Mystery

  • Jessica Hausner – Hotel (2004)

    2001-2010AustriaDramaJessica HausnerMystery

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    When Irene gets a job as a hotel maid she soon finds out that the previous girl disappeared in mysterious circumstances.Read More »

  • Seijun Suzuki – Ana no kiba AKA The Fang in the Hole (1979)

    1971-1980JapanMysterySeijun SuzukiTV

    A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found. From the Sunday Horror Series.Read More »

  • Haruhiko Mimura – Amagi goe AKA Amagi Pass (1983)

    1981-1990CrimeHaruhiko MimuraJapanMystery

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    Based on novel by MATSUMOTO Seicho
    The year is 1926. Unhappy with his drunken father and the constant bickering, 15-year-old Takichi runs away from home to Mt. Amagi. During his lonely escapade, he meets interesting characters, including a beautiful prostitute named Hana. They stumble upon a drifter who is later found dead. Hana is implicated in the murder, but she is released for the lack of evidence. Thirty years later, they’ve gone on with their separate lives. Takichi hears of Hana’s whereabouts from a retired police investigator. He embarks on yet another journey to find her…Read More »

  • Jean-Pierre Mocky – Litan (1982)

    1981-1990FranceHorrorJean-Pierre MockyMystery

    In the town of Litan, a local festival or celebration day is occurring—townsfolk dress in masks, play music, make merry. Nora (Marie-José Nat) awakens from a nightmare and is convinced that she’s prophesied some impending doom. Rushing to her husband, Jock (Mocky), who’s job involves some kind of demolition work at “the Black Rocks,” she plunges into a bigger nightmare, where telephone calls are routinely interrupted by crossed wires leading to mysterious messages from “the cemetery,” and strange rotoscoped glow-worms lurk in the waters, waiting to dissolve those who fall in…Read More »

  • James W. Horne – The Spider Returns (1941)

    1941-1950ActionJames W. HorneMysteryUSA

    The Spider Returns (1941) is a Columbia movie serial based on the pulp magazine character The Spider. It was the fourteenth of the 57 serials released by Columbia and a sequel to its 1938 serial The Spider’s Web. The first episode runs 32 minutes; the rest are about 17 minutes each.

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    Amateur criminologist Richard Wentworth was formerly the masked vigilante, The Spider. Wentworth brings The Spider out of retirement to help his friend, police commissioner Kirk (Kirkpatrick in the pulps), fight a dangerous maniac. This new enemy is The Gargoyle, a mysterious crimelord who threatens America with sabotage and wholesale murder in an effort to wreck national defense.
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  • James W. Horne & Ray Taylor – The Spider’s Web (1938)

    1931-1940ActionJames W. HorneMysteryRay TaylorUSA

    The Spider’s Web (1938) is a Columbia Pictures movie serial based on the pulp magazine character The Spider. The 15-chapter adventure (first episode was double length) was directed by serial and western specialist Ray Taylor and comedy and serial veteran James W. Horne. It was the fifth of the 57 serials released by Columbia.
    The film was wildly successful when first released; it was the most popular serial of 1938, according to a tally published in The Motion Picture Herald, and was the first serial that Columbia brought back as a reprint (in 1947). A sequel, The Spider Returns, was released in 1941; of the Spider’s Web principals, only Warren Hull and Kenne Duncan returned in their original rolesRead More »

  • Denis Villeneuve – Enemy (2013)

    2011-2020CanadaDenis VilleneuveDramaMystery

    Adam Bell is a glum, disheveled history professor, who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double, a bit-part actor named Anthony Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined. Gyllenhaal is transfixing as both Adam and Anthony, provoking empathy as well as disapproval while embodying two distinct personas.Read More »

  • Lambert Hillyer – Extortion (1938)

    1931-1940Lambert HillyerMysteryUSA

    The story takes place on a college campus, where a distinctively unpopular professor is murdered. When her physics-teacher father falls under suspicion, co-ed Betty Tisdale turns to campus newspaper editor Larry Campbell. Dissatisfied with the slowness of police procedure, Betty, Larry and their fellow students conduct their own investigation, unearthing a hotbed of scholastic intrigue and double-crossing.Read More »

  • Kurt Neumann – Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940)

    1931-1940Kurt NeumannMysteryUSA

    Ralph Bellamy made the first of four appearances as fictional sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia’s “Ellery Queen, Master Detective”. For reasons that defy logic, the studio elected to transform the brilliant, analytical Queen into a hopeless bumbler, who seems incapable of tying his own shoes, much less solving a murder. Set at a posh health resort, the story gets under way when wealthy physical culturalist John Braun (played by former director Fred Niblo) is killed after threatening to cut all his heirs out of his will. Read More »

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