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Just for You! Plot-driven Thrillers

If you like movies where the plot and characters drive the action instead of the other way around you will enjoy these films in the spy, crime, and mystery genres.

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  • Based on the classic spy novel by John le Carré, this film adaptation stars Gary Oldman as a retired spy master brought in to find a mole in this Cold War-era thriller.
    DVD, 2012[United States] : Universal Studios, 2012. — DVD T
  • A recently freed gangster struggles to escape his past in this tightly paced crime thriller by director Brian De Palma.
    DVD, 2003Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, c2003. — DVD C
  • A crime novelist mysteriously dies, and the vultures start circling. This self-aware and humorous take on the murder mystery will have you laughing while on the edge of your seat waiting for the next twist.
    DVD, 2020[Santa Monica, California] : Lionsgate, 2020. — DVD K
  • Putting the detective in Detective Comics, this noir-inspired take on the Caped Crusader focuses on his investigative skills as he follows the tracks of the mysterious Riddler.
    DVD, 2022Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2022] — DVD B
  • When the agency they both work for suffers a leak, agent George Woodhouse is told his wife, also a spy, is suspected to be the mole. If you had to choose between your marriage and national security, what would you choose?
    DVD, 2025Universal City, CA : Focus Features, [2025] — DVD B
  • A Study in Scarlet

    The Sign of Four ; The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930,
    You will meet Sherlock Holmes as originally written in this collection of the first novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Meet the detective as first conceived, using logic, reason, and the tiniest clues to solve complex crimes.
    Book, 2014New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. — FICTION DOYLE