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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: True story of a thrill-seeker's adventure in a remote Utah canyon becomes the challenge of a lifetime.
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Cast: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Treat Williams, Kate Burton. Directed by Danny Boyle.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Health ∙ Biography |
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Rated: G Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 148 min.
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Plot: Mankind finds a mysterious artifact buried on the moon and, with the aid of an intelligent computer, sets off on a quest to find its origin.
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Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Computer ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 86 min. B&W
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Plot: A man is wanted simultaneously by the police, for a murder of a young woman, and by the agents of an international espionage ring because the woman, a government agent, told him about their activities.
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Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: While moonlighting as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, a college professor receives a death threat telling him that he has only 88 minutes to live.
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Cast: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman. Directed by Jon Avnet.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Sentencing ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 175 min. B&W
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Plot: A vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's escape attempt from a Nazi prison/A professor assists a small town policeman when the skeletal remains of a pregnant prostitute turn up on a beach.
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Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxtor, Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett. Directed by Fred Zinnemann and John Sturges.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A young lawyer moves to a small town to pursue his career, only to find that beneath the seeming quiet of the village lies mystery and corruption.
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Cast: Colin Firth, Ammina Annabi, Donald Pleasance, Nicol Williamson, Michael Gough. Directed by Leslie Megahey.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Sister Agnes remembers neither the birth or the murder of her baby and court-appointed psychiatrist uses hypnotism to help discover the identity of the baby's father and murderer.
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Cast: Meg Tilly, Ann Bancroft, Jane Fonda. Directed by Norman Jewison.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Justice ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Best friends take a weekend trip hopeful to re-establish their bond, which leads to a confrontation that forever changes their lives.
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Cast: Mackenzi Davis, Caitlin FitzGerald, Lawrence Michael. Directed by Sophia Takal.
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Categories: Women ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by an enigmatic scientist.
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Cast: Greg Stuhr, Alijca Bachleda, Camilla Belle. Directed by Jenna Ricker.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 160 min. B&W
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Plot: A small-town lawyer defends a jealous young Army officer charged with murdering the man who raped his wife.
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Cast: James Stewart, Arthur O'Connell, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant, George C. Scott, Joseph Welch, Orson Bean. Directed by Otto Perminger.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Testimony |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A down on his luck detective travels from the tough streets of Brooklyn, to the hot jazz clubs of New Orleans, and finally to voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.
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Cast: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling. Directed by Alan Parker.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 138 min.
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Plot: A Harvard symbologist works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.
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Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgard, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Armin Mueller-Stahl. Directed by Ron Howard.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Religion ∙ International |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian operation to extract six American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran.
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Cast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan. Directed by Ben Affleck.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ History ∙ International |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: A father and son, both coroners, are pulled into a complex mystery while attempting to identify the body of a young woman, who was apparently harboring dark secrets.
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Cast: Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch, Ophelia Lovibond. Directed by Andre Ovredal.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Discovery ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 81 min.
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Plot: A town with a grim secret is confronted by a determined, one-handed stranger.
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Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Frnacis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Russell Collons, Walter Sande. Directed by John Sturges.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama ∙ Adminstrative |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a Army Ranger drill sergeant and company during a training exercise.
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Cast: John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Timothy Daly, Giovanni Ribisi. Directed by John McTiernan.
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Categories: War ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman is involved.
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Cast: Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, George Dzundza, Jean Tripplehorn. Directed by Paul Verhoeven.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: G Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 68 min. B&W
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Plot: An undercover Federal officer serving time in prison fakes his escape in order to infiltrate a heroin smuggling ring.
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Cast: Jack Holt, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff. Directed by John Francis Dillon.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: While a New Orleans detective is investigating gang-related killings, he becomes involved with the Assistant District Attorney, who is in town to investigate police corruption.
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Cast: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty, John Goodman, Lisa Jane Persky, Ebbe Roe Smith, Tom O'Brien, Charles Ludlam. Directed by Jim McBride.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Romance ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 114 min. B&W
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Plot: A private-eye is hired to keep an eye on General Sternwood's philandering daughter, Carmen, who has fallen in with bad company. Based on Raymond Chandler's classic novel.
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Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone. Directed by Howard Hawks.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Evidence ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: **
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: Set in 1940s Los Angeles, two police officers investigate the death of a hollywood starlet.
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Cast: Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner, Mike Starr, Fiona Shaw, Patrick Fischler, James Otis. Directed by Brian De Palma.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 164 min.
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Plot: A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner who's been missing for thirty years.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas. Directed by Dennis Villeneuve.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: Marty hires a man to kill his cheating wife and her boyfriend and opens a door into the criminal world that he'll never be able to shut.
