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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
155 films tagged mystery, showing 50
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2025 · Mystery
An intelligence officer is given a week to find who leaked a secret programme, and his own wife is one of the five suspects. Mostly dinners and interviews, and everyone in the room lies for a living.
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2025 · Mystery
A private eye in Bakersfield looks into the death of a woman who called her scared the day before, and the trail leads to a church with a very hands-on reverend. Loose and jokey, and it keeps stopping to flirt.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Drama
A man falls from the top floor of a chalet in the Alps and his wife goes on trial, with their partly sighted son the only other person in the house. Most of it is courtroom argument about a marriage.
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2025 · Crime
A former dock workers' union leader refuses to believe his old friend died of a heart attack, and pulls at the thread until it reaches a gold smuggling ring. Nearly three hours, and mostly action.
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2018 · Science fiction
A biologist joins an all-woman expedition into a stretch of coastline sealed off behind a shimmering wall, where the plants and animals have gone strange. It moves slowly and gets stranger the further in they walk.
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2025 · Mystery
Five years on, Stephanie is a true crime vlogger when Emily turns up at a book signing and asks her to be maid of honour at a wedding in Capri. Sharp and silly, with a big cast and a lot of plot.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Mystery
A man arrives at a remote estate in the Western Ghats, saying he has come for the rare dogs its missing owner brought back from Malaysia. He is not the only visitor asking after the man who vanished.
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2025 · Mystery
A Paris psychiatrist refuses to accept that a patient's death was a suicide and starts looking into it herself, while her own life comes apart. Part detective story, part comedy, following one woman.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
A violent Mumbai police officer works out who killed a fellow officer, then loses his memory in a crash before he can say the name. He is put back on the case and has to build it again, learning what he used to be like as he goes.
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2025 · Mystery
A congressman's daughter is found murdered in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1900, and the killing suits everyone who wants the district shut down. A young detective and a local man work the case, in a comedy with a real whodunnit inside it.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
A Hong Kong private detective working in Malaysia takes three jobs at once, all of them men who want to know who their partner is really seeing, while a cop works a murder nearby. Two threads running side by side.
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2025 · Crime
Someone is badly hurt by a police projectile during the yellow vest protests, and an internal affairs investigator is put on the case. Most of the film is the investigation itself.
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2018 · Thriller
Seven strangers check into a faded hotel on the Nevada state line in 1969, none of them there for the reason they gave at the desk. It plays out room by room, in chapters, mostly at night.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Mystery
Bodies have been turning up headless in a lake by a village in 19th-century Vietnam, and the villagers blame a spirit in the water. When a young woman goes missing, her aunt sends for a detective who does not believe in spirits.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Mystery
Four residents of a retirement village meet weekly to pick over cold cases, and then a man behind the plan to redevelop the village is murdered. Comfortable and chatty, more sleuthing than danger.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
A journalist joins a billionaire's charity cruise, meets a woman in the cabin next door, and that night sees someone go over the side. Everyone on board is accounted for, and nobody believes her.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2022 · Horror
A group of rich twenty-somethings ride out a hurricane at a family mansion and start a party game where one of them is secretly the killer. Mostly one house, in the dark, with a lot of bickering.
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2025 · Mystery
A blind master engraver is being filmed for a television profile when his son learns the mother he thought had walked out has been dead for forty years, buried by a building site. He and the journalist start asking.
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2025 · Thriller
A man who stretched himself to buy a Seoul apartment is woken by a noise nobody can place, and the neighbours are certain it comes from his floor. Debt, thin floors and one building the film barely leaves.
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2025 · Mystery
A New York actor comes to with no memory in a small Ohio town in the 1950s, and cannot find his way home. Working out who he was is most of what the film is.
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2018 · Thriller
A young man getting by on delivery work runs into a girl from his old neighbourhood, and when she comes back from a trip abroad she has a rich, easy-going friend with her. Very slow, and it holds a lot back.
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2026 · Mystery
A shepherd in an English village is found dead outside his trailer, and his flock, who have had murder mysteries read to them for years, set out to work out who did it. A village whodunnit, told largely by the sheep.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Mystery
Enola is in Malta for her wedding to Tewkesbury, with Sherlock there and openly against it, when he disappears in the middle of a case of his own. A dying soldier's last word is all she has to go on.
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2026 · Horror
A camera crew is sent back to a remote reservoir to reshoot footage that came out wrong, and the new recordings hold figures none of them remember seeing. The place turns out to have a past nobody will discuss.
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2026 · Crime
A boy vanishes without a trace from a small town in northern Poland, and a prosecutor starts looking for him. It follows on from an earlier film about the same man.
