Archive for the 'Mystery' Category
Number 23, The
On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She’s browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by “23,” he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth.
Number 23, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.20 out of 10 (10562 votes)
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins, Rhona Mitra, Michelle Arthur, Mark Pellegrino, Paul Butcher, David Stifel, Corey Stoll, Ed Lauter, Troy Kotsur, Walter Soo Hoo, Patricia Belcher,
Tags: Mystery, Drama, Thriller, animal-control-worker, attempted-suicide, blood, blood-splatter, book, bookstore, corpse, death, detective, dogcatcher, driven-mad, enigmatic, fall-from-height, fantasy-sequence, femme-fatale, framed, husband-wife-relationship, insanity, knife, mental-institution, murder, nightmare, number-in-title, numerology, obsessive, paranoid, premarital-sex, psycho-thriller, reading, shot-in-the-head, skeleton, slit-throat, stabbed-in-the-chest, stabbed-to-death, suicide, teacher-student-relationship, tense, throat-slitting, twist-in-the-end, woods, wrongfully-imprisoned
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Perfect Stranger
A journalist (Berry) goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill (Willis) as her best friend’s killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
Perfect Stranger DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 4.80 out of 10 (2575 votes)
Director: James Foley
Actors: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi, Richard Portnow, Gary Dourdan, Florencia Lozano, Nicki Lynn Aycox, Kathleen Chalfant, Gordon MacDonald, Daniella Van Graas, Paula Miranda, Patti D’Arbanville, Clea Lewis, Tamara Feldman, Gerry Becker,
Tags: Mystery, Drama, Thriller, adultery, advertising-executive, amateur, assumed-identity, beautiful-woman, deception, erotic-thriller, female-nudity, femme-fatale, grim, internet, lurid, murder, murder-investigation, new-york-city, nudity, obsessive, paranoid, philanderer, psychological-drama, psychological-thriller, secret, seduction, surprise-ending, tense, undercover
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Dead Silence
Every town has it’s own ghost story, and a local folktale around Ravens Fair is about a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw. After she went mad in the 1940s, she was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople who in the ultimate act of revenge, cut out her tongue and then killed her. They buried her along with her “children,” a handmade collection of vaudeville dolls, and assumed they had silenced her forever. However, Ravens Fair has been plagued by mysterious deaths around them after Mary Shaws collection has returned from their graves and have come to seek revenge on people that killed her and their families. Far from the pall of their cursed hometown, newlyweds Jamie and Lisa Ashen thought they had established a fresh start, until Jamie’s wife is grotesquely killed in their apartment. Jamie returns to Ravens Fair for the funeral, intent on unraveling the mystery of Lisa’s death. Once reunited with his ill father, Edward, and his father’s new young bride, Ella, Jamie must dig into the town’s bloody past to find out who killed his wife and why. All the while, he is doggedly pursued by a detective who doesn’t believe a word he says. As he uncovers the legend of Mary Shaw, he will unlock the story of her curse and the truth behind the threat from a rhyme in his childhood: if you see Mary Shaw and scream, she’ll take your tongue. And the last thing you will hear before you die…is your own voice speaking back to you.
Dead Silence DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.90 out of 10 (2695 votes)
Director: James Wan
Actors: Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta, Donnie Wahlberg, Michael Fairman, Joan Heney, Bob Gunton, Laura Regan, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Judith Roberts, Keir Gilchrist, Steven Taylor, David Talbot, Steve Adams, Shelley Peterson,
Tags: Mystery, Horror, Thriller, detective, dummy, ghost, tongue-ripping, ventriloquism, ventriloquist
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Blur
RAYMOND WEIR is a shut in computer genius surviving in the post dot-com era. Disabled as a result of a home invasion that took the life of his late wife, SARAH, Raymond sits in his makeshift apartment above a run down bar, over medicated, mourning her loss and contemplating suicide. His only contact with the world, besides his close friend PAUL are the three computer screens that blink emotionlessly at him twenty four hours a day, through sleepless nights. There, he sees the universe, filled with images of webcams around the world, from petty crimes and private confessions, to public tragedies and natural disasters. It is here, one night, as Raymond finishes piecing together an old video recording of his late wife, that he sees a mysterious woman, LAYLA. The image of her is unexpected, sexual, as she goes through a ritualistic set of gestures that leads to an emotional plea to Raymond. Alone, in an undisclosed location, she begins confessing in a sing song voice, speaking to him about her dreams, in words that echo Sarah’s. As Raymond listens, he begins to realize that not only may she know the key to the death of Sarah, but that she herself may be in danger, and that it is up to him to save her before she too becomes a victim.
