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Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film, teen film
In Bridgeport, Oregon, high school freshman Donna Keppel returns home one evening to find her father and younger brother have been murdered. She later witnesses her mother being killed by an unseen assailant who later attacks Donna as she …
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Gangster Film, Melodrama, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, suspense film, thriller film
As youngsters in 1900s Chicago, Irish-Americans Tom Powers and his lifelong friend Matt Doyle engage in petty theft, selling stolen items to "Putty Nose". Putty Nose persuades them to join his gang on a fur warehouse robbery, assuring them…
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Crime Comedy, Komödie, Police Film, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Late at night at the country home of millionaire Benjamin Ballon, several of its occupants are moving about rooms, hiding and spying on others. The household consists of: Ballon's wife Dominique; Henri LaFarge, the head butler, and his wif…
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Crime, Erotic Thriller, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, Romance Film, Sexploitation Film, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological thriller, thriller film
Forty-something New York psychologist Dr. Bill Capa falls into a deep depression after his unstable patient Michelle commits suicide before his eyes by jumping from his office window. The sight of the body clad in a bright green dress lyin…
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Forensic, Psychological Thriller, crime film, mystery film, thriller film, trial film
A masked intruder breaks into the beach house of San Francisco socialite Page Forrester, ties her to her bed, rips open her shirt, and kills her with a hunting knife. The maid is also murdered. Husband Jack Forrester, arrested for her murd…
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Psychological Thriller, Slasher Horror, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
In 1988, Jeremy Melton, an outcast junior high school student in San Francisco, asks four popular girls to dance at a Valentine's Day dance. The first three girls, Shelley, Lily, and Paige, reject him cruelly, while the fourth girl, Kate, …
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Film Noir, Thriller, drama film, film noir
left|thumb|Ray (Max Showalter, credited as Casey Adams) and Polly Cutler (Jean Peters) Ray and Polly Cutler arrive at Niagara Falls for a long-delayed honeymoon. Their reserved cabin is occupied by another couple, George and Rose Loomis. W…
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Ghost-Movie, ghost film, horror film, mystery film
In 1871, William Blake, a wealthy man suffering from leprosy arranges to purchase half of Antonio Island, off the coast of Oregon, to establish a leper colony for his afflicted people. However, island residents Patrick Malone, Norman Castl…
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Zombiefilm, adventure film, fantasy film, folk horror film, horror film, mystery film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film, zombie film
In 1978, a Haitian man named Christophe mysteriously dies in a French missionary clinic while a voodoo parade marches past his window. The next morning, Christophe is buried in a traditional Catholic funeral. A mysterious man dressed in a …
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
Newspapers detail the 1948 murder of Margaret Strauss, who was stabbed during a robbery; her anklet is missing. Her husband, composer Roman Strauss, is found guilty of the crime and condemned to death. Before his execution, Roman is visite…
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, horror film, mystery film
In Miami, art critic Morf Vandewalt attends an art exhibition alongside his friend Josephina, who works for Rhodora Haze, owner of the Haze Gallery and formerly a member of the punk rock band Velvet Buzzsaw. Unfulfilled in his love life wi…
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Mysterie, Obsession, Psychological Thriller, horror film
In the Brazilian village of Belo Quinto, Father Andrew Kiernan, a former scientist and a Jesuit priest who investigates supposed miracles, examines a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping blood at the funeral of Father Paulo Alameida, who had …
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Horror, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Kevin and Beth Parson's son Joshua “Josh” develops an imaginary friend called Z. Initially, his parents dismiss Z as a harmless phase in Josh's childhood but Josh begins exhibiting uncharacteristically disruptive behavior at school which l…
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Crime Comedy, Silly Movie, comedy film
When master thief "The Tornado" steals priceless artifacts from around the world, the French government assembles a "Dream Team" of investigators to solve the case. Meanwhile, Inspector Clouseau is reassigned from his task as a parking off…
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Mysterie
Recovering addict Darby Thorne learns that her mother is in the hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm, and is undergoing emergency surgery. Her estranged sister, Devon, warns her not to attempt to visit due to the strain her drug abuse…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, drama film
In 1937 New Orleans, Catherine Holly is a young woman institutionalized for an emotional disturbance related to the death of her cousin, Sebastian Venable, under strange circumstances while they were on summer holiday in Europe. Sebastian'…
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Cartoon, Horror comedy, adventure film, comedy horror film, mystery film, thriller film
After Ben Ravencroft, a famous horror writer of whom Velma Dinkley is a fan, assists her and Mystery Inc. in solving a case at a museum in San Francisco, he invites them to his hometown of Oakhaven, Massachusetts. When they arrive, they fi…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, erotic thriller
New York City homicide detective Frank Keller is a burned-out alcoholic. His wife left him and married one of his colleagues, and he is depressed about reaching his twentieth year on the police force. He is assigned to investigate the murd…
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Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In late 1945, one-armed John Macreedy gets off a train at Black Rock, an isolated California desert hamlet. The residents are suspicious, as this is the first time in four years that the express train has stopped at the flag stop station. …
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, dystopian film, mystery film, psychological thriller, science fiction film
In 2017, widespread use of remotely controlled androids called "surrogates" enables people to operate an idealized body (a more youthful version of their own, or a wholly different one) from the safety of their homes, becoming slovenly and…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Historie, Political Thriller, detective film, drama film, romance film, spy film, war film
In March 1943, when the Second World War was at its height, cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, have a problem: the Nazi U-boats have changed one of their code reference books used for Enigma machine ciphers, leading to a bla…
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Film Noir, Mysterie, mystery film, psychological thriller film, romance film, thriller film
In 1938, handsome, irresponsible playboy Johnnie Aysgarth meets bespectacled Lina McLaidlaw on a train in England and later persuades her to take a walk with him. She is defensive and suspects his motives; he insults her in a ploy to creat…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Paul Armstrong, a liberal Harvard professor and former lawyer opposed to capital punishment, is persuaded by an elderly woman to go to Florida to investigate the conviction of her grandson Bobby Earl Ferguson for murder. Ferguson, a former…
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Horror, Thriller, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, teen film
High school senior Steve Clark is new to Cradle Bay, a picturesque island community in Washington state's Puget Sound. His family has moved from Chicago after the suicide of eldest son Allen, a loss Steve still struggles with. On his first…
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