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horror film
The plot is similar to that of the original film with extra dialogue scenes. The film tells the story of the deranged Dr. Caligari and his faithful sleepwalking minion Cesare and their connection to a string of murders in a German mountain…
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giallo, horror film, independent film, mystery film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Angela, a prostitute, has just had sex with a man now cowering under the bedsheets and angrily harassing her over not being fully satisfied due to shame. As Angela gets her things, she knocks over a chest filled with bladed weapons, scarin…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film
Committed but seen-it-all police inspector Harry Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal will head home to Manchester to pick up the spoils from his last job. Martineau is soon investigating a murder durin…
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Film Noir, crime film, film noir
Whitney "Cam" Cameron arrives at a hospital and learns that Polly, the stepdaughter of his widowed sister-in-law Lynne, is suffering violent convulsions resulting from an unknown illness. She later appears to recover but then experiences a…
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Thriller, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
thumb|The Fields website The film takes place in a Pennsylvania town outside Easton, in 1973, and tells the story of a young boy (Joshua Ormond) and his family (Tara Reid, Faust Checho, Cloris Leachman, and Bev Appleton) as they are terror…
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Horror, horror film, mystery film
Montreal 1977 In 1977, in Montreal, writer Wilbur Gray visits his publisher Frank Richards to discuss his new book about cats. Wilbur believes that felines are supernatural creatures, and that they are the devil in disguise. Convinced that…
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mystery film, science fiction film
Tia and Tony follow their Uncle Bené as he leaves the Witch Mountain colony. As they catch up to him in the woods, Deranian and Foreman, henchmen of billionaire Aristotle Bolt, shoot tranquilizer darts toward the trio in an attempt to capt…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Echo, a freshman in high school, is attempting to come to terms with the loss of her older sister, Zoë, who was murdered a year ago. Echo's mother has been abusing antidepressants while her father works overtime. They regularly visit a fam…
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Ghost-Movie, Horror, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film
A Russian peasant family is eating dinner when a truck stops in the front yard. The father opens the door of the truck to find a dead woman and two crying infants in the seat next to her. Marie Jones, an American woman, is seen in a Russia…
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mystery film, thriller film
A married cartoonist named C. C. Drood becomes involved in the cover up of a political sex scandal after his lover, Yolanda Caldwell, a call girl, is found murdered.
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Action Comedy, spy film
A series of inexplicable accidents befall the development of the world's first supersonic airliner, the SST1 – a man falls victim to a homicidal air stewardess and two women perform separate acts of sabotage during tests. The Air Ministry …
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Crime, Horror, Mysterie, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
On May 14, 1989, six-year-old abductee Martin Bristol, whose face has been disfigured by his captor, watches as he butchers a young woman in the basement of a farmhouse. Ten years later, on September 20, 1999, Julian and his girlfriend Mar…
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Ghost-Movie, Mysterie, drama film, ghost film, horror film
After serving prison time for manslaughter, Bobby Reynolds is released on probation from Rikers, and moves to the old apartment in East Village, New York, where his lonely mother lived and died while he was incarcerated. He finds a job as …
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Crime, Mysterie, Thriller, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, thriller film
thumb|left|One of the tiled mosaics celebrating local boy Alfred Hitchcock in the subway at Leytonstone tube station. Along a coastline in rural England, police Detective Barton arrives at a house, Number 17, marked for sale or rent. The d…
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horror film
While driving through Nevada, the Henley family – Jim, his wife Patty, their daughter Kate, and son Matt, along with Matt's friend Ethan – discover the existence of Weaver, a ghost town, and decide to take a detour to it to take pictures. …
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LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, crime film, mystery film
In West Los Angeles, bank teller Betty Parrish has a one-night stand with a young tennis instructor, Mike Chuhutsky, with promises of a followup that never happens. Mike can't make enough with his racquet to afford living in the tony Brent…
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Horror comedy, drama film, mystery film
A mysterious criminal by the name of "The Bat" eludes police and then finally announces his retirement to the country. In the countryside near the town of Oakdale, news of a bank robbery in Oakdale has put Mrs. Van Gordner's maid, Lizzie, …
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
Ex-soldier Ryan Reeve wakes up in the back of a moving van next to a young tied-up boy, Alex, who is being held prisoner. Strangely, the boy seems to think Reeve is the kidnapper though he has no memory of ever having seen the boy before, …
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Crime, Thriller, film noir, horror film
Slade, a serial killer, is a lodger in a 19th-century family's London home. So is a singer, Kitty Langley, who definitely has caught Slade's eye. The man of the house, Robert Bonting, is recovering from a nervous breakdown caused by busine…
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comedy film
Detectives Ed "Coffin Ed" Johnson and "Grave Digger" Jones are confounded by a string of strange murders in the neighborhood of Harlem, New York. The murders themselves are not nearly as bizarre as the calling card left by the murderer: a …
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Musical, Mysterie
Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, psychological thriller, thriller film
John Felton, who lives in Orly County in an unnamed southern state (probably, Louisiana, which has parishes and not counties), has a wife named Joanie, and two kids named Sam and John Jr.. John is a mild-mannered real estate agent who has …
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Thriller, thriller film
Jack Bishop (Simon Baker) works as a loan officer in Del Rio, Texas, and is remarried to Amaya Bishop (Paz Vega), living with her and his daughter Toby Bishop (Chloë Grace Moretz) from his first marriage. Toby is kidnapped by an unknown pe…
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drama film, horror film, mystery film
In a world seemingly devoid of humans and inhabited by only a select few animals, an undefined presence manifests, embodied as the wind. It passes through the valley, lake, and woods, leaving only mysterious deaths in its wake. As the nigh…
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