Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "unsolved-mystery"

1. Desperate Housewives (2004–2012)

TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Secrets and truths unfold through the lives of female friends in one suburban neighborhood after the mysterious suicide of a neighbor.

Stars: Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria

Votes: 139,657

2. Cold Case (2003–2010)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she's assigned "cold cases," older crimes that have never been solved.

Stars: Kathryn Morris, Danny Pino, John Finn, Jeremy Ratchford

Votes: 31,448

3. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery

Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.

Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Stars: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffin

Votes: 285,286 | Gross: $140.54M

4. Three Identical Strangers (2018)

PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.

Director: Tim Wardle | Stars: Robert Shafran, Michael Domnitz, Howard Schneider, Ellen Cervone

Votes: 39,607 | Gross: $12.32M

5. The Birds (1963)

PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette

Votes: 204,390 | Gross: $11.40M

6. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

PG | 115 min | Drama, Mystery

During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse

Votes: 41,001 | Gross: $0.23M

7. Nancy Drew (2019–2023)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Young Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college after high school graduation, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery.

Stars: Kennedy McMann, Leah Lewis, Maddison Jaizani, Tunji Kasim

Votes: 10,863

8. Paranormal Activity (2007)

R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery

After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.

Director: Oren Peli | Stars: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong

Votes: 256,055 | Gross: $107.92M

9. Cube (1997)

R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A group of strangers awaken to find themselves placed in a giant cube. Each one of them is gifted with a special skill and they must work together to escape an endless maze of deadly traps.

Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller

Votes: 247,520 | Gross: $0.50M

10. Caché (2005)

R | 117 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot

Votes: 85,172 | Gross: $3.63M

11. Broken Flowers (2005)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in search of answers.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Julie Delpy

Votes: 106,776 | Gross: $13.74M

12. Unsolved Mysteries (2020– )

TV-MA | 45 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

Immersive, character-driven stories are rooted in the experiences of ordinary people who have lived the unthinkable. Families, detectives and journalists hope viewers hold the clues to solving these mysteries.

Stars: Thom Reed, Maria Ramirez, Allison Rivera, Mary Murphy

Votes: 12,450

13. Unsolved Mysteries (1987–2010)

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama

Combines dramatic re-enactments, interviews and updates, to tell stories of real mysteries, from human to the supernatural.

Stars: Robert Stack, Dennis Farina, Keely Shaye Brosnan, William Roll

Votes: 6,629

14. L'Avventura (1960)

Not Rated | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar

Votes: 32,623

15. Suicide Club (2001)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Mai Hosho, Tamao Satô

Votes: 22,203

16. Willow Creek (2013)

Not Rated | 80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A man and his girlfriend camp in the woods to capture firsthand evidence of Bigfoot.

Director: Bobcat Goldthwait | Stars: Alexie Gilmore, Bryce Johnson, Laura Montagna, Bucky Sinister

Votes: 12,835

17. MH370: The Plane That Disappeared (2023)

TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary

March 8th, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radar. 239 people went missing, a global investigation into this greatest mystery Despite reports, countless theories, and searches for evidence, nothing. What Are We Missing?

Stars: Intan Othman, Jeff Wise, Danica Weeks, Ghislain Wattrelos

Votes: 14,154

18. Disappeared (2009–2023)

TV-PG | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

The heartbreaking, mystifying and unbelievable stories of loved ones who have disappeared and the families that never give up hope.

Stars: Christopher Crutchfield Walker, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Geno McDermott, Lorri Leighton

Votes: 1,358

19. The Kettering Incident (2016)

TV-MA | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Doctor Anna Macy finds herself inexplicably linked to the disappearance of two girls, fifteen years apart.

Stars: Elizabeth Debicki, Matthew Le Nevez, Henry Nixon, Anthony Phelan

Votes: 3,880

20. Mumford (1999)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama

In the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Jason Lee, Alfre Woodard

Votes: 9,500 | Gross: $4.55M

21. The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)

R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.

Director: Francesco Barilli | Stars: Mimsy Farmer, Maurizio Bonuglia, Mario Scaccia, Jho Jhenkins

Votes: 2,996

22. Day Break (2006–2007)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Today Detective Brett Hopper will be accused of shooting state attorney Alberto Garza. He will offer his rock solid alibi. He will realize he's been framed. And he will run. Then he will wake up and start the day over again.

