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Film Noir, drama film, film noir, mystery film
Keith Vincent is a Hollywood composer, working on a new song. As he nears completion of "Nocturne", a woman sits silently in the shadows and listens to him over his piano. The mood changes when he speaks the lyrics, "You're no longer the o…
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
Dr. Watson is working as resident physician at Musgrave Manor in Northumberland, a stately home which is also used as a hospital for a number of servicemen suffering from shell shock. When Sally Musgrave displays her feelings for one of th…
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Mysterie
Widower Eric Black has recurring nightmares following the recent death of his pregnant wife Rachel. Thinking he needs some space, Eric answers a newspaper ad for work as a shepherd on a remote island in the Scottish Highlands. En route to …
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crime film, romance film
Travis McGee and his close friend Meyer are fishing underneath a bridge in their coastal Florida home. To their shock a young woman is thrown off the bridge; she is bound and a foot is strapped to a dumbbell with an ankle adapter. Travis d…
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Film Noir, Parodie, Romantic Comedy, film noir, romantic comedy
The story is told in flashback from Death Row as Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) relates to a group of reporters the events that led to his murder conviction. In San Francisco, Ronnie works as a child photographer who dreams of being a private d…
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Thriller, mystery film, thriller film
Jillian Shanahan, a deaf woman, and an athletic trainer, is unaware that her client, Mickey O'Malley, has hidden a stolen rare coin in her pager. After Mickey gets arrested at Jillian's apartment by Lt. Brock, a corrupt police officer, he …
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, psychological horror fiction, psychological thriller
Gina McVey, a successful radiologist, is examining x-rays of a patient with Situs Inversus. On her father John's birthday, Gina, along with her boyfriend Stefan Moreau, her brother Daniel, and his girlfriend Kate Coleman, surprises John at…
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Mysterie, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
At the start of the movie, Rhodes loses her job as a gas station attendant in New Jersey, when she is distracted from helping fill gas by a violent encounter in a neighboring apartment. A woman in the encounter later attends a survivors me…
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Detective Film, mystery film
Master criminal Giles Conover (Miles Mander) steals the famous "Borgia Pearl" from the Royal Regent Museum under the very nose of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, but when Mander is caught the pearl is not found on him and he is released. L…
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documentary film, drama film, political thriller film
Broadcast in the year 2008, the film is presented in a TV documentary style format, combining talking head interviews, news coverage clips and video surveillance footage surrounding the assassination of U.S. president George W. Bush in Chi…
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Horror, Komödie, Mysterie, comedy film, comedy horror, slasher film, splatter film
In 1988, while filming a scene for the slasher movie Hot Blooded where Scarman slits a girl named Chloe in the throat, Scarman's actor Brad (Frank Roberts) accidentally stabs Chloe's actress Vanessa Turnbill (Molly Ringwald) non-fatally in…
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Thriller, mystery film
Tim Brett is a former drug addict who has written a book about his experiences, which has been published. He has been clean for about a year, and visits his aunt, a wealthy philanthropist, in an Italian coastal hotel. She expresses interes…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Fantasy, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, drama film, fantasy film
It's a week after the rapture and the millions of people who vanished into thin air are still missing. Chaos rules the world as panic and grief-stricken survivors continue to search for their lost loved-ones. Suicide rates are skyrocketing…
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crime film, mystery film
The film is set in London. Fu Manchu is thought to have died twenty years ago, wrongly believing that Sir John Petrie was responsible for the death of his family during the Boxer Rebellion. He swore revenge on Sir John and his family.
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crime film, drama film
The movie opens with Isabella Ford (Embeth Davidtz) travelling alone from Selmouth to Addisford on foot, and in an increasingly pathetic state. In a deserted cabin on the way, she gives birth to a stillborn baby. She buries it and continue…
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comedy drama, mystery film
Komödie, Mysterie, comedy drama, experimental film, mystery film
The film's frame story, and the narrative it returns to the most, concerns a submarine crew transporting a volatile substance that will explode if they ever resurface. As the crew struggle to survive with low oxygen levels, a woodsman (Roy…
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Mysterie, thriller film
Down-and-out New York detective Eddie Mallard finds himself involved in the weirdest case of his career when a wealthy man asks for his help in stopping his ex-wife from harassing him. Mallard finds that the case may be too much for him wh…
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Fantasy, Thriller, political thriller film
The young son of up-and-coming United States Senator Nick Rast is terminally ill with leukaemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe but the powerful inter…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film, mystery film
After a car accident that left her unable to have children, Shannon (Rachelle Lefevre) and her husband, Steven (Ryan Phillippe), decide to adopt a Haitian girl, Nina, orphaned after the 2010 earthquake, through the IRA (International Rescu…
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
Former Chicago policeman Jim Slade is paroled from prison, where he had served time for shooting his wife's lover in their bed. He goes to live with his married friends Quartz and Judy in a small town where he has been offered a job as a n…
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Horror, Mysterie, Thriller, horror film, zombie film
Denise (Anita Skinner), a television commercial producer, emerges unscathed as the sole survivor of a plane crash. However, she feels as if she is about to be "caught" by something. She flirts with Brian (Kurt Johnson), a doctor at the hos…
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, disaster film, science fiction film
NASA Professor Andrew Boran is a research scientist who discovers strange radio signals in outer space that appear to originate from Earth. The signals seem to predict natural disasters that are occurring around the globe. When he and his …
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mystery film
USCG pilot Lt Commander Pagnolini and his winchman Haig answer an SOS call at sea and arrive at a derelict schooner, the Requite. Haig lowers himself to the ship, where he finds three dead bodies along with one survivor, Eva, cowering in t…
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