Mystery movies

Genres:	Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	James Stewart \| Grace Kelly \| Wendell Corey \| Thelma Ritter \| Raymond Burr \| Judith Evelyn \| Ross Bagdasarian \| Georgine Darcy \| Sara Berner \| Frank Cady \| Jesslyn Fax \| Rand Harper \| Irene Winston \| Havis Davenport \| Marla English \|

Directors:	Alfred Hitchcock \|

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Plot Summary:
In 1950-something New York, an adventuresome free-lance photographer finds himself confined to a wheelchair in his tiny apartment while a broken leg mends. With only the occasional distraction of a visiting nurse and his frustrated love interest, a beautiful fashion consultant, his attention is naturally drawn to the courtyard outside his "rear window" and the occupants of the apartment buildings which surround it. Soon he is consumed by the private dramas of his neighbors lives which play themselves out before his eyes. There is "Miss Lonelyhearts," so desperate for her imaginary lover that she sits him a plate at the dinner table and feigns their ensuing chat. There is the frustrated composer banging on his piano, the sunbathing sculptress, the shapely dancer, the newlyweds who are concealed from their neighbors by a window shade, and a bungling middle-aged couple with a little yapping dog who sleep on the fire escape to avoid the sweltering heat of their apartment. ...And then there is the mysterious salesman whose nagging, invalid wife's sudden absence from the scene ominously coincides with middle-of-the-night forays into the dark, sleeping city with his sample case. Where did she go? What's in the trunk that the salesman ships away? What's he been doing with the knives and the saw that he cleans at the kitchen sink?

Genres:	Fantasy \| Musical \| Mystery \| Romance \|

Actors:	Gene Kelly \| Van Johnson \| Cyd Charisse \| Elaine Stewart \| Barry Jones \| Hugh Laing \| Albert Sharpe \| Virginia Bosler \| Jimmy Thompson \| Tudor Owen \| Owen McGiveney \| Dee Turnell \| Dodie Heath \| Eddie Quillan \| Peter Adams \|

Directors:	Vincente Minnelli \|

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Plot Summary:
Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.

Genres:	Crime \| Horror \| Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Vincent Price \| Frank Lovejoy \| Phyllis Kirk \| Carolyn Jones \| Paul Picerni \| Roy Roberts \| Angela Clarke \| Paul Cavanagh \| Dabbs Greer \| Charles Bronson \| Reggie Rymal \|

Directors:	André De Toth \|

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Plot Summary:
A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men have a fight. The sculptor is knocked out in the scuffle and left to "perish" among the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own wax museum. The opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the city morgue. His assistant begins to suspect his boss of foul play, especially after the deranged wizard of wax begins eyeing his assistant's lovely girlfriend's friend as a model for a waxed figure of Marie Antoinette.

Genres:	Drama \| Mystery \| Romance \|

Actors:	James Mason \| Ava Gardner \| Nigel Patrick \| Sheila Sim \| Harold Warrender \| Mario Cabré \| Marius Goring \| John Laurie \| Pamela Mason \| Patricia Raine \| Margarita D'Alvarez \| La Pillina \| Abraham Sofaer \| Francisco Igual \| Guillermo Beltrán \|

Directors:	Albert Lewin \|

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In 1930, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he's won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an apparently more dangerous rival in the form of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora's friendship with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate...

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)

Genres:	Comedy \| Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Bud Abbott \| Lou Costello \| Boris Karloff \| Lénore Aubert \| Gar Moore \| Donna Martell \| Alan Mowbray \| James Flavin \| Roland Winters \| Nicholas Joy \| Mikel Conrad \| Morgan Farley \| Victoria Horne \| Percy Helton \| Claire Du Brey \|

Directors:	Charles Barton \|

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Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).

