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poster
Amazon Prime Video
84
IMDb 69
7.9
/864735/
80
/41644/
78
/13592/
4.0
/3762610/
97
/472/
92
/12384/
82
/52/
cc age 13+

Knives Out (2019)
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
poster
80
7.9
/52426/
76
/867/
76
/681/
4.0
/28355/
89
/28/
90
/700/
49
/30/

Sleuth (1972)
A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
poster
77
7.2
/338962/
71
/8164/
70
/5121/
3.5
/331818/
92
/203/
77
/3961/
78
/37/
cc age 18+

Insomnia (2002)
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.
poster
76
7.2
/46026/
70
/902/
71
/872/
3.5
/53970/
97
/34/
77
/671/
74
/15/

Suspicion (1941)
A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.
poster
71
6.9
/14324/
65
/416/
67
/299/
3.5
/30885/
89
/36/
69
/206/

The Black Cat (1934)
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
poster
70
6.7
/51049/
66
/1114/
64
/770/
3.5
/37403/
84
/153/
67
/1158/
70
/37/
cc age 18+

Swimming Pool (2003)
A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of the publisher's daughter induces complications and a subsequent crime.
poster
Hulu
65
6.5
/72845/
65
/3651/
63
/1248/
3.2
/268443/
75
/200/
69
/290/
60
/40/
cc age 13+

See How They Run (2022)
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
65
6.1
/14168/
59
/561/
55
/285/
3.2
/30727/
87
/122/
49
/138/
72
/31/
cc age 16+

Let Them All Talk (2020)
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
poster
fuboTV
61
6.5
/220153/
67
/5595/
65
/3846/
3.1
/126540/
46
/159/
65
/18129/
46
/34/
cc age 16+

Secret Window (2004)
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
poster
60
6.2
/3953/
63
/40/
61
/62/
3.0
/1783/
67
/15/
51
/36/

Agatha (1979)
England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
74
59
7.2
/4446/
71
/62/
70
/51/
3.5
/2235/
83
/6/
80
/24/

The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
poster
57
6.3
/33822/
64
/719/
62
/569/
3.1
/9046/
37
/122/
51
/2070/
49
/30/
cc age 17+

Sleuth (2007)
Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman both are sleeping with.
poster
66
52
6.5
/2655/
66
/70/
68
/48/
3.3
/2599/
64
/402/

The Mad Magician (1954)
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
51
5.7
/7303/
63
/641/
57
/223/
2.7
/2670/
50
/10/
31
/47/

Big Driver (2014)
Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.
poster
MGM Plus
51
45
6.1
/6988/
62
/140/
59
/134/
3.1
/8734/
17
/6/
47
/147/

The Bat (1959)
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.
poster
64
37
6.9
/2458/
70
/43/
62
/31/
3.3
/1620/
57
/15/

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
36
6.8
/2200/
60
/26/
67
/29/
3.3
/686/
57
/969/

The Naked Truth (1957)
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
poster
59
33
6.3
/2546/
64
/103/
62
/50/
3.1
/961/
45
/4/

Dead Man's Folly (1986)
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
poster
63
27
6.6
/1570/
69
/24/
65
/16/
3.3
/656/
49
/90/

A Night to Remember (1942)
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
poster
57
19
6.4
/1591/
61
/35/
64
/15/
3.1
/338/
34
/21/

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat (1944)
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.
poster
66
18
6.7
/1632/
75
/13/
68
/11/
3.3
/506/
55
/10/

Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
poster
50
18
5.2
/668/
60
/20/
51
/19/
2.7
/724/
43
/7/
43
/2/

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942)
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
poster
67
16
6.4
/340/
68
/12/
59
/12/
79
/14/

Dial M for Murder (1981)
A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.
poster
Hoopla
51
12
5.4
/945/
53
/20/
57
/16/
3.0
/326/
33
/6/

Murder on Flight 502 (1975)
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
poster
49
10
5.1
/745/
57
/8/
49
/13/
39
/7/

Mr. Murder (1998)
A group of scientists are trying to produce the perfect soldier by cloning. The day the clone is born, Marty Stillwater, a mystery novel writer, feels that something strange is going on inside his body and mind. Seven years later, Marty discovers that his double has his same physical appearance but has the personality of a murderer.
poster
Hoopla
41
7
5.0
/477/
46
/13/
40
/10/
29
/9/

Thrill of the Kill (2006)
Haunted by her sister's suspicious death, Kelly Holden enlists the help of murder-mystery novelist Graydon Jennings to help solve the crime. Together they discover that Kelly's sibling was living quite the double life -- sleeping with a congressman and fending off a scorned ex-lover! As this salacious story unfolds, Kelly discovers that truth isn't just stranger than fiction -- it can be more evil too!
poster
?
4.9
/11/
10
/1/

Čtvrtá strana trojúhelníku (1986)
N/A
poster
?
5.8
/14/
60
/1/

Co v detektivce nebylo (2013)
Arthur Watkins' English conversational comedy has been successfully adapted to the Czech environment and the present day by screenwriter and director Jaroslav Brabec. Ondřej Bednář is a man whose life follows a strict routine. Convention and rationality are the corridors in which Ondřej, an exemplary father and meticulous golf course groundskeeper at the local club, feels safe. His wife Sylvie, on the other hand, is impulsive and chaotic, so they complement each other well. Ondřej would certainly not want to know that Sylvie was such a terrible driver that she ran into a baby carriage at an intersection. But what he suddenly has to keep secret...
poster
?
5.6
/11/

