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

1. Twin Peaks (1990–1991)

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.

Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook

Votes: 215,087

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: 31,420

3. L.A. Confidential (1997)

R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger

Votes: 617,158 | Gross: $64.62M

4. Blue Velvet (1986)

R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern

Votes: 215,456 | Gross: $8.55M

5. The Blues Brothers (1980)

R | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.

Director: John Landis | Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, John Candy

Votes: 214,259 | Gross: $57.23M

6. Chinatown (1974)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez

Votes: 349,470

7. Audition (1999)

R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura

Votes: 89,108

8. A View to a Kill (1985)

PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

The recovery of a microchip from the body of a fellow British secret agent leads James Bond to a mad industrialist scheming to cause massive destruction.

Director: John Glen | Stars: Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones

Votes: 104,810 | Gross: $50.33M

9. The Passenger (1975)

PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller

Unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry

Votes: 26,147 | Gross: $0.62M

10. Femme Fatale (2002)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Eriq Ebouaney

Votes: 37,626 | Gross: $6.59M

11. Woman in the Dunes (1964)

Not Rated | 147 min | Drama, Thriller

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Kôji Mitsui, Hiroko Itô

Votes: 22,656

12. Anon (I) (2018)

TV-MA | 100 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi

In a world without anonymity or crime, a detective meets a woman who threatens their security.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Clive Owen, Afiya Bennett, Morgan Allen, Jeffrey Men

Votes: 48,708

13. 100 Girls (2000)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

Matt spends the night with a girl in an elevator during power outage in a girls' college dorm. He never sees her. Waking up in the morning, panties are all that's left of her. How does he find her in a building with 100 girls?

Director: Michael Davis | Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Emmanuelle Chriqui, James DeBello, Katherine Heigl

Votes: 23,618

14. At Home in Mitford (2017 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Family

A divorced writer goes to a picture-perfect small town to get over her writer's block and ends up falling in love with the town of Mitford, its inhabitants, and its most eligible bachelor, the handsome Episcopal priest who lives next door.

Director: Gary Harvey | Stars: Andie MacDowell, Cameron Mathison, Ken Tremblett, David James Lewis

Votes: 955

15. Immortal Beloved (1994)

R | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Besides all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved, and the movie tries to ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege

Votes: 26,196 | Gross: $9.91M

16. Resident Evil Village (2021 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

Ethan Winters' world suddenly comes crashing down when Chris Redfield's appearance sets off a chain of events that ultimately leads him to a mysterious village.

Directors: Morimasa Sato, America Young | Stars: Todd Soley, Katie O'Hagan, Jeff Schine, Michelle Lukes

Votes: 7,451

17. Lucky Man (2016–2018)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

From the mind of comic book legend Stan Lee comes a bold new action crime series about a brilliant but flawed police officer with the power to control luck.

Stars: James Nesbitt, Sienna Guillory, Darren Boyd, Amara Karan

Votes: 6,334

18. The Red Turtle (2016)

PG | 80 min | Animation, Drama, Family

A man is shipwrecked on a deserted island and encounters a big red turtle, which changes his life.

Director: Michael Dudok de Wit | Stars: Emmanuel Garijo, Tom Hudson, Baptiste Goy, Axel Devillers

Votes: 38,562 | Gross: $0.92M

19. Svaha: The Sixth Finger (2019)

Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

Pastor Park works to expose suspicious religious groups. He's hired to look into the cult group Deer Mount. Meanwhile, Police Captain Hwang investigates a murder case and the main suspect is a member of the Deer Mount cult.

Director: Jae-hyun Jang | Stars: Lee Jung-jae, Yoo Ji-tae, Jung Jin-young, Min Tanaka

Votes: 4,857

20. The Terror (1963)

TV-PG | 81 min | Horror, Thriller

A young French soldier cut off from his unit is beguiled by a mysterious woman, whom he learns is the wife of the local Baron - and that she seemingly died twenty years earlier.

