Mystery

  • Alfred L. Werker – Repeat Performance (1947)

    1941-1950Alfred L. WerkerFilm NoirMysteryUSA

    Synopsis:
    Sheila kills her husband at the start of the film with a smoking gun. We don’t know how or why. All we know is men are banging on her door and she escapes. There is a notable dialogue as she makes her way to a New Years celebration with Richard Basehart as the poet William Williams. As she goes up the stairs to John Friday’s apartment (her producer), she wishes she could relive the year and undo what she has done. William Williams, in an offhand remark, states he wishes he was the one who shot Barney, her erstwhile husband. We see that Destiny is not too happy with making changes to her plans.Read More »

  • Kevin Kopacka – Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes (2021)

    2021-2030GermanyHorrorKevin KopackaMystery

    A couple spend eternity in a castle until their reality starts to shift, as the unknown moves into their lives.Read More »

  • Dario Argento – Occhiali neri AKA Dark Glasses (2022)

    2021-2030Dario ArgentoItalyMysteryThriller

    A serial killer who preys on prostitutes sets his sights on Diana. As he pursues her, he causes a car crash in which she is blinded and 10-year-old Chin’s entire family dies. Despite her blindness, Diane resolves to take the boy in. But the killer is still on the loose…Read More »

  • Wayne Wang – Chan Is Missing (1982)

    Drama1981-1990MysteryUSAWayne Wang

    Two cabbies search San Francisco’s Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.Read More »

  • Jacques Doniol-Valcroze – Le Viol AKA A Question of Rape (1967)

    1961-1970DramaFranceJacques Doniol-ValcrozeMystery

    A young wife stays alone in her opulent apartment after her husband and her maid leave. Suddenly the doorbell rings. She opens it to find a strange gun-toting man who bursts in and chloroforms her. She later awakens and finds herself tied to the couch. The stranger warns her not to scream. They begin talking and the man implies that her husband is in danger. Very soon between the two begins a very strange attraction…Read More »

  • Billy Hin-Shing Tang – Woo dung saai yan si gin AKA Interactive Murders (2002)

    2001-2010Billy Hin-Shing TangCrimeHong KongMystery

    Pop star Anna has been kidnapped. Kidnapper Jash uploads the video clip of Anna being tortured onto the internet, which instantly becomes the talk of Hong Kong. A week later, Jash contacts the police, asking not for a ransom but for retired police inspector Mo to be his police contact. Inspector Mo eventually discovers through a tabloid magazine that a self-proclaimed psychic named Shana had phoned a radio program on the day of the kidnapping to warn of the incident.Read More »

  • Scott Barley – Sleep Has Her House (2017)

    Scott Barley2011-2020DramaMystery

    The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.

    Note from the director:
    This film is intended to be viewed only in complete darkness, with either headphones or a quality sound system.
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  • Steven Soderbergh – Kafka (1991)

    1991-2000DramaMysterySteven SoderberghUSA

    Quote:
    It seems the lives of writers are hot movie properties these days. First Barton Fink, then Naked Lunch, and now Kafka. Whoever could have imagined such a thing? After the meteoric commercial success of Soderbergh’s debut feature sex, lies, and videotape, the director chose for his second effort this hypothetical presentation of the life of Franz Kafka. The movie is not so much a biography but rather, a speculative depiction of Kafka’s daily circumstances. While not untrue to the specific facts of Kafka’s life, the movie focuses more on the environment of 1919 Prague that so influenced the author. In large part, the things at which the movie excels are precisely the things that also make Kafka’s work so enduringly vivid — the absurdity anchored by an exacting realism, the incomprehensibility coupled with utmost lucidity, the looming sense of paradox, futility, labyrinthine logic and impenetrable pressures.Read More »

  • Denis Villeneuve – Incendies (2010)

    Denis Villeneuve2001-2010CanadaDramaMystery

    Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history, and fulfill their mother’s last wishes.Read More »

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