bit lengthy run time for a thriller, but absorbing throughout nonetheless, this murder mystery, somewhat loosely based on the dense best-selling novel by the late Stieg Larsson (which in its native Swedish literally...

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2000s / Mystery / Thriller

The Lodger (2009)

David Ondaatje (if the last name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the nephew of famous novelist Michael) writes and directs (his first attempt at both) this throwback thriller based on the Marie Belloc Londes...

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1980s / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller

Dragnet (1987)

As with so many movies that would be written and starring SNL alums, Dragnet is a case of an amusing sketch comedy idea dragged out beyond its ability to truly entertain in a feature film. ...

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1940s / Mystery / Thriller

Rope (1948)

Hitchcock’s (Suspicion, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) first color film is also one of his most renown.  It is one of his most experimental films, as he decides to try to tell this tale from beginning...