Mystery Movies, a list by dave Miller

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4.1

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4.0

age 17+

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

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7.8

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77

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75

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3.9

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96

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89

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4.0

age 13+

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.

84

7.9

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77

/10366/

77

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3.9

/448326/

89

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89

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84

/42/

4.0

age 17+

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

84

8.6

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85

/43194/

84

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4.4

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84

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95

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65

/22/

3.5

age 17+

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

82

8.0

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77

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76

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4.1

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85

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88

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72

/29/

4.0

age 16+

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

82

8.1

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80

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79

/19528/

4.1

/2798111/

88

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87

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/49/

3.5

age 17+

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

81

7.7

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76

/21134/

75

/11234/

4.0

/1691873/

90

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77

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79

/40/

4.0

age 18+

Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.

81

7.1

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69

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65

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3.9

/24774/

90

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86

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90

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4.0

age 15+

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.

80

7.4

/35174/

72

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69

/394/

3.9

/30745/

91

/140/

83

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79

/23/

4.0

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

80

7.8

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78

/15066/

75

/6066/

3.8

/299887/

90

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89

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67

/29/

3.5

age 14+

With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.

80

7.7

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76

/27922/

74

/9261/

4.0

/847169/

91

/280/

85

/3628/

82

/48/

3.0

age 17+

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

79

8.0

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79

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76

/8841/

3.9

/415546/

88

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88

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75

/20/

3.0

age 17+

In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.

79

7.6

/307474/

75

/7898/

73

/4030/

3.7

/171537/

94

/183/

86

/18891/

72

/34/

3.5

age 17+

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.

79

8.2

/1130090/

81

/26682/

79

/12479/

4.1

/1207924/

86

/167/

90

/39164/

64

/35/

3.0

age 14+

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

79

7.3

/154945/

71

/2924/

70

/1650/

3.6

/55179/

83

/189/

82

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82

/39/

4.0

age 16+

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

79

7.4

/268047/

73

/6394/

72

/4012/

3.9

/561424/

85

/139/

80

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76

/35/

4.0

age 17+

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

78

7.7

/309390/

76

/16962/

74

/5598/

3.8

/322439/

87

/250/

90

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73

/44/

3.0

age 17+

An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

78

7.6

/190463/

77

/11759/

76

/4095/

3.7

/299091/

92

/260/

88

/1372/

71

/34/

3.0

age 13+

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

79

7.0

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67

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66

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4.0

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95

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83

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72

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4.0

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.

78

7.4

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72

/1933/

71

/1017/

3.9

/55209/

89

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80

/802/

77

/42/

3.5

age 17+

After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.

78

7.5

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75

/7294/

73

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3.7

/121718/

78

/91/

85

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66

/23/

4.0

age 16+

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

77

7.2

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67

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3.6

/6390/

90

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82

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84

/29/

3.5

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.

77

7.2

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71

/8112/

69

/5099/

3.5

/325453/

92

/203/

77

/3960/

78

/37/

3.5

age 18+

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

77

7.7

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78

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73

/7927/

3.6

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81

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90

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73

/39/

3.0

age 14+

A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

76

7.7

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77

/6619/

77

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4.0

/394379/

77

/47/

89

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47

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3.5

age 17+

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds himself up against his ex-pupil and ex-lover, but as the case progresses and the Church's dark secrets are revealed, Vail finds that what appeared a simple case takes on a darker, more dangerous aspect.

76

7.1

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73

/465/

68

/302/

3.6

/11656/

89

/61/

80

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71

/21/

3.5

An inventor of a secret process suddenly finds himself alone as both his friends and the corporation he works for turn against him.

76

7.5

/417061/

73

/10192/

75

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4.0

/1135351/

76

/165/

74

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69

/34/

3.5

age 18+

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

76

7.6

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76

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73

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3.7

/279268/

86

/210/

85

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76

/39/

2.5

age 17+

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.

74

7.0

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70

/369/

68

/139/

3.5

/8101/

80

/5/

78

/10/

3.5

age 15+

Penetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.

74

7.4

/52517/

74

/1298/

72

/841/

3.7

/30786/

86

/50/

82

/861/

62

/19/

3.0

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

74

6.9

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67

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67

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3.4

/14642/

100

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76

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Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.

73

6.8

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68

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63

/398/

3.4

/15402/

81

/52/

76

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66

/19/

4.0

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.

74

7.1

/113536/

71

/2859/

68

/1332/

3.7

/135150/

79

/141/

86

/9208/

72

/34/

3.0

age 17+

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

74

7.3

/267732/

75

/7565/

72

/3514/

3.6

/125714/

83

/172/

82

/5252/

63

/31/

3.0

age 16+

Mick Haller is a charismatic defense attorney who does business out of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Mick spends most of his time defending petty crooks and other bottom-feeders, so it comes as quite a surprise when he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy who is accused of attempted murder. However, what Mick initially thinks is an open-and-shut case with a big monetary reward develops into something more sinister.

74

7.6

/437797/

76

/11090/

75

/5963/

3.8

/381425/

77

/141/

83

/9662/

61

/32/

3.0

age 17+

Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.

73

6.9

/37642/

65

/740/

65

/479/

3.6

/41489/

92

/86/

78

/725/

73

/32/

3.0

The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.

73

6.8

/6056/

66

/95/

60

/75/

3.6

/3597/

82

/60/

70

/323/

79

/23/

3.5

William Keane is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal while traveling with him. Repeatedly drawn to the site of the abduction, Keane wanders the bus station, compulsively replaying the events of that fateful day, as if hoping to change the outcome.

73

7.0

/224501/

70

/5897/

66

/2825/

3.7

/149135/

84

/229/

65

/5128/

85

/42/

3.0

age 17+

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.

73

7.0

/183415/

69

/7431/

66

/3398/

3.3

/191098/

91

/199/

75

/2193/

77

/31/

3.0

age 16+

Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

73

6.6

/86291/

68

/6990/

62

/1990/

3.3

/76528/

83

/239/

67

/922/

76

/44/

4.0

age 12+

A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

73

6.9

/51952/

71

/1494/

68

/773/

3.5

/34969/

86

/57/

67

/493/

72

/26/

3.5

Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.

73

7.4

/108676/

72

/2511/

71

/1766/

3.5

/133999/

82

/39/

85

/1756/

60

/11/

Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.

72

6.6

/32723/

63

/607/

65

/578/

3.6

/44524/

76

/122/

65

/2342/

84

/27/

3.5

age 16+

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

72

6.4

/15489/

64

/570/

60

/274/

3.5

/61624/

90

/184/

37

/241/

92

/45/

4.0

age 15+

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

72

6.6

/29934/

65

/1366/

61

/394/

3.5

/49572/

92

/48/

74

/151/

74

/10/

3.0

age 15+

Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. However, neither is who they appear to be, each carry secrets that threaten to ruin them — and in the background, one of the nation's largest police operations is closing in.

72

6.8

/19046/

68

/459/

63

/304/

3.4

/9895/

91

/22/

75

/412/

58

/22/

3.5

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

72

6.7

/42997/

65

/684/

66

/910/

3.4

/30325/

84

/140/

68

/783/

83

/35/

3.0

A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.

72

6.5

/35959/

66

/1599/

63

/784/

3.6

/54075/

87

/145/

69

/723/

81

/27/