A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way – including murder.
Year: 1956
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Arlene Dahl, Philip Carey, Herbert Marshall
Run time: 94 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Wicked as They Come
Reaper
Horror novelist Luke Sinclair retreats to a small town to finish writing his latest book. No sooner has he arrived…
Year: 2000
Director: John Bradshaw
Cast: Chris Sarandon, Catherine Mary Stewart, Vlasta Vrana
Run time: 96 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Rendezvous with Rama
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A View of Love
Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day…
Year: 2010
Director: Nicole Garcia
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Marie-Josée Croze, Toni Servillo
Run time: 95 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Who Killed Teddy Bear
A busboy at a disco has sexual problems related to events in his childhood. He becomes obsessed with a disc jockey at the club…
Year: 1965
Director: Joseph Cates
Cast: Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Jan Murray
Run time: 94 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Monday, September 29, 2014
Rooms for Tourists
Five city girls must spend the night in an isolated town within the province of Buenos Aires, where they will find out more than what the flesh and bone can stand: the most violent side of local hospitality.
Year: 2004
Director: Adrián García Bogliano
Cast: Jimena Krouco, Elena Siritto, Lucrecia Federico
Run time: 90 mins.
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Ghost Phone: Phone Calls from the Dead
Year: 2011
Director: Jeffrey F. Jackson
Cast: Nelson Franklin, Melissa Ordway, Anne Gee Byrd
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery
L'inchiesta
A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.
Year: 1986
Director: Damiano Damiani
Cast: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Phyllis Logan
Run time: 107 mins.
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama
South Bronx Heroes
A young man just released from prison and living with his sister crosses paths with two children, also brother and sister, who are on the run from their child pornographer foster parents.
Year: 1985
Director: William Szarka
Cast: Brendan Ward, Melissa Esposito, Mario Van Peebles
Run time: 85 mins.
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
La troisième partie du monde
Love draws a woman into unknown dimensions in this drama from France. Emma (Clemence Poesy) is a real…
Year: 2008
Director: Eric Forestier
Cast: Clémence Poésy, Gaspard Ulliel, Eric Ruf
Run time: 105 mins.
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
L'amore molesto
When her elderly mother dies – apparently happy but in curious circumstances – her daughter travels home to Naples for the funeral…
Year: 1995
Director: Mario Martone
Cast: Anna Bonaiuto, Angela Luce, Gianni Cajafa
Run time: 104 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A Blood Pledge
Four friends make an oath sworn in blood to commit suicide one night, but the next morning only one is found lying dead on the school grounds…
Year: 2009
Director: Jong-yong Lee
Cast: Eun-seo Son, Kyeong-ah Jang, Min-jeong Song
Run time: 88 mins.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Voci dal profondo
When a family man is poisoned to death, it’s covered up as a stomach hemorrhage and his spirit returns to aid his daughter in finding his killers.
Year: 1991
Director: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Duilio Del Prete, Karina Huff, Pascal Persiano
Run time: 91 mins.
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery
Aazaan
A Secret Agent must race against time to stop terrorists about to unleash an unknown strain of the Ebola Virus.
Year: 2011
Director: Prashant Chadha
Cast: Sachiin Joshi, Candice Boucher, Arya Babbar
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
To Have & to Hold
An Australian widower living in New Guinea starts a relationship with a woman very similar to his much-beloved wife, but their life together turns out to be far from the imagined romantic ideal.
Year: 1996
Director: John Hillcoat
Cast: Tchéky Karyo, Rachel Griffiths, Steve Jacobs
Run time: 99 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
The Vulture
A mad scientist turns himself into a half-man, half-bird monster to avenge the death of his ancestor.
Year: 1966
Director: Lawrence Huntington
Cast: Robert Hutton, Akim Tamiroff, Broderick Crawford
Run time: 91 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Black and White
Chris O’Brien, devote Catholic and rookie cop with LAPD, is assigned to partner with the hard-edged…
Year: 1999
Director: Yuri Zeltser
Cast: Gina Gershon, Rory Cochrane, Ron Silver
Run time: 97 mins.
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Murderer
A Hong Kong-set mystery centered on a detective who has been framed for a series of gruesome murders.
Year: 2009
Director: Chow Hin Yeung Roy
Cast: Aaron Kwok, Chun-Ning Chang, Siu-Fai Cheung
Run time: 120 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Year: 2019
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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Charlie Chan investigates the locked-room murder of a chess expert.
Year: 1944
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Sidney Toler, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland
Run time: 66 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A Reasonable Man
With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
Year: 1999
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Gavin Hood, Nigel Hawthorne, Janine Eser
Run time: 103 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
When a friend of Charlie’s is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
Year: 1936
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood
Run time: 70 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sport, Thriller
The Counting House
Four employees of Island Fisheries come to a sun-scorched, isolated island to negotiate fishing rights with the sullen…
Year: 2007
Director: Carlo Giudice, Paolo Marcellini
Cast: Byron Mann, Daniella Kuhn, Christo Jivkov
Run time: 90 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
West of Thunder
South Dakota 1899. A mysterious stranger visits a small town on the outskirts of the Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and brings with him a terrible resolve.
