While many of us enjoy being at home, being forced to stay at home is an entirely different experience — and all this time at home can definitely get boring. So instead of my usual posts, over the weeks ahead, I’ll be recommending you movies, books and TV shows you can watch and read while spending as much time as possible inside your house.

This week, let’s start with movies you might have wanted to watch but never had time to!

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Movie recommendations if you like mysteries…

As you know, a mystery film usually involves a mysterious death or crime to be solved. I have done a deep-dive on the mystery genre already, so I’m not going to go too much into what constitutes a mystery film.

But let’s get to some mystery movie recommendations…

Starting things off, I’ll take the classic route with a film noir pick. These types of films include Humphrey Bogart’s movies like The Maltese Falcon (1941) and The Big Sleep (1946), and several others like Rebecca (1940), Touch of Evil (1958), and The Wrong Man (1956).

So, following this line, my first movie recommendation is:

1. The Third Man (1949)

A British Film-noir directed by Carol Reed and starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten, The Third Man is an unmissable movie for any film buff.

American writer Holly Martins (Cotten) arrives in postwar Vienna to meet with his old friend, Harry Lime (Welles), who has offered him a job. The day Martins arrives, he finds out that Lime is dead. Holly becomes involved in a complicated web, while trying to investigate the death of his friend in order to clear his name.