๐ Oscar Wilde (1891) The Picture Of Dorian Gray โ A young, beautiful Dorian Gray makes a deal to keep his youth while his portrait bears the marks of his hedonistic life. Consumed by pleasure and unchecked desires, Dorian descends into darkness, leaving a trail of destruction, while his hidden portrait reveals the true cost of his choices.
๐ Robert Balmain Mowat (1917) The Later Middle Ages โ The Scottish historian, Robert Balmain Mowat writes, โWhen this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and a time of confusion begun.โ With the death of the Emperor Frederick II, Germanyโs many feudal territories became practically hereditary sovereignties, her Free Imperial Cities almost independent states. But within the walls of these city-states, as in their Italian counterparts, commercial life flourished. During this period the Great Schism divided Christendom and was with infinite difficulty resolved. This was the age of Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch, of the Hundred Yearsโ War, of the rise of Spain, and of the Turkish conquest of Constantinople.
๐ Tension, by E. M. Delafield
๐ Arnold Bennett (1923) Riceyman Steps
๐ The Old Man in the Corner (1908) by Baroness Emma Orczy
๐ Ernest Oldmeadow (1907) Susan
๐ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1917) His Last Bow - Sherlock Holmes stories
๐ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1901) The Fanatics
๐ Abbie Farwell Brown (1910) The Christmas Angel
๐ H. G. Wells (1915) Bealby; A Holiday
๐ William Hope Hodgson (1908) The House on the Borderland
๐ Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1866) The Lady's Mile
๐ Vladimir Korolenko (1886) The Blind Musician
๐ Beatrice Harraden (1894) Ships That Pass in the Night
๐ The Dark Flower (1913) by John Galsworthy
๐ Flaming Youth (1923) Samuel Hopkins Adams
๐ Ideala (1893) Sarah Grand
๐ Louis Couperus (1890) Footsteps of Fate
๐ George du Maurier (1898) The Martian
๐ Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1903) A Girl Among the Anarchists
๐ The Red Planet (1917) William John Locke
๐ Willa Sibert Cather (1925) The Professor's House
๐ The Rome Express (1910), by Arthur Griffiths
๐ Ancestors: A Novel (1898), by Gertrude Atherton
๐ The Hand in the Dark (1909), by Arthur J. Rees
๐ The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) part 1, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
๐ The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916) Edgar Wallace
๐ The Loot Of Cities (1900), by Arnold Bennett
๐ The House Of The Arrow (1924), by A. E. W. Mason
๐ The Hemlock Avenue Mystery (1908), by Lily A. Long
๐ The Warden (1855) Anthony Trollope
๐ A Study in Scarlet (1887), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
๐ The Sign of the Four (1890), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
๐ The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
๐ The Valley of Fear (1914-15), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
๐ The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
๐ Four Noncanonical Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
๐ Sir Nigel, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
๐ The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) by Alexandre Dumas
๐ Les Misรฉrables (1862) by Victor Hugo
๐ A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
๐ The Pickwick Papers (1836) by Charles Dickens
๐ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
๐ Wuthering Heights (1847), by Emily Bronte
๐ The Man in the Iron Mask, By Alexandre Dumas
๐ In Kent with Charles Dickens (1880), by Thomas Frost
๐ The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
๐ Siddhartha (1922), by Hermann Hesse
๐ The Quest of the Historical Jesus, by Albert Schweitzer
๐ The Man of Property (1906), By John Galsworthy
๐ Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
๐ The Woman in White (1859), By Wilkie Collins
๐ The Talisman (1825), by Sir Walter Scott
๐ Poor Miss Finch (1872), by Wilkie Collins
๐ The Poisoned Pen (1913), by Arthur B. Reeve
๐ Mrs. Raffles (1905), by John Kendrick Bangs
๐ An Eye For An Eye (1900), by William Le Queux
๐ Paul and Virginia (1788), by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
๐ Murder at St. Dennis (1952), by Margaret Ann Hubbard
๐ Cleek of Scotland Yard (1914), by Thomas W. Hanshew
๐ The Mystery of the Hidden Room (1922), by Marion Harvey
๐ The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation (1917), by J. S. Fletcher
๐ The Peril Finders (1902), by George Manville
๐ John Silence (1908), by Algernon Blackwood
๐ A Fair Mystery (1886), by Charlotte M. Brame
๐ Ralestone Luck (1938), by Andre Norton
๐ The Talleyrand Maxim (1020), by J. S. Fletcher
๐ The Vanishing Man (1911), by R. Austin Freeman
๐ The Orange-Yellow Diamond (1921), by J. S. Fletcher
๐ The Secret of the Silver Car (1920), by Wyndham Martyn
๐ Against Odds (1894), by Lawrence L. Lynch
๐ A Silent Witness (1915), by R. Austin Freeman
๐ The Mystery of the Downs (1918), by Arthur J. Rees and John R. Watson
๐ The Curved Blades (1916), by Carolyn Wells
๐ The Three Hostages (1924), by John Buchan
๐ Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness (1912), by Selma Lagerlรถf
