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Destiny, Family Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
War photographer Paul Prior (Matthew Macfadyen) returns to his hometown in the South Island of New Zealand following the death of his father Jeff (Matthew Chamberlain). Paul reunites with his younger brother Andrew (Colin Moy), a pious loc…
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Political Satire, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Richard "Dicky" Pilager, the dim-witted scion of a powerful political dynasty, is running for Governor of Colorado. One day, while filming a campaign ad that shows him fishing at Arapahoe Lake, Pilager hooks a corpse on location. Chuck Rav…
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Thriller
Petter is a commercial offshore diver in the North Sea during the 1980s. Norway is at the beginning of its program for oil extraction. Petter and his brother Knut have key roles in laying the first petroleum pipe in the North Sea.
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Adventure, Drama, drama film, romance film
Lily is forced to leave her home in Princeton, New Jersey with her parents and brother to travel to Nepal. She is unhappy that she had to leave her own country and her old life behind to visit this mystic country with her family. Once ther…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
In the 1920s, English war widow Mrs. Edwina Broome moves to the Irish village of Kilshannon, into the exclusive enclave derisively called "Widows' Peak" by the locals. Mrs.
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Horror, Sci-Fi, mystery film, science fiction film
Unaccountable, deadly malfunctions begin occurring at a top-secret government facility located under the New Mexico desert, where a space station is being constructed. Dr. David Sheppard, from the Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI) i…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
A concentration camp survivor named Samuel "Sam" Berg (Max von Sydow), a supernaturally lucky man, runs a European casino. One of his workers is Federico (Eusebio Poncela), a man who "steals" other people's luck merely by laying a hand on …
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Thriller, drama film, mystery film
American writer Tom Ricks arrives in Paris to be closer to his young daughter, who lives with his ex-wife. The divorce was prompted by Tom's mental illness, from which he has apparently recovered. After his possessions and money are stolen…
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
left|thumb|Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers and Basil Rathbone in Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) Holmes is called into the "Inner Council" of British Intelligence by Sir Evan Barham, to assist in stopping Nazi saboteurs operating…
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Drama, drama film, mystery film
Paul Asher (Brenton Thwaites) is a journalist who has returned home from covering the war in Afghanistan. His life is falling apart. His marriage is near collapse, and he is in a personal crisis.
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Crime, Komödie, comedy drama, political thriller film
Former student radical Moses Wine now works as a private investigator. He is contacted by Lila, an ex-girlfriend from his college days, who is working in the election campaign for Miles Hawthorne, a politician who is running to be Governor…
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film
On an annual fishing trip in the high country, Stewart (Gabriel Byrne), Carl (John Howard), Rocco (Stelios Yiakmis) and Billy (Simon Stone) find a girl's body in the river; she has been murdered by Gregory (Chris Haywood), a local electric…
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Mysterie, fantasy film, mockbuster, mystery film, steampunk film
On December 29, 1940, during the London Blitz, an elderly Dr. John Watson tells his nurse the tale of an unrecorded case he shared with his friend Sherlock Holmes. On May 19, 1882, a royal treasury ship is destroyed by a monstrous giant oc…
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film, science fiction film, spy film
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) pretends to be a Nazi spy to aid scientist Dr. Franz Tobel (William Post Jr.) and his new invention, a bombsight, in escaping a Gestapo trap in Switzerland. Holmes and Franz fly to London, where Holmes plac…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, mystery film
Maurice Pogue has retrograde amnesia, which prevents him from remembering anything that happened to him the day before. He realizes from a recording he made for himself the previous night – to keep himself in the know – that he is a privat…
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Christmas film, horror film, slasher film
On a college campus, a young male coed is chased and killed by an unseen assailant. Meanwhile, Joanne Murray and her boyfriend, Tim, attend a campus party and learn that their dormitory, Morgan Meadows Hall, has been condemned. Along with …
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Drama, drama film, mystery film, romance film
Jazz saxophone player Izzy Maurer (Harvey Keitel) is shot in the chest during a performance at a jazz club by a deranged man. Izzy survives the seven-hour operation, but loses his left lung, ending his music career. A young aspiring actres…
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drama film, mystery film
Martha is a middle-aged single woman who cares for her disabled father in an unnamed, poverty-stricken rust belt town in Ohio. Martha regularly drives her younger co-worker, Kyle, to and from their workplace at a doll factory, as well as t…
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Adventure, Crime, Komödie, Musical, Mysterie, comedy film, comedy horror, musical film
Gas station attendants Chuck Murray and Ferdie Jones aspire to better jobs. They temporarily work as waiters at Chez Glamour, a high-class nightclub where Ted Lewis and The Andrews Sisters perform, but are fired for causing a scene. Ferdie…
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Animation, Fantasy, Horror
The film has no spoken dialogue, just lighthearted music playing throughout the background. A young girl is walking down a snow-covered street of Barcelona. She stumbles across a wall with names written in chalk on it.
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, thriller film
Jane Emelin inherits a rent-controlled brownstone apartment from her late aunt, and, despite her boyfriend Greg Harrison's appeals, decides to move in and live on her own for the first time. Martha Stewart, her neighbor from the first floo…
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Film Noir, film noir, mystery film
Sleepy Parsons, a blind piano player, arrives at the apartment of his ex-wife Edna Bartelli, who owes him $1,400 (). She checks her purse, but discovers it is missing. She immediately believes a U.S.
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Adventure, Mysterie, science fiction film
In 2012, scientist Richard Falkner and his team recreate the Philadelphia Experiment for the defense contractor that employs them. They use their boss Kathryn Moore's car in a test of the technology, which renders the car invisible. Howeve…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
A former family man and pianist studying at Juilliard music school, Romulus Ledbetter, now has paranoid schizophrenia and lives in a cave in Inwood Park, New York. He believes that a man named Cornelius Gould Stuyvesant is controlling the …
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