Directors: Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Hale, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Dennis Jakob, Jack Nicholson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller

Votes: 8,467

21. In the Cold of the Night (1990)

NC-17 | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Scott is a fashion photographer concerned about the sudden appearance of nightmares in his nightly dreams. In these, he seems to be involved in the murder of a beautiful young woman. When ... See full summary »

Director: Nico Mastorakis | Stars: Jeff Lester, Adrianne Sachs, Marc Singer, Brian Thompson

Votes: 1,793

22. Gozu (2003)

R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A yakuza enforcer is ordered to secretly drive his beloved colleague to be assassinated. But when the colleague unceremoniously disappears en route, the trip that follows is a twisted, surreal and horrifying experience.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Yûta Sone, Kimika Yoshino, Shohei Hino, Keiko Tomita

Votes: 12,720 | Gross: $0.05M

23. The Illustrated Man (1969)

PG | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In 1930s, a psychotic drifter who's after the mystery woman who covered his whole body in illustrations that foresee distant future shows three of them (The Veldt, The Long Rain and The Last Night of the World) to a mesmerized traveler.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins

Votes: 3,459

24. The Shooting (1966)

G | 82 min | Drama, Western

A mysterious woman persuades two cowboys to help her in a revenge scheme.

Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Will Hutchins, Warren Oates

Votes: 6,414

25. Finding Vivian Maier (2013)

Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Biography, Mystery

A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.

Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel | Stars: Vivian Maier, John Maloof, Daniel Arnaud, Simon Amédé

Votes: 15,073 | Gross: $1.51M

26. Nightfall (1988)

PG-13 | 83 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi

Far across the cosmos from our world lies a planet bathed in perpetual daylight. Soon nightfall will come and bring with it tremendous destruction. Science struggles against superstition in... See full summary »

Director: Paul Mayersberg | Stars: David Birney, Sarah Douglas, Alexis Kanner, Andra Millian

Votes: 764

27. Fool for Love (1985)

R | 106 min | Drama

May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid

Votes: 2,938 | Gross: $0.84M

28. Just My Type (2020 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Vanessa, a features writer in NYC, hopes to land the interview of a lifetime with renowned mystery author, Martin Clayborne.

Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Bethany Joy Lenz, Brett Dalton, Aleque Reid, Colleen Wheeler

Votes: 1,986

29. Golgo 13: The Professional (1983)

Not Rated | 91 min | Animation, Action, Crime

After killing the son of a powerful oil tycoon, an infamous hit-man is targeted by American governmental forces and superhuman killers.

Director: Osamu Dezaki | Stars: Tetsurô Sagawa, Gorô Naya, Toshiko Fujita, Kôsei Tomita

Votes: 3,365

30. La fea más bella (2006–2007)

TV-PG | 45 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman who is frowned upon for being the ugliest woman around, falls hopelessly in love with her boss, the heir of a film enterprise.

Stars: Angélica Vale, Jaime Camil, Patricia Navidad, Angélica María

Votes: 1,081

31. The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (2004)

131 min | Drama

Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack Bradley's (Rollo Weeks') sixteenth birthday. Her remarkable likeness to a ... See full summary »

Director: Colin Nutley | Stars: Helena Bergström, Lorcan Cranitch, Lindsay Duncan, Tim Dutton

Votes: 514

32. Slither (1973)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

A car thief gets out on parole from a penitentiary and intends to go straight. Nonetheless, he ends up in a wild goose chase for stolen cash, together with a small-time bandleader and his wife, and a friendly free-spirited woman.

Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: James Caan, Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman, Louise Lasser

Votes: 1,711

33. Justine (1969)

R | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

In British Palestine of 1938, several men vie for the affections of a Coptic banker's wife who's involved with the anti-British underground movement.

Directors: George Cukor, Joseph Strick | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Forster, Anna Karina

Votes: 542 | Gross: $2.78M

34. French film

90 min | Drama, Romance | Post-production

Sam and Léna, two actors, are in love. Sam wants to completely possess Léna. She gives herself entirely to him. Yet their relationship deteriorates to the point of disaster.

Director: Claude Chamis | Stars: Luca Colucci, Pauline Miocekovitz, Augustin De Winter, Nathan Moreira

35. The Other Woman (1992 Video)

R | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A ambitious reporter investigating a murder case becomes intrigued with a mysterious woman whom she suspects is having an affair with her husband.

Director: Jag Mundhra | Stars: Adrian Zmed, Lee Anne Beaman, Juliet Reagh, Dan Moriarty

Votes: 280

36. Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003 Video)

PG | 75 min | Animation, Action, Crime

The Dark Knight must contend with a mysterious female vigilante who emulates him, but to a more ruthless degree.