๐ The Torrents of Spring (1872), by Ivan Turgenev
๐ The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
๐ At the Villa Rose, by A. E. W. Mason
๐ The Death of the Lion, by Henry James
๐ Tommy and Grizel, by J. M. Barrie
๐ Policy and Passion, by Rosa Campbell Praed
๐ To Build a Fire (1902), by Jack London
๐ The Rainbow (1915) D. H. Lawrence
๐ Women in Love (1920) D. H. Lawrence
๐ Persuasion (1817) Jane Austen
๐ The Story of Aristotle's Philosophy (1923) Will Durant
๐ Voltaire and the French Enlightenment, by Will Durant
๐ The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
๐ Castles in the Air, by Baroness Emma Orczy
๐ The Sea Wolf, by Jack London
๐ Armadale (1864) Wilkie Collins
๐ The Man Who Lost Himself, by H. De Vere Stacpoole
๐ The Coral Island, by R. M. Ballantyne
๐ The Professor, by Charlotte Brontรซ
๐ The Thing from the Lake, by Eleanor M. Ingram
๐ Good Wives, by Louisa May Alcott
๐ Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
๐ Dombey and Son, by Charles Dickens
๐ The Man Who Would Be King, by Rudyard Kipling
๐ Manalive, by G. K. Chesterton
๐ Anne of the Island, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
๐ The Eight Strokes of the Clock, by Maurice Leblanc
๐ Jimbo, by Algernon Blackwood
๐ Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
๐ The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton
๐ Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
๐ The Last Galley, Impressions and Tales, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
๐ The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle
๐ Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
๐ Howards End, by E. M. Forster
๐ In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2), by John Galsworthy
๐ The Monk: A Romance, by Matthew Lewis
๐ A Sicilian Romance (1790), by Ann Radcliffe
๐ The Italian (1796) , by Ann Radcliffe
๐ The Castle of Otranto (1764), by Horace Walpole
๐ Uncle Silas, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
๐ The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II, Xueqin Cao
๐ The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I, Xueqin Cao
๐ The Yellow Face (1906) by Fred M. White
๐ Henry James (1898) The Turn of the Screw
๐ Henry James (1898) The Turn of the Screw
๐ Moby Dick, or the Whale (1851) by Herman Melville
๐ Treasure Island (1881), by Robert Louis Stevenson
๐ Dracula (1897, by Bram Stoker)
๐ The Four Feathers, by A. E. W. Mason
๐ The Count's Chauffeur, by William Le Queux
๐ The Unseen Ear, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
๐ The Human Chord, by Algernon Blackwood
๐ Lord of the World, by Robert Hugh Benson
๐ Anything Once, by Isabel Ostrander
๐ Prince and Heretic, by Marjorie Bowen
๐ The Castle of Twilight, by Margaret Horton Potter
๐ The Wood Beyond the World, by William Morris
๐ The Machine Stops, by E. M. Forster
๐ Vera, by Elizabeth von Arnim
๐ The Gods and Mr Perrin, by Hugh Walpole
๐ The Lost Mr. Linthwaite, by J. S. Fletcher
๐ Creatures of the Abyss, by Murray Leinster
๐ The Rescue, by Joseph Conrad
๐ The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895) by Gustave Le Bon
๐ A Thin Ghost And Others (1919), by M. R. James
๐ The Begum's Fortune (1879), by Jules Verne
๐ The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
๐ Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by M. R. James
๐ The Middle Temple Murder (1920) by J. S. Fletcher
๐ Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
๐ The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922), by G. K. Chesterton
๐ The Paradise Mystery (1920), by J. S. Fletcher
๐ The Old Man in the Corner (1908), by Baroness Emma Orczy
๐ The Big Bow Mystery (1892), by Israel Zangwill
๐ The Return of Clubfoot (1922) by Valentine Williams
๐ The King in Yellow (part 2) (1895) Robert W. Chambers
๐ The King in Yellow (part 1) (1895) Robert W. Chambers
๐ The Lady in Blue (1905) by Auguste Groner
๐ The Red House Mystery (1922) by A. A. Milne
๐ Short Story Collection Vol. 099.
๐ Waverley, Volume 2 (1814) Sir Walter Scott
๐ Waverley, Volume 1 (1814) Sir Walter Scott
๐ The Painted Veil (1925) W. Somerset Maugham
๐ The House Opposite (1903) Elizabeth Kent
๐ The Old Church Clock (1843) Richard Parkinson
๐ The House with the Green Shutters (1901) George Douglas Brown
๐ The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton
๐ Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot
๐ After Dark (1856) Wilkie Collins
๐ The Way of All Flesh (1903) by Samuel Butler
๐ The Crimson Cryptogram (1900) by Fergus Hume
๐ The Gold Bag (1911) by Carolyn Wells
๐ The Clue (1909) by Carolyn Wells
๐ Malcolm (1875) by George MacDonald
๐ The Silver Bullet (1903) by Fergus Hume
๐ The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) by Harold Frederic
๐ Anna Karenina,by Leo Tolstoy
๐ In the Mayor's Parlour (1922) by J. S. Fletcher
๐ My Man Jeeves (1919), by P. G. Wodehouse
๐ The Nebuly Coat (1903) by John Meade Falkner
๐ The Czar's Spy (1905), by William Le Queux
๐ Psmith in the City (1910), by P. G. Wodehouse
๐ Men Like Gods (1923) H. G. Wells
๐ The Haunted Bookshop (1919) Christopher Morley
๐ Mercenary (1962) Dallas McCord Reynolds
๐ Silas Marner (1861) George Eliot
๐ Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor (1869) Richard Doddridge Blackmore
๐ The Pink Shop (1911) Fergus Hume
๐ 813 (1910) Maurice LeBlanc
๐ 32 Caliber (1920) Donald McGibeny
๐ The Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice (1878) Wilkie Collins
๐ Clayhanger (1910), by Arnold Bennett
๐ Barchester Towers (1857) Anthony Trollope
๐ Doctor Thorne (1858) Anthony Trollope
๐ The Great God Pan (1894) Arthur Machen
๐ The Cathedral (1922) Hugh Walpole
๐ The Thirteen Travelers (1920) Hugh Walpole
๐ The Lost Parchment by (1914) Fergus Hume
๐ Planet of the Damned (1962) Harry Harrison
๐ Scarhaven Keep (1920) J. S. Fletcher
๐ The Chestermarke Instinct (1918) J. S. Fletcher
๐ Jules Verne's Mysterious Island (1875)
๐ Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1 (1907)
๐ Ghost Story Collection 001 (2006)
๐ Ghost Story Collection 002 (2006)
๐ Ghost Story Collection 003 (2007)
๐ Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4
๐ The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel (1917) A. E. W. Mason
๐ Around The Campfire, by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
๐ The Corner House (1906) Fred M. White
๐ The Clock Struck One (1898) Fergus Hume
๐ A Chain of Evidence (1923) Carolyn Wells
๐ The Borough Treasurer (1919) J. S. Fletcher
๐ The House on the Borderland (1877) William Hope Hodgson
๐ Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life (1888) H. Rider Haggard
๐ The Breaking Point (1922), by Mary Roberts Rinehart
๐ The Bishop's Secret (1899) Fergus Hume
๐ Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England (731CE), by The Venerable Bede
๐ The Albert Gate Mystery (1904) Louis Tracy
๐ The Prophet (1923), by Kahlil Gibran
๐ Underground Man (1896) Gabriel Tarde
๐ The Magic City (1910), by E. Nesbit
๐ New Arabian Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson
๐ Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) by Jules Verne
๐ Richard Jefferies - After London, or Wild England
๐ Richard Middleton - Day Before Yesterday
๐ Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
๐ The Odes and Carmen Saeculare - Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), translated by John Conington
๐ The Normans in European History (1916), by Charles Homer Haskins
๐ Cardinal Wolsey (1888) by Mandell Creighton
๐ A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 1, by Franรงois Pierre Guillaume GUIZOT
๐ The Evil Genius, by Wilkie COLLINS
๐ Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy
๐ The Eye of Osiris, R. Austin Freeman
๐ Elusive Isabel, Jacques FUTRELLE
๐ The Drums of Jeopardy (1920), Harold MACGRATH
๐ Dead Men's Money (1920), by J. S. Fletcher
๐ The Dragon's Secret, by Augusta Huiell Seaman
๐ The Dead Letter (1866), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
๐ The Daffodil Mystery, by Edgar Wallace
๐ The Crevice (1915), by William Burns & Isabel Ostrander
๐ The Cinema Murder, by E. Phillips Oppenheim
๐ The Circular Staircase (1908), by Mary Roberts Rinehart
๐ The Port of Missing Men (1907), by Meredith Nicholson
๐ The House of a Thousand Candles (1906), by Meredith Nicholson
๐ Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), by Friedrich Nietzsche
๐ Madame Bovary (1856), by Gustave Flaubert
๐ The Communist Manifesto (1874), by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
๐ Ivanhoe
๐ Pillars of Society (1877) Henrik Ibsen
๐ A Little Princess (1905), by Frances Hodgson Burnett
๐ A Princess of Mars (1912) Edgar Rice Burroughs
๐ The New Paris, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
๐ The Secret Garden (1911), by Frances Hodgson Burnett
๐ Tracked by a Tattoo (1896), by Fergus Hume
๐ The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), by Anatole France
๐ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (1974), by Robert M. Pirsig. If you look on page 247 of this particular edition you will see the text; "there must be a kind of nonintellectual awareness, which he called awareness of quality. You can't be aware that you've seen a tree until after you've seen the tree, and between the instant of vision and instant of awareness there must be a time lag. We sometimes think of that time lag as unimportant but there is no justification for thinking that the time lag is unimportant - none whatsoever."
๐ A. S. Byatt (1990) Possession - total shit.
๐ Alvin Toffler (1970) Future Shock
๐ Andrew Torba (2022) Christian Nationalism - A crazy alt-right rant. See also, our Christianity page.
๐ Brian Dear (2017) The Friendly Orange Glow
๐ Brian Muraresku (2020) The Immortality Key
๐ Bruce Schneier (2023) A Hackerโs Mind
๐ Elle Hardy (2022) Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World โ How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed slaves, become the fastest-growing religion on Earth? Pentecostalism has 600 million followers; by 2050, they'll be one in ten people worldwide. This is the religion of the Holy Spirit, with believers directly experiencing God and His blessings: success for the mind, body, spirit and wallet.
๐ Erik Hoel (2021) The Revelations
๐ Erik Hoel (2023) The World Behind The World โ From a Forbes 30 Under 30 scientist comes a fascinating exploration into how the brain creates our conscious experiencesโpotentially revolutionizing neuroscience and the future of technology โ transforming the very fabric of our society.
๐ Harry G. Frankfurt (2005) On Bullshit
๐ Jimmy Soni (2022) The Founders โ A gripping account of PayPalโs origins and a vivid portrait of the geeks and contrarians who made its meteoric rise possible including Elon Musk, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others whose stories have never been shared.
