Amy Adams returns to her Missouri hometown to cover child murders; the last scene after the credits.
Robot hosts in a western theme park start to remember; the maze of the first season.
A German town, a cave and four families across three centuries; the time-travel series that ties every knot.
Two percent of the world vanishes and the rest cannot cope; the series about grief without answers.
Oceanic 815 crashes on an island with a hatch and a smoke monster; the mystery that changed TV.
Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander; the Swedish Millennium film before Fincher's.
Mulder and Scully, the truth out there, and the monster-of-the-week format.
Rust Cohle and Marty Hart in Louisiana; the six-minute tracking shot and "time is a flat circle".
A village policeman, a Japanese stranger and a shaman; Korean horror that refuses to settle.
A woman vanishes on a beach weekend and every lie surfaces; Farhadi before A Separation.
A Murakami story of a missing girl and a rich man who burns greenhouses; Lee Chang-dong.
Every child in one class walks out of their homes at 2:17 a.m. and vanishes; Zach Cregger's horror.
A detective falls for the widow he is investigating; Park Chan-wook's Hitchcockian romance.
Daniel Craig as a Southern detective in a New England mansion; Rian Johnson's whodunit.
Strange punishments in a German village in 1913, in black and white; Haneke on the roots of fascism.
A boy who sees dead people and the twist that made Shyamalan; "I see dead people".
Five criminals in a line-up and Keyser Soze; the ending everybody replayed.
A woman vanishes on an island and the film forgets to look for her; Antonioni booed at Cannes, then canonised.
A wife and a mistress murder the headmaster, then the body vanishes; the twist Hitchcock envied.
A policeman investigates a missing girl on a pagan Scottish island; the ending is the title.
James Stewart with a broken leg and binoculars watches a murder across the courtyard.
A man, a woman and a baroque hotel where nothing can be pinned down; the most argued-over puzzle film.
Schoolgirls vanish on a Victorian rock in 1900 and nobody explains it.
Jack Nicholson with a slit nose, the water wars of Los Angeles and "forget it, Jake".
Hitchcock's obsession film in San Francisco, the dolly zoom and the green light.
A Swinging London photographer enlarges a picture and may have found a murder.
A writer is tried for her husband's death, with only their blind son as witness.
Hitchcock's only Best Picture: a second wife haunted by the first at Manderley.
A surveillance expert becomes convinced he has recorded a murder.
A disgraced journalist and a hacker reopen a forty-year-old disappearance.
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