Opinion as a Movie-freak

Summary 
Sarah and Josh are married suburbanites. After a car accident, Sarah suffers blackouts. As her life spirals she hides a camera in her home and unlocks a horrific secret with far-reaching consequences.

Genre : Horror/Mystery
Country : USA

Cast : 
Katie Walder : Sarah

Summary 
A young woman returns home to her family vineyard after her father dies in an accident on the winery. But when his death is ruled a murder and her mother becomes the prime suspect she must uncover the truth.

Genre : Mystery/Thriller
Country : Australia

Cast : 
Sarah Bishop : Ellia

Summary 
The story of Porter Wren, a New York City tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy and anything that passes for the truth. At home he is a model family man, devoted to his loving wife. But when a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he can't resist.

Genre : Mystery/Thriller
Country : USA

Cast : 
Adrien Brody : Porter Wren

Summary :
Peter Bower (Adrien Brody) is a tormented soul whose life became an ordeal after the fatal accident of his daughter. With the help of his friend and colleague Duncan Stewart (Sam "Jurassic Park" Neill), he attempts to give meaning to his life back again. However, after a while he becomes aware that his limited number of patients aren't exactly overflowing with a joy for life (literally and figuratively). This leads to a search for the cause of a guilt feeling he developed since his childhood. He returns to his hometown to investigate a tragic accident that happened in the past. And this because of the connection his current patients have with this point in time.

Genre : Mystery/Horror
Country : Australia/UK

Cast :
Adrien Brody : Peter Bower
Sam Neill : Duncan Stewart
George Shevtsov : William Bower

Director : Michael Petroni

Summary :
Soon after leaving her fiancé Michelle is involved in a car accident. She awakens to find herself sharing an underground bunker with Howard and Emmett. Has she been saved from an apocalyptical event as Howard & Emmett tell her or are there other motives for her being held against her will? 

Genre : Mystery/Thriller/Drama
Country : USA

Cast :
John Goodman : Howard
Mary Elizabeth Winstead : Michelle
John Gallagher Jr. : Emmett

Director : Dan Trachtenberg

Summary :
A young girl is sexually abused by her father. Thus, begins the disturbing tale of a father and daughter torn apart, thrown into the center of a conspiracy that shocks the nation.

Genre : Mystery/Drama
Country : Spain/Canada

Cast :
Ethan Hawke : Bruce Kenner
Emma Watson : Angela Gray
David Thewlis : Kenneth Raines

Director : Alejandro Amenabar

Summary :
Some time after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue race towards the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Daisy to justice. Along the road, they encounter Major Marquis Warren and Chris Mannix. Lost in a blizzard, the bunch seeks refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery. When they arrive they are greeted by unfamiliar faces. As the storm overtakes the mountainside, the eight travelers come to learn that they might not make it to Red Rock after all...

Genre : Mystery/Western
Country : USA

Cast :
Kurt Russell : John Ruth
Samuel L. Jackson : Major Marquis Warren
Jennifer Jason Leigh : Daisy Domergue

Director : Quentin Tarantino

Summary
Edith Cushing is running away from a family tragedy. She marries Thomas Sharpe, a mysterious stranger. She comes to live with him and his sister, Lady Lucille Sharpe. She starts to find out that the Sharpe's home is filled with ghosts.

Genre : Mystery/Drama/Horror
Country : USA/Canada

Cast :
Mia Wasikowska : Edith Cushing
Jessica Chastain : Lucille Sharpe
Tom Hiddleston : Thomas Sharpe

Director : Guillermo del Torro

Summary :
The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an unsolved 30-year old case. Holmes memory isn't what it used to be, so he only remembers fragments of the case: a confrontation with an angry husband, a secret bond with his beautiful but unstable wife.

Genre : Mystery
Country : UK/USA

Cast :
Ian Mckellen  : Sherlock Holmes
Laura Linney : Mrs. Munro
Milo Parker : Roger

Director : Bill Condon

Summary :
Adapted from the bestselling novel by author John Green, this is a coming-of-age story centering on Quentin and his enigmatic neighbor Margo, who loved mysteries so much she became one. After taking him on an all-night adventure through their hometown, Margo suddenly disappears - leaving behind cryptic clues for Quentin to decipher. The search leads Quentin and his quick-witted friends on an exhilarating adventure that is equal parts hilarious and moving. Ultimately, to track down Margo, Quentin must find a deeper understanding of true friendship - and true love.

Genre : Mystery/Romance
Country : USA

Cast :
Nat Wolff : Quentin
Cara Delevingne : Margo
Austin Abrams : Ben

Director : Jake Schreier

Summary :  
A detective looks to unravel a mystery surrounding missing children and the prime suspects: two young women who, seven years ago, were put away for an infant's death.