๐ Jon Gertner (2012) The Idea Factory โ From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T - was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, from digital communications to cellular telephony, it's hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn't been touched by Bell Labs.
๐ Maeve Binchy (1982) Light a Penny Candle
๐ Neil Gaiman (2001) American Gods โ Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a stranger offers him a job and Shadow, with nothing to lose, accepts. But a storm is coming. Beneath the placid surface of everyday life, a war is being fought โ and the prize is the very soul of America. An inspired combination of mythology, adventure, and illusion, a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It was also made into a tv series in 2017.
๐ Pepper White (1991) Learning to Think (at MIT) โ I like the idea of getting a CorningWare glass titration drip apparatus connected to a rod stand that I can place next to and above my Melita drip coffee maker slowly drip by drip instead of sorting of doing it that way by hand in the morning. That way, my cup of coffee would be better, AND I could go pee while the dripping is happening. I know that's kind of crazy, but after reading this book, it doesn't feel as crazy now.
๐ Peter Matthiessen (1978) The Snow Leopard
๐ Peter Zeihan (2022) The End of the World is Just the Beginning โ a nonfiction book written by Peter Zeihan, a geopolitical strategist who formerly worked for the geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor. ๐
๐ Sue Grafton (1982) "A" Is for Alibi โ Started tonight. Recommended by someone in my building. I've had bad luck with mysteries written by women. I had a string of bad luck with some bad women mystery writers, but I'll give it a shot, because I want a friend in the building that can feed me book recommendations. Let's keep hope alive! Later... I gave up about halfway through. Shit plot, shit characters, shit writing.
๐ Andrew Torba (2022) Christian Nationalism - a crazy alt-right rant
๐ Brian Dear (2017) The Friendly Orange Glow
๐ Erik Hoel (2021) The Revelations
๐ Maeve Binchy (1982) Light a Penny Candle
๐ Bruce Schneier (2023) A Hackerโs Mind
๐ Harry G. Frankfurt (2005) On Bullshit
๐ Brian Muraresku (2020) The Immortality Key
๐ A. S. Byatt (1990) Possession - total shit.
๐ Alvin Toffler (1970) Future Shock
๐ Ernest Cline (2011) Ready Player One
๐ Dennis Lehane (1994) A Drink Before the War
๐ Swami Rama (1978) Living with the Himalayan Masters
๐ Peter Robinson (1987) Gallows View
๐ William L. Hamilton (1995) Saints and Psychopaths
๐ Mark Billingham (2001) Sleepyhead
๐ Ian Rankin (1987) Knots and Crosses - didn't suck
๐๐ Shari Lapena (2018) An Unwanted Guest - total shit
๐ Anthony Doerr (2014) All the Light We Cannot See
๐ B.A. Paris (2016) Behind Closed Doors
๐๐ Clare Mackintosh (2017) I See You โ By the time I was working my way towards the end of this story. I was thinking... was there anything interesting in this story? Could a good writer have made it actually interesting, or was it destined to be a shit story if anyone wrote it?
๐๐คท Lucy Foley (2021) The Hunting Party โ Lots of folks talking about drinking too much, even though they don't drink. And the ladies asking themselves why don't people like me, and why their friends like other friends better than them. And, of course. lots of sex fantasizing. The book seems to be written for insecure 16-18 kids. But... not as badly written as the prior book on this list. Also, both Foley books I've ready use the same non-linear narrative device.
๐๐ Ruth Ware (2016) The Death of Mrs. Westaway โ In this story the main character behaves like a 7 year old, while in the story I sense she is over 20. She doesn't seem be able to do simple things like ask for train fare and instead shows up at a train station with no money. Over and over she acts in a child like manor. The reality is the writer is trying to make everything dramatic. She not a very good writer, unable to write believable characters. I'm going to have to figure out how to get Google Bard to stop recommending mysteries with dopey women main characters.
๐๐คท Wendy Walker (2018) The Night Before โ both women in this book are annoying, neurotic, filled with self hatred & guilt. The sister, Laura, is the queen of jumping from one wrong conclusion to another. you would think after being wrong so many times she would shut up and calm down. But, not... she jumps from one impulsive action to another all the way to the end of the book, and everyone of her jumps is wrong.
๐ The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda (2017) ๐
๐ Michael Robotham (2018) The Other Wife
๐ Ray Kurzweil (1999) The Age of Spiritual Machines
๐ A.S.A. Harrison (2013) The Silent Wife
๐๐ S.J. Watson (2011) Before I Go to Sleep
๐ A.J. Finn (2018) The Woman in the Window
๐ Liv Constantine (2017) The Last Mrs. Parrish
๐ Donald Fagen (2013) Eminent Hipsters โ Fagen presents the "eminent hipsters" who spoke to him as he was growing up in a bland New Jersey suburb in the early 1960s; his years at Bard College, where he first met his musical partner Walter Becker; and the agonies and ecstasies of a recent cross-country tour with Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs.
๐ Ray Kurzweil (1999) The Age of Spiritual Machines โ A non-fiction book by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil about artificial intelligence and the future course of humanity. In the book Kurzweil outlines his vision for how technology will progress during the 21st century.
๐ Walter Isaacson (2023) Elon Musk โ From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our eraโa rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.
๐ Lucy Foley (2020) The Guest List
๐ Claudia Pineiro (2007) Elena Knows โ Finished part 1. Elena is an annoying, angry, unhappy, narcissistic women. It's hard to listen to the story so far. Very slow moving. So far, Elena's daughter was found hung in the church bell tower, and Elena is the only one who does not believe it's a suicide. Aside from that, we learn that Elena is angry, at pretty much everyone and everything, and has isolated herself from everyone in the community. In part 2, we learn Elena's daughter, Rita, is also a anti-social pain in the ass, that makes everyone's life difficult. As I was listening to part 2, I found I was happy Rita was murdered, and started hoping someone might murder the mother. Part 3 ends up being horrible. It turns out this is not a "mystery" as advertised, ie, Christie or Doyle. It's a leftist propaganda piece. It turns out Rita simply killed herself because she didn't want to deal with taking care of her mother as the Alzheimers progresses. This is used and tied in with a incident that gets revealed in flashback in part three in which 20 years ago Rita & Elena had prevented a lady they met on the street from getting an abortion, and that lady ended up having an unhappy life with her husband and child. It's not a mystery story, it's a leftist screed about patriarchal and religious society that the author feels have no business creating a world where folks are discouraged from having abortions. This book will probably win an award from some idiotic leftist group, but, I recommend you give it a miss.
๐ Alex Michaelides (2019) The Silent Patient
๐ Colleen Hoover (2018) Verity
๐ Psychology For Dummies (2013) Adam Cash
๐ Philosophy for dummies (1999) Thomas V Morris
๐ An Introduction to the History of Psychology (2013) Baldwin Ross Hergenhahn & Tracy Henley
๐ The Selfish Gene (1976) Richard Dawkins
๐ The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
๐ R.F. Kuang (2022) Babel - this book slowly morphed into a super woke, anti-western civilization political rant. It became very hard to read (or in my case, even listen to) Had to give up in Chapter 23.
๐ Arturo Peฬrez-Reverte (1990) The Flanders Panel
๐ The Maid (2022) by Nita Prose
๐ The Shadow of the Wind (2001) by Carlos Ruiz Zafoฬn
๐ The Tunnel (2019) Gayne C. Young
๐ Kiss Me When I'm Dead (2017) Dominic Piper
๐บ A Touch of Frost (1992) - It takes a lot of tea drinking to commit and solve murders in England. ๐
๐บ Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) ๐
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๐บ Broken (2017) โ Drama series about a well-respected Catholic priest presiding over a large parish on the outskirts of a major city in northern England. ๐
๐บ Catch Me a Killer (2024) โ Charlotte Hope portrays former journalist turned psychologist Micki Pistorius, South Africa's first serial killer profiler, in this harrowing true story based on the acclaimed novel.
