current selection: mystery english movies from year 1900 to year 2014 ordered by this month's top ratings page 1 of 13 showing only pages containing links
A court martial sends a veteran soldier to a distant planet, where he has to destroy the remains of an alien race. The arrival of an unexpected traveler causes him to question what he knows about the planet, his mission, and himself. One of the few remaining drone repairmen assigned to Earth, its surface devastated after decades of war with the alien Scavs, discovers a crashed spacecraft with contents that bring into question everything he believed about the war, and may even put the fate of mankind in his hands.
Stars: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough
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A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished. ![]() [exit] |
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A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting. [exit] ![]() [exit] |
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While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train. ![]() [exit] |
| aka: Philip Pullman's The Sally Lockhart Mysteries: The Ruby in the Smoke aka: The Sally Lockhart Mysteries: The Ruby in the Smoke
In Victorian England, Sally Lockhart receives an anonymous note sending her on a mysterious quest. Her father has recently died and feeling suffocated living with her elderly aunt moves in with newfound friends, a photographer and his sister. She is soon made aware that the mysterious Mrs. Holland is out to kill her. In the end, she realizes the solution to the mystery is rooted in events that occurred long ago when she lived with her father in India and a recurring dream she has had ever since. ![]() [exit] |
| aka: Dick Tracy, Detective aka: The Sally Lockhart Mysteries: The Ruby in the Smoke
Dick is faced with a series of brutal murders in which the victims, all from different social and economic backgrounds, are viciously slashed to pieces. Suspects abound but Tracy, getting a clue that there will be fifteen murders in all, must find the common thread among the victims before more are killed. ![]() [exit] |
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No-nonsense San Francisco industrial whiz Walter Williams's two-timing wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but Williams survives the attack and the lover is burned beyond recognition while driving Williams's car. Half-dazed, Williams stumbles into a moving van that takes him to idyllic Larkspur, Idaho, where newspaper stories of his "death" jog his memory. While recuperating and plotting his eventual return and revenge, Williams falls in love with Marsha, an auto mechanic. But when Williams finally gets back to San Francisco, he's tried for the lover's murder. ![]() [exit] |
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A girl named Tracy is with a bunch of teens closing up camp. She keeps having dreams about her brother who dissappeared there and it was rumored he was killed by Trevor Moorehouse, and of course guess who shows up for blood. ![]() [exit] |
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Based on a novel and subsequent stage play by Agatha Christie; ten people are invited to an isolated island, only to be killed one-by-one. Could one of them be the killer? ![]() [exit] |
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A writer buys a typewriter which brings out his deepest and darkest desires. ![]() [exit] |
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A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book's secrets and his place in the story. ![]() [exit] |
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Part myth, part mystery, NOBODY is a film noir nightmare set in the 1950s on a cold winter night that never seems to end. A black-faced assassin is consigned to commit a murder at the behest of mob boss Rolo Toles. The assassin returns to Rolo claiming success, but the paranoid mobster needs more proof than the killer can provide. The assassin escapes into the city with a mysterious package under his arm, but before he can make it to safety he is attacked, pursued and wounded by an assailant who seems to anticipate his every move. ![]() [exit] |
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Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple, and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that, amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really, really nasty. ![]() [exit] |
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10 years since the the first Alien object called Torus arose, two more have risen. The first torus changed the worlds view dramatically not just political but even on a religious basis. DR. Mason Rand is on the run from religious zealots, Genesis Coalition, who fear the epidemic ramifications that will be brought on because of what DR. Rand knows. Dr. Rand has everything to loose he's already lost his wife and now his son's life is at risk. ![]() [exit] |
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An unforgettable journey into the darkness and mystery of Hollywood’s most famous unsolved murder case. When the beautiful Lisa Small (Kristen Kerr) gets the chance to play the tragic victim of the crime, Elizabeth Short, an entire dreamworld awakens all around her. All the while, a killer is on the loose collecting women and killing them in time for the 60th anniversary of the original murder. A spider’s web grows around Lisa, as her nightmares and desires intersect. As Lisa delves deeper into her script, she propels herself into living out the last days of the Black Dahlia. ![]() [exit] |
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When a wealthy man is murdered, a group of crooks come after his wife (Audrey Hepburn) for the fortune he stole from them. ![]() [exit] |
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In the midst of World War 2, a OSS officer leads a group of female pilots on a mission to deliver a secret weapon, only to crash land on an island in the Pacific after an encounter with a deadly storm. On the island, they must not only contend with a small band of Japanese soldiers but the native inhabitants of the island as well - vicious prehistoric Pterodons.
