Mystery – Stream On Demand

Grace Kelly and Cary Grant, directed by Alfred Hitchcock

‘To Catch a Thief’ with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly on Prime Video, Paramount+, and MGM+

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, caper, Classic Movie, DVD, Hollywood Classic, MGM+, Mystery, Paramount+, suspense, SVOD 12/02/2023 Sean Axmaker

Alfred Hitchcock’s frothiest entertainment delivers glamor and romance with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly on the French Riviera where a cat burglar is stealing the jewels of rich tourists.

‘Woman on the Run’ with Ann Sheridan free on Kanopy

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, film noir, Flicker Alley, Free, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, Kanopy, Mystery, SVOD, thriller 11/30/2023 Sean Axmaker

Sheridan developed and produced this independent film noir, which was shot on location in San Francisco and makes great use of the city.

‘The Two Mrs. Carrolls’ – Bogart and Stanwyck on Max

!Featured, based on a play, Classic Movie, DVD, film noir, Max, Mystery, suspense, SVOD 11/28/2023 Sean Axmaker

Classic film icons Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck star together for the first and only time in this film noir with an edge of artistic psychosis.

Orson Welles is Harry Lime on Carol Reed's classic

Continental noir: ‘The Third Man’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, British Cinema, Cannes winner, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, international noir, Mystery, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, suspense, SVOD, thriller 11/23/2023 Sean Axmaker

Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles star in Carol Reed’s continental film noir set in the rubble of post-war Vienna. It placed in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films ever made.

Myrna Loy and William Powell (with Asta) as Nick and Nora Charles in the great mystery series

‘The Thin Man’ – Champagne sleuths on Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, Classic Movie, DVD, family friendly, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Max, Mystery, SVOD 11/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

It’s cocktail hour on the mystery beat when William Powell and Myrna Loy play Nick and Nora Charles, the world’s most debonair detective team, in the classic series of snappy mysteries.

‘Quai des Orfevres’ – Greed and jealousy in postwar France free on Kanopy

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, film noir, Free, French noir, International Classics, Kanopy, Mystery, SVOD, Venice winner 11/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

Henri-Georges Clouzot directs this murder mystery set in the world of lies, greed, jealousy, and corruption in postwar France.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, and Mark Ruffalo in Martin Scorsese's film of the Dennis Lahane novel

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Shutter Island’ on Paramount+ and MGM+

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, literary adaptation, MGM+, Mystery, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/08/2023 Sean Axmaker

Leonardo DiCaprio investigates the disappearance of an inmate of an island asylum in this mix of detective movie, psychological mystery, and paranoid thriller.