๐บ DCI Banks (2011) series - Based on the Inspector Banks novels from award-winning international crime writer Peter Robinson, this series features carefully worked stories crammed with twists and turns, and intriguing and memorable characters. โ Banks looks like he is gonna explode at any moment. Any boss should remove this guy from a work environment and send him to anger management therapy. These shows are hysterical.
๐บ In Plain Sight (2016) โ An intensely dramatic re-telling of a unique period in British history about Scotland's first serial killer, Peter Manuel, and his sixteen-day trial.
๐บ Miss Marple (1984) - I can watch this kind of stuff all day long. ๐
๐บ Reacher (2022) - "Saddle up, cause we're about to do a whole bunch of cowboy shit." ๐
๐บ Rumpole of the Bailey (1978) - this guy talks even louder than me, which I didn't know was possible. Not sure I'm going to actually be able to watch this show because the variation between Rumpole's voice and everyone's else's is so jarring. It's like he's performing on stage and projecting to an audience, and everyone else is in regular life.
๐ฅ A Is for Acid (2002) โ Martin Clunes garnered critical acclaim by playing John George Haigh, the notorious "Acid Bath Murderer" who killed at least 6 victims in 1940s England and disposed of their remains by dissolving them in sulphuric acid.
๐ฅ A Murder of Crows (1999) โ Warning! There is a scene with shockingly naked bodies. I was shockingly shocked. I had to put the movie on pause and listen to shock the monkey I was so shocked. Don't you monkey with the monkey.
๐ฅ Alien Code (2018) โ after horny germs, how much lower can I sink? There's a great expression I've heard about mysteries. "It's never twins and it's never aliens". Well, apparently tonight... it is aliens, and they got a code. I wonder if it's anything like the repo code. I know not many people got a code to live by. After tonight I'll be able to choose between two.
๐ฅ Angelica (2015) โ This movie does not make women, men, or germs look particularly good. It does have nice furniture and waynescoating. If you were a fan of Ethan Allan furniture, you might enjoy this movie, if you can overlook the actors and the plot. Some of the china is nice too. Towards the end I was hoping she might be going to the lunatic asylum, but then it took an even stranger turn than any of us expected. Apparently the movie industry is filled with sick sick bastards.
๐ฅ Black Mirror (2011) โ Black Mirror is an anthology series that taps into our collective unease with the modern world, with each stand-alone episode a sharp, suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia. ๐
๐ฅ Divergent (2014) โ In a future dystopian Chicago, society has been divided into five factions: Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless, and Erudite. The remaining population, the Factionless, have no status or privilege. Upon turning sixteen, children undergo a serum-induced psychological aptitude test which indicates their best-suited faction, but can choose any faction as their permanent group at the subsequent Choosing Ceremony.
๐ฅ Down Terrace (2010) โ After being released from jail, a father and son struggle to rebuild the family crime business in this clever British gangster comedy. (It's like Curb Your Enthusiasm meets The Sopranos) ๐
๐ฅ Dressed to Kill (1980) โ A psycho-killer stalks two New York City womenโone a frustrated housewife, the other a street-smart hooker who teams up with the first woman's son to trap the murderer. The film reaches a shocking climax when the slayer's real identity is revealed. โ Detective Marino (Sipowicz): "I hope you make a better hooker than you do a detective."
๐ฅ Finestkind (2023) directed by Brian Helgeland ๐
๐ฅ Frailty (2002) Directors Bill Paxton โ A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons." ๐
๐ฅ Henry's Crime (2010) โ Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing. Starring an ensemble cast including Keanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga and James Caan.
๐ฅ Impuratus (2023) โ I feel it's gonna be a mistake to watch, but the Prime Video page showed a signed that said "Pennsylvania Lunatic Asylum" and I love phrases like "lunatic", "escaped mental patient", and other Old-timey stuff like that, so I'm giving it a shot. If I ever wrote a movie the opening lines would go like this; "Hello dear, how was your day at the lunatic asylum?" "Fine, we caught two escaped mental patients. We found them smokin' crack and playing with a baby Jesus they stole from the Christmas nativity." - after watching - yeap, I was right. It was a mistake.
๐ฅ Inside (2023) โ Anything with Willem Dafoe is worth trying. Later... a one man show. Better than I thought it was going to be once I realized how it was unfolding. Dafoe is quite the actor. Few could pull something like this off. ๐
๐ฅ Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) โ See one of the world's favorite musicals come to life as powerful performances from the cast make this version of Jesus Christ Superstar an unforgettable extravaganza you won't want to miss!
๐ฅ King of New York (1990) โ Abel Ferrara's stylish direction accentuates this gritty action film about a New York drug lord (Christopher Walken) who's just out of prison and determined to rule the streets again with a vengeance.
๐ฅ Lot No. 249 (2023) โ Itโs 1881, and Old College, Oxford plays host to three very different academics. But can Bellinghamโs experiments bring the breath of life to the horrifying bag of bones, Lot No 249?
๐ฅ Memento (2001) โ A man juggles searching for his wife's murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being an obstacle.
๐ฅ Morning Show Mysteries: Mortal Mishaps (2018) - It's a Hallmark movie. Which means, it's like an after school special from the 1970s, overlaid with a dose of feminism. But, I'm working on my movie watching queue creation function, and the kinks are not yet worked out. Shows like this become a lot more enjoyable to watch if you occasionally repeat a line one of the characters says, in the voice of like Mr. T (look that up on wikipedia if your a yute [look that up on YouTube if you don't know what that is, try alternate spelling 'utes', as in "the two utes]) and add "motherfucker" with an "!" at he end. You can (at least I can) amuse myself for the entire movie this way. BTW... do this when your alone, if you watch the movie and do this with others around you will eventually get punched. PS - They should start an "amazing" ranking, and list how many times someone says "amazing" in a movie. Never watch a movie where that word is used. I lost count how many times it was used in this one.
๐ฅ Mr. Holmes (2015) โ In 1947 in a Sussex village, a retired Sherlock Holmes lives languidly with his housekeeper and her young son. While battling the beginnings of dementia, Holmes is haunted by a 30-year old case and the memory of a mysterious woman. ๐
๐ฅ My Week With Marilyn (2011) โ The guy who wrote the book(s) that the movie was based on, Colin Clark, is the son of Kenneth Clark, you know, the historian that wrote Civilization. I used to own the paperback with that picture on the cover. It is truly a small world after all. ๐
๐ฅ Payback (1999) โ After a successful heist, Porter is left for dead. Once he recovers, he seeks vengeance and wants his share of the money.
๐ฅ Road to Perdition (2002) โ Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. After his son is witness to a killing, Sullivan finds him self on the run trying to save the life of his son and looking for revenge on those who wronged him. ๐
๐ฅ Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery โ Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team arrive in Three Pines to solve the unusual murder of a much-loved woman and find dark secrets shadowing this usually peaceful village.
๐ฅ Stolen (2012) โ Nick Cage. The story just gets crazier and crazier as the movie goes on. A typical Cage performance / movie.
๐ฅ The Imitation Game (2014) โ Benedict Cumberbatch shines as real-life war hero and pioneer of modern-day computing, Alan Turing, who saved millions of lives by cracking Germany's so-called unbreakable code during WWII. ๐
๐ฅ The Inheritance (2021) โ This movie is shit. And... nothing makes any sense at the end. Yet, like another movie I watched recently, it does have nice furniture and waynescoating, but that is pretty much all it has.
๐ฅ The Last Movie (2012) - What the actual fuck? I knew this was going to be a mistake to watch. And when the subtitles started I should have bailed then. This SHOULD be the last movie this man is allowed to ever make.
๐ฅ The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) โ Director Martin Scorsese's stellar film adaptation of the controversial novel: Jesus questions the nature of his higher calling while imagining his life as an ordinary man.
๐ฅ The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
๐ฅ The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (2012) โ One night in Victorian Melbourne, two gentlemen board a hanson cab...but only one emerges alive. A classic whodunnit adapted from the best-selling book of the same name.
๐ฅ The Paper Chase (1973) - I remember watching this as a young kid. A trip down memory lane.
