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Crime, crime film, drama film
Bobby Gold is a homicide detective on the trail of Robert Randolph, a drug-dealer and cop-killer on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. En route to nab an accomplice of Randolph, Gold and his partner Tim Sullivan happen upon a murder scene: th…
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Detective Film, comedy film, crime comedy film, mystery film
While travelling by train, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in another train on a parallel track. The police find nothing to support her story, so she conducts her own investigation, and with the aid of her close frien…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Tommy is the son of a Mafia hitman, who, after his father is killed by a rival, moves with his younger brother to live with his aunt, uncle, and cousin in Philadelphia. As the sole member of his family who is not involved in crime, Tommy j…
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Psychological Thriller, Thriller, horror film, thriller film
On New Year's Eve, Julie Rose retrieves a satchel full of cash from a train station's locker and drives into an empty parking lot. Once there, she calls someone and says on the phone that she will wait only a few more minutes. After she ge…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Thriller, Vampirfilm, action film, buddy film, female buddy film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, rape and revenge film, vampire film
Reporter Sadie Blake has just published a notable article featuring a secret Gothic party scene. The night following the publication, one of Sadie's sources, Tricia Rawlins, is invited by her friend Kaitlyn to an isolated house in which su…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Buck Enderley lives in an area of lower socio-economic housing in Los Angeles with his elderly and frail mother. Their home consists of a cabin for his mother and a stationary RV parked adjacent to the cabin, which Buck sleeps in. Buck is …
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, thriller film
Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper, who is burned out from years of covering the worst crimes in the city. He promises his girlfriend Christine that they will move away from the city, but he ends up covering a series of g…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, romance film, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|thumbtime=10|Murder! (1930)|left Diana Baring, a young actress in a travelling theatre troupe, is found in a daze with blood on her clothes, sitting by the murdered body of another young actress, Edna Druce. The poker used to commit …
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Action, Mysterie, Thriller, horror film, science fiction film
In the prologue, the mother of Sara (Jessica Lowndes) is transporting a family of three (two parents and their son) in a small aircraft. The child is extremely nervous and starts hyperventilating. Wondering why he is so afraid, the parents…
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Drama, Film Noir, drama film, film noir
George Stroud, editor-in-chief of Crimeways magazine, hides from building security inside the "big clock" which dominates the lobby of the Janoth Publications building where he works. It is the largest and most sophisticated clock ever bui…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, flashback film
The reclusive foreign-born Fedora is one of the great film stars of the century, and known for retaining her youthful beauty over the course of a career spanning decades. At the height of her fame, however, Fedora withdrew to a private isl…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, comedy thriller, mystery film, neo-noir
Ira Wells, an aging Los Angeles private detective, is writing his memoir at his boarding house when his ex-partner Harry Regan appears, mortally wounded, and dies shortly after. At Harry's funeral, Ira is introduced to Margo Sperling by a …
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, mystery film, romance film
In New York City, 1958, Diane Arbus, a mother and housewife, plays assistant to her photographer husband Allan. One night, during a party, she gazes out the window and catches the eye of Lionel Sweeney, a neighbor who recently moved in ups…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, medieval film, mystery film
In 1380, in England, the priest Nicholas (Bettany) flees his village when found in flagrante delicto with a married woman. During the flight, he witnesses a group euthanise a member to give him relief from his long-recurring internal pain.…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
Nick and Nora Charles return to New York City with Asta and their infant son Nickie Jr. when they are invited by Colonel Burr MacFay, a former business partner of Nora's father, to spend the weekend at his country house on Long Island. Als…
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Thriller, crime film, mystery film, political thriller film, science fiction film
In the final days of World War II, Soviet forces close in on Berlin, and Panzer Korps General Helmut Kladen is sent with secret documents that could be used to negotiate with the Allies and save Germany from the Soviets. However, he is int…
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Fantasy, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film
Lily is attempting to seek refuge amidst an apparent gender-based civil war in which men and women are systematically killing one another. On a rural road, she encounters men executing women by firing squad, and flees with her car into the…
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Ghost-Movie, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
In the early 1960s, an unfinished occult ritual results in the disappearance of six young children in the Spanish countryside. 40 years later, Mark Rua, his wife Maria, and their two children—teenage Regina, and young Paul—relocate from th…
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Adventure, Komödie, comedy film, mystery film
Sylvia Pickel (pronounced with an emphasis on the "kel") is a trance-medium who has contact with Louise, a wisecracking spirit guide. She first began communicating with her after falling from a ladder at the age of 12 and remaining comatos…
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Animation, fantasy film
While filming an adaptation of The Princess and the Pea, Barbie questions the director's bizarre creative choices which results in her being fired. Immediately afterwards, Barbie is lambasted on social media and receives a phone call from …
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, horror film
As a teenager, Marina Hess and Rebecca Cline stabbed a classmate. The attack was motivated by Marina's belief that the sacrifice to a ghost called Mercy Black would cure her mother's illness. Fifteen years later, Marina is released from a …
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Drama, War Film, drama film, propaganda film, spy film, war film
A silhouetted narrator connects the film to recent events, beginning in a quiet corner of Scotland in 1937. A postman delivers letters from all over the world to a Mrs. MacLaughlin, who forwards the contents of one envelope to Dr.
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film
The police officer Tom Adkins Sr. loses his son while briefly leaving him in a diner. Eight years later, he is still struggling with the loss when he and his wife, Barbara get a call that a child’s body has been discovered buried within a …
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comedy film, mystery film
Police Inspector Ghote lives a middle-class life in Bombay along with his wife, Pratima. He has been employed with the Bombay Police for many years. His wife is generally disgruntled and wants a better life.
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