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Cast: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, Samm-Art Williams, M. Emmet Walsh. Directed by Joel Coen.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: After taking a closer look at some negatives, London fashion photographer realizes that he inadvertently photographed a murder.
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Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings, Sarah Miles. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Evidence ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min. B&W
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Plot: An ex-bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife.
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Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva. Directed by George Marshall.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A young man discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town.
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Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern. Directed by David Lynch.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: An umemployed house-sitter spying on his neighbor accidentally witnesses her murder.
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Cast: Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, Melanie Griffith. Directed by Brian De Palma.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Privacy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: A quadriplegic homicide cop enlists the help of a young rookie to catch a deranged serial killer that abducts his victims in a yellow taxi and leaves a collection of peculiar scraps at the scene of each crime.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Ed O'Neil. Directed by Phillip Noyce.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Evidence |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Cast: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, Steve Guttenberg, James Mason. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ International ∙ Military |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A FBI upstart enters into a power game with his boss, an agent who is ultimately convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
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Cast: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert, Caroline Dhavernas. Directed by Bill Ray.
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Categories: National Security ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
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Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Noah Fleiss, Matt O'Leary. Directed by Rian Johnson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: Details the murder trial of Delbert Ward.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
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Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Benichou. Directed by Michael Haneke.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min. B&W
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Plot: A Chicago reporter re-opens the investigation into the ten year old murder of a cop.
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Cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker. Directed by Henry Hathaway.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A chronicle of the childhood of a post-World War I leader.
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Cast: Robert Pattinson, Stacy Martin, Liam Cunningham. Directed by Brady Corbet.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 131 min.
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Plot: A private eye is hired to investigate the extra-marital affair of a Los Angeles socialite, but ends up investigating a murder relating to a battle for the city's water rights.
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Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Hillerman, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, John Huston. Directed by Roman Polanski.
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Categories: Evidence ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Land Use |
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Rated: PG Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 119 min. B&W
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Plot: Powerful newspaper owner Charles Foster Kane was many things to many people, both in life and in death.
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Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova, Gus Schilling, Philip Van Zandt, Georgia Backus, Harry Shannon. Directed by Orson Wells.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Documentary ∙ Witness |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: 96 min.
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Plot: The murderously funny movie based on the world-famous boardgame.
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Cast: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren. Directed by Jonathan Lynn.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Evidence |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital.
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Cast: Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark. Directed by Michael Crichton.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Medical ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: The maverick creator of a television gameshow is drawn into a shadowy world of danger as a covert government operative.
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Cast: Sam Rockwell, Chuck Barris, Drew Barrymore, Michelle Sweeney, George Clooney. Directed by George Clooney.
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Categories: Government ∙ Entertainment ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
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Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Government ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama ∙ Evidence |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A lawyer successfully defends a man on trial for murder, only to determine that his client is guilty.
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Cast: Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper, Karen young, Joe Don Baker. Directed by Martin Campbell.
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Categories: Ethics ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Justice |
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Rated: R Stars: **** 1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world and falls in love with the captive's girlfriend.
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Cast: Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Rea, Adrian Dunbar, Joe Savino, Jaye Davidson. Directed by Neil Jordan.
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Categories: Romance ∙ War ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 84 min. B&W
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Plot: An accountant goes to San Francisco for a week to relax and ends up with more than just a hangover.
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Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Beverly Darland. Directed by Rudolph Maté.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Medical ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A man has 24 hours to figure out who poisoned him.
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Cast: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Daniel Stern. Directed by Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Medical |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 149 min.
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Plot: A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years.
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Cast: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow. Directed by Ron Howard.
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Categories: International ∙ Religion ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 76 min. B&W
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Plot: A young bride is set to begin her honeymoon aboard a luxury liner when she determines that her husband has disappeared and his name has mysteriously dropped from the passenger list.
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Cast: Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Casey Adams, Carl Betz. Directed by Joseph M. Newman.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Maritime |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: Mike Church, an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for wisecracks and tracing missing persons, doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim tormented by nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist leads Church to believe t
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Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Andy Garcia, Derek Jacobi, Wayne Knight, Hanna Schygulla, Campbell Scott, Emma Thompson, Jo Anderson, Christine Ebersole, Lois Hall, Richard Easton. Directed by Kenneth Branagh.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 180 min.
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Plot: Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married and with two young sons, are preparing for the lavish annual ball at Pemberley.
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Cast: Matthew Rhys, Anna Maxwell Martin, Matthew Goode, Jenna Coleman. Directed by Daniel Percival.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Television |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: An accountant is introduced to a mysterious club and in this new world, he quickly becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
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Cast: Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams. Directed by Marcel Langenegger.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Four friends get more than they bargained for on a canoe trip in the backwoods of Georgia.
