Mystery movies

Sleeping Murder (1987)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Alexander, Geraldine | Moulder-Brown, John | Treves, Frederick | Anderson, Jean | Hardiman, Terrence | Bennett, John | Newman, Geraldine | Watson, Jack | Scott, Joan | Heywood, Jean | Anderson, Georgine | Jewesbury, Edward | McAllister, David | Boxer, Amanda
Directors: Davies, John
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BBC TV adaption of the Agatha Christie’s novel. A young recently married woman, Gwenda Reed, comes back to England after living most of her life in New Zealand. While her husband, Giles, is out of the country she buys a house for them and starts recalling memories which make her start to think that perhaps she had lived in the house before. It’s only then, while dining out with friends, that a chance remark triggered off a frightening memory, as a little girl, looking down at a woman’s body and the murderer with “monkey paws” hands. Gwenda is determined to find out the sources of this memory. The killer, thought that he/she was safe after eighteen years and is prepared to kill to cover up the past. But Gwenda has help as one of her dining friends is Raymond West, who has a very special Aunt who is willing to help Gwenda - Miss Jane Marple…

At Bertram’s Hotel (1987)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: UK
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Blakiston, Caroline | Michell, Helena | Cossins, James | Greenwood, Joan | Baker, George | Milvain, Douglas | Bretherton, Philip | Lockwood, Preston | Sutcliffe, Irene | McGrath, Brian | Phillips, Neville | Reynolds, Robert | Baldwin, Peter | Herley, Randal
Directors: McMurray, Mary
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Miss Jane Marple is staying at an elegant hotel from her childhood compliments of her nephew Raymond. Also there is international adventurer Bess Sedgwick and Lady Selena Hazy (Joan Greenwood in her next to last performance). A doorman working at the hotel turns out to be from Bess’ past, and when he is killed, she is the prime suspect. But what does his murder have to do with the disappearance of an elderly vicar staying at the hotel, and a string of robberies over the last few months? Miss Marple must find out before the murderer strikes again!!!

Pocket Full of Rye, A (1985)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Hickson, Joan | West, Timothy | Drake, Fabia | Merrison, Clive | Bell, Rachel | Davison, Peter | Low, Frances | Dorning, Stacy | Stanbridge, Martyn | Wilkinson, Tom | Glover, Jon | Cadell, Selina | Badland, Annette | Kendall, Merelina | Mills, Frank
Directors: Slater, Guy
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Wealthy business man Rex Fortescue collapses when he reaches his office. It is determined that he was poisoned. No one seems too upset, as everyone agrees that Rex was a tyrant. Soon however Rex’s young wife also turns up poisoned. The maid, Gladyes, whom Miss Marple trained, writes to Miss Marple asking for help. Miss Marple arrives too late, as Gladyses’ body is found strangled and strung up on the clothes line. Now it’s personal, and Miss Marple is determined to see the murderer punished.

Murder Is Announced, A (1985)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Howells, Ursula | Asherson, Renée | Bond, Samantha | Shepherd, Simon | King, Nicola | Ives-Cameron, Elaine | Michael, Ralph | Syms, Sylvia | Solon, Matthew | Kerridge, Mary | Sims, Joan | Dionisotti, Paola | Moore, Vivienne | Collings, David
Directors: Giles, David
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A murder is announced in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette to take place on October 5th, 7 PM at Little Paddocks cottage. The people living there, retired secretary Miss Blacklock, her companion Miss Bunner, Miss Blacklock’s two distant cousins, Patrick and Julia and Mrs.Haymes, a gardener, have no idea what the ad is about. Several villagers arrive at the house under the false pretenses of “just walking by” or “Was in the neighborhood”. At exactly 7 PM, the lights go out, and a man enters the room, and shines a flashlight in everyone’s face. Then shots are heard. As the lights come back on, they find the man who entered the room has been shot. Miss Marple must unmask the killer but soon more murders turn up.

Moving Finger, The (1985)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Culver, Michael | Counsell, Elizabeth | Appleby, Deborah | Gleeson, Lucy | Mansfield, Stuart | Bicknell, Andrew | Franklyn, Sabina | Pearson, Richard | Mason, Hilary | Hamlett, Dilys | Arnatt, John | Payne, Sandra | Fisk, Martin | Lee, Penelope
Directors: Boulting, Roy
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Squadron Leader Gerry Burton is sent to a tranquil country village to recover from the effects of a plane crash and be nursed back to health by his beautiful sister Joanna. As they are new to the community, they are shocked to receive an anonymous, sexually explicit poison pen letter. They later find that other village gentry have been victimized by the same crank writer, and the vicar’s wife sends for her friend Miss Marple in hopes of exposing the perpetrator. When a solicitor’s wife apparently takes poison after receiving a particularly vicious message, Miss Marple suspects that the letters are a smokescreen for something more ominous. When a house maid is found bludgeoned to death, she knows she is right.