Genre : Mystery
Country : USA

Cast :
Dakota Fanning : Ronnie Fuller
Elizabeth Banks : Nancy Porter
Danielle MacDonald : Alice

Director : Amy Berg

Summary :
20 years after going MIA in Desert Storm, Aaron returns home under mysterious conditions, not having aged since his disappearance, and must reestablish relationships with loved ones before an imminent return to an ambiguous other-worldly existence.

Genre : Drama/Mystery/Thriller
Country : USA

Cast :
Louis Mandylor : David
Michael Rene Walton : Aaron
Sally McDonald : Lucey

Director : Khalil Sullins

Summary 
Josh Fosse is a 20something guy whose life is going nowhere. His girl left, his rent is late, and he lacks a real job. He is trying to make it as an app reviewer online and decides to review a self help app called i-Lived for fun. He's signs on and immediately his life turns around. He meets the girl of his dreams and he gets a job offer he can't refuse. Convinced it's him and not the app, he signs out... and loses everything. He signs on again but this time the terms are different, the app is asking him to do things that are out of his moral comfort zone... but essential to becoming the success the app tells him he can be.

Genre : Mystery/Horror
Country : USA

Cast :
Jeremiah Watkins : Josh
Sarah Power : Greta
Christopher Mena : Bobby Yen

Director : Franck Khalfoun

Summary
An unnamed UK metropolis. The future. Renowned photojournalist Jennifer Preston is investigating the aftermath of a terrible explosion that ripped through the city on New Year's Eve. Known simply as 'The Catastrophe', this shocking tragedy has left behind a festering wound. The city is on edge, thousands have evacuated and a sprawling, militarized Quarantine Zone has been erected around the epicentre of the blast. The 'QZ', as it becomes known, is a network of empty buildings and abandoned streets, shrouded beneath clinical plastic and fenced in behind impenetrable barricades. Heavily armed security units ensure that nobody goes in and nobody comes out. As unexplained and increasingly bizarre acts of violence erupt across the city, Jennifer begins to notice strange, ephemeral phantoms in her photographs. What begins as an artistic documentation of The Catastrophe's lingering aftershock soon becomes an obsession with 'The Phenomenon'.

Genre : Horror/Mystery
Country : UK

Cast :
Natalia Tena : Jennifer Preston
Iwan Rheon : Jonas
Jamie Draven : Levi Mathis

Director : Alex Garcia Lopez

Summary
A mysterious man arrives in a small Canadian town seeking his wife, though his presence plunges the community into a bloodbath.

Genre : Horror/Mysterie
Country : Chile

Cast :
Lorenza Izzo : Ana
Cristobal Tapia Montt : Martin
Ariel Levy : Caleb

Director : Guillermo Amoedo

Summary
Matt Scudder is a former cop now a private eye. He is asked by a drug dealer to find the men who kidnapped his wife. It seems like they killed her even after he paid them. Scudder refuses. But the man later goes to see him and tells him how his wife was killed. Scudder takes the job. He does some research and thinks the men he is looking for have done this more than once. And that everyone they grabbed is connected to a drug dealer. He was about to give up when they grab another girl and Scudder tries make sure she's returned alive.

Genre : Action/Crime/Mystery
Country : USA
 
Cast :
Liam Neeson : Matt Scudder
Adam David Thompson : Albert
David Harbour : Ray

Director : Scott Frank

Summary
Thomas wakes up in an elevator, remembering nothing but his own name. He emerges into a world of about 60 teen boys who have learned to survive in a completely enclosed environment, subsisting on their own agriculture and supplies. A new boy arrives every 30 days. The original group has been in "The Glade" for two years, trying to find a way to escape through the Maze that surrounds their living space. They have begun to give up hope. Then a comatose girl arrives with a strange note, and their world begins to change. There are some great, fast-paced action scenes, particularly those involving the nightmarish Grievers who plague the boys.

Genre : Action/Mystery/SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Dylan O'Brien : Thomas
Kaya Scodelario : Teresa
Thomas Brodie-Sangster : Newt
Will Poulter : Gally

Director : Wes Ball

Summary
In the near future or an alternate reality, there are memory detectives, people who have the ability to enter other peoples' electronically aided memories. They often are used to resolve psychological conflicts, and sometimes to exonerate someone from a crime. John was at one time the top in this field but he has been recovering from the death of his wife, and a stroke. To get back into work the head of the small firm he works for offers him what is supposed to be a simple job, getting 16 year old Anna to start eating again. However, the "simple job" turns into his most challenging.

