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Mystery Movies Trivia

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Mystery Movies Trivia

Welcome to mystery movies trivia!

Overview

Mystery films challenge audiences to solve puzzles and secrets.

Questions

Q1: Who directed Chinatown?

Roman Polanski directed this 1974 noir mystery.

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Q2: What is The Big Sleep about?

A detective investigates a blackmail case.

Q3: Who starred in Murder on the Nile?

Peter Ustinov played detective Hercule Poirot.

Q4: What is The Maltese Falcon about?

A detective searches for a valuable statuette.

Q5: Who starred in The Thin Man?

William Powell and Myrna Loy starred in this mystery.

Q6: What is Laura about?

A detective falls for a woman thought to be dead.

Q7: Who directed Murder by Death?

Neil Simon wrote and Robert Moore directed this comedy mystery.

Q8: What is Clue about?

Guests at a mansion are suspects in a murder.

Q9: Who starred in And Then There Were None?

Multiple actors in this Agatha Christie adaptation.

Q10: What is Witness for the Prosecution about?

A lawyer defends an accused murderer.

Q11: Who directed The Unsuspected?

Michael Curtiz directed this 1947 mystery.

Q12: What is The Lady from Shanghai about?

A sailor becomes entangled in murder and deception.

Q13: Who starred in Gun Crazy?

Peggy Cummins and John Dall starred in this crime mystery.

Q14: What is The Asphalt Jungle about?

A master criminal plans an ambitious heist.

Q15: Who directed In a Lonely Place?

Nicholas Ray directed this film noir mystery.

Q16: What is Out of the Past about?

A man is drawn back into a dangerous past.

Q17: Who starred in The Big Heat?

Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame starred in this noir.

Q18: What is Kiss Me Deadly about?

A detective investigates atomic weapons.

Q19: Who directed Murder, My Sweet?

Edward Dmytryk directed this film noir.

Q20: What is The Killing about?

Multiple storylines intersect in a racetrack heist.

Q21: Who starred in The Killing?

Sterling Hayden leads this heist mystery.

Q22: What is The Killing of a Chinese Bookie about?

A nightclub owner becomes involved in crime.

Q23: Who directed The Long Goodbye?

Robert Altman directed this Chandler adaptation.

Q24: What is Brick about?

A high school student investigates murder.

Q25: Who directed Brick?

Rian Johnson wrote and directed this modern noir.

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