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Sight (2008)

ghost film, horror film

Jeffrey leads a quiet existence. Living in constant fear of being labeled a psychopath, Jeffrey constructs a complex world of denial. He is haunted by the spirits of the vengeful dead, which he can see while no one else can.

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Whispering Wires (1926)

mystery film, silent film

A person is murdered after receiving a weird phone call, in which someone is heard whispering in a menacing way. Barry McGill sets out to uncover the killer's identity before he can kill again. Barry's girlfriend Doris Stockbridge gets a similar phone call, and tells Barry that she thinks she is to be the killer's next victim.

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Gambling Daughters (1941)

mystery film

Lillian and Katherine discover a gambling spot while following their French teacher, then Lillian falls for Chance, the manager working there. The girls are induced to play on credit, and after a couple of weeks and a couple of thousand dollars in debt, they are forced to steal jewellery from their families.

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Iodine (2009)

drama film

John Clem (Michael Stasko) heads north to investigate the disappearance of his estranged father. Upon arriving at the family cottage, John runs into Avery (Ray Wise), his father's colleague. John receives no help on his dad's disappearance, but instead, a new set of eyes in which to view the living world around him.

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The Woman in Room 13 (1920)

drama film, mystery film, silent film

As described in a film magazine, Laura Bruce is divorced from her husband following an unpleasant matrimonial term. She then marries Paul Ramsey, whom she has always loved. Dick Turner, his employer and enamored of Laura, sends her husband away on a business trip.

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My Lady's Garter (1920)

mystery film, silent film

As described in a film magazine, a jeweled garter with an interesting history disappears under mysterious circumstances from the British Museum. The Hawk, a criminal who has never been apprehended even though he obligingly leaves many clues for the police to follow, is suspected. Helen Hamilton, daughter of a wealthy American, loses her jewels after throwing them out of a window at Keats Gaunt, a poet she imagines she is in love with.

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The Life (2012)

drama film, mystery film

The Life is about friendship and betrayal. Set in the Ugandan urban life scene, it tells an interwoven story of a group of 20-something friends from different backgrounds and the extremes they are prepared to go to as they try to achieve their dreams.

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The Norman Rockwell Code (2006)

mystery film

The plot centers around the murder of the curator of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The police call in Professor Langford Fife (a pastiche of both Robert Langdon from the book and Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show), a professor of symbology at a local community college, to help them solve the mystery. As the curator was dying, he put on a pair of rubber overalls.

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No Escape (1936)

mystery film

Detective story writer Anthony Wild makes a bet with his friend Billy West that he can hide him for a month. After staging a disappearance, Billy goes to Anthony's country cottage. Laura Anstey, with whom Anthony is in love but who is married to Cyril Anstey, is worried about Billy and visits Anthony at the cottage.

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