Mystery

  • Henry Edwards – Juggernaut (1936)

    1931-1940Henry EdwardsMysteryUnited Kingdom

    Victor Sartorius (Karloff) is an ailing doctor working in Morocco. He teams up with Lady Yvonne Clifford (Mona Goya) in a plot to poison her husband, Sir Charles Clifford (Morton Selten), so he can collect the 20,000 pounds necessary to save his experiments and his funding. Roger Clifford (Arthur Margetson), the son of Sir Charles has also been marked for death. The only one who can stop the murder plot of Sartorius is Nurse Eve Rowe (Joan Wyndham).Read More »

  • Ruben Preuss – Almost Dead (1994)

    1991-2000HorrorMysteryRuben PreussUSA

    A psychology professor (Shannen Doherty) believes that she is being haunted by her dead mother in this film that plays like a low-budget made-for-tv flick.Read More »

  • Robert Wiene – Orlacs Hände AKA The Hands of Orlac [Murnau Foundation Cut] (1924)

    1921-1930AustriaHorrorMysteryRobert Wiene

    A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn’t know they once belonged to a murderer.Read More »

  • Hans H. König – Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab AKA Roses Bloom on the Grave in the Meadow (1952)

    1951-1960GermanyHans H. KönigHorrorMystery

    In a small German village in the middle of large moors, there is an old legend of a young woman having sunk in the wetland after being raped by a Swedish intruder of the Thirty Years’ war. Now young Dorothee, falling in love with the architect Ludwig, is harassed by an obnoxious, rich farmer Eschmann. The brutal man is ready to do anything to get the maiden. The history is repeating itself, as Eschmann follows Dorothee to the moors after his crime.Read More »

  • Peter Medak – Cry for the Strangers (1982)

    USA1981-1990MysteryPeter MedakTV

    Patrick Duffy, Cindy Pickett and Brian Keith star in this atmospheric and eerie TV movie from 1982 based on the book by horror author John Saul.

    Spoiler free synopsis:
    “The little coastal town of Clark’s Harbour seems like the perfect place for psychiatrist Brad Russell and his wife to get a little peace and spend more time with each other. But the locals don’t seem very friendly and every time a storm rolls in another mysterious death occurs…”Read More »

  • Tayfun Pirselimoglu – Kerr (2021)

    2021-2030DramaMysteryTayfun PirselimogluTurkey

    Quote:
    Can witnesses a murder in a small town. The police don’t allow him to leave after his testimony. On the other hand, a quarantine is declared due to rabid dogs. The whole town turns into purgatory with no exit is almost at the edge of insanity.Read More »

  • Alfred Hitchcock – Dial M for Murder (1954)

    Crime1951-1960Alfred HitchcockMysteryUSA

    Storyline
    In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for their marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned.Read More »

  • Mark O’Brien – The Righteous (2021)

    2021-2030CanadaHorrorMark O'BrienMystery

    Quote:
    A burdened man feels the wrath of a vengeful God after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger.Read More »

  • David Greene – Vanishing Act (1986)

    1981-1990David GreeneMysteryThrillerUSA

    From the back cover:

    Elliott Gould, Margot Kidder and Mike Farrell star in this clever and wry mystery-thriller reminiscent of such Hitchcock high-adventures as “Vertigo” and “North by Northwest.”
    Set in a Rocky Mountain ski resort, honeymooning Harry Kenyon (Farrell) reports his wife Chris is missing to the idiosyncratic police chief, Lt. Rudameyer (Gould). Unexpectedly, Mrs. Kenyon turns up in the company of a priest named Father M acklin (Fred Gwynne), from whom she says she sought solace after an argument with her husband. But the startled Kenyon claims that this woman (Kidder) is not his wife. Maybe she’s not, but th efacts convince Rudameyer that she is an that Kenyon is off his rocker. Is she really his wife? If she’s not, what is she up to? The answers li in a series of plot twists in this brilliantly acted and cleverly written thriller.Read More »

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