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Crime, mystery film
In Mexico, an expedition prepares to look for two missing archeologists, Professors Scott and Farnsworth, who had been searching for a lost Aztec temple, but have been missing for two months. Charlie Chan, is on his way to Mexico City for …
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mystery film
While travelling by train with his sidekick and assistant, "Goldie" Locke, for a vacation in San Francisco, Tom Lawrence, a.k.a. The Falcon, meets Annie Marshall, a lonely little girl. Annie tells them that she is being held prisoner by he…
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mystery film
Christopher Lee is The Keeper, the sinister and crippled administrator of the secluded and exclusive Underwood Asylum in 1947 British Columbia where the community's wealthiest families have entrusted their mentally-disturbed relatives to h…
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crime film, mystery film
mystery film
Private detective Larry Morgan is hired by a Mrs. Swann to investigate her husband, who is soon found dead in the studio of Peter Vandaman, an artist. Mrs.
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film noir, mystery film
Dix plays a man who after almost getting hit by a car and then hitting his head on a pole, becomes an amnesiac who learns about his name and past through the help of amateur fortune teller Jean Lang (Janis Carter). The fortune teller sees …
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Mysterie, drama film
A detective teams up with a young female archaeologist to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumoured to have curative powers. It is the story of two wounded souls searching for healing and redemption.
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mystery film
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. O…
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mystery film
A blind detective, Duncan Maclain, with a seeing-eye dog is asked to help by Jean Hampton after a number of mysterious murders are committed, including ones of her wealthy father and uncle. Jean's fiancé, Barry Gifford, falls under suspici…
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mystery film
After unmasking a clever jewel thief for the benefit of his police inspector father, Ellery Queen and his friend Judge Macklin leave for what they hope will be a bachelor vacation on the California Coast. Macklin assures Queen that there i…
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mystery film
Over the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia flies the airplane of aviatrix Victoria Mason, supposedly circumnavigating the world. Her actual destination is the kingdom of Tong Moi in French Indochina. Already in Tong Moi, Mr.
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LGBT-related television series, LGBTQ-related film, thriller
At the home of John Rutka and Eddie Santin, Rutka is apparently shot. Later, private eye Donald Strachey arrives at a hospital to meet with a client. While there, he sees his partner, Tim Callahan, escorting his boss, a prominent New York …
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drama film, mystery film
Noted defense attorney Charlie Frazee receives an anonymous note hinting that death row inmate Robert Westland might be innocent of the wife-murder he was convicted for. Frazee takes the note seriously and hires private detectives Bill Cra…
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Mysterie, mystery film
Beautiful fledgling actress Stephanie Blake is starring in playwright Otto Kellner's latest theatrical hit. Unbeknownst to her, the writer is in love with her, and is jealous of any competition. Stephanie is ambitious for a part in a new p…
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drama film, mystery film, romance film
film noir, mystery film
A man posing as a bank examiner steals $50,000 from teller Mike Donovan's cash drawer. Because Donovan does not immediately report the shortage after he discovers it, he is accused of theft and fired by the bank. Donovan is prevented from …
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Ghost-House-Movies, Mysterie, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film
Unhappily married couple Alan and Sarah reunite when she is released from a mental hospital. Alan, a classical music critic, announces that he has bought tickets to Italy for them both and introduces Kelly, whom he has hired to house sit f…
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crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
Nigel (Morten Vogelius) is an incompetent criminal who flees his native England to Copenhagen in order to escape the loan sharks who are after him. He and his wife Maria (Jette Philipsen) shack up at a hotel, while each struggles separatel…
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mystery film
Aboard an airliner flying from Nice to London, an oil driller returning from the Middle East named Cooper becomes very ill. This attracts the notice of World Health Organization self-styled "germ detective" Archibald Bannister. It turns ou…
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mystery film
Jerry North and his wife Pam return home after a night away in a holiday spirit. The spirit soon vanishes when the body of a man falls out of their liquor closet. The corpse is identified as Stanley Brent, the estranged husband of Carol Br…
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Horror comedy, Marital Tragedy, Romantic Drama, Zombiefilm, comedy horror film, romantic comedy, zombie comedy
American newlyweds Denise and Danny have just begun their month-long honeymoon by the ocean in New Jersey when Denise witnesses a ragged man, fully clad, emerging from the water. She screams to rouse her sleeping husband, but it is too lat…
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horror film
Banker Walter Craig (Gus Glassmire) has disappeared and his best friend, Ed Moline (Paul McVey) hires Nick Trayne (James Dunn), a retired private detective who now earns a living as a quasi-psychic and "listening ear", to take the case. Ev…
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drama film, prison film
Joaquin Shannon, a fisherman, takes the blame for a crime to protect his brother-in-law Chris Nelson, whom he thinks accidentally killed the odious Joe Fenderson in a drunken brawl, but who really died from injuries from a mugging. He is s…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
Dr. John Winnington and Sophie have an unhappy marriage, and John falls in love with his new laboratory assistant, Sophie's sister Christine. Sophie agrees to a divorce and announces her intention to leave for South Africa.
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