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thriller film
Talented young Jamie Harris is a struggling actress who is trying to win a role in an upcoming film called Playmaker. Eager to gain advantage on the competition, Harris' friend Eddie says that he can arrange an introduction with Ross Talbe…
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Drama, drama film, mystery film
A former divorcée learns that her new husband's past includes an abandoned wife. After he disappears with his two sons, the two wives team up to find him.
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Detective Film, mystery film
On a flight to New York for an annual police convention, Chan encounters his old Scotland Yard friend, Hugh Drake (Frederick Worlock). Drake is now a member of military intelligence trying to track down what he believes is a sabotage ring …
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mystery film, neo-noir, science fiction film
A hard-drinking female investigator named Hoyle (Kipleigh Brown) sets out to locate a reclusive genius (John Newton) who may be able to distort reality. Instead she finds her life becoming more and more fragmented and surreal. Trusting onl…
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Horror, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, horror film, zombie film
A research company founded by ex-Nazi scientists moves to a small town. Bored, several teens break in and find that the company has been reanimating the dead. Stuck there with the zombies, they attempt to escape with the help of a few cops…
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Film Noir, crime film, film noir, mystery film
Ann Gorman, a persistent young female reporter, is investigating a murder spree committed by a mysterious strangler, known only as "The Judge". She meets with Lieutenant Harry Grant and Sergeant Art Collins at a bar. Both men leave the bar…
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Mysterie, mystery film
A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping secrets about the victim.
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Erotic Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
In the evening, while returning to his home, Vincent Harris (Reedus) passes a taxi coming from his house. When he arrives, he finds his wife Ashley has been brutally murdered. Three years later, Vincent moves to New York, and his neighbor,…
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horror film
Giulio, a film student, spies on Sasha, an attractive neighbor, and rents Fritz Lang films for his thesis. He sees Sasha at the video store. She tries to rent Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train at the same time as another woman, Feder…
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crime film, mystery film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Sally Randall, daughter of a rich Hawaiian planter, marries Philmore, the man of her father's choice, thereby jilting her lover P.J. Madden. Tearing from her throat the priceless pearls that are her father'…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
Charlie Chan arrives in Shanghai at the behest of the U.S. government to help stop an opium smuggling ring. He receives a warning aboard ship not to stop in Shanghai.
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Crime, Crime Comedy, mystery film
Charlie Chan is now an agent of the U.S. government working in Washington D.C., and he is assigned to investigate the murder of the inventor of a highly advanced torpedo. Aiding Chan is his overeager but dull-witted Number Three son Tommy …
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crime film, drama film
Over a year after a chase to catch a serial slayer dubbed the 'LADYKILLER' ended in the death of his old partner, police officer Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky sees a chance to redeem himself when another serial killer, 'The Piggy Bank Murderer',…
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, Slasher Horror, horror film
The Smith family with a secret past is visited by a sweet-talking southern gentleman who is looking for small town humanity. But they will soon find out kindness towards strangers is not always rewarded and the secretive stranger will find…
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crime film, documentary film, drama film, historical film, mystery film
Crime Comedy, comedy film, film noir, mystery film
Convicted murderer "Turk" (Stephen McNally) escapes from police custody, crashing through a washroom window as a train pulls into Grand Central Terminal in New York. He telephones his former girlfriend, Broadway star Mida King (Patricia Da…
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Film Noir, drama film, film noir, mystery film, thriller film
Wealthy touring classical pianist Ellen Ewing is standing at the altar with fiancé David McLean when an intruder stops the marriage ceremony and accuses her of already having wed a few months prior. The stranger claims that this can be ver…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
Mary Whitman has arrived in Reno to obtain a divorce. While there, she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcees). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the …
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Horror, Sexploitation Film, Slasher Horror, comedy drama, horror film, sexploitation film
A group of men and women travel to a Caribbean resort to discover themselves sexually, but unfortunately one of them has also discovered that they like to murder people, too.
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, drama film, exploitation film, horror film
Lounge singer Tony Trelos is approached by a buxom blonde woman on a beach one afternoon. Her name is Andrea Hilliard, and she is a wealthy woman whose crippled husband Martin owns a record label. That night, Andrea goes to watch Tony perf…
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biographical film, crime film, documentary film, historical film, musical film, mystery film
As the story is told, we get an insight into the violent political suppression of the roots reggae movement in Jamaica, with the CIA's involvement in the mysterious shooting of Bob Marley.
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crime film
In London, young diplomatic attaché Ronnie Adair, is playing bridge when he is called to a meeting with Professor Moriarty and blackmailed into transporting counterfeit money to Paris in his diplomatic pouch. Adair's concerned sister calls…
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Komödie, mystery film
Wanda Nash (Carole Lombard), an actress from Brooklyn, decides to masquerade as "Princess Olga" from Sweden in order to land a film contract with a big Hollywood studio. On board the liner Mammoth bound for New York, she runs into King Man…
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Horror, Komödie, Mysterie, comedy horror
The plot is set around a facility where new medications are tested on willing volunteers. While at an experimental drug weekend trial, Andre Chang and Juliet Reid meet and soon discover that their lives are in danger. The building is locke…
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