๐ฅ The Passenger (2023) โ Not a happy movie. The passenger (the yute himself) kind of annoyed me. A person that age (20 years old) should able to speak a sentence that is clear and to the point. Look out for the scene where me makes a call from the bathroom and ask yourself, "what should he have said", and compare it to what he did say. Young people need to remember that learning to speak clearly and accurately is important.
๐ฅ The Perfect Host (2011) โ A career criminal finds himself on the doorstep of a consummate host preparing for a dinner party. As the wine flows and the evening progresses, we become deeply intertwined in the lives of these two men and discover just how deceiving appearances can be. ๐
๐ฅ The Raven (2012) โ In 19th-century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields makes a horrifying discovery: The murders of a mother and daughter resemble a fictional crime described in a story by Edgar Allan Poe. When another murder occurs, also seemingly inspired by Poe's writings, Fields realizes a serial killer is on the loose and enlists Poe's help in catching the felon. ๐
๐ฅ The Vatican Tapes (2015) โ Looks like I'm going on a The Exorcist inspired supernaturalistic double feature today. Why? I guess "the power of Christ compels me". ๐ Later... pretty much a redo of The Exorcist (1973) with explosions at the end that yutes that have grown up watching video games and superhero movies have come to expect. Overall, pretty much shit. Watch The Exorcist instead. It's still the best movie of it's kind ever made.
๐ฅ The Wolfpack (2015) โ I could only make it a bit less than half way through this movie. The idea of a family of kids that never left the house was bizarre. Yet, the film never actually explained anything. I stopped watching, and looked them up on Wikipedia, and a NY Post article, and moved on. The documentary didn't hit on any aspect of what you really want to know.
๐ฅ Transsiberian (2008) โ When an American couple encounters a pair of mysterious fellow travelers, their Transsiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder.
๐ฅ Vlad The Impaler(2018) โ 15th century, Ottoman Empire: the land is ruled by the blood-thirsty, Vlad the Impaler. Baba Sultan orders seven fearless warriors, on an epic journey, to stop at nothing until they hunt down Vlad in what will be a battle to end all battles.
๐ฅ When Nietzsche Wept (2007) โ Viennese doctor Josef Breuer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
๐ฅ Witness (1985) โ When an Amish woman and her son get involved in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent, their savior is revealed as hardened Philly detective John Book. Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect the family until the trial's completion.
๐ฅ Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) โ In their first semester at boarding school, a plague of bizarre, puzzling murders grip London, so teenage Sherlock Holmes and his newfound friend John Watson decide investigate, hoping to untangle the dark and twisted mystery.
๐บ Miss Marple (Season 3) 1987
๐บ Miss Marple (1985) Season 2
๐บ Miss Marple (1984) Season 1
๐บ Rumpole of the Bailey (1978) - this guy talks even louder than me, which I didn't know was possible.
๐บ Reacher (2022)
๐บ Miss Marple (2005) 3 Seasons
๐บ Agatha Christie's Marple (2009) Season 4
๐ฅ The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
๐ฅ Finestkind (2023) directed by Brian Helgeland
๐บ Prime Suspect (1992) Season 4
๐บ The Village (2013)
๐ฅ Napoleon (2023)
๐ฅ Old Dads (2023)
๐ฅ Solace (2016)
๐ฅ๐ The Mist (2007) โ perhaps good if your 10 years old. But almost impossible for an adult to watch.
๐ฅ Deception (2008)
๐บ Inspector Morse (1988) season 2, 4 episodes
๐บ Sherlock (2010) season 1 of 4
๐บ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1985) season 1 of 4, 13 episodes
๐บ The Booth at the End (2011) โ One of the best, if not the best, series I've ever seen. Season 1 & Season 2
๐บ Luther (2019) Season 5, 4 episodes
๐บ Prime Suspect (1994) Season 3, 2 episodes โ Oscarยฎ winner Helen Mirren is Det. Jane Tennison, rising through the ranks, solving horrific crimes while battling office sexism and her own demons.
๐ฅ A Haunting in Venice (2023)
๐บ Prime Suspect (1992) Season 2, 2 episodes
๐บ The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2016) Season 4, 8 episodes
๐ฅ Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
๐บ A Touch of Frost (1994) season 2, 4 episodes
๐ฅ The Boost (1988), directed by Harold Becker
๐ฅ The Passenger (1975)
๐บ Luther (2015) season 4, 2 episodes
๐ฅ Malice (1993)
๐ฅ Crisis (2021)
๐ฅ Arbitrage (2012)
๐บ Bergerac (1983) season 2, 9 episodes
๐บ The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2018) Season 3
๐บ A Touch of Frost (1992) season 1
๐บ A Ghost Story for Christmas (series)
๐ฅ A Ghost Story for Christmas: Martin's Close (2019)
๐ฅ The Quatermass Experiment (2005) - A total WTF movie. Three Astronauts merge into one in space, return to earth, escape from the lab / hospital, randomly roams England, turns into a plant, and threaten to destroy the world. Lot's a big name British actors signed up for this. Apparently a redo of an older 1953 classic British Sci-Fi series that some of them grew up with and were happy to take part in. I see the original also influenced Doctor Who so you know it's total campy bull-shit.
๐ฅ Cafe Express (1981) โ put on hold after about 20 minutes
๐ฅ Angel Heart (1987) Director Alan Parker
๐ฅ The Tomorrow War (2021) Directed by Chris McKay - Shit. Could even finish it.
๐บ Hanna (2019) Program creator: David Farr
๐บ Tell me your secrets (2021)
๐ฅ Bliss (2021) Director Mike Cahill
๐ฅ Frailty (2002) Directors Bill Paxton
๐ฅ The Circle (2017) Directors James Ponsoldt
๐บ The Feed (2019)
๐บ Bosch (7 seasons)
๐ฅ The Lie (2018) directed by Veena Sud
๐บ The Missing - Season 2 (2016) 8 episodes
๐บ The Missing (2014)
๐ฅ The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (2012) Director Shawn Seet
๐ฅ Poison Rose (2019)
๐ฅ We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) Director Lynne Ramsay - In this Golden Globe nominated psychological thriller, Oscar winner Tilda Swinton plays Eva, the mother of the evil Kevin (Ezra Miller). Eva contends with her clueless husband (John C. Reilly) and her son's malevolent ways, as the narrative builds to a chilling and unforgettable climax.
๐ฅ The Night of the Hunter (1955) Director Charles Laughton - Robert Mitchum stars in an unforgettable role as a psychopathic preacher in relentless pursuit of two children who have their dead father's stolen fortune hidden in a doll. Shelley Winters co-stars.
๐ฅ The Student Prince (1997) Director Simon Curtis - Seconded to the Royal Protection Squad, police officer Barry Grimes is dispatched to look after a young British Prince starting his first year at Cambridge University. Barry soon finds his duties extending far beyond those of personal bodyguard. Against the famous backdrop of the dreaming spires, the two young men learn about life, love and themselves.
๐ฅ Lucy and Desi (2022) Director Amy Poehler - From director Amy Poehler, Lucy and Desi explores the unlikely partnership and enduring legacy of one of the most prolific power couples in entertainment history. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz risked everything to be together.
๐ฅ Dark River (2018) Director Clio Barnard - Following the death of her father, Alice returns to her home village for the first time in 15 years to claim from her estranged brother the family farm she believes is rightfully hers. From acclaimed filmmaker Clio Barnard, one of the premier new voices in British cinema, "Dark River" is a taut and powerful psychological drama.
๐ฅ I Want You Back (2021) Director Jason Orley - Peter and Emma thought they were on the precipice of lifeโs biggest moments โ marriage, kids, and houses in the suburbs โ until their respective partners dumped them. Horrified to learn that the loves of their lives have already moved on, Peter and Emma hatch a hilarious plan to win back their exes with unexpected results.
๐ฅ The Lost City of Z (2017) Director James Gray tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.
