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mystery fiction
In 1859 the Rev Justin Somerton (Michael Bryant), an academic clergyman and Medievalist, and his aristocratic protégé Peter, Lord Dattering (Paul Lavers) expose two fraudulent mediums, Mr and Mrs Tyson, who claim they are able to communica…
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crime film
Boston Blackie helps get prisoners with needed skills released on parole to help in the machine and tool plant of his friend, Arthur Manleder. Those chosen want to support America's war effort. All of the parolees have to stay in Blackie's…
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Horror, Motor-Bike Film, Thriller, horror film
A businessman hires a psychopath to murder his wife. After he accomplishes the deed, the psychopath blackmails the businessman into finding young girls for him to torture and kill. The man makes a deal with a motorcycle gang to kidnap two …
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mystery film, thriller film
The publisher of The Tribune newspaper, Henry Kruger, who is used to ordering his staff around, finds that he is ignored by everyone in his own home. He is shocked when he discovers a scandalous picture of his own daughter, Phyllis, on the…
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mystery film
Five of the top members of a company are sent to a retreat, and they are told that one of them will become the new CEO. The cordial atmosphere quickly turns into a competition to see who can outdo all the others.
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crime film, mystery film
mystery film, silent film
A prologue for The Million Dollar Mystery introduced the characters and groups. After the opening title card shows "hundreds of hands" grasping for the money and then a shot of the check for $10,000 the solver of the mystery is shown prior…
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mystery film
The story revolves around a series of suspicious fires that have been plaguing the Interoceanic Fire Insurance Company. The main character, Tom Fletcher, is a former investigator for the company who was fired under questionable circumstanc…
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mystery film
crime film, mystery film
After being asked to resign from the FBI, a publicity-hungry detective goes into private business. His first job is to protect a very precious jewel belonging to the Grissac family, which is the object of a failed robbery attempt in New Yo…
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mystery film
drama film
American secretary Karen Williams travels to Italy with her employer, art appraiser Raymond Fountaine, to assess the valuable collection of Count Paolo Barbarelli at his villa overlooking the sea. The count lives there with Cora, a young w…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
Railroad engineer D.J. 'Smokey' Nolan ( J. Farrell MacDonald) drives his locomotive at full speed when he spies an oncoming train directly in his path.
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Horror, Mysterie, fantasy film, horror film
Toby McClift (Peter Gadiot) is the son of a strict preacher (Roger Tebb) who continually warns Toby that he must never ever fall in love or have anything to do with love. Despite these strict warnings, Toby falls in love with Katie (Jytte-…
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Horror, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film, teen film
In the small town of Pakoe, Shannon Davis is beheaded by a man wearing swimming goggles and a burlap sack. Investigating this homicide and a previous one are new sheriff Carl Carson, and mortician Walt Parker. As the bodycount rises and th…
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film noir, mystery film
A dying millionaire, trying to do good, marries his penniless young nurse so she can inherit his wealth and live in comfort. He then miraculously recovers, but the troubles for both husband and wife are just beginning.
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mystery film
Johnny Morgan is the suave head of PR for a movie studio and a devoted fan of a mysterious actor who developed a cult following during the silent era. It is widely believed that it is a tragedy that the actor died before sound movies becam…
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Horror, Mysterie, Werewolf, horror film
mystery film
A biographer researching a book on a pilot who died during the test flight of a new plane falls in love with the pilot's sister. As he uncovers more about the test flight, people connected with the case begin to die. The author naturally b…
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horror film, mystery film
In a Cornish village during World War II, a German Nazi uses the disguise of a headless ghost to strike fear into the local tin mine workers. Posing as a man the British Army has rejected for active duty, a mining engineer, Dr. Frederick H…
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Crime, mystery film
When the Rev. Simon ("The Rev") Cherry sets off for a much needed holiday, his car breaks down in a storm and he is forced to stay overnight in a manor house belonging to Lady Harling. The following morning, the body of Lady Harling's inva…
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comedy film, drama film, horror film, mystery film
crime film, mystery film
The serial was based very loosely on Arthur Reeve's final novel and in it, the Clutching Hand has a new secret identity: Dr. Paul Gironda, the very man whom Kennedy is looking for. Having almost exhausted the estate of his young ward Vera,…
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Drama, drama film, mystery film, romance film