Mystery movies

Genres:	Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Michael Caine \| Jude Law \| Harold Pinter \| Alec Cawthorne \| Eve Channing \|

Directors:	Kenneth Branagh \|

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Plot Summary:
Milo Tindle and Andrew Wyke have something in common, Andrew's wife. In an attempt to find a way out of this without costing Andrew a fortune in alimony, he suggests Milo pretend to rob his house and let him claim the insurance on the stolen jewelry. The problem is that they don't really like each other and each cannot avoid the zinger on the other. The plot has many shifts in which the advantage shifts between Milo and Andrew.

Genres:	Action \| Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Dennis Weaver \| Jacqueline Scott \| Eddie Firestone \| Lou Frizzell \| Gene Dynarski \| Lucille Benson \| Tim Herbert \| Charles Seel \| Shirley O'Hara \| Alexander Lockwood \| Amy Douglass \| Dick Whittington \| Carey Loftin \| Dale Van Sickel \|

Directors:	Steven Spielberg \|

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David Mann ('Dennis Weaver (I)' (qv)) is just a regular family man on a business trip. Unfortunately, things go from bad to worse when a huge gasoline truck in front of him forces him to drive slower than he wants. As the drive continues, Mann realizes that he's not dealing with just another road hog. Though he can never see the trucker's face, the driver proves to be psychopathic, starting to run Mann off the road and trick or force him into a number of deadly situations. As the horrific trip continues, Mann tries to lose the truck, but each time he thinks he's finally in the clear, the truck returns to terrify him more. Finally, the horrific conflict builds to a point where he realizes that running won't save him, and that he must take a stand and fight back against the insane trucker.

Genres:	Drama \| Mystery \| Romance \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Jane Fonda \| Donald Sutherland \| Charles Cioffi \| Roy Scheider \| Dorothy Tristan \| Rita Gam \| Nathan George \| Vivian Nathan \| Morris Strassberg \| Barry Snider \| Betty Murray \| Jane White \| Shirley Stoler \| Robert Milli \| Anthony Holland \|

Directors:	Alan J. Pakula \|

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After a businessman disappears the FBI draw a blank except for some unpleasant letters he wrote to a call-girl. His small-town friend John Klute travels to the big city to seek her out. At first their relationship is wary, and she sees him as just another guy to manipulate. But someone may already be stalking her, and as Klute's activities add to the danger a bond of sorts starts to grow.

Genres:	Mystery \| Western \|

Actors:	Dean Martin \| Robert Mitchum \| Inger Stevens \| Roddy McDowall \| Katherine Justice \| John Anderson \| Ruth Springford \| Yaphet Kotto \| Denver Pyle \| Bill Fletcher \| Whit Bissell \| Ted de Corsia \| Don Collier \| Roy Jenson \| Jerry Gatlin \|

Directors:	Henry Hathaway \|

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Gambler Van Morgan runs a little card game in town but one night things get out of hand. A stranger amateurishly tries to cheat and, though Morgan tries to stop it, his fellow players string him up. The gambler leaves town but returns when he hears that the other players are being killed off one by one. It could be that someone will soon be after him too.

Genres:	Action \| Adventure \| Drama \| Mystery \| Romance \| Sci-Fi \|

Actors:	Charlton Heston \| Roddy McDowall \| Kim Hunter \| Maurice Evans \| James Whitmore \| James Daly \| Linda Harrison \| Robert Gunner \| Lou Wagner \| Woodrow Parfrey \| Jeff Burton \| Buck Kartalian \| Norman Burton \| Wright King \| Paul Lambert \|

Directors:	Franklin J. Schaffner \|

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After having their ship crash on a mysterious planet, two US astronauts wander across the desert plain. Thinking they are alone, the surprise comes when life forms appear, not just as mute human but as apes. Walking, talking apes. The apes see themselves as the original beings on the planet and do anything to keep all humans locked up.

