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Thriller, crime film, horror film, slasher film
Jane, a newscaster in Miami, reports on the latest victim of a serial killer and rapist. She lives with and cares for her teenage sister, Tracy, who is blind and deaf-mute owing to a conversion disorder she suffered after being kidnapped a…
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Komödie, Thriller, parody film
Retired detective Charlie Chan is asked for his help by the San Francisco police to solve a new series of murders. This time his usual sidekick, "Number One Son" Lee Chan, has been replaced by Lee's own son, Lee Chan, Jr. The prime suspect…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film
During a party, Frannie Scott croons the jazz standard "Just in Time" and playfully tries to kiss his friend's date, causing the friend to pull Frannie's hair, which unexpectedly comes off. The bald Frannie then has a psychotic break, brut…
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Action, Crime, Komödie, mystery film
Reverend Michael Hill and his two children arrive in New Campton, a fictional town in California. He is there to serve as the new minister at the North Avenue Presbyterian Church. The secretary and music director for the church, Anne, is w…
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Horror comedy, comedy horror
left|thumb|thumbtime=33|The Cat and the Canary trailer Cyrus Norman was a millionaire who lived in the Louisiana bayous with his mistress Miss Lu. Norman died ten years previous, and now an American Indian man paddles the executor of Norma…
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Film Noir, drama film, film noir, mystery film
The story takes place in 1903. During a train trip, psychiatrist Dr. Huntington Bailey (George Brent) meets a friendly older lady (Olive Blakeney), when she turns to him for reassurance during a torrential downpour.
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Drama, Psychodrama, Romantic Drama, drama film, mystery film
Frank, a chef in Las Vegas, meets and falls in love with Lola, a mysterious young woman who is new to the city. When Lola receives a job as a fashion designer, Frank becomes jealous of her boss, Keith Winkleman, even though Keith makes it …
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Anti-War Film, Mysterie, Psychodrama, thriller
During the Second World War, young pilot RAF Flight Lieutenant Toby Jugg (Robert Pattinson) suffers a serious spinal injury during a bombing raid on the city of Dresden. This injury confines him to a wheelchair, facing a life as a paralyze…
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Crime, Sherlock Holmes television program, drama television program, giallo
In November 1903, young women are being killed in London, each with a silk stocking stuffed down her throat. Watson seeks help from the retired and disenchanted Holmes, who determines that the victims are well-born ladies, not prostitutes.…
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film noir
On Halloween night, Bud Fontaine Jr. and his friends break a window at a seemingly abandoned house. They run when an older man who steps outside the door and glares at them.
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Detective Film, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
An old wooden-walled warship, HMS "Battledore", has been purchased by a trust for the rehabilitation of young criminals. Shortly after joining the board of the trust, Miss Marple witnesses the sudden death of a fellow trustee, who has just…
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Mysterie
Gideon Bell, owner of the Favre Emeralds, receives a letter stating that the emeralds will be stolen at midnight by "the Bat", and that police will not be able to stop the robbery. The Bat, a figure dressed as a bat, murders Gideon and ste…
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Drama, Mysterie
An eccentric mountain man is on the run from the authorities, surviving the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes in a remote community. Regularly calling into radio talk shows — where he has acquired the nickname "Buster" — to rant…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, mystery film
The grisly murder of a high-end call girl, Elizabeth Loftus, is being investigated by tough detective Kennesaw and his less experienced partner Braxton. (Braxton has an illegal gambling debt of $20,000; upon being asked, Kennesaw agrees to…
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Destiny, Mysterie, drama film, musical film
thumb|Wim Wenders with the producer and actors after the 25th Anniversary screening of Lisbon Story at Lisbon Film Festival 2019 Lisbon Story is partially a sequel to Wenders' 1982 film, The State of Things. The fictitious film director in…
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Drama, Thriller, comedy film, drama film, erotic thriller
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, Ph.D., is an American academic living in London, where she holds a prestigious but low-paid job at a Middle East policy institute. Her superiors take credit for her work and she struggles to pay the rent on her dilapi…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, horror film, mystery film
Six friends, Christian, Elizabeth, Piper, Kate, Adam, and Benjamin, play a game which consists of “yes” and “no” questions that are to be answered anonymously. Once the cards are shuffled, the questions are read aloud and answered by anoth…
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Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film, mystery film
Once a year, David flies to Montana from Texas while on school break to see his father Cal, an avid outdoorsman. David lives with his mother and is most used to suburban city life. At fourteen, he is firmly attached to his smartphone.
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, drama film, horror film
Jamie Morgan is a lonely, troubled photographer with a large heart-shaped birthmark that covers nearly half of his face. He is still a virgin at 25 because a lifetime of alienation and bullying have left him unable to make friends or attra…
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Film Noir, drama film, film noir
It is their anniversary, and alcoholic pianist and composer Marty Blair wants to see his ex-wife Mavis Marlowe but she does not want to see him. Not even after she has received the giant ruby brooch he had sent her. She gives the word to t…
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Drama, drama film, mystery film
Blanche Fuller is a beautiful and spirited woman employed as a domestic servant after the death of her parents. After a succession of failed positions, she receives an invitation from her rich uncle Simon, whom she has never met due to a f…
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Mysterie
When a local boy goes missing, sanitation worker Donald Devlin (Andrew Scott) becomes concerned about the child and his grieving mother. Upon the discovery of the body of the boy in the town's creek, Donald does not believe that the boy dr…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film
After shooting up heroin, a woman commits suicide. Clips show the history of the Exeter School of the Feeble Minded. These document its abuses toward its patients, demise, and eventual abandonment.
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Drama, drama film, fantasy film, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
In the late 1930s, two American sisters, Laura and Kate Barlow, travel to France where they perform séances at cabarets with Laura hosting the session and Kate channeling the spirits. A public performance of theirs is seen by French film p…
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