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Schizoid (1980)

Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film

Recently-divorced Los Angeles advice columnist Julie Caffret begins attending group therapy sessions led by the widowed Dr. Pieter Fales, a German psychologist. The sessions are held in Pieter's spacious house, which he shares with his tee…

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The Spider Woman (1944)

Detective Film, crime film, mystery film

Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes fakes his own death in Scotland in order to investigate a number of bizarre apparent suicides that he is convinced are part of an elaborate plot by "a female Moriarty". Returning to his assistant Dr. Wa…

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The Undead (1957)

Horror, horror film, mystery film

Quintus, a psychic researcher who has spent seven years in Tibet, wants to send someone back in time into a past life via hypnosis. He hires (for $500) a prostitute, Diana Love, and plans to send her into a trance over 48 hours so she can …

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Murder Ordained (1987)

drama film

In 1982, Tom Bird, an ambitious and charismatic Lutheran minister in America's mid-west, falls in love with one of his parishioners, Lorna Anderson, and together they make plans to start a fresh life in New Mexico. Within a short space of …

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Never a Dull Moment (1968)

comedy film, heist film, mystery film, neo-noir

Second-rate actor Jack Albany finds himself mistaken for fiendish killer Ace Williams and whisked off to master gangster Leo Smooth's fortified mansion. He is forced to continue with the charade, even when he finds he is to play a deadly r…

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Paroxismus (1969)

Horror, Mysterie, erotic film, erotic thriller

James Darren plays a jazz musician who becomes obsessed to the point of madness with the mysterious fur-clad Wanda, then finds her dead body washed up on the beach.

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Union City (1980)

crime film, drama film, mystery film, romance film

In 1953, Harlan is a repressed, uptight accountant living in an apartment block with his beautiful, neglected wife Lillian. He becomes obsessed with discovering who is drinking from the milk bottles left outside his apartment every morning…

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Octane (2003)

Horror, Road Movie, horror film, teen film

A man and woman posing as paramedics assist a man in an overturned car on a freeway. As an ambulance approaches, the woman panics, taping the man's mouth shut and pulling him from the car before speeding away. Meanwhile, single mother Seng…

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Don't Go to Sleep (1982)

Horror, ghost film, horror film

A family of four including parents, Phillip and Laura, son Kevin and daughter Mary move to a new home; they are accompanied by Grandma Bernice, for whom no one other than Laura cares very much. Mourning the recent loss of daughter Jennifer…

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Wrong (2012)

Komödie, Mysterie, comedy film

Dolph wakes up early in the morning in his suburban home to find that his dog is missing. Later on, in denial after losing his job, he recurrently returns to his place of employment and pretends to work while experiencing surrealistic chan…

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The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)

Horror, Mysterie, horror film, science fiction film

After murdering two orderlies, Robert Griffin escapes from the Cape Town mental institution where he was committed, intent on revenge on the Herrick family. One night, Sir Jasper Herrick and his wife Lady Irene engage in inspecting the new…

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Black Rainbow (1989)

Horror, Mysterie, mystery film

Martha Travis is a medium who hosts a touring clairvoyant show with her alcoholic father Walter, where she helps audience members make contact with deceased relatives. At one meeting, she foretells the violent death of a local factory empl…

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Triple Crossed (2013)

LGBTQ-related film, mystery film, romance film, thriller film

A man by the name of Chris Jensen (Jack Brockett) is out to kill a person he swore on his best friend's death bed to protect. Chris is torn between his allegiance to his fallen friend, Tyler Townsend (Addison Graham), who died in Afghanist…

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Jamie Marks Is Dead (2014)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, drama film, ghost film

Teenager Gracie Highsmith discovers the dead body of classmate Jamie Marks near a river in a small town in upstate New York. Jamie was an introverted social outcast who was not well-known by his classmates. Police begin investigating his d…

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Motorama (1991)

Dark Comedy, Road Movie, adventure film, comedy film, crime thriller film, drama film, fantasy film, mystery film, road movie, science fiction film

After a night of hearing his parents fight about the possibility of another mouth to feed and their lives so far, ten-year-old Gus decides to cash out his piggy bank and take off in a stolen Ford Mustang. He plans to collect all the MOTORA…

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Cottage to Let (1941)

Secret Agent, Thriller, propaganda film, spy film

John Barrington, a talented but eccentric inventor, is working at his Scottish country home on a new bombsight for the RAF. His scatter-brained wife takes in child evacuees from London to be accommodated in a nearby cottage they own. But s…

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Scream (1981)

Horror, Mysterie, Thriller, slasher film

A group of twelve people on a camping tour of the Rio Grande decide to spend the night in an old ghost town, and an unseen killer begins to dispatch them one by one. On the first night at the stroke of midnight, three of the group are kill…

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Lady on a Train (1945)

Crime Comedy, comedy film, film noir, mystery film

San Francisco debutante Nicki Collins goes to visit her aunt in New York City for Christmas. Her father's employee, Haskell, is to meet her and facilitate her stay. Before reaching Grand Central, Nicki's train makes a brief stop and, when …

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The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)

comedy film, crime film, detective film, film noir

A man calling himself Sam Marlowe has his face altered to resemble that of his idol, Humphrey Bogart, and then opens a detective agency. At first, he and his secretary Duchess have meager business, but things pick up after a shooting puts …

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Gunn (1967)

Mysterie, crime film, thriller film

When a gangster named Julio Scarlotti is murdered on his yacht, private eye Peter Gunn investigates because Scarlotti once saved the suave gumshoe's life. After Mother's nightclub is bombed, Gunn and his law enforcement buddy, Lieutenant C…

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