Marple: The Body in the Library (2004)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: McEwan, Geraldine | Richardson, Ian | Fitzgerald, Tara | Theakston, Jamie | Oldershaw, Giles | Hoath, Florence | Lumley, Joanna | Fox, James | Callow, Simon | Miller, Ben | Cooke, Emma | Soans, Robin | Mackinnon, Bruce | Davenport, Jack | Stockley, Mary
Directors: Wilson, Andy
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BBC Adaption of Agatha Christie’s novel. In the small village of St. Mary Mead, Colonel and Mrs. Bantry, owner of the local manor - Gossington Hall is shocked when one morning a young lady’s body is found in the library. They call in the police who soon run up against a brick wall, only finding out that the body is that of a dancer in London who the Bantry’s didn’t even know. But how and why was her body left in the library? To find out the truth, the Bantry’s call in the help of their good friend and detective - Miss Jane Marple.

Christine (1983)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gordon, Keith | Stockwell, John | Paul, Alexandra | Prosky, Robert | Stanton, Harry Dean | Belford, Christine | Blossom, Roberts | Ostrander, William | Spielberg, David | Danare, Malcolm | Tash, Steven | Charno, Stuart | Preston, Kelly | Poppel, Marc | Darnell, Robert
Directors: Carpenter, John
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Arnie Cunningham is a typical high school nerd who is picked on, overruled by his parents, and has very few friends. Until he meets Christine, a run-down 1958 Plymouth Fury and buys her. Arnie learns that Christine has a thing for him and devotes his time to restoring her to Mint Condition. But overtime, Arnie begins to change and becomes disconnected with reality and his friends. Arnie’s girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis find out that Christine’s previous owner cared about nothing else when he bought her and find out that Arnie is becoming just like him. The only way they can bring Arnie back to reality is to destroy Christine, But Arnie and Christine are ready to destroy them first and any one else who gets in their way.

Scream 3 (2000)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arquette, David | Campbell, Neve | Cox, Courteney | Dempsey, Patrick | Posey, Parker | Foley, Scott | Richmond, Deon | Mortimer, Emily | Henriksen, Lance | McCarthy, Jenny | Keeslar, Matt | Warburton, Patrick | Schreiber, Liev | Rutherford, Kelly | Kennedy, Jamie
Directors: Craven, Wes
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STAB 3: RETURN TO WOODSBORO is currently in production, and a killer is on the loose cutting corners cast wise. The murders draw a reporter, ex-cop, and young woman to the set of the movie inspired by their life. They soon find out that they are dealing with a trilogy, and in a trilogy…anything can happen.

Grudge, The (2004)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Gellar, Sarah Michelle | Behr, Jason | Mapother, William | DuVall, Clea | Strickland, KaDee | Zabriskie, Grace | Pullman, Bill | Blasi, Rosa | Raimi, Ted | Ishibashi, Ryo | Maki, Yoko | Ozeki, Yuya | Fuji, Takako | Matsuyama, Takashi | Matsunaga, Hiroshi
Directors: Takashi Shimizu
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Karen Davis is a woman residing in Japan with her boyfriend, who is studying there. Temporarily assigned to be caretaker for a woman with severe sleeping disorder, Karen goes to the patient’s house. What she finds is something she would never expect. The house is plagued by the presence of murderous ghosts, the result of a curse. The curse is born from someone dying in a powerful rage. Now, Karen finds herself being tormented by that curse, as it eventually starts claiming it’s victims.

Sleuth (2007)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Caine, Michael | Law, Jude | Pinter, Harold | Cawthorne, Alec | Channing, Eve
Directors: Branagh, Kenneth
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Based on a play, Sleuth confronts two extremely clever British men in a game of trickery and deceit. Andrew Wyke (Michael Cain), an aging famous author who lives alone in a high-tech mansion, after his wife Maggie has left him for a younger man; and Milo Tindle (Jude Law),an aspiring actor, equipped with charm and wit, who demonstrates both qualities once again). When Wyke invite Tindle to his mansion, Tindle seeks to convince the former into letting his wife go by signing the divorce paper. However, Wyke seems far more interested in playing mind games with his wife’s new lover, and lures him into a series of actions he thoroughly planned in seeking revenge on his unfaithful spouse.