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Mysterie, association football film, crime film, mystery film
The film is a murder mystery set at the original Arsenal Stadium, Gillespie Road, Highbury, London, the then home of Arsenal Football Club, one of the dominant teams in English football. The backdrop is a friendly match between Arsenal and…
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Sherlock Holmes television program
The Baker Street Irregulars investigate as several of their members go missing, while also trying to prevent Sherlock Holmes – who is undergoing a personal crisis – being convicted of murder.
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LGBTQ-related film, drama film
Affinity is set in Victorian England; the story of an upper-class woman, Margaret (Anna Madeley), who becomes an official "Visitor" to a woman's prison; however, she becomes emotionally attached to one of the inmates, Selina (Zoe Tapper). …
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Horror, crime film, horror film
Big-game hunter and wealthy zoologist Eric Gorman is an insanely jealous husband who uses his animal knowledge to dispose of his impulsive wife's lovers. The film opens in an Indian jungle with Gorman using a needle and thread to sew a col…
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Thriller, action film
A stranger shoots a man named Brian Mars and buries him on the side of a road. Then he assumes his identity and moves to a small town in California to start a job as a deputy sheriff. His motives are unclear, but he has nightmares of being…
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Film Noir, fantasy film, film noir
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page stands over her dead husband Barney with a gun in her hand. She panics and arrives at a party, requesting two friends for help. There, William suggests she should see theatrical producer John Friday for …
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Crime, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
left|275px|thumb|Still with Lilyan Tashman and Ronald Colman thumb|thumbtime=20|Bulldog Drummond (1929) Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, a demobilised British captain bored with civilian life, places a personal advertisement in The Times offering …
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Detective Film, Komödie, crime film, mystery film
In the opening sequence, a former FBI agent named Carter Morstan receives an unwelcome visit by a man named Small. In the ensuing struggle, a gunshot rings out. Subsequently, a body is wrapped into a carpet and set alight.
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Crime, Mysterie
Action, Adventure, Thriller, Treasure Hunting, mystery film, treasure hunt film
The film centres on Michael Archer (C. Thomas Howell), a forensic anthropologist who inadvertently discovers a set of subtle clues within the works of Leonardo da Vinci, that, when interpreted correctly, will lead the finder to "enlightenm…
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Drama, Sci-Fi
U.S. Air Force Colonel Pete Moore is the commander of the Whitney Air Force Base 458th Radar Test Group, which has been experiencing electrical difficulties aboard its aircraft. To find the problem, he sends a four-man crew on Flight 412, …
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Drama, Horror, drama film
The British Carter family (Peter, Sally and 9-year-old daughter Jean) have just moved to a small Canadian town, following Peter's appointment as school principal. One night, Jean appears restless and disturbed, and confides to her parents …
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Crime Comedy, mystery film
The film is set in Manhattan, New York City. The plot concerns the efforts of a woman (Fawcett) and her lover (Bridges) to find the murderer of her husband before they are accused of it themselves. The story's climax takes place in the toy…
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Action, Thriller, action film
Jake "Tiger" Sharp (Michael Sopkiw) is a former policeman who seeks revenge after his wife is murdered. After killing the murderer, Sharp is sentenced to seven years in prison. Upon release Jake is given an SPAS-12 Shotgun by his old frien…
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Action, drama film, mystery film, war film
Two men run across a beach at dawn with their hands tied behind their backs. After several shots of a helicopter frantically searching the landscape, it becomes apparent that the two men are escapees of some kind. It is later revealed that…
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Crime, Romance Film, mystery film
Set in a present that feels more like the past, awkward Harry Dobbs is an inept private detective surrounded by mysterious and dangerous dames. Among them is his angry girlfriend, Doris, and the suspicious women he encounters on his latest…
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film
The story is a thriller that revolves around the Lebanon family who live at Mark’s Priory. Lady Lebanon tells her son, William, Lord Lebanon that he must marry his cousin Isla Crane to continue the family line. However, William has no inte…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, spy film
In 1939, Alex Schottland, a colonel in charge of supplies in the German Army, is a long-entrenched British agent planted toward the end of the First World War. He is growing weary of being a spy, but is urged to continue by his friend and …
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LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, horror film, mystery film
The film is set in an alienated mansion in Eastern Canada that houses Marguerite, 15, the main protagonist, her mother Katherine and her maternal grandmother, Julia. Marguerite suffers from what appears to be paranoia as is apparent when s…
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Crime, Thriller, neo-noir
Fritz Brown is a disgraced former LAPD officer now working as a private investigator, part-time repo man and struggling on-the-wagon ex-alcoholic. Fritz is hired by an obese caddy named Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, supposedly to keep tabs on Fa…
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Action, action film, thriller film
On his last assignment prior to resigning, burned out human rights activist James Rhodes arrives in Tijuana to help oversee local union elections, which are occurring in a chemical factory built by a US corporation, an election tainted wit…
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Thriller, drama film, mystery film, romance film
Isaac Knott is a successful radio talk show host on a New York City public radio outlet. He lost the use of his legs at the age of eight in an automobile accident that also claimed the lives of his parents. He uses a wheelchair.
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Mysterie, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
Prison escapee Moose Malloy is looking for his girlfriend Velma Valento, whom he has not seen for five years. Velma was a showgirl at Florian's, a now-defunct nightclub which has become Club 13. Nobody there has heard of Velma and after a …
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Adventure, children's film, comedy drama, mystery film
In Athens, Greece, a secret agent named Stelios goes to an outdoor café, where the waiter gives him newspapers and a package. The newspapers reveal that a German scientist has been declared missing in Greece, and the package contains a pho…
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