241. Buried
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Robert Paterson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Samantha Mathis, José Luis García Pérez, Erik Palladino
Plot: After an attack, a contractor working in Iraq wakes up to find he has been buried alive. With little time and scant resources, he must find a way to survive.
242. Dead Silence
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Wan
Actors: Amber Valletta, Ryan Kwanten, Donnie Wahlberg, Bob Gunton, Laura Regan, Keir Gilchrist
Plot: A young man returns home to Ravens Fair after he receives a ventriloquist
doll at his apartment, and his wife if brutally murdered. He finds that a
local legend about Mary Shaw, the doll's owner, is much more than just a
ghost story.
243. The Number 23
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins, Logan Lerman, Mark Pellegrino
Plot: A man becomes obsessed by the number 23 after reading a novel that seems to parellel his own life.
244. The Eyes of Laura Mars
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Irvin Kershner
Actors: Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Rene Auberjonois, Raul Julia, Frank Adonis
Plot: A "psychic" fashion photographer, who sees the ice pick murders of several women, works with a rugged police detective to catch the killer.
245. The Dead Girl
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Karen Moncrieff
Actors: Toni Collette, Piper Laurie, Giovanni Ribisi, Rose Byrne, James Franco, Mary Steenburgen
246. Swimming Pool
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: François Ozon
Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Jean-Marie Lamour, Marc Fayolle, Mireille Mossé
Plot: A prim, conservative and very successful mystery author takes up her publisher's offer to use his country house in the off season for a relaxing change of pace. The appearance of his uninhibited daughter gives a jolt to her life and her writing.
247. Below
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Twohy
Actors: Matthew Davis, Bruce Greenwood, Holt McCallany, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Chinlund, Olivia Williams
Plot: In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine U.S.S.
Tiger Shark prowls on what should be a routine rescue mission. But for the
shell-shocked crew, trapped together in the sub's narrow corridors and
constricted spaces, this is about to become a journey into the sensory
delusions, mental deceptions and runaway fear that lurk just below the
surface of the ocean and deep inside the human psyche
248. And Soon the Darkness
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Fuest
Actors: Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès, John Nettleton, Clare Kelly, Hana Maria Pravda
249. The Mirror Crack'd
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Guy Hamilton
Actors: Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin, Edward Fox
250. Keane
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lodge Kerrigan
Actors: Damian Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Amy Ryan, Tina Holmes, Liza Colón-Zayas, Chris Bauer
