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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 717 films · Page 11.
Komödie, mystery film
The Mystery Team consisting of "Master of Disguise" Jason Rogers, "Boy Genius" Duncan Wheeler, and the "Strongest Kid in town" Charlie Day began with three children who styled themselves as detectives, solving mostly kid-related mysteries …
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Action, Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, police film
NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci has been under pressure from the senior officers in the New York City police force because his team of renegade policemen, known as the "seven-ups" (so called because most criminals they arrest receive sentence…
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Action, Crime, Mysterie, Western, Western film, action film, drama film
In the 1870s, residents of the garrison at the Fort Humboldt frontier outpost of the United States Army are reported to be suffering from a diphtheria epidemic. A special express train is heading up into the remote mountain ranges towards …
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Romantic Drama, Social Drama, Thriller, crime film, melodrama
Izzy (Tim Roth) is found dead outside the dilapidated Million Dollar Hotel in Los Angeles. He appears to have fallen from the hotel's roof. FBI Agent Skinner (Mel Gibson) suspects murder.
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Action, Thriller, detective film
Du Qiu is a Chinese attorney employed by Osaka-based Tenjin Pharmaceuticals, having successfully defended the company against numerous high-profile lawsuits. About to be relocated to the United States by his management, Qiu attends a party…
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adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, fantasy film, mystery film, thriller film
Fred Jones' pen pal, Alejo Otero, invites him and Mystery Inc. to visit him and his family in Veracruz, Mexico, which is being terrorized by a monster that its citizens believe to be "El Chupacabra". Upon their arrival, Mystery Inc.
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Thriller, action film, mystery film, thriller film
Border Patrol agents Bobby Logan and Ernie Wyatt are planting motion sensors in a remote area of the Texas desert when they stumble across what appears to be a decades-old Jeep buried in the sand. Upon excavating the vehicle, they find an …
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Fantasy, Modern-Day Fantasy, comedy horror, neo-noir
In an alternative 1948 Los Angeles, magic and mythological creatures are common. The protagonist, Phil Lovecraft, a detective, refuses its use. He does still accept wealthy widower Amos Hackshaw's job offer: Locate the powerful grimoire kn…
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Cartoon, adventure film, comedy horror, detective film, mystery film
In a flashback to 41 B.C.E, following her losses at the Battle of Actium and Battle of Alexandria, Cleopatra visits her tomb beneath the Sphinx to bury a treasure and form an undead army of her fallen soldiers to protect it. As she prepare…
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Horror, horror film, neo-noir
Claire Ward hires private investigator John March to look into the increasingly bizarre activities of her husband Charles Dexter Ward, an esteemed Rhode Island chemical engineer. Through a series of conversations with John, Claire reveals …
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Adventure, Detective Film
Phryne Fisher helps to rescue a young Bedouin girl called Shirin from imprisonment in 1920s Jerusalem. While doing so she is suspected of having died. Shirin is reunited with her uncle Sheikh Kahlil Abbas and they travel to Lofthouse Manor…
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Crime, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional creation, the central character in a series of short stories written by Dr John Watson and published in The Strand Magazine. Watson conceives of Holmes as a way for him to solve crimes incognito, as he views …
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Crime, Drama, neo-noir
Tony Rome is an ex-cop turned private investigator who lives on a powerboat in Miami, Florida, called ‘Straight Pass’. This is a reference to the fact that Tony also has a gambling problem. He is asked by his former partner, Ralph Turpin, …
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Crime, Secret Agent, crime film, detective film, drama film, spy film
Having lost two agents in Berlin, British intelligence chiefs arrange for American agent Quiller to report to the local controller, Pol, and continue the assignment, which is to find the headquarters of Phoenix, a neo-Nazi organization. Qu…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
Charged with a murder he did not commit, truck driver Frank Webster has broken out of jail. While on the run toward the Mexico–United States border, and the subject of radio news reports, he is cornered in a small Southern California coffe…
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Thriller, crime film
thumb|The plaster cast of Trajan's Column at the Victoria and Albert Museum is discussed in the film. In 1993, Martin (Elijah Wood), a US student at the University of Oxford, wants Arthur Seldom (John Hurt) as his thesis supervisor. He ido…
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Adventure, Cartoon, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, mystery film
Mystery Inc. receive a free trip to Hawaii from a surf-and-beachwear company called "Goha Aloha", who wants Daphne Blake to design new swimwear for them. Upon their arrival, the gang meet with Jared Moon, a representative of Goha Aloha and…
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film
In San Francisco, Nick and Nora Charles are looking forward to a relaxing afternoon at a horse racetrack, but they learn from Nick's old friend, Lieutenant Abrams, that a jockey named Goldez has been found shot dead in a shower stall after…
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film, teen film
High school senior Billy Lynch lives with his protective aunt Cheryl, who has raised him since infancy after his parents died in a car accident. Billy, a gifted basketball player, is offered a chance at a scholarship to attend the Universi…
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Computeranimation, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, family film
After helping Mystery Inc. solve a factory mystery, Velma Dinkley receives a call from her mother to check on her younger sister Madelyn, a student of the Whirlen Merlin Magic Academy, after learning it is being terrorized by a gryphon. Up…
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Animation, Family Comedy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, mystery film
The Mystery, Inc. gang travel to Loch Ness to see Blake Castle, home of Daphne Blake's Scottish ancestors and her cousin, Shannon Blake, for the upcoming annual Highland games. Upon their arrival, Shannon informs them that the castle has r…
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Adventure, Animation, Komödie, adventure film, comedy horror film, detective film, horror film, thriller film
Mystery Inc. travel to Camp Little Moose, Fred Jones' old summer camp, to serve as camp counselors for the summer. Upon arrival however, they find head counselor Burt and forest ranger John Knudsen, who explain that one of the camp's old l…
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, biographical film, crime film, detective film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
San Francisco-based Dashiell Hammett, trying to put his Pinkerton detective days behind him while establishing himself as a writer, finds himself drawn back into his old life one last time by the irresistible call of friendship and to hono…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, crime film, horror film, science fiction film
In New York City, a gunman perched atop a water tower opens fire with a .22 caliber rifle on the crowded streets below, randomly killing fifteen pedestrians. Peter Nicholas, a devout Catholic NYPD detective, climbs the tower to talk to the…
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