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Mystery Movies For Restless Nights From The 2010S

Mystery movies for restless nights from the 2010s. Includes Batman: Hush, Midsommar, What Happened to Monday and more, curated by Moviepiq.

Too wired to sleep, too tired to do anything else. These split the difference.

Batman: Hush movie poster
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2019 · ★★★½☆ 7.2/10

A mysterious new villain known only as Hush uses a gallery of villains to destroy Batman's crime-fighting career as well as Bruce Wayne's personal life, which has been further complicated by a relationship with Selina Kyle/Catwoman.

Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.

Midsommar movie poster
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2019 · ★★★½☆ 7.2/10

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.

What Happened to Monday movie poster
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2017 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows movie poster
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2011 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.

The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.

The Professor and the Madman movie poster
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2019 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.

A film that helps a restless night has something specific going for it. These have it.

Something to solve keeps the restless mind occupied.

A Hard Day movie poster
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2014 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.

The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.

Trash movie poster
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2014 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.

Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.

The Keeper of Lost Causes movie poster
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2013 · ★★★½☆ 7.0/10

Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.

The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.

Marshland movie poster
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2014 · ★★★½☆ 7.0/10

The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.

The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer movie poster
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2017 · ★★★½☆ 7.0/10

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.

Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.

These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.

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