Who doesn’t like the genre of mystery? Mystery movies are epic, they keep you hooked until the end trying to calculate who’s who, who’s lying, who’s playing, and who is getting played.
It is so good to finally sit down and relax on weekend after a hectic week. If you are searching for something to binge on, we have got the perfect list of mystery movies for you.
Gone Girl
The 2014 physiological mystery is adopted from another masterpiece of Gillian Flynn’s novel “Gone Girl”.
The movie opens with Nick’s (Ben Affleck) wife suspiciously gone missing. The cops take up the case to search Amy (Rosamund Pike), as the investigation proceeds all the clues point towards one person, Nick.
The police are very sure that Nick has something to do with his wife Amy’s missing. He becomes the prime suspect of his wife’s murder but when you look closely you realize it is not what it is.
Things take an unexpected turn when in the middle of finding the gone girl.
Knives Out
The aim is to get the inheritance at any cost but how does an innocent- immigrant nurse gets framed for the murder of Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) who doesn’t even have any idea of the inheritance?
The movie is fun, vicious, you feel you solved the movie right at the beginning when you see Martha Cabrera’s (Ana de Armas) story but someone who did the actual crime is sitting and having fun looking at the drama. Will the secret hiring of Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) work? And the true killer be identified? You got to watch it to know it?
The girl with the dragon tattoo
Rachel (Emily Blunt) does nothing but to take a train aimlessly from the suburb to the city after losing her marriage, job and turning into an alcoholic. But what if taking the train makes her suspect of something she didn’t do?
Rachel gets off the train like usual but it isn’t the same. After a lot of confrontation, Rachel wakes up covered in blood and realizes someone who she sees every day on the train has gone missing and all eyes turn to Rachel as she was the only one to be present at the site but the problem is she doesn’t remember anything.
Sherlock Holmes
2009 sherlock Holmes stands out among the various adaptions. The subtle acting of Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, and enhanced direction by Guy Ritchie just adds up.
The detective duo gets into the field to hunt the serial killer who has been piling up bodies in London. The crime seems obvious when it seems to be almost solved things get weird and messier. The murder doubles and more bodies are piled in the way of solving the mystery.
Zodiac
A classic combination of RDJ, Mark Ruffalo, and Jake Gyllenhaal. Zodiac is a real-life story of the mysterious case of an unsolved zodiac killer in the 1960’s and 1970’s that terrorized the people in the bay area.
The duo investigators and journalists team up to find the assassinator after finding multiple letters of him addressed to the San Francisco chronicle.
The girl on the train
The 2011 movie tops the list of mystery is yet another adoption of a 2005 novel of the same name penned by Stieg Larsson.
When a reporter Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) is hired to investigate a mysterious murder case that took place 40 years ago by a Swedish industrialist Enrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer). Mikael joins the force with investigator Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) in search of the truth.
A series of dark, cold and horrifying murders and the mission to solve Vanger’s nieces’ murder case that took place 40 years ago will become a tough nut to crack than expected.
The thriller unravels the misogynistic, cruelty hiding beneath the surface of fine society.
Kiss kiss bang bang
Indeed, one of the greatest actors of all time Robert Downey Jr. plays the character of a thief Harry Lockhart. When Harry is mistaken for an actor and is obliged to audition for a mystery movie, he gets the introduction to the world of movies “Hollywood” but it is just more than making films or glamor, and Harry Lockhart gets tangled in a Hollywood murder for real.
The dark romantic comedy/murder mystery is worth your time. Find out how RDJ untangles himself from the mystery.
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