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Crime, Sci-Fi
It follows the television series format of two parallel storylines. The first plot is about a seemingly human-Tenctonese hybrid child involved in a sinister experiment with a Newcomer (a euphemism for Tenctonese) scientist disguised as a h…
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Theresa Hopkins is one of twelve jurors who have to decide about a case of assassination. She believes very strongly in the innocence of the young man, but cannot convince the others. During the discussions, she realizes that one member of…
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crime film
thumb|260px|right|Lobby card On an ocean liner making its way to New York, Simon Templar, "the Saint", rescues a fellow passenger from card cheats, though she refuses to give him her name and is offended when he kisses her without invitati…
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spy film
Returning to New York City from Europe, Boston Blackie tries unsuccessfully to strike up a conversation with attractive fellow ocean liner passenger Marilyn Howard. He later rescues her when she is accosted by a man. However, when he tries…
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mystery film
Lamont Granston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Granston must assume the identity of the attorney, Chester Randall. Before he can leav…
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Crime, Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
Chan is on his way back from completing the London case—they always mentioned the previous case—to go on "vacation" to Paris, but this is just a way to make people think that he is innocently there. He is on a case for some London bankers …
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Crime, action film, crime film
Simon Templar, alias "the Saint," meets and hires a reformed pickpocket and ex-convict named Dugan. Templar is recruited by Sir Richard Blake of British Intelligence to investigate Bruno Lang, a suspected spy. Templar tails Lang to his hom…
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Crime, Sci-Fi
The plot introduces the idea that among the Tenctonese slaves, there was a resistance movement called the Udara who were implanted with hypnotic suggestions to act as sleeper agents. Now, here on Earth, someone has found a way to activate …
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Crime, Thriller, crime film
Ex-mobster Keaton (Abe Vigoda), now living in a retirement home, narrowly misses being the target of a mob hit. Police officers Jake Barber (Don Rickles), who has known Keaton for a long time, and violent Mike Gable (Lee Majors), who takes…
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Splatstick
The store manager and the floorwalker are conspiring to rob the store's safe. Charlie enters the department store and annoys the staff with his antics, primarily taking a shave on the shaving product table. He has a fight with the floor ma…
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Komödie, Mysterie, mystery film, romantic comedy
New York lawyer and playboy Clay "Dal" Dalzell is asked by old friend Tim Winthrop to locate his girlfriend Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in Chicago a year ago. Winthrop cannot stop thinking about her, and he believes she is in New Y…
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comedy film
To celebrate their six-month anniversary, Long Island socialites Tony and Carlotta Milburn arrange a wild drinking party with friends, culminating in a stop at the restaurant owned by Faronea. They are unaware that Faronea is conspiring wi…
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Action, Crime, Detective Film, Drama, Girls with Guns, Heist, Mysterie, Police Film, Road Movie, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Time Travel, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, dystopian film, heist film, thriller film
San Diego in the 2040s has unemployment and crime at an all-time high. Government surveillance, mass poverty and drought has decimated much of the population. Revolutionary groups and economic divide has caused society to be on the brink o…
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Crime, Sci-Fi
The plot follows human detective Matthew Sikes and his Tenctonese partner George Francisco as they investigate a mind-altering Tenctonese artifact being used to lure followers into a deadly cult. The artifact used in this film was the same…
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Crime, drama film, mystery film
Charlie Chan is engaged by an heir to solve a mystery on a boat. Miss Nodbury seeks a pirate treasure on Cocos Island, and her ship has recently hosted a museum of pirate lore. For safety, she has split her map into four pieces, which she …
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Horror, Thriller, horror film
A mysterious and unidentified man in a white Ford van gets out and stabs his wife on the portico of a house. Before she dies, she gives her infant son to Heather and urges her to keep him safe, knowing that his father will try to kill him.…
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Crime, mystery film
A caravan settles for the night in the Gobi Desert. A man sneaks into a tent to steal a scroll, but adventurer and soldier of fortune Kentaro Moto is only pretending to be asleep and kills him. When the caravan reaches Peiping, Moto is sea…
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horror film
A police sergeant and a parole officer endeavor to stop a rapist-on-parole before he can follow through his threats on five women who testified against him years earlier.
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crime film, drama film
Colonel Nathan B. "Skipper" Gregory, a former World War I ace pilot, is the owner of a travelling carnival that has fallen on hard times. Only the money brought in by Craig McCoy, the carnival stunt pilot, keeps the carnival from closing.
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crime film, mystery film
At the West Hills Golf Club in Westchester, E.J. Kimball (Walter Kingsford) and his son Manuel (Russell Hardie) are welcomed into the party of elderly Professor Barstow (Boyd Irwin Sr.) and his prospective son-in-law Claude Roberts (Victor…
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Crime, mystery film
On a short flight to Catalina Island off the California coast, Roswell T. Forrest gets sick. When he is found dead upon landing, it appears to be murder to fellow passenger Hildegarde Withers, but she has a tough time convincing local poli…
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Crime, crime film, detective film
As Nick Harbin prepares for his release from prison after serving five years for a payroll heist, he refuses to disclose the location of the $260,000 he stole with two accomplices, who are now dead. Upon release, Nick is immediately confro…
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crime film, film noir
Nightclub singer Ilona Vance is accused of murder because she was the last person to see crooked attorney Frank Hobart alive. Lt. Hargis attempts to prove her innocence.
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Drama, thriller film
The cow town of Spurline is effectively ruled by Virgil Renchler, owner of the Golden Empire ranch. One night, some of Renchler's hands beat young laborer Juan Martín to death. The newly elected sheriff of Spurline, Ben Sadler, decides to …
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