Genres:	Horror \| Mystery \| Romance \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Mia Farrow \| John Cassavetes \| Ruth Gordon \| Sidney Blackmer \| Maurice Evans \| Ralph Bellamy \| Victoria Vetri \| Patsy Kelly \| Elisha Cook Jr. \| Emmaline Henry \| Charles Grodin \| Hanna Landy \| Phil Leeds \| D'Urville Martin \| Hope Summers \|

Directors:	Roman Polanski \|

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After moving into a creepy old apartment in Manhattan with her husband Guy, Rosemary Woodhouse begins to experience odd, unpleasant things happening to her. Guy becomes enchanted with their nosy neighbors, Minnie and Roman Castevet, after the older couple's ward commits suicide. Then Rosemary gets pregnant after a bad dream in which a horrible creature makes love to her. A caring Minnie keeps giving her some weird concoction for the pregnancy and Rosemary doesn't feel at all well. The only solution is, as the tag-line says, to "pray for Rosemary's baby."

Genres:	Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Paul Newman \| Julie Andrews \| Lila Kedrova \| Hansjörg Felmy \| Tamara Toumanova \| Ludwig Donath \| Wolfgang Kieling \| Günter Strack \| David Opatoshu \| Gisela Fischer \| Mort Mills \| Carolyn Conwell \| Arthur Gould-Porter \| Gloria Gorvin \| Robert Boon \|

Directors:	Alfred Hitchcock \|

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Plot Summary:
American scientist Michael Armstrong defects to Eastern Europe, followed by his reluctant fiancée Sarah Sherman. It's no surprise to learn that the defection is not genuine, and that his real mission is to steal a secret mathematical formula from a professor in Leipzig.

Genres:	Crime \| Drama \| Mystery \|

Actors:	Paul Newman \| Paul Newman \| Lauren Bacall \| Lauren Bacall \| Julie Harris \| Julie Harris \| Arthur Hill \| Arthur Hill \| Janet Leigh \| Janet Leigh \| Pamela Tiffin \| Pamela Tiffin \| Robert Wagner \| Robert Wagner \| Robert Webber \| Robert Webber \| Shelley Winters \| Shelley Winters \| Harold Gould \| Harold Gould \| Roy Jenson \| Roy Jenson \| Strother Martin \| Strother Martin \| Martin West \| Martin West \| Jacqueline deWit \| Jacqueline deWit \| Eugene Iglesias \| Eugene Iglesias \|

Directors:	Jack Smight \| Jack Smight \|

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Paul Newman IS Harper, a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby (Lauren Bacall) hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.

Genres:	Comedy \| Crime \| Mystery \|

Actors:	Peter Sellers \| Elke Sommer \| George Sanders \| Herbert Lom \| Tracy Reed \| Graham Stark \| Moira Redmond \| Vanda Godsell \| Maurice Kaufmann \| Ann Lynn \| David Lodge \| André Maranne \| Martin Benson \| Burt Kwouk \| Reginald Beckwith \|

Directors:	Blake Edwards \|

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When rich M. Ballon's spanish driver is found shot dead, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is the first official on the scene. All evidence suggests Maria Gambrelli, the maid, to be the murderer. But Clouseau, being attracted to the beautiful girl, is convinced that she is hiding something. So, he has her released from jail and tries to follow her secretly. Things do not work out the way the inspector wanted and people keep being murdered, and each time innocent Maria seems to be the killer. But with someone important wanting Clouseau and nobody else to cover this case, his tolerance-challenged boss Charles Dreyfuss is close to losing his mind when casualties keep turning up. And Clouseau keeps on causing trouble without knowing it...