๐ฅ Europa Report (2013) Director Sebastiรกn Cordero - When unmanned probes suggest that a hidden ocean could exist underneath Europa's icy surface and may contain single-celled life, Europa Ventures, a privately funded space exploration company, sends six of the best astronauts from around the world to confirm the data and explore the revolutionary discovery.
๐ฅ Dark Was the Night (2015) Director Jack Heller - Maiden Woods is a remote and quiet town of decent hard-working people, but something stirs in the dark woods surrounding this isolated community. After a logging company decimates an area of the forest, a rash of increasingly violent and unexplainable events transpires.
๐ฅ Once Upon a Time in London (2019) Director Simon Rumley - The violent reign of two of London's most notorious gangsters, Jack 'Spot' Comer and Billy Hill, is grippingly brought to the big screen by visionary director Simon Rumley, in a saga of madness, mayhem and manipulation, reminiscent of British favourites Legend and Peaky Blinders. Starring Leo Gregory (Green Street), Terry Stone (Rise of the Footsoldier) and Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake).
๐ฅ Fargo (1996) Directors Joel Coen - A man deeply in debt hires two incompetent henchmen to kidnap his wife and split the ransom money but things go awry when the inept criminals instead kill a highway patrolman and 2 hapless bystanders.
๐ฅ The Vast of Night (2020) Director Andrew Patterson - In the twilight of the 1950s, on one fateful night in New Mexico, a young switchboard operator Fay (Sierra McCormick) and charismatic radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz) discover a strange audio frequency that could change their small town and the future forever.
๐ฅ The Protege (2021) Directors Martin Campbell - Michael Keaton, Maggie Q, and Samuel L. Jackson lead this high-octane action-thriller from the director of Casino Royale about a contract killer out to avenge her mentor's murder.
๐ฅ Bluestocking Crimes: Don't Leave Me This Way (1993) Director Stuart Orme - When a friend's body is found in a car wreck on the lonely Suffolk coast, university lecturers Loretta Lawson and Bridget Bennet believe it was no accident. A conversation with the dead woman's daughter confirms their suspicion and they uncover startling truths which threaten to make them the next victims. Janet McTeer and Imelda Staunton are the clever criminologists from a novel by Joan Smith.
๐ฅ The Two Faces of January (2014) Director Hossein Amini - This thriller follows Chester MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen) and his wife Colette (Kirsten Dunst) as they befriend a guide (Oscar Isaac) on a European trip. This friendship takes a turn when it morphs into a love triangle full of envy, and murder.
๐ฅ Murderous Trance (2018) Director Arto Halonen - Murderous Trance is a thriller about the murders that took place in Denmark in the 1950s. Inspector Anders Olsen (Pilou Asbรฆk) begins to solve a case where a bank robber shot two men and ran into the streets of Copenhagen. After his arrest, the robber claims to have committed the crime alone. Some eyewitnesses say he seemed to be in a trance, a fact that makes the case even more complicated.
๐ฅ Cleaning Lady (2019) Director Jon Knautz - On the surface Alice seems like a woman who has it all: a gorgeous apartment, a booming career, a stunning physique, and a handsome boyfriend. The only problem is she's married to someone else. Looking for a way to simplify her life, Alice hires Shelly to clean her house. As Alice begins to confide in Shelly about her illicit affair, their friendship grow and so does Shelly's twisted obsession.
๐ฅ The Turn of the Screw (2009) Director Tim Fywell - A hauntingly atmospheric and star-studded adaptation of Henry James' classic gothic horror story. A young, inexperienced governess is hired to look after two small children abandoned by their uncle, following the death of their parents. Unsettled by glimpses of ghostly figures that only she can see, she quickly believes that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care.
๐ฅ The Alpines (2021) Director Dante Aubain - A psychological thriller that follows seven friends coming together for a weekend getaway after several years of little to no contact. An exploration of a world made up of characters solely powered and driven by a seven deadly sin.
๐ฅ Lions For Lambs (2007) Director Robert Redford - Robert Redford, Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep star in this powerful and provocative drama that delves into the intricacies and theories of war...and the very real consequences for two soldiers fighting for their lives half a world away in Afghanistan.
๐ฅ The Maitlands (1993) Director Lindsay Posner - Eileen Atkins and Bill Nighy star in Ronald Mackenzie's 'lost masterpiece.' Taking place in early summer in the secluded seaside village of Betworthy, there is a strained atmosphere in the once-prosperous Maitland household, as impossible love triangles and hard times begin to take their toll.
๐ฅ ๐ An Inspector Calls (2015) Director Aisling Walsh โ An Inspector Calls is a mysterious detective thriller set in 1912 and written by English dramatist J.B. Priestley. Following the suicide of a young woman from the local town, an inspector calls unexpectedly to interrogate the wealthy Birling family. As their world unravels, each member of the family is revealed to have unwittingly played a part in her demise.
๐ฅ ๐ The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) Director David Attwood - A captivating 21st-century version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's chilling masterpiece. The legendary Sherlock Holmes and dynamic Dr Watson grapple with an adversary that threatens to overwhelm them on the forbidding moors of England. As Holmes investigates the mystery of Sir Charles Baskerville's recent death, events spiral out of control. Is his adversary human or occult?
๐ฅ ๐ A Landing on the Sun (1994) Director Nick Renton - 20 years ago, George Summerchild fell to his death from a Ministry of Defence building. Was it suicide? Despite all the speculation, no one has ever solved the mystery. Now Brian Jessel, another civil servant, has been asked to investigate. What he uncovers is a curious romance which forces him to consider his own bleak life, the nature of happiness and the blinding power of true love.
๐ฅ ๐ All Good Things (2010) Directed by Andrew Jarecki - Ryan Gosling stars as the heir to a real estate dynasty who is suspected of murdering his wife in this chilling psychological thriller.
๐ฅ ๐ Knives Out (2019) Director: Rian Johnson - When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate, the inquisitive Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
๐ฅ ๐ Elephant Song (2015) directed by Charles Biname - When a psychiatrist goes mysteriously missing from a hospital that has recently been plagued by scandal, Dr. Toby Green (Bruce Greenwood) is called in to investigate before the news goes public.
The Lady Vanishes (2013) Director Diarmuid Lawrence - A stunning adaptation of the classic 1930s thriller. Iris Carr is traveling across Europe by train when she befriends Miss Froy, an elderly English woman. But when she wakes up from a few hours' sleep, Miss Froy has vanished. As fellow passengers claim the lady never existed, Iris fights to discover the fate of Miss Froy - and prove that she's not going mad.
๐ฅ The White Orchid (2018) Director Steve Anderson - A shy Social Services investigator is reluctantly assigned to an unsolved, small-town homicide case. Taking both personal and professional chances, she slowly assumes the identity of the enigmatic blond victim - known only as "The White Orchid" - in hopes of solving the mysterious murder.
๐ฅ Case Sensitive: The Point of Rescue (2011) Director Charles Martin - New Detective Superintendent Charlie Zailer finds herself working with DC Simon Waterhouse for the first time. When Geraldine Bretherick and her five-year-old daughter are found dead, Sally Thorne is shocked. Months before, she'd had a brief but passionate affair with a man called Mark Bretherick. Now she feels the need to get in touch with him again to offer her sympathy.
๐ฅ The Secret Agent (1992) Director David Drury - Joseph Conrad's classic tale of political intrigue in 1890s London. Triple agent Verloc works for the anarchists, the British Police and the Tsarist Embassy. When ordered to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, moral dilemma takes second place to personal tragedy.
๐ฅ Broil (2020) Director Edward Drake - After troubled 17-year-old Chance is sent to live at her draconian grandfather's estate, she uncovers a dangerous ancient family secret. Her only hope for survival may come from a killer-for-hire with a fortuitous stroke of culinary genius.
๐ฅ Suspiria (2018) Director Luca Guadagnino - A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director (Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Ebersdorf). Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
๐ฅ We Are Still Here (2015) Director Ted Geoghegan - In this chilling modern ghost story, a couple find themselves haunted by vengeful spirits after they move to a rural town that harbors a horrifying secret.
