Category Archives: Mystery
Jigsaw
Release 2017
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Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Writers: Pete Goldfinger, Josh Stolberg
Stars: Matt Passmore, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Hannah Emily Anderson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3348730/
Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect: John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for ten years.
Wonderstruck
Release 2017
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Director: Todd Haynes
Writers: Brian Selznick
Stars: Millicent Simmonds, Julianne Moore, Cory Michael Smith, James Urbaniak
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5208216/
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Release 2017
Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writers: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Alicia Silverstone, Raffey Cassidy, Barry Keoghan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5715874/
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
The Snowman
Release 2017
Genre Adventure, Animation, Crime, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Tomas Alfredson
Writers: Peter Straughan, Hossein Amini, Søren Sveistrup, Jo Nesbø
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jonas Karlsson, Michael Yates
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758810/
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.
Psych: The Movie
Release 2017
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Director: Steve Franks
Writers: Steve Franks, James Roday
Stars: James Roday, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson, Kirsten Nelson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6868216/
The old gang comes together during the holidays after a mystery assailant targets one of their own.
Mother!
Release 2017
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Director: Darren Aronofsky
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brian Gleeson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5109784/
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
The Foreigner
Release 2017
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Martin Campbell
Writers: David Marconi, Stephen Leather
Stars: Katie Leung, Jackie Chan, Rufus Jones, Mark Tandy, John Cronin
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615160/
A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.
Hangman
Release 2017
Genre Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Johnny Martin
Writers: Michael Caissie, Charles Huttinger, Phil Hawkins
Stars: Karl Urban, Al Pacino, Brittany Snow, Sarah Shahi, Joe Anderson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3011960/
A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game Hangman.
Crooked House
Release 2017
Genre Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
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Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Writers: Julian Fellowes, Agatha Christie, Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Tim Rose Price
Stars: Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Glenn Close, Terence Stamp, Max Irons
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869347/
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, private detective Charles Hayward is invited to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including Sophia, his client and former lover.
Americons
Release 2017
Genre Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Theo Avgerinos
Writers: Beau Martin Williams, Matt Funke
Stars: Beau Martin Williams, Matt Funke, Trai Byers, Michael Masini, Sam McMurray
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2293060/
Raving through realty on the eve of the economic collapse. A high-velocity journey of an unsuspecting mortgage broker swallowed up in the sex, greed and over indulgence of the mid 2000's Real Estate boom.