Genres:	Comedy \| Crime \| Mystery \| Romance \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Cary Grant \| Audrey Hepburn \| Walter Matthau \| James Coburn \| George Kennedy \| Dominique Minot \| Ned Glass \| Jacques Marin \| Paul Bonifas \| Thomas Chelimsky \| Grégoire Aslan \| Marcel Bernier \| Raoul Delfosse \| Stanley Donen \| Colin Drake \|

Directors:	Stanley Donen \|

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Regina Lambert returns to Paris from a ski holiday in Switzerland to find that her husband has been murdered. She is later told by CIA agent Hamilton Bartholemew that Charles Lambert was one of five men who stole $250,000 in gold from the U.S. government during World War II, and the government wants it back. The money was not found among his possessions, and Regina can shed no light on its whereabouts. Later that day she is visited by Peter Joshua, whom she had met briefly while on holiday. When her husband's former partners in crime, who were double-crossed by Charles, start calling her looking for the money, Peter offers to help find it. Thus begins an elaborate charade in which nothing is what it seems to be.

Genres:	Drama \| Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Paul Newman \| Elke Sommer \| Edward G. Robinson \| Edward G. Robinson \| Diane Baker \| Micheline Presle \| Gérard Oury \| Sergio Fantoni \| Kevin McCarthy \| Leo G. Carroll \| Sacha Pitoëff \| Jacqueline Beer \| John Wengraf \| Don Dubbins \| Virginia Christine \|

Directors:	Mark Robson \|

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In Stockholm, Sweden to collect his Nobel Prize in Literature, American writer Andrew Craig stumbles across a plot to kidnap a fellow Nobel laureate. On arrival at the hotel, he meets physicist Prof. Max Stratman. They have a pleasant conversation and agree to meet for drinks the next day. When they meet again however, the Professor acts as if he's never met Craig. With his propensity for partying and drinking too much, Craig doesn't have a great deal of credibility with his hosts, including the person assigned to him by the Swedish Foreign Ministry, Inger Lisa Andersson. An attempt on Craig's life and a chance encounter at a local hospital provides the evidence he needs however.

Genres:	Crime \| Drama \| Mystery \|

Actors:	James Stewart \| Lee Remick \| Ben Gazzara \| Arthur O'Connell \| Eve Arden \| Kathryn Grant \| George C. Scott \| Orson Bean \| Russ Brown \| Murray Hamilton \| Brooks West \| Ken Lynch \| John Qualen \| Howard McNear \| Alexander Campbell \|

Directors:	Otto Preminger \|

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Laura Manion returns home to tell her husband she's been raped. Lt. Manion kills the rapist and then claims crime of passion as a defense. At least that's his story. Paul Biegler agrees to defend him and must unravel a case in which the motivations of the murderer, his wife, and the victim are all in question.

Genres:	Drama \| Mystery \| Romance \| Thriller \|

Actors:	James Stewart \| Kim Novak \| Kim Novak \| Barbara Bel Geddes \| Tom Helmore \| Henry Jones \| Raymond Bailey \| Ellen Corby \| Konstantin Shayne \| Lee Patrick \| Jack Ano \| John Benson \| Paul Bryar \| Bruno Della Santina \| Carlo Dotto \|

Directors:	Alfred Hitchcock \|

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John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.

Genres:	Drama \| Horror \| Mystery \| Sci-Fi \|

Actors:	David Hedison \| Patricia Owens \| Vincent Price \| Herbert Marshall \| Kathleen Freeman \| Betty Lou Gerson \| Charles Herbert \| Eugene Borden \| Harry Carter \| Arthur Dulac \| Torben Meyer \| Franz Roehn \| Charles Tannen \| Bess Flowers \|

Directors:	Kurt Neumann \|

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Scientist Andre Delambre becomes obsessed with his latest creation, a matter transporter. He has varying degrees of success with it. He eventually decides to use a human subject, himself, with tragic consequences. During the transferance, his atoms become merged with a fly, which was accidentally let into the machine. He winds up with the fly's head and one of it's arms and the fly winds up with Andre's head and arm. Eventually, Andre's wife, Helene discovers his secret and must make a decision whether to let him continue to live like that or to do the unthinkable and euthanize him to end his suffering.

