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Crime, Thriller, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
LAPD detective Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins is a troubled cop, with a high arrest record but a notoriety for refusing to follow procedure. After taking a tip from a man reporting a murder, he visits the given address and discovers a woman's mutilate…
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Adventure, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, mystery film, neo-noir
A young English woman named Nikky Ferris and her aunt, Frances, a musicologist, travel to the village of Elounda, on the island of Crete. They rent a room at the Moon-Spinners Inn, though the innkeeper, Sophia, initially refuses them until…
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Cartoon, adventure film, comedy horror, detective film, mystery film
In a flashback to 41 B.C.E, following her losses at the Battle of Actium and Battle of Alexandria, Cleopatra visits her tomb beneath the Sphinx to bury a treasure and form an undead army of her fallen soldiers to protect it. As she prepare…
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Thriller, crime film, horror film
Douglas Breen, a deranged young New York City record store clerk, writes a rambling letter to stage and film star Sally Ross, reading: "Dear Miss Ross, I am your greatest fan, because unlike the others, I want nothing from you. The only th…
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Horror, horror film
Russell Logan, a hotshot Los Angeles police detective who specializes in catching serial killers, is hunting the Pentagram Killer, a murderer nicknamed after his habit of carving a pentagram in his victims before killing them. Logan receiv…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, police film, political thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Ray Dolezal, a bored Torrance County, New Mexico deputy sheriff, investigates an apparent suicide in the desert. Alongside the body of Bob Spencer is a suitcase containing $500,000. During the autopsy, authorities find a digested piece of …
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biographical film, crime film, thriller film
At St. John's Orphanage in 1877, children, including a young Albert Fish, are being paddled as punishment for their sins. Albert Fish as an adult (Patrick Bauchau) then tells of a horse that some older boys at the orphanage set on fire, co…
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Fantasy, Mysterie, Western, fantasy film
Dr. Lao rides a golden donkey (implied to be The Golden Ass of Apuleius) into the small town of Abalone, Arizona and visits Edward Cunningham's newspaper to place a large advertisement for his traveling circus, which will play for two nigh…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film
Melodrama, drama film, mystery film, romance film
thumb|left|Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland in My Cousin Rachel On the coast of Cornwall, young Philip Ashley is raised by his older, wealthy cousin Ambrose on a large estate. When the weather threatens Ambrose's health, he moves to …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
In 1914, Imperial German spies are everywhere in London. After a spate of mysterious assassinations of important British politicians, a retired British Intelligence officer, Colonel Scudder, realises his life and his mysterious black noteb…
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Film Noir, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir
Harry Powell is a misogynistic serial killer and self-proclaimed preacher traveling along the Ohio River in West Virginia during the Great Depression. He is arrested for driving a stolen car and serves 30 days at Moundsville Penitentiary. …
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Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
An explosion at Dr. Martin Steiner's Ashburn Laboratories in Chicago kills countless people. Indistinguishable from humans, ghostly specters of the event's victims begin haunting the world as non-sentient "remnants" that briefly repeat cer…
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Historie, mystery film
On August 4, 1892, Bridget Sullivan, the maid, summons neighbor Mrs. Churchill to the Borden residence, where Lizzie Borden meets her at the door coldly stating, “Mrs. Churchill, do come in, someone has killed father.” Andrew Borden’s body…
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film
Crossley, a mysterious travelling man, invades the lives of a young couple, Rachel and Anthony Fielding. Anthony is a composer, who experiments with sound effects and various electronic sources in his secluded Devon studio. The couple prov…
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Crime, drama film, mystery film, spy film
Coming to the assistance of a nanny who is almost killed during a bungled hit-and-run assassination attempt, Richard Hannay is surprised to find that there is no baby in her pram. Curious, he meets her at the Palace Music Hall where she ha…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, mystery film, romance film
Homicide detective Nate Burns (Cibrian) once lived a tough life in Baltimore, but decides to move to a small Alaskan town, after being offered the position of chief of police. Burns leaves Baltimore just a few weeks after his partner is sh…
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Film Noir, film noir
Detective Sergeant Walter Brown of the LAPD and his partner, Sergeant Gus Forbes, are assigned to protect Frankie Neall, a mob boss's widow, as she rides a train from Chicago to Los Angeles to testify before a grand jury. She also carries …
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Drama, drama film
The film tells the stories of three principal characters: Manny, Dennis and Zyrick. It begins with Dennis Williams being pulled over by police but let go because he is a cop himself. The story switches to Manny Ortega applying for a job, b…
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, horror film, science fiction film
Daily World newshawk Lee Taylor is investigating a series of pathological murders that have taken place over a series of months in New York City. The murders always take place at night, under the glow of a full moon, and each body has been…
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Crime, Erotic Thriller, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, sexploitation film
Carson Wheetly is the son of Ted Wheetly, a wealthy NASCAR racer. Carson suspects his father of murdering his mother to gain her money. After a weekend party at his father's Florida bay house, Carson is arrested for the rape of Brandi Cox.
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film
On an ocean liner sailing from New York, John Bowman lifts his bride Ruth over the threshold of cabin B16, where Anna Quinn, a stewardess busy with finishing touches, greets them and withdraws. Ruth has been unsettled by her father's recen…
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Ghost-Movie, drama film, horror film, mystery film
A university professor, Daniel Rivers, and his wife Julie are an expectant couple who are moving into an old but fancy lakeside house in upstate New York. One of the workers the Rivers hired to remodel the house hands Julie an old bracelet…
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Komödie, Romance Film, crime film, mystery film, romantic comedy film
220px|left|thumb|Joanne Woodward and George C. Scott in They Might Be Giants. Justin Playfair is an eminent judge who retreats into fantasy after his wife's death, imagining himself to be Sherlock Holmes, the legendary fictional detective.
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