The Circle (2000), Tim's Vermeer (2013), The Game (1997), The Goonies (1985), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Source Code (2011), Murder, She Said (1961), Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Puzzle Solving movies.
Storyline: Holmes and Watson are recruited in a serpentine fashion to escort the heir to a European throne back to his native country following his father's assassination. Because the prince has been educated in Great Britain, Holmes persuades him to masquerade as Watson's nephew Nikolas on an ocean liner bound for Algiers. Unfortunately, the ship is filled with red herrings as well as real assassins and Holmes is challenged to outwit them all and deliver his charge to his destination. Among the suspects are a knife-throwing circus performer, two shadowy archaeologists, a hulking deaf mute, an enigmatic ship's steward, a chanteuse with a mysterious song case, and a gun-toting British dowager.—Gabe Taverney(duke1029@aol.com)
Plot Keywords: mystery, adventure, crime, detective, classic, film noir, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: mystery, comedy, crime, detective, dark humor, murder, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: There have been a spate of London police murders, the victims always killed by a long knife (which the police know is a sword cane), the murders always taking place in a deserted but successively different part of town, and the police always being notified by the murderer that he will strike beforehand. By his signed notes, the murderer has dubbed himself as X. The police have their first real lead when the latest murder occurs outside the home where the Drayton Diamond was stolen on the same night. The diamond thief is Nick Revel, a suave, confident career thief, and his two accomplices, an insurance clerk named 'Hutch' Hutchinson, and a taxi driver named Joe Palmer. Nick, however, is not Mr. X, but he and his accomplices know they can't pawn the diamond or return the diamond for its insurance money now until Mr. X is caught. When a well known and respected man named Sir Christopher Marche is arrested for the murders on circumstantial evidence, Nick knows the police have the wrong man. Nick, who has an idea on how the police can find Mr. X, decides the best thing he can do is to make a up a story to clear Sir Christopher while suggesting his plan to the police. In this process, both Sir Christopher and the lead investigator, Superintendent Connor, don't quite trust Nick, the latter who suspects he is the diamond thief. Nick realizes that the police are onto him, which worries both Hutch and Joe more than it worries the confident Nick. But the one person who does trust Nick is Jane Frensham, Sir Christopher's fiancé and Police Commissioner Sir Herbert Frensham's daughter. Sir Herbert himself has been under great criticism by the public for failing to stop the murders. In the process of Nick's assistance, Nick and Jane have fallen in love with each other. To protect himself under the circumstances and protect Jane's good name, Nick feels his only solution is to capture Mr. X himself.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: mystery, crime, detective, film noir, murder, deduction, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: ACP Malavika Chauhan (Sushmita Sen) heads an investigative team looking into the murders of "best in field" professionals. There seem no clues except one left behind deliberately by the killer - an unusual pattern in the shape of the dead bodies.—Joyojeet Pal
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, drama, suspense, detective, murder, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nancy Drew and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady. Ted has to disguise himself as a nurse while Nancy beomse a "widow" in order to locate the lady they are rescuing.—SM <smortens@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: detective, mystery, crime, adaptation, classic, black and white, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bill Marks, a former cop dealing with his daughter's death by drinking, is now a federal air marshal. While on a flight from New York to London, Marks gets a text telling him that unless 150 million dollars is transferred to an offshore account, someone will die every 20 minutes. Can he find the terrorist in time and save everyone?
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, mystery, crime, confined space, serial killer, psychological warfare ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and her young son. But then he finds himself haunted by a thirty-year old case. Holmes memory isn't what it used to be, so he only remembers fragments of the case: a confrontation with an angry husband, and a secret bond with his beautiful, but unstable wife.
Plot Keywords: detective, mystery, suspense, aging, memory, retirement, self-reflection ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman is kidnapped. While in captivity, she manages to send a message out with a wandering cat. The cat's owner calls the F.B.I. The F.B.I. tries to follow the cat. Jealous boyfriends and nosy neighbors also get into the act.—Rob Brown <robbrown@tibalt.supernet.ab.ca>
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, crime, adventure, mystery, cat, disney ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the body of the executive of hockey Benoit Brisset is found on the billboard of the border of Quebec and Ontario, the jurisdiction of the crime is shared between the two police forces and detectives David Bouchard from Montreal and Martin Ward from Toronto are assigned to work together. With totally different styles, attitudes and languages, the reckless David and the ethical Martin join force to disclose the identity of the Tattoo Killer, a deranged serial-killer that is killing managers of hockey.