๐ฅ Daniel Isn't Real (2019) Director Adam Egypt Mortimer - Troubled college freshman Luke (Robbins) suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel (Schwarzenegger) to help him cope. Charismatic and full of manic energy, Daniel helps Luke to achieve his dreams, before pushing him to the very edge of sanity and into a desperate struggle for control of his mind โ and his soul.
๐ฅ The Green Sea (2021) Director Randal Plunkett
๐ฅ The Cry of The Owl (2009) Director Jamie Thraves - A troubled young man retreats from the big city and his ex-wife for the tranquility of a small town. He is drawn into a relationship with a young woman whose boyfriend goes missing, leaving the new arrival as a suspect.
๐ฅ William the Conqueror (2015) Director Frederic Compain - One of the most powerful rulers in all of European history, William the Conqueror, is profiled in this documentary. From his rulership at age eight, to his commanding victory in the battle of Hastings, William reinvented the structure of European royalty. From the battlefield to the royal court, William set the stage for the continent's future. This is his story.
๐บ DCI Banks (2011) series - Based on the Inspector Banks novels from award-winning international crime writer Peter Robinson, this series features carefully worked stories crammed with twists and turns, and intriguing and memorable characters.
๐บ Jo (2019) series, 8 episodes - Jo St-Clair is a veteran detective in Paris' elite Criminal Brigade, tackling the city's most challenging murder cases. Brilliant and brutal, St-Clair must outwit pathological killers to solve the most shocking murders, all while juggling a personal life just as challenging and as dangerous as the cases he solves.
๐ฅ The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Director: Anthony Minghella - When Dickie's father commissions Ripley to bring his errant son back home to America, Dickie and his beautiful expatriate girlfriend never suspect the dangerous extremes to which Ripley will go to make their lifestyle his own.
๐ฅ Uncut Gems (2019) directed by Benny & Josh Safdie - Adam Sandlers plays the most annoying man in the world, that just never shuts up, and ends up ruining his own life. This is a hard movie to sit through cause Sandler just can't shut up and is so annoying, and you're happy when it's finally over. Not worth your time.
๐บ Endeavour (2013) - Before Inspector Morse, there was the rookie Constable Morse, fed up with police work and ready to nip his career in the bud by handing in his resignation.
๐ฅ Injustice (2011) - a five-part British drama television series about criminal defence barrister William Travers, who has lost faith in the legal system following a traumatic series of events.
๐ฅ Hand Of God (2015) 2 seasons - Hand of God follows Pernell Harris (Ron Perlman), a corrupt judge who suffers a breakdown and believes that God is compelling him onto a path of vigilante justice. He becomes a member of a church called Hand of God, which proves to be a dangerous cult.
๐ฅ The Wilds (2020) - A group of teen girls from different backgrounds must fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island. The castaways both clash and bond as they learn more about each other, the secrets they keep, and the traumas they've all endured. Thereโs just one twist to this thrilling Drama - Coming of Age โฆ these girls did not end up on this island by accident.
๐ฅ Agatha and The Truth of Murder (2021) Directed by Terry Loane - This film imagines what might have happened to the author Agatha Christie. In 1926, with her writing in crisis and her personal life in tatters, a young Agatha Christie decides to solve a real-life murder. With Dean Andrews, Bebe Cave, Amelia Dell and Ruth Bradley as Agatha Christie.
๐บ Flack (2019) series 2 seaons. Bad Behavior. Great Publicists. Ever wonder what the real story is behind those celebrity gossip columns? Flack has all the dirt. Four quick-witted and relentless flackers led by Robyn, played by Academy Award Winner Anna Paquin, are tasked to make the best of their celebrity clientโs terrible decisions. Will their ability to clean up their clientโs lives translate to their own?
๐ฅ Vienna Blood (2020). Max Liebermann, disciple of Freud, brings his skills of perception and forensics, and a deep understanding of human behavior & deviance, to help DI Oskar Rheinhardt solve some of Viennaโs most mysterious and deadly cases.
๐ฅ The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)
๐ฅ Night Hunter (2019) Directed by David Raymond
๐บ LuLaRich (2021) 4 episodes - OMG! Multi-level marketings + social media... what could possibly go wrong? ๐
๐บ Modern Love (2019) series
๐ฅ Being the Ricardos (2021) directed by Aaron Sorkin
๐บ American Horror Story, seasons 1-9
๐ฅ Lamb (2021) Directed by Valdimar Johannsson - In rural Iceland, a childless couple discover a strange and unnatural newborn in their sheep barn. They decide to raise her as their own, but sinister forces are determined to return the creature to the wilderness that birthed her.
๐ฅ The Woman in Black (2012) Directed by James Watkins - A lawyer is forced to leave his young son and travel to a remote village to attend to the affairs of the recently deceased owner of Eel Marsh House.
๐บ Victoria (TV series, 3 seasons starting 2016) - Victoria is a British historical television drama series created and principally written by Daisy Goodwin, starring Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on ITV on 28 August 2016 with eight episodes, and in the United States on PBS on 15 January 2017; PBS supported its production as part of the Masterpiece anthology. Episode 1 went right for the donkey show
๐ฅ Witchfinder General (1968) Directors Michael Reeves โ Vincent Price is at his most wicked in this gruesome period piece about a sadistic witch-hunter.
๐บ Downton Abbey (2010) TV Series, 6 seasons - Downton Abbey is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes. The series first aired on ITV in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2010, and in the United States on PBS, which supported production of the series as part of its Masterpiece Classic anthology, on 9 January 2011.
๐ฅ The Handmaid's Tale (1990) Director Volker Schlondorff
๐ฅ Mary Higgins Clark's: Pretend You Don't See Her (2002) Director Rene Bonniere - As she lay dying, a woman gives the only witness to her murder her daughter's journal, implying that her attacker may also be responsible for her child's death. Before giving the journal to the police, the witness makes a copy for herself - an act she will live to regret. It's got the feel of a Lifetime movie or an after school special, but at least there are no super-heros or talking animal cartoon characters.
๐ฅ Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) Director Joseph Ruben - A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
๐ฅ You Were Never Really Here (2017) Director Lynne Ramsay - A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening. This is a total WTF? movie.
๐ฅ Capone (2020) Director Josh Trank - A ruthless businessman and bootlegger who ruled Chicago with an iron fist, Al "Fonzo" Capone (Tom Hardy) was the most infamous and feared gangster of American lore. At the age of 47, following nearly a decade of imprisonment, dementia rots Capone's mind and his past becomes present as harrowing memories of his violent and brutal origins melt into his waking life. ๐ฉ
๐บ Dexter (2006) TV Series - Dexter is an American crime drama television series that aired on Showtime from October 1, 2006, to September 22, 2013. Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan, a forensic technician specializing in bloodstain pattern analysis for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department, who leads a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers who have not been adequately punished by the justice system due to corruption or legal technicalities.
๐ฅ The Mother (1994) Director Simon Curtis
๐ฅ Money for Nothing (1993) Director Mike Ockrent
๐ฅ Sacrificed (2021) Director Gregory W. Friedle
๐ฅ Murder at My Door (1996) Directed by Eric Till
๐ฅ The Tangle (2021) Directed by Christopher Soren Kelly
๐ฅ Sight Unseen (1990) Directed by Greydon Clark. A rich woman becomes paranoid after losing her daughter to a so-called Kabuki Killer. (Shit, couldn't even finish it.)
๐ฅ The Bloodhound (2020) Directed by Patrick Picard. Francis is summoned to the secluded home of his childhood friend, JP, who is suffering from a mysterious affliction. Upon arrival, Francis realises that JP and his twin sister are the surviving members of the privileged Luret family. As the friends attempt to reconnect, a number of inexplicable incidents occur within the house, and Francis finds himself drawn into a world of malaise and despair.
