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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Chris Emery works as a nightclub singer and dancer in the British colony of Trinidad and Tobago. One night after her performance, she receives news from Inspector Smythe and Anderson, a member of the American consulate, that her husband Ne…
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comedy drama, horror film, mystery film
When the buffet where Zeke's mom works closes down, he's forced to entertain the wild advances of a rich regular who is weirdly and vehemently obsessed with becoming his father.
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Crime, Mysterie, historical drama, mystery film
The film opens with a series of arguments involving local millionaire Sidney Lassiter. First, Sidney threatens to remove his son Albert from his will if Albert doesn't leave his current lover. His wife Martha then reveals that she knows th…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
In a Roman Catholic parish in Detroit, a series of murders rapidly unfolds: first, Father James Lord is killed on Ash Wednesday by an unknown assailant who unplugs the respirator in his hospital room. Shortly after, Sister Ann Peschal info…
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Horror comedy, Komödie, Parodie, Slasher Horror, horror film
In the fictional town of It Had To Be, Indiana, fullback Blue Grange scores the winning touchdown for It Had To Be University in the 1963 National Championship game. Afterwards, a shunned cheerleader named Bambi is seen fawning over Grange…
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Horror, horror film, mystery film
Francis Ingram is a noted pianist who lives in a large manor house in turn-of-the-century Italy. Ingram suffered a stroke which left his right side immobile, and he has to use a wheelchair to get around. He has retreated to the manor house…
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Horror, Mysterie, Slasher Horror, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
Laura Ramstead, a senior athlete at a small-town Southern California high school, collapses during a track meet, dying unexpectedly of a cardiac embolism. Two months later, her elder sister Anne, a U.S.N. officer, arrives in town to partic…
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erotic thriller, neo-noir
Emery Simms is a highly educated business tycoon whose life takes a turn for the worse when he engages in an adulterous fling with the wildly free-spirited and exotic Allanah James. Emery accidentally kills a man who tries to get informati…
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drama film, mystery film
Main plot The film begins with the shooting murder of a young man at night as he opens his car door in a parking garage. Jesse Stone, following his suspension as chief of police, has sunk into seclusion and alcoholism. Ordered not to commu…
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Thriller, detective film, mystery film
Set on a winter night in 1975, the film sees a mysterious woman named Evelyn arrive uninvited at a holiday gathering and tell the story of Tom, an aging hermit who rescues a stranded actress during a Colorado blizzard more than 20 years ea…
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
thumb|The full film In London, Vivian Vedder verifies that a carpenter has completed a coffin for her recently deceased mother's body, which she is transporting to Scotland by train. She boards the train that evening, as do Lady Margaret C…
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Crime, crime film, drama film
Mike is an injured ex-boxer unable to find a job and penniless after his wife Angela, who he loves, gives their life savings to her criminal brother. Joe has been fired from his clerical job in the USA to reclaim Mary, his pregnant English…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
Main plot State Police Captain Healy is attacked but is saved by Jesse Stone, who is able to get off a couple of shots at the unknown assailant despite also being wounded. At the hospital, Healy reveals to Jesse that he was spying on his n…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, mystery film
thumb|200px|left|Ethel Barrymore and Cary Grant in the film Ernie Mott is a restless, independent, wandering Cockney with perfect pitch. On Armistice Day, Ernie visits the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, which memorialize…
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Thriller, mystery film
In her family's Spanish villa, Kimberly Prescott, a young South African heiress of a diamond company, is grieving her father's recent suicide. She is taken aback by the arrival of a man claiming to be her brother, Ward, believed to have di…
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Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Prominent London psychoanalyst Dr. Leo Whitset is discovered injured from a gunshot wound in his home by his housekeeper, and as he lies dying he whispers, "blame no one but me". These words lead the coroner to rule the death a suicide, a …
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Horror, horror film, werewolf film
The film opens with a narrator stating that the film is a detective story where the viewer is the detective and tells the audience to watch for the "werewolf break". Near the climax, the "werewolf break", which is a 30-second pause where t…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
thumb|left|Barbara Stanwyck as Lora Hart Lora Hart applies for a job as a nurse trainee, but is rejected when the hospital's nursing superintendent, Miss Dillon, learns she does not have a high school diploma. After a chance encounter with…
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Animalhorror, Horror, Monster Film, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
An earthquake releases a species of previously unknown insect which can create fires by rubbing their legs together. Eventually however, most of the bugs die because they cannot survive in the low air pressure on the Earth's surface. After…
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Thriller, crime film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
In the 1980s, aspiring Black synthesizer designer Josh Iver is approached by Trent Whittington at an electronics showcase. Trent takes an interest in Josh's self-designed analog synthesizer and offers to collaborate with him, providing him…
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Thriller, drama film
In 1938, a British policeman travels to France to investigate the death of one of his colleagues. He becomes interested in a family of wealthy Britons living in a luxurious French coastal resort, who were heavily involved with the dead man…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
George Tatum has been incarcerated in a psychiatric institution in NYC for many years after sexually mutilating and murdering a family in Brooklyn. Diagnosed with a variety of disorders, including schizophrenia, amnesia, and epilepsy, Geor…
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Drama, drama film
Young and self-confident Danny Masters is the teen-aged son of the late Harry Masters, the "greatest escape artist except for Houdini". Danny himself is an accomplished magician and escape artist. He leaves home to join Uncle Burke and Aun…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film
Children play outside a rural Colorado home. They belong to Orville Beecham and his three wives. Two masked men pull up in a truck and wait for the children to go inside.
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