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Updated 2 months ago,March 9, 2025
Mystery films on Netflix are a dime a dozen, but if we had to boil it down these are the three best to watch before April.
Under Suspicion
Under Suspicion, a remake of the 1981 French filmGarde a Vue, is about a wealthy lawyer, Henry Hearst (Gene HackmanRIP), who becomes the prime suspect in a series of child murders.
As hes interrogated by his friend, Detective Victor Benezet (Morgan Freeman), the tension escalates and crescendos in a way that makes it a classical murder mystery of the early 2000s.
A Simple Favor / Under Suspicion
Shutter Island
Perhaps the closest Martin Scorsese will ever come to directing a full-blown horror movie,Shutter Islandacts as a spine-tingling love letter to 50s horror comics and classic noir films of the same era.
Thrusting an everyman detective (Leonardo DiCaprio)into a mental health facilityfor notorious criminals,Shutter Islandonly seems to grow more and more chaotic with each passing moment, posing just as many questions as it does answers.
A Simple Favor
Not all mysteries need to be dark and brooding, andA Simple Favorbrings a stylish, sharp-witted approach to the genre.
Centered around an unlikely friendship between a reserved single mom (Anna Kendrick) and a glamorous, enigmatic woman (Blake Lively), the film takes a shocking turn when one of them suddenly disappears.
What starts as a missing person case soon spirals into a web of secrets that makes for a great murder mystery filled with dark humor.
