The quirky spin on Conan Doyle's iconic sleuth pitches him as a "high-functioning sociopath" in modern-day London. Assisting him in his investigations: Afghanistan War vet John Watson, who's introduced to Holmes by a mutual acquai...
FR #141 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English, French
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Ernest Lehman
Cast
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Plot
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
FR #160 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English
Director
Roman Polanski
Writer
Ira Levin, Roman Polanski
Cast
Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Ralph Bellamy, Elisha Cook Jr.
Plot
A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.
FR #171 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English, French
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Raymond Chandler, Czenzi Ormonde, Whitfield Cook
Cast
Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
Plot
A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
FR #199 | Movie | Drama, Mystery | USA | English, Portuguese
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Ben Hecht, Alfred Hitchcock, John Taintor Foote
Cast
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern
Plot
The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
FR #254 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English, Latin
Director
M. Night Shyamalan
Writer
M. Night Shyamalan
Cast
Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
Plot
After being shot by a resentful former patient whom he failed to help, a Philadelphia child psychologist seeks redemption by treating a young boy with a disturbing secret.
FR #257 | Movie | Thriller, Mystery | USA, Japan | English, Swahili
Director
Jordan Peele
Writer
Jordan Peele
Cast
Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener
Plot
A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.
FR #286 | Movie | Animation, Mystery | USA, Mexico | English, Spanish
Director
Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina
Writer
Lee Unkrich, Jason Katz, Matthew Aldrich
Cast
Anthony Gonzalez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Benjamin Bratt
Plot
Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, John Turturro, Christopher Walken
Plot
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
FR #338 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor, Pierre Boileau
Cast
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Plot
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
FR #393 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English, Latin
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Daphne Du Maurier, Evan Hunter
Cast
Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy
Plot
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
FR #405 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | Italy, Germany | German, Italian
Director
Michael Haneke
Writer
Michael Haneke
Cast
Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch
Plot
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
FR #496 | Movie | Adventure, Mystery | USA | English
Director
Gore Verbinski
Writer
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie
Cast
Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Jonathan Pryce
Plot
Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save Elizabeth Swann, the governor's daughter and his love, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.
FR #497 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | UK, USA | English
Director
Christopher Nolan
Writer
Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Priest
Cast
Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine
Plot
Two friends and fellow magicians become bitter enemies after a sudden tragedy. As they devote themselves to this rivalry, they make sacrifices that bring them fame but, with terrible consequences.
FR #522 | Movie | Crime, Mystery | USA, Australia | English
Director
Clint Eastwood
Writer
Brian Helgeland, Dennis Lehane
Cast
Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne
Plot
The tragic murder of a 19-year-old girl reunites three childhood friends still living in Boston--the victim's gangster father, a detective, and the disturbed man they both suspect of killing her.
FR #533 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | Argentina, Spain | Spanish, Spanish; Castilian
Director
Juan Jose Campanella
Writer
Eduardo Sacheri, Juan Jose Campanella
Cast
Ricardo Darin, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago
Plot
A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases, and for his unreciprocated love with his superior--both of which still haunt him decades later.
A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
FR #638 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | France, Italy | French, Persian
Director
Asghar Farhadi
Writer
Asghar Farhadi
Cast
Berenice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa
Plot
An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
FR #720 | Movie | Crime, Mystery | UK, USA | English
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
John Buchan, Charles Bennett, Ian Hay
Cast
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
Plot
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
FR #762 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | France, UK | English
Director
Florian Zeller
Writer
Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller
Cast
Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss
Plot
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. When he tries to understand what is happening around him, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
FR #786 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | Spain, France | English, Malayalam
Director
Alejandro Amenabar
Writer
Alejandro Amenabar
Cast
Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan
Plot
In 1945, immediately following the end of Second World War, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.
FR #798 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | France, USA | English, Spanish
Director
David Lynch
Writer
David Lynch
Cast
Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux
Plot
After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
FR #914 | Movie | Romance, Mystery | USA | French, German
Director
Stanley Donen
Writer
Peter Stone, Marc Behm
Cast
Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy
Plot
Romance and intrigue ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want to get their hands on a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. She soon loses trust in those who claim they want to help her.
Prabhakara Varma is called upon to investigate the death of Omana, the daughter-in-law of a local businessman. It looks like a suicide but, Varma is sure that is not so.
A former secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is actually a bizarre prison. He refuses to give his warders information while attempting to escape.