Year: 2012
Director: Jody Marriott Bar-Lev, Steve Russell
Cast: Dan Davies, Clifford Henry, Corbin Conroy
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Western
Nathalie
Nathalie (Marcella Petri) is the young, sheltered daughter of a wealthy businessman who discovers sex…
Year: 1981
Director: Ilias Mylonakos
Cast: Marcella Petrelli, Grazia De Giorgi, Pauline Teutscher
Run time: 93 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Murder Over New York
When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
Year: 1940
Director: Harry Lachman
Cast: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery
Run time: 65 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Friday, September 26, 2014
The Mystery of the Marie Celeste
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
Year: 1935
Director: Denison Clift
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Shirley Grey, Arthur Margetson
Run time: 80 mins.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Sleepwalker
Ulrik Hansson is 45 years old and lives a secure life in a Swedish residential district together with his wife Monika and their two children…
Year: 2000
Director: Johannes Pinter
Cast: Ralph Carlsson, Ewa Carlsson, Anders Palm
Run time: 95 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Horror, Thriller
The Gruesome Twosome
A demented, elderly woman has her mentally retarded son kill and scalp various young women to use their hair for her wig shop while a persistent coed tries to link various killings on a local Florida college campus to them.
Year: 1967
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Cast: Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells, Chris Martell
Run time: 72 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The Thrushes Are Still Singing
Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence…
Year: 1979
Director: Nikos Nikolaidis
Cast: Alkis Panagiotidis, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Rita Bensousan
Run time: 123 mins.
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jennifer
Agnes Langsley gets a job, through Jim Hollis, as caretaker of an old and vacated estate. The owner’s cousin…
Year: 1953
Director: Joel Newton
Cast: Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, Robert Nichols
Run time: 73 mins.
Genre: Mystery
Blood and Circumstance
A study in family dysfunction, this intense crime story revolves around a series of interviews with inmate…
Year: 2014
Director: Tim Gordon, Wes Sullivan
Cast: Hayden Oliver, David Aaron Baker, Liz Drury
Run time: 97 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dark Alibi
A public defender enlists Charlie to exonerate one of his clients, an ex-con falsely accused of bank robbery and murder, scheduled for execution in nine days.
Year: 1946
Director: Phil Karlson
Cast: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Ben Carter
Run time: 61 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Vacaciones de terror
An evil witch gets burned at the stake, but not before vowing to return and get her revenge. A hundred…
Year: 1989
Director: René Cardona III
Cast: Pedro Fernández, Julio Alemán, Gabriela Hassel
Run time: 90 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Fast and Loose
Rare booksellers Joel and Grada Sloane are engaged to find who is stealing rare books from a private library.
Year: 1939
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Reginald Owen
Run time: 80 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Drama
Finally, Sunday!
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that…
Year: 1983
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Run time: 110 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Lunar Park
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Evelyn Prentice
The neglected wife of a high profile attorney dallies with a unscrupulous womanizer and finds herself involved in blackmail and murder.
Year: 1934
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel
Run time: 79 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
The Nitwits
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
Year: 1935
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Fred Keating
Run time: 81 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Equilibrium
Felix is a murder mystery writer that has trouble separating reality from fantasy. Both he and Kate…
Year: 2012
Director: Erik Bateman
Cast: Richie Call, Chrislynn Call, Kent Hadfield
Run time: 77 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
My World Dies Screaming
A newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her recurring nightmare.
Year: 1958
Director: Harold Daniels
Cast: Gerald Mohr, Cathy O’Donnell, William Ching
Run time: 85 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery
The Hidden Hand
Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens)is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing (Cecil Cunningham)…
Year: 1942
Director: Benjamin Stoloff
Cast: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop
Run time: 63 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Me & Mr Jones on Natalee-Island
Five years after the disappearance of high school girl Natalee Holloway in Aruba, an ambitious journalist wants to break into alleged murderer Joran van der Sloot’s home to force a breakthrough in the case.
Year: 2011
Director: Paul Ruven
Cast: Robert de Hoog, Hanna Verboom
Run time: 88 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
AmnesiA
A photographer returns to his parental home because his mother is seriously ill. The confrontation with his past leads to panic in a surreal, stylised psychological drama.
Year: 2001
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Cast: Fedja van Huêt, Carice van Houten, Theo Maassen
Run time: 90 mins.
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Bedroom Eyes
A mans voyeurism lands him in the middle of a murder case.
Year: 1984
Director: William Fruet
Cast: Kip Gilman, Barbara Law, Jayne Catling
Run time: 90 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
The Devil's Daffodil
Year: 1961
Director: Ákos Ráthonyi
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, William Lucas, Sabine Sesselmann
Run time: 94 mins.
Genre: Crime, Mystery
The Groundstar Conspiracy
A break-in and sabotage attempt occurs at a top secret research institute and the culprit is cornered and captured…
Year: 1972
Director: Lamont Johnson
Cast: George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin, Christine Belford
Run time: 103 mins.
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The Sign of Death
Year: 1939
Director: Chano Urueta
Cast: Cantinflas, Manuel Medel, Carlos Orellana
Run time: 90 mins.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Foreign Correspondents
Two stories of complicated long-distance relationships between people from different countries.
Year: 1999
Director: Mark Tapio Kines
Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Wil Wheaton, Corin Nemec
Run time: 102 mins.
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Tsigoineruwaizen
Year: 1980
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Cast: Yoshio Harada, Naoko Ôtani, Toshiya Fujita
Run time: 144 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery
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