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In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions about the boys identity come up, the hosts life is thrown into chaos. [exit] ![]() [exit] |
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This stylish Brian DePalma thriller plays off the theme of the unsuspecting witness who discovers a crime and is thereby put in grave danger, but with a novel twist. Jack is a sound-man who works on "Grade-B" horror movies. Late one evening, he is "sampling" sounds for use on his movies, when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he doesn't know who he can trust.
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Three people from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at first seems like an inconvenience rapidly escalates into a nightmare. ![]() [exit] |
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In Tokyo, a young woman (Tamblyn) is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister (Gellar). The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt to unlock its secret to save their lives. ![]() [exit] |
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After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town [exit] ![]() [exit] |
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Based on the best-selling John le Carré novel and from the Academy Award-nominated director of "City of God." In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz) is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), will leave the matter to them. They could not be more wrong. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined. ![]() [exit] |
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An Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring. [exit] ![]() [exit] |
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1960, small town France. Vianne Rocher and her pre-teen daughter move into town and open a chocolate shop just as lent is beginning. The town's small-minded mayor can't accept this and does his best to shut her down, but her warm personality and incredible chocolates manage to win over many townsfolk. Things get shaken up even more when a group of river drifters, led by Roux, stop into town (to the even greater distress of the mayor) and Vianne takes up with him. Meanwhile, she's been helping Josephine out of her abusive marriage and her equally freethinking landlord, Amande Voisin, get together with her grandson, Luc, whose mother doesn't approve of Amande's ways.
More Info: Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 28 nominations [exit] ![]() [exit] |
| aka: Born aka: The Sally Lockhart Mysteries: The Ruby in the Smoke
Casey Beldon hated her mother for abandoning her as a child. But when inexplicable events begin to happen, Casey begins to understand why she left. Plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours, she must turn to the only person, Rabbi Sendak, who can make it stop. With the help of Sendak, her best friend Romy and boyfriend Mark, Casey uncovers the source of a family curse dating back to Nazi Germany--a creature with the ability to inhabit anyone or anything that is getting stronger with each possession. With the curse unleashed, her only chance at survival is to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born. ![]() [exit] |
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Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in love with Lionel Sweeney, an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century. ![]() [exit] |
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A mans awakens to find himself alone in the world. [exit] ![]() [exit] |
| aka: Hallam Foe aka: The Sally Lockhart Mysteries: The Ruby in the Smoke
A twisted Freudian adventure, the film centers on Hallam Foe, a teenage voyeur who fancies his step-mother until he becomes convinced that she murdered his mother. He leaves home when she seduces him and begins a feral life in the rooftops of Edinburgh until he spots and becomes obsessed with a girl who looks just like his mother. [exit] ![]() [exit] |
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A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities. [exit] ![]() [exit] |
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Ev, along with her husband, Harold, and their lawyer friend Martin, are swimming while on vacation in Puerto Rico. When they resurface, they gradually conclude that an unexplained, temporary interruption of oxygen has killed everyone on the island... maybe even the world! ![]() [exit] |
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A quiet seaside town is engulfed by a thick fog precisely one century after a boat sunk just off the coast under mysterious circumstances.
Remake of John Carpenter's 1980 The Fog. ![]() [exit] |
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While going to the town of Ashby Wake, the drifter Cassie is hit by a car driven by Marion Kirkman and loses her memory. Marion invites Cassie to stay in her huge old house with her family, while recovering from the trauma. Cassie becomes very close to Michael, the young son of Marion's husband Simon Kirkman. He is researching a recently discovered buried church from the First Century, with images of the crucifixion of Jesus and many anonymous persons watching it. Cassie starts having visions and premonitions with some locals, and decides to investigate the weird and nasty mechanic Frederick Michael Argyle. Her findings about who she is and the mystery relative to the locals and the town surprises her.