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Cast: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. Directed by John Boorman.
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Categories: Land Use ∙ Poverty ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: An African-American private detective is hired to find a white woman who frequents the black Jazz clubs in 1948 L.A.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle. Directed by Carl Franklin.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min. B&W
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Plot: The wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him, but after the murder is committed, his body disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women.
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Cast: Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse. Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Women ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: When a wealthy heiress' husband begins to suspect he is losing her affection, he also begins to fear he will lose her wealth.
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Cast: Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Ray Milland, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Leo Britt, Patrick Allen, George Leigh. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: (2 disc set) 123 min.
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Plot: Three films follow a young couple from different perspectives, as they struggle to understand each other in the wake of tragedy.
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Cast: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Viola Davis, Katherine Waterston, Archie Panjabi, Bill Hader, Ryan Eggold, Ciarán Hinds, Nina Arianda, William Hurt . Directed by Ned Benson.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 132 min.
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Plot: When a woman is indicted for her elderly employer's murder, her daughter returns home from New York and uncovers difficult truths about their family's domestic strife.
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Cast: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn, Eric Bogosian. Directed by Taylor Hackford.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: An American couple living in Venice engage a psychic in the search for the ghost of their dead daughter.
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Cast: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa. Directed by Nicolas Roeg.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Religion ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 107 min. B&W
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Plot: A smooth-talking insurance salesman is lured into a scheme to murder his lover's husband.
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Cast: Fred MacMurray, Walter Neff, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, Fortunio Bonanova, John Philliber. Directed by Billy Wilder.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Romance ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive so she plots to find him and "kill" him again.
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Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Benjamin Weir, Jay Brazeau, Bruce Greenwood, John MacLaren III, Ed Evanko, Annabeth Gish. Directed by Bruce Beresford.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 79 min. Color/B&W
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Plot: Archival footage and a Hitchcock double are blended to create a political documentary/thriller.
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Cast: Alfred Hitchcock, Ron Burrage, Mark Perry, Delfine Bafort. Directed by Johan Grimonprez.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A mysterious woman murders a psychiatrist's patient with a razor stolen from his office and then sets her sites on the only witness to the crime.
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Cast: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen. Directed by Brian De Palma.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Evidence |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A big-city private detective travels to the deep south to help out an old girlfriend who is being blackmailed.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa, Linda Haynes, Melanie Griffith. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: VHS 120 min.
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Plot: Based on a true story, a nineteenth-century intellectual embarks on a life of crime designed to lead to his execution. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Jean Poiret, Marie-Armelle Deguy. Directed by Francis Girod.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Foreign ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
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Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny. Directed by Paul Verhoeven.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A young programmer participates in an experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking humanoid.
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Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Sonoya Mizuno, Oscar Isaac. Directed by Alex Garland.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.
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Cast: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Colm Feore, Jennifer Carpenter, Mary Beth Hurt. Directed by Scott Derrickson.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Religion ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 139 min.
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Plot: An office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression.
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Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Aday, Jared Leto. Directed by David Fincher.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Gender ∙ Insurance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: Story of the nanny who earned a posthumous reputation of the most accomplished street photographers.
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Cast: John Maloof. Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Biography |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: While working on a story on drug sales, an ace reporter is approached by a rich man who asks him to murder him to save him from a lingering cancer death.
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Cast: Chevy Chase, Joe Don Barker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard Libertini, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tim Matheson. Directed by Michael Ritchie.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A child mysteriously vanishes from an airplane at 40,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean.
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Cast: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Sean Bean. Directed by Robert Schwentke.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ National Security ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: Four adopted brothers seek to avenge their mother's death.
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Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin, Garrett Hedlund, Terrence Howard, Josh Charles, Sofia Vergara, Fionnula Flanagan, Chiwetel Ejiofor. Directed by John Singleton.
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Categories: Action ∙ Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: In a Paris hotel a doctor emerges from his shower to find his wife missing.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner, Djiby Soumare. Directed by Roman Polanski.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Organized Crime ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 104 min.
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Plot: Two tough New York City cops try to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider. Directed by William Friedkin.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 129 min.
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Plot: A millionaire control freak receives an enigmatic birthday gift of a life and death game.
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Cast: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn. Directed by David Fincher.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Mental Health ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min. B&W
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Plot: A young bride is psychologically tortured by her husband.
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Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Angela Landsbury. Directed by George Cuker.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Mental Health ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is raped and murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point.
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Cast: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Leslie Stefanson. Directed by Simon West.
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Categories: Military ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who threw his own funeral party.
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Cast: Bill Cobbs, Gerald McRaney, Lucas Black, Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek. Directed by Aaron Schneider.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A family weekend in their secluded estate in the woods gives way to a nightmare.
