Browse Movies : Mystery : T (Page #5)

Phoebe Siegler, a sarcastic and garrulous woman heads to California to try to find her best friend's missing teenage daughter. When a lead brings her to the stark and seedy desert towns just east of Los Angeles, Phoebe is put in contact with Charles Heist, a laconic, strange private eye with an uncanny ability to find those that don't want to be found, who reluctantly agrees to help. She dubs him The Feral Detective. As the unlikely pair traverse the stunning desert and its enclaves and get closer to the missing girl, their lives are placed in increasing jeopardy.

Almost twenty years after Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune, his mother wants him back. She hires Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them.

Detective Joona Linna investigates a grisly triple homicide where the only survivor, a young boy, is too traumatized to testify. Linna convinces a famous psychologist, against his better judgment, to hypnotize the boy, setting off a terrifying chain of events.

A year after his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident, a wealthy Hollywood producer invites a group of his friends to join him on his yacht cruising in the Mediterranean. While the guests have been ostensibly invited to take part in a mysterious scavenger hunt, the vacation quickly turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse exercise as secrets are revealed.

Set in Boston, an enigmatic card shark searches for an easy score. An ex-con has an inside track on a priceless haul of stolen art. And a professor uncovers a secret that could change the world. They unwittingly find themselves entangled in a mystery as old as the country itself — a mystery that someone is willing to kill for.

Interweaving narratives follow three driven men all connected by a mysterious book. The setting shifts from 16th century Venice, Italy— where famed glassmakers perfected one of the world’s most wondrous inventions, the mirror (an object of fearful fascination)— to the seedy Venice Beach waterfront of the 1950s, to the glitzy trappings of the Venetian casino in 2003 Las Vegas.

A runaway woman, trying to escape her past, pretends to be a girl abducted from a small town 10 years before. The girl's family takes her in until she slowly starts to uncover the mysterious circumstances and family secrets that actually lead to their daughter’s disappearance.

Set in modern day, a widow hides her children away in an isolated mansion due to a rare disease characterized by photo-sensitivity. The arrival of three mysterious servants unlocks the house's terrifying secrets.

Set in a future world where genetic testing is mandatory to identify individuals predisposed to violence, a female Scotland Yard inspector is drawn into a cat-and-mouse game when a sociopathic computer expert finds himself on the list and decides to kill others on it.

Set largely in the dark atmospheric backwoods just outside of New Orleans, "The Skeleton Key" stars Kate Hudson as Caroline, a live-in nurse hired to care for an elderly woman's (Gena Rowlands) ailing husband (John Hurt) in their home, a foreboding a decrepit Gothic mansion in the Louisiana delta. Intrigued by the enigmatic couple, their mysterious and secretive ways and their rambling house, Caroline begins to explore the old mansion. Armed with a skeleton key that unlocks every door, she discovers a hidden attic room that holds a deadly and terrifying secret.

A detective gives up his career when he marries a socialite but gets drawn back into one last murder investigation.