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2026 · Crime
Joe Diamond is haunted by his past and notices what other people miss, which is how he gets at hidden truths and solves crimes. It is played as a present-day noir.
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2026 · Crime
A former ambassador who spent fifty years in an affair with a princess is found murdered, and the only evidence is the letters they wrote each other. Maigret has to work the case quietly.
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2024 · Thriller
The Pope dies and the cardinals are locked inside the Vatican to choose the next one, while the man running the vote keeps learning things about the candidates. Whispered talk in beautiful rooms.
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2022 · Mystery
A Belgian detective on holiday joins a wedding party cruising the Nile, where nearly everyone aboard has a reason to resent the bride. Once the boat leaves, the suspects are all in the same few rooms.
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2022 · Mystery
A detective who cannot sleep looks into a man's fall from a mountain, and spends more and more of his time watching the dead man's wife. It moves slowly, and much of it is two people being careful about what they say.
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2001 · Science fiction
A teenager in 1988 sleepwalks out of his bedroom, and a jet engine falls through the roof into it. A figure in a rabbit suit tells him the world ends in 28 days, and the film is in no hurry to explain.
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2007 · Crime
A London midwife has the diary of a girl who died in childbirth translated, and it points her at a Russian family who run more than a restaurant. Quiet and slow, then suddenly not, more than once.
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2017 · Science fiction
A police officer whose job is retiring old synthetic humans turns up a buried secret and goes looking for a man who disappeared thirty years earlier. Slow, very large, and mostly quiet.
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2013 · Thriller
A tired history lecturer in a yellow-lit Toronto spots a bit-part actor who looks exactly like him, and sets out to find him. Slow, quiet, and confusing on purpose.
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2018 · Comedy
A couple who take their weekly game night seriously turn up for a murder-mystery party thrown by his brother, and the fake kidnapping goes wrong. It runs fast and is played for laughs throughout.
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2007 · Mystery
Two private investigators from a working-class Boston neighbourhood are hired to look for a missing four-year-old in the places the police cannot reach. A detective story that keeps turning into an argument about what is right.
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2004 · Fantasy
In his third year at Hogwarts, Harry learns that the man who broke out of the wizard prison is looking for him. Greyer and rainier than the first two, and it moves quickly for a long film.
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2007 · Comedy
London's best policeman is promoted sideways to a village where nothing happens and paired with a partner raised on action films. Jokes come thick and fast, and it gets very loud towards the end.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2016 · Science fiction
Twelve alien craft arrive without explanation, and a linguist is brought in to work out how to ask them what they want. Most of it is the slow business of translation.
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2010 · Drama
Twins in Montreal open their mother's will and find two letters: one for a father they thought was dead, one for a brother they never knew about. They go looking, and it keeps cutting back to her life.
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1998 · Comedy
A very relaxed man in Los Angeles is mistaken for a millionaire with the same name, and would like a new rug. What follows is a kidnapping plot he keeps wandering out of.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2024 · Horror
A new FBI agent with a knack for hunches is put on a decades-old case of families killed in their own homes, all tied together by coded letters signed with one name. Slow and quiet, with the scary parts kept just out of frame.
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2003 · Mystery
In 1986 a rural Korean province gets its first serial killings, and two local detectives who work by instinct and beatings are joined by a careful man from Seoul. It is often funny, and the case runs for years.
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2007 · Thriller
A law firm's fixer is sent to clean up after their star litigator falls apart in the middle of defending a chemical company. Grown-ups in offices talking, and it tightens slowly.
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Little-known
2016 · Science fiction
A father takes his eight-year-old son and runs, chased by the church the boy was raised in and by the government. It explains very little, and much of it happens on back roads at night.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2002 · Science fiction
In a Washington where murders are stopped before they happen, the cop who runs the unit is named by the system as a future killer and has to run from his own team. It is a chase with a mystery underneath it.
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2009 · Science fiction
A man three years into a solo contract mining the far side of the Moon, with a talking computer for company, has two weeks left before he goes home. One man, one base, and hardly anyone else in it.
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2009 · Mystery
When her son is arrested for a girl's murder and nobody will look any further, his mother starts working the town herself. It moves slowly, and the funny bits arrive at strange moments.
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2001 · Mystery
A woman with no memory after a crash on a Los Angeles road, and a bright new arrival in town who decides to help her find out who she is. It does not run on normal rules and does not explain itself.
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2003 · Mystery
Three men who grew up on the same Boston street are pulled back together when one man's daughter is found dead and another is the detective on the case. Heavy and slow, and mostly about the three of them.
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