Best Chinese mystery movies

Hide and Seek (2016)

A man lives in a lovely apartment with his wife and 2 children. He is obsessed with cleanliness, has strange dreams and struggles with a mystery in his past. He goes to a bad part of town hunting for a long lost brother, leaving his wife and children in their car. As he tries to get cooperation from neighbors, the wife finds her children are missing. A stranger wearing a dark motorcycle helmet appears, frightening her. As the story unfolds this stranger follows them becoming more and more threatening.

The Devotion of Suspect X (2017)

Based on Keigo Higashino’s award-winning novel, THE DEVOTION OF SUSPECT X follows a professor (Wang Kai) assisting in a murder investigation, only to find that a longtime rival and friend (Zhang Luyi) from his early university days may be involved.

The Three-Body Problem (0)

Based on the novel of the same name by Cixin Liu, the first in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy. Hundreds of physicists died mysteriously. A Chinese nanomaterials expert, Wang Miao, sees a mysterious countdown in his eyes. Soon he finds out that the "disastrous planet" under three suns in a game really exists. The three-body civilization there will reach the Earth in 400 years. A future catastrophe is coming for humanity...

Explosion (2017)

A blast technician in a mining town survives an explosion only to discover it may not have been an accident. While investigating the truth, he becomes the prime suspect and must use his unique skillset to clear his name.

The Wig (2024)

After failing his legal exams, Meng, a self-taught law student, is forced to work nights as a taxi driver. During a heated argument with a drunken customer, unable to contain his fury, he pushes the man into a river. The years go by. Now a successful lawyer and father, Meng is haunted by his past.

The Suspicious (2014)

The Suspicious centers around a mysterious pharmaceutical company and its new drug that cures insomnia. The owner Li attempts to sell his company to a Japanese businessman, but the businessman only has eyes on the formula of his new drug. Joe portrays An Qi’er, a senior secretary who strikes an ambiguous relationship with Lin Yitai, an insomniac general sales manager at the pharmaceutical company. Portraying an extremely cold, evil and manipulative character, Joe said she has finally fulfilled her wish to portray a completely different character from past roles.

Brief History of a Family (2024)

A middle-class family's fate becomes intertwined with their only son's enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.

Invisible Alien (2021)

The interstellar exploration spacecraft "Deep Space" that mysteriously disappeared 150 years ago suddenly appeared in low Earth orbit. The Human Space Agency set up an interim committee to investigate and question the only survivor. The horror experience of "Deep Space" is slowly developing.

The Story Of The Night Watcher (2022)

In the thirteenth year of the Republic of China, there was a watchman in Yancheng named Hu Fan. The watchman is a mysterious and ancient profession. In addition to the job of keeping watch at night, he is also responsible for dealing with evil spirits that appear late at night. Recently, murders and disappearances have occurred frequently in Yancheng. The police department was helpless, so it went to Hu Fan, a folk who knew magic, to help. Hu Fan and others followed the clues and found that someone was killing people and offering sacrifices in broad daylight. To achieve the purpose of extending life...

Mojin: Return to the South China Sea (2022)

After washing his hands, Hu Bayi helped his friend Uncle Ming go to the South China Sea to salvage the pearls. Unexpectedly, he encountered a shipwreck and fell to the bottom of the sea, but accidentally found a thousand-year-old ruins of an ancient country that sank at the bottom of the sea. They went through many hardships and dangers at the bottom of the sea, and finally united to defeat the deep-sea beasts, and cleverly used the equipment in the ruins to escape.

Counterattack (2021)

Security expert Lu Zi Ming is hired to work at an oil and gas plant project bidding event. He is framed by several of the parties involved. In order to prove his innocence he must now devise the ultimate counter-attack.

Almost Human (2020)

Mad Scientist has privately developed a highly developed humanoid robot with sympathetic nerves to satisfy one's own desires. Unexpectedly, the robot developed its autonomous consciousness. It exchanged the skin of the beautiful woman Su Xin by means of "black technology", and instead lurked beside Su Xin's boyfriend Wang Sheng. On the other side, the bizarre serial murder case has attracted the attention of police officer Li Dongbin, and the danger is quietly brewing...

Revenge Girl (2022)

In the future world, artificial intelligence is highly developed, and the underground scientific research organization controlled by Cheng Fei secretly develops brain-computer chips used to stimulate the potential of the human body, in an attempt to cultivate a group of supernatural beings and seek immoral profits.

