Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen

The Mandarin Mystery

December 1936 •English

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring

November 1941 •English

The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

August 1941 •English

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.

Ellery Queen, Master Detective

November 1940 •English

Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

March 1941 •English

Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son Ellery to help out.

The Spanish Cape Mystery

October 1935 •English

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

A Close Call for Ellery Queen

January 1942 •English

Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.

A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen

May 1942 •English

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

No Woman Is Afraid of the Night

October 1986 •Korean

A man is paid to seduce the wife of a powerful stockbroker but realizes that he is being set up for a murder charge.

The Fourth Man

February 2007 •Serbian

A man awakens from a two-month-long coma. Total amnesia. A bullet fired point blank. He doesn't remember anything. He's told that he had a wife and a son. They've been killed. He's revealed his past identity by the Colonel, who insists they are best friends. He's a Major of the Military Security Agency. An inspector from the State Security Agency appears affirming that he has information on people responsible for the massacre of his family. The Major is discharged from the hospital. He tries to patch together a normal life but is confronted with emptiness and despair. His only chance of discovering his identity and the assassin of his family is to accept the game that the Inspector has set up for him with the Businessman, the Mafioso and the Politician. He agrees... Discovers that he was a war criminal... Realizes who took a shot at him... Finds out who killed his family... Discovers the Fourth Man!

The Missing Juror

November 1944 •English

A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.

X the Unknown

September 1956 •English

Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.

Bright Future

January 2003 •Japanese

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.

The Castle

September 1997 •German

Michael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's unfinished novel Das Schloss. K arrives in a remote village a stranger. In attempting to establish himself there, he enters the nightmarish world of the castle bureaucracy.

Quatermass and the Pit

November 1967 •English

A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste

April 1935 •English

During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.

Alien Seed

November 1989 •English

An alien impregnates an Earth woman so she can deliver an alien "messiah" that will rule the world. A newspaper reporter finds out what's going on and sets out to stop it.

Förebudet

January 1987 •Swedish

Death Comes to Take Off

February 1983 •Russian

Propaganda film about Soviet inventor Igor Krymov and his entrapment by foreign spies.

Mystère à l'Élysée

December 2018 •French