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Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford. Directed by Jordan Peele.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: After being killed during a botched mugging, a man's love for his partner enables him to remain on earth as a ghost and protect her from his murderer.
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Cast: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg. Directed by Jerry Zucker.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Romance ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A young married couple's lives are thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband's past brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret to light.
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Cast: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton. Directed by Joel Edgerton.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Mental Health ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: As computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name. Swedish or dubbed English dialogue; optional English subtitles.
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Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Annika Hallin, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson, Jacob Ericksson. Directed by Daniel Alfredson.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Foreign ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: G Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min. B&W
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Plot: During the campaign for reelection, a politician decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of a gangster and associating to a respectable political conformist.
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Cast: Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, William Bendix. Directed by Stuart Heisler.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Politics ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 149 min.
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Plot: When his wife's disappearance becoming the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
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Cast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry. Directed by David Fincher.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in the South of France. Someone, however, has tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
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Cast: Nutsa Kukhianidze, Ouassini Embarek, Marc Lavoine, Nick Nolte. Directed by Neil Jordan.
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Categories: Art ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 138 min.
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Plot: The lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England in 1932.
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Cast: Eileen Atkins, Alan Bates, Stephen Fry, Derek Jacobi, Kelly MacDonald, Helen Mirren, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe, Maggie Smith. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Estates ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: A professional assassin is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb where his ten-year high school reunion is taking place.
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Cast: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, Dan Ackroyd, Joan Cusack. Directed by George Armitage.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A wayward teen is hired by a high-placed lawyer in a murder-for-hire scheme.
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Cast: Bill Pullman, Devon Sawa, Gabrielle Anwar, Angela Featherstone, Joanne Whalley. Directed by Anthony Waller.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. In Danish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Jakob Cedergven, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi. Directed by Gustav Moeller.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.
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Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich. Directed by Ethan Cohen & Joel Coen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill. Directed by Jack Smight.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A jewel thief's nephew is sent along on a heist to ensure a longtime partner in crime stays honest about the division of the loot.
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Cast: Gene Hackman, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo. Directed by David Mamet.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A doctor plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.
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Cast: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Naunton Wayne, Phil Brown. Directed by Edward Dmytryk.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 85 min. B&W
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Plot: A lawman stands alone to protect a town against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals.
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Cast: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado. Directed by Fred Zinnemann.
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Categories: Western ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 7 hours, 11 min. B&W
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Plot: Classic thrillers include Suspicion, Strangers On a Train, I Confess, and The Wrong Man.
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Cast: Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Henry Fonda, Vera Miles. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Procedure ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: When a nasty storm hits a hotel, ten strangers are stranded within. As they get to know each other, they discover they are being killed off one by one.
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Cast: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina. Directed by James Mangold.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.
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Cast: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan, Jake Wood, Tom Fisher. Directed by Neil Burger.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Racial tension ensues when a rural southern sheriff and a black northern detective reluctantly join forces to solve the murder of a wealthy industrialist in Sparta, Mississippi.
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Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant. Directed by Norman Jewison.
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Categories: Racism ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
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Cast: Tommy Lees Jones, Charlize Theron, Francis Fisher, Susan Sarandon. Directed by Paul Haggis.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 148 min.
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Plot: A team of corporate spies invade the dreams of their clients' competition.
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Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cottillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine. Directed by Christopher Nolan.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Corporations ∙ Privacy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 132 min.
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Plot: A powerful district attorney and a strong-willed defense attorney go head to head in a courtroom struggle where everyone proves to be a victim, yet no one can be found guilty.
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Cast: James Woods, Mercedes Ruehl, Sade Thompson, Henry Thomes. Directed by Mick Jackson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 148 min.
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Plot: A 1970s drug-fueled Los Angeles detective investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.
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Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoon. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A brilliant detective with a tarnished past attempts to cover up a fatal error during his investigation of the murder of a beautiful young woman. (Subtitled in English.)
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Cast: Maria Mathiesen, Stellan Skarsgaerd, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Gisken Armand. Directed by Erik Skjoldbjaerg.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: Two homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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Cast: Al Pacino, Hilary Swank, Robin Williams. Directed by Christopher Nolan.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Mental Health ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: A U.S. Secret Service agent is assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears an assassination plot.
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Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener. Directed by Sydney Pollack.
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Categories: International ∙ Government ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: VHS 65 min. B&W
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Plot: An immigrant's son defends his adopted brother against a murder charge.
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Cast: Alan Baxter, Andrea Leeds. Directed by Phil Rosen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: After being betrayed by one of their own, a band of professional thieves plots to steal back their loot.
