This film is suited for those who do not want to sleep or dream, for those who want to dream with their eyes open and who are afraid of looking like children.

Psychiatrist Atsuko Chiba has developed a revolutionary therapy method called “PT”; it is basically a prototype of an experimental machine which allows him to get into the mind of his patients in order to treat their anxieties.

Problems start when one of the machines is stolen from his laboratory and the thieves start using it to get into the minds of its creators in order to destroy their personalities during their sleep.

Transformed into Paprika, the avatar which the psychiatrist when he sleeps, he will take on an investigation that will lead him to the thieves and their real intentions.

Release Date: 1 February 2007

Genre: Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Cast: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Furuya, Kôichi Yamadera, Katsunosuke Hori, Toru Emori, Akio Ôtsuka, Hideyuki Tanaka, Satomi Koorogi, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Mitsuo Iwata, Rikako Aikawa, Shinichirô Ôta, Satoshi Kon, Yasutaka Tsutsui

Director: Satoshi Kon

Given a choice, they decide to live in New York, in a luxurious house which happens to have a “panic room:, a hidden place that can totally isolate you from the rest of the building.

The room becomes a very good hiding place when the house is broken into by three thieves. Meg and Sarah manage to lock themselves inside the room before the thieves catch them, but Sarah is diabetic and her medicine is outside.

Moreover, the phone in the panic room has not been connected yet and the irony of it all is that what the thieves are looking for can be found in that room.

Release Date:  29 March 2002

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Cast: Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto, Kristen Stewart, Patrick Bauchau, Ian Buchanan

Director: David Fincher

He soon discovers that she is a character of a fairy tale, who is trying to make the journey back to her world in safety.In time, Cleveland and the persons who live in his building realize that they are part of the same story. He falls in love with the beautiful stranger and decides to protect her at any cost from any danger.

Along with his friends, he is determined to fight off any dark creature that might be coming to get his sweetheart and stop her from going home.

Release Date: 21 July 2006

Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Freddy Rodriguez, Jeffrey Wright, Mary Beth Hurt, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury, M. Night Shyamalan

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Just a few moments before the execution, the killer starts to dance as if he were possessed, singing the chorus of the song ‘Time is on my side’, of the Rolling Stones.

After this, for Hobbes, the nightmare begins. After another series of investigations, a dark truth comes out: the executed killer wasn’t just a psychopath, but he was the host of the mythical dark angel, Azazel.

Release Date: January 16, 1998

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Cast:

Denzel Washington (John Hobbes)

John Goodman (Jenesy)

Director: Gregory Hoblit

Suffering from amnesia, he cannot remember his identity, how he got there and what happened to the dead man that lies in the mud, next to him.

After Tolbiac finds out about the existence of a heavenly community called Eden Log, he sets on a journey full of danger and unknown situations.

He discovers that he is not the only one trapped in this underground labyrinth and abandoned laboratories.

Tolbiac is chased by hungry for human meat creatures. Eventually, he finds out that he is involved in a project, which threatens the existence of the entire humanity.

Release Date: February 2009

Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Horror

Cast:

Clovis Cornillac (Tolbiac)

Vimala Pons

Director: Franck Vestiel

The movie goes beyond the murderer’s atrocious crimes, all the way to the impact they have caused on the victims, on their families and friends, and even on the communities they were a part of.

The police detective Matt Parish and his son Johnny, who is obsessed with the Zodiac’s crimes, are going back on the killer’s trace and are trying to find as many clues as possible related to his real identity.

What they seem to be ignoring is that, during this headhunt, they are not only jeopardizing their lives, but also the one of their relatives as well.

Will that stop their search?

Release Date: 17 March 2006

Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery,Thriller

Cast: Justin Chambers, Robin Tunney, Rory Culkin, Philip Baker Hall, William Mapother, Brad William Henke, Rex Linn

Director: Alexander Bulkley

He has inherited from his father an important publishing house, of which he owns 51%. The rest of the holders are driven crazy by his lack of interest and hope that they will manage to get their hands on his shares.

In the meanwhile, David is enjoying his money and his New York social life; his priorities are staying young, having fun with his friend Brian and going out with beautiful women, such as his ‘eventual’ friend Julie Gianni.

Although it may seem that he has it all, he feels there is something missing. He realizes it when he meets Sofia at his birthday party. She is a Spanish dancer and he feels incredibly attracted to her.

All it will take will be one night and several misunderstandings and everything will change for David: life, death, love, sex….he will see everything differently.

Release Date: 14 December 2001

Genre: Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Cast: Tom Cruise, Jason Lee, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Ivana Milicevic, Michael Shannon, Kurt Russell, Laura Fraser, Tilda Swinton, Noah Taylor.

