Mystery Collection

Two seemingly unconnected suicide cases point all suspicions to a famous painter. And just when the police locked the murderer, they found that the suspected painter had jumped to his death. The crisis does not end there. The case is in an unprecedented dilemma, and the only clue left is the suspect painter's ex-wife.

Theft takes place in Washington, DC. Howard Knox is a well-intentioned Congressman crusading for reform. He is scheduled to make a speech in which he will expose the corrupt activities of an industrial magnate and his congressional stooges. The wealthy capitalist in question, Anthony Starkweather, along with his son-in-law and political puppet, Senator Thomas Chalmers, will do everything in their power to foil Knox's great speech and publicly disgrace him. To complicate matters, Margaret Chalmers, wife of Senator Chalmers and daughter of Starkweather, forms a friendship with Knox and begins to sympathize with his cause.

Out of paranoid fear of a nuclear disaster, an elderly couple isolates themselves from the outside world in their small suburban villa. An apocalyptic retreat told with a touch of humor that occasionally makes you shudder and smile at the same time. Will the couple find a way out of their isolation again? A chef who described the quarantine situation as early as 1970.

Ichiro Suzuki, a baseball player obsessed with fair play, murders a man who was blackmailing his brother who is none other than Furuhata's faithful friend Mukojima.

Where Siena is experiencing depression due to being able to see someone's death sign. Even in this situation, she tries to help the people of Remetuk Village who are shrouded in a suicide mystery.

The search for the empress's daughter reunites two long lost brothers who grew up on opposite sides of a war and now must choose between family bonds and political alliances.

Five different stories of surreal mysteries on supernatural and inexplicable events. All connected by supernatural events and eerie mysteries. Each segment presents a terrifying story set in various locations, from a school and a hospital to a haunted forest.

Being a mortuary cosmetologist, Min-Hsiu is used to seeing dead bodies until she accidentally spots a female corpse – her high school teacher Miss Chen Ting. Nie Cheng-Fu, Chen Ting’s husband, loves his wife profoundly and tries to find more memories of her with Min-Hsiu’s help. At that point, a detective, Kuo Yung-Ming, senses that the truth behind this case may not be as simple as it seems. Death is not the end of life, but another beginning of it...

A Nazi scientist using the lost city of Atlantis as his home base threatens to destroy civilization with a nuclear bomb. The Nazi scientist wants the third Reich to rule again and if his demands are not meet he will follow through on his threat of nuclear annihilation. With very little time to spare Santo is enlisted to find the nuclear bomb, disarm it and end the Nazi scientist’s diabolical plan

Roya and Babak are a young couple who intend to emigrate from Iran. Roya's encounter with an anonymous girl is the beginning of strange events in their life.

Jérôme and Florence, married for five years, come to spend a week's vacation in the Camargue, the very place where they first fell in love. The young woman sees the trip as a pilgrimage to her roots, and a crucial test for rekindling her husband's love and attention. Jérôme, passionate about the great outdoors, space and horses, embarks on exhausting hikes. In the evening, as soon as he gets into bed at the hotel, he falls asleep from exhaustion.

When Lindsay Porter, responsible mother and head of the local neighborhood watch program, falls for Stephen, the handsome new bachelor on the block, she begins to fear she and her daughter's lives may be in grave danger.

A girl is invited to a TV show to explain why she has murdered 239 people.

On a personal mission to destroy his wife killer, a Denver cop (William Baldwin) joins a rogue operation that goes bad, finds himself under suspicion of murder yet still manages to restart his life.

One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, knows for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry panel tries to deduce why would a man like Orzechowski jump in front of a moving train several of the people involved in the case are interrogated, each telling their own version of the story. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

Takahashi Meiko (Mano Azusa) used to work at a large newspaper company. However, she is now an ordinary housewife. She receives a call from Sasame (Kanda Masaki), a former colleague who is now working at another company asking her for her help. She is informed that a murder has taken place when she arrives and goes to the scene of the crime. She learns that the victim was her son’s intermediate school teacher.

The city is rocked by a serial killer who only kills young women at night, so women don't want to step outside the house when it turns dark.

A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.

Thug CR 143/24 is a gripping Malayalam investigation thriller that unfolds over two high-stakes days. A murder case spirals into a web of shifting narratives, where every character-investigators, suspects, and shadowy figures-adds a new twist to the truth. With no clear hero, the film blurs the lines between guilt and innocence, leaving one haunting question: Who is the real thug?

Chinese mystery film with a mysterious werewolf man.

A family intervention goes horrifically awry within the snowy confines of an isolated lake house.

Jamie and Allie are amateur sleuths whose grandfather runs a small security business. One afternoon, while digging around on their own, they accidentally stumble onto a major case.

An emotionally disturbed young woman who is obsessed with the death of her father delves into the mystery.

Aided by an ex-military officer, a young woman becomes an unwitting fugitive after discovering that her son's catatonic state may be at the heart of a global conspiracy.

An ex-cop is temporarily blinded when he steals cash from a money laundering operations. While recuperating in Mexico, the thief falls in love with a beautiful woman who has underworld connections. When the girl disappears, he returns to the United States to find her, risking death from the gangster

The young Marisa, after having inherited from her aunt, gets involved in blackmail and crime.

Drew, while in a trance, drives to a small town where, a year earlier, an identical woman named Laura was murdered. Everyone assumed that Laura's boyfriend, who went missing at the same time as the murder, was the killer, but Drew starts having visions that imply otherwise, so she attempts to uncover the truth.

Detectives receive a anonymous letter asking for their help in solving the murder of the world's richest man.

In Britain, bodies of NATO paratroopers are being snatched during routine jumps by a mysterious red-beam of otherworldly origin.

