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Passing Shadows (1934)

mystery film

During a train journey, chemist Jim Lawrence is attacked by a pick-pocket and thinks that during the ensuing struggle he has accidentallty shot the villain dead. Terrified, he keeps quiet about the affair, but eventually confesses to the police. He then discovers that he has been used by the robber as part of a ruse.

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The Drummond Will (2010)

buddy film, Comedy, Comedy drama, Dark Comedy

Following the death of their father, two sons inherit a decrepit cottage in a small British village in the middle of nowhere. They soon find the building also contains a large sum of unexpected cash, and through a combination of bad luck and very poor judgment they soon find themselves having to deal with an increasing body count of elderly villagers while attempting to avoid suspicion.

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Psychotropica (2009)

independent film

The film opens with an elderly man (Damien Sage as "The Patient") leaving a rushed and emotional, voice message to his partner of 30 years. The Patient implies that an insidious person from his distant past (a past he never spoke of to his lover) has shown up and this person is very dangerous. The Patient has decided to run out on the good life he has had for so long, to leave his lover and everything they have behind to keep his partner out of harms way.

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The Truthful Liar (1922)

mystery film, silent film

As described in a film magazine, Tess Haggard (Hawley) plunges Arthur Sinclair (Ferguson) into despair after she marries the sturdy David Haggard (Hearn), a rising engineer. While her husband is away on "location," she visits an illegal gambling house with Arthur and other friends. While there the place is first robbed by crooks and then raided by the police, and she loses her rings, lies to her husband but is detected, writes a silly letter and is blackmailed, and is briefly charged with murder.

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Intricate Vengeance (2016)

Crime, Drama, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, TV Show

Four survivors of violent crimes form a dark web market dedicated to producing real-life revenge fantasies for justice-starved clients. They follow a strict code of an eye for an eye, ignoring their own compulsions for revenge and revealing themselves to the public.

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