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Best Mystery Movies Alone On A Rainy Night That Will Mess With Your Mind

These mystery films were selected by the Moviepiq editorial team for a rainy night in. Popularity and critic scores don't factor in here. Emotional fit does.

The best mystery movies alone on a rainy night that will mess with your mind. Includes The Others, Zootopia 2, Blue Velvet and more - curated by Moviepiq.

There's a particular kind of film for a rainy night alone - absorbing enough to pull you fully in, good enough that you don't check your phone once.

A great mystery is built on trust. The film shows you every clue - and still manages to surprise you.

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2001 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

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2025 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

After cracking the biggest case in Zootopia's history, rookie cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a great mystery when Gary De'Snake arrives and turns the animal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before.

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1986 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

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.

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2018 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.

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1995 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.

A great mystery never cheats. These films play fair - which makes it all the more impressive when they still manage to surprise you.

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1976 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

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1946 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

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2008 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

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2010 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.

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1997 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

The best mind-bending films don't cheat. They follow their own logic rigorously - which is exactly why the rug-pull, when it comes, is so disorienting.

Great mystery cinema changes how you watch everything else. You start looking for the clues in every story.

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