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Animation, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, mystery film
In flashbacks, an ancient warrior asked swordsmith Masamune to craft a sword of great mystical power. Masamune agreed, but stated that the process will take a year. Masamune's apprentice Muramasa subsequently offered to make a similarly po…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, mystery film
Susan Selky, an English professor at Columbia University, lives in a Brooklyn brownstone with her 6-year-old son Alex. One March morning, she sees Alex off to his school, two blocks away. Returning home after work, Susan becomes increasing…
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Thriller, horror film, mystery film, rape and revenge film
The film tells the story of a couple, Elise Landry (Erika Christensen) and her husband, Craig Landry (Jesse Metcalfe), whose lives are shattered when a serial killer named John Kozlowski (Bill Moseley), kidnaps, tortures, and kills their o…
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Occult Horror, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1970 in Southern California, a group of hippies and their children are approached at a desert encampment by Damon, a wayward traveler. They welcome him and serve him a meal. At nightfall, he kills each of them in ritualized murders with…
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Horror, Mysterie, comedy horror, vampire film, zombie film
In New Orleans, Dylan Dog, a paranormal detective, recounts his past experiences helping people with supernatural cases until his wife was killed by vampires. He currently works on regular cases with his partner, Marcus Deckler. When Eliza…
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Komödie, comedy film, parody film, science fiction film
The film's opening titles announce it is set "possibly around 1933." The story concerns the 168-year-old Fu Manchu, who must duplicate the ingredients to the elixir vitae that extends his life after the original is accidentally destroyed b…
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Film Noir, Mysterie, drama film, film noir
Jeff Cohalan, a successful architect, is tormented because his fiancée, Vivian Sheppard, was killed in a mysterious car accident on the night before their wedding. Blaming himself for her death, Cohalan spends his time alone, lamenting in …
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, thriller film
Charlie Cox is a divorced magazine writer based in Los Angeles. Charlie and his daughter Joleen are on their way home from a cross country vacation when they run out of gas in the small Nevada town of Banco, on the day before Joleen's 14th…
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Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
Louis Drax, a 9-year-old boy, narrates a series of near-fatal accidents, the most recent being a suspicious fall off a cliff. Through a series of flashbacks, Louis's sessions with psychiatrist Dr. Perez are shown.
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Erotic Film, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, crime film, erotic thriller
Detective Cathy Palmer (Ellen Barkin) is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie (Peta Wilson), who belongs to an exclusive club of women who engage in secret sessions of bondage and S&M.…
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Action, Thriller, speculative fiction film
In Jerusalem, rabbi Rostenburg designs software to decode prophecies hidden within the Torah. Rostenburg handwrites each one in a journal. One of the prophecies says that he is about to die; he tears the page containing the final code from…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, mystery film
Inspector Cockrill is typing a report to his chief at Scotland Yard on the "amazing events" beginning on 17th August 1944, with postman Joseph Higgins "the first to die". We see the operating theatre and the personnel in a rural hospital. …
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Crime, Komödie, Mysterie, comedy film, comedy thriller, mystery film, neo-noir
Real estate agent Sandra Dunmore, wearing a blonde bob cut wig, makes flirtatious and sexual calls to her brother-in-law Ben. She then heads to church where she does community outreach with Ben. As she plays back a micro floppy disk with p…
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Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
Harry Barber is serving a prison sentence after being framed in a corruption scandal. Before his arrest, he worked as a reporter for a Florida newspaper and uncovered widespread corruption within the local government. After rejecting a bri…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, family film, mystery film, pirate film
While making a star map in the Bermuda Triangle, astrocartographer Rupert Garcia's ship is attacked by ghost pirates led by Captain Skunkbeard. Garcia successfully hides from them, but the pirates sink his ship, kidnap his crew, and leave …
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Adventure, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, family film, mystery film
Deliveryman "Mad" Max Grabelski (Daniel Stern) is charged with delivering packages to millionaire Reinhart Bragdon (Anthony Heald) for $50 tips. During a late night delivery, Max accidentally stumbles across a fire in Bragdon's mansion and…
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Drama, drama film, mystery film
A woman is shown living a variety of different lives under different aliases in different cities. In New York City, she manufactures a meeting with Clyde at a cafeteria and introduces herself as Alice, a biologist who specializes in studyi…
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Horror, horror film
In London at the beginning of the twentieth century, Phyllis Allenby is a young and beautiful woman who is soon to be married to barrister and boyfriend Barry Lanfield. Phyllis is living at the Allenby Mansion without the protection of a m…
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Mysterie
While out fishing and picnicking with her family near their home at Niagara Falls, seven-year-old Abby wanders off and encounters a young, abused boy, hiding in the woods. A couple throw the boy into the trunk of their car and abduct him. …
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, crime film, mystery film, science fiction film
During an apparent drug store robbery, a woman is murdered. Seattle Medical Examiner Dr. David Krane finds a matchbook there that reminds him of one found at the scene of his wife Mary's murder.
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mystery film, thriller film
Stone Alexander is a six-year-old boy whose mother has died giving birth to his younger brother, David. During a party at his influential father's home, Stone is left alone with David, who is in his crib. As Stone stares into the fireplace…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir
A sadistic killer, Garland "Red" Lynch, uses a campaign of terror to force San Francisco bank teller Kelly Sherwood to steal $100,000 from the bank for him. Despite Lynch's threat to kill Sherwood or her teenage sister Toby if she goes to …
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Political Thriller, action film, black comedy film, comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, romance film, spy film, suspense film, thriller film
On 10 May 1916, during World War I, British Captain and novelist Edgar Brodie returns home on leave, to discover his obituary in the newspaper. He is brought to a man identifying himself only as "R", who asks him to undertake a secret miss…
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Mysterie, drama television series, mystery film
Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr Watson investigate the case of the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country.
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