Blur DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 0.00 out of 10 (0 votes)
Director: John W. Kim
Actors: Burt Bulos, Mark Halfmoon, Conor Hamill, Charlie Hofheimer, Saurabh Kikani, Ralph Peduto, Donn Andrew Simmons, Steve Voldseth, Emily Marie Grant, Lila Green-Goodwin, Christa Martin, Kristin Minter, Katharine Towne,
Tags: Mystery, Drama, Thriller,
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Pulse
Imagine our wireless technologies made a connection to a world beyond our own. Imagine that world used that technology as a doorway into ours. Now, imagine the connection we made can’t be shut down. When you turn on your cell phone or log on to your e-mail, they’ll get in, you’ll be infected and they’ll be able to take from you what they don’t have anymore — life.
Pulse DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 4.10 out of 10 (5183 votes)
Director: Jim Sonzero
Actors: Kristen Bell, Tate Hanyok, Ian Somerhalder, Christina Milian, Rick Gonzalez, Riki Lindhome, Jonathan Tucker, Amanda Tepe, Samm Levine, Steve Talley, Joseph Gatt, Corryn Cummins,
Tags: Mystery, Horror, Thriller, apartment, boyfriend, campus, college, college-campus, college-student, computer, dead, death, epidemic, fall-from-height, hanging, high-jump, instant-messaging, internet, professor, psychology, remake, remake-of-japanese-film, suicide, tape, technology, text-messaging, title-spoken-by-character, virus
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Freedomland
When her son disappears and is believed to be dead, a single mother blames an African-American man from the projects for the kidnapping, creating a racial controversy. An African-American detective (Jackson) and a white missing child researcher team up to investigate the case, which they discover may be more complicated than they expected.
Freedomland DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.00 out of 10 (4501 votes)
Director: Joe Roth
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard,
Tags: Mystery, Drama, Crime, Thriller, asthma, based-on-novel, car-jacking, cough-medicine, dead-child, drugs, housing-project, interracial-relationship, interrogation, kidnapping, lying, missing-child, mother-child-relationship, police, police-brutality, prison, riot, title-spoken-by-character, violence
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Pink Panther, The
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Insp. Dreyfus (Kevin Kline) assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin) to the case. His intention is to give a diversion to the press, while he uses his best men to chase the killer and thief. He assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton (Jean Reno) to work with Closeau and inform each step of the investigation. When Clouseau is nominated with honor to the highest prize in France, Dreyfus decides to humiliate Clouseau and take him out of the case. However Clouseau has already solved the mystery.
Pink Panther, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 4.90 out of 10 (11747 votes)
Director: Shawn Levy
Actors: Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Henry Czerny, Kristin Chenoweth, Roger Rees, Beyoncé Knowles, Phillip Goodwin, Henri Garcin, William Abadie, Daniel Sauli, Jean Dell, Anna Katarina, Nick Toren,
Tags: Mystery, Crime, Comedy, airport, ambulance, animated-title-sequence, aquarium, badge, bathroom, beret, bicycle, bicycle-race, brass-knuckles, bumbling, camouflage, casino, cell-phone, chandelier, chinese, choking, clouseau, coach, computer, dancing, diamond, dog, egg, eiffel-tower-paris, electrocution, elevator, famous-score, fart, fire, france, gas-mask, gendarme, glasses, globe, grenade, gun, hamburger, heimlich-maneuver, hospital, hotel, hotel-room, inspector, internet, interrogation, investigation, james-bond-spoof, james-bond-spoof-scene, kiss, knife, locker-room, mace, metal-detector, murder, new-york, newspaper, nunchauks, painting, panther, paris-france, parking, parody, pink, pink-panther, piranha, pocket-knife, poison-dart, police, policeman, power-outage, prequel, press-conference, recording-studio, ring, robbery, russian, secret-agent, shot-in-the-head, slapstick, sniper, sniper-rifle, soccer, spoof, spy-spoof, studio-logo-segues-into-film, title-spoken-by-character, trainer, trenchcoat, vase, viagra, wheelchair
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Inside Man
“Inside Man” is the story of a tough cop, Detective Frazier (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen). As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda, who injects even more instability into an already volatile situation.
Inside Man DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.60 out of 10 (36381 votes)
Director: Spike Lee
Actors: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster,
Tags: Mystery, Drama, Crime, Thriller, african-american, assault, bank, bank-robbery, banker, blackmail, blood-splatter, breaking-the-fourth-wall, business, caper, cellular-phone, child-in-peril, class-differences, cult-director, dating, deception, demand, detective, diamond, diamond-ring, disguise, faked-death, flashlight, heist, hostage, humor, internal-affairs, interrogation, irreverent, kicked-in-the-crotch, manhattan, manhunt, mask, mayor, nazi-collaborator, negotiation, new-york-city, nonlinear-timeline, nypd, perfect-crime, pizza, police, police-detective, race-relations, restaurant, riddle, ring, rubber-bullet, safe-deposit, shot-in-the-head, siege, sikh, stage-blood, surprise-ending, swat-team, tape-recorder, tense, thief, toy-gun, twist-ending, twist-in-the-end, video-game, video-surveillance, vulgarity, war-criminal
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