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Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Charlie Croker, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham, Seth Green. Directed by F. Gary Gray.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Partnership |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 154 min.
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Plot: A flight attendant becomes the key figure in a plot between the police and an arms dealer.
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Cast: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro, Michael Bowen, Chris Tucker. Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Organized Crime ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A publisher is accused of brutally murdering his wife. He soon finds himself in love with his defense lawyer, who hasn't handled a criminal case for many years.
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Cast: Glen Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia, Leigh Taylor-Young. Directed by Richard Marquand.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Ethics ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace an island community local authority set out to stop it.
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Cast: Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Categories: Animal ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Horror |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: Four men on their annual fishing trip discover the body of a girl in the river, and to their wives' dismay do not report it immediately to the police.
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Cast: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard. Directed by Ray Lawrence.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 122 min.
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Plot: After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life.
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Cast: Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ian McShane. Directed by Chad Stahelski.
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Categories: Action ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A prisoner facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl calls in a law professor to help prove his innocence.
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Cast: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ruby Dee, Ed Harris. Directed by Arne Glimcher.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide.
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Cast: Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ray Liotta, Tim Blake Nelson. Directed by Michael Cuesta.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 196 min. B&W/Color
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Plot: This set contains the 1946 and 1964 adaptations of Ernest Hemingway's short story of the same title.
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Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Ronald Reagan. Directed by Robert Siodmak and Don Siegel.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Insurance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: During World War I, an army private is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial uncovers the story of the accused's enlistment.
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Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay. Directed by Joseph Losey.
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Categories: War ∙ History ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A money-hungry student kills his girlfriend and makes it look like suicide when he discovers her pregnancy will cause her to lose her inheritance.
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Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward. Directed by Gerd Oswald.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Estates ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
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Cast: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart. Directed by Robert Aldrich.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: When his old friend, a laboratory engineer vanishes, a detective is hired by his friend's colleague to search for the missing man.
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Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Nathan George, Dorothy Tristan, Roy R. Scheider, Rita Gam. Directed by Alan J. Pakula.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 87 min. B&W
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Plot: Fascinated by a beautiful woman, a seaman joins a bizarre yachting cruise and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
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Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia. Directed by Orson Welles.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Maritime ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 96 min. B&W
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Plot: While traveling in continental Europe, a young woman realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
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Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Transportation ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A Sydney lawyer has more to worry about than higher-than-average rainfall when he is called upon to defend five Aboriginals in court.
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Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnet, David Gulipi. Directed by Peter Weir.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Advocacy |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min. B&W
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Plot: A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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Cast: Vincent Price, Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney. Directed by Otto Preminger.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Procedure ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A detective tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
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Cast: Elliot Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: A plastic surgeon gets suspicious when models he has operated on begin to die in mysterious ways.
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Cast: Albert Finney, James Corburn, Susan Dey, Leigh Taylor-Young. Directed by Michael Crichton.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Medical ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 141 min.
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Plot: A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett, who disappeared while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.
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Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattison, Sienna Miller. Directed by James Gray.
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Categories: Action ∙ Biography ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: A murdered young girl watches over her family and killer.
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Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon, Jake Abel. Directed by Fran Walsh.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 99 min. B&W
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Plot: A child murderer is chased through the city by both the police and the underworld. Subtitled in English.
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Cast: Peter Lorre, Gustav Grundgens. Directed by Fritz Lang.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Jurisprudence ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason. Directed by John Huston.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ National Security |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 100 min. B&W
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Plot: A detective takes a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre. Directed by John Huston.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A resolute vigilante becomes obsessed with finding the man who is responsible for his brother's death.
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Cast: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex Nichol, Aline MacMahon. Directed by Anthony Mann.
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Categories: Western ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Justice |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A family vacationing in Morocco accidentally stumble on to an assassination plot.
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Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Government ∙ Witness |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep. Directed by Jonathan Demme.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Military |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 131 min.
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Plot: A husband struggles to help his wife overcome her psychological problems.
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Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Mental Health ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A man with no short-term memory attempts to track down his wife's killer.
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Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano. Directed by Christopher Nolan.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Witness ∙ Evidence |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: An attorney comes across the biggest case of his career that could produce disastrous results for those involved.
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Cast: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack. Directed by Tony Gilroy.
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Categories: Corporations ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min. B&W
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Plot: A woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
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Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth, Eve Arden, Bruce Bennett. Directed by Michael Curtiz.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Children ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: A famous novelist is rescued from a crash by an obsessed fan.
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Cast: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Richard Farmsworth. Directed by Rob Reiner.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Mental Health ∙ Safety |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: A woman forms an uneasy alliance with her distant father to search for her kidnapped daughter.
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Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Jenna Boyd, Aaron Eckhart. Directed by Ron Howard.
