
Mystery movies
Suspenseful puzzles and 'whodunnits' that keep you guessing until the final, shocking revelation.
Subgenres include: Whodunit, Locked-Room Mystery, Investigation Mystery.

131. The Paradoxical Prodigy: The Enigmatic Life and Films of Jack Howard
Documentary History Mystery2026•36min
Director: Manfred Mandrake
In the early 1960s, a filmmaker suddenly disappears without a trace. Decades later, a film researcher attempts to piece together what happened to the man that no one can remember.
In an attempt to avenge her daughter’s death, Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer again and again. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity begins to slip away—until the cycle is disrupted when she rescues Mia, a sharp-witted teenager already marked by the killer.
Hot summer, Renaissance palace. Three women remain in a carefree state of limbo, and an enigmatic system fulfills all their life needs – it provides food, entertainment and development. There is one condition – they are not allowed to cross the wall that surrounds their place. From under the idyllic picture, the other, darker side of the new reality quickly shines through.
Tom, an ordinary guy, finds himself in a seemingly never-ending nightmare, forced to play multiple characters in a surreal fictional film—a spiral he must escape, or the filmmaker will keep him trapped within it.
Following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible is a sadistic serial killer, and the depth of his mental depravity and his sinister agenda is more twisted than anyone could have imagined.








