Here we've displayed a list of the best Mysterious Past films : Black Narcissus(1947), Dolores Claiborne(1995), Shirkers(2018), Alita: Battle Angel(2019), 13B(2009), Hereditary(2018), Mother Night(1996), Man Without a Star(1955), In the Aisles(2018), A Simple Favor(2018), Mr. Holmes(2015), The Legend of Hell House(1973) ... ...
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1947
100 Minutes
Deborah Kerr Emeric Pressburger Sabu David Farrar Flora Robson Jean Simmons Esmond Knight Kathleen Byron Jenny Laird Judith Furse May Hallatt
sister nun government official native general young girl intense passionate brooding dreamy himalayas palace school hospital religious beliefs mysterious past obsession unusual behavior missionary work cultural differences
A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
Crime, Drama
USA
1995
131 Minutes
Kathy Bates Jennifer Jason Leigh Judy Parfitt Christopher Plummer David Strathairn Eric Bogosian John C. Reilly Ellen Muth Bob Gunton Roy Cooper Wayne Robson
journalist housekeeper elderly woman detective father daughter disturbing brooding melodramatic maine small town family home police station ferry mansion murder dark secrets domestic violence mysterious past mother/daughter relationship
A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid.
Documentary
USA|UK
2018
96 Minutes
teen girl mentor friend filmmaker novelist mysterious man confident creative fascinating engaging emotional intricate singapore united states los angeles street basement car filmmaking mentorship
A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Animation, Action, Fantasy
USA|Japan|Canada
2019
122 Minutes
Rosa Salazar Christoph Waltz Keean Johnson Mahershala Ali Jennifer Connelly Ed Skrein Jackie Earle Haley Lana Condor Idara Victor Eiza González Jeff Fahey
cyborg doctor love interest robot assassin assistant creative confident uplifting thrilling incredible emotional city junkyard doctor's office market workshop destroyed city artificial intelligence mysterious past
A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Horror
India
2009
146 Minutes
Madhavan Neetu Chandra Poonam Dhillon Sachin Khedekar Dhritiman Chatterjee Deepak Dobriyal
tenant wife police officer friend tv personality mother tense chilling thrilling apartment police station india mysterious past mind games family danger television show violence discovery mystery
A man experiences a supernatural occurrence at his newly purchased apartment; a soap opera being telecast exclusively on his TV, which shows the future of his family.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2018
127 Minutes
Toni Collette Gabriel Byrne Alex Wolff Ann Dowd Milly Shapiro Mallory Bechtel Brock McKinney Christy Summerhays
art gallerist mother daughter son husband thrilling suspenseful gory frightening profound fascinating art gallery haunted house woods mysterious past legacy horror mysterious deaths family secrets darkness
A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1996
110 Minutes
Nick Nolte Sheryl Lee Alan Arkin Kirsten Dunst John Goodman Arye Gross Frankie Faison David Strathairn Bernard Behrens
writer wife secret agent young girl military officer radio host bleak tense emotional east germany manhattan theater espionage working undercover nazism misunderstanding mysterious past identity transformation fall
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
Western
USA
1955
89 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Jeanne Crain Claire Trevor Richard Boone Jay C. Flippen William Campbell
drifter rancher gunslinger young man woman gripping rousing thrilling american west wyoming ranch range war cattle struggle uprising mysterious past rivalry adventure revenge 19th century
A drifter working as foreman for an iron-fist female rancher must chose sides between his attractive employer and the other neighboring settlers who are mistreated by her.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
Germany
2018
125 Minutes
Franz Rogowski Sandra Hüller Peter Kurth Henning Peker Matthias Brenner Gerdy Zint Michael Specht Andreas Leupold Clemens Meyer Steffen Scheumann Sascha Nathan
employee coworker supermarket manager amusing melancholy supermarket new job relationships detachment work alienation mysterious past love 2010s
Christian begins to work as a shelf stacker at a supermarket and finds himself in a new, unknown world: the long aisles, the bustle at the checkouts, the forklifts.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Canada|USA
2018
117 Minutes
Anna Kendrick Blake Lively Henry Golding Ian Ho Joshua Satine Andrew Rannells Kelly McCormack Aparna Nancherla Rupert Friend Bashir Salahuddin Jean Smart
widow son friend husband single mother missing person sultry tense intricate confident dark thrilling suburb house school kitchen river airplane missing persons mysterious past
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|USA
2015
105 Minutes
Ian McKellen Laura Linney Milo Parker Hiroyuki Sanada Hattie Morahan Patrick Kennedy Roger Allam Philip Davis Frances de la Tour Takako Akashi Zak Shukor
sherlock holmes old man young boy mysterious woman sick person detective moving engaging witty england countryside london united kingdom crime scene japan sussex mystery mysterious past memory sherlock holmes
An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes deals with early dementia, as he tries to remember his final case, and a mysterious woman, whose memory haunts him. He also befriends a fan, the young son of his housekeeper, who wants him to work again.
