Great Films and their Great Images

Mystery

The Postman Always Rings Twice

"With my brains and your looks, we could go places."
- Frank Chambers
01 (5)
Dir: Tay Garnett

DoP: Sidney Wagner

Year: 1946

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir 
| Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Memories of Murder

"Did you see his face?"
- Detective Park Doo-Man
01 (55)Dir: Bong Joon-ho

DoP: Kim Hyung-koo

Year: 2003

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean | English

Genre: Crime | Drama 
| Mystery | Thriller
Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Confidentially Yours

"Everything I've done was for women. I like to
look at them and to touch them.I enjoy giving them
pleasure. Women are magic, so I became a magician."
- Maitre Clement
01 (60)
Dir: François Truffaut

DoP: Néstor Almendros

Year: 1983

Country: France

Language: French

Genre: Comedy | Crime 
| Mystery | Thriller
Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Manhunter

"And if one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is."
- Doctor Hannibal Lecktor
01 (34)
Dir: Michael Mann
DoP: Dante Spinotti
Year: 1986
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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It Follows

"It could look like someone you know or it could be a
stranger in a crowd. Whatever helps it get close to you."
- Hugh
01 (57)Dir: David Robert Mitchell
DoP: Mike Gioulakis
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy | Horror 
| Mystery | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Whirlpool

"You were wise not to tell your husband, Mrs. Sutton. A successful marriage
is usually based on what a husband and wife don't know about each other."
- David Korvo
01 (44)

Dir: Otto Preminger

DoP: Arthur C. Miller

Year: 1949

Country: USA

Language: English | Italian

Genre: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir 
| Mystery | Thriller
Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Hugo

"If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from,
you look around... this is where they're made."
- George Méilès

01 (49)Dir: Martin Scorsese

DoP: Robert Richardson

Year: 2011

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Adventure | Drama 
| Family | Mystery | War
Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Swamp Water

"If you can learn to live with cotton-mouths and 'gators and
panthers, on places where there ain't a solid bit of ground
to stand on, why I reckon you're welcome to your life."
- Tom Keefer
01 (12)

Dir: Jean Renoir 
(uncredited: Irving Pichel)
DoP: J. Peverell Marley 
(uncredited: Lucien Ballard)
Year: 1941

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Blow-Up

"Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out."
- Thomas
01 (7)
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni

DoP: Carlo Di Palma
Year: 1966

Country: UK | Italy | USA

Language: English

Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Rebecca

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
- Mrs. de Winter
01 (36)

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

DoP: George Barnes

Year: 1940

Country: USA

Language: English | French

Genre: Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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A Very Long Engagement

"Ashes to Ashes. Ashes to Ashes."
- Mathilde
01 (12)Dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
DoP: Bruno Delbonnel
Year: 2004
Country: France | USA
Language: French | German 
| Corsican
Genre: Drama | Mystery 
| Romance | War
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Atonement

"I love you. I'll wait for you. Come back. Come back to me."
- Cecilia Tallis
01 (36)Dir: Joe Wright

DoP: Seamus McGarvey

Year: 2007

Country: UK | France | USA

Language: English | French

Genre: Drama | Mystery 
| Romance | War
Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Night of the Demon

"It's in the trees! It's coming!"
- Professor Harrington
01 (31)
Dir: Jacques Tourneur

DoP: Edward Scaife

Year: 1957

Country: UK

Language: English

Genre: Fantasy | Horror 
| Mystery | Thriller
Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Gone Girl

"You. Fucking. Bitch."
- Nick Dunne
01 (31)Dir: David Fincher
DoP: Jeff Cronenweth
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Crime | Drama 
| Mystery | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

 

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In the Heat of the Night

"They call me MISTER Tibbs!"
- Virgil Tibbs
01 (37)Dir: Norman Jewison

DoP: Haskell Wexler

Year: 1967

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Crime | Drama 
| Mystery | Thriller
Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Night and the City

"Harry, do you know what you're doing? You're killing me. You're killing me and yourself."
- Mary Bristol
01 (9)

Dir: Jules Dassin

DoP: Mutz Greenbaum

Year: 1950

Country: UK | USA

Language: English

Genre: Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery 
| Sport | Thriller
Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Bad Timing

"If we're gonna meet, it might as well be now."
- Milena Flaherty
01 (28)
Dir: Nicolas Roeg
DoP: Anthony B. Richmond
Year: 1980
Country: UK
Language: English | German 
| Czech | French
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Clockers

"Dont you want to go some place you've never been before? I
mean, you love trains, but you've only ridden the subway."
- Andre The Giant
01 (59)Dir: Spike Lee

DoP: Malik Hassan Sayeed

Year: 1995

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

"I must know everything. I must penetrate the
heart of his secret! I must become Caligari!"
- Dr. Caligari
01 (12)

Dir: Robert Wiene

DoP: Willy Hameister

Year: 1920

Country: Germany

Language: German | Silent

Genre: Horror | Mystery

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

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The New York Ripper

"But you won't understand me, you'll never understand
me! You're too stupid! Quack! Quack! Quack!"
- The Ripper
01 (18)
Dir: Lucio Fulci
DoP: Luigi Kuveiller
Year: 1982
Country: Italy
Language: Italian | Spanish
Genre: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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The Conversation

"He'd kill us if he got the chance."
- Mark
01 (60)Dir: Francis Ford Coppola

DoP: Bill Bulter
(Uncredited: Haskell Wexler)
Year: 1974

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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The Night Listener

"Listen, you ruined what we had. You're the fucking one who can't see the reality."
- Gabriel Noone
01 (26)Dir: Patrick Stettner

DoP: Lisa Rinzler

Year: 2006

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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The Quiet Earth

"God blinked, and the whole world disappeared."
- Joanne
01 (60)Dir: Geoff Murphy

DoP: James Bartle

Year: 1985

Country: New Zealand

Language: English

Genre: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Ex Machina

"One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look
at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living
in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction."
- Nathan
01 (11)
Dir: Alex Garland
DoP: Rob Hardy
Year: 2015
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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