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mystery film
Kay Curtis and June Dale are two showgirls living in the Palm Beach hotel. When June refuses one of her wealthy male friend's sexual advances, he chooses to let June and Kay pay for their own hotel bills. They decide to ask Daisy Bradford,…
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mystery film
Leonard Maltin: "Cute comic mystery... Robson is a hoot as a rough-riding Nevadan who straps on her six-shooters and turns sleuth to clear her granddaughter of a trumped-up murder charge."
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drama film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1961, Tom Alder (Janssen) is a private investigator in Los Angeles who specializes in locating lost heirs. Prompted by a Los Angeles police friend to poke his nose into the murder of a movie star's fan club secretary, he becomes intrigu…
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musical film, mystery film
George Raft, a Hollywood dancer, returns to Manhattan and recalls working in a nightclub with a bootlegger's girlfriend.
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Crime, mystery film
Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is visiting Paris during the Czech annexation crisis in September 1938, but is having trouble finding a way to return to the United States, since there are transportation disruptions due to the threat of the imp…
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Film Noir, film noir, mystery film
Ralph Harrison (Richard Dix) is married to Edith (Mary Currier), a rich woman who has been suffering heart attacks. Upset by her condition, he finds consoling companionship with an artist's model, the unscrupulous gold-digger Kay (Leslie B…
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crime film, mystery film
US embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his Austrian wife discover their 18-month-old son Simon has been abducted after their nanny leaves the child unattended outside of a chemist's shop. London detective Inspector Craig pledges to find the …
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mystery film, thriller film
Multimillionaire Ernesto De Cardi and Sandra, his new American bride, arrive at his spacious villa in Batres, Spain, where they are welcomed by an elderly servant, Juanito. Sandra is awestruck by the scale of the villa, but they're interru…
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mystery film
Two urban female internal affairs inspectors join the police department of a small village in order to investigate the murder of an Algerian man who was an informant.
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
British undercover agent Dennis Parbury is sent to an island in the Mediterranean to identify how a heroin-smuggling operation is distributing their product.
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horror film, mystery film
Jeff Carter (Lon Chaney Jr.) is testing a vaccine for influenza. He is working for tycoon Roger Graham (J. Carrol Naish), who takes the credit for Jeff's discovery and cares more about profits than safety.
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mystery film
Jimmie, the Brownsville Bugle's office boy, and Millie, niece of editor Henshaw, turn amateur detectives in order to help a friend who is accused of murder. With more zeal than direction, they pick the owner of a gas station as the killer,…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
An actor is killed during the performance of a play while critic Tony Woolrich (Dave O'Brien) is attending. Initially Woolrich is reluctant to investigate, even though he's encouraged to do so by his friend Romeo (Frank Jenks), who is also…
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mystery film
Montana housewife Hattie O'Malley boards a train bound for New York to collect a prize she has won from a radio program. Boarding in Chicago is criminal attorney John J. Malone, whose client, Steve Kepplar, just released from prison in Jol…
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horror film, vampire film
The film opens with a trio of explorers in Africa who are hiding in a cave. One of the explorers, a pregnant woman, is bitten by a vampire bat. The film then cuts forward in time to a small European village where a series of mysterious mur…
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Mysterie, Thriller, mystery film, thriller film
horror film
Angel Williams is an assistant manager of a Hotel who has just moved from Manila to Jakarta to be with her ex-patriate family. She is haunted by a recurring dream about a young man committing suicide. One day, her family is slaughtered, le…
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Crime, Drama, Komödie, comedy
The story begins with the discovery of an emerging fashion stylist's dead body. Angie Woods, a stylist recognized for succeeding with difficult rejuvenation jobs, is found dead with a razor in her hand. Investigators suggest that Woods com…
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crime film, mystery film
Pop Clark, owner and manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, is talking to newspaperman Jimmy Downey. His team was a favorite to win the pennant this season, but they have been performing poorly.
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drama film, horror film, mystery film
In the Russian Empire, the nobleman Prince Gregor Petroff seduces chemist Boris Karlov's daughter Anya, who then commits suicide after becoming pregnant. After discovering Anya's body with the Drums of Jeopardy, a necklace owned by the Pet…
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film noir, mystery film
Steve Clark (Hugh Beaumont) is on a Los Angeles-bound bus and gets off in a small town en route. In his suitcase he has been carrying loot from a bank robbery; he stashes it in a safety deposit box. He becomes a taxi driver, which leads hi…
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drama film, erotic thriller, mystery film, neo-noir
Gerry and Joan (Tergesen and Graham) are a middle-aged couple who travel from town to town under false personas to mutilate and change the lives of any and all unsuspecting victims in their paths. Using their immense acting skill, the duo …
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mystery film
left|thumb|250px|The Film Richard Hardell, an actor who has had many affairs, is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have reasons for wanting him d…
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drama film, horror film, mystery film
After his father's death, a suicide by hanging, young Jack seemingly gains the ability to see and talk with souls who have not yet "gone into the light." As Jack grows older, these souls ask him to become their 'Messenger' and relay their …
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