The Girl in the Case (1944)
mystery film
Mysteries movies
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Danger Street (1947)
mystery film
Primal Doubt (2007)
Crime, Mysterie, Thriller
Former romance author Jean Harper (Turner), who is lonely, signs onto a matchmaking website. Jean agrees to meet her correspondent, but she finds him dead at his home.
Primal Doubt (2007)
drama film, horror film, mystery film
Former romance author Jean Harper (Turner), who is lonely, signs onto a matchmaking website. Jean agrees to meet her correspondent, but she finds him dead at his home.
No Place for a Lady (1943)
mystery film
At a warehouse in Los Angeles, trucks are loaded with stacks of tires to be delivered to a San Francisco warehouse. On a country road under cover of darkness, the tires are transferred to Joe Wembley (Frank M. Thomas), an underworld figure and operator of a nightclub at the beach.
Atlantic Adventure (1935)
mystery film, thriller film
A reporter is dismissed from his job, primarily due to distractions from his fiancée, which causes him to miss an important story. Despite his setback, Miller is determined to prove his competence. Acting on a tip, he believes that the murderer of a local district attorney plans to escape via a luxury liner.
Nightlight (2003)
thriller
The film opens with a voyeur taking pictures of an unknown woman dressing up. He later sets her house on fire while she lies unconscious in the room. Celeste Timmerman is a woman with a successful career, an attractive boyfriend named Brent, and a good friend she can trust with all of her secrets.
Fugitives for a Night (1938)
mystery film
Aspiring actor Matt Ryan has been relegated by the studio to the role of a "stooge" arranging publicity for rising star John Nelson, but when a photo shoot doesn't happen, Nelson winds up walking away from manipulative studio boss Maurice Tenwright. Tenwright then assigns Ryan to act as a stooge for fading star Dennis Poole. In the meantime and in spite of the attentions of studio publicity agent Ann Wray, Ryan tries to pursue actress Eileen Baker, but she shows little interest in him.
Bulldog Sees It Through (1940)
mystery film, propaganda film, spy film
This is not a Bulldog Drummond picture despite the title playing off Jack Buchanan and his previous association with the character. Here he plays the role of test pilot 'Bulldog' Bill Watson. His friend Derek Sinclair is convinced that the new man in his lover's life is collaborating with the Nazis by sabotaging an armaments plant.
Blind Adventure (1933)
mystery film
Richard Bruce, a mid-life American businessman, arrives at a London hotel for a vacation. He finds a hotel maid, Elsie, in his room unpacking for him. She offers him some advice about what to wear for dinner at the hotel dining room, where his nervous and clumsy behavior annoys the other guests.
Murder by an Aristocrat (1936)
mystery film
Bayard Thatcher, the black sheep of a storied family, has announced that he will leave for good provided the others pay him $25,000. However, they are not that liquid at the moment, due to lingering effects of the Great Depression. That night, Thatcher is shot in his bed but only wounded.
Sweethearts and Wives (1930)
mystery film
Billie Dove plays the part of an aristocrat who tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover of a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her. This necklace was stolen when Dove's sister while she was secretly in another's man apartment. Dove is to meet a thief at a lonely French Inn outside of Paris who has stolen the necklace.
Scenes of a Crime (2011)
Crime, Documentation, Mysterie, documentary film
The Lost Special (1932)
mystery film
Midnight Phantom (1935)
mystery film
Police Chief James A. Sullivan is in his office berating several people under his command who he feels are doing a less than top notch job. His waiting room is full of other characters waiting their turn to go in and receive their own reprimand.
Irish Luck (1939)
mystery film
Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938)
boxing film, mystery film
A rivalry develops between a district attorney named Devons, who finds murder mysteries amusing but amateurish, and Pauline Ward, a crime novelist. They play tricks on one another, attempting to prove their point over how to solve a crime. One night before a prizefight, when the lights are momentarily dimmed, a boxer is suddenly killed in the ring.
The League of Frightened Men (1937)
mystery film
Professor Hibbard (Leonard Mudie) requests detective Nero Wolfe's assistance in tracking down the sender of a few sinister letters, which killed two of Hibbard's acquaintances. Prominent author Paul Chapin (Eduardo Ciannelli), who is a cripple, is pinpointed by Wolfe as the culprit. Wolfe rationally deduces that Chapin is out for payback — decades ago, a prank then-Harvard University scholar Hibbard and a group of chums played on Chapin went awry, causing him to be in his current state.
Fever Night aka Band of Satanic Outsiders (2009)
horror film, mystery film, teen film
Elliot, Warren and Terry dabble in Satanism and hold a ritual in an abandoned woods. When nothing happens, they return to their car only to find that it will not start. An accident happens, leaving Terry injured.
Half Past Midnight (1948)
mystery film
Kent Taylor plays a man who meets a dancer in a nightclub. She's implicated in a killing, and he's drawn into escaping from the police with her through Chinatown as they seek the real murderer.
The Florentine Dagger (1935)
mystery film
Juan Cesare is a descendant of the Borgia line and convinced that he has inherited their murderous tendencies. Suspicions deepen when the father of the girl he loves turns up stabbed to death with a Florentine dagger.
Over My Dead Body (1942)
mystery film
Jason Cordry (Milton Berle) is a mystery writer whose plots are so convoluted that even he cannot comprehend them, and they are often left uncompleted. His sympathetic wife, Patricia (Mary Beth Hughes), thinks she has discovered a winning story when she overhears three men discussing plans for a criminal endeavor. Jason, willing to take a risk for a good plot, decides to confess to a murder he did not commit.
Curtain at Eight (1933)
mystery film
Wylie Thornton is the star of "Isle of Romance" at the Edwin Booth Theater. He is two-timing his wife, Alma Thornton, as well as Lola Cresmer, her sister Anice Cresmer, and Doris Manning, three actresses in the play. Thornton has been nice to Geraldine, the chimpanzee, and she has a crush on the handsome man.
Grief Street (1931)
crime film, mystery film
A womanizing matinée idol is found strangled in his dressing room. The door is locked from the inside and there is no other way into the room. He had been having an affair with his leading lady, while his actress wife is doing the same with the stage manager.