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Biographical picture, Drama, Political Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1996, San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb interviews drug dealer Ronny Quail, who is outraged that the government used civil asset forfeiture to keep his house even after he was acquitted. Webb's ensuing article about the abuses of…
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Drama, Slasher Horror, crime film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
Before the "Phantom-attacks", which occurred about eight months after World War II, Texarkana was pleasant and citizens were preparing for a good future. On the night of Sunday, March 3, 1946, Sammy Fuller and Linda Mae Jenkins park on a l…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1947, the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, aged 93, lives in a rural Sussex farmhouse with his widowed housekeeper Mrs Munro and her young son Roger. Having just returned from a trip to Hiroshima, Holmes starts to use a prickly ash plant h…
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Horror, anthology film, flashback film, horror film
Walter Craig arrives at a country cottage in Kent, where he is greeted by his host Elliot Foley. Craig is an architect whom Foley has invited to his home to consult on some renovations. Upon entering the sitting room of the cottage, Craig …
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Animation, Drama, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
Bill is a man whose daily routines, perceptions, and dreams are illustrated through multiple split-screen windows that are narrated by an uncredited Don Hertzfeldt. He often has meetings with his ex-girlfriend, but suffers from an unnamed …
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Drama, drama film
Shortly before his eighteenth birthday, Bennie Tetrocini, son of abusive, famous conductor Carlo Tetrocini, runs away from his prep school and gets a job as a cruise line waiter. His ship breaks down in Buenos Aires, the home of his half-b…
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Musical, Mysterie, Romantic Drama, crime film, drama film, musical film, mystery film, romance film
thumbnail|100px|left|The Moon tarot card Cremona, 1681 (Language: Italian) Nicolò Bussotti is a violin-maker whose wife, Anna Rudolfi, is pregnant. Anna asks her servant Cesca to foretell her unborn child's future. Cesca cannot determine t…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, ghost film, mystery film, thriller film
Will Atenton, a successful editor for a New York City publishing house, quits his job to focus on writing a book while spending more time with his wife Libby and their young daughters, Trish and Dee Dee. The family is initially happy to li…
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Animalhorror, Mysterie, crime film, horror film
Former NYPD Captain Dewey Wilson is brought back to the force and assigned to solve a bizarre string of violent murders after high-profile magnate Christopher Van der Veer, his wife Pauline, and his bodyguard are slain in Battery Park. Exe…
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Horror, Mysterie, supernatural horror film, thriller film
During an exorcism ritual, Hannah Grace—possessed by a demonic entity—levitates and nearly kills a priest before her father, Grainger, ends the ritual by suffocating her with a pillow. As he mourns over her body, a fly lands on her hand, a…
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Slasher Horror, crime film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
A drive-in theater in the city of Texarkana, Arkansas hosts the Halloween annual showing of The Town That Dreaded Sundown, the 1976 film based on the Phantom Killer responsible for several murders in Texarkana in 1946. After lovers Corey H…
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Drama, Mysterie, Romance Film, drama film
Francis Brown, a tax auditor for Revenue Canada, is a regular visitor to a Toronto strip club called Exotica. He always has Christina, an exotic dancer dressed in a schoolgirl uniform, give him a private dance. This inspires the jealousy o…
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Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
Former L.A. SWAT officer Jeff Talley is a hostage negotiator in Los Angeles. One day, Talley negotiates with an abusive man who has taken his own wife and son hostage after learning his wife was cheating on him.
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, independent film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Dennis Cleg is a schizophrenic man who has just been released from a mental institution. Known as "Spider", he is given a room in a halfway house catering to mentally disturbed people which is run by unrelenting landlady Mrs. Wilkinson.
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Crime, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Eight people, all strangers to each other, are invited to a small isolated island off the coast of Devon, England, by a Mr and Mrs Owen. They settle in at a mansion tended by two newly hired servants, Thomas and Ethel Rogers (a married cou…
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Erotic Thriller, Psychological Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, thriller film
Sarah Morton, a middle-aged English mystery author based in London, who has written a successful series of detective novels, is experiencing writer's block that is impeding her next book. Her publisher, John Bosload, offers her his country…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, spy film, thriller film
In 1968, an East-West agreement is established to halt nuclear proliferation. One of its clauses, the Fourth Protocol, forbids the non-conventional delivery of a nuclear weapon to a target. MI5 officer John Preston breaks into the residenc…
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Horror comedy, comedy horror film, cosmic horror film
Slacker David Wong recalls confronting a zombie skinhead he beheaded a year earlier and wonders if an axe that had its handle and head replaced over time is still the same axe. In the present day, he meets with a reporter, Arnie Blondeston…
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Detective Film, Fantasy, Mysterie, Occult Horror, Romantic Drama, fantasy film, horror film, neo-noir
In the Mojave Desert in 1982, a man named William Nix, also calling himself "The Puritan", has gathered a cult of disciples in an old house. Nix wields real magic and plans to sacrifice a girl, telling his followers he will save the world …
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Drama, Historie, drama film, mystery film
In 1844 Greenwich, Connecticut, Miranda Wells, a farm girl raised by strait-laced low church parents Ephraim and Abigail, often daydreams of a romantic and luxurious life. Miranda's mother receives a letter from their distant cousin Nichol…
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Psychodrama, mystery film, thriller film
18-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood lives on the family estate with her older sister Constance and their ailing uncle Julian. Constance has not left the house in the six years since she was tried and acquitted of the death of h…
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Mysterie, Romantic Drama, drama film, ghost film, romance film, science fiction film
Joe and Emily Darrow are doctors in a Chicago hospital. Seven months pregnant Emily travels to Venezuela to help natives in the Amazon area. She dies when a bus is hit by a landslide and plunges into the river below.
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thriller film
One night in Beantown, Shadow Agency agent Killer Bean calls a DJ at a nearby warehouse party to lower the music's volume as it's disturbing his sleep. The DJ ignores his request, prompting Killer Bean to kill everyone at the warehouse. Th…
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Historie, Horror, action film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, horror film
In 1348, during the Black Death in Medieval England, novice monk Osmund has a secret relationship with a young woman named Averill who has taken sanctuary in his monastery. When the disease strikes the monastery, Averill departs at Osmund'…
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