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Missing(2023)

PG-13
| 1h 51min | Thriller, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 382 votes)

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

Directed by Will Merrick, Nicholas D. Johnson - With Tim Griffin, Ava Zaria Lee, Nia Long, Kimberly Cheng, Storm Reid, Ken Leung, ...

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford(1936)

NR
| 1h 22min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

Directed by Stephen Roberts - With William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason, Eric Blore, Robert Armstrong, Lila Lee, ...

The Ruby in the Smoke(2006)

1h 35min | Drama, Mystery, Crime
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

In Victorian England, Sally Lockhart receives an anonymous note sending her on a mysterious quest. Her father has recently died and feeling suffocated living with her elderly aunt moves in with newfound friends, a photographer and his sister. She is soon made aware that the mysterious Mrs. Holland is out to kill her. In the end, she realizes the solution to the mystery is rooted in events that occurred long ago when she lived with her father in India and a recurring dream she has had ever since.

Directed by Brian Percival - With Billie Piper, Matt Smith, JJ Feild, Robert Glenister, David Harewood, Julie Walters, ...

The Ruby in the Smoke(2006)

1h 35min | Drama, Mystery, Crime
3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

Sally Lockhart has struck a man dead with just three words, sent to her in a message from her father just before he drowned in the South China Seas. But unfortunately, Sally has no idea what the words The Seven Blessings mean. Before long, she is drawn into a mystery filled with opium, secrets from her own past and, at the heart of it all, the Ruby of Agrapur.

Directed by Brian Percival - With Billie Piper, Matt Smith, JJ Feild, Robert Glenister, David Harewood, Julie Walters, ...

The Shadow in the North(2007)

1h 34min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case.

Jongole Mitin Mashi(2023)

2h | Crime, Mystery, Adventure
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Jongole Mitin Mashi is based on a story of anti-poaching of elephants and depicts the fight of Mitin against the enemies of the forest. Sequel to the 2019 detective thriller Mitin Mashi.

Directed by Arindam Sil - With Koel Mullick

A Very Missing Person(1972)

1h 30min | Mystery, Comedy, Crime, TV Movie
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.

The Snoop Sisters(1972)

1h 40min | Mystery, Comedy, Crime, TV Movie

A spinster and her widowed sister, who are the authors of murder-mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star. This TV pilot film became a series of rotating movies the following season.