Dangerous Women (1985)
Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase and his wife Noriko. Next day, Tanase is shot and Noriko with a gun stands near him. Tanase calls one of the guest's name and dies.
poster
64
?
7.1
/82/
74
/5/
42
/4/
3.5
/432/

The Breakthrough (2023)
Jane and Teddy are on the brink of divorce – but when their marital problems come to a sticking point, they have an unexpected breakthrough.
poster
?
5.2
/61/
55
/2/

Lost in Panic Cruise (2011)
Mystery novelist Liu Feiyun (played by Su Youpeng) is invited to join his friend Dong Lei's (played by Yang Kun) luxury honeymoon cruise. During the day, on the cruise ship, beautiful ladies, wine, blue sea, and white clouds are like a paradise far away from the world; at night, there are masquerade parties, ambiguous flirting and playing, and carnival all night. However, under this glamorous luxury, there is an ulterior dark conspiracy lurking.
poster
48
?
5.5
/191/
10
/1/
80
/1/

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You (1971)
Detective Ellery Queen has to solve a series of murders where the victims were killed in numerically descending ages, the male victims were strangled with blue cords and the female victims with pink ones.
poster
?
6.9
/43/
74
/5/
60
/2/

Přísně tajné premiéry (1968)
A crime writer is accused of being too imaginative and his ideas unworkable, but everything changes when an international criminal demands his professional cooperation. The somewhat freaked out and disbelieving hero is also surprised to discover that his own wife has unsuspected criminal tendencies...
poster
?
7.1
/41/
60
/1/
57
/3/

Paklíc (1944)
N/A
poster
62
?
6.0
/555/
65
/8/
62
/5/
3.2
/224/

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947)
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the "only" key to the front door. But there are six other keys, and peculiar characters, some of them up to no good, keep turning up as the mystery deepens.
poster
67
?
6.6
/447/
75
/4/
60
/6/

Dangerous Blondes (1943)
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
poster
63
?
6.1
/930/
64
/68/
66
/21/

One Perfect Wedding (2021)
With Cara leaving on an international book tour in two weeks and Ben’s business expansion keeping him busy, the couple decides they won’t let work commitments postpone their nuptials any longer. With the help of their best friends Megan and Sean, Cara and Ben feel nothing can stop them from having the perfect wedding.
poster
42
?
4.9
/476/
55
/23/
46
/22/
25
/46/

The Boy Next Door (2008)
A novelist moves to a small town to write her next novel. She seeks inspiration and as time goes by she gathers information about her neighbor, a young, wealthy man whom she observes, as well as photographs, from her window. She soon finds herself a suspect in a murder investigation due to suspicious circumstances involving her odd behavior and reclusive lifestyle. She must fight to demonstrate her innocence.
poster
55
?
6.3
/163/
60
/2/
42
/4/

Midnight Mystery (1930)
A fog-shrouded house provides the setting for a weekend party prank gone wrong and the resulting murder being blamed on an innocent man.
poster
53
?
6.2
/194/
40
/3/
59
/5/

A Talent for Murder (1983)
A famed mystery writer and her doctor ex-lover solve her daughter-in-law's murder.
poster
58
?
5.8
/477/
65
/2/
50
/5/

Murder in the Blue Room (1944)
A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.
poster
The Roku Channel
49
?
6.2
/442/
37
/5/
50
/6/

Beauty (1998)
Alix Miller arrives at the isolated Crompton mansion in New Hampshire to paint the portrait of the mysterious Leland Crompton. When they meet, she discovers that he is horribly disfigured from a disease called acromegaly. Nevertheless, friendship, romance, and a deeper understanding develop between the two.
poster
55
?
5.8
/261/
53
/3/

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941)
Ventriloquist and world traveler Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son, Ellery, to help out.
poster
48
?
5.1
/226/
48
/7/
45
/10/

The Devil Plays (1931)
A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.
poster
?
7.3
/74/
68
/6/
63
/3/

The Hard Life of an Adventurer (1941)
A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.
poster
fuboTV
56
?
5.4
/416/
58
/31/
57
/11/

The Mystery Cruise (2013)
"The Mystery Cruise" centers around best friends and impending business partners, Alvirah Meehan (Gail O'Grady), a lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and Regan Reilly (Michelle Harrison), a private investigator. After rescuing the diamond-collared pooch of a wealthy socialite (Carol Higgins Clark), the two heroines set off with their spouses to join Regan's mom, Nora Reilly (Colleen Winton), a world famous mystery writer, on a luxurious three day cruise around the San Juan Island off the coast of Washington. The cruise serves as the setting for a mystery game created to promote the release of Nora's latest book. As the boat calmly sets sail, everyone is enjoying getting into character, especially Alvirah, who may or may not be the games "murderess." But troubled waters lie ahead when Alvirah gets a hunch that a real killer may be on board and, together with Regan, the pair teams up to solve the high seas whodunnit.
poster
71
?
7.0
/499/
73
/21/
71
/7/

Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen (1990)
The chief suspects in the murder of an author are the numerous colleagues whom he continuously plagiarized.
poster
Plex
53
?
5.4
/607/
66
/40/
40
/3/

Woman on the Run (2019)
'A time only' presents the life of Chico and Mercia, two nice old people who follow a life similar to most people reaching the stage of the best age. far from the routine of some super-old people today, they lead a regulated life and appropriate technology to cheat the time and soften the feelings of solitude. what they do not know is that such a useful and current tool can either distract or bring people closer together.


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