Sentences with phrase «murder mystery film»

Presumed Innocent — Very good, if basic, courtroom murder mystery film.

Essie Davis will take the title role in «Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears,» an Australian - made murder mystery film.

Murder mystery film «Number 803» is currently seeking talent.

«Game of Thrones» star Essie Davis will take the title role in «Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears,» an Australian - made murder mystery film.

Straight from Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey, Gosford Park is a 2001 British murder mystery film starring none other than Violet Crawley (the amazingly talented Maggie Smith).

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Reviewer Shelly Kraicer describes the film as «one of the strangest murder - mystery...

George Marks only played twice for Arsenal, thanks in part to the Second World War, but his second appearance against Brentford proved to a memorable one as the game was recorded and used the film The Arsenal Stadium Mystery, a murder whodunnit from 1939 involving a fictitious amateur side called The Trojans who draw Arsenal in the FA Cup.

In this unique murder mystery, that reveals the killer at the beginning of the film.

And while this adaptation - written by Akiva Goldsman - contains many of the same beats and plot twists as Brown's book, the film never quite becomes anything more than a sporadically engaging but mostly dull murder mystery.

Billed as an elaborate murder - mystery, Gosford Park is not so much that (the murder doesn't occur until well over halfway through the film) but rather a dense societal study, as would be expected of Altman.

Based on the popular mystery play by Frederick Knott, Dial M For Murder is more talky and stagebound than most Hitchcock films, but no less enjoyable.

A courtroom drama, a murder mystery, and a horror film.

Sean Penn «s third film as a director is a psychological murder mystery in which the central character is at once investigator, possible suspect, and angst - ridden carrier of the world's woes, and damned if Penn doesn't draw you inside this labyrinth of existential murk.

Alda later continued to make his mark on audiences with his more accustomed nice - guy portrayals in films such as Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Flirting With Disaster (1996), and The Object of My Affection (1998).

It is a unique idea (adapted from a book by Michael Pye) and one supposes a film can always take the bizarre angle in murder mysteries.

A solid piece of storytelling that doesn't pander, skips the usual POW stereotypes and allows the film to work reasonably well as an epic of war, a survival story, a prison thriller, a murder mystery and a courtroom drama.

Of course, she starred in seven Woody Allen films — Sleeper, Love And Death, Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, Radio Days and Manhattan Murder Mystery.

We begin with a compelling love story that evolves into a dissection of marriage in all its facets, a thrilling possible - murder mystery, a scathing indictment of American national media and... well to go much further I'd wade into spoiler territory and honestly, this film is best experienced without them.

An underrated, compellingly uncharacteristic film in Bigelow's career, The Weight of Water suffers from over-ambition, juxtaposing a period murder mystery with a rarefied drama of sexual ennui and shortchanging both in the process.

The film follows a group of friends who get together for their weekly game night, but their planned murder mystery gets a little too real for them to handle.

That's not the only film that Disturbia lifts ideas from; it also borrows from other movies that have taken Rear Window's core element of mystery and murder in the house of the neighbor next door, most notably in The «burbs and Body Double, with its emphasis on sexiness and some darkly disturbing subject matter that keeps the sights titillating and the atmosphere creepy.

Other Kurosawa films with strong noir elements, both playing in the Mifune series, are the multiple - viewpoint period murder mystery masterpiece «Rashomon» (1950) and his great dark samurai classic «Yojimbo» (1961).

The hook of the film comes when Max's brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler), a charismatic alpha male and bane of Max's existence, attempts to one - up the normal game night proceedings by arranging a pricey murder mystery event where one person is kidnapped and the rest have to try to solve it.

This scary picture, a remake of a 2003 Korean horror film by British brothers Charles and Thomas Guard, is three movies in one: a psychological thriller, a murder mystery and a zombie flick.

Add cameos by fellow directors Chabrol and Godard and you've got a perfect example of the French New Wave.A superb atmosphere of alienation and sexual / political tension provides much beret - scratching potential for film students, though others may feel its convoluted murder mystery don't amount to a hill of beans.Cockles And Muscles by Liese Spencer, Seducing Dr Lewis by Fiona Morrow and Paris Nous AppartientLarushka Ivan - Zadeh

Many of their films have had flirtations with more genre - inclined filmmaking (The Son, for one, veers into thriller territory), but The Unknown Girl is an outright murder mystery.

Though a PG - 13 slasher film is like the equivalent of sex with clothes on, «Happy Death Day» gets around that hurdle by being less of a straight - up slasher and more of a darkly comedic murder - mystery that just so happens to involve a temporal loop and a knife - wielding masked killer.

The film waits only a few seconds longer to drop its own bombshell: The mystery man on the other side of the lattice vows to return, one week later, to murder Lavelle on the beach — not because he's a bad priest, like the one who abused him, but because he's a good one, and his death will turn heads.

