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mystery film
A blonde bombshell movie star is murdered and her body is found in a car. She had just finished doing the last and final scenes in a film. Irma Gladden was a sexy blonde bombshell who was having many tangled romantic affairs.
The film relates to a mystery story of multiple murders over a period of 20 years. It begins in the early twentieth century when several pregnant girls meet in a country house for unwed mothers where they have been sent to give birth and have their children adopted. The girls are never seen by outsiders again, and after lengthy investigation, the police file is left unclosed.
crime film, mystery film, romantic comedy
A very expensive necklace known as the "Czarina's Tears" is stolen from Phelps' jewelry shop. The next morning, Phelps (Granville Bates) goes to see insurance company manager J. W.
mystery film, silent film
crime film
The Maddick commit a diamond robbery and murder a police officer investigating their crimes. A paper with the cryptic writing "AD 1935" is found on the murdered officer's body. Outsmarted by the gang, the police assistant commissioner and Inspector Cardby assign Pete Borden, a new recruit whom the gang would not know, to act undercover and join the gang.
comedy film, drama film, mystery film, silent film
Robert Andrews, president of a bank, invites the bank examiner and several directors to his home for a house party in order to keep him from examining the books and discovering a big shortage. Andrews quarrels with young Hammond, who is in love with his ward, Anne Maynard, and also with Lester Knowles, who is jealous of the friendship between Andrews and his wife Margaret. Andrews courts death as his insurance money will cover the shortage.
mystery film, silent film
Retired CID inspector Angus Blake tries to prevent a female jewel thief named the Queen of Diamonds from stealing a valuable ring which, according to legend, carries a curse.
mystery film
As described in a film magazine review, believing that he has killed the husband of Beverly Carlysle, an actress with whom he is infatuated, Judson Clark flees from the darkness of a ranch house in a western town into a snowstorm, is taken ill, and loses his memory. As Richard Livingstone, physician, he succeeds in New York City and becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. Ten years later while at a theater show, he is recognized from the stage by Beverly, who had thought her husband's killer had perished in the snow.
mystery film
Newspaper reporters Patsy Clark and Eddie Porter become entangled in a murder investigation and the theft of an innovative electronic device for listening to distant conversations.
drama film
After being blinded by taking drugs in the 1970s during an eclipse, Bunnie (Danielle Cormack) marries her Vietnam soldier boyfriend, Geoff (Kevin Smith). However, as she remains very flaky, he eventually disappears and takes their child with him. Twenty years later, Bunnie decides to use a medium, Cassandra (Amber Sainsbury), to try to find her daughter.
mystery film
During World War II, before America's entry into the conflict, a German ace pilot Max von Rohn escapes from captivity in Canada. Crossing the border he tries to make contact with a Nazi spy ring operation in the United States. Ranged against him are an FBI Agent, a member of the British Intelligence services and an inquisitive and headstrong young female reporter Dallas Dayle.
mystery film
mystery film
Detectives attempt to discover who killed a famous show dog.
romance film, thriller film
The movie opens with a recitation of Romans 8:18: I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. It has been five years since Sarah's (newcomer Sara Simmonds) soulmate Christopher (Cody Linley) mysteriously disappeared, riding off in a limousine without explanation. The two had become engaged at the age of twelve, planning to marry when both were eighteen.
mystery film
A number of old men, who all took out mutually beneficial insurance policies many years before when in college, are being killed off. Insurance investigator Mary Lou takes up the case.
crime film, mystery film
Cockney comedian Syd Walker plays it more or less straight as Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson, at present trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Mattoni. The dilemma isn't that the Detective is suffering from a lack of witnesses. In fact, four different people come forth to confess to the killing – each of them with plenty of motive and opportunity.
mystery film
While on a business trip to California, Ellery and Nikki get involved with a man who was presumed dead, but is now suspected in embezzlement, money laundering, and murder. They manage to keep one step ahead of both the crooks and the law.
Horror, Mysterie, horror film
As Audrey walks alone on a stormy night, she hears a woman's voice pleading for mercy. She enters an old deserted mansion only to witness a gruesome murder. The police are summoned, but when they arrive, the body is gone.
mystery film
Two peddlers, Mergatroyd Barthlomew "Yankee" Davis and Professor Newton, discover a smuggling operation in the fictional town of Mystic, Arizona. Border patrol officer Mason investigates, while his daughter Mary Mason runs a boarding house.
mystery film
When wealthy widow Madame Harlowe is murdered, her niece Betty is the first suspect. When Inspector Hanaud investigates, he discovers that the murderer used curare. He subsequently suspects Mme Harlowe's companion, Ann Upcott, but following a trail of clues eventually apprehends the real murderer.
Drama, Mysterie
It has been a year since William's brother David went missing. The worst year of his life, one that has left him a broken man. Chloe, an attractive French artist moves into William's bleak apartment block and expresses an interest in him, bringing him an abstract portrait as a gift.
Horror, Mysterie, horror film
Four months before the war in Iraq, a supernatural creature is caught by the United States army and locked in a British military facility. Hayley (Katie Flynn) comes into the facility as a paranormal investigator. She is called in to see if the entity is safely locked away.
drama film, mystery film
James Manning, a newspaper editor, is visiting a drugstore when a young woman, Nona Gould, tries to buy poison, allegedly for a sick dog. The pharmacist refuses her; after she leaves, he comments to Manning that she will probably throw herself off a bridge. Manning follows her back to her apartment and breaks in just as she has turned on the gas in a suicide attempt.
mystery film