๐บ Them (2021) series. THEM is an anthology series that explores terror in America. The first season, set in 1950โs, centers around a Black family who move from North Carolina to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood. Their idyllic home becomes ground zero where malevolent forces, next door and otherworldly, threaten to taunt, ravage and destroy them. Subtitles available now.
๐ฅ Inheritance (2021) Directed by Tyler Savage. A young couple visits a property left from the late fathers' estate. A haunted and disturbing past unravels. The main character has to overcome his personal issues and how to move forward.
๐ฅ I'm Your Woman (2020) Directed by Julia Hart
๐ฅ The Informer (2020) Directors Andrea Di Stefano
๐ฅ Look Me in the Eye (1996) Directed by Nick Ward
๐ฅ Bingo Hell (2021) Directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero
๐ฅ The Deeper You Dig (2020) Directed by Joh Adams
๐บ Goliath (2016)
๐ฅ Kept Woman (2015) Directed by Michel Poulette
๐ฅ Evidence of Blood (1988) Directed by Andrew Mondshein
๐ฅ The Manor (2021) Directed by Axelle Carolyn
๐ฅ Dead On (1992) Directed by Michael Schroeder
๐ฅ Murder in Mind (1994) Directed by Robert Bierman - A body is found face down in a tank. Detective Inspector Iverson, investigating what seems like a routine case of suicide, becomes involved with the mesmerizing psychotherapist who was helping the dead woman find her true self. Gradually their roles are reversed as her probing uncovers the detective's own deeper motives and needs, until the knife-edge between suicide and murder is exposed.
๐ฅ Century (1996) Directed by Stephen Poliakoff - London, 1899. An elite group of doctors work under the leadership of the eminent Professor Mandry. Paul, Mandry's confidant and the team's star researcher, is madly in love with strong-willed, uninhibited lab assistant Clara. But his world is shattered when he makes a startling discovery about the Professor.
๐ฅ Maxwell (2007) Directed by Colin Barr
๐ฅ Honest Thief (2020) Directed by Mark Williams - Wanting to lead an honest life, a notorious bank robber (Liam Neeson) turns himself in, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents.
๐บ Humans: Series 1 - In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.
๐ฅ The I Inside (2015) Directed by Roland Suso Richter
๐ฅ The Disappointments Room (2016) Directed by D.J. Caruso - Dana, her husband David and their 5-year-old son Lucas start a new life after moving from the hustle and bustle of Brooklyn, N.Y., to a stately old manor in the quiet countryside. After settling in, Dana starts to experience terrifying visions and dreams that she cannot explain. The mystery grows when she stumbles upon a secret room in the attic.
๐ฅ Stone, Scissors, Paper (1997) Directed by Stephen Whittaker - Seeking refuge from a violent husband, Jean secretly moves into the riverside cottage that belonged to her mother. Here, she meets a married stonemason with whom she gradually forms an intimate relationship. Both experience feelings of guilt for their inadmissible love for one another, and it isn't long before the couple's quiet affair of the heart is violently and tragically shattered.
๐ฅ The Sleeper (2000) Direct by Stuart Orme - The presence of a strange old lady at Violet Moon's sรฉance awakens a spirit she hoped would sleep forever and her plots and plans to keep the past from catching up with her become more and more outrageous. Sinister sibling rivalry, bitter jealousy, clandestine passions, ghostly revenge and murderous intentions conspire to create a complex thriller with chilling psychological implications.
๐ฅ Eternal (2004) Directed by Wilhelm Liebenberg, Federico Sanchez - Detective Raymond Pope is a detective of questionable morals, searching for his missing wife. His investigation leads him to the wealthy estate of the enigmatic Elizabeth Kane and her young maid Irina, neither of which are quite what they seem.
๐ฅ Payback (2021) Directed by Joseph Mensch - "You're gonna have a whole army after you." "Not if you're with me." "We better do the donkey now!" "Ok, but then I have to arrange to have you killed."
๐ฅ Too Late to Say Goodbye (2009) Directors Norma Bailey - After discovering her husband's affair, Jenn forges an online connection with a charming mystery man. Which man is more likely to be involved in her sudden death? Based on Ann Rule's best-selling crime novel.
๐ฅ Two For the Money (2005) Directed by D.J. Caruso - Leaves Prime in a day. How long do people want to watch Pacino play an arrogant fake asshole? Hopefully the young people are over this kind of character flaw.
๐ฅ The Believer (2021) Directed by Shan Serafin - Lucas suspects his wife is losing her mind when she claims demons are waging a war in their urban home. Eerie evidence is mounting that she may not actually be crazy after all, but what she's about to tell him next is that he must do the unthinkable.
๐ฅ Framed (2021) Directed by Nick Rizzini - An aspiring photographer actions are challenged by his feminist best friend after he secretly takes pictures of his barely dressed neighbor.
๐ฅ The Russia House (1990) Directors Fred Schepisi - Alcoholic book editor from a bargain basement publishing house in Great Britain, "Barley" Scott Blair, would rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show in Russia. To his surprise, his boozy holiday ends early when a CIA agent pays him a visit. His objectives: to assess new Russia's involvements in the old Cold War and to verify the authenticity of the notebooks found.
๐ฅ Knowing (2009) Director Alex Proyas - Nick Cage and an old retired teacher drink a lot of booze in this really bad movie, where Cage does everything he can be to seen as a mental patient. Plus some horrible special effects thrown in.
๐ฅ Crooked House (2008) Director Damon Thomas - When a museum curator is given the door knocker from a Tudor mansion, the ghostly secrets of Geap Manor's haunted past begin to emerge.
๐ฅ The Wicker Man (1973) Director Robin Hardy - When a young girl mysteriously disappears, police sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not at all what it seems.
๐ฅ The Village (2004) Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
๐ฅ Vivarium (2020) Directed by Lorcan Finnegan - A couple's search for a dream home plunges them into a terrifying nightmare after they are trapped in a mysterious, labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses
๐ฅ The Dead Zone (1983) Director David Cronenberg - Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) awakens from a coma, and finds he now has psychic abilities. Johnny contends with his unsettling powers, which allow him to see a person's future with a mere touch
๐ฅ Confession (2005) Director Jonathan Meyers
๐ฅ 21 Grams (2003) Directed by Alejandro Gonzรกlez Iรฑรกrritu - A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother and a born-again ex-con, whose lives collide in a riveting confrontation.
๐ฅ The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1977) Director Nicholas Gessner - A 13 year-old girl living alone in a big house in a small town will stop at nothing to maintain her secrets and independence from prying adults.
๐ฅ Brigham City (2001) directed by Richard Dutcher - Sheriff Wes Clayton is also a Mormon bishop in a picturesque little burg called Brigham City whose residents are stalked by an unknown serial killer.
๐ฅ Secret Window (2004) Directors David Koepp - A successful writer in the midst of a painful divorce is stalked at his remote lake house by a farmer who claims he plagiarized his work.
๐ฅ The Voyeurs (2021) Director Michael Mohan - A couple interested in the sex life of their neighbors, find one is cheating. Temptation and desire cause their lives to become tangled together leading to deadly consequences.
๐ฅ Anna (2014) Director: Jorge Dorado - A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
๐ฅ The Social Network (2010) Directed by David Fincher
๐ฅ Black Box (2020) Director: Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour
๐ฅ Boarding School (2018) Directors Boaz Yakin
๐ฅ I See You (2019) Directed by Adam Randall
๐ฅ Time of Death (2013) Director Frรฉdรฉric D'Amours
๐ฅ The Isle (2019) Directors Matthew Butler-Hart
๐ฅ The Silencing (2020) Directed by Robin Pront
๐ฅ Grantchester (2014) Developed by Daisy Coulam - Based on The Grantchester Mysteries by James Runcie
๐ฅ Evil Eye (2020) Directors Elan Dassani, Rajeev Dassani
๐ฅ Wander (2020) Directors April Mullen
๐ฅ The Hunter (2011) Directed by Daniel Nettheim
๐ฅ Mortal (2020) Director Andrรฉ รvredal
๐ฅ Nocturne (2020) Director Zu Quirke