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Detective Film, Film Noir, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, treasure hunt film
In San Francisco, private investigators Sam Spade and Miles Archer meet prospective client Ruth Wonderly. She claims to be looking for her missing sister, who ran off from their home in New York and came to the city with a man named Floyd …
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Komödie, aqua-musical, comedy film, mystery film
In 1951 Hollywood, Eddie Mannix is head of production at Capitol Pictures. His duties as the studio "fixer" find him covering up for its scandalous stars and fending off twin gossip columnists Thora and Thessaly Thacker. All the while, he …
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, action film, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, thriller film
Convenience store robber Herbert ("H.I." or "Hi") McDunnough meets police officer Edwina ("Ed") when she takes his mugshot after each of several arrests in Tempe, Arizona. He learns that Ed's fiancé has left her for a younger woman and, af…
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Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, melodrama
In 1875, after world-famous opera singer Alice Alquist is murdered at her home in Victorian London, her orphan niece Paula is sent to Italy, eventually studying opera to follow in Alice's footsteps. During her voice lessons, Paula is charm…
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Psychological Thriller, coming-of-age film, drama film, mystery film, teen film, thriller film
On her 18th birthday, India Stoker, a girl with a strong acuteness of the senses, is left with her unstable mother Evelyn after her loving father Richard dies in a car crash. At Richard's funeral, Evelyn and India are introduced to Richard…
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Occult Horror, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror fiction, slasher film
Police Detective Mike Norris chases fugitive serial killer Charles Lee Ray, known as the "Lakeshore Strangler", through the streets of Chicago and into a toy store while Ray's accomplice, Eddie Caputo, flees the scene with Norris' partner,…
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Justice Drama, Thriller, drama film, legal thriller, mystery film, thriller film
Lawyer Michael Clayton is a "fixer" for the prestigious Kenner, Bach, and Ledeen law firm in New York City. One night, Michael attends to a high-profile client in Westchester County. Driving home, Michael sees three horses standing at the …
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Action, Crime, Heist, Thriller, action film, black comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, mystery film
In 1969, student hackers and long-time friends Martin Brice and Cosmo use their skills to reallocate money from causes they consider evil to underfunded ones that help the world. When Martin steps out to get pizza, the police arrive and ar…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Marital Tragedy, Psychodrama, Romance Film, Social Drama, drama film, erotic thriller film, melodrama, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, romance film, thriller film
thumb|thumbtime=2:18|Trailer for Rebecca thumb|In Monte Carlo, Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) stops to speak to Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates) only after recognizing her companion (Joan Fontaine), the woman he had encountered …
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Psychological Thriller, Thriller, drama film, heist film, mystery film, psychological thriller film
In 1991, a gang of ruthless criminals stage a daring daylight robbery to steal a rare $10-million gem from a bank's safe deposit vault. Two of them double-cross their leader, Patrick Koster, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years …
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Drama, drama film
In 1964 at a Catholic mass in The Bronx, Father Brendan Flynn gives a homily on doubt. The priest notes that like faith, it can be a unifying force. Sister Aloysius, the strict principal of the church's parish school, becomes concerned whe…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Simon and Robyn Callem leave Chicago after Simon takes a job in his hometown, Los Angeles, where they plan to start having children. While at the mall, they unexpectedly run into Gordon "Gordo" Moseley, high school classmate of Simon. Gord…
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Horror, Mysterie, Slasher Horror, ghost film, hood film, horror film, psychological thriller, slasher film, thriller film
Helen Lyle is an anthropology graduate student at the University of Illinois Chicago. While researching urban legends, she familiarizes herself with Candyman, a spirit who kills anyone that speaks his name five times before a mirror. She l…
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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
On August 18, 1973, five young adults – Erin Hardesty, her boyfriend Kemper, her brother Morgan, and their friends Andy and Pepper – are traveling to a concert after visiting Mexico to purchase marijuana. While driving through Texas, they …
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Psychological Thriller, Thriller, horror film, thriller film
The film begins with chemistry professor Barney Cousins at his cabin, seemingly perfecting methods to conduct a kidnapping. He is so dedicated to his work that his wife Helene and his daughter Denise suspect he is having an affair. Jeff Ha…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological thriller film, supernatural film, thriller film
Dean Corso, a New York City rare book dealer, is hired by wealthy collector Boris Balkan. Balkan has acquired a copy of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, a book by 17th-century author Aristide de Torchia said to be able to summon t…
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Fantasy, Horror, Mysterie
Suzy Bannion, a young American ballet student, arrives in Freiburg, West Germany, to study at the co-ed Tanz Akademie, a prestigious dance school. She sees another student, Pat Hingle, flee the school in terror. Suzy is refused entry to th…
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Action, Cyberpunk, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
As 1999 nears its end, Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone. A Chinese restaurant is robbed by a group of criminals, with one recording the event with a SQUID (Superconducting QUantum Interference Device), an illegal electronic devi…
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Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, mystery film, thriller film
Anna Khitrova, a Russian-British midwife who works at Trafalgar Hospital in London, finds a Russian language diary belonging to Tatiana, a 14-year-old drug-addicted prostitute who is pregnant. When Tatiana suffers a placental abruption, An…
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Action, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film
On a Friday night in Chicago, mobster Johnny Ross briefly meets his brother, Pete, after fleeing the Outfit. The next morning, Lieutenant Frank Bullitt of the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD), along with his team, Delgetti and Stanto…
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Drama, Social Drama, crime film, drama film
In the rural Ozarks of Missouri, seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly looks after her mentally ill mother, Connie, twelve-year-old brother Sonny, and six-year-old sister Ashlee. She makes sure her siblings eat and teaches them survival skills such…
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Erotic Thriller, Thriller, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film, thriller film
Alice is a young American woman living in London who believes she is happy in a secure job and a relationship with her boyfriend. After a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger, she seeks him out, taking a taxi with him to his house a…
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Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy horror, ghost film, live-action/animated film, mystery film
A few weeks after their adventure on Spooky Island, Mystery Inc. attends the grand opening of the Coolsonian Criminology Museum, featuring an exhibit of monster costumes from their past cases. However, the celebrations are interrupted by a…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, thriller film
Boston homicide detective Thomas Craven picks up his daughter Emma, who comes home to visit. Emma feels increasingly unwell, vomiting and suffering a nosebleed. When they leave the house to go to a hospital, a masked gunman shouts "Craven!…
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