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Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film
Part 1 Dr. Christopher 'Fluke' Kelso, a British professor of Soviet history, attends a conference in Moscow where his lecture is interrupted by protestors from 'Aurora', a faction of Communist hardliners. He is approached by elderly Papu R…
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Horror, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film
Teenager Megan (Elisabeth Harnois), still distraught over her twin sister Sophie's suicide, reluctantly agrees to join her friends on a summer trip to a lake house in the bayous of Louisiana. On the way, at a gas station, they meet Nick (T…
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Action Comedy, Mysterie, black comedy, horror film
Jack has developed a routine for his life that he follows in order to repress his urge to engage in vampiric cannibalism. He spends most of his time sleeping in his apartment and avoids human contact other than regular trips to a local din…
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Psychodrama, Thriller, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Two extremely clever British men are in a game of trickery and deceit. Andrew Wyke, an ageing famous author who lives alone in a high-tech mansion, after his wife Maggie has left him for a younger man; and Milo Tindle, an aspiring actor, e…
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Komödie, children's film, mystery film, teen film
17-year-old Pete Riley works as the assistant manager at the local 26-screen grand megaplex, a job that he loves and spends the majority of his time at. Rumor has it that the megaplex is haunted by a "phantom", someone who was trapped insi…
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Crime, buddy cop film, crime film, thriller film
Tough lieutenant Jim Brannigan of the Chicago Police Department is sent to London to extradite a notorious American mobster, Ben Larkin. Brannigan is assigned a local officer, Detective-Sergeant Jennifer Thatcher, to help while he is in Lo…
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Horror, Horror comedy, comedy horror film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film
Three short sequences, based on the following Poe tales, are told: "Morella", "The Black Cat" (which is combined with another Poe tale, "The Cask of Amontillado"), and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar". Each sequence is introduced via…
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drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Stephen Wilson, a.k.a. "The Eye", is an intelligence agent whose current assignment is to track down the socialite son of his wealthy boss and find out what trouble he has gotten himself into. This leads him to Joanna Eris, a serial killer…
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Mysterie, Romance Film, mystery film
Set in the upscale town of Southampton, Long Island, young yachting captain Tim Whalen is having an affair with Brooke, who is married to Granger Morrison, Tim's boss. Tim is the new captain of Granger's racing sailboat Obsession. Young he…
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Mysterie, mystery film
During a power outage in the Unidyne building, a New York City skyscraper, David Stillwell leaves his colleague Josephson on the 27th floor and begins his descent down the stairs, aided by a penlight. He encounters an attractive young woma…
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Computeranimation, mystery film
The movie opens with a flashback of a young Vincent Van Ghoul and his partner Mortifer Quinch successfully hunting down and sealing the 13th Ghost in the Chest of Demons. However, Mortifer was attacked and seemingly killed by minion ghosts…
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Thriller, mystery film, thriller film
Adrienne Saunders is happily married to art dealer Jack. They have a daughter named Mary. After the local museum curator is mysteriously murdered, Jack falls under suspicion of selling forged treasures to the museum.
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Dark Comedy, Ghost-House-Movies, Horror, comedy horror, horror film
Kenneth Magee, a young writer, bets his publisher $20,000 that he can write a novel of the calibre of Wuthering Heights in 24 hours. To get in the mood for the undertaking, he goes to a deserted Welsh manor. Upon his arrival, however, Mage…
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Detective Film, Parodie, comedy film, crime film, parody film, thriller film
Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), a bumbling San Francisco private detective, tries to prove himself innocent of his partner's murder while helping a bizarre array of characters recover a lost treasure. A large number of people are murdered in…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, heist film
Steve Thompson returns to Los Angeles after two years of drifting trying to shake off a bad divorce, looking for his ex-wife Anna but tormented over seeing her again. Against all better judgment he continues to, resuming his old job as a d…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film
As he investigates the missing person report of a teenager named Christopher Gant (based on Gacy's final victim, Robert Piest), Des Plaines detective Lt. Joseph R. Kozenczak (Riley) becomes concerned that local businessman John Wayne Gacy …
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Drama, Thriller, thriller film
Brenda is a plain young woman, who lives at home with her mother in Liverpool and enjoys writing fairy tales for children. One day she tells her mother that she is leaving home and moving to London in order to find a father for her yet unb…
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Horror, drama film, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film, mystery film, psychological thriller
A hooded, disfigured young man is eating at a diner, being watched by a stranger. The stranger is Wyburd (Clive Russell), who has been stalking the young man, Simon (Jonas Armstrong). Wyburd convinces Simon to join him in his truck, where …
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Action, Mysterie
A shipping company employs a team of four people (a journalist, a psychic, a meteorologist, and an oceanographer) to discover the secret of the Bermuda Triangle. With the help of a Greenpeace survivor and a tycoon they ultimately find out …
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) is the police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts—a coastal town north of Boston. A former homicide detective in Los Angeles, Jesse was fired from the LAPD because of a drinking problem. He was hired for the Paradise…
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Mysterie, crime film, horror film, monster film, mystery film
In 1889, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson receive a visit from Dr.
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Crime, Thriller, mystery film, thriller film
Los Angeles police detective John Berlin is teetering toward burnout after the collapse of his marriage. At the invitation of an old friend and colleague, Freddy Ross, Berlin heads to rural Northern California for a job with the Eureka pol…
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Crime, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Norah Dain, a nightclub disc jockey and aspiring actress living alone in a Manhattan apartment, receives a series of obscene phone calls from someone who seems to be watching her on a daily basis. She also finds a decapitated teddy bear in…
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Monster Film, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, crime film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
While investigating the murders of a serial killer who mutilates and removes the internal organs of the victims, two present-day New Orleans police detectives, Carson O'Conner and her partner Michael Sloane, learn that Victor Frankenstein,…
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