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Mysterie, crime film
Zarnoff, an international spy in the employ of "The Three Powers" (presumably a fictionalized reference to the Axis) is captured by Dick Tracy at the start of the serial, tried and sentenced to death. However, through the use of a rare dru…
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Crime Comedy, Komödie, comedy film
Dirt Merchant is a young man who struggles finding a job after getting fired from the mailroom at a record company where he dreamed of becoming assistant director. Eventually he becomes a summons server but gets in trouble when a rock star…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, science fiction film
Strong willed and organised Robyn wakes up unexpectedly on a strange beach. Panicked and with strange supernatural events happening around her she runs to a small cabin not far away. There she finds Seb is enjoying himself in a threesome w…
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Mysterie, action film
Torchy Blane a reporter for the Morning Herald interviews Tiny Torgenson on the train. He is purchasing the Million Club and various gambling and sporting enterprises from his friend Fitz Mularkey. Fitz has decided to quit the business due…
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drama film, mystery film
Note on sources. Beautiful courtesan Jenny Wren intends to “retire” to Europe, sailing first class and “alone, for once.” She gathers four rich and powerful former lovers—Priam Andes, William Jones, Eddie Mack and Herbert Walcott—along wit…
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drama film, mystery film, romance film
Drama, Mysterie
During a hot summer in Berlin, 17-year old Tina and her friends attend a late party at a public swimming pool. One of the girls tells Tina about a misshapen embryo shown to students during biology class. She takes a photograph of Tina with…
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crime film, mystery film
Private detective Lamont Cranston steps in to solve a murder for the police with the assistance of his alter ego. People are literally flying off balconies to their deaths as Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, tries to make sense out of a co…
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mystery film
As with the book, the film is based around the Herncastle Moonstone, a valuable diamond from India. The plot differs from the original on several particulars, however. Inspector Cuff is commissioned by Scotland Yard to ensure that the Moon…
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drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Nurse Kaitlyn (Natalie Zea), who is tending to a young stabbing victim, is accidentally electrocuted and awakens to find that she is experiencing the memories of the now-deceased woman's life.
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crime film, mystery film
To win back his girlfriend, Merle Garland, private detective Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) promises to abandon his profession and takes a job as a riveter at the Thomas Aircraft plant. Shortly after starting, industrial diamonds worth $100,…
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Action, Mysterie
Museum director Chris Kilos counts in his collection a prized sword, rumored to have belonged to Alexander the Great himself, and to grant protection to its bearer thanks to a blessing from the god Apollo. However, the respected administra…
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Horror, Mysterie, Slasher Horror, crime film, erotic thriller
James M. Craddock describes the plot as "Beautiful swimsuit models gather on a remote tropical island for a big photo shoot, each vying to be the next cover girl of the hottest swimsuit magazine. Before long, scantily clad lovelies are tur…
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crime film, mystery film
In Honolulu's Waikiki, two brothers, Dan and Amos Winterslip have had a decades-long feud which worsens when Dan announces his engagement to a scandalous, younger woman. When Dan is found murdered in his beachside home, Charlie Chan is cal…
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crime film, mystery film
crime film, experimental film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
James (Macbeth) and Jen (Lady Macbeth) become intertwined with each other as they rehearse a theatrical production of Macbeth. Duke (also Macbeth) is Jen's husband, Drew (Banquo) is James' best friend and Matt portrays Macduff and Malcolm.…
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Mysterie, mystery film
Police investigate the death of a tyrannical teacher at a girls school, where any number of people might have killed the dead woman.
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Komödie, Mysterie, mystery film
Miss Withers discovers the dead body of her colleague, music teacher Louise Halloran, in a schoolroom. She summons her old friend, Inspector Oscar Piper, but by the time he arrives, the corpse has disappeared. Having watched the only entra…
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documentary film, mystery film, true crime
Mysterie, crime film
Showman Pel Pelham (who works contracting sleazy acts for a freakshow carnival) is contacted by an old friend Tony who has received a blackmail letter signed "Delores". Pel agrees to check her out as she lives near a friend of his. Reachin…
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horror film
Dr. Andre Crespi (von Stroheim) hates Dr. Stephen Ross (Bohn), who married Crespi's girlfriend, Estelle (Harriet Russell).
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Crime, mystery film
Scientist Alfred Wyans of Mexico City has perfected a more powerful version of the atomic bomb. His assistant, Walter Dorn, fears for the formula's safety and telephones Charlie Chan to safeguard the formula. Wyans hosts a luncheon, where …
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mystery film
In New Orleans, Denise Roberts tells her brothers, Vance and Dan, that she is pregnant. Dan learns the baby's father is black, threatens her and her fiancé, and demands she get an abortion. After returning to New York, Denise tells her fia…
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Film Noir, mystery film
When the head of a shipping company is murdered in his office, suspicion is focused on the son of a competitor who is engaged to the dead man's daughter. The girl asks the detective Mr. Wong to investigate, hoping to prove that her fiancé …
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