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At a party, a guest brings out a Ouija board, and they attempt to contact a spirit he knows. The spirit does appear, but it becomes apparent to the one who brought the Ouija board that this is an evil spirit that is impersonating his spirit, and despite warnings not to use the board alone, a woman uses it alone, and becomes harassed by the evil spirit, his goal to possess her so he can walk the earth again. ![]() [exit] |
| aka: Black Rain aka: The Sally Lockhart Mysteries: The Ruby in the Smoke
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aborigines in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself. ![]() [exit] |
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The Theatre of Death in Paris specialises in horror presentations. A police surgeon finds himself becoming involved in the place through his attraction to one of the performers. When bloodless bodies start showing up all over town he realises there could be links with the theatre. ![]() [exit] |
| aka: Jaws 3 aka: Jaws III
The sons of police chief Brody must protect civilians at a Sea World theme park after a gigantic 35-foot shark becomes trapped in the park. [exit] ![]() [exit] |
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Joanna Mills, a traveling business woman, begins having nightmares of a murder that occurred 15 years ago. Soon she is drawn to an old farmhouse, where the murder took place. ![]() [exit] |
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A congressman's daughter under Secret Service protection is kidnapped from a private school by an insider who calls Det. Alex Cross, sucking him into the case even though he's recovering from the loss of his partner ![]() [exit] |
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On the eve of WW2, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London. ![]() [exit] |
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A screenwriting teacher is forced to live out the plot of a screenplay idea he stole from a student, who now seeks revenge. ![]() [exit] |
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An ordinary young woman,Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette), is affected by mysterious wounds called Stigmata. When a Catholic Priest, Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne), comes to investigate the so called "miracle", he discovers this woman may be possessed by someone...or something...His investigation is riddled with questions as he is torn between helping Frankie and revealing the discovery of a long-lost Gospel that would spell disaster for the future of the Catholic church. [exit] ![]() [exit] |
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When two friends, Dominique (Alexz Johnson) and Ursula (Magda Apanowicz), uncover an ancient book in a graveyard one night, they discover that the book has the supernatural power to grant any desire written within it. In a series of escalating acts of vengeance, Ursula harms anyone who opposes her. Dominique realizes that the book fills all who possess it with the feeling of ultimate power. [exit] ![]() [exit] |
| aka: Stranger aka: Jaws III
Told that their children never existed, a man and woman soon discover that there's a much bigger enemy at work ![]() [exit] |
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A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created "society of the blind" quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. There is however one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become, in essence, a family. She leads them out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets of the city, which has seen all vestiges of civilization crumble. Their voyage is fraught with danger, yet their survival and ultimate redemption reflect the tenacity and depth of the human spirit. [exit] ![]() [exit] |
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Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets where he becomes drawn into a web of passion, romance and violence.. ![]() [exit] |
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A group of people gathered in an old mansion are being systematically murdered by a hooded killer. ![]() [exit] |
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Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want... ![]() [exit] |
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An insurance investigator and an efficency expert who hate each other are both hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist with a jade scorpion into stealing jewels. [exit] ![]() [exit] |
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While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings. ![]() [exit] |
| aka: National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze aka: National Lampoon's Dorm Daze aka: Dorm Day Crazy
Set during a crazy afternoon in the lives of a dozen college students at a co-ed dorm that starts with the arrival of two very different women with the same name of Dominique. ![]() [exit] |
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A town is being terrorized by a masked killer who is murdering women. ![]() [exit] |
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A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is being blackmailed. ![]() [exit] |
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The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent. ![]() [exit] |
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Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball, who then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him. Dick Tracy allows his girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the gems but his plan backfires when she is captured by the homicidal Cueball. ![]() [exit] |
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While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case. ![]() [exit] |
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A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own. ![]() [exit] |
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Vineyard owner marquis Philippe de Montfaucon is called back to his castle Bellenac because of another dry season. He asks his wife and children to remain in London, but they still come after him. His wife Catherine de Montfaucon soon discovers that her husband is acting mysteriously and that his employees are following old pagan rituals that call for the life of the marquis himself to save the crops. ![]() [exit] |
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A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets. Classic B/W staring Alan Curtis, Evelyn Ankers, ![]() [exit] |
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