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crime film, thriller film
A disgraced former LAPD cop leads a home invasion in search of millions in stolen money. The crime goes wrong and homicide detectives seeking answers interrogate the only survivors, a thief and one of the victims.
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Mysterie, drama film, spy film
In 1960 Vienna, after Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, American adventurer Michael Reynolds (Richard Widmark) is hired by an international espionage ring to smuggle a noted scholar and resistance leader, Professor Jansc…
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Film Noir, drama film, film noir, mystery film
Ex-commercial artist John Hamilton (Alan Ladd) and wife Linda (Carolyn Jones) have left New York and moved to Stoneville, Connecticut, in the New England countryside. John spends his time sketching the town's children, to whom he is a clos…
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Drama, Erotic Thriller, Romance Film, Thriller
The wealthy Doherty family of three live on a remote Florida island, still untouched by developers. Soon after his father's presumed accidental drowning, Scott Doherty is surprised and resentful when his mother plans to wed Oliver Vance. S…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, mystery film
Cassandra, an expatriate American book translator (Judy Davis) living in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, who is hired by a mysterious woman, Frankie (Marcia Gay Harden), to locate her missing husband so he can sign some important papers. Noth…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Eugene "Mack" McCanick (David Morse) is a detective who, along with partner Floyd Intrator (Mike Vogel), hunts down a young criminal named Simon Weeks (Cory Monteith) who was just released from prison.
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mystery film
When Marie Morgan (Helen Parrish) was eight years old, she attended a banquet held by her dying grandfather, who disliked everyone in his family except her. That day he instructed her to return to his house upon her twenty-first birthday t…
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Film Noir, horror film, mystery film
Alex Gregor (Chaney) is a performing mentalist known as "Gregor the Great". One night on stage, placing his own fiancée into a hypnotic trance, he is ridiculed by a skeptical member of the audience (Hohl), who claims it is all done with mi…
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Crime, Detective Film, Thriller, adventure film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
Hamberger is a freelance private eye without a license and without a car, who hangs out at delis looking for potential work. He is approached by a businessman claiming to be Alex Burton who offers him $100,000 to kill his wife Sharon who k…
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drama film, mystery film, thriller film
It is a year after Keith Miller has been convicted for killing a young man, Eli Balkoff, in a car accident. Eli was the son of the owner of a pulp mill, the main industry in Castlegar, British Columbia, a town in the mountains where Keith …
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horror film, mystery film
In the opening scene, we see an orange tabby cat running to a beautiful woman in white, and they watch together as a church burns before them. We then move to the desert, where Reverend John Keyes (Roy Thinnes) and his wife Lorna (Lynn Lor…
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horror film
A major international financier, Sigsbee Manderson, is found shot dead in the grounds of his Hampshire country estate. The Record newspaper sends its leading investigative reporter, Phillip Trent, to cover the story. Trent manages to get p…
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cyberpunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
National boundaries have been broken, two giant super-states remain—a bleak, decaying Hemisphere, and the sprawling media state Megaville. Travel between the states is restricted. The "CKS" governs daily life in the Hemisphere.
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, Thriller, thriller
Millionaire adult magazine publisher Richard Trainor (Robert Culp) is celebrating the success of his new calendar, featuring twelve beautiful nude women. However, the party is ruined when Miss January is pushed off a high-rise hotel. Later…
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Mysterie, drama film
The Smedhursts, newly retired, buy Bellingham House, which has been vacant for over 40 years and is rumoured to be haunted by the previous owner, Elizabeth, who is widely believed to have been murdered by her guardians. Mrs Smedhurst emplo…
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comedy drama, comedy horror, mystery film, satanic film, silent film
Jim Kirkham, a wealthy young man devoted to exploration and the collecting of exotic curiosities, is taken to task by his uncle for his extravagance. Obsessed with mysterious artifacts and unorthodox scientific experiments, Jim has turned …
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LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, drama film
The Confessional is set in Quebec City in 1952, during the time Alfred Hitchcock was filming I Confess. The city is transitioning into the modern era due to the advent of television and its initial exposure to Hollywood. A character resemb…
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A successful mentalist, Arthur Sinclair (Hal Holbrook), preys upon wealthy socialites such as Helen Carrington (Eve McVeagh) for their money. The movie opens as Arthur is talking on the phone with his much younger wife Allison (Katharine R…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
thumb|200px|left|Susan Hayward in I Thank a Fool trailer Dr. Christine Allison is convicted of manslaughter for the mercy killing of her terminally ill, married lover. After serving two years in prison, she is unable to find work.
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, zombie film
Academic scientists Lil Stanhope and Sven Johnsson are researching the secrets of immortality. Their project involves turning their subjects into zombies and storing them in walk-in freezers. Their collaborator, Tom Girard, refuses further…
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Mysterie, horror film, thriller film
In a forest, mercenaries Reeves and Karlsson rejoin the rest of their squad – Gantz, Capper, Evans, commanding officer Smith, along with two hooded and bound captives. Reeves reports fleeing from a group of hostiles, as Karlsson sedates Ca…
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Drama, drama film, mystery film
Preston, a City of London banker, returns at 7pm to his suburban home in Kent one Tuesday evening to discover that he has been missing for 24 hours, yet he does not remember the lost day. He discovers that he was seen at the social club wh…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film, romance film
CIA assassin John Cunningham, a cold-blooded killer with nerves of steel and no conscience, kills a man on election day, votes in the local election and spends the rest of the afternoon with Ellen, a prostitute. The next day, Cunningham go…
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Horror, comedy horror, mystery film
The brainy Nancy is part of a financially destitute paranormal debunking team composed of her best friend Gwen, Gwen’s boyfriend Chad, Nancy’s ex-boyfriend Floyd and his dog Hamlet. After a particularly disastrous paranormal investigation …
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