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

Actors:	Joseph Cotten \| Alida Valli \| Orson Welles \| Trevor Howard \| Bernard Lee \| Paul Hörbiger \| Ernst Deutsch \| Siegfried Breuer \| Erich Ponto \| Wilfrid Hyde-White \| Hedwig Bleibtreu \| Harold Ayer \| Harry Belcher \| Leo Bieber \| Paul Birch \|

Directors:	Carol Reed \|

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Plot Summary:
An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend's involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.

Genres:	Adventure \| Crime \| Drama \| Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Basil Rathbone \| Nigel Bruce \| Alan Mowbray \| Dennis Hoey \| Renee Godfrey \| Frederick Worlock \| Mary Forbes \| Skelton Knaggs \| Billy Bevan \| Geoffrey Steele \| Gilbert Allen \| Harry Cording \| Boyd Davis \| Gerald Hamer \| Leyland Hodgson \|

Directors:	Roy William Neill \|

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Plot Summary:
Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs' mother, Lady Margaret. Believing the diamond will be stolen on a train trip from London to Edinburgh, Holmes deftly switches diamonds with Lady Margaret while in her compartment. Soon after, Roland is murdered and the fake diamond is stolen. Red herrings abound as Holmes, aided by Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, discover the murderer's hiding place and deduce that long-time foe Moriarty's henchman Colonel Sebastian Moran is somehow involved in the crime.

Genres:	Crime \| Horror \| Mystery \|

Actors:	Basil Rathbone \| Nigel Bruce \| Aubrey Mather \| Dennis Hoey \| Paul Cavanagh \| Holmes Herbert \| Harry Cording \| Sally Shepherd \| Gavin Muir \| Florette Hillier \| David Clyde \| Richard Alexander \| Wilson Benge \| Hobart Cavanaugh \| Alec Craig \|

Directors:	Roy William Neill \|

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Plot Summary:
In a gloomy mansion in the west of Scotland the seven members of the Good Comrades Club are dining. One of them receives a curious death threat, an envelope containing seven orange pips. He dies the next night in a car crash. At his funeral another member receives an envelope with six pips, and ten days later his body is recovered from the sea. Sherlock Holmes is called in.

Genres:	Adventure \| Crime \| Drama \| Mystery \|

Actors:	Basil Rathbone \| Nigel Bruce \| Marjorie Riordan \| Rosalind Ivan \| Morton Lowry \| Leslie Vincent \| Martin Kosleck \| Rex Evans \| John Abbott \| Gerald Hamer \| William 'Wee Willie' Davis \| Tom Dillon \| Frederick Worlock \| Sven Hugo Borg \| Wilson Benge \|

Directors:	Roy William Neill \|

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Holmes and Watson are recruited in a serpentine fashion to escort the heir to a European throne back to his native country following his father's assassination. Because the prince has been educated in Great Britain, Holmes persuades him to masquerade as Watson's nephew Nicolas on a ocean liner bound for Algiers. Unfortunately the ship is filled with red herrings as well as real assassins, and Holmes is challenged to outwit them all and deliver his charge to his destination. Among the suspects are a knife-throwing circus performer, two shadowy archaeologists, a hulking deaf mute, an enigmatic ship's steward, a chanteuse with a mysterious song case, and a gun-toting British dowager.

Genres:	Adventure \| Crime \| Drama \| Horror \| Mystery \|

Actors:	Basil Rathbone \| Nigel Bruce \| Hillary Brooke \| Henry Daniell \| Paul Cavanagh \| Matthew Boulton \| Eve Amber \| Frederick Worlock \| Tom Bryson \| Sally Shepherd \| Mary Gordon \| John Burton \| Harold De Becker \| Leslie Denison \| Tony Ellis \|

Directors:	Roy William Neill \|

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Plot Summary:
Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamoruos woman. The fiendish Dr Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is belived to be involved.