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Categories: Family ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: Agent Hunt comes into conflict with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer who threatens his life and his fianceé in response .
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Cast: Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames. Directed by J J Abrams.
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Categories: Action ∙ Safety ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes, deals with early dementia, as he tries to remember his final case and a woman, the memory of whom still haunts him.
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Cast: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker. Directed by Bill Condon.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 100 min. B&W
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Plot: A producer-director is selected to serve on the jury for a murder trial. Believing the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime, he takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
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Cast: Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Donald Calthrop, Edward Chapman. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Jury ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min. B&W
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Plot: After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, a detective is drawn into a complex web of mystery and deceit.
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Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger. Directed by Edward Dmytryk.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 138 min.
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Plot: Childhood friends who drifted apart after a terrible tragedy reunite years later when brutal events reconnect them.
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Cast: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Conflict |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: In the 14th century, an intellectually nonconformist monk investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
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Cast: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
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Categories: Religion ∙ International ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: A treasure hunter looks to discover the truth behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by uncovering the 18 pages missing from assassin John Wilkes Booth's diary.
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Cast: Nicholas Cage, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Ed Harris, Helen Mirren. Directed by Jon Turteltaub.
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Categories: Action ∙ History ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 81 min.
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Plot: A radio show host's life is thrown into turmoil when he begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone.
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Cast: Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Joe Morton, Bobby Cannavale, Rory Culkin, Sandra Oh. Directed by Patrick Stettner.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Children ∙ Privacy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A private detective searching for a runaway girl stumbles upon an unsolved murder.
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Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Melanie Griffith. Directed by Arthur Penn.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Juvenile |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 116 min.
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Plot: A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale.
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Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon. Directed by Tom Ford.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Art ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 136 min.
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Plot: An advertising executive is mistaken for a spy and is pursued across the America while he looks for a way to survive.
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Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min. B&W
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Plot: A woman is enlisted by an American agent to spy on a a group of Nazis in post-war Rio de Janeiro.
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Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: National Security ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: An employee of a one-hour photo lab becomes obsessed with a young suburban family.
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Cast: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole. Directed by Mark Romanek.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Ethics ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: What seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he's being chased.
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Cast: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman. Directed by John Woo.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Corporations ∙ Copyright |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 141 min.
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Plot: A law student who hypothesizes about the assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in a brief finds herself caught up in the plot.
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Cast: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard. Directed by Alan J. Pakula.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Politics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there.
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Cast: Kristin Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz. Directed by Olivier Assayas.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Horror ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A studio executive is being blackmailed by a writer whose script he rejected.
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Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: Two small-time con men find themselves in trouble with both the Mafia and a corrupt police department.
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Cast: Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan, Burt Young. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Sports |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min. B&W
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Plot: A married woman and a drifter fall in love and plot to murder her husband.
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Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn. Directed by Tay Garnett.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: An up-and-coming lawyer in the county prosecutor's office becomes a suspect in the murder of a fellow prosecutor.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Bonnie Bedelia, Greta Scacchi, Raul Julia, Paul Winfield, John Spencer. Directed by Sidney Lumet.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (14 disc set) 23 hours, 34 min.
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Plot: In this acclaimed series, Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison investigates murder cases, while battling the boys' club of London's homicide squad.
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Cast: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, John Benfield, Colin Salmon, Peter Capaldi, Beatie Edney, John McArdle, Oleg Menshikov. Directed by Christopher Menaul, John Stickland, various.
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Categories: Television ∙ Gender ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A police detective discovers a killer's methods mirror the twisted writings of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Evans, Kevin R. McNally. Directed by James McTeigue.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Procedure ∙ Art |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Privacy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A CCTV operator sees a man on camera she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again.
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Cast: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, Nathalie Press, Andrew Armour. Directed by Andrea Arnold.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Employment ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: Two years after three friends vacation in Malaysia, the two who returned to America learn that the one who stayed behind to do research was arrested for drug trafficking. They must return to serve a three year prison sentences or he will be put to death.
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Cast: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad, Vera Farmiga, Nick Sandow, Jada Pinkett Smith, Ming Lee. Directed by Joseph Ruben.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Alan Dershowitz, a brilliant professor of law, is hired by a wealthy socialite to attempt to overturn his two convictions for the attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife.
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Cast: Glen Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver. Directed by Barbet Schroeder.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Evidence |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A woman assembles a team of professional killers from all over the world to retrieve a briefcase with mysterious contents. Complications arise as many people and organizations aspire to possess this briefcase.
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone. Directed by John Frankenheimer.
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Categories: Action ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: Two intellectual young men commit a murder just to see what it is like.
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Cast: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min. B&W
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Plot: An aircraft worker evades arrest after he is accused of sabotage.
