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horror film, mystery film, slasher film
An unknown assailant is killing the tenants of an exclusive, high-rise apartment building in New York City. The police suspect the doorman is involved and place an undercover police officer in the building to gather evidence on him.
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exploitation film
Badass, Geek, and Badass's friend, Junkie, pick up Goody Two-Shoes from his church youth group. Afterwards, they plan to purchase drugs for Badass and Junkie. They discover the dead body of a sex worker in the trunk of the car.
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horror film, mystery film
The setting is the 1890s. In the London wax museum of Claude Dupree, known for its collection of famous figures, someone is killing the guests. When Dupree is murdered, Margaret Collins, his niece, decides to continue the family business, …
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Horror, Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
At Weston Hills Sanitarium in rural Ohio, psychiatric patient Dickie Cavanaugh commits suicide by hanging himself. Cavanaugh's sister gives permission to two gravediggers to bury the body. While the two men are digging the hole for Cavanau…
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Thriller, neo-noir
Jack, a grad student who has a history of mental illness, can not get over the death of his father. Jack decides to take over his father's business. After receiving an anonymous tip that his father was murdered, he tries to put together th…
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Crime, crime film, drama film, satanic film
thumb|left|Says Ted: "After I've cleared up a couple murders, you and I could have lots of fun." Private detective Ted Shane returns to work with his former partner Ames, who is not particularly happy about the situation because his wife A…
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Psychological Thriller, film noir
David Stirrling returns from a business trip with gifts for his six-year-old daughter Susan, and for his wife, Susan's step-mother, Celia. He also has some World War II souvenirs, including a handgun. Celia is not there when David arrives,…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, mystery film
Kathy Atwell, an unfulfilled Phoenix, Arizona housewife, has been carrying on an affair with Steve Fulton, the assistant of her industrialist husband, Wendell. Unbeknownst to Kathy, her liaisons with Steve at her luxurious hillside home ar…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Wealthy socialite Lois Frazer, divorcing her fortune-hunter husband Howard, finds a gun that he had bought. She kills him with it in front of the new man in her life, Lt. Ed Cullen, a homicide detective with the San Francisco police.
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thriller film
The film darkly lampoons success, failure, and the show business.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275468/
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Detective Film, mystery film
About to leave London for a much-needed holiday, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson receive a cryptic invitation. Intrigued, Holmes accepts and is met by the prime minister of Rovenia [Rovinia], who begs him to escort Prince Nikolas home.
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Thriller, mystery film, thriller film, trial film
After the daughter of a prominent businessman is brutally murdered, high profile defense attorney Kitt Devereux takes the case of the accused murderer, rapper Bobby Medina. With a history of drugs and violence, Medina is a likely suspect, …
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comedy film
Television personality Dan Bartlett, having difficulties with his wife and TV co-star Sheila, retreats to his Arizona ranch. When the body of Mary Little Cloud is found in the back seat of his car, Dan is placed under arrest. Freed for lac…
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Werewolf, horror film, monster film
In the Louisiana Bayou town of Marsh Island, two farmers (Royal Dano and John Davis Chandler) discover the mauled, dead body of a local young woman. Sheriff Aaron Whitaker (David Janssen) is called. The victim's temperamental brother, Lawr…
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Film Noir, crime film, film noir, mystery film
A murder occurs, and a witness tells the police that she will never forget the killer’s face. Mob attorney Walter Colby (Scott) is called by crime boss Hap Richie (Douglas Kennedy) in the middle of the night to arrange bail for his hood Ca…
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thriller film
A mystery novelist discovers a plan to murder an American heiress while on vacation in Spain. He enlists the help of a taxi driver to travel across the Spanish countryside in order to thwart the crime.
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drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Dawn, a young medical student is charged with uncovering the murder of a mental patient's mother. The patient, Don, holds many secrets and disturbs Dawn with his insane ramblings. As Dawn continues to investigate the murder, she believes D…
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film
A prominent doctor from New England has been murdered, and his young nephew has been convicted of the crime. A seductive, possibly unstable woman named Angela Crispini persuades a private investigator, Tom O'Toole, to look into the case. S…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film
Gray Evans, a movie star, is losing his grip on reality, unable to adjust to his own celebrity, and addicted to romantic fantasies about idealistic love and his once simple life. With his celebrity marriage to the beautiful actress Mia alr…
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, horror film
After the wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Ashby die in a plane crash, their three children were left in the care of their Aunt Harriet.
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film
David Graham, a recovering alcoholic, returns to England having only one day in which to save his son Alec from hanging for the murder of Alec's girlfriend, Jenny Cole. Graham has been a neglectful, absentee father who missed the entire tr…
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Romantic Drama, drama film, mystery film, romance film
Alan Quinton, an American soldier in Italy during World War II, has been writing letters for his friend, Roger Morland, a man who admits he "never had any standards, manners or taste." Alan has never met Victoria Remington, but regards her…
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horror film
Half-sisters Aileen and Romina, along with first cousins Sandra and Ruth, reunite in Camiguin to bury their grandmother. Accompanied by Sandra's friend, Lucy, the girls dare to call on the spirits of the dead when they find their old Ouija…
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Mysterie, Secret Agent, spy film
In East Berlin during the Cold War of the mid-1960s a colonel in Stasi intelligence explains to a visiting Russian army general his plan to infiltrate the upper ranks of the CIA. He assures the general it cannot fail. Skeptical, the genera…
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