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Drama, drama film, mystery film
Henry Maurier rebounds from the death of wife Emily by marrying a much younger woman, Doris, upsetting another woman, Janet, who is in love with him. Suspicions grow that Henry might have hurried along his wife's death with poison, until e…
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Drama, drama film
A young man (Marc-André Grondin) in France shaves off all his body hair and turns himself in to the police. The man claims to be a 16-year-old boy from Louisiana named Nicholas Mark Randall, who had been missing for four years. His story i…
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Mysterie, crime film, mystery film
When Philo Vance's dog does not make it into the final of the Long Island Kennel Club's dog show, fellow competitor Archer Coe is disappointed, having hoped to savor a victory over Vance. The next morning, Coe is found dead, inside his loc…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, horror film, mystery film
In the summer of 1816, English poet Percy Shelley, his soon to be wife Mary Shelley (daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), and Mary's stepsister and companion Claire Clairmont take a holiday with Lord Byron and his physician…
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Drama, Horror, Thriller, drama film, thriller
16-year-old Gail Osborne is a typical high school student with a passion for photography. Six months ago, she and her parents moved from San Francisco to a smaller town due to her father Neil's claim the city was too dangerous following a …
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film
Set in the town of Wetherby in West Yorkshire, the film focuses on Jean Travers, a middle-aged spinster schoolteacher. One evening, she invites married friends for a dinner party, only to have some terrible repressions and past traumas dre…
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Horror, Mysterie
A hooded, axe-wielding killer lurks around a large rural villa which has been converted into an asylum. It begins when a woman named Ruth is committed to the clinic by her husband. She attempts to escape by assaulting an orderly as well as…
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Drama, Mysterie, Thriller, drama film
In the late 17th century, Colonel Jaffrey Pyncheon falsely accused a poor carpenter, Matthew Maule, of witchcraft. Maule was hanged. Pyncheon took his land and built the luxurious Pyncheon home on it.
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Investigative Documentary, documentary film
Mads Brügger teams up with Göran Björkdahl, who received from his father a metal plate believed to be a part from the Albertina, Hammarskjöld's Douglas DC-6B aircraft. They develop and investigate the theory that a Fouga CM.170 Magister op…
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Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, Thriller, crime film, science fiction, spy film
Groundstar space project technician John Welles attempts to steal miniaturized rocket fuel system plans from the project's computer facility. His attempt goes awry and he is badly disfigured in an explosion he set and barely escapes. He st…
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Christmas film, Drama, drama film, mystery film
Eight-year-old Flavia lives in a New York tenement during the Great Depression with mother Helen and father Joe, who's nearly broke and needs a job. Her aunt Susan lives with them, too. Flavia's thrilled because her aunt's sweetheart, Stev…
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action film, drama film, musical film, mystery film, thriller film
Snipes starts off with a young man from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania named Erik looking up to a local rapper named Prolifik. Erik works for the Hype Studio as part of its street promo team, putting up posters around the city of Hype's newest…
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Crime, Mysterie, mystery film
Miss Marple reunites with her friend Carrie Louise Serrocold at her country mansion. Christian Gulbranson, Marple's lawyer, persuades her to visit the estate of his stepmother, Carrie Louise. Her devoted husband Lewis has turned the manor …
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Crime, Thriller, film noir, mystery film, thriller film
One of the world’s richest men, Victor Danemore, dies suddenly of a heart attack at his palatial estate on the French Riviera. His secretary, Dave Bishop (Robert Mitchum), is repeatedly asked by a diverse cast of characters whether or not …
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Animalhorror, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, supernatural horror film, television film, thriller film
When a great white shark eats the potential catch of a sport fisherman, the man and his daughter violently retaliate by sadistically torturing and killing the shark. The shark's corpse then sinks to the bottom of an underwater cave. It is …
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film
Horror, Romance Film, mystery film
Sophia Monet is a young woman battling depression after losing both her parents in the last six months. She becomes increasingly isolated and convinces herself that she'll never see her parents again, dismissing any notion of an afterlife.…
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Horror, Mysterie, drama film, horror film, mystery film
Captain Briggs and Captain Morehead are best friends. Morehead is in love with Sarah, and he brings Briggs to New York to meet her. However, Briggs and Sarah fall in love with one another.
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drama film, mystery film, romance film
The movie (told from the point of view of the two main characters), opens with Otto hanging from a tree by a parachute after surviving a fateful plane crash. In voiceover he reflects on how he met Ana, his stepsister and secret lover. 17 y…
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Film Noir, drama film, film noir, mystery film
Shortly before Christmas in New York City, one-armed insurance investigator Jack Williams is looking at a college yearbook photo of John Hansen when someone slips into his apartment and shoots him to death. Hot-headed private investigator …
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Mysterie, thriller film
Six kidnapped strangers wake up in an endless cornfield. Not knowing who abducted them, they must survive in a hostile environment by solving puzzles using their respective abilities and with provided objects including matches, a compass, …
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film
Robert Forrester is going through a painful divorce from his wife Nickie. He begins spying on Jenny Thierolf, a girl living in the countryside, because to him she represents a state of harmony, a stark contrast to his own personal life. Je…
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Crime, film noir, thriller film, trial film
James Curtayne, once a successful New York district attorney, lost his career to alcoholism. After a long time away from the profession, he now practices civil law. When Johnny O'Hara, a boy from the old neighborhood, is accused of murder,…
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Crime, mystery film
David Somers, a former army officer who became a successful member of the British Secret Intelligence Service during World War II, is dismissed following the failure of a mission. The only work that he can find is cataloguing butterflies a…
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