Genres:	Crime \| Drama \| Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Barry Fitzgerald \| Walter Huston \| Louis Hayward \| Roland Young \| June Duprez \| Mischa Auer \| C. Aubrey Smith \| Judith Anderson \| Richard Haydn \| Queenie Leonard \| Harry Thurston \|

Directors:	René Clair \|

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On a remote and isolated island, ten people - 8 invited guests and two servants - find themselves facing their own deaths. Their unidentified host informs them, via a gramophone record, that as they have all been responsible for someone's death, they in turn will die before the weekend is out. There is no way for any of them to flee the island, so they set about trying to determine who their hidden host might be and where he might be hiding. One by one, the guests are killed and one of them suggests that the killer is likely among them.

Genres:	Crime \| Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Basil Rathbone \| Nigel Bruce \| Gerald Hamer \| Paul Cavanagh \| Arthur Hohl \| Kay Harding \| Miles Mander \| David Clyde \| Ian Wolfe \| Victoria Horne \| Harry Allen \| Ted Billings \| Bill Cartledge \| Charles Francis \| Olaf Hytten \|

Directors:	Roy William Neill \|

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Plot Summary:
A village in Canada has an old legend about a phantom that years ago killed three villagers. Many residents are afraid that the monster has come back, because some of them have seen strange luminous shapes, and then some sheep were found with their throats slashed. Their worst fears seem to be confirmed when Lady Penrose is found killed in the same way. Meanwhile, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are in Quebec, attending a meeting of the Royal Canadian Occult Society, where they are involved in a sharp debate with Lord Penrose about his village's legend. Not long after Lord Penrose receives word of his wife's death, Holmes receives a letter that the dead woman had written before she died, begging for his help and protection. When Holmes goes to the village to investigate, he finds himself hunting a determined murderer who is also a master of disguise.

Genres:	Crime \| Horror \| Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Basil Rathbone \| Nigel Bruce \| Gale Sondergaard \| Dennis Hoey \| Vernon Downing \| Alec Craig \| Arthur Hohl \| Mary Gordon \| Teddy Infuhr \| Wilson Benge \| John Burton \| Harry Cording \| Stanley Logan \| John Roche \| John Rogers \|

Directors:	Roy William Neill \|

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Plot Summary:
Alarmed by a series of baffling suicides of prominent gamblers popularly dubbed "The Pajama Murders" by the newspapers, Holmes fakes his own death and assumes the identity of Rajni Singh, a retired Indian military man with a paralyzed arm. After losing a large sum in a casino and writing a bad check to cover his losses, he appears to try to take his own life. He is prevented by the mysterious and sophisticated Andrea Spedding with an offer of a loan with his life insurance policy as collateral. Shortly thereafter, there is an attempt on his life with a rare but deadly spider with the only other clue a child's footprint. A resurfaced Holmes consults arachniolgists in an effort to solve the mystery.

Genres:	Crime \| Horror \| Mystery \|

Actors:	Basil Rathbone \| Nigel Bruce \| Dennis Hoey \| Evelyn Ankers \| Miles Mander \| Ian Wolfe \| Charles Francis \| Holmes Herbert \| Richard Nugent \| Mary Gordon \| Rondo Hatton \| J.W. Austin \| Wilson Benge \| Billy Bevan \| Harry Cording \|

Directors:	Roy William Neill \|

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Plot Summary:
When a pearl with a sinister reputation for causing misfortune to its owners is stolen from a museum by a master criminal because of Sherlock Holmes' show-boating, he is naturally obliged to find it. Soon, he learns of a series of brutal murders that seemed to have been commited by a malevolent man mountain known only as the Creeper. Now, Holmes must deal with the seemingly overwhelming menace of this man and his boss in order to retrieve the pearl.

