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crime film, heist film
London police constables are being killed by a man calling himself "Mr. X". By chance, one of the murders occurs around the same time and place as a diamond robbery, leading Police Commissioner Sir Herbert Frensham to suspect the same man …
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LGBTQ-related film
Father Sweeney (Patrick Casey), a gay Catholic priest living with HIV, commits suicide. His death leads local investigative journalist David Foley (Jason Barry) to write a story that publicly identifies Sweeney as having HIV. At the local …
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Drama, drama film
Caroline Ruthyn is the teenage niece of her elderly uncle Silas, a sickly and at one time unbalanced rake who becomes her guardian on the death of her father. The fact that Silas is broke and greedy and young Caroline is the heir to her fa…
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Thriller, drama film, mystery film
Carol is thrilled when she unexpectedly wins the top prize in the French lottery, as she can now leave behind her unpleasant job. However, upon learning of her good fortune, her fiancé Ronald has no intention of quitting his job and living…
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Drama, Komödie, Mysterie, Romance Film, comedy film
Horror, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, mystery film, science fiction film
Ann Collins, a painter, and her husband David are expecting a baby. What confuses the couple is that David has had a vasectomy, and Ann is not supposed to be pregnant. Even though David suspects that Ann has been unfaithful to him, he stay…
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Crime, Drama, mystery film, thriller film
Xavier Lombard is a Parisian private detective based in London. His best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a telephone call from an old friend in the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is miss…
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Aiden Ashley's life is torn apart thirteen years ago, when an online stalker tracks down her home and murders her parents. The stalker fled the crime scene without revealing his face to Aiden. As a consequence, she shuns the Internet for t…
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mystery film
Gentleman detective Philo Vance begins an investigation when he receives an anonymous letter stating that society man Lynn Llewellyn will be in danger when he appears at the casino owned by his uncle, Kinkaid. Vance visits the Llewellyn es…
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Mysterie
A violinist has hallucinations that show her the collapse of space and time. The visions she experiences, and the things she hears, lead her to a portal through time and space to a parallel dimension.
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Mysterie, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Set in an eerie post-apocalyptic London, the film tells the story of seven people who are the only remaining survivors after an unspecified cataclysmic event has wiped out the Earth's entire population. As they struggle to understand what …
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Fantasy, Thriller, action film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1992, a group of backcountry skiers led by Jake Tanner ascends Glacier Peak, one of the most remote mountains in the Cascade Range, and disappears without a trace. Years later, Jake's son, Brian, is determined to find the truth behind h…
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Romance Film, drama film, romance film
Having suffered the death of her boyfriend, Claire McKay is brought by her mother to Ironbound Island in the hopes that time away from the city will allow her to recover emotionally. On the island where her mother was born, Claire meets an…
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crime film, mystery film
A group of guests are invited by telegram to a party at a New Orleans penthouse by an anonymous caller. Among them are professor Murray Reid, campus radical Henry Abbott and his love interest Jean Trent, mob boss Jason Osgood, attorney Syl…
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Mysterie, crime film, thriller
Olivia, a young, beautiful, brilliant, and effortlessly charming woman, works as a dedicated charity worker, responsible for establishing free clinics across the country for poor women. When she meets millionaire Danny Keegan, the pair soo…
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Crime, Komödie, mystery film
During the filming of a death scene of The Death Kiss, leading man Myles Brent is really shot and killed. Tonart Studios manager Joseph Steiner is assigned to handle the situation. The studio wants to pass it off as a simple accident, but …
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Film Noir, film noir, mystery film
A college student has a recurrent dream that leads him to suspect there is something sinister about his widowed mother's suitor.
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comedy film, neo-noir, teen film
Elliott (Jason Dohring), Calvin (Nick Kocher), Gary (Brian McElhaney) and Eden (Minka Kelly), find themselves chief suspects in a murder mystery at their ten-year high school reunion. The events surrounding the disappearance of their frien…
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Crime, drama film, film noir, propaganda film
Information comes to light of a Communist spy ring infiltrating the Lakeview Laboratory of Nuclear Physics, a southern California atomic research center. Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Dan O'Hara teams up with Scotland Yard detectiv…
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Crime, crime film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 1999, Berlin is struck by a mysterious wave of suicides. While some individuals take their own lives in isolation, others die in ways that cause multiple casualties, creating widespread panic on both sides of the Berlin Wall. Lieutenant…
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film
The film follows the investigation into the 1973 rape and murder of a young Manhattan school teacher. The film is a made-for-television sequel to the 1977 theatrical film Looking for Mr. Goodbar (although all parts are recast and renamed),…
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Horror, Mysterie
horror film, mystery film
The film presents three allegedly true stories of the supernatural. The first story, "The Heptagon," opens on a somber note at the funeral of college student Johnny Davis. His friends Dave, Frank and Randy are in attendance at the burial.
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Film Noir, drama film, mystery film
Young Frenchwoman Madeline Minot arrives in New York in 1848, seeking expatriate Charles Thevenet. She is initially rejected at the door by his mistress and housekeeper Lorna Bounty, but she persists, presenting Charles with a letter of in…
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