In the year 1622, the young Badria is held responsible for the death of the princess after the birth of the royal child and accused of witchcraft. Imprisoned and on trial, she desperately fights to prove her innocence and save her life.

This is a story about a woman. The people around her remember her differently and tell different stories about her. If you think too hard, you won´t be seeing the woman in the end.

Linda is searching for her sister Ivana. Together with her boyfriend Tom she returns to the forest where the nightmare for her sister and many more people started.

Two young girls find a human skull buried in their garden, which leads to a police investigation to unravel the macabre truth behind the discovery.

A pilot for a television adaptation of The Conversation (1974), intended to be broadcast on NBC, which was not picked up or aired.

An actor works as night watchman at a film studio where a musical serial killer strikes.

Before shady businessman John Singer disappeared off Bondi Beach, his name meant money--big and small, clean and dirty--a man absorbed in a world of greed and dishonesty. Singer's widow, Marion, believes he's still alive and she employs the investigative skills of the tough, no-nonsense private eye, Cliff Hardy to find him. Battered and bruised, Hardy battles through the filth of corruption and the stench of political blackmail. He comes face to face with the crime bosses, who feed off human misery and eliminate their rivals without thinking twice. From the high life and low life of Sydney, to the seediness and splendour of Bondi Beach, Cliff Hardy uncovers the ultimate truth.

During the Republic of China era, the descendants of the ancient Jin Guard travel to northeastern China to protect Jurchen treasures from Japanese thieves and uncover the truth behind the Jin Guard's persecution.

Woo-jin spirals into obsession and a cursed timeline after playing a broken guitar received from a mysterious stranger.

End of the Line is an anthology of three short films (The Brief Case of Maya Moon, The Red Widow, and The Extraordinary Experience of Dick Shatner), all of which take place on one reality defying steam train.

Joe wakes up in hospital and cannot remember who he is. But as the bizarre nightmares continue, he suspects something more evil is taking place.

Abbie Campbell is in prison for murder, she stabbed her sleeping husband. The background to the brutal act was never clarified, Abbie had refused any statement at the time. Criminal psychologist Cathrin Blake has to prepare an expert opinion on the young woman.

When Daria disappears after their first date, Marek finds her in a psychiatric hospital. Everything might be part of a disturbing game played by powerful pharmaceutical companies, though the truth may be more frightening than either of them realize.

Chinese-language interpreter Gaia is called up out of the blue by the Italian authorities with an urgent and confidential translation assignment. She is whisked away to a secret underground location and ushered into a pitch-black room where she is asked to interpret the harsh interrogation of a mysterious presence, the eponymous Mr. Wang.

The theft of a priceless new code machine by enemy agents sends the Five on an eventful train journey up to Scotland.

When a famous fashion designer is found murdered, Inspector Richard Queen of the NYPD is baffled by her dying clue, prompting him to bring in his son, mystery writer Ellery Queen, to help in the investigation. This was the pilot film for the short-lived TV series.

Stephen Whalby loves the moor. When a series of senseless murders of young women invades his beloved moor, he becomes intrigued...and a suspect.

Ji-Suk, a fashion designer, is in fear about Sang-Kuk who raped her and even killed her husband, a big business, a long time ago. One day Ji-Suk was almost harassed by a bad fellow called Chun-Ho. As Young-Il, an instructor of an institution, saved her by chance, they soon were getting closer. Ji-Suk, who was in trouble how to manage her husband's inherits, totally depends on Young-Il and murdered Sang-Kuk who was released from prison...

Inspirational talk show host Kendra takes time off to heal her soul and while on vacation and meets the man of her dreams, Malcolm.

A tale of a wandering girl

When a diabolical English lord is murdered, Sherlock Holmes and Watson must unexpectedly exchange roles in order to solve "the perfect locked room mystery.

Kazuyuki Tajima strikes up a friendship with his elementary school classmate, Osamu Kuramochi. From that moment on, a dark shadow begins to fall over his life. Following his grandmother's death, his parents divorce, and a rumor drives him out of his hometown. Each time he attempts to start over, Kuramochi reappears in his life.

Based on a true story, an agnostic Jewish child psychologist is recruited to a Vatican investigation of a comatose girl believed to be a “victim soul,” only to find herself pulled into a case where alleged miracles defy reason — and challenge everything she believes.

A woman is murdered during an overnight train ride and a veteran detective clashes with young P.I. on how they are going flush out the killer. They find themselves racing against the clock when a second body is discovered.

Arsenio Lupin is an audacious Parisian thief who mocks the police, especially Inspector Ganimard, but turns over most of his ill-gotten gains to charity. One night, he attends a party disguised as a newspaper writer who also mocks Ganimard; the next morning, the host's wife and a male guest are found murdered, and Ganimard arrives to solve the crime. A Mexican version of the Arsene Lupin character, with Sherlock Holmes tossed in as a cameo at the end.

Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what could have happened, a situation complicated by their city's police suspecting that one of the brothers murdered a local prostitute who was found with a strange tribal charm on her body matching one found in Max's abandoned hut. What most certainly isn't helping matters is the strange behavior of Max's daughter as she seems to have visions beyond possibility, warnings of a supernatural threat and her uncle's fate - and she's the film's narrator, to boot. Edward decides to go to the island to find out exactly what happened, but the deeper he goes into the mystery the more perilous and unknowable his world becomes, leading towards a shocking fate that raises more questions than it answers. (cont. http://view-from-the-paperhouse.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-threat-of-ancient-echoes-lost-tribe.html)

Two girls on holiday find a diary in an abandoned boat and set out to investigage a mysterious light on the horizon.