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Cast: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Politics ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
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Cast: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Rory Cochrane, Winona Ryder, Sean Allen, Mitch Baker, Cliff Haby, Steven Chester Prince, Natasha Valdez. Directed by Richard Linklater.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: Explores how modern police interrogation tactics (including lies, threats and false evidence) place extraordinary pressures on suspects.
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Cast: . Directed by Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: Shakespeare's Macbeth is moved to an early 1970s hamburger joint.
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Cast: John Cariani, James LeGros, Maura Tierney, Christopher Walken, Kevin Corrigan, Andy Dick. Directed by Billy Morrissette.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Employment ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A New York detective investigates a serial killer who finds victims through the lonely hearts column in newspapers.
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Cast: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman. Directed by Harold Becker.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her.
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Cast: John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee. Directed by Aneesh Chaganty.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: Two homicide detectives desperately hunt for a serial killer who chooses seven victims, one by one, each representing egregious examples of transgressions of the Seven Deadly Sins.
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Cast: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt. Directed by David Fincher.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Evidence |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: U.S. military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
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Cast: Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam. Directed by John Frankenheimer.
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Categories: International ∙ Government ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min. B&W
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Plot: A man is pursued by detectives who suspect him of being an evil strangler wanted in connection with the deaths of several rich East coast widows.
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Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Hume Cronyn. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 85 min. B&W
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Plot: With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer
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Cast: Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mia Farrow, Jodie Foster, Fred Gwynne, Julie Kavner, Madonna, John Malkovich, Kenneth Mars, Kate Nelligan, Donald Pleasance, Lily Tomlin. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Justice |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash.
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Cast: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor. Directed by Danny Boyle.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A perfect family's dynamic is ruined by a kidnapper's brutally efficient plot.
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Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Maria Bello, Gerard Butler, Claudette Mink. Directed by Mike Barker.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: Two U.S. Marshals investigate a patient missing from a hospital for the criminally insane.
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Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Max von Sydow. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Health ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: From his hospital bed, an ailing pulp fiction author with a vivid imagination has hallucinations of gumshoes and hired guns.
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Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Robin Wright Penn, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Northam, Katie Holmes, Adrien Brody. Directed by Keith Gordon.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Comedy ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: A boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
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Cast: Bruce Willis, Joel Osment, Toni Collete. Directed by M. NIght Shyamalan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 138 min.
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Plot: A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
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Cast: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min. B&W
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Plot: An invalid woman overhears a telephone conversation about what she thinks is a plot to murder her.
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Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey. Directed by Anatole Litvak.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: An employee designs a lucrative secret process for his company, but is tempted to sell it when he isn't compensated for his efforts.
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Cast: Ben Gazzara, Felicity Huffman, Ricky Jay, Steve Martin. Directed by David Mamet.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min. B&W
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Plot: A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
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Cast: Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, Leo G. Carroll, Michael Chekhov. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.
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Cast: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mental Health ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: A CIA operative is on the brink of retirement when he finds out that his protege has been arrested in China for espionage.
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Cast: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane. Directed by Tony Scott.
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Categories: National Security ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Government |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 5 hours, 59 min.
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Plot: Was the death of Kathleen Peterson accidental or was she murdered by her husband, author Michael Peterson?
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 113 min.
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Plot: Kirk and his crew are implicated in the brutal assassination of a Klingon diplomat, bringing both worlds to the brink of full-scale war.
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Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan. Directed by Nicholas Meyer.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: A team of investigative reporters work alongside a police detective to try to solve the murder of a congressman's mistress.
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Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Bateman, Jeff Daniels, Helen Mirren . Directed by Kevin MacDonald.
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Categories: Politics ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: A judge and colonel reopen the 60-year-old case of a Nazi collaborator accused of murder.
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Cast: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, William Hutt, John Neville, Charlotte Rampling. Directed by Norman Jewison.
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Categories: War ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A family new to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
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Cast: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise. Directed by Bryan Forbes.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Gender |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A young girl comes to suspect her mysterious, charming Uncle has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
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Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Jacki Weaver. Directed by Chan-wook Park.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Women ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Blackmailed, a young candidate for the Senate investigates family secrets surrounding his father's political career.
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Cast: James Spader, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Jason Robards, Piper Laurie, Charlotte Lewis. Directed by Mark Frost.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 116 min. B&W
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Plot: A ruthless, domineering woman is married to an alcoholic D.A., her childhood companion who is the only living witness to her murder of her rich aunt seventeen years earlier.
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Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas,. Directed by Lewis Milestone.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants.
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Cast: Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Alex Fisher, Peter Clayton-Luce, . Directed by Bryan Bertino.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: A former rodeo star, with a small time life, unknowingly starts a rapport with a young man who is responsible for the violence that has suddenly gripped his small town.
