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Komödie, Thriller, comedy film, comedy thriller, heist film, mystery film, spy film
Patricia Foster, an industrial designer for Femina Cosmetics, owned by Sir Jason Fox, is arrested for trying to sell a secret deodorant formula. She is fired from Femina and hired by Matthew Cutter, owner of rival company May Fortune. This…
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War Film, crime film, drama film, war film
In Europe, days after V-E Day, General Patton orders that hoarded Nazi gold be transported to the Reichsbank in Frankfurt. But before the shipment arrives in the city, the gold train is robbed and 59 U.S. Army military policemen are killed…
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Fantasy, Komödie, comedy drama, mystery film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
A man named Dave is fired from his job after his girlfriend frames him for embezzlement. Meanwhile, his friend and housemate Andrew, an agoraphobic travel agent, is falsely accused of attempted child molestation, and their house is to be d…
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Animation, Sci-Fi, animated film, drama fiction, drama film, dystopian film, mystery film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller, thriller film
In a future Europe the world is running out of oil. A gigantic underground network is created by joining all the undergrounds together beneath Europe. Roger (Vincent Gallo), from a suburb of Stockholm, avoids the underground because he fin…
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War Film, horror film, mystery film
In late 1944, the remnants of a platoon of Panzergrenadiers are caught in an ambush by American troops. As they retreat, Private Hugo Engels is killed and the platoon finds a bunker occupied by Privates Heinrich Mirus (John Carlisle) and M…
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Drama, drama film
Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria, Italy, where she runs a small pensione with the help of her manager, Quinty. Having fled a traumatic past, she has constructed an idealized life for herself thro…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
thumb|thumbtime=15|The Canary Murder Case (1929) Charles Spottswoode is happy when his son Jimmie breaks off his affair with conniving showgirl Margaret O'Dell – known as "The Canary" – and reconciles his engagement with her co-star and ne…
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Film Noir, Mysterie, drama film, film noir, horror film, independent film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|right|Lobby card for the film The night she is to meet her boyfriend Martin, Christine Faber hears the sound of her late husband Paul's voice calling out. She walks outside her beachfront home to investigate. There, she encounters a …
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film
Miss Madrigal, an attractive thirtyish woman, applies for the position of governess to the granddaughter of Mrs. St. Maugham.
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Mysterie, drama film, film noir, horror film, mystery film
thumb|The full film The story takes place in London in 1888. On the third night of the Jack the Ripper killings, Mr Slade, a research pathologist, arrives quite late at the home of Mr and Mrs Harley, looking to rent a room. Slade rents out…
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Slasher Horror, horror film
The only survivor of a weekend getaway is interrogated by a police detective, who believes she is responsible for the murders of six friends. The events of the weekend are told through flashbacks. College friends Kyle, Tyler, Ashley, Jenna…
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Film Noir, film noir, mystery film
In 1935, rising French diplomat David Talbot and his beautiful much younger bride Lucienne are celebrating their third month of marriage. They are interrupted by a note from the mysterious Carlos Le Duc demanding one million francs from Da…
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Christmas film, Film Noir, film noir, mystery film
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan (O'Keefe) arrives in a small Midwestern town west of Chicago to investigate a recent death. Leaving the train, he meets attractive young Anita Weatherby (Britton), who fumbles with an armload of Christmas…
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Komödie, Musical, Romance Film, comedy film, crime film, musical film, mystery film
A significant portion of the film is taken up with onstage performances, including comic bits and toned-down striptease acts. There is also a lot of backstage action not directly related to the evolving murder mystery but highlighting the …
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
Portly private detective Runyan is asked by dental nurse Jane Adams to investigate the unexplained murder of her boss. Suspicion falls on disappeared patient Clark, last seen being driven from his appointment by the chauffeur of probable g…
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Mysterie, mystery film
Crime scene photographer Johnny Scardino (aka Johnny Skidmarks) is working on the side for a group of blackmailers, photographing wealthy guys in seedy motels with prostitutes. One such assignment turns the wrong way and the blackmailers h…
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, thriller film
Following a gruesome discovery of a bag of severed hands in the sewer system, State Profiler Audrey Macleah is called in to help the Houston police department investigate. After examination, the hands appear to be the hands of young girls …
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Horror, Mysterie, Thriller, horror film
Prologue In the small Tennessee town of Oldfield, historian Julian White relates four horror stories to local journalist Beth Chandler, who has just attended the public execution of Julian's niece, Katherine, a serial killer. The stories t…
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Crime, Thriller, thriller film
Carl has travelled to London to clear up the details of his brother's death. He finds that there is another side to his brother's life. A group of all-night ravers accept him into their family, as the brother of their late friend.
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Film Noir, drama film, film noir, mystery film
After the end of World War II, a former POW, Canadian RCAF flyer Laurence Gerard, returns to France to discover who ordered the killing of his bride of only 20 days, she being a member of the French Resistance. His father-in-law Étienne Ro…
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Detective Film, Drama, Mysterie, mystery film
Hercule Poirot joins his assistant Arthur Hastings in Acapulco, Mexico, where Hastings is staying. They go to a party at which the other guests include the writer Janet Crisp, the American actor Charles Cartwright, a clergyman called Babbi…
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Komödie, Musical, beach party film, musical film
An ancient Chinese scroll is stolen from a museum in Los Angeles. The thief and teenager Don Pringle arrive on Catalina Island on the same boat. About half of the film involves swimsuit-clad adolescents dancing on yachts in various montage…
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Horror comedy, comedy film, comedy horror
Graham Krakowski is a middle class financial clerk who becomes paranoid that he is being stalked by a homeless man who camps across the street from his house. Ultimately he has the homeless man arrested for public urination. However, the h…
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film noir, mystery film, thriller film
In New York City, Jeffrey Andrews is a disheveled, alcoholic novelist, living in a cluttered apartment. He leaves his apartment intoxicated to confront his publisher Henry Small, to settle a pay dispute. At Small's office, Andrews barges p…
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