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Drama, drama film
Fifteen-year-old Sam Franks has returned from a Melbourne boarding school to his hometown in Victoria. He has an obvious affection towards a local girl, Silvy, who has a disability affecting her legs which requires a brace and prevents her…
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mystery film
Therapist Tess Parker (JoBeth Williams) meets Paul Tomlinson (Pierce Brosnan), an English professor she is wacky over, and a guy too good to be true. Her patient Carla (Virginia Madsen), comes to Tess to tell her about her former lover who…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Christopher Kelvaney is a crooked police officer who takes bribes and payoffs from criminals and other nefarious folk. His brother Eddie is a young member of the police force who is honest and loyal. In a penny arcade, a drug dealer is sta…
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biographical film, drama fiction, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film
The movie begins in Aiken, South Carolina in 1975. Dannion Brinkley is a Vietnam veteran who works as a deliveryman in his parents store. A young man with a dark side, he is unfaithful to his loving wife Casey and bullies everyone else aro…
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horror film
The city of San Francisco is pushed into a state of terror and fear as a deranged murderer stalks the city. The police are baffled by the case and are led to extremes by a lunatic whose victims all have something in common: their hearts ha…
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Thriller, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
A Few Days in September imagines a scenario in which an American C.I.A. agent, Elliot, with advance intelligence about the attacks on New York's World Trade Center towers is being chased by an assassin, William Pound, while he is trying to…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
Teenager Barbara Vining has an unrequited crush on her Latin-language teacher, Stephen Barlow and goes to his house for private tutoring. Barlow's wife Kay notices Barbara's infatuation and cruelly confronts her. Barbara, who is humiliated…
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comedy film, comedy thriller, mystery film
Museum of Ancient History curators Dr. Powell and Professor Wilson enlist the Stooges' services as private detectives to locate Professor Tuttle, an Egyptologist who has gone missing while in pursuit of the mummy of Egyptian King Rootentoo…
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Mysterie, horror film
A writer called Boyd 'Bo' Aikens (Jay Mohr), recently unemployed and divorced, leaves Los Angeles hoping to find a place to start over. He enters an ordinary-looking town called Black River, and stops for lunch. However, after a disturbing…
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action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer (Tracy Pollan) teams up with three other professional women to investigate a serial killer who targets brides on their honeymoon. While trying to solve the biggest case of her career, she finds herself fall…
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie
comedy film
A newspaper reporter interviews Professor J.O. Dunkfeather to gather information about a spy ring broken up by three salesmen. Dunkfeather narrates a story that commences with the Stooges portraying traveling salesmen trying unsuccessfully…
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Mysterie, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Rose is a young and talented English violinist, a rising star in the world of classical music. Her agent and manager Charles has been taking care of her since her mother's demise when Rose was just sixteen. Her father - the infamous compos…
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comedy film, mystery film, thriller film
After making a three-hour fiasco about New York City's water supply, a two-man film crew decides to take it up a notch by documenting life in the private investigator offices of "Boone and Murphy". Cheating husbands and missing dogs fail t…
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Ghost-Movie, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film
In 1999, after an explosion at a women's health clinic in Atlanta, police detective Ben Walls is called back into active duty while on leave. As he investigates the scene, a second explosion goes off, and he loses consciousness. He wakes u…
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Film Noir, horror film, mystery film
Painter Dave Stuart is blinded by his jealous model, Tanya, who says she mistakenly switched Dave's eyewash with acid. 'Dad' Hayden, father of his fiancé Heather, offers an operation to restore his sight, but Stuart will have to wait until…
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Crime, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Charlie Chan gets a chance to watch a popular opera performance. For seven years, opera star Gravelle has been locked in an insane asylum, his identity a mystery – even to himself. But when his memory unexpectedly returns, he begins to rec…
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Romance Film, romance film
Lady Caroline Faye and Lord Vane Brecon meet under unusual circumstances and are immediately attracted to one another. Later, Lady Caroline learns that Lord Brecon has been accused of murder. She embarks on a plan to prove him innocent, wh…
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Action, film noir
Ruthless killer Steve Michel is known to the public as "the Claw" for his way of killing his victims with his prosthetic hook. After his accomplices Ryan and Taylor have broken in and stolen furs from the Flawless Furs warehouse, Steve kil…
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mystery film
Crime, Mysterie, drama film, film noir
The film opens with a teaser showing the end of the story. The priest of St. Elzear hears the church bells ringing, which (a narrator tells us) weren't supposed to ring until the Gauntlet of St.
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drama film, mystery film
In San Francisco, policeman Lieutenant Riggs (Harold Huber) takes Mr. Moto, a detective and Lee Chan (Keye Luke), a student, to a prizefight between Bill Steele (Dick Baldwin) and Frank Stanton (Russ Clark), where the winner will take on t…
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children's film
In 1944, a woman had a boyfriend and was going to get engaged. But her father thought he was poor and tried to use a gun. 63 Years later, moving to a spooky, old house in the country, Roxy Hunter, an irrepressible nine-year old, stumbles i…
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Drama, Mysterie
The film revolves around Lok, a police officer who is investigating the disappearance of a Chinese migrant worker working at a land reclamation site. The investigation leads him to the disappearance of another Bengali worker, who was on go…
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