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Mysterie, crime film, mystery film
Newlyweds Dick and Gina decide to head across the Nevada desert for their honeymoon, driving at night to beat the heat. Before they head off, a stranger warns Dick to be careful, as couples have been known to get lost, and to stick to the …
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Crime, mystery film, thriller film
Tony Randall begins the movie by talking directly to the audience. He explains that he will be starring as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in a mystery set in London. As the movie begins, Poirot has arrived in London to see his tailor.
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Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
The film opens as the klutzy Valerie Highsmith arrives at an airport in Puerto Vallarta. She calls her father, a wealthy businessman, to let him know that she has arrived. While she is on the phone, she clumsily leans on the railing of her…
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Film Noir, film noir
Chuck Scott is a World War II veteran who is now a penniless drifter in Miami tormented by bizarre dreams. After finding a wallet and returning it to Eddie Roman, a vicious gangster, he is hired by Roman to be his driver. Roman tests his n…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Two young boys discover the body of Gus Pierce, a seventeen-year-old student at the prestigious Haddan School, in a frozen river. Local policemen Abel Grey and his partner retrieve the body and begin investigating at the school. The princi…
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drama film, fantasy film
A former window dresser named Nikki Morrison overhears mention of a mysterious "Ratboy" named Eugene while dumpster diving at a dump. After finding and befriending him, Nikki makes several attempts at marketing his uniqueness to the public…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
A man has parked his car and is looking into the Grand Canyon with binoculars when someone releases the car's parking brake and pushes the vehicle toward him. He is able to leap out of the way at the last moment, and in a fierce struggle k…
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crime film, trial film
Ellen Harrod appears to have a happy marriage to David, although his frequent work-related absences are beginning to take a toll on her. While taking night school classes with her neighbor and best friend, Marge Bracken, she is introduced …
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film
Fifteen years after the mysterious murder of his older sister Wendy, Daniel is striving to become a mechanical engineer for the Marines. He witnessed the murder of his sister, and so struggles to live a normal life with the memories he has…
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Crime, Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film, romance film
Still a virgin after 15 years in a convent, the demure Isabelle earns her living in New York City by writing pornography, which she researches by buying magazines and hiring videos. In a café, she befriends Thomas, who has amnesia after fa…
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Detective Film, Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film
Hercule Poirot is travelling on the Orient Express. While on the journey, Poirot meets a very close friend, Wolfgang Bouc, who works for the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. The train is stopped when a landslide blocks the line on…
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Horror, Horror comedy, Mysterie, comedy drama, comedy film, comedy horror film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Tom Penderel, an American car salesman in London, delivers a car to an old mansion on Dartmoor for his eccentric roommate Casper Femm. The car is damaged by a falling statue in a raging storm. Tom enters the house, and finds that his roomm…
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Blaxploitation, Detective Film, Secret Agent, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
Queens private detective John Shaft is contacted by his old friend Cal Asby, an insurance salesman and mortician, who tells him he's in trouble and asks him to come immediately. As soon as Shaft arrives, Asby is killed by a bomb planted in…
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Horror, crime film, horror film, mystery film
In 1845 in Paris, mad scientist Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood to create a mate for Erik, his talking sideshow ape. Pierre Dupin, a young, naive medical student and detective, Pierre's fiancée Camille L'Esp…
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Drama, Mysterie, horror film
In an unnamed New Mexico border town, nightclub promoter Jerry Manning hires a black leopard as a publicity stunt for his girlfriend, Kiki Walker, a performer there. Kiki uses the opportunity to upstage the act of her rival, Clo-Clo, by ma…
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Crime, Musical, crime film, drama film, musical film, mystery film
Drama, Mysterie, drama film, film noir
Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett hopes to uncover the facts behind the unsolved murder of Sloan, an inmate at a psychiatric hospital. He convinces an expert psychiatrist, Dr. Fong, to coach him to appea…
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Drama, drama film
The film begins in December 1916, at a lavish ballroom gathering just before the Russian Revolution, and moves to the 1917 February Revolution, the Imperial family's forced exile to Siberia that summer after Tsar Nicholas II's forced abdic…
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LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, drama film
David Weinberg (Alan Rickman), a lawyer in his 50s, and his much younger wife Alexis (Polly Walker), drive through a torrential rainstorm to get the last ferry to their private island. They catch sight of an injured young man (Norman Reedu…
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Drama, drama film, mystery film, romance film
Marty is a single, high-powered literary agent in Manhattan. Marie is a widow who lives a peaceful life in Provence, France with her two daughters. When Marie falls asleep she dreams that she is Marty and when Marty falls asleep she dreams…
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Asia-Horror, Drama, Horror, Mysterie
Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Dr. Peter Carey is the new pathologist at a Boston hospital. He befriends his colleagues and falls in love with dietitian Georgia Hightower.
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime film, film noir, horror film, mystery film, psycho-biddy, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film
When teenage friends Libby Mannering and Kit Austin are home alone with Libby's younger sister Tess, they amuse themselves by randomly dialing telephone numbers and telling whoever answers: "I saw what you did, and I know who you are." Lib…
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Christmas film, Horror, Mysterie, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
During Christmas vacation at the rural Calvin Finishing School For Girls, a student is killed when she is accidentally pushed over a balcony during a prank. Two years later, on the Friday before Christmas, the school is emptying out for th…
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