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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 717 films · Page 15.
Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Two years after killing Hasford, a serial killer, in the line of duty, Kline now works as a private detective, but he is still haunted by the ghosts of his past. A powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss hires Kline to find his only son …
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Film Noir, crime film, film noir
Whitney "Cam" Cameron arrives at a hospital and learns that Polly, the stepdaughter of his widowed sister-in-law Lynne, is suffering violent convulsions resulting from an unknown illness. She later appears to recover but then experiences a…
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Action Comedy, spy film
A series of inexplicable accidents befall the development of the world's first supersonic airliner, the SST1 – a man falls victim to a homicidal air stewardess and two women perform separate acts of sabotage during tests. The Air Ministry …
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Crime, Mysterie, Thriller, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, thriller film
thumb|left|One of the tiled mosaics celebrating local boy Alfred Hitchcock in the subway at Leytonstone tube station. Along a coastline in rural England, police Detective Barton arrives at a house, Number 17, marked for sale or rent. The d…
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Erotic Thriller, horror film
When Jonathan Ratcliff (Joseph Bottoms) suddenly becomes blind, doctors fit him with an experimental electronic device designed to partially restore his sight. With his renewed vision, he witnesses a murder and must stop a serial killer.
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Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, action film, heist film, romantic comedy
Thomas Kresk isn't good at his job, has lost somewhere to live, and his wife dumps him for their marriage counselor. Kresk is depressed and contemplating suicide. Meanwhile, a criminal named Avnet has stolen three priceless coins and decid…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
Portly private detective Runyan is asked by dental nurse Jane Adams to investigate the unexplained murder of her boss. Suspicion falls on disappeared patient Clark, last seen being driven from his appointment by the chauffeur of probable g…
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Detective Film, Drama, Mysterie, mystery film
Hercule Poirot joins his assistant Arthur Hastings in Acapulco, Mexico, where Hastings is staying. They go to a party at which the other guests include the writer Janet Crisp, the American actor Charles Cartwright, a clergyman called Babbi…
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drama film, film noir
In the opening scene, a "beatnik" named Stan Hess sits at a table in a coffee house with a woman who begs him for his affection. He scorns her, then encounters his father at another table, who announces his engagement to a younger woman wh…
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes fakes his own death in Scotland in order to investigate a number of bizarre apparent suicides that he is convinced are part of an elaborate plot by "a female Moriarty". Returning to his assistant Dr. Wa…
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Detective Film, Drama, Mysterie, mystery film
Detective Film, crime film, film noir
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy widow Elizabeth Murdock to investigate the theft of a rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, from her deceased husband's private collection. Believing the case to be a fairly routine one, Marl…
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comedy film, crime film, detective film, film noir
A man calling himself Sam Marlowe has his face altered to resemble that of his idol, Humphrey Bogart, and then opens a detective agency. At first, he and his secretary Duchess have meager business, but things pick up after a shooting puts …
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
Dr. Watson is working as resident physician at Musgrave Manor in Northumberland, a stately home which is also used as a hospital for a number of servicemen suffering from shell shock. When Sally Musgrave displays her feelings for one of th…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, horror film, science fiction film
An outsider visits a remote isolated village that has seemingly shunned modern life. Dr. Del Shaw, an investigator from the British ecological watchdog group nicknamed Doomwatch, is sent to the island of Balfe to file a report on the effec…
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Film Noir, Parodie, Romantic Comedy, film noir, romantic comedy
The story is told in flashback from Death Row as Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) relates to a group of reporters the events that led to his murder conviction. In San Francisco, Ronnie works as a child photographer who dreams of being a private d…
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Detective Film, mystery film
Master criminal Giles Conover (Miles Mander) steals the famous "Borgia Pearl" from the Royal Regent Museum under the very nose of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, but when Mander is caught the pearl is not found on him and he is released. L…
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Mysterie, thriller film
Down-and-out New York detective Eddie Mallard finds himself involved in the weirdest case of his career when a wealthy man asks for his help in stopping his ex-wife from harassing him. Mallard finds that the case may be too much for him wh…
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
Former Chicago policeman Jim Slade is paroled from prison, where he had served time for shooting his wife's lover in their bed. He goes to live with his married friends Quartz and Judy in a small town where he has been offered a job as a n…
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crime film, mystery film
Jake Dekker is a private eye who is hired by an insurance company to travel to Acapulco and investigate the death of a rich industrialist named Theron. In an effort to cloak his intentions, Dekker adopts the persona of an independently wea…
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Action, Detective Film, action film, crime film, film noir, neo-noir, thriller film
A former-private-eye-turned-gun-for-hire named Malone is hired to retrieve a suitcase from a building full of armed mobsters, but a violent shootout ensues and Malone is eventually left as the only survivor. Suspecting a set-up, he retains…
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Crime, crime film, drama film
George Smiley, at the request of his old wartime colleague Ailsa Brimley, investigates the murder of Stella Rode. A letter had previously come to Brimley from Rode detailing a plot supposedly by her husband, Stanley Rode, who teaches at Ca…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, crime film
A group of particularly violent armed robbers, who are committing bank and payroll robberies across London, are taking just £60,000 from each robbery, leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill anyone who ge…
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Detective Film, mystery film
The great detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted companion Dr. John Watson travel to New York City to investigate a recent threat made by Professor James Moriarty. During their investigation, Holmes and Watson are reunited with their ol…
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