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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Paul and Jessie Duncan are a happily married couple who have an eight-year-old son named Adam. The day after his eighth birthday, when fetching a basketball into the street, Adam is killed in a collision. While leaving a church, Jessie and…
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Family Drama, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt, an elderly dowager in Holly Springs, Mississippi, lives alone in a large house and is helped out daily by Willis Richland, her African American handyman and closest friend. After acting strangely, she commits sui…
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Horror, Mysterie, Satire, Thriller, comedy horror, slasher film
Television director Jake Tanner travels to a small town to film a reality television show about the town's hockey team. However, town local Jaynie is soon murdered, being decapitated by a piece of wire hung up between two trees, but the mu…
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Crime, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional creation, the central character in a series of short stories written by Dr John Watson and published in The Strand Magazine. Watson conceives of Holmes as a way for him to solve crimes incognito, as he views …
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, film noir, mystery film, thriller film
A former police detective and Vietnam veteran in New Orleans and a recovering alcoholic, Dave Robicheaux, is living a quiet life in the swamplands of Louisiana with his wife Annie. The couple's tranquility is shattered one day when a drug …
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Psychodrama, drama film
The film begins with abstract images and sounds in the director's interpretation of schizophrenia. Peter Winter has recently been released from a mental institution and upon his release, must try to experience and understand a world that i…
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Drama, drama film, erotic film
The film tells the story of the young Siddhartha (played by Shashi Kapoor), born in a rich family, and his search for a meaningful way of life. This search takes him through periods of harsh asceticism, sensual pleasures, material wealth, …
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drama film, mystery film
One moonlit night in Santa Monica, California, former LAPD homicide detective Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) looks out at the ocean, waiting to sober up before driving across the country with his dog Boomer to the small coastal town of Paradise…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, spy film
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Andrew Craig, who is disrespectful of it, and seems more interested in women and drinking. Arriving in Stockholm for the award ceremony, he is delighted that Inger Lisa Andersson, whom he f…
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Crime, Drama, neo-noir
Tony Rome is an ex-cop turned private investigator who lives on a powerboat in Miami, Florida, called ‘Straight Pass’. This is a reference to the fact that Tony also has a gambling problem. He is asked by his former partner, Ralph Turpin, …
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Social Drama, crime thriller film, drama film
Brenda walks through a predominantly African American housing project and enters an emergency room in a daze, apparently in shock and with cut and bleeding hands. Police detective Lorenzo Council is sent to take a statement from her. She s…
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Ghost-Movie, Splatter Film, horror film, mystery film, rape and revenge film
Max Matheson clinically died after a car accident killed his fiancée, Kayla. Although Max was later resuscitated and the other driver, who was inebriated, was held responsible, the ordeal left Max with tremendous guilt and trauma. However,…
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Thriller, crime thriller film, thriller film
Claire Marrable, the vainglorious aging widow of a prominent businessman, is distraught upon discovering that her husband's estate has been stripped of all assets, leaving her in medical debt and with nowhere to live. His only personal eff…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
Charged with a murder he did not commit, truck driver Frank Webster has broken out of jail. While on the run toward the Mexico–United States border, and the subject of radio news reports, he is cornered in a small Southern California coffe…
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Thriller, crime film
thumb|The plaster cast of Trajan's Column at the Victoria and Albert Museum is discussed in the film. In 1993, Martin (Elijah Wood), a US student at the University of Oxford, wants Arthur Seldom (John Hurt) as his thesis supervisor. He ido…
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Crime, mystery film, thriller film
In Los Angeles, Jill LaBeau is a friend and personal assistant to movie star Heather Anderson. Heather has decided to drop out of an upcoming film, upsetting numerous people, as the movie will not go forward without her in it. Late one nig…
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Justice Drama, Police Film, Political Thriller, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2054, a "Precrime" pilot program is running in Washington, D.C. in the United States. Three clairvoyant individuals known as "precognitives" or "precogs" receive psychic visions about imminent homicides.
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Adventure, Cartoon, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, mystery film
Mystery Inc. receive a free trip to Hawaii from a surf-and-beachwear company called "Goha Aloha", who wants Daphne Blake to design new swimwear for them. Upon their arrival, the gang meet with Jared Moon, a representative of Goha Aloha and…
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Mysterie, fantasy film, mystery film
Nicholas Urfe is a young Englishman, who has taken a teaching position on the Greek island of Phraxos, following the previous instructor's suicide. For Nicholas, it is a chance to sample different surroundings and an opportunity to escape …
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Crime, Film Noir, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, film noir
In San Francisco, chemist and blackmailer Albert Baker is killed by hitman Philip Raven, who recovers a stolen chemical formula. Raven is double-crossed by his employer, Willard Gates, who pays him with marked bills and reports them to the…
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Drama, Horror, horror film, vampire film
Handsome young artist Quentin Collins arrives at his newly inherited estate of Collinwood with his beautiful wife Tracy. They meet the housekeeper Carlotta Drake and the caretaker Gerard Stiles. Quentin happens upon a 19th-century portrait…
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film
In San Francisco, Nick and Nora Charles are looking forward to a relaxing afternoon at a horse racetrack, but they learn from Nick's old friend, Lieutenant Abrams, that a jockey named Goldez has been found shot dead in a shower stall after…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
Sam Roffe, President of Roffe & Sons Pharmaceuticals, dies in what appears to be a mountain climbing accident, leaving his daughter Elizabeth a billion-dollar empire. Roffe's board members see an opportunity to settle old scores, jockey fo…
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drama film
thumb|Publicity photo of Joan Crawford wearing Adrian's Letty Lynton gown|294x294px New York City socialite Letty Lynton has been living in Montevideo, Uruguay and wants to end her affair with Emile Renaul. After several failed attempts to…
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