Plot Keywords: action, comedy, crime, police, buddy cop, mystery, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, an Invigilator gives them eighty minutes to answer one simple question. He outlines three rules they must obey or be disqualified: don't talk to him or the armed guard by the door, don't spoil their papers and don't leave the room. He starts the clock and leaves. The candidates turn over their question papers, only to find they're completely blank. After the initial confusion has subsided, one frustrated candidate writes 'I believe I deserve...,' and is promptly ejected for spoiling. The remaining candidates soon figure out they're permitted to talk to each other, and they agree to cooperate in order to figure out the question: then they can compete to answer it. At first they suspect the question may be hidden in their papers like a security marker in a credit card, and they figure out ways to change their environment to expose ...
Plot Keywords: thriller, psychological, confined space, high concept, human nature test, survival game, mind game ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sir Charles Baskerville has suffered an unusual death, causing some to say he was yet another victim of the dreaded family curse, which warns of a fabled hellhound haunting the Scottish moors. Not one prone to superstition, Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) thinks something else is afoot. Being stuck in London himself, Holmes sends his colleague, Dr. Watson (Edward Hardwicke), to investigate instead. It soon becomes clear to them both that Baskerville's demise was no mere accident.
Plot Keywords: detective, mystery, crime, classic, adaptation, sherlock holmes, dr. watson ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Preacher Graham Hess, played by Mel Gibson, has lost his faith in God after his wife dies in a brutal car accident. He along with his son and daughter and his brother Merrill lives in a farmhouse. Crop circles begin to appear in their corn fields which Graham dismisses as mischief by miscreants. After hearing strange noises and watching news coverage on crop circles appearing all over the world, the family grows suspicious of alien activities. Now they must stick together and believe, as a family to survive the ordeal and find a way to escape.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, mystery, thriller, alien, family, faith, religion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following the murder of a physicist, Father Silvano Bentivoglio, a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and a scientist, Vittoria Vetra, are on an adventure involving a secret brotherhood, the Illuminati. Clues lead them all around the Vatican, including the four altars of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An assassin, working for the Illuminati, has captured four cardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also are searching for a new very destructive weapon that could kill millions.
Plot Keywords: thriller, suspense, crime, religion, conspiracy, murder, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During a time of anti-Communist paranoia, editor Emily Crane (Kelly McGillis) balks at turning over the identities of colleagues being sought by the House Un-American Activities Committee and is blacklisted as a result. After taking a job as an elderly woman's companion, her life falls into a normal rhythm -- until she checks out an argument in the house next door. Soon Emily is on the run and trying to unravel a Nazi plot. Meanwhile, Cochran (Jeff Daniels), an FBI man, tries to protect her.
Plot Keywords: mystery, thriller, drama, crime, historical, political, espionage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 2015. A Coruña, Galicia (northwest to Spain). Carlos, a bank executive happily married with Marta and father of two children, older Sara and younger Marcos, starts the day as any other ready to work in the bank after to take the children to the school. But when the three up in the car, a cell phone left in the car rings. Receiving the call, an unknown voice tells Carlos that there is a bomb under the car and demands him a great amount of money under the menace to explode it if any of the three down the car, marking the end of the workday as time to receive the money. Hiding the danger to the children, Carlos starts a race across the city calling Víctor, his friend and job partner, to get the money. When Carlos meets in the city by chance with Victor's wife Julia while he is in negotiations with the own Víctor, Carlos learns that "The Unknown" too is blackmailing Víctor, who rejects to pay the money get after an illegal bank operations. Trying to save her, Carlos and the children watch as Julia's car explodes killing her, forcing Carlos to runaway quickly. With his car identified as possible suspect of the explosion, chief of police Espinosa starts an investigation while Marta tries to discover where is Carlos and why the children aren't in the school. At the same time Alejandro, Carlos and Victor's boss from the Madrid's central office, calls Carlos to force him to keep silence about the illegal operations, more worried by a possible leak to the public eye instead Carlos' life. Prosecuted by the police, Carlos finally is trapped in a public park, being surrounded by the police and Espinosa, who taking wrongly Carlos as a criminal who is menacing his children with a bomb calls Belén, chief of explosives squad, to try dismantle the bomb. Revealing Sara and Marcos the danger they face, Carlos will have not only to find the way to convince Espinosa that he is not the enemy, but to find the way to deceive The Unknown to reveal his true identity and stop him before he does explode the car.—Chockys
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, mystery, revenge, family, drama ...
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