Genre : Thriller/Mystery
Country : USA/Spain/France

Cast :
Mark Strong : John
Taissa Farmiga : Anna
Brian Cox : Sebastian

Director : Jorge Dorado

Summary
A defense attorney begins to suspect that there might be more to her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family, than meets the eye.

Genre : Horror/Thriller/Mystery
Country : USA 

Cast :
A.J. Cook : Kate Moore
Sebastian Roché : Klaus Pistor
Vik Sahay : Eric Sarin
Simon Quarterman : Gavin Flemyng

Director : William Brent Bell

Genre : Thriller/Mystery
Country : Canada/Spain

Cast :
Jake Gyllenhaal : Adam and/or Anthony
Mélanie Laurent : Mary
Sarah Gadon : Helen

Director :
Denis Villeneuve

Summary

A university professor, Adam Bell , is lecturing on chaos and dictators, their want for control and the repetitious nature of history itself. He goes home where he finds his girlfriend, Mary , waiting for him. One day at lunch a co-worker recommends a movie, something "cheerful". He goes home, sends Mary to bed alone and stays up to watch.
A scene from the movie he'd just seen replayed in his dreams features the man he'll soon come to know as Anthony Clair, his exact look-a-like, and he can't get it out of his head.
My opinion

The last thing you need is meeting strange men in hotel rooms.

"Enemy" : directed by Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal in a leading role (or roles). Hell yeah ! The director and one of the protagonists of "Prisoners" . This can only be an excellent movie. I've put "Prisoners" in my personal top 10 of reasonable brilliant movies in 2013. That was a slightly incorrect assumption

A few tips before you watch this bizarre and very strange movie.
Don't call the electronics store where you recently purchased your ultramodern 55" LED TV in a panic and start screaming at the helpdesk employee that the RGB color settings are severely screwed up and they need to replace the unit immediatly. Trust me, the color palette that you get to see on your TV the entire movie, is fine. You fancy yourself all the time in a coffee-colored land full of yellow , beige and (probably spider excrement) brownish hues . At times I thought I had my Boss sunglasses with slightly tinted glasses still on.
Are you having a period of persistent sleeping disorder and you need benzodiazepines with annoying side effect that you feel sleepy during the day, then I don't recommend this movie , for it's painfully (pronounce it stretched now) slow.

You don't like movies where you say "Huh!" at the end and you frantically start googling forums and wikipedia-pages to find any explanation about the movie ? Don't watch it !
But are you a big fan of Gyllenhaal ? Then you'll surely don't want to miss this one, because he plays even two personages in it. Or one ? And you're not into a movie with a straightforward , predigested and terribly simplistic storyline, but rather a complicated story with a jumble of possible train of thoughts and plausible explanations , this is really a must see for you.

Brief summary : a slightly neurotic teacher who gives lessons on how a dictatorial regime maintains control over people, by applying certain strategies . And very important (probably an exam question) , it's a pattern that repeats itself throughout history. After a suggestion of a colleague , he rents a movie one evening and sees to his surprise his exact image acting in this film. What follows is a tangled discovery where you find yourself wondering all the time whether there are indeed two persons or that these two individuals are fused into a schizophrenic person with apparently an identity disorder .
It wasn't a totally confusing story for me. I took into account that Adam might possibly have some psychological problems. The behavior and phenomena that were shown like regular headaches (frequently depicted), mood swings, sexual dysfunction (Yes after the third time his girlfriend kicks off it was obvious) and lose sight of the time, were an indication. The metaphors that were used at the end were also evident. That in the end it was nothing else than leaving the past behind in a psychological way and start fresh in the present, was clear to me onto the end.
Gyllenhaal gets the most out here and plays an excellent character role. The portrayal of Sarah Gadon was at times simply breathtaking brilliant. The look on her face as she glances at Adam and you clearly can see the suspicion and confusion on her face appearing, is simply masterful. The film editing was sometimes really ingenious worked out. Stopping and restarting images at the rhythm of the music. The delusions were sometimes quite hallucinatory. The beginning with the perverted show gave you immediately a tightness. Applying the teaching material (about the pattern and the repeating) on reality, so that recurrent sequences were used in the beginning, was ingenious. The end which is a compound with the beginning. If you think about it more deeply you'll notice it's highly elaborated.
And yet it it left me indifferent. For me it's just a movie to spawn "the experts" of the better movie and give them something to entertain (as the Romans did with the common people) so they can  analyze the different layers of this film and discuss it in detail. For me, it was a slow and boring movie with a straightforward story in which eventually someone wants to leave his "cheating days" behind him. I love a well-prepared mind fuck, but in this movie I was like, "Yeah guys tell me the denouement so I finally know how it fits together." And this already fairly early in the movie. Too bad, if you look at the acting performance of Gyllenhaal.
My rating 4/10
Links : IMDB