Horror
UK
1973
94 Minutes
Pamela Franklin Roddy McDowall Clive Revill Gayle Hunnicutt Roland Culver Peter Bowles Michael Gough
scientist wife medium spiritualist millionaire ghost creepy frightful mansion bedroom haunted houses serial murders supernatural possession insanity mysterious past mystery pursuit discovery 1970s
A physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s.
Drama
France
2005
86 Minutes
Vincent Lindon Emmanuelle Devos Mathieu Amalric Hippolyte Girardot Cylia Malki Macha Polikarpova Teresa Li
architect wife coworker eerie tense paris apartment office hong kong paranoia double life mysterious past mystery escape 2000s
Marc is sitting in his bath one morning and asks his wife, "how would you feel if I shaved off my mustache?" She doesn't think it's a great idea, for the 15 years they've been married, ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama, Romance
USA
1950
81 Minutes
Joseph Cotten Alida Valli Spring Byington Paul Stewart Jack Paar Jeff Donnell John McIntire Howard Petrie Frank Puglia Esther Dale Wilma Francis
petty criminal paraplegic partner casino owner father brooding gripping melodramatic ashton, ohio mysterious past unusual romance scam confrontation consequences discovery love escape 1940s
An ex-hood hopes to start a new life under an assumed name in a small town but his past catches up with him when an old crime-buddy asks him to help with a casino heist.
Drama
USA
1965
92 Minutes
Hal Hopper Antoinette Cristiani John Furlong Lorna Maitland Rena Horten Princess Livingston Sam Hanna Nick Wolcuff Frank Bolger Lee Ballard F. Rufus Owens
drifter beautiful woman husband preacher prostitute farmer passionate sultry tender outlandish missouri small town farm lake affair jealousy sex mysterious past lynching rural life
It's 1933, in the midst of the Depression and Prohibition. Calif, a stranger with a past walks into Spooner, Missouri on his way from Michigan to California. He hires on with Lute Wade to ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
74 Minutes
amnesiac wife detective lover old woman coworker brooding crafty suspenseful new york city estate amnesia murder wrongfully accused mysterious past investigation pursuit discovery mystery 1940s
After an accident, a New York man with amnesia finds out the ugly truth about his real identity and past by interacting with people who seem to know him well.
Drama
USA
1946
101 Minutes
stranger business owner wife ex-girlfriend coworker tense dark wild gripping los angeles skating rink lodge love triangle disappearance suspicion ice skating mysterious past mystery rivalry 1940s
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to ... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1935
61 Minutes
Lionel Barrymore Bela Lugosi Elizabeth Allan Lionel Atwill Holmes Herbert Jean Hersholt Carroll Borland Ivan F. Simpson Egon Brecher Henry Wadsworth Eily Malyon
count daughter friend investigator professor doctor dark thrilling gripping prague house murder investigation vampires mysterious past love mystery discovery transformation 19th century
When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires; but not all is what it seems.
Crime, Drama
USA
1953
70 Minutes
Edmond O'Brien Audrey Totter Ted de Corsia Horace MacMahon Nick Dennis
ex-convict reformed criminal ex-girlfriend gang member amnesiac suspenseful tense melodramatic intricate los angeles amusement park prison bar memory loss reform brain surgery mysterious past hidden treasure deception mystery
Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital.