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Cast: Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogene Poots. Directed by Jamie M. Dagg.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: An FBI profiler is called in to catch a serial killer who assumes the identities of the victims.
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Cast: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Martinez, Tcheky Karyo, Jean-Hughes Anglade, Gena Rowlands. Directed by D.J. Caruso.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out.
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Cybil Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 131 min.
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Plot: A two time murder suspect goes on the run, fighting to save his own life. In French with English subtitles or English track.
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Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Francois Cruzet, Marie Josee Croze, Andrea Dussollier, Giles, Lellouche. Directed by Guillaume Canet.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A thriller about a Copenhagen cop who moves to a small town after having a nervous breakdown. In Danish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Jakob Cedergren, Lene Maria Christensen, Kim Bodnia. Directed by Henrik Ruben Ginz.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A mad cap private-eye caper about a team of detectives who are following, and are being followed by, a group of beautiful women.
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Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, John Ritter, Colleen Camp, Patti Hansen, Dorothy Stratten, George Morfogen, Blaine Novak. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.
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Cast: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickenson, Edward Norris. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Politics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A master thief finds himself increasingly entangled with organized crime as he tries to make one last score before he retires.
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Cast: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky, Tom Signorelli, Dennis Farina. Directed by Michael Mann.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 91 min. B&W
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Plot: A former detective and his rich, playful wife solve a murder case for the fun of it.
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Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Ceasar Romaro, Nat Pendleton. Directed by W. W. Van Dyke.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Intellectual Property ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min. B&W
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Plot: An out of work pulp fiction novelist arrives in post war Vienna at the invitation of a childhood friend, only to discover that this friend has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident.
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Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles. Directed by Carol Reed.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ International ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A wealthy businessman masterminds the perfect crime, but meets his match in the insurance investigator sent in to solve the crime.
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Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston. Directed by Norman Jewison.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Insurance ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
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Cast: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson. Directed by Sydney Pollack.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Government ∙ Safety |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: An aspiring TV personality will do anything to be in the spotlight - including enlisting three teenagers to kill her husband.
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Cast: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix. Directed by Gus Van Sandt.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: A reporter tries to save a convicted murderer from being put to death.
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Cast: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods, Denis Leary, Bernard Hill, Diane Venora, Michael McKean. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A San Francisco police inspector is searching for a serial killer whose victims all have one thing in common: her.
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Cast: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia. Directed by Philip Kaufman.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Action |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A couple living in the New York city suburbs whose marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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Cast: Diane Lane, Erik Per Sullivan, Richard Gere, Oliver Martinez. Directed by Adrian Lyne.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: Dragged in by the police, five professional thieves team up and uncover the identity of a criminal mastermind.
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Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite, Suzy Amis. Directed by Bryan Singer.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Organized Crime ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the victims of the movies they're watching.
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Cast: Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry. Directed by Nimrod Antal.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 73 min. B&W
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Plot: A young traveler arrives in a remote castle and starts seeing weird, inexplicable sights. In German with English subtitles.
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Cast: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz. Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 135 min.
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Plot: A successful publisher's life takes a turn for the surreal after a car accident with a jealous lover leaves him disfigured.
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Cast: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee. Directed by Cameron Crowe.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Corporations ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: An attempted assassination on the President of the United States is told from several different perspectives.
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Cast: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Bruce McGill, Edgar Ramirez, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ayelet Zurer, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt. Directed by Pete Travis.
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Categories: Government ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ National Security |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: A San Francisco detective with a paralyzing fear of heights becomes entangled in a mystery surrounding a beautiful woman.
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Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 148 min. B&W
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Plot: In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent explosives shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. In French, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli, Peter van Eyck. Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.
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Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna. Directed by Terence Young.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
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Cast: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller. Directed by Lynne Ramsay.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: A police sergeant is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed.
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Cast: Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Christopher Lee. Directed by Robin Hardy.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Religion |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession.
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Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw. Directed by Robert Eggers.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 116 min. B&W
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Plot: This Agatha Christie mystery features a London barrister who returns from a long convalescence to defend a man accused of murdering a wealthy widow.
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Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lancaster, John Williams. Directed by Billy Wilder.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: The hunt to find the murderer of a wealthy glamorous heiress who is found dead in her London townhouse.
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Cast: Billy Howle, Kim Cattrall, Monica Dolan. Directed by Julian Jarrold.
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Categories: Television ∙ Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 157 min.
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Plot: A serial killer terrorizes San Francisco with a string of seemingly random murders during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards. Directed by David Fincher.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Media ∙ Law Enforcement |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
You can view a list of all law library movies in the
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