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Dark Comedy, Horror, black comedy film, comedy horror, independent film
A group of people in a California desert are gathered to watch a "film". A sheriff named Chad points out that many moments in cinema happen for "no reason", that life is full of this "no reason", and that this film is an homage to "no reas…
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Christmas film, Modern-Day Fantasy, Slasher Horror, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
While walking home, Hawthorne College student Lindsay is killed by a masked individual. Riley Stone, a member of the Mu Kappa Epsilon sorority, struggles with PTSD after being raped by Delta Kappa Omicron fraternity president Brian Huntley…
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Film Noir, Thriller, drama film, film noir, mystery film
thumb|Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in Dark Passage Convicted wife-killer Vincent Parry escapes from San Quentin Prison in a metal laundry barrel and evades police by hitching a ride with a passing motorist. Already suspicious of Parry…
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crime film, detective film, mystery film, psychological thriller, thriller film
A young boy steals the organs of slaughtered animals from a local butcher and preserves them in jars underneath his bed. Upon discovering this, his father beats him. After he grows up, he plots & kills his father with a rope used to hang c…
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Crime Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
Playwright Sidney Bruhl debuts his latest in a series of flops and returns home. Dejected, he reveals to his wife, Myra, that he has received an excellent manuscript, Deathtrap, from an unlikely former student, Clifford Anderson, asking fo…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film
Writer Ben Rolf, his wife Marian, and their 12-year-old son Davey tour a large, shabby, remote neo-classical 19th-century mansion to rent for the summer. The home's eccentric owners, elderly siblings Arnold and Rosalyn Allardyce, offer the…
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, Thriller, drama film, exploitation film, giallo, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
Peter Neal, an American writer of violent horror and thriller novels, visits Italy to promote his latest book, Tenebrae. He is accompanied by his literary agent, Bullmer, and his assistant, Anne. Neal is unaware that his embittered ex-fian…
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Occult Horror, horror film
Casey Beldon has nightmarish hallucinations of strange-looking dogs in the neighborhood and an evil child with bright blue eyes following her around. While babysitting Matty, her neighbor's son, she finds him showing his infant sibling its…
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Mysterie
Jai Puri, a forest ranger in Alberta, Canada, has the ability to enter a photograph and re-experience the events from a person's point of view. While partying on a boat, his father Jatin meets with an accident. Following his death, a forme…
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
After a traumatic home invasion, Liza and her son Jude are left deeply shaken. Jude becomes mute, and Liza suffers from nightmares. To heal, they move to a remote estate with Sean, who is Liza’s husband and Jude's father.
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LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film
Christine Stanford, an American advertising executive in Germany, is working with her protégé Isabelle James on an ad campaign for a new smartphone. Isabelle, secretly having an affair with Christine's boyfriend Dirk Harriman, comes up wit…
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Christmas film, Horror, Mysterie, horror film
Driving on Christmas Eve with his family, Frank Harrington decides to take a short cut through a remote location because he is "bored" with the usual route. In the car with him: his wife Laura, his son, Richard, his daughter, Marion, and h…
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Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, mystery film, neo-noir
left|thumb|Francisco Goya's Witches in the Air (1798), the painting stolen in the film. In reality, it is part of the collection of the Museo del Prado.During a heist on an auction house, thieves take a package which presumably contains a …
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Ghost-Movie, Horror, ghost film, horror film, mystery film, supernatural horror film
The occultist Dr. Plato Zorba bequeaths a large house to his impoverished nephew Cyrus. Along with his wife Hilda, teen daughter Medea and adolescent son, Buck, Cyrus is informed by lawyer Ben Rush that the house comes with ghosts that Dr.
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, hood film, mystery film, neo-noir
In 1972, Russell Stevens Jr. witnesses his drug-addicted, alcoholic father getting shot and killed while robbing a liquor store. Traumatized by his father's death, Stevens swears that he will never end up like him.
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Drama, Military Film, Police Film, Political Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film, war film
On November 1, 2004, Hank Deerfield, a gravel trucker and retired military police sergeant living in Monroe, Tennessee with his wife Joan, is notified that his son Mike, a soldier recently returned from Iraq, has gone missing. Hank drives …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Mysterie, Secret Agent, action film, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
A man is shot twice on the deck of a ship, during a heavy storm at night. The injured man plunges into the Mediterranean Sea, eventually washing ashore in a fishing village off the coast of Southern France. Two fishermen take him to the lo…
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Drama, drama film, mystery film
Mari Gilbert relentlessly drives law enforcement agents to search for her missing daughter, Shannan. In the process, numerous bodies are found of victims of unsolved murders of young sex workers on the South Shore barrier islands of Long I…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
Souder, a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh, track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call 'The Killing Fields'. T…
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Film Noir, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, prison film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In California, psychotic criminal Arthur "Cody" Jarrett leads the ruthless Jarrett gang alongside his wife Verna, his beloved mother "Ma" Jarrett, and his right-hand man "Big Ed" Somers. During a robbery of a mail train in the Sierra Nevad…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film, mystery film
Private investigator Lew Harper is retained by an old pal, attorney Albert Graves, to search for Graves' employer, multi-millionaire Ralph Sampson. He has disappeared after flying into Los Angeles, and Sampson's physically disabled wife El…
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Horror, Occult Horror, Thriller, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In Salem, Massachusetts, Heidi, a recovering drug addict, works as a disc jockey at a hard rock station with her co-workers Whitey and Munster. She receives a strange wooden box containing an album by a band named The Lords. She and Whitey…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Historie, Melodrama, drama film, film noir, neo-noir, war film
In June 1945, Jacob "Jake" Geismer, an American war correspondent for The New Republic, returns to Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers after World War II is over in Europe but before hostilities end in Asia. Ja…
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Horror, Mysterie, detective film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film
In 1961, in Paterson, New Jersey, divorced mother Catherine Spages visits Father Tom with her two daughters, nine-year-old Karen and twelve-year-old Alice, who both attend St. Michael's Parish Girls' School. Karen is preparing for her Firs…
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