Memory Dissection (2021)

When the heroine was 10 years old, she witnessed the murder of her parents. Professor Dong proposes complex psychological surgery to rid her of traumatic memories

Inseparable (2012)

A troubled engineer faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. American expat Chuck, rescues him from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor.

Design of Death (2012)

The violent death of an unpopular village resident is initially blamed on an infectious disease, but an investigation shows that everybody in the village had a reason to murder him.

Song of the Assassins (2022)

After completing his training, an elite young assassin embarks on his first mission and is quickly ensnared in an intricate plot laid by powerful people pulling strings from the shadows. Upon failing to complete the assignment, he is forced to go on the run—from the government and rival assassin groups alike—as he seeks to unmask the players behind the conspiracy.

What’s in the Darkness (2016)

A serial murder case rocks a small town in China's semi-rural Hebei province. The film explores the case from the viewpoint of a teenage schoolgirl, Jing (Su Xiaotong), who becomes entangled with the case while struggling with her own burgeoning sexuality. In the face of police ineptitude and authoritarianism, and the restrictive, conservative mentality of the town's locals, Jing begins to develop her own theory about the case.

Candle in the Tomb: The Weasel Grave (2021)

In the 1980s Hu Bayi, Wang Kaixuan and Shirly Yang return to the northeast of China, where they were once stationed in the countryside to attend the wedding of their friend Yanzi.

The Guilty Ones (2019)

Suffering from a terminal illness, a mother finds renewed determination to catch the perpetrator who abducted and killed her daughter ten years ago.

Liar Hunter (2020)

The Secret (2016)

The ghost of a woman who died after an avalanche returns to live with her husband, who has not been able to overcome her death.

Curiosity Kills the Cat (2006)

This story takes place in a city by the Yangzi River where skyscrapers stand around falling slums... In a luxurious apartment an enchanting story of modern China unfolds... As the Chinese economy blooms so does the gap between rich and poor... These events unite an unlikely cast of a lady of noble decency, her power- hungry husband, a manicure store owner, a security guard, and a countryside girl and series of mysterious events haunted them... What happens in this luxurious apartment building? Are you curious? Well, curiosity kills the cat..

Sunken Plum (2017)

Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin informing her that the mother she has brushed aside, has died. As the only "son", she feels obligated to return to her birthplace for the sake of her family, even though she'll have to hide her true self from those that once shared her past.

The Mystic Nine: Begonia from Qingshan (2022)

At the beginning of the 20th century, Zhang Qi Shan and his father were subject to experimentation by the traitor Zuo Qian Zhi. Ten years later, Zhang Qi Shan seeks his revenge. He arrives in Changsha for the first time and meets Er Yue Hong. The two join forces to go against Zuo Qian Zhi and the monster that threatens the city.

The Advanced Animals (2020)

Zhang is an undertaker in a small town. His wife, Lee, has an affair with Wang. Lee is pregnant and asks Wang for advice. In order to keep the baby, Wang plans to murder Zhang. Then he hires two hit men on the Internet.

Vapour (2015)

The clouds descend onto a village and engulf it for a day. They touch the roof tiles, the beds, the chairs, the carpets, the grass, and the bodies, infecting everything with the fever of white stupor.

The Mystic Nine Side Story: Tiger Bones Plum Blossom (2016)

According to the nine solutions of family rules, the solution of family sixty-year-old birthday that day is the wash basin. Solve the old servant Dao Shu sixty birthday on the same day die and die like tragic. Jiu Ye and entrusted by the Buddha, came to solve the longevity of Zhang, aide to start tracing clues, but found that the murder of the source to be traced back a few years ago. Then, Xie government servants and Xie family associated with the old one after another to die, and the scene of death there have been “tiger bone plum” character print. A deep buried for many years the secret will be lifted layer upon layer.

Northeast Folktales (2024)

Giant Fish (2020)

The film tells the story of Zihao living in a seaside town returning to Hong Kong and living a life by the sea. One day, he met the mysterious girl Xiaoyi and began to take care of Xiaoyi's life. The ocean boat where Zihao's father was, the fishing boat returned, but the crew were all missing. Zihao, who experienced the pain of losing his father, walked out of the haze under the care of Xiaoyi, and the two were together. But the good times didn't last long. A mysterious middle-aged man named Lao Jin came to Hong Kong and revealed Xiaoyi's true identity