Genres:	Drama \| Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Tyrone Power \| Marlene Dietrich \| Charles Laughton \| Elsa Lanchester \| John Williams \| Henry Daniell \| Ian Wolfe \| Torin Thatcher \| Norma Varden \| Una O'Connor \| Francis Compton \| Philip Tonge \| Ruta Lee \| Franklyn Farnum \| Colin Kenny \|

Directors:	Billy Wilder \|

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Esteemed criminal lawyer Sir Wilfrid Robarts has just returned to practice after suffering a heart attack and is supposed to be on a diet of bland civil suits. But the case of Leonard Vole, a charmer accused of murdering a rich middle-aged widow, proves irresistible — particlularly when Sir Wilfrid meets the accused's wife, the remarkable Christine Vole. Christine will appear as a witness: not the defense, but for the prosecution.

Genres:	Crime \| Film-Noir \| Mystery \| Romance \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Robert Wagner \| Jeffrey Hunter \| Virginia Leith \| Joanne Woodward \| Mary Astor \| George Macready \| Robert Quarry \| Howard Petrie \| Bill Walker \| Molly McCart \| Marlene Felton \| Robert Ivers \|

Directors:	Gerd Oswald \|

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Bud Corliss is an ambitious college student with big plans for himself and an heiress, Dorothy Kingship. But then Dorothy goes and gets herself pregnant. It's his child, too, of course; but this ruins everything. Her moralistic father will disown her and will certainly never accept him. It seems he's trapped. Bud's mother knows something is troubling her son, but he won't talk to her about it. All she knows is that Bud doesn't want to turn out like his father, with holes in his shoes. He doesn't have to worry. As his mother says, when he turns his mind to something, he does it. Unknown to her, his thoughts have turned to murder.

Genres:	Adventure \| Comedy \| Mystery \| Western \|

Actors:	Clark Gable \| Eleanor Parker \| Jean Willes \| Barbara Nichols \| Sara Shane \| Roy Roberts \| Arthur Shields \| Jay C. Flippen \| Jo Van Fleet \| Florenz Ames \| Chuck Roberson \|

Directors:	Raoul Walsh \|

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Smooth cowboy Dan Kehoe arrives at a ranch run by an old widow and her four daughters-in-law. He's been tipped off that the proceeds of a gold robbery are hidden on the ranch and only one of the women knows where. He plays them off against each other in his quest to discover the location.

Genres:	Crime \| Mystery \| Romance \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Cary Grant \| Grace Kelly \| Jessie Royce Landis \| John Williams \| Charles Vanel \| Brigitte Auber \| Jean Martinelli \| Georgette Anys \| George Adrian \| John Alderson \| René Blancard \| Eugene Borden \| Lewis Charles \| Frank Chelland \| William 'Wee Willie' Davis \|

Directors:	Alfred Hitchcock \|

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Plot Summary:
John Robie is a one-time cat burglar, now reformed and living a blameless life in a plush villa. When a fresh set of burglaries rocks the Riviera all bearing the hallmark of Robie's own robberies, he is the natural suspect. Robie sets out to catch the new burglar himself, mainly to prove his innocence. He is aided by an American heiress, who initially is convinced that he is actually guilty. The title of the movie is derived from the proverb "Set a thief to catch a thief"

Genres:	Crime \| Drama \| Film-Noir \| Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Frank Sinatra \| Sterling Hayden \| James Gleason \| Nancy Gates \| Kim Charney \| Paul Frees \| Christopher Dark \| Willis Bouchey \| Paul Wexler \| James O'Hara \| Kem Dibbs \| Clark Howat \| Charles Martin Smith \|

Directors:	Lewis Allen \|

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The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.

Genres:	Crime \| Drama \| Mystery \| Romance \|

Actors:	Humphrey Bogart \| Ava Gardner \| Edmond O'Brien \| Marius Goring \| Valentina Cortese \| Rossano Brazzi \| Elizabeth Sellars \| Warren Stevens \| Franco Interlenghi \| Mari Aldon \| Bessie Love \| Diana Decker \| Bill Fraser \| Alberto Rabagliati \| Enzo Staiola \|

Directors:	Joseph L. Mankiewicz \|

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While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella's castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.