Abbott and Costello in Who Done It? (1942)

Genres:	Comedy \| Mystery \|

Actors:	Bud Abbott \| Lou Costello \| Patric Knowles \| William Gargan \| Louise Allbritton \| Thomas Gomez \| William Bendix \| Don Porter \| Jerome Cowan \| Mary Wickes \| Ludwig Stössel \| Norman Abbott \| Bobby Barber \| Eddie Bruce \| Paul Dubov \|

Directors:	Erle C. Kenton \|

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Plot Summary:
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

Genres:	Drama \| Mystery \|

Actors:	Joseph Cotten \| Dorothy Comingore \| Agnes Moorehead \| Ruth Warrick \| Ray Collins \| Erskine Sanford \| Everett Sloane \| William Alland \| Paul Stewart \| George Coulouris \| Fortunio Bonanova \| Gus Schilling \| Philip Van Zandt \| Georgia Backus \| Harry Shannon \|

Directors:	Orson Welles \|

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Plot Summary:
Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world's richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - "Rosebud..." What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

Genres:	Comedy \| Horror \| Mystery \|

Actors:	Bud Abbott \| Lou Costello \| Richard Carlson \| Joan Davis \| Mischa Auer \| Evelyn Ankers \| Marc Lawrence \| Shemp Howard \| Russell Hicks \| William B. Davidson \| Ted Lewis \| Ted Lewis' Orchestra \| Laverne Andrews \| Maxene Andrews \| Patty Andrews \|

Directors:	Arthur Lubin \|

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Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

Genres:	Action \| Mystery \| Romance \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Peter Lorre \| Ricardo Cortez \| Virginia Field \| John Carradine \| John Carradine \| George Sanders \| Joan Carroll \| Robert Coote \| Margaret Irving \| Leyland Hodgson \| John Davidson \| Jimmy Aubrey \| Ted Billings \| A.R. Bogard \| Daniel Boone \|

Directors:	Norman Foster \|

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Plot Summary:
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments. The dead man was his colleague, impersonating him to throw the conspirators off his scent. Mr Moto recognises one of the conspirators as a British Secret Service agent, and together they discover that the gang have mined the harbour in preparation for the arrival of the French fleet. Their aim is to throw the blame onto the British, which may start a second World War.

Genres:	Crime \| Drama \| Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Peter Lorre \| Jean Hersholt \| Amanda Duff \| Warren Hymer \| Richard Lane \| Leon Ames \| Douglass Dumbrille \| Charles D. Brown \| Paul Harvey \| Robert Lowery \| Eddie Marr \| Harry Woods \| Willie Best \| Ward Bond \| Walter Deming \|

Directors:	Herbert I. Leeds \|

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Puerto Rico has become the back door by which a criminal syndicate smuggles inexpensive contraband diamonds from South America into the United States, dramatically driving down the price of legitimate gems. After they have ruthlessly murdered a special investigator, Moto is assigned to the case. While sailing to the island he impresses Twister McGurk, a slow-witted but amiable wrestler, with his martial arts abilities and gains a loyal friend and bodyguard. When an attempt on his life fails and another government official is murdered, Moto sends authorities a fake telegram identifying himself as a criminal named Shimura and making him and the Twister wanted fugitives. That ploy allows them to infiltrate the gang and expose the criminal mastermind behind it.

Genres:	Action \| Crime \| Drama \| Mystery \| Thriller \|

Actors:	Peter Lorre \| Joseph Schildkraut \| Lionel Atwill \| Virginia Field \| John 'Dusty' King \| Iva Stewart \| G.P. Huntley \| Victor Varconi \| John Bleifer \| Honorable Wu \| Morgan Wallace \| Anthony Warde \| Harry Strang \| John Davidson \| Eddie Abdo \|

Directors:	Norman Foster \|

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Plot Summary:
A young and handsome archaeologist discovers the crown of the Queen of Sheba, and returns with it to a San Francisco museum where it is put on display. Its safety is in doubt as many criminals want the crown — an international pair of criminals, a San Francisco gangster and his cohorts, and a super criminal known as Metaxa. Mr. Moto is forced to postpone his vacation while he deals with the threat.