Director: Cameron Crowe

The entire technology in the world is being supervised. Any phone call is being listened and any electronic device of communication is closely monitored.

Only one phone is not connected to this network, having the capacity of analyzing all the data and finding the best solution for solving this situation.

This phone gets into the hands of Max Peterson, an engineer, who uses it to gamble. But this device, transforms Max into the target of an international conspiracy that wants to obtain this technology.

Max is being followed every where in the world.

Release Date: February 20, 2009

Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Action

Cast:

Shane West (Max Peterson)

Edward Burns (John Reed)

Director: Greg Marcks

Here’s another thriller for you: ‘The Happening’. The theme of the movie is almost a cliche: the planet is in danger due to human kind’s actions against it. The planet fights back through a natural disaster.

Biology professor, Elliot Moore, realizes the danger and tries to hide with his family from the natural disaster that is about to take place. Elliot has also some personal problems with his family. He is in a conflict with his wife, Alma. Eliot has to solve his problems with Alma, in order not to get a divorce.

Release Date: June 13, 2008

Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery,Drama

Cast:

Mark Wahlberg (Elliot Moore)

Zoey Deschanel (Alma Moore)

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

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‘Righteous Kill’ tells the store of a murder investigation in New York.

David Fisk and Thomas Cowan are two police officers in charge with the investigation of a series of murders committed in a very elegant style.

The two men have been partners for a lifetime and they should be retiring already, but they chose to keep working and investigate this case.

Every victim is a person who was once suspected for committing murder, a killer who got away, and the clues left by the author justify his actions and seems to indicate the fact that he is doing it because no cop has ever been capable to convict them.

The similarities between this case and another one the detectives thought they had solved years before raise another question – did they, at that time, imprison the right man?

Release Date: 12 September 2008

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cast:  Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, 50 Cent, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Dan Futterman, Trilby Glover, Rob Dyrdek, Mark Famiglietti, Denis O´Hare, Katie Chonacas, Brett Granstaff, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Alan Blumenfeld

Director: Jon Avnet

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Life for detective Paul Grunning has not been very pleasant lately. He has gone though a personal tragedy, but he keeps working so as to keep his mind off other things.

One night, following a routine call, he is sent to the house of a local scientist, but it soon turned out there was nothing usual about that place.

What he found out there is considered to be a deadly secret and he will soon be forced to distinguish between what is real and what is not; he will have to decide if he has the courage to change his destiny but also that of the mankind.

In order to be able to share his secret to anybody else, he will have to find his way out of a parallel and fractured reality before it will be too late.

Release Date: 2008

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Cast: James MacDonald, Scarlett McAlister, Jim Blumetti, Crystal Mantecon,

Director: Russ Pond

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David and Amy decide to go on one last trip together, before getting a divorce.

Unfortunately for them, their car breaks down and they are forced to spend the night in a motel. There they find Mason, the motel owner, who seems to be much more interested in watching horror movies than in helping them fix their car.

The couple get settled in a dark, dirty room and they find some tapes which were apparently filmed in that exact room and which show some quite realistic murders. Soon enough, they realize they might be the next victims if they do not work together in order to escape.

The script of the film was basically inspired by those highway motels which always seem to be hiding terrible secrets and seem to have been the setting for terrible and violent events.

Release Date: 20 April 2007

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Cast: Ethan Embry, Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Frank Whaley, Scott G. Anderson, Mark Casella

Director: Nimród Antal

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Mulder and Scully come back to the X-Files for a new case. After a group of women are kidnapped in the Virginia area, the only clues of their disappearance are their grotesque human remains.

Desperate to find any track that could lead them to the perpetrator, the F.B.. even reaches out to a visionary priest. The authorities find out about a secret medical experiment that apparently caused the women’s disappearance.

Mulder and Scully are called by the F.B.I. to solve this paranormal case. They accept the case because they know that the truth about those terrible murders has to be revealed.

Release Date: July 25, 2008

Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery

Cast:

David Duchovny (Fox Mulder)

Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully)

Director: Chris Carter

Blindness

The psychological thriller ‘Blindness’ underlines the fragile condition of humanity and is inspired by the novel with the same name, written by the Portuguese writer Jose Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The populations of a today’s modern city is affected by a mysterious disease that causes blindness.

A small group of people tortured by this disability decide to overcome the difficulties of this horrible situation. They are forced to act together, as a community, and, for the first time, they have to rely on each other.

Most of all, they have to rely on the capacities of a doctor’s wife, who, surprisingly, wasn’t affected by this terrible epidemic. In order to help her blind husband and save the entire city from this chaos, she has to pretend she is blind as well, in order to escape the quarantine.

