Gripping + Mysterious Movies
Pandorum (2009) RT 28% / Audience 48%
DVD release: Jan 2010
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Horror • Mystery • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Christian Alvart
CAST: Ben Foster • Dennis Quaid • Cam Gigandet • Antje Traue
Rear Window (1954) RT 100% / Audience 95%
DVD release: Mar 2001
Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out ... (more)
GENRES: Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Alfred Hitchcock
CAST: Grace Kelly • James Stewart • Wendell Corey • Thelma Ritter
The Imposter (2012) RT 95% / Audience 78%
DVD release: Jan 2013
It’s 1994: a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later, he is found alive, thousands of miles away, in Spain. Disoriented ... (more)
GENRES: Documentary • Drama
DIRECTION: Bart Layton
CAST: Frédéric Bourdin • Adam O'Brian • Anna Ruben • Cathy Dresbach
Fracture (2007) RT 71% / Audience 73%
DVD release: Aug 2007
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there ... (more)
GENRES: Thriller
DIRECTION: Gregory Hoblit
CAST: Anthony Hopkins • Ryan Gosling • David Strathairn • Embeth Davidtz
The Ghost Writer (2010) RT 83% / Audience 70%
DVD release: Aug 2010
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's ... (more)
GENRES: Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Roman Polanski
CAST: Ewan McGregor • Pierce Brosnan • Jon Bernthal • Kim Cattrall
The Hateful Eight (2015) RT 75% / Audience 76%
DVD release: Mar 2016
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception. (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Mystery • Western
DIRECTION: Quentin Tarantino
CAST: Samuel L. Jackson • Bruce Dern • Michael Madsen • Kurt Russell
The Sixth Sense (1999) RT 85% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Mar 2000
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: M. Night Shyamalan
CAST: Bruce Willis • Haley Joel Osment • Toni Collette • Olivia Williams
Let the Right One In (2008) RT 98% / Audience 90%
DVD release: Mar 2009
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Horror
DIRECTION: Tomas Alfredson
CAST: Kåre Hedebrant • Lina Leandersson • Per Ragnar • Henrik Dahl
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) RT 91% / Audience 86%
DVD release: Nov 2004
Harry, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts for a third adventure and magic filled year in this follow-up to the first two Potter blockbusters. Harry comes face to face with ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Family • Fantasy
DIRECTION: Alfonso Cuarón
CAST: Daniel Radcliffe • Rupert Grint • Emma Watson • Gary Oldman
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) RT 100% / Audience 86%
DVD release: Jul 2000
A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Steven Zaillian
CAST: Max Pomeranc • Joe Mantegna • Joan Allen • Ben Kingsley
Panic Room (2002) RT 76% / Audience 63%
DVD release: Sep 2002
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: David Fincher
CAST: Jodie Foster • Kristen Stewart • Forest Whitaker • Dwight Yoakam
The Devil's Advocate (1997) RT 67% / Audience 80%
DVD release: Nov 1998
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Fantasy • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Taylor Hackford
CAST: Keanu Reeves • Al Pacino • Charlize Theron • Jeffrey Jones
Constantine (2005)
Constantine tells the story of John Constantine, a man who has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Fantasy • Horror
DIRECTION: Francis Lawrence
CAST: Keanu Reeves • Rachel Weisz • Shia LaBeouf • Djimon Hounsou
Disconnect (2012) RT 68% / Audience 75%
DVD release: Sep 2013
Disconnect interweaves multiple storylines about people searching for human connection in today’s wired world. Through poignant turns that are both harrowing and touching, the ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Henry Alex Rubin
CAST: Jason Bateman • Hope Davis • Frank Grillo • Paula Patton
Taken (2008)
While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Thriller
DIRECTION: Pierre Morel
CAST: Liam Neeson • Famke Janssen • Maggie Grace • Katie Cassidy
I Am Legend (2007) RT 70% / Audience 68%
DVD release: Mar 2008
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • Horror • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Francis Lawrence
CAST: Will Smith • Alice Braga • Charlie Tahan • Willow Smith
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) RT 86% / Audience 86%
DVD release: Mar 2012
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: David Fincher
CAST: Daniel Craig • Stellan Skarsgård • Rooney Mara • Robin Wright
Signs (2002)
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: M. Night Shyamalan
CAST: Mel Gibson • Joaquin Phoenix • Rory Culkin • Abigail Breslin
Trance (2013) RT 68% / Audience 62%
DVD release: Jul 2013
A fine art auctioneer mixed up with a gang, joins forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. As boundaries between desire, reality and hypnotic suggestion begin ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Danny Boyle
CAST: James McAvoy • Vincent Cassel • Rosario Dawson • Matt Cross
Eastern Promises (2007) RT 89% / Audience 83%
DVD release: Dec 2007
A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family. (more)