Stars: Taye Diggs, Moon Bloodgood, Victoria Pratt, Meta Golding

Votes: 8,441

23. Intruders (1992)

163 min | Biography, Horror, Mystery

All over the world, people report being visited by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and clinically examined. Authorities seem to know all about these visitations but will not admit it publicly.

Stars: Richard Crenna, Mare Winningham, Susan Blakely, Daphne Ashbrook

Votes: 1,457

24. Nancy (2018)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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.

Director: Christina Choe | Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Ann Dowd, J. Smith-Cameron, Steve Buscemi

Votes: 3,588 | Gross: $0.08M

25. Creepy (2016)

Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred six years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's memory. She is... See full summary »

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba, Ryôko Fujino

Votes: 5,980

26. Dear Diary (1989)

103 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Two teen stories in one film starring the talented Herbert Bautista. In one story (Dear Party Line), he is a houseboy who strikes up a friendship with a girl over the phone. In another ... See full summary »

Directors: Lupita Aquino-Kashiwahara, Leroy Salvador | Stars: Herbert Bautista, Gelli De Belen, Jigo Garcia, Gloria Sevilla

Votes: 33

27. Silver City (2004)

R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Chris Cooper, Thora Birch, Maria Bello, Billy Zane

Votes: 4,224 | Gross: $1.02M

28. School's Out (2018)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A substitute teacher is put in charge of a class of future geniuses after their teacher commits suicide.

Director: Sébastien Marnier | Stars: Laurent Lafitte, Emmanuelle Bercot, Luàna Bajrami, Victor Bonnel

Votes: 3,114

29. The Unexplained (2011– )

Documentary, Mystery

The uneXplained is a documentary television series where authentic human mysteries are explored using metaphysical practices - one case at a time. Each episode focuses on individuals faced ... See full summary »

Stars: John Holland, Tarmo Urb, Pam Coronado, Paul Selig

Votes: 41

30. The Stoneman Murders (2009)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1980s Bombay, a serial killer starts targeting homeless street dwellers, whilst a suspended police officer attempts to solve the case.

Director: Manish Gupta | Stars: Kay Kay Menon, Arbaaz Khan, Rukhsar Rehman, Veerendra Saxena

Votes: 3,484

31. The Black Camel (1931)

Passed | 71 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

The unsolved murder of a Hollywood actor several years earlier and an enigmatic psychic are the keys to help Charlie solve the Honolulu stabbing death of a beautiful actress.

Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Warner Oland, Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi, Dorothy Revier

Votes: 1,654

32. Past Life (2010)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dr. Kate McGinn and her partner Price Whatley, a former NYPD homicide detective, solve the mysteries of their client's past lives to help them fix the problems in their current one.

Stars: Kelli Giddish, Nic Bishop, Richard Schiff, Ravi Patel

Votes: 441

33. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013)

Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

About a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos Island of Floreana in the 1930s.

Directors: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger

Votes: 1,495 | Gross: $0.25M

34. D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! (2022)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

It follows the 50-year quest to find Cooper, the man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines passenger jet in November 1971 and escaped with $200,000.

Stars: Eric Ulis, Jonna Mendez, Tom Colbert, Geoffrey Gray

Votes: 3,355

35. Eden Log (2007)

R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A man wakes up in an underground cave, next to a dead body. He has no memory of how he got there and starts to try and work his way to the surface and escape from the network of tunnels, which seem to be some kind of ancient civilisation.

Directors: Collen Moore cook Turner, Franck Vestiel | Stars: Clovis Cornillac, Vimala Pons, Zohar Wexler, Sifan Shao

Votes: 6,843

36. Max Headroom Pirating Incident (1987 TV Short)

16+ | 2 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

Illegal broadcast showing Max Headroom Impostor doing non-sense things and obscenities, shown over sports news and "Doctor Who" episode, which became cult phenomena as culprits were never captured.

Stars: Anonymous, Eric Fournier, Max Headroom Hijacker

Votes: 318

37. Dark Mountain (2013)

Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In March of 2011, three filmmakers disappeared in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona while documenting their search for the Lost Dutchman mine. Their bodies were never found... but their camera was.

