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Horror, Mysterie, drama film, ghost film, horror film
Metzengerstein At the age of 22, Countess Frédérique inherits the Metzengerstein estate and lives a life of promiscuity and debauchery. While in the forest, her leg is caught in a trap and she is freed by her cousin and neighbour Baron Wil…
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Komödie, Thriller, comedy thriller, crime film
In 1939, a new radio network based at station WBN in Chicago, Illinois, begins its inaugural night. The station's owner, General Walt Whalen, depends on his employees to impress main sponsor Bernie King. This includes writer Roger Henderso…
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Action, Crime, action film, adventure film, mystery film, suspense film
Scarlett is a low-level thief who, while working as a pickpocket in a nightclub, falls for the suave Rob. Rob, it turns out, is a diamond smuggler working with Danny and Baraka, selling a massive diamond to queen-fence Charlie. Following R…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1912 the wealthy Birling family live in the industrial town of Brumley in the North Midlands. The Birlings are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, the son of a factory owner who is even more successful t…
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Fantasy, Mysterie, Occult Horror, Psychological Thriller
Alex Bernier is a disillusioned priest and a member of the fictional Carolingian Order – an ancient sect that specializes in exorcisms and combatting demonic forces. The narrative begins with the mysterious death of Father Dominic – the he…
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Horror, Mysterie, Sci-Fi
Bobbi Anderson (Helgenberger), a Western fiction writer, and her boyfriend, Jim "Gard" Gardner (Smits), a poet, live with their dog, Peter, on the outskirts of Haven, Maine. Bobbi suffers from writer's block and Gard is a recovering alcoho…
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Action, Komödie, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
In Kansas City, 1933, police lieutenant Speer goes to a diner for coffee. Two men arrive, looking for a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Speer and Murphy were good friends until the latter left the force.
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Drama, Historie, Komödie, drama film, romantic comedy
In Regency England, an exotically dressed woman is found in the fields, speaking a language no-one can understand. She ends up at the home of the Worrall family, the local gentry. Their Greek butler, Frixos, thinks the woman is a fraud fro…
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Drama, Mysterie, thriller film
In an elevator, a woman named Andrea receives a phone call telling her, "This is how the world ends." She begins crying as the walls appear to close in on her. Software engineer Jenn attends a party hosted by her friend, Gina. There, Jenn …
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Komödie, Mysterie, buddy film
Doctor Dré and Ed Lover are two bumbling barbers at a Harlem barbershop. Knowing full well that cutting hair is not their calling, their boss, friend, and mentor Nick (Jim Moody) tells the two maybe they should try out for the police acade…
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Dark Comedy, comedy drama, comedy horror, horror film
The film begins with an urban couple driving through the countryside in what looks like a cinema advertisement. The scene comes to a halt with a fatal accident. The rural Australian town of Paris arranges fatal accidents to visitors drivin…
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Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, biographical film, crime film, docudrama, drama film
After three murders of elderly women, the victims having been strangled and penetrated with foreign objects, the Boston police conclude that they have a serial killer to catch: the Boston Strangler. As the murders stretch over several poli…
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Crime, Komödie, Thriller, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
On New Year's Eve, after Nick and Nora Charles return from New York City to their home in San Francisco, the couple are invited to dinner with Nora's aristocratic family. Nora's distraught cousin Selma Landis tells Nora that her playboy hu…
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Mysterie, drama film, film noir, mystery film, neo-noir
College Professor Dexter Cornell staggers into a police station to report his own murder. He recounts the past thirty-six hours. Once a promising writer, Dex made his name and is secure in his tenure, but he has spent the last four years g…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, drama film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, teen film
After a car accident killed his mother and permanently injured his leg, teenager Michael Brower lives an isolated existence in his absent father's house. He spends his spare time watching his neighbor and crush, Kimberly. A horror films an…
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Komödie, comedy film, female buddy film
"When two actresses discover that their mutual boyfriend isn't all he seems to be, they take off on a cross-country chase to track him down." Refined but struggling actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre p…
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Horror, horror film, mystery film
One night at the Wet Valley Water Park, two teenagers are killed by a machete-wielding assailant. Some time later, the 2018 graduating class of Valley Hills High visits the water park, owned and supervised by Paul Wilkinson, for a weekend-…
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Crime, Drama, War Film, drama film, neo-noir, war film
The murder of a prostitute, who was also a German agent, in German-occupied Warsaw in 1942 causes Heer Major Grau of the Wehrmacht's Abwehr to start an investigation. His evidence soon points to the killer being one of three German general…
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Mysterie, drama film, film noir, horror film, mystery film
In a village in 1906 Vermont, Helen, a mute girl, attends a silent film screening in a local inn. During the screening, a lame woman limps out of the theatre to her room. She is strangled by a man who was hiding in her closet.
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Horror, Horror comedy, Slasher Horror, Thriller, comedy horror, slasher film, teen film, thriller film
A paperboy delivers a newspaper to the house of District Attorney Bill Carson, who has planned a hunting trip. He warns his teenage daughter Paula to do her homework, not to allow boys in the house, and most importantly not to cut class. P…
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Ghost-House-Movies, Ghost-Movie, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film, mystery film, supernatural horror film
Teenager Jane runs through the forest and into her house to escape from an unseen threat. When she sees the Bell Witch, a ghost that takes the form of a girl, she awakens with a scream. Her mother dismisses it as a dream and reminds her th…
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Coming Of Age, Social Drama, drama film, independent film, sport film, thriller film
Alex, a 16-year-old skateboarder, rides a freight train clandestinely with a man named Scratch whom he has just met at the Eastside Skatepark, known as "Paranoid Park". While the train is moving a security guard notices the pair, chases af…
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Crime, Drama, comedy film, drama film, mystery film
Mr Neville, a young and conceited artist, is contracted by Mrs Virginia Herbert to produce a series of twelve landscape drawings of her country house, its outbuildings and gardens, as a gift for her cold and neglectful husband, who is curr…
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crime film
Australian cop, Jerome (Patrick Thompson) works as a cybercrime investigator for Interpol but is left shaken after investigating a case in Hamburg, Germany in which a man consented to having his own penis cut off and eaten by his lover. Je…
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