Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956

7.47

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

1956

Throw Momma from the Train

Throw Momma from the Train 1987

6.20

Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie's plot into action and offers to kill Larry's ex-wife, if Larry promises to murder his mom. Before Larry gets a chance to react to the plan, it seems that Owen has already set things in motion.

1987

The Black Cat

The Black Cat 1934

6.66

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

1934

Big Driver

Big Driver 2014

5.80

Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.

2014

Agatha

Agatha 1979

6.30

England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.

1979

The Bat

The Bat 1959

5.90

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.

1959

Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit 1945

6.91

An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man's present marriage.

1945

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford 1936

6.00

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

1936

The Mad Magician

The Mad Magician 1954

6.90

Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.

1954

The Vanished Elephant

The Vanished Elephant 2014

5.72

A crime novelist receives a vital clue to the whereabouts of his long-missing fiancée.

2014

A Night to Remember

A Night to Remember 1942

6.30

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.

1942

Whistling in the Dark

Whistling in the Dark 1933

5.20

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.

1933

A Talent for Murder

A Talent for Murder 1983

5.60

A famed mystery writer and her doctor ex-lover solve her daughter-in-law's murder.

1983

Mad Holiday

Mad Holiday 1936

6.00

A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.

1936

The Hard Life of an Adventurer

The Hard Life of an Adventurer 1941

6.30

A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.

1941

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote 1984

7.58

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

1984

Magpie Murders

Magpie Murders 2022

7.20

An editor gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives an unfinished manuscript.

2022

The Singing Detective

The Singing Detective 1986

7.67

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

1986

Glynis

Glynis 1963

1

Glynis is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from September 25 to December 18, 1963.

1963

Over My Dead Body

Over My Dead Body 1990

5.50

Over My Dead Body is a detective drama Over My Dead Body stars Edward Woodward as Maxwell Beckett, an aging mystery novelist whose three successful early novels were starting to be overshadowed by the reputation his two most recent works had developed as being "bombs." He was approached by young, struggling reporter Nikki Page who wrote for the San Francisco Union, and who came to him for help after witnessing a murder through her window and because he was her favorite author. After they solved this mystery, they became fast friends and began to work together in the "amateur sleuth" tradition to solve crimes.

1990