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Mysterie, thriller film
Charles Lattimore, an English professor played by Brosnan, gives his class an assignment to plot a murder, but after a student and someone else dies, he becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Realizing that the theoretical mu…
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mystery film, thriller film
In 1937, a young boy wakes up in the middle of the night and sees apparitions of Native Americans dancing on the beach before discovering his grandparents' bodies buried up to their heads in sand. He later grows up to become the head of th…
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drama film
Annie Herron is abused by her husband, Simon, whilst his brother, George, was seemingly helpless to intervene. The film hits an interesting twist when Simon is murdered. Annie is convinced that she is the murderer, even as she gets herself…
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After waking up from a coma, Allison Sullivan finds she has no memory of anything. As she begins to try to put the pieces together she learns someone is out to get her due to an affair she had with a Dr. Jack Renault whose wife Laura just …
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Horror, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
Former Hollywood make-up artist Vincent Renard has liquor thrown in his face while lighting a cigarette during a party. Despite diving into the pool half his face is disfigured. As a result he becomes recluse and opens a wax museum.
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crime film, drama film
“...Our story opens following the death of Hop Li, member of the powerful Lem Sing Tong, and we see his funeral procession passing down DuPont Street”... A huge dragon banner unfolds, declaring war. People panic: men sharpen hatchets; shop…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
Drummond is called out of retirement by Scotland Yard to infiltrate a ruthless London crime outfit. After three robberies are pulled off with military precision, Inspector McIver asks Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond to give Scotland Yard a hand. A…
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Crime, mystery film
An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her stepdaughter's unlikeable stepfather from her husband, who is bringing important visitors to their country home.
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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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Mysterie, Road Movie, horror film
A man known only as the Rambler is released from prison and returns home to his girlfriend, Cheryl. His attempts to resume his former life are unsuccessful. After Cheryl reveals that she is pregnant by another man and their relationship co…
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Crime, mystery film
The famed detective seeks to unmask a killer on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean. It begins harmlessly enough, with Papa Chan catching No.2 and No.7 Sons in his office;trying to destroy a bad report card from school. They are ordered to l…
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mystery film
Teenager Johnny Hanson arrives at a remote New England fishing village. He goes to Ronda's Cafe and sits at a table. When the owner,Ronda Carlson, comes to take his order, he asks her name, and when she replies, he departs.
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
The son of a Japanese billionaire is injured in an abandoned steel mill he bought in a Pennsylvania town. The police discover it might not be an accident when they start questioning the people in the town.
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mystery film
The relatives of Cassandra "Cassie" Denham, an old unmarried lady living in New York who is reputedly good for three million dollars, try to make a judge declare her unable to take care of herself financially. The attempt fails, and in cha…
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Komödie, Mysterie, Thriller, comedy film, science fiction film, spy film
In September 1938, advanced British aircraft prototypes carrying experimental and secret equipment are vanishing with their crews on test flights. No one can fathom why, not even spymaster Major Hammond (Ralph Richardson) or his sister Kay…
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crime film, drama film
Alan York is stunned when his dear friend, skilled jockey Bill Davidson, is killed during a simple steeplechase. Convinced Davidson's death was no accident, York begins an investigation with a suspicion that Davidson's racehorse, Admiral, …
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drama film, mystery film
Donna Morton has been having an affair with the President of the United States for several months, regularly meeting with him for assignations in a safe house in Washington, D.C. She is always picked up in a car by a Secret Service agent. …
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, psychological horror film, slasher film
Alicia is a young woman working as an employee at a video rental store in Waterbury, Connecticut. One afternoon, she is met outside her apartment by an elderly man dressed in black who asks to use her phone. She obliges, but finds after th…
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Mysterie, thriller film
Two young female teachers travel to the Yorkshire Moors where their friend had disappeared a year before, and it is not long before they encounter a man they believe to be her murderer. That night, a violent storm breaks out, and they beco…
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thriller film
The story begins with Simon Robinson arriving in a small seaside community to take over as teacher at the local school. He makes the acquaintance of siblings Jenny and David Abbott (Alexander and Waters, respectively), and Jenny's daughter…
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mystery film
In a grand Kentucky mansion, Captain Selby Martin and his wife Phoebe discover their daughter Rachel has been secretly married to Richard Arnold, although they want Rachel to be engaged to James Wetherford. Selby and Richard fight, and Sel…
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Film Noir, film noir, mystery film
A Parisian detective, Henri Cassin (Steven Geray), falls in love with country innkeeper Pierre Michaud's daughter Nanette (Micheline Cheirel) while on a long overdue vacation. She is a simple girl with a jealous boyfriend, Leon (Paul Mario…
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mystery film
Murders taking place on the back lot of Worldwide Studios turn out to be the work of a disfigured actor who has been living there for years and will stop at nothing to cease the sale of the back lot to developers.
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Mysterie, mystery film
A beautiful Chinese woman visits Mr. Wong late at night but is murdered before she can tell him why she needs his help. Wong discovers that she is Princess Lin Hwa, the sister of a powerful Chinese general, and that she was killed with a p…
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