Director: Tara Anaïse | Stars: Ron Eagle D'Andre II, Adam Haley, Sage Howard, George E. Johnston

Votes: 979

38. The Mystery of D.B. Cooper (2020)

TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary, Crime, History

A documentary that looks at the well-known case, which is largely regarded as the greatest unsolved heist in American history.

Director: John Dower | Stars: Jo Weber, Duane Weber, Tim Collins, Tina Mucklow

Votes: 2,220

39. Bodom (2014)

65 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

For the 50th anniversary of the Lake Bodom murders, two media students obsessed with the case launch a journalistic investigation. The footage they have left behind only raises new questions.

Directors: Gergö Elekes, József Gallai | Stars: Vivien Turzó, Bence Kovács, Kata Tábori, Dániel Szabó

Votes: 423

40. The World's Astonishing News! (2000– )

Crime, Drama

Crazy true stories, crimes, disasters, mysteries from around the world told in dramatized Japanese TV show.

Stars: Mark Chinnery, Thomas Dalby, Michael T Stewart, Brandon Francis

Votes: 97

41. L'affaire Dominici (1973)

Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, History

This film explores the ins and outs of the Dominici Affair that made the headlines back in 1952. As a result of the case, a family man named Gaston Dominici was sentenced to death for the ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Bernard-Aubert | Stars: Jeanne Allard, Max Amyl, Michel Bertay, Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Votes: 746

42. Yancey McCord: The Killer That Arizona Forgot About (2020)

Not Rated | 97 min | Mystery

A documentary-style film interviews those close to a 7 person homicide of the Jenkins family in Arizona in 1961, and the murderous perpetrator who spent only 16 hours behind bars. No one knew what became of him -- until now.

Director: Michael Jason Allen | Stars: Chris Robinson, Jacquie Shane, Mark Speno, Michael Jason Allen

Votes: 54

43. The Murder Farm (2009)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

On a remote farm an entire family is murdered.

Director: Bettina Oberli | Stars: Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu, Volker Bruch, Filip Peeters

Votes: 1,134

44. Dark Sanity (1982)

88 min | Drama, Horror

A woman with psychic visions and an alcoholic past moves into a house where the previous occupant was mysteriously decapitated, and soon suspects the visions she's seeing are her own future.

Director: Martin Green | Stars: Aldo Ray, Kory Clark, Chuck Jamison, Bobbie Holt

Votes: 239

45. Who Killed Pasolini? (1995)

100 min | Crime, Drama

A film on the poet, writer and film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini focusing on his brutal murder and on the judicial proceedings that followed. The case is reconstructed via the trial of Pino ... See full summary »

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Carlo De Filippi, Nicoletta Braschi, Toni Bertorelli, Andrea Occhipinti

Votes: 643

46. Dark Side of the Mountain

95 min | Documentary | Completed

In Silver Plume, Colorado, Tom Young and Keith Reinhard vanished without a trace under the same bizarre circumstances. The ominous legacy surrounding their strange disappearances has become one of Colorado's greatest unsolved mysteries.

Director: Eric Walter | Stars: Keith Reinhard, Tom Young, Astrid Reinhard, Tiffany Fraser

47. Unsolved History (2002–2005)

60 min | Documentary, History, Mystery

Historical mysteries are scientifically investigated.

Stars: J.V. Martin, Daniel Martinez, Dakota Michaels, Mike Sode

Votes: 118

48. The Poltergeist Diaries (2021)

Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

After moving to an isolated cabin, Jacob Taylor vanishes without a trace. With the help of footage he leaves behind, his family members, friends and a detective try to find answers to the strange events that are centered around him.

Director: József Gallai | Stars: András Korcsmáros, Kata Kuna, Eric Roberts, Péter Inoka

Votes: 734

49. JonBenet's Tricycle (2018)

89 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

A unique individual who collects almost everything reveals some of the darker things he has acquired, including JonBenet Ramsey's Tricycle. An investigation of pop culture, media, tragedy and the items we possess.

Director: Andrew Novick | Stars: Matthew M. Baxter, Bryan Bonner, Morgan Febrey, Theresa Mercado

Votes: 25

50. For Heaven's Sake (2021)

30 min | Documentary, Comedy, Crime

The search for Harold Heaven, who mysteriously disappeared from his remote cabin in Ontario, Canada, in the winter of 1934.

Stars: Mike Mildon, Jackson Rowe, Blake Canning, Sylvain Plasse

Votes: 296