FR #1052 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | USA, Canada | Mandarin, Russian
Director
Denis Villeneuve
Writer
Eric Heisserer, Ted Chiang
Cast
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
Plot
Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial vi...
FR #1055 | Movie | Mystery, Fantasy | USA | English
Director
Richard Kelly
Writer
Richard Kelly
Cast
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary Mcdonnell
Plot
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
FR #1098 | Movie | Horror, Mystery | USA | English
Director
Brian De Palma
Writer
Stephen King, Lawrence D. Cohen
Cast
Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
Plot
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
FR #1119 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | Spain, USA | Japanese, Spanish
Director
Pedro Almodovar
Writer
Pedro Almodovar, Agustin Almodovar, Thierry Jonquet
Cast
Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet
Plot
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
FR #1177 | TV | Mystery, Crime | UK, USA | English
Writer
John Hawkesworth
Cast
Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Rosalie Williams
Plot
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve the mysteries of copper beeches, a Greek interpreter, the Norwood builder, a resident patient, the red-headed league, and one final problem.
The mysterious story revolves around the cult of Karuppu Swami, along with the odd and strange deaths of people - one followed by another, and events unfolding in the village of Thottakaramangalam.
Doctor Watson moves in with the eccentric Sherlock Holmes and they get a case to solve. A young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather after her sister dies under mysterious circumstances.
FR #1342 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | Netherlands, France | English, Dutch
Director
George Sluizer
Writer
Tim Krabbe, George Sluizer
Cast
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna Ter Steege
Plot
Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.
One stormy night, a doctor offers a ride to a ghostly woman he meets on the side of the road. Later, he discovers his intended bride is identical in appearance to the ghost. Who was she and why does she haunt him?
FR #1725 | Movie | Mystery, Romance | India | Bengali
Director
Agradoot
Writer
Agradoot, Nitai Bhattacharya, A.J. Cronin
Cast
Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Kamal Mitra, Chhabi Biswas, Pahadi Sanyal, Tulsi Chakraborty
Plot
A poor lawyer get to know that his father was jailed for a women's murder he didn't commit. To prove his father's innocence protagonist left his home to conduct his own investigation and when every situation got against him, he fo...
Eight people are stranded on an island. They reach a mansion where a butler is awaiting them. Then an unknown, vengeful person starts killing them, one by one.
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
FR #1802 | Movie | Mystery, Crime | USA, Germany | French, English
Director
Guy Ritchie
Writer
Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, Simon Kinberg
Cast
Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel Mcadams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan
Plot
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
FR #1838 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | Spain, France | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Alejandro Amenabar
Writer
Alejandro Amenabar, Mateo Gil
Cast
Eduardo Noriega, Penelope Cruz, Chete Lera
Plot
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Arthur Conan Doyle (Novel), Igor Maslennikov, Yuri Veksler
Cast
Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
Plot
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskerville family.
FR #2021 | Movie | Horror, Mystery | USA | English
Director
Zach Cregger
Writer
Zach Cregger
Cast
Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich
Plot
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
FR #2127 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | Japan | Japanese
Director
Shohei Imamura
Writer
Shohei Imamura, Shichiro Fukazawa
Cast
Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
Plot
In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An elderly woman is reaching close to her cut-off age during her last days with her family.
The murder of a beautiful young girl, seen from the Rashomon-esque perspectives of an unrelenting obsessed cop, a novelist captivated by her grace and an opportunistic news editor.
FR #2263 | Movie | Horror, Mystery | USA | English
Director
Wes Craven
Writer
Kevin Williamson
Cast
Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Drew Barrymore
Plot
In the small town of Woodsboro, California, a masked killer known as Ghostface begins murdering high school students, and a group of friends must use their knowledge of horror movies to unmask the killer.
FR #2297 | Movie | Adventure, Mystery | USA | English, Turkish
Director
Gore Verbinski
Writer
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie
Cast
Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce
Plot
Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.
College classmates meet for a 10-year reunion, which does not go as smoothly as planned. Love is discovered, friendships are broken and secrets about tragic events in the past are revealed.
The disappearance of rich-girl-turned-political-activist links the lives of Ceres detective, accidental ship captain and U.N. politician. Amidst political tension between Earth, Mars and the Belt, they unravel the greatest conspir...
FR #2534 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | UK, USA | English, Spanish
Director
Duncan Jones
Writer
Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker
Cast
Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique Mcelligott
Plot
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth, parcels of a resource that has helped diminish ...
