Popular Mystery Movies on Kanopy - Page 31

Gordon & Paddy

2017

Gordon & Paddy

2017
6.1
The forest’s police chief Gordon is about to retire and he needs to find a new assistant. Paddy, a clever mouse with a great sense of smell seems to be the right candidate. Together they have to solve Gordon’s last case – the mystery of squirrel’s missing nuts. Could it be the fox that took them? Gordon and Paddy will soon find out.
Sicilian Ghost Story

2017

Sicilian Ghost Story

2017
6.5
In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.
Filibus

1915

Filibus

1915
6.8
The mysterious air pirate Filibus steals from the rich and then retreats to the safety of her airship, which is manned by a staff of mask-wearing lackeys who instantly obey her every command. When an esteemed detective sets out to investigate the thefts, Filibus attempts to frame him as the burglar, while also slipping between male and female disguises to romance the detective's sister.
Phantom Boy

2015

Phantom Boy

2015
7
At a hospital in New York, Alex, a police officer, meets Leo, a boy who has the ability to get out of his body and pass through the walls like a ghost. Both team up with Mary, an intrepid journalist, to capture a disfigured villain who terrorizes the city.
The Murder at Road Hill House

2011

The Murder at Road Hill House

2011
6.1
In 1860, Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of the three-year-old boy Saville Kent, who was snatched from his bed at night and murdered.
Buried Truth of the Maya

2020

Buried Truth of the Maya

2020
6.7
Maya legend tells us that there is a hidden underground cave below Chichen Itza, now high tech archaeologists are here to find the buried truth.
Pali Road

2016

Pali Road

2016
4
Lily, a young doctor, wakes up from a car accident and discovers she is living a completely different life. Now married to her boyfriend’s rival, Dr. Mitch Kayne, and a mother to a 5-year-old son, she has an established life she remembers nothing about. Everyone around her denies that her boyfriend Neil ever existed. As Lily begins to doubt her own sanity, memories of Neil resurface, causing her to encounter unexplainable incidents. While desperately searching for the truth of her past life, she questions her entire existence; but in the end, she discovers the meaning of true love.
Thriller

1979

Thriller

1979
6
What happens after the curtain falls on the death of Mimi, tragic heroine of Puccini's La boheme. In Thriller, Mimi teams up with the opera's comic heroine Musetta to investigate her own death.
Ghosting

2015

Ghosting

2015
8.8
The son of a schizophrenic mother and abusive father must unravel the mystery of his frightening visions before he succumbs to madness.
Abducted: The Carlina White Story

2012

Abducted: The Carlina White Story

2012
7.7
A baby abducted at birth and raised by the woman who took her, eventually discovers she is a missing child, reconnects with her birth parents, and struggles with choosing between her two identities.
The Day After Halloween

2022

The Day After Halloween

2022
4
Two lifelong buddies must unravel the circumstances that led to a corpse in their bathtub in the wake of a Halloween party.
Social Butterfly

2013

Social Butterfly

2013
5.5
A 30-year-old American woman enters a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.
Gutland

2018

Gutland

2018
5.9
Early one summer morning a young man, with a secret stashed away in a duffel bag, emerges from the forest. In a nearby village he asks around for work, but the farmers, suspicious to the point of hostility, are not very forthcoming. Only when Lucy, the mayor’s unruly daughter, takes a liking to him, does the village change its attitude: he is promptly offered a job as a farmhand and a caravan to live in. As time passes and he is gradually integrated into the community, it emerges that he’s not the only one with a past to hide. Something sinister is lurking under the immaculate surface of this picturesque little world - and it is slowly drawing him in.
The Figurine: Araromire

2009

The Figurine: Araromire

2009
4.4
Two buddies and a girl, down on their luck, have their lives changed when one of them discovers a mysterious figurine in an abandoned shrine which, according to legend, bestows seven years of good luck. But no one told them about the next seven years...
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

1916

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

1916
5.8
Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drinks". In fact, he overcomes every situation with drugs: consuming cocaine to increase his energy or injecting it in his opponents to incapacitate them. To help the police, he tracks down a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported within "leaping fishes", saving a "fish-blower" girl from blackmail along the way.
Insert Coin

2025

Insert Coin

2025
On a quiet college campus, a student approaches a vending machine expecting a soda, but instead receives a key, a photo, and a cassette tape with a chilling message: “You’ve already chosen.” As reality begins to unravel, the student is drawn into a surreal cycle of fate and identity. The machine hums like something alive, demanding one final act: Insert Coin.
Koli Taal

2021

Koli Taal

2021
10
Excited about their grandson's visit, an elderly couple plan to cook chicken curry for dinner. But, things begin to fall apart when the chicken goes missing.
American Mirror - Intimations of Immortality

2018

American Mirror - Intimations of Immortality

2018
10
Oscar-winning screen icon Susan Sarandon and Armenian painter Tigran Tsitoghdzyan discuss time and identity, and how the apparently in conflict values of beauty and aging are perceived in our modern society dominated by social media, as he limns her portrait during a timeless sitting session. With this film the director sets in motion his film theory on poetics of cinematic art, by re-creating a set of sense memories of an artist in a non-linear, challenging, yet intriguing story-telling scheme.
Palliative

2025

Palliative

2025
Low on money and time, free spirited Brian risks anything and anyone to get what he needs by the end of the day.
Ashes

2023

Ashes

2023
5.7
Shortly before Christmas, a strange piece of evidence and an ancient book drive the young detective Carolin Arends to reopen the mysterious murder case of Alexander Michalski. She doesn't yet know that her greatest enemy is time itself and that she is already in the perpetrator's sights.