Mysteries on Netflix
Last updated February 03, 2025
Stir of Echoes
1999 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsEver since Tom Witzky was hypnotized by his sister-in-law, he's had terrifying visions of a horrible crime. He later learns that the girl in his visions disappeared from his neighborhood six months earlier.
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The Firm
1993 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen a Harvard Law School grad joins a prestigious firm, he ignores the warning of his wife, who fears the lucrative deal sounds too good to be true. Soon, he finds himself entangled in a web of Mafia connections and FBI operatives.
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Sleepy Hollow
1999 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsNew York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
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Jagged Edge
1985 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsDespite the fact that San Francisco attorney Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close) hasn't handled a criminal case in many years, she defends newspaper publisher Jack Forrester (Jeff Bridges), who's accused of murdering his heiress wife. Teddy soon finds herself falling for Jack, and her search for the real killer leads to a powerful finale. Robert Loggia (as Teddy's friend on the police force) and Peter Coyote also star in this taut courtroom mystery.
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Suspect
1987 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen a Supreme Court justice commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all signs point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But the public defender assigned to his case soon begins to believe Anderson may be innocent.
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Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen an elderly neighbor in good health unexpectedly dies, New Yorker Carol Lipton is convinced that the death was no accident and ropes a few of her friends into investigating, despite protests from her skeptical husband.
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Breakdown
1997 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor (Kurt Russell) lets his wife, Amy (Kathleen Quinlan), hitch a ride with a trucker (J.T. Walsh) to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Amy. Johnathan Mostow's tense thriller then follows Jeff's desperate search for his wife, which eventually uncovers a small town's murderous secret.
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A Perfect Getaway
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsNewlyweds Cliff and Cydney are enjoying a perfect honeymoon in Hawaii -- that is, until they run into a pair of menacing hikers. But that's not the only threat lurking in this jungle paradise.
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The General's Daughter
1999 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsRespected Army Gen. Joe Campbell (James Cromwell) is headed for a hero's retirement -- until his daughter is raped and murdered on his military base, and warrant officers and ex-lovers Paul Brenner (John Travolta) and Sara Sunhill (Madeleine Stowe) are given 36 hours to solve the convoluted case. But what they discover could bring the entire base down. Simon West directs this thriller based on the novel by Nelson DeMille.
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Black Widow
1987 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDirector Bob Rafelson's superbly crafted thriller stars Debra Winger as Alexandra Barnes, an inquiring federal investigator who becomes intrigued -- then fixated -- when she stumbles across an unusual pattern of deaths by seemingly natural causes. The common bond among the victims? They're all rich, reclusive and leave behind the same sultry young widow (Theresa Russell). Can Alexandra crack the case without getting tangled in a web of murder?
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Stolen
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAs this indie thriller unfolds through flashbacks, the mummified, half-century-old remains of a boy found in a box at a construction site yield key clues to the disappearance of the investigating detective's son eight years earlier.
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The House on Telegraph Hill
1951 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsRobert Wise's tense drama tells the story of a Nazi concentration camp survivor who assumes the identity of her dead best friend when the war ends. She moves to San Francisco, where she finds herself godmother to a young boy and heir to a fortune.
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The Ninth Gate
1999 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAn international search for a rare copy of a demonic tome, "The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom," brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and Satanic worship in director Roman Polanski's gothic mystery.
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The Forgotten
2004 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsA desperate mother tries to prove the existence of her missing child in this chilling psychological thriller. Reeling from the loss of her 8-year-old son, she seeks counsel from a therapist -- who claims the boy was a figment of her imagination.
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The River Murders
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsSeattle detective Jack Verdon thinks that his womanizing past is behind him. But the devoted husband and father falls under suspicion when several of his former lovers turn up dead in this tense thriller.
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Ticking Clock
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsCuba Gooding Jr. stars as Lewis Hicks, a crime reporter who's investigating a spate of gory serial killings -- a task that hits close to home when his new girlfriend is brutally murdered in this fast-paced thriller.
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Dressed to Kill
1941 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsPrivate detective Michael Shayne is back for another whodunit. This time, the bodies of an actress and a Broadway producer turn up at the site of Michael's wedding, much to the dismay of his bride-to-be.
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Blue Velvet
1986 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsIn this surreal independent thriller from writer-director David Lynch, an innocent man gets mixed up in a small-town murder mystery involving a kinky nightclub chanteuse and a kidnapper with a penchant for snorting helium.
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Following
1998 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsChristopher Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight) writes and directs this odd, claustrophobic neo-noir film about a seedy young Brit (Jeremy Theobald) who's obsessed with following people -- albeit harmlessly at first. After meeting a like-minded bloke (Alex Haw), the twosome graduate to breaking and entering -- but meet their match in a tough blonde dame (Lucy Russell) who may have dubious plans of her own.
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Righteous Kill
2008 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsOscar winners Robert De Niro and Al Pacino drive this taut thriller as New York City detectives tasked with investigating a rash of vigilante killings that are linked to an old case, suggesting they might have put an innocent man behind bars.
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Skinwalkers
2002 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsIn this PBS American Mystery! feature, Navajo Tribal Officer Jim Chee (Adam Beach) and Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) are hot on the trail of a series of puzzling murders that immerse them in the spine-tingling, mystical world of Navajo witchcraft. Up against the clock, Chee and Leaphorn search desperately for the connection between the murders -- which occurred 120 miles apart. The film is adapted from Tony Hillerman's best-selling novel.
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The Fourth Kind
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen Alaskan psychiatrist Dr. Abigail Tyler begins videotaping her therapy sessions with clients, she uncovers petrifying evidence that they have experienced the fourth level of alien encounter: abduction.
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The Caller
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThis spooky thriller tracks the private nightmare of Mary Kee, a divorcée who begins receiving disturbing telephone calls from a woman she doesn't know. After engaging the stranger initially, Mary tries to extricate herself -- with horrific results.
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Perfect Stranger
2007 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsRo risks her life to discover the identity of a stranger lurking on the Internet who might hold the answers to her friend's murder. As Ro digs deeper, she finds a murky world of online deception peopled by the likes of Harrison Hill.
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Bless the Child
2000 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsKim Basinger stars as psychiatric nurse Maggie O'Connor, whose ordinary life becomes anything but routine as she gets swept up in a murder mystery involving the supernatural after a satanic cult leader kidnaps her 6-year-old niece.
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