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Detective Film, Thriller, adventure film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Dr John H. Watson becomes convinced that his friend Sherlock Holmes, the famous private detective, is delusional—particularly in his belief that the renowned mathematician Professor James Moriarty is a criminal mastermind—as a result of hi…
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Thriller, drama film, neo-noir
At a bar, detective Kyle Bodine hits on Rachel Munro, who is married to wealthy banker Rupert Munro; she blows Bodine off. At home, Rachel gets drunk while viewing a private investigator's photos of Rupert having sex with Adele, an employe…
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Drama, Thriller, War Film, drama film, dystopian film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, war film
The story transpires in a non-linear fashion, following U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer in training, in battle in Afghanistan, in counseling in Afghanistan, while searching for his family after returning to a devastated United States, and in h…
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Crime, Horror, thriller
Reporter Carl Kolchak of Seattle, Washington is assigned by his editor, Tony Vincenzo, to cover a series of killings in which the victims, all belly dancers, are strangled. Kolchak learns from the coroner's report that the victims' necks w…
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LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, drama film, romantic comedy
Literary scholars American Roland Michell of the British Museum and British Maud Bailey independently find that the socially antagonistic relationship between the Victorian era poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte may have conce…
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Horror, drama film, horror film, mystery film, supernatural horror film
Korean immigrant Amanda and her homeschooled daughter Chrissy "Amani" live on a rural farm, raising bees, selling honey, raising chickens, and living without modern technology as Amanda has an "allergic reaction" to electronics and electri…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film, psychological thriller
Megan Paige, an investigator for the Rochester Police Department, is investigating the murder of a young girl named Carla Castillo. Her body was found in the nearby village of Churchville, New York, along with traces of white cat hair. Opp…
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Action, Crime, Crime Comedy, Western film, buddy film, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
In Hollywood in the late 1920s, during the waning days of the industry's transition to sound film, producer and studio head Alfie Alperin wants to produce an epic Western film about Wyatt Earp. Tom Mix is cast as the great United States Ma…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, trial film
In 1976, in South Africa during apartheid, Ben Du Toit is a South African school teacher at a school for whites only. One day, the son of his gardener, Gordon Ngubene, gets beaten by the white police after he gets caught by the police duri…
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crossover fiction, mystery fiction
After stopping a plush dinosaur that comes to life in a pawn shop and attacks, the grateful owner gives Dean a new TV for free. While testing out the TV, the Winchesters are sucked into Dean's favorite episode ("A Night of Fright Is No Del…
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Adventure, Sci-Fi, children's film, fantasy film, mystery film, science fiction film
Tony and his sister Tia need a vacation. Uncle Bené drops them off in their flying saucer at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles, California, after which the siblings quickly become separated from each other. A man named Dr.
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, crime film, thriller film
Guy Van Stratten, a small-time American smuggler working in Europe, seeks out a Munich resident named Jakob Zouk to warn him about a plot against his life. Zouk is terminally ill and receives the news with apathy, so Stratten explains his …
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Horror, drama film, fantasy film, folk horror film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, religious horror, slasher film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Martha and Jim Schmidt live on an isolated Pennsylvania farm named "Our Blessing." Most of their neighbors are Hittites, an austere religious community led by Jim's father Isaiah Schmidt, who forbids any interaction with non-Hittites. Afte…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
An American couple, Roy and Jessie, take the train from Beijing to Moscow on their return home from a Christian mission in China. Roy befriends their cabin mates, a Spanish man, Carlos, and his Seattle-born girlfriend, Abby. Jessie is wari…
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Occult Horror, Psychodrama, horror film, mystery film
thumb|Theatrical trailer Mary Gibson, a young woman at Highcliffe Academy, a boarding school, is informed by the principal that her older sister and only relative, Jacqueline, has gone missing and has not paid Mary's tuition in months. Mar…
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Crime, Satire, comedy film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
The film is divided into two separate, unequal stories. In the first and shorter of the two, in August 1887 Holmes is approached by Rogozhin, on behalf of a famous Russian ballerina, Madame Petrova. Madame Petrova is about to retire, and w…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Tim Warden, an autistic boy, has supposedly witnessed his parents' ruthless murder. Jake Rainer, a former child psychiatrist turned therapist, is called on to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case. The psychological drama is pr…
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Komödie, action film, children's film, comedy film, mystery film
In the quiet Massachusetts town of Edgefield, a pair of bumbling kidnappers break into the house of wealthy Mr. Flint, intending to kidnap his wife and hold her for ransom. However, they mistakenly kidnap his housemaid Lizzie instead.
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Slasher Horror, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, splatter film, thriller film
Ten-year-old Timmy Reston is berated by his mother for playing with a jigsaw puzzle of a nude woman. After she orders him to dispose of the puzzle, he returns with an axe, murders her, then dismembers her body with a hacksaw. When the poli…
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comedy film, mystery film, thriller film
drama film, mystery film
Police Chief Jesse Stone accepts a position as an unpaid consultant with the Massachusetts State Police Homicide Unit, working for Lt. Sydney Greenstreet who gives him case files on several murders. He accepts the job to relieve the boredo…
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Thriller
Diane de Monx is an executive trying to negotiate a deal to acquire the rights to the productions of a Japanese anime studio, which will soon include three-dimensional hentai, for the French-based Volf Corporation. To facilitate the acquis…
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Detective Film, Gothic film, Horror, crime film, monster film, mystery film
Dr. Richard Mortimer recounts to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in Baker Street the legend of the Hell hound that killed the devilish Sir Hugo Baskerville in retaliation for his misdeeds, including murdering the daughter of a servant. H…
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Horror, action film, horror film
Melissa Scott and her fiancé Bobby Lawrence are on a cross country road trip to Las Vegas to get married. Joining them for the ride is Melissa's sister Kayla and Kayla's online boyfriend Nik. During the trip, their car breaks down in the d…
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