Category Archives: Mystery

A Murder Is Announced

IMDB Rating: 7.20
226 votes

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A murder is announced in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette to take place on October 5th, 7 PM at Little Paddocks cottage. The people living there, retired secretary Miss Blacklock, her companion Miss Bunner, Miss Blacklock's two distant cousins, Patrick and Julia and Mrs.Haymes, a gardener, have no idea what the ad is about. Several villagers arrive at the house under the false pretenses of "just walking by" or "Was in the neighborhood". At exactly 7 PM, the lights go out, and a man enters the room, and shines a flashlight in everyone's face. Then shots are heard. As the lights come back on, they find the man who entered the room has been shot. Miss Marple must unmask the killer but soon more murders turn up.
Actors
Miss Jane MarpleJoan Hickson
Letitia BlacklockUrsula Howells
Dora BunnerRenée Asherson
Also posted in 1985, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Frantic

IMDB Rating: 6.60
11527 votes

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Ford plays an American doctor whose wife (Betty Buckley) suddenly vanishes while the couple is visiting Paris. To recover her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops and triplicate-form bureaucrats. Ultimately - and relunctantly - he must try a defaint, mysterious waif (Emmanuelle Seigner) who knows more than she tells about the woman's kidnappers.
Actors
Dr. Richard WalkerHarrison Ford
Sondra WalkerBetty Buckley
Taxi DriverDjiby Soumare
Also posted in 1988, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Marple: The Body in the Library

IMDB Rating: 6.40
316 votes

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BBC Adaption of Agatha Christie's novel. In the small village of St. Mary Mead, Colonel and Mrs. Bantry, owner of the local manor - Gossington Hall is shocked when one morning a young lady's body is found in the library. They call in the police who soon run up against a brick wall, only finding out that the body is that of a dancer in London who the Bantry's didn't even know. But how and why was her body left in the library? To find out the truth, the Bantry's call in the help of their good friend and detective - Miss Jane Marple.
Actors
Miss Jane MarpleGeraldine McEwan
Conway JeffersonIan Richardson
Adelaide JeffersonTara Fitzgerald
Also posted in 2004, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Moving Finger

IMDB Rating: 7.20
170 votes

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Squadron Leader Gerry Burton is sent to a tranquil country village to recover from the effects of a plane crash and be nursed back to health by his beautiful sister Joanna. As they are new to the community, they are shocked to receive an anonymous, sexually explicit poison pen letter. They later find that other village gentry have been victimized by the same crank writer, and the vicar's wife sends for her friend Miss Marple in hopes of exposing the perpetrator. When a solicitor's wife apparently takes poison after receiving a particularly vicious message, Miss Marple suspects that the letters are a smokescreen for something more ominous. When a house maid is found bludgeoned to death, she knows she is right.
Actors
Miss Jane MarpleJoan Hickson
Edward SymmingtonMichael Culver
Angela SymmingtonElizabeth Counsell
Also posted in 1985, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Christine

IMDB Rating: 6.20
10493 votes

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Arnie Cunningham is a typical high school nerd who is picked on, overruled by his parents, and has very few friends. Until he meets Christine, a run-down 1958 Plymouth Fury and buys her. Arnie learns that Christine has a thing for him and devotes his time to restoring her to Mint Condition. But overtime, Arnie begins to change and becomes disconnected with reality and his friends. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis find out that Christine's previous owner cared about nothing else when he bought her and find out that Arnie is becoming just like him. The only way they can bring Arnie back to reality is to destroy Christine, But Arnie and Christine are ready to destroy them first and any one else who gets in their way.
Actors
Arnie CunninghamKeith Gordon
Dennis GuilderJohn Stockwell
Leigh CabotAlexandra Paul
Also posted in 1983, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Grudge

IMDB Rating: 5.70
27693 votes

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Karen Davis is a woman residing in Japan with her boyfriend, who is studying there. Temporarily assigned to be caretaker for a woman with severe sleeping disorder, Karen goes to the patient's house. What she finds is something she would never expect. The house is plagued by the presence of murderous ghosts, the result of a curse. The curse is born from someone dying in a powerful rage. Now, Karen finds herself being tormented by that curse, as it eventually starts claiming it's victims.
Actors
Karen DavisSarah Michelle Gellar
DougJason Behr
Matthew WilliamsWilliam Mapother
Also posted in 2004, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Sleuth

IMDB Rating: 6.90
627 votes

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Based on a play, Sleuth confronts two extremely clever British men in a game of trickery and deceit. Andrew Wyke (Michael Cain), an aging famous author who lives alone in a high-tech mansion, after his wife Maggie has left him for a younger man; and Milo Tindle (Jude Law),an aspiring actor, equipped with charm and wit, who demonstrates both qualities once again). When Wyke invite Tindle to his mansion, Tindle seeks to convince the former into letting his wife go by signing the divorce paper. However, Wyke seems far more interested in playing mind games with his wife's new lover, and lures him into a series of actions he thoroughly planned in seeking revenge on his unfaithful spouse.
Actors
Andrew WykeMichael Caine
Milo TindleJude Law
Man on T.V.Harold Pinter
Also posted in 2007, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Heathers

IMDB Rating: 7.30
17437 votes

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Dear Diary: Veronica Sawyer is sick of being part of the Heathers, the most powerful clic of Westerberg High; making fun of Martha Dunnstock ("Dumptruck"), the fat girl, or doing some stupid polls is something she'll never get used to. Meanwhile she meets JD, a cool rebel guy who wouldn't mind shooting a gun at school just to make his point. Remington University's party is where Veronica has to go as a Heather, and there's where she gets her ultimatum as a Heather from Heather Chandler, the head of the Heathers. So Veronica and her lover JD "accidentally" kill Heather Chandler and manage to cover it up by making a suicide note. Will this be just the beginning of the assasination-turned-suicide serie of Westerberg High which nor the FBI, the CIA or the PTA would be able to stop? Or will Veronica be able to pull herself together and stop her psychotic lover from killing absolutely EVERYONE at school?
Actors
Veronica SawyerWinona Ryder
Jason 'J.D.' DeanChristian Slater
HeatherShannen Doherty
Also posted in 1989, Comedy, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Scream 2

IMDB Rating: 5.80
33600 votes

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It has been two years since the tragic events at Woodsboro. Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks are trying to get on with their lives, and are currently both students at Windsor College. Cotton Weary is out of prison, and is trying to cash in on his unfortunate incarceration. Gale Weathers has written a bestseller, "The Woodsboro Murders," which has been turned into the film, "Stab," starring Tori Spelling as Sidney. As the film's play date approaches, the cycle of death begins anew. Dewey Riley immediately flies out of Woodsboro to try to protect Sidney, his "surrogate sister." But in this sequel to the 1996 horror film, the number of suspects only goes down as the body count slowly goes up!
Actors
Dwight 'Dewey' RileyDavid Arquette
Sidney PrescottNeve Campbell
Gale WeathersCourteney Cox
Also posted in 1997, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Scream 3

IMDB Rating: 5.30
25679 votes

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STAB 3: RETURN TO WOODSBORO is currently in production, and a killer is on the loose cutting corners cast wise. The murders draw a reporter, ex-cop, and young woman to the set of the movie inspired by their life. They soon find out that they are dealing with a trilogy, and in a trilogy...anything can happen.
Actors
Dwight 'Dewey' RileyDavid Arquette
Sidney PrescottNeve Campbell
Gale WeathersCourteney Cox
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)