It's deliriously happy to be a video game, but layers on Asian film influence, its plot starting as a curious murder - mystery, before billowing into an Infernal Affairs style tangled conspiracy as the four characters» tales begin to intertwine.

To that end, The Hateful Eight is more murder mystery than revisionist western, with Jackson the film's maniacal Miss Marple, looking for (or is it concealing?)

Remove Harry from the narrative and the film becomes a murder with no mystery.

The film is more ephemeral than anything the director has ever done; it is that murder - mystery party you and your pals dress up for in a suburban living room as a convoluted excuse to hang out without the bother of attempting any kind of meaningful conversation.

Braff had hinted he had been talking to Allen, and had a small role in Manhattan Murder Mystery almost 20 years earlier, He plays David Shayne, a role originated by John Cusack in the film version.

The film has been shrouded in mystery and conjecture up to this point, with many rumors that it somehow related to Charles Manson and the Tate - LaBianca murders.

A former television film, based on Agatha Christie's most popular mystery novel, «Murder on the Orient Express» gets the big screen treatment with a cast as long as the train.

Like an elongated episode of Father Ted with the intellectual rigour of Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest, director John Michael McDonagh's extraordinary film presents deep existential torment under the guise of a parochial murder mystery.

Cutter's Way (Twilight Time, Blu - ray), starring Jeff Bridges as an easy - going beach boy and John Heard as a damaged, angry Vietnam vet who get tangled in a murder mystery, is an American classic that got lost during its 1981 release even as it was being championed by film critics like Siskel and Ebert.

A mystery puzzle box thriller doused in mood and dread, the film tells the story of a village paralyzed by fear as a series of brutal murders grip the sleepy hamlet, while a peculiar illness seems supernaturally linked to everything going to hell in a handbasket.

In this period, he tackled an Oscar - winning drama about alcoholism (The Lost Weekend), two well - regarded film noirs (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard), a war drama (Stalag 17), two light - hearted rom - coms (Sabrina, Seven Year Itch) a gripping murder - mystery (Witness for the Prosecution) and perhaps the funniest American movie of all time (Some Like It Hot).

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage Blu - ray (1970 — Italy) In 1970, young first - time director Dario Argento made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with «The Bird with the Crystal Plumage,» a film that redefined the «giallo» genre of murder - mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom.

Dial M for Murder premiered at the Westminster Theatre in London in 1952, only for it to be made into an expert crime mystery thriller by Alfred Hitchcock two years later, while Wait Until Dark, another complex and dark play in the vein of Hitchcock's interests directed by Arthur Penn (who would helm Bonnie and Clyde the very next year), saw the light of day in early 1966 on Broadway, where it instantly attracted the attention of both the audience and Warner Brothers, determined to turn it into a feature film starring none other than Hollywood's sweetheart Audrey Hepburn in a much darker, insidious story than her filmography had ever witnessed.

Loving Vincent is structured as a mystery, with Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth)-- the son of a postmaster (Chris O'Dowd) who was himself a subject of Van Gogh's paintings, as are almost all the major characters in the film — wrapped up in trying to figure out whether Van Gogh actually killed himself or he was murdered.

The second half of the film transitions from mystery to anatomy of a scheme, and features one of the most brutal and bloody on screen murders you will ever see.

Henson Alternative is now launching its first feature film: The Happytime Murders, described as a neo-noir puppet crime comedy mystery film, taking place in a world where puppets co-exist with humans, but are seen as second - class citizens.

The film sets true crime writer Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) in the house of a murdered family where he begins to unravel the mystery surround their deaths and other related murders.

I also appreciated the versatility of Sidney Lumet, who was best known for his gritty urban police movies like «Serpico,» «Dog Day Afternoon» and «Prince of the City» but who also made the raucous satire of television, «Network,» the all - star Agatha Christie mystery, «Murder on the Orient Express,» and film versions of Eugene O'Neill's «Long Day's Journey Into Night» and Mary McCarthy's «The Group.»

The first is the giallo, films indicated by their impossibly convoluted mystery plots and elaborate set - piece murders; the second, of which Suspiria is one, is the «supernatural,» distinguished by their surreality and lack of a traditional narrative.

There's a murder mystery subplot that doesn't quite mesh with the rest of the film, but as a whole, the picture is full of so many touching moments and contemplative images.

Other notable newly featured films include the better - than - you'd - expect noirish Nightmare Alley, a more than adequate adaptation of Virginia Woolf's difficult - to - film novel Mrs. Dalloway, Tommy Lee Jones's strong directorial debut The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and the unjustly forgotten William Powell - led mystery The Kennel Murder Case.

The film is part history, murder mystery, love story, social commentary.