3 Best Murder Mysteries On Netflix In Mid-February

Mystery films on Netflix are a dime a dozen, but if we had to boil it down these are the three best to watch in mid-February.

Under Suspicion

Under Suspicion, a remake of the 1981 French film Garde à Vue, is about a wealthy lawyer, Henry Hearst (Gene Hackman), who becomes the prime suspect in a series of child murders. As he’s interrogated by his friend, Detective Victor Benezet (Morgan Freeman), the tension escalates and crescendos in a way that makes it a classical murder mystery of the early 2000s.

Shutter Island

Perhaps the closest Martin Scorsese will ever come to directing a full-blown horror movie, Shutter Island acts as a spine-tingling love letter to ‘50s horror comics and classic noir films of the same era. Thrusting an everyman detective (Leonardo DiCaprio) into a mental health facility for notorious criminals, Shutter Island only seems to grow more and more chaotic with each passing moment, posing just as many questions as it does answers.

A Simple Favor

Not all mysteries need to be dark and brooding, and A Simple Favor brings a stylish, sharp-witted approach to the genre. Centered around an unlikely friendship between a reserved single mom (Anna Kendrick) and a glamorous, enigmatic woman (Blake Lively), the film takes a shocking turn when one of them suddenly disappears. What starts as a missing person case soon spirals into a web of secrets that makes for a great murder mystery filled with dark humor.