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Crime, crime film, mystery film
New York private detective Duncan "Mac" Maclain is blind, but he has keenly developed his other senses. Skilled in self-defense, he pursues his work with the help of his faithful guide dog Friday and assistant Marty. Retired actress Norma …
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horror film, mystery film, thriller film
While dealing with her own mental issues, Roslyn takes the night shift at a recently closed hospital's psych ward. As she experiences possibly supernatural phenomena, she comes to suspect that her husband, Cole, is a serial killer active i…
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Cartoon, Drama, Fantasy
The Cat Piano is narrated by the main character, an anthropomorphic cat. It is clear that the narration is a poem, which the poet is typing on a typewriter. In the beginning, we are introduced to his city's love of music and musical prowes…
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drama film, mystery film
Film Noir, film noir, mystery film
In Northern California, while Virginia Wilson is taking an outside beach shower, an escaped madman from a sanitarium arrives. He stabs her dog, attacks her and is shot to death by her stepbrother, Charlie, with a rifle. After the attack, V…
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thriller film
The body of a murder victim is being exhumed from under a storage shed in 1950s small-town Wamego, Kansas. The story leading up to the murder is told. Handsome, sociopathic, David, the owner of a local garage, bullies his meek, sensitive p…
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Drama, Mysterie, film noir, mystery film
Hearing that her husband is dead, Sandra Marshall arrives at his prominent family's remote estate to claim her inheritance. She receives a cold reception, especially from her husband's uncle, research scientist Mark Caldwell, who had not k…
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Mysterie
Tora Hamilton (Radha Mitchell) is an obstetrician who moves together with her husband, Duncan (Rupert Graves), to the remote Shetland Islands, 100 miles off the northeast coast of Scotland. Deep within the soil around her new house, Tora f…
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Coming Of Age, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film
Sixteen year old Sequin is queer and comfortable with his sexuality and has a healthy relationship with his father. He prefers anonymous and unconditional sexual encounters over having a serious and meaningful relationship. Sequin meets hi…
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Horror, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, horror film
Years after watching his mother die, Alex, a young man struggling with migraines, is hospitalized following an encounter playing chess with an strange man in the park. There he discovers his intellect begins growing at a supernatural rate …
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comedy drama
Zoe Adler (Robin Tunney), is a shy, eccentric and misunderstood computer animator who lives and works in San Francisco, has a love for 1970s and 80s pop music and is infatuated with co-worker Andrew (Jason Priestley). While heading home af…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film
American criminal profiler and author James McGregor (Charlie Sheen), who is trying to escape his past by moving to Scotland, receives a fax of a stranger's obituary. The next day he is arrested and charged with the stranger's murder, forc…
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Drama, Mysterie, Thriller, erotic film, mystery film
Set in Los Angeles, the film takes place largely following the brutal homicide of an exotic dancer at the hands of an unknown killer. Suspecting a local psychiatrist, named Daniel Strahten, to be the murderer, the victim's friend, Heather,…
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Film Noir, film noir, mystery film
Industrialist Earl C. Conrad, who failed to rescue his wife at sea and now suffers from grief and guilt, arranges to have a hit man end his life. He does not know how he will be killed, but knows that it will happen within days.
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comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Out-of-work private detective Mike Shayne is hired by his friend, wealthy racing executive Hiram Brighton, to, while he is out of town, watch over his spirited daughter Phyllis, who gambles her money away and has begun dating underworld ch…
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Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, giallo, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
A serial killer known as the Card Player is kidnapping young women in Rome. Using a webcam set-up, the killer challenges the police by forcing them to play hands of Internet poker. If the police lose, the kidnapped victim is tortured and m…
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horror film, mystery film, science fiction film
John Channing is an escapee from an insane asylum. John's sister Lorinda hides him and has him dress up as a butler. She uses his lethal talents to dispose of her relatives, who all aspire to be heirs to her fortune, in order to allow her …
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Film Noir, film noir
Private investigator Michael Shayne and his singer fiancée Joanne La Marr hear a woman screaming from a room in their hotel. The hotel maid Emily has discovered two dead people - producer Louis Lathrop, owner of the hotel and the adjoining…
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crime film, mystery film
Charlie Chan tries to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel room. Settings include London, Nice, France, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong.
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
Police Lieutenant Sam Carson spots Walter Bard's bullet-ridden corpse in a car brazenly left in front of the police station. Carson questions Janet Bradley after finding her name in the dead man's appointment book. She admits that Bard had…
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, slasher film, thriller film
The movie begins with a woman hearing a phone ring at a subway train and goes to the public phone booth to answer it. She hears nothing at first until high pitched beeping sounds slowly climb up, which makes the woman shake vibrantly and m…
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Crime, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, thriller film
The story centers on a humiliated detective Ben Chaney (Josh Lucas) who gets a sudden shot at salvation when the ghost of a murdered cellist Corey Little (Lake Bell) solicits his help in finding her killer as he was on a stakeout of a seri…
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Mysterie
mystery film
A woman named Hayden is framed for the murder of her wealthy husband Frank. With all the evidence stacked against her, Detective Sloan arrests her and Hayden finds herself in the fight of her life as she tries to uncover the truth. Set aga…
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