Directors: Curt Geda, Jennifer Graves, Tim Maltby | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Kimberly Brooks, Kelly Ripa, Elisa Gabrielli

Votes: 14,190

37. The Stranger (1995 Video)

R | 98 min | Action

A female biker rides into a desert town to seek revenge on "Angel" and his ruthless gang of violent bikers.

Director: Fritz Kiersch | Stars: Kathy Long, Andrew Divoff, Eric Pierpoint, Robin Lynn Heath

Votes: 698

38. The Death Kiss (1932)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Murder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Adrienne Ames, John Wray

Votes: 1,415

39. Pocket Listing (2015)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensue when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa.

Director: Conor Allyn | Stars: James Jurdi, Jessica Clark, Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds

Votes: 7,128

40. Imortal (2010–2011)

TV-PG | Action, Drama, Fantasy

300 years ago, a powerful clan came to this island. They were known as vampires, or blood drinkers. They quickly grew in numbers and their violence increased. Unknown to them another ... See full summary »

Stars: John Lloyd Cruz, Angel Locsin, Maricar Reyes, Jake Roxas

Votes: 102

41. The Thirteenth Guest (1932)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Thirteen years ago, somebody murdered the wealthy host of a dinner party. Now, the guests from that event reunite at the creepy house where the crime took place to figure out who inherited the victim's estate.

Director: Albert Ray | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, J. Farrell MacDonald, Paul Hurst

Votes: 914

42. A Cinderella Christmas (2016 TV Movie)

Unrated | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

After a wealthy celebrity falls in love with a mystery woman at his Christmas masquerade ball, he attempts to discover her true identity.

Director: Tosca Musk | Stars: Emma Rigby, Peter Porte, Sarah Stouffer, Leland B. Martin

Votes: 3,536

43. La mujer de Judas (2012)

TV-14 | 44 min | Horror, Thriller

Gloria se interesa en una misteriosa mujer para que sea el tema de su tesis, pero no será tan fácil ya que aparece un asesino con traje de novia que atemoriza al pueblo asesinando a toda ... See full summary »

Stars: Anette Michel, Víctor González, Andrea Martí, Géraldine Bazán

Votes: 54

44. Star of Midnight (1935)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

When a dancer disappears from a theater, her former lover asks lawyer Clay Dalzell to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.

Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paul Kelly, Gene Lockhart

Votes: 1,758

45. SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (1997 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 80 min | Drama

The actual experiences of New York City subway riders are dramatized in a collection of 10 intriguing and very different vignettes. The tales showcase an ensemble of familiar faces, and ... See full summary »

Directors: Bob Balaban, Patricia Benoit, Julie Dash, Jonathan Demme, Ted Demme, Abel Ferrara, Alison Maclean, Craig McKay, Lucas Platt, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld | Stars: Bill Irwin, KRS-One, Tina North, Paul Lazar

Votes: 1,462

46. L'Immortelle (1963)

M | 101 min | Drama, Mystery

A sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly ... See full summary »

Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet | Stars: Françoise Brion, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Guido Celano, Ayfer Feray

Votes: 1,388

47. The Maid (2005)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

"Every year, for thirty days during the lunar seventh month, the Chinese believe that the gates of hell are thrown open. Vengeful spirits or hungry ghosts wander among the living, seeking ... See full summary »

Director: Kelvin Tong | Stars: Alessandra De Rossi, Huifang Hong, Benny Soh, Zhenwei Guan

Votes: 1,313

48. Big Shot's Funeral (2001)

PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, ... See full summary »

Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Kwan, Paul Mazursky, You Ge

Votes: 2,404 | Gross: $0.00M

49. Jack the Ripper (1959)

Not Rated | 84 min | Crime, Drama, History

A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.

Directors: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | Stars: Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, Ewen Solon

Votes: 964

50. Hidden Moon (2012)

TV-PG | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

We were always told that you will find true love only once in a lifetime, but what happens when you find true love twice at the same time?

Director: José Pepe Bojórquez | Stars: Wes Bentley, Ana Serradilla, Johnathon Schaech, Osvaldo de León

Votes: 565