The best Dean Stockwell’s mystery movies

Dean Stockwell

Dean Stockwell

05/03/1936- 07/11/2021
We present our ranking of the best Dean Stockwell’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Dean Stockwell.
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Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet
7.7/10
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.

The Player

The Player
7.5/10
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate
6.6/10
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

Song of the Thin Man

Song of the Thin Man
6.9/10
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

Rites of Passage

Rites of Passage
5.9/10
A father and his two sons go on holiday together hoping to reconcile some of their differences, but when the arrival of two escaped convicts interrupts their vacation, the three men must cooperate in order to survive.

Midnight Blue

Midnight Blue
4.7/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 21/04/1997
  • Character: Katz-Feeney
Shortly before he moves from New York to Los Angeles a banker visits his Atlanta branch. One evening he is propositioned, by a high-class call girl. Their night of passion leaves him besotted, but he is unable to find her again even with the help of a private investigator. In L.A. he is introduced to his boss's wife and is sure she is his lady of the night. But she insists she isn't.

Paper Man

Paper Man
5.9/10
A prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that leaves three of them dead.

The Blue Iguana

The Blue Iguana
5.2/10
The IRS sends Recovery Specialist Vince Holloway south of the border to the dangerous town of Diablo to rob the outlaw bank where criminals launder their cash.

The Adventures of Nick Carter

The Adventures of Nick Carter
6.8/10
Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife.

Home Sweet Homicide

Home Sweet Homicide
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 02/10/1946
  • Character: Archie Carstairs
Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.

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