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Satire, comedy drama
Carl Vandermeer is a former Deadhead turned evangelical. He, his wife Gwen and his stepdaughter Angie attend a megachurch, the Church of the Third Millennium, run by the charismatic Pastor Dan Day, who is planning to expand his church into…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
Movie star Shelah Fayne is making a picture on location in Honolulu, Hawaii. She summons mystic adviser Tarneverro from Hollywood to help her decide whether to marry wealthy Alan Jaynes, a man she has known for only a week. Her friend Juli…
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Mysterie, thriller film
In Montreal, a woman named Elizabeth Lucy falls to her death from a tenement building. Police arrive on the scene and find a crucifix and a small metal pyx gripped in her hand. Widowed detective Sergeant Jim Henderson is assigned to the ca…
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Conspiracy Thriller, action film, mystery film
A young woman runs from her pursuers in the streets of Istanbul. She is captured and imprisoned, accused of various crimes, and questioned by Dr. Kavak.
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Mysterie, mystery film
Dr. Jesse Rainfeather Goldman (Lou Diamond Phillips) is an emergency room doctor living with his adoptive Jewish parents Douglas (Adam Roarke) and Leah Goldman (Melinda Dillon) in Beverly Hills, California. Going maverick with another phys…
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Crime
In London in 1901, during Ireland's struggle for independence, Charles Norgate, an Irish American, is recruited by Irish revolutionaries to rob the Bank of England. Iris Muldoon, widow of an Irish independence martyr, enlists Norgate for t…
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Crime, crime film, drama film, mystery film
thumb|thumbtime=4|A Study in Scarlet (1933) The film opens in London in the present day. The body of Mr. Murphy is found dead on a train, apparently by suicide, but in fact, murdered.
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Adventure, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
The English archaeologist Howard Carter and his financier, Lord Carnarvon discover the tomb of Tut-Ench-Amun after years of search. Unscrupulous art collector Sebastian is after the legendary sarcophagus from within the tomb. Rumors abound…
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Secret Agent, drama film, propaganda film
In post-World War II Europe, Mike Kells returns to Paris from a courier mission but is reassigned by the State Department to fly to Salzburg and meet his Navy friend Sam Carew, who will pass him a top-secret document on a train-station pla…
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Horror, Komödie, Mysterie, Thriller, horror film
A high school student named Brett Bumpers (Weston) receives a mysterious package one day. It contains a bull penis totem with a note explaining that it will grant him three wishes. His first wish is for Samantha (Alexandra Holden) to go to…
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Mysterie, thriller film
A man (Axel Wedekind) wakes up in a strange concrete vault after a night of drinking and realizes he is trapped. With the help of an unlikely companion (Rungano Nyoni) who is also trapped, they must find a way out before they starve to dea…
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Slasher Horror, horror film
Seeking refuge from a torrential storm, Jay, her brother, and three friends break into what they think is an abandoned recycling plant. (A fourth friend, Karen, decides not to enter the building and leaves.) They find two dead people, who …
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Daffy Comedy, crime film, romantic comedy
At 3:00 am, Melsa Manton takes her little dogs for a walk. Near a subway construction site, she sees Ronnie Belden run out of a house and drive away. The house is for sale by Sheila Lane, the wife of George Lane, a wealthy banker.
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Thriller, drama film, thriller film
The sequel to Motives picks up three years after the original. Emery Simms is a rarity—an innocent man in prison. On the outside, his ex-wife Connie is married to his best friend-turned-rival Brandon, and they're attempting to make a norma…
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Film Noir, film noir, mystery film
Set in Victorian London, the story concerns a music hall chorus girl, Belle Adair, aka Rose Lynton, who blackmails a gentleman, Michael Drego, after seeing him leave the house where another dancer, Daisy Arrow, was found murdered. Instead …
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Horror, Komödie, Mysterie, Raunchy comedy, Sexploitation Film, comedy horror
Five "scream queens" gather and exchange about their profession while having a hot bath...
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Horror, horror film, mystery film
In a small town bordering a swampy region, unexplained murders and rumors of mysterious happenings surround the swamp-based home of the reclusive but respected Kurt Ingston. Ingston uses a wheelchair and has invited to his home the three d…
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horror film, silent film
After a sensational bank robbery, the ringleader of the gang, Leonard O'Shea—nicknamed The Terror—is still at large. His old accomplices, Soapy Marks and Joe Connors, have completed prison sentences, but O’Shea remains missing with a fortu…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film
Ian Stone is an average man. He loves ice hockey but lives for his girlfriend, Jenny Walker. Late one night while driving home from a painful loss on the ice, Ian thinks he sees a dead body near the railroad tracks.
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Drama, Mysterie, mystery film, teen film, thriller film
A North Carolina sheriff investigates the near-fatal drug overdose of a working class college girl and discovers many sordid details of her life before and during her descent into drugs and debauchery.
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Horror, Mysterie, Slasher Horror, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror fiction, slasher film, thriller film
Vietnam vet, amateur bodybuilder, and talented porno-photographer Kirk Smith is a crazed killer who stalks the streets of Los Angeles, strangles young women in lurid fashion, and sexually abuses their dead bodies. The film opens with Smith…
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horror film
Musician Bruno is hired to compose soundtrack for an upcoming horror film, and rents the villa where the film is set for inspiration. Director Sandra is trying to capture the fear of the dark in the film, and is keeping the film's ending c…
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Crime, Mysterie, drama film
In 1888, Jack the Ripper is on his killing spree. Scotland Yard Inspector O'Neill (Byrne) welcomes a visit from his old friend, New York City detective Sam Lowry (Patterson), who agrees to assist with the investigation. Sam becomes attract…
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thriller film
The four mathematicians are gathered and meet with a top official of the United States Department of Defense. After some discussion, the group agrees that they must be wary with whom to trust and control their solution. The official offers…
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