Drama
USA
1997
123 Minutes
Kate Capshaw Jeremy Davies Vince Vaughn Ashley Judd Paul Rudd Daniel Meyer Jessica Capshaw
farmhand widow son beautiful woman friend sultry dark emotional ranch small town kansas doomed romance dark secrets mysterious past love triangle sexual tension friendship discovery love temptation
A drifter enters a small town looking for employment. While working at the local cattle ranch, he meets and falls in love with the beautiful Kitty and becomes involved in a deadly yet erotic love triangle.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2010
80 Minutes
Chris Messina Logan Marshall-Green Geoffrey Arend Bojana Novakovic Jenny O'Hara Bokeem Woodbine Matt Craven Jacob Vargas Josh Peace Caroline Dhavernas Joe Cobden
fiancé ex-convict devil detective salesman mechanic chilling dark frightening thrilling suspenseful philadelphia elevator office building skyscraper street city death murder religion
A group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1994
103 Minutes
James Spader Madchen Amick Bess Armstrong Fredric Lehne Larry Miller Kathleen York Blair Tefkin Scott Coffey Clyde Kusatsu William Shockley
architect femme fatale divorce wife child parent dark disturbing intense sultry art gallery supermarket house dreamworld courtroom mental institution dangerous romance sex deception mysterious past
A successful businessman tries to uncover what is wrong with his wife.
Drama
Australia
1993
97 Minutes
Aden Young David Field Bill Hunter Claudia Karvan Norman Kaye Dennis Miller Kris McQuade William McInnes Stephen Davis Peter Settle
sailor girl landowner friend prostitute thug somber dreamy brooding tense queensland australia small town port junkyard dark secrets journey shattered dreams promises outsider
Characters adrift in an isolated landscape collide with the past and each other as they unravel the secrets of a dead man's dreams. A moody meditation on anti-heroism, the film pays tribute to the black and white style of cinema noir.
Romance
UK
1992
96 Minutes
Julie Christie Donald Sutherland John Lynch Frank MacCusker Mark Tandy Marie Hastings Peadar Lamb Ingrid Craigie Niall Cusack
widow teen boy american man carpenter priest police officer brooding dark emotional passionate northern ireland small town train station family home pub coast political unrest personal tragedy starting over mysterious past
Helen's husband died tragically. She's seeking her satisfaction somewhere in a little Irish village. She begins to paint again and meets with a restorer, who works on the local railway ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1988
112 Minutes
Arnold Schwarzenegger Danny DeVito Kelly Preston Chloe Webb Bonnie Bartlett Marshall Bell Trey Wilson Hugh O'Brian Tony Jay
twin hustler loan shark mother scientist brother campy hilarious los angeles santa fe, n.m. colony houston south pacific family debt road trip theft mysterious past reunion love
A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is short, a womanizer, and small-time crook.
Other, Drama
USA
2003
96 Minutes
William R. Moses Megan Follows Muse Watson Tonya Bordeaux Steven Curtis Chapman Vicki Taylor Ross
journalist reverend sheriff judge maintenance man adopted son melodramatic emotional moving touching engaging heartwarming texas adoption going home christmas mysterious past christianity identity adventure
A life-sized nativity leads a man to learn about his past and lost family.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada|UK
2009
92 Minutes
Virginia Madsen Kyle Gallner Martin Donovan Elias Koteas Amanda Crew Sophi Knight Ty Wood Erik Berg
teen boy mother father priest doctor ghost dark emotional disturbing connecticut household suburbia bedroom basement cancer supernatural haunting possession survival mysterious past
After a family is forced to relocate for their son's health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, and uncover a sinister history.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK
2017
89 Minutes
Ruth Wilson Mark Stanley Sean Bean Esme Creed-Miles Aiden McCullough Shane Attwooll Steve Garti Una McNulty Dean Andrews Jonah Russell Joe Dempsie
father farmer daughter brother estranged brother friend emotional intricate tense solemn intense farm house barn pasture estrangement family business family feud farming mysterious past
Following the death of her father, Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns to her home village for the first time in 15 years, to claim the tenancy to the family farm she believes is rightfully hers.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|Poland
2017
100 Minutes
Allison Tolman Julia Halperin Sophie Reid JoBeth Williams Luis Bordonada Larry Jack Dotson Angelo Dylen Tanner Beard Monique Straw
sister father singer husband mother boy brooding eerie dark creepy disturbing thrilling texas house yard lake cemetery bar long-lost relatives sister relationship
A strange woman comes to Texas to meet her half-sister and stake a claim to the family music legacy-one way or another.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2020
111 Minutes
Lily Collins Simon Pegg Connie Nielsen Chace Crawford Patrick Warburton Marque Richardson Michael Beach Chris Gann
patriarch daughter family family member gripping intense shocking united states mansion forest inheritance mysterious deaths mysterious past mystery discovery rise 21st century
A patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy the family.