Release Date: September 26, 2008

Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Romance

Cast:

Julianne Moore (Doctor’s wife)

Mark Ruffalo (Doctor)

Danny Glover

Director: Fernando Meirelles

After his last African adventure, Ace Ventura goes back to Florida, gets married to his girlfriend Melissa and becomes a father for the first time.

Unfortunately, he still needs adrenaline in his life, so he leaves Melissa and Ace Jr. at home and gets involved in a new case.As a temporarily single mother, Melissa Ventura gets a job at the zoo in order to be able to take care of her 12 year old son, which is starting to look and act more and more like his father.

Ace Jr. starts playing the role of the detective for his 7th grade colleagues, by finding the pets they lost and he often goes through bad moments and funny situations.

When somebody steels a baby panda bear from the zoo and his mother is wrongfully accused, Ace Jr. gets his friends Laura and A-Plus and they all start investigating to see who was the real thief, to capture him and show the police his mother is innocent.

Release Date: 27 January 2009

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery

Cast: Josh Flitter, Emma Lockhart, Austin Rogers

Director: David M. Evans

K-Pax

‘K-Pax’ is a mixture of science- fiction, drama, fantasy and mystery. So, you don’t really know what to expect from this film.

The main character of the movie is Prot, who is a patient at a mental hospital. Prot claims he is from a far away planet.

His psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Powell, tries to help him, but he begins to doubt his own explanations. Prot convinces even the other people in the hospital that he comes from another planet, so he determines them to fulfill some tasks, in order to take one of them with him, on his planet.

Is Prot really insane or he is just light years ahead of us?

Release Date: October 21, 2001

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery

Cast:

Kevin Spacey (Prot)

Jeff Bridges (Dr. Mark Powell)

Director: Iain Softley

Cache

The action of the movie ‘Cache’ aka ‘Hidden’ takes place in Paris. Here, Georges Laurent is the host of a literary talk-show on TV. Georges lives with his wife, Anne and his teenager son, Pierrot.

Georges and Anne start receiving packages containing videotapes with their family, shot secretly from the street. Next to the tapes, they find some drawings whose meaning is obscure.

Georges goes to the police because he’s worried for the safety of his family, but they don’t get any protection since there is not a clear menace to the Laurent family.

Gradually the footage on the tapes becomes more personal, showing Georges’ childhood home. Georges meets with his former adopted brother, the Algerian Majid, and accuses him of sending the tapes.

Release Date: September 3, 2005

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Cast:

Daniel Auteuil (Georges Laurent)

Juliete Binoche (Anne Laurent)

Maurice Benichou (Majid)

Director: Michael Haneke

A Beautiful Mind

‘A Beautiful Mind’ is the winner of 4 Oscars and 4 Golden Globes.

John Nash is a student at Princeton University who rarely goes to classes. He has a brilliant mind when it comes to Mathematics. None of his colleagues likes him. John sets up an economic theory and becomes famous among mathematicians.

He is contacted by the Pentagon in order to break some codes. This way, he meets his wife, Alicia and William Parcher, CIA agent. John is assigned the mission of catching some Russian spies.

His life takes a different turn. This is the moment when John’s mind starts going crazy.

Release Date: January 4, 2002

Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery

Cast:

Russell Crowe (John Nash)

Ed Harris (Parcher)

Christopher Plummer (Dr. Rosen)

Director: Ron Howard

Up until now she has kept herself away from the promiscuity that surrounds her but Mandy and two of her friends have just accepted

the invitation to a party held at a Texas ranch.

Drugs, alcohol and sex….and a few dead people that have apparently fallen victim to a psycho secret admirer who wants to get rid of competition and get the girl.

The cast does not include any famous names, so we’ll have to wait and see what unknown actors Aaron Himelstein, Amber Heard, Anson Mount and Michael Welch can do with this teenage thriller.

Release Date: August 2008

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Cast: Amber Heard (Mandy Lane), Anson Mount (Garth)

Director: Jonathan Levine

The first plot tells the story of a boy who falls in love with the wrong girl.

The second story is about a small community where people disappear without ever been seen.

In the third part we find out the story of a Japanese little girl who has nightmares every night and in the last part, the story of an old man who doesn’t find his peace in an abandoned house, is described.

All these stories are linked together by a man with an evil smile and four huge dogs or by the story of a woman who tells all about her fears in a long monologue.

Release date: September 20, 2008

Genre: Animation, Mystery

Cast:

Gil Alma

Aure Atika

Francois Creton

Director: Charles Burns