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Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan also directs this time, telling the story of a murder mystery at a Wyoming Indian reservation.

Not exact matches

These are among the items promoted for Holy Week: two polemics against white racism, an attack on the tobacco industry, three murder mysteries, one story about a serial murderer, a comedy about soap operas, a story on the sexual abuse of children, and a drama about vampire families in San Francisco.

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.

Whether it's a young adult novel or a classic murder mystery, grab a mug of hot chocolate and let your mind get lost in a story and your imagination run free because of it.

Stirring murder mystery, love story and psychodrama into a mesmerizing slurry, Mr. Pearce turns his native island of Jersey into a sunlit trap where Moll chafes against her domineering mother (an icy Geraldine James) and conservative community.

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.

It introduces itself as a noir murder mystery, but seamlessly veers into a story of man in love with a dancer, looking for redemption in his twilight.

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.

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.

Deliver a murder mystery plot of the quality you'd find in a Scooby - Doo cartoon, along with a dark serious revenge story.

Sure, it has its fair share of scary moments, but it seems much more preoccupied with being either a thriller, a comedy or even a murder mystery story.

This isn't a murder mystery or a procedural or even a revenge thriller, which may frustrate audiences when the ending comes, but let them be frustrated because it's the perfect ending to a story that never lets anyone off the hook too easily, leaves characters asking themselves what to do from there, and holds no easy resolutions, just a tinge of hope that things need to get better, no matter if they go through with their final decision or not.

The initial circumstance and specifics of the murder mystery at its centre present a considerably difficult case to crack, but then the story starts to run on too many convenient coincidences.

It's only in its overwritten second act that Death Spa gets bogged down, spending time with a pair of cynical police detectives, a paranormal investigator, and Michael's lawyer, and developing half - assed plot threads in the corresponding genres of murder mystery, ghost story, and corporate thriller.

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.

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His show Mosaic, which initially debuted in November as an iOS application that allowed users to choose their own adventure / perspective in a murder - mystery story, will premiere on HBO tonight, while another innovative project of Soderbergh's, Unsane, has -LSB-...]

Follow the story of Detective David Young, who has the curious ability to dive back in time, and use the power of Kinect or your controller to help David solve the mystery of his murdered wife and prevent it from ever occurring.

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 central mystery is a straight - ahead, surprise - free slog (a bit similar to Chinatown, minus the sex and the story twists, though with the murder intact); the characters are familiar tropes, and the tone and imagery come courtesy of countless Westerns, from Sergio Leone to High Noon.

William Giraldi's novel of the same name tells the story of an Alaska murder mystery blended with wolf survival story.

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.

Set a year after his death, the story is a murder - mystery as Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth), a regular sitter for van Gogh, investigates the final days of the painter.

Loaded with atmosphere and nostalgia,» The Lady in White» is part «Wonder Years,» part ghost story and part murder mystery, as a 9 - year - old boy (Lukas Haas) investigate the murder of a young girl whose ghost he's seen in his school in this story that takes place in 1962.

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Dashiell Hammett meets Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery in Lawrence Michael Levine's Wild Canaries, the story of a Brooklyn couple's already troubled relationship thrown for a loop after they engage in some slapstick - y DIY detective work.

The story includes the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and involves murder, mystery, romance and adventure, all set against the backdrop of the ever - changing Europe.

The plot of director Mark Palansky and Mike Vukadinovich's screenplay is little more than a murder mystery, and it's one that doesn't even incorporate the central gimmick into the story enough for the concept of a memory - recording device to really matter.

Opening in theaters April 17, barely a month after Durst's apparent on - screen confession, «True Story» is a murder - mystery told in the manner of «The Jinx» but also as interested in the telling as in the mystery.

Much more than just a cop movie spoof, Hot Fuzz does excellent things in toying with audience expectations while scoring points as a murder mystery, a detective drama, a slasher film, a small - town sitcom, and a fish out of water story.

The story seems to be heading in the direction of a murder mystery initially, before it takes a sharp left turn.

There are plenty of laughs throughout (some you won't catch the first time around, and others you'll never catch as a Yank), but as the story transitions from a comedy into a murder mystery, the audience is forced to sit patiently through some dreadfully bare moments.

As Jean explores the murder mystery, Bigelow effortlessly flashes back to 1873 and tells the story of Maren Hontvedt (Sarah Polley), a young bride whisked away to America to a life of hard labor and not much else.

«Witness for the Prosecution» (1957, Billy Wilder) From the famous Agatha Christie short story, Billy Wilder expertly fashions one of the screen's trickiest trial - drama / murder mysteries — with Charles Laughton as the wily, wheelchair - bound barrister, his real - life wife Elsa Lanchester as his long - suffering nurse, and Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich as the incendiary couple caught up in a legendary triple - reverse surprise ending.

Kerry's review of THE BEAUTIFUL CIGAR GIRL convinced me I must read this «mysterious and odd» murder mystery that inspired Edgar Allan Poe to create one of the first fictional stories based on a true crime.

A textbook example on how to craft a successful murder mystery, the film's major twist - the sudden appearance of the supposedly deceased - also became a standard story template for several Universal TV series, including «Columbo» and «Magnum P.I.» «Laura» was also remade several times for TV, and Vera Casparay's novel enjoyed a long publishing legacy.

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.

Set in»30s Berlin, the story contains elements of a noire murder mystery and an historical thriller.

As María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly reimagined as metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, guilt and obsession, chance and coincidence, how we are haunted by our losses, and above all, the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.

At the same time I was writing a collection of mystery short stories featuring older people, and the two concepts combined, and Retirement Homes Are Murder was born.

There, the Lord Chamberlain to Justinian investigates the murder of a young woman, but finds the mystery changes slightly with each suspect he interviews until its threads envelope him like a spider's web threatening his life and the lives of those he loves.Keeping the mystery tight, and the writing clear, the story comes to a satisfactory and satisfying conclusion, depositing this reader back in her arm chair... and keeping in mind the politics of Justinian and Theodora, with her head safely on her shoulders.

At once a murder mystery, a love story, and a riveting portrait of a unique time and place, The Good German is a historical thriller of first rank.

Mystery - lovers and those interested in detectives should check out The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective, the fascinating story of the murder of three - year - old Saville Kent at home in rural England in 1860, and one of the first Scotland Yard detecMurder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective, the fascinating story of the murder of three - year - old Saville Kent at home in rural England in 1860, and one of the first Scotland Yard detecmurder of three - year - old Saville Kent at home in rural England in 1860, and one of the first Scotland Yard detectives.

It's a ghost story, a murder mystery, a beautiful love story, a gruesome account of a serial killer — and a heartfelt study of the bonds that hold family together through good times and bad.

by James Ellroy This collection, packed to the brim with crime and murder, is composed of 14 pieces including three novellas, a profile of celebrity defendant Robert Blake, several true - crime stories and a wealth of autobiographical material that provide a template for writing a mystery novel.

The story alternates between the diary of Sara Harrison Shea, who was brutally murdered back in 1908 shortly after the heartbreaking death of her young daughter, and a present - day mystery revolving around the disappearance of Alice — who happens to live in the old Shea farmhouse.

The collection, scheduled for publication in Spring 2018, is sure to delight readers with its bedeviling stories of murder and mystery.

After much research I discovered that a mystery often opens with a murder or some sort of event that the protagonist spends the rest of the story solving.

The atmosphere of Bleak House, the sensuous thrill of Perfume, and the mystery of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell all combine in a story of murder, deceit, love, and revenge in Victorian England.