Movies By Genre: Mystery

BATMAN BEGINS explores the origins of the Batman legend and the Dark Knight's emergence as a force for good in Gotham City. In the wake of his parents' murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. Returning to Gotham, he unveils his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses his strength, intellect and an array of high tech deceptions to fight the sinister forces that threaten the city. BATMAN BEGINS also stars Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, and Katie Holmes.

Anna (Nicole Kidman) is a delicate young widow finally moving on with her life ten years after the death of her much loved husband Sean. Now engaged to be married to her a new beau Joseph (Danny Huston), Anna gets unsettled when a solemn, young ten-year-old makes an absurd claim that he is Sean (Cameron Bright) reincarnated.

The lives of a Brentwood housewife and her DA husband, a Persian store owner, two cops, two carjackers, a Mexican locksmith, a middle-aged Korean couple, and a rookie cop, all collide within the next 36 hours in Los Angeles City. This unflinching drama by Paul Haggis stars Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, William Fichtner, Jennifer Esposito, Terrence Dashton Howard, Ludacris, Thandie Newton, and Ryan Philippe.

Isolated on a remote island, a training program is in full swing for the FBI's advanced psychological profiling division called the Mindhunters. These seven handpicked agents are adept at cornering serial killers, but when they discover that one of their own is actually a serial killer ready to strike, can the remaining agents be able to identify the killer in time? MINDHUNTERS stars Val Kilmer, Christian Slater, LL Cool J, Eion Bailey, Clifton Collins Jr., Johnny Lee Miller, and Will Kemp.

IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is back on another impossible mission.

When famous scientists the world over are disappearing without a trace, intrepid reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) and ace aviator Sky Captain (Jude Law) are on the case. Aided by squadron commander Franky Cook (Angelina Jolie), and technical genius Dex (Giovanni Ribisi), Polly and Sky must risk their lives to put a stop to the plans of Dr. Totenkopf (Laurence Olivier) and his assasin (Ling Bai) to destroy the earth.

A quiet seaside town in Northern California is engulfed by a thick fog precisely one hundred years after a ship of lepers was horribly wrecked just off the coast under mysterious circumstances. The Fog stars Tom Welling, Maggie Grace and Selma Blair. Based on the 1980 screenplay of John Carpenter, this remake is directed by Rupert Wainwright.