Popular Mystery Movies on Kanopy - Page 3

The Score

2001

The Score

2001
6.7
An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.
Mindhunters

2004

Mindhunters

2004
6.5
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. Based very loosely on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
Relic

2020

Relic

2020
6.1
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.
Door

1988

Door

1988
5.9
Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.
Shirley

2020

Shirley

2020
6.1
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
Grand Piano

2013

Grand Piano

2013
6
Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, stopped performing in public because of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic performance, he reappears in public in a long awaited concert in Chicago. Just moments after starting his performance in the packed theater, in front of an expectant audience, Tom finds a threatening message written on the score: 'Play one wrong note and you die'. Without leaving the piano, Tom must discover the anonymous sniper's motives and look for help without anyone realizing.
Rabid Dogs

2015

Rabid Dogs

2015
5.5
After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.
Nightwatch

1997

Nightwatch

1997
6
A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.
Serenity

2019

Serenity

2019
5.5
The quiet life of Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain who lives on the isolated Plymouth Island, where he spends his days obsessed with capturing an elusive tuna while fighting his personal demons, is interrupted when someone from his past comes to him searching for help.
Freedomland

2006

Freedomland

2006
5.2
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
Paranormal Activity

2007

Paranormal Activity

2007
6
After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.
Algiers

1938

Algiers

1938
6.3
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby, which arouses the jealousy of Ines.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe

2016

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

2016
6.8
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.
Absolution

2024

Absolution

2024
5.9
An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children. He is determined to leave a positive legacy for his grandson, but the criminal underworld isn’t done with him and won’t loosen their grip willingly.
Nancy

2018

Nancy

2018
5.8
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
The Evil Next Door

2020

The Evil Next Door

2020
6.1
A dad moves into a new house with his son and girlfriend. When he's out of town working, the son makes a new "friend" next doors.
Blue Velvet

1986

Blue Velvet

1986
7.6
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Boon

2022

Boon

2022
5.1
Mercenary Nick Boon is trying to atone for his life as an enforcer for a ruthless syndicate. Running from his past, Boon moves to a remote area in the pacific northwest where he meets a struggling widow and her son. When he finds the pair living in fear of a criminal kingpin, Boon realizes the only way to protect them is to do what he does best: kill.
Q

1982

Q

1982
5.7
A fleeing gangland flunky discovers the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating flying serpent.
Solace

2015

Solace

2015
6.4
A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.