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Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, rape and revenge film, vigilante film
Will Gerard is a humble high school English teacher in New Orleans. His wife Laura is a cellist who plays in a local orchestra. After a performance one evening, Laura is beaten and brutally raped by a stranger named Hodge.
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film
In the late nineteenth century on the American frontier, Lizzy Macklin and her husband Isaac arrive from St. Louis to an unpopulated area of New Mexico, hoping to begin a settlement. They live in solitude until another couple, Emma and Gid…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Reporter C.J. Nicholas built his career on an award-winning documentary about a pregnant teenage prostitute in Buffalo, New York, who died of an overdose after the death of her baby. Now a TV reporter in Shreveport, Louisiana, he works to …
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Horror, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film, thriller film
In a Los Angeles city hospital, Jean-Charles Pommier, a French anthropologist, is brought into the emergency room. Despite being badly beaten, he keeps resisting the doctors' attempts at treating him and does not stop shouting at them in F…
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Marital Tragedy, drama film, romance film, trial film
Set on the fictional San Piedro Island in the northern Puget Sound region of the Washington state coast in 1950, the plot revolves around the murder case of Kazuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American accused of killing Carl Heine, a white fisherm…
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Horror, Mysterie, thriller film
Homicide detective Jack Radcliff receives a call from his niece Ashley. Her father, Garret (Jack's brother), has forgotten to pick her up. Ashley and Jack eat at a diner, and Jack promises to talk to his brother, a former drug dealer on me…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1921, sculptor Ivan Igor who operates a wax museum in London has financial trouble. One night, he gives a private tour to a friend, Dr. Rasmussen, and an art critic, Mr.
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Daffy Comedy, Detective Film, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, crime film
In 1940, C.W. Briggs is a veteran investigator at a Manhattan insurance company with a highly successful track record, owing to his intuition and network of informers. Efficiency expert Betty Ann Fitzgerald, who has been recently hired to …
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Mysterie, crime film, crime thriller film, spy film, thriller film
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane wrongly falls under suspicion of setting fire to his Glendale, California manufacturing plant during World War II, an act of domestic sabotage. Kane believes the actual culprit to be an apparent employee,…
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Action, Crime, Drama, crime film, mystery film
Xavier Quinn is the chief of police of a small island in the Caribbean. When Donald Pater, the millionaire owner of a luxury resort hotel, is found murdered, everyone assumes that the culprit is Maubee, a petty crook who also is Quinn's be…
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Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
Zoe Hughes is an up-and-coming young actress, trying to follow in her mother Kathryn Vale's footsteps, who once was a popular film star. A scene of Zoe's gets interrupted by Kathryn's dramatic entrance, and later in the dressing room, Kath…
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Mysterie, drama film, mystery film
In Pimlico, London, Alice Barlow is murdered by an unknown man, who then ransacks her house, ripping her furniture apart as if desperately searching for something. The house remains empty for many years, until newlyweds Paul and Bella Mall…
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Action, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
NYPD Lieutenant Nick Chen is head of the Asian Gang Unit. His job is to keep the peace in Chinatown from a turf war that has broken out between the Tung Fung Benevolent Association tong and the Fukienese Dragons street gang. The problem is…
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Mysterie, slasher film, thriller film
In rural Australia, expatriate American truck driver Patrick Quid pulls into a motel for the night. There, a man in a green van checks in with a female hitchhiker, whom Quid had passed by because of trucking company policy. In their motel …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Psychological Thriller, mystery film, thriller film
Russel Curran (Brendan Fletcher) is a successful businessman living in Portland, Oregon. His 32-year-old wife Lauren (Christina Ricci) has bipolar disorder after a home invasion left her injured and her baby drowned in the bathtub. Craving…
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Thriller, mystery film
Alexandra "Alex" Sternbergen, a washed-up, alcoholic actress who performs under the stage name "Viveca Van Loren", wakes up on Thanksgiving 1986 next to the bloodied corpse of a sleazy photographer named Bobby Korshack in his Los Angeles l…
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Destiny, drama film, mystery film
Walking over a bridge on the way to his school in Bern, Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss professor of philosophy, notices a young woman in a red coat standing on the railing, about to leap. Dropping his briefcase, he runs and pulls her down. She…
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Drama, Horror, Komödie, comedy film, drama film, horror film
After being humiliated by members of the London Theatre Critics Guild at an awards ceremony, Shakespearean actor Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart is seen apparently committing suicide by diving into the Thames from a great height. He actua…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Detective Virgil Tibbs, now a lieutenant with the San Francisco police, is assigned to investigate the murder of a prostitute. A prime suspect is Reverend Logan Sharpe, a street preacher who is leading one of the sides in a city referendum…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Justice Drama, action film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1859, a meteorite streaks across the sky and crashes into the Gela Alta glacier in western Greenland, causing a massive explosion that kills an Inuk fisherman. In present-day Copenhagen, Smilla Jaspersen, a transplanted Greenlander, is …
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Mysterie, Romantic Drama, drama film, erotic thriller, romance film
In Cold War Vienna, Milena Flaherty, a young American woman, is rushed to the emergency room after apparently overdosing in a suicide attempt. With her is Alex Linden, an American psychoanalyst who lives in the city working as a university…
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Western, Western film, adventure film, mystery film
Distraught but skillful bounty hunter Lewis Gates is accompanied by his horse and faithful companion Zip, an Australian Cattle Dog. Gates tracks three armed escaped convicts into Montana's isolated Oxbow Quadrangle, at the persistence of h…
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Fantasy, Mysterie
The story concerns a dishevelled man in a filthy flat. He is anxious and paranoid, trying to kill a small bug-like creature that is scurrying on the floor. It is revealed that the bug resembles a miniature version of himself, with every mo…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Peter Denver, a renowned Broadway producer, is attending a cocktail party hosted by the viciously haughty and celebrated actress Carlotta "Lottie" Marin and her quiet husband Brian Mullen when he meets Nancy "Nanny" Ordway. The seemingly n…
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