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
Insomnia (2002) RT 92% / Audience 76%
DVD release: Oct 2002
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen. (more)
GENRES: Crime • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Christopher Nolan
CAST: Hilary Swank • Al Pacino • Robin Williams • Maura Tierney
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
Eastern Promises (2007) RT 89% / Audience 83%
DVD release: Dec 2007
A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: David Cronenberg
CAST: Naomi Watts • Viggo Mortensen • Vincent Cassel • Armin Mueller-Stahl
The Maltese Falcon (1941) RT 100% / Audience 91%
DVD release: Feb 2000
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. (more)
GENRES: Crime • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: John Huston
CAST: Humphrey Bogart • Mary Astor • Gladys George • Peter Lorre
L.A. Confidential (1997) RT 99% / Audience 94%
DVD release: Apr 1998
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Curtis Hanson
CAST: Kevin Spacey • Guy Pearce • Danny DeVito • James Cromwell
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
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
Psycho (1960) RT 96% / Audience 94%
DVD release: Mar 2001
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Horror • Thriller
DIRECTION: Alfred Hitchcock
CAST: Anthony Perkins • Vera Miles • John Gavin • Janet Leigh
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) RT 86% / Audience 74%
DVD release: Aug 2014
A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Jim Jarmusch
CAST: Tom Hiddleston • Tilda Swinton • Mia Wasikowska • John Hurt
The Mist (2007) RT 73% / Audience 65%
DVD release: Mar 2008
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. ... (more)
GENRES: Horror • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Frank Darabont
CAST: Thomas Jane • Marcia Gay Harden • Laurie Holden • Toby Jones
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
The Illusionist (2006) RT 74% / Audience 83%
DVD release: Jan 2007
With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crowned prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Fantasy • Romance • Thriller
DIRECTION: Neil Burger
CAST: Edward Norton • Jessica Biel • Paul Giamatti • Rufus Sewell
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) RT 83% / Audience 80%
DVD release: Jun 2000
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Anthony Minghella
CAST: Matt Damon • Gwyneth Paltrow • Jude Law • Cate Blanchett
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) RT Audience 84%
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Crime • Mystery
DIRECTION: Shane Black
CAST: Robert Downey Jr. • Val Kilmer • Michelle Monaghan • Corbin Bernsen
The Way (2010) RT 82% / Audience 83%
When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Emilio Estevez
CAST: Emilio Estevez • Martin Sheen • Deborah Kara Unger • James Nesbitt
Mulholland Drive (2001) RT 82% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Apr 2002
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: David Lynch
CAST: Naomi Watts • Laura Harring • Ann Miller • Dan Hedaya
The Game (1997) RT 72% / Audience 84%
DVD release: Jun 2000
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: David Fincher
CAST: Michael Douglas • Sean Penn • Deborah Kara Unger • James Rebhorn
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)