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Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone (Jack Thompson) and his offsider (Shane Porteous) investigate the murder of Helga (Judy Morris), whose corpse is found in the basement of the Sydney Opera House. Malone had met Helga previou…
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Mysterie, drama film, mystery film
comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
thumb|367x367px|The Thirteenth Guest ad from The Film Daily, 1932 Marie Morgan has been lured to an old abandoned house by a false note from a friend, and is in jeopardy although she doesn't yet realize it. As she sits at the table inside,…
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film noir, mystery film
Joan Victor, an actress known as "Johnny" to her friends, is living in Cannes, France, where she and financier Louis Galt plan to marry as soon as he gets a divorce. Louis's wife Marie and her brothers control Louis's firm and have become …
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Film Noir, Mysterie, film noir, mystery film
A murderer is on the run and hiding out in a small town. As the story progresses, a boy who is sharing his room with the stranger realises he has witnessed the man killing a woman. The story begins on a train at night where an elegantly dr…
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Ghost-House-Movies, Ghost-Movie, Mysterie, horror film
While trying to get their lives back on track after the loss of their four-year-old son, Bryn and Paul Shaw move to the charming old Beacon Apartments. Bryn begins seeing a ghostly little boy skulking around the building. With the help of …
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drama film, mystery film, thriller film
The story is set in the 1980s. Inspired by a series of actual real events, the film is based on the experiences of director Guy Nattiv's own grandmother and her involvement in a cult. It follows Rita Cooper as she renounces her family to j…
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Road Movie, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, mystery film
Hirata is a successful Japanese businessman whose plan for a two-week winter holiday in Hawaii to play golf changes when his elderly grandfather reminds him that he should go to Iceland. Hirata's parents died there seven years ago, and the…
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drama film
During the Great Depression, a man is ejected from a speeding car. When he regains consciousness in a hospital, he has amnesia. He is visited by a man who accuses him of faking his condition.
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Melodrama, drama film, horror film, mystery film
Horror, Mysterie, horror film
Bruno (Amarilla), a student at the rundown FW Murnau Film School comes across the thanatoscope, an ancient instrument of death. The instrument, created by scientist Girolamo Fumagalli immortalises on a plate the last image seen by the vict…
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mystery film
In the late 1930s, inactive New York magician Michael "Mike" Morgan (aka "The Amazing Morgan") exposes fraudulent magicians and psychics who prey on the unsuspecting. When demonologist Dr. Sabbat is mysteriously murdered, Mike assists the …
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mystery film
Bubba Mabry (Mohr), a notoriously gullible private detective, is hired to snoop on a tabloid reporter by a mysterious celebrity known only as Mr. Aaron (Patrick). When the tabloid reporter is murdered, Mabry becomes the prime suspect in hi…
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mystery fiction
Day One Physics professor J.T. Neumeyer is celebrating his daughter's tenth birthday, as well as mourning the tenth anniversary of the death of his wife who died giving birth. While at the cemetery, J.T.'s daughter Jesse finds a futuristic…
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drama film, film noir
After five years in San Quentin prison, former policeman Steve Rollins is released. Unjustly convicted of manslaughter in an arrested man's death, Steve is met by a friend from the force, Dan Bianco, and by wife Marcia, whom he shuns becau…
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Crime, mystery film
Aboard an ocean liner bound for Samoa, United States Treasury agent Scott Pearson confidentially asks Charlie Chan for help; he is on the trail of stolen currency and art treasures plundered from Philippine banks during the Japanese invasi…
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Film Noir, action film, drama film, film noir, mystery film
A woman whose husband is declared missing in action after Pearl Harbor flies to Hawaii after the war to conduct her own investigation. Her husband, ex-racketeer Chet Chester (Corey), is actually still alive but changed his identity due to …
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Komödie, Thriller, mystery film
The action takes place in London over one evening in the saloon bar of the Cap & Bells pub, just before Christmas. The regulars discuss the forthcoming execution for robbery and murder of the boyfriend of one of the barmaids. A pound note …
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mystery film
Frank is confined to a residential home, suffering from Alzheimer's disease with his past, present, and future slowly breaking down. One day, a young man named James visits, wanting to reconnect with a father who no longer remembers him. J…
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Crime, mystery film
In London an English woman, Heather McMara, asks for help from a visiting American writer, Philip 'Phil' O'Dell, to find out who has killed her brother, Danny, who was run over in a heavy nighttime fog. Having no evidence, the police will …
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Mysterie, thriller film
The main character of the movie is Sara Novak, a college student who, along with comic book store owner named Vern (played by Adrian Paul), spend their time solving riddles. The movie takes a twist when the riddles lead to the death of her…
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crime film, mystery film, silent film
comedy film
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the ship San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett wi…
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propaganda film, spy film
The film opens with a description of the Black Tom explosion of a munitions supply located in Jersey City on the Hudson River. The explosion, which occurred during World War I was an act of sabotage by German agents. Barry Corvall (Joel Mc…
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