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For decades, the mystery surrounding the death of Sister Cesnik has haunted officials in Baltimore, but recent details — some uncovered this year in a new journalistic investigation — point to some extremely disturbing possibilities: The young nun may have been murdered because she was preparing to expose a horrific pattern of sexual abuse and even sex trafficking perpetrated by priests and involving law enforcement.

As far as I am concerned, I do not see in religion the mystery of the incarnation but the mystery of social order: it links the idea of inequality to heaven which prevents the rich person from being murdered by the poor.

In the classic Sherlock Holmes story «Silver Blaze,» the famed detective solves a murder mystery by noticing something that does not happen: a watchdog's failure to bark in the middle of the night.

by Isaac Asimov Mystery: Petty politics and murder in this still - timely 1958 tale of an assistant professor in a chemistry department, penned when Azimov was a chemistry professor himself.

In one of the later season's of Foyle's War, (a British crime drama set in the 1940's, which I highly recommend, by the way, if you enjoy murder mysteries and period wartime dramas) there was an episode where the character of Sam is seen discussing shoes with a coworker.

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.

Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein, Game Night follows a group of friends (Jason Bateman's Max, Rachel McAdams» Annie, Billy Magnussen's Ryan, Sharon Horgan's Sarah, Lamorne Morris» Kevin, and Kylie Bunbury's Michelle) as they agree to participate in an interactive murder mystery arranged by Kyle Chandler's Brooks - with violence and mayhem ensuing after it becomes clear that some of the evening's occurrences aren't part of the planned game.

Based on a novel by Friedrich Duerrenmatt,» The Pledge» 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.

One might think that a sense of claustrophobia might actually work to the advantage of a murder mystery, but by making his movie beautiful, Branagh serves another purpose.

Working from a brilliant screenplay by Steven Zaillian, Fincher's take on the story focuses more on what I've come to understand is really a classic locked room mystery in the Agatha Christie mode — in the case of the murder / disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the locked room is an island whose sole entry point is blocked by an overturned tanker truck — that is concealed within a study of unlimited misogyny and sidetracked into the discovery of a serial killer.

«I'm terrified what else you could convince yourself of...» Lionsgate has debuted the trailer for a murder mystery thriller titled Spinning Man, adapted from a book by George Harrar.

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.

This apparently straightforward retro golf title puts an absolutely delightful curve into its swing by adding a combination of murder mystery and rags - to - riches adventure to its fairway.

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

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.

Luckily for the Gothic murder mystery inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, April looks to be one...

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.

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.

Walter's carefully ordered world spins out of control when Agatha gives him a book as a birthday present — a murder mystery entitled The Number 23 — A Novel Of Obsession by Topsy Krettof control when Agatha gives him a book as a birthday present — a murder mystery entitled The Number 23 — A Novel Of Obsession by Topsy KrettOf Obsession by Topsy Kretts.

Based on the 2008 article True Crimes: A Postmodern Murder Mystery by David Grann, Carrey plays «a hard - boiled detective who becomes suspicious of an author when the incidents described in his hit novel resemble the inner - workings of an unsolved murder.&rMurder Mystery by David Grann, Carrey plays «a hard - boiled detective who becomes suspicious of an author when the incidents described in his hit novel resemble the inner - workings of an unsolved murder.&rmurder.».

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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.

The movie was adapted from the best seller of the same name by Dennis Lehane, the New England novelist known for his Boston - based murder mysteries like Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone.

Also too good to pass up: Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, a striking documentary profile of one of the strongest practitioners of urban street photography, directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, Apr. 15; Godard Mon Amour, director Michel Hazanavicius» cool, dramatized portrait of iconic French auteur Jean - Luc Godard (Louis Garrel), as told by Godard's one - time wife, Anne Wiazemsky, Apr. 15; and, from Japanese master Koreeda Hirokazu, The Third Murder, a chambered nautilus of a murder mystery, starring Fukuyama Masaharu and Yakusho Kôji, AMurder, a chambered nautilus of a murder mystery, starring Fukuyama Masaharu and Yakusho Kôji, Amurder mystery, starring Fukuyama Masaharu and Yakusho Kôji, Apr. 6.

A bit lengthy run time for a thriller, but absorbing throughout nonetheless, this murder mystery, somewhat loosely based on the dense best - selling novel by the late Stieg Larsson (which in its native Swedish literally translates to «Men Who Hate Women», the first in his «Millennium» trilogy), is dark, and more than a little sensationalized (involving perverts, murderers, rapists, Nazis, and literal Biblical interpretations) to be believable, but, like most good thrillers, it's riveting in a way that you won't be able to turn away from it, even during some of the film's most brutal moments.

The adaptation of Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø «s novel by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (of Let the Right One In and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy fame) promises to be more than just a typical murder mystery set in a desolate snowscape, which is beginning to become a startlingly popular genre lately.

Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Joe Hill (a.k.a Stephen King's son), «Horns» is a unique horror flick about the devil inside us all, and the film, adapted by one of the genre's true prankster geniuses (Alexandre Aja of «Piranha 3D» infamy), carries forth the same nutzo spirit of the book, which is equal parts love story, murder mystery, and supernatural, metaphysical nightmare.

The former is a supernatural thriller whereas Giallo, a genre established by Mario Bava in 1967 with the visually sumptuous KILL, BABY... KILL, may invoke the spirit but leans heavily toward the murder - mystery elements of noir.

As absurd as it seems to invoke Agatha Christie to describe a movie propelled by searing profanity, graphic savagery and general depravity, «Free Fire» owes much of its parlor - game suspense to her cozily murder - minded mysteries.

«Beast» sounds like a straightforward erotic mystery thriller, but that atmosphere is at times overshadowed by Pearce's exploration of British classism, bullying and bigotry (a Portuguese laborer is also caught up in the murder investigation).

And while Altman and Fellowes are setting us up for a murder, a visiting Hollywood producer (Bob Balaban) is plotting his Charlie - Chan - in - London mystery by transcontinental telephone, breathlessly reporting that there's one butler but many valets and maids, that servants actually have tasks to perform, that there's all kinds of things that Hollywood mysteries don't show.

Working this time from a script by Mark Perez, Daley and Goldstein demonstrate confident action chops and a thoughtful style in telling the story of a «murder mystery party» gone horrifyingly off the rails.

An exemplary example of not only the courtroom drama but the murder mystery thriller sets of sub genres, Gregory Hoblit's 1996 classic Primal Fear is a movie that to this day stands the test of time thanks to an anchoring turn by the once A listing Richard Gere and the firecracker debut by the ever young Edward Norton in his freakishly good role of troubled, murder accused youth Aaron Stampler.

Johnny Depp stars as L.A.P.D. detective Russell Poole (played by Jimmi Simpson in the USA series), who spent years trying to solve the death of Notorious B.I.G.. Two decades after the murder, Poole teams up with a reporter desperate to save his career (Forest Whitaker) to not only try to solve the mystery behind the rapper's death but also to figure out the truth as to why it never got solved in the first place.

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Those fans must have been part of the audience courted by this generically - titled murder mystery released at the end of January 1989 across from the flashier Nick Nolte / Martin Short PG - 13 action comedy Three Fugitives.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Grieving Widow Dates Admirer in Cleverly - Concealed Mystery Meili Zhu (Vivian Wu) was inconsolable in the wake of the murder of her husband, Lian Wei (Kenny Bee), because she had not only suddenly lost her life partner but would now have to raise their 7 year - old son, Bebe (Lu Yao), alone.

It employs the genre of the classic British murder mystery, as defined by Agatha Christie: Guests and servants crowd a great country house, and one of them is murdered.

Despite the film being initially driven by the New Vision (a revolutionary movement of writing that defies rules, boundaries, and authority), Kill Your Darlings looses track, falling into this bizarre, incongruous murder mystery.

This chilling miniature from actor and some - time director Mathieu Amalric, adapted from a 1964 novel by Georges Simenon, dispenses with the screw - turning mechanics of the traditional murder mystery to ask one question: what is it like to feel guilty?

It shades from melodrama into murder mystery by way of a succession of doublings, reversals, and unreliable narrators.

By the way, Agatha Christie may have made up the plot of the murder mystery, but the Orient Express was not a creation of her imagination.

It works as a murder mystery, a comedy of manners, a human drama, and a social commentary simply by providing a rich tapestry of characters and relationships, status and class.

The film, which is directed by Spider - Man Homecoming screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, follows a group of milquetoast friends who don't initially realize that the «murder mystery party» they're having seems to actually be a real murder mystery, complete with FBI agents, gang members and bullets.

Jan is the co-editor of Murder Past, Murder Present, a mystery anthology by award - winning, best - selling mystery author members of the American Crime Writers League.

For fans of action and adventure: Read The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter, a thriller in which fictional ballistics expert Bob Lee Swagger attempts to solve America's most baffling murder mystery: Who killed JFK?

The murder mystery wraps up clearly by the end, although I was far more invested in following Judith's journey of self - examination and the bittersweet love story with her long - time husband.

R. Barri Flowers is the editor of Murder Past, Murder Present, a mystery anthology by award - winning, best - selling mystery author members of the American Crime Writers League.