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Mystery movies
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This sentimental and touching fantasy movie centers on 65-year-old William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins), a wealthy and powerful media mogul whose perfect existence is shattered by the arrival of Death who takes the form of a charming young man named Joe Black (Brad Pitt). Tired of his routine duties, Death proposes to conclude an extraordinary deal: Parrish will act as a guide to Joe to the world of living, and Joe will give him time to put his affairs in order. With the help of Parrish, the enigmatic and eccentric Joe starts a tour of human life. But the unexpected happens. The dead person's body which is occupied by Death turns out to have belonged to a man whom Parrish's beautiful daughter, Susan (Claire Forlani), has fallen in love with before the fatal accident. |
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An American cardio surgeon, Dr. Richard Walker (Harrison Ford), has come to Paris, the City of Lights, with his wife Sondra (Betty Buckley) for a medical conference. "I love Paris," he is singing while taking a shower. But when his wife unexpectedly disappears from their hotel room and doesn't return after several hours, Walker begins to fear the city. He embarks on a frantic, extremely dangerous quest for his adorable wife and finds himself plagued by misunderstandings, laissez-faire police officers and painstaking bureaucrats who offer him little help. The only person who may hold clues to finding the anxious Walker's wife is Michelle (Emmanuelle Seigner), a streetwise sexy gamine. |
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Backdraft is a dangerous phenomenon which can appear during a fire. Two brothers had lost their father, who was a firefighter and was killed by the backdraft. Stephen (Kurt Russell) and Brian (William Baldwin) are two firemen, their every day's work is complicated with the longtime conflict between them. It turns out to be that the last fires were initiated by an unknown incendiary, and the younger brother leaves the command to help the police to catch the maniac. |
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Story of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only surviving daughter of the Czar and Czarina of Russia. |
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An exploration of fame and identity, inspired by one of Hollywood's most infamous real-life mysteries. June 16, 1959. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV's Adventures of Superman, as the actor dies in his Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single gunshot wound, Reeves leaves behind a fiancée - aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon - and millions of fans who are shocked by his death. But it is his grieving mother, Helen Bessolo, who will not let the questionable circumstances surrounding his demise go unaddressed. Helen seeks justice, or at least answers. The Los Angeles Police Department closes the case, but Helen hires - for $50 a day - private detective Louis Simo. Simo soon ascertains that the torrid affair Reeves had with Toni Mannix, the wife of MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix, might hold the key to the truth. But truth and justice are not so easily found in Hollywood. Simo pursues dangerous and elusive leads in both high and low places and, in trying to turn up the heat, risks getting burned. The detective also uncovers unexpected connections to his own life as the case turns more personal and he learns more about Reeves himself. Behind the icon was a complex man who gave his life to Hollywood in more ways than one. |
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Thorny (Jay Chandrasekhar), Rabbit (Erik Stolhanske), Mac (Steve Lemme), Farva (Kevin Heffernan) and Foster (Paul Soter) are wild and lazy Vermont state troopers who enjoy playing pranks at stoned speeders to kill time. However, when serious budget cuts threaten their livelihood, the guys are determined to become admirably industrious and hyperactive. To impress their superior officers and save their jobs, the troopers make an attempt to solve a murder or uncover a drug smuggling ring. |
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Miss Marple is invited to London to see her old friend Ruth. Miss Marple was a sort of traveling companion to Ruth and her sister, Carrie Louise. Ruth is worried about Carrie Louise. She doesn't know why, though. Ruth asks Miss Marple to come with her to her sister's estate, Stonygates. Stonygates is a huge manor house, and some of the buildings and the grounds are used by Carrie Louises' current husband, Lewis, as a reformatory for juvenile criminals. Miss Marple meets the people who live there - Carrie Louise's grand-daughter Gina and her malcontent American husband Walter; Stephen and Alex Restarick, Carrie Louise's stepsons by her first marriage; Edgar Lawson, Lewis' mentally unstable secretary; and Carrie Louise's daughter, Mildred, who is jealous of Gina. Soon, Carrie Louise's stepson by her second marriage shows up. He is Christian Guldbrandsen, and he runs the trust which contributes a fraction of the funds used to run Stonygates. He and Lewis talk in private. Later that night, Edgar begins waving a gun around and ranting that Lewis is his father. Lewis takes him to his office where the argument becomes even more heated. After a few minutes, two shots are heard, and then hysterical crying. The door opens to reveal Lewis, unhurt. Edgar missed him. However, the body of Christian Guldbrandsen is discovered, shot. Miss Marple sets out to find the murderer before it is too late for her good friend Carrie Louise. |
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Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has an uncanny ability to foresee when and where the Grim Reaper's axe will fall next. When Alex and schoolmates take a flight to Paris for a French class trip, he has a deadly premonition of the plane bursting into flames. Scared and anxious about their safety, he begs the passengers to get off the plane. As a result, there are seven students to follow Alex. Before they have time to regret skipping the flight to Paris, the plane explodes shortly after takeoff. The survivors try to understand how he has been able to foretell the crash. Some people are attracted by his grant, others are terrified. Alex is soon haunted by dreadful omens, and when his friends start dying one by one, he comes to a conclusion that you can't cheat the Death. |
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Movie based on the television series finds Jim Phelps and his team charged with stopping a traitor from stealing and selling classified material. Everything was going well until the man they are following and all of the team are inexplicably killed except for Ethan Hunt. Ethan then calls the Director and goes to meet him when he discovers that the whole mission was to ferret a mole that they have been suspicious of for some time. The Director shows evidence that hints that Ethan's the one they have been looking for but Ethan knows that he is not, so he escapes. Ethan then arranges to meet the buyer and whom he warns against using the material he has and when they meet he offers to get what he paid for in exchange for telling whom the mole is. Ethan, along with Phelps' wife Claire recruits two disavowed agents to help him which won't be easy. |
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An outstanding symbologist Robert Langdon is brought in to decrypt the strange cipher found near the dead body: Louvre curator is killed inside the museum leaving numerous symbols and clues to be solved. Police cryptologist Sophie Neveu, a granddaughter of the curator murdered helps Langdon in his inquiries and he unveils some stunning secrets leading to an ancient society which keeps its mysteries for much more the one thousand years. The pair sets off on a dangerous quest through France, London and Scotland, collects clues in attempts to crack the code and reveal its shaking secrets.Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou starring in this famous screen version of Dan Brown's bestseller. |
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Dorothy Gale (Fairuza Balk) has returned to Kanzas from the magical Land of Oz and cannot stop thinking about her friends, the Scarecrow (Justin Case), the Cowardly Lion (John Alexander) and the Tin Woodman (Deep Roy). Aunt Em (Piper Laurie), anxious about Dorothy's insomnia, takes Dorothy to see the famous Dr. Worley (Nicol Williamson) who treats his patients with electroshock therapy. With the help of a mysterious blonde girl named Ozma (Emma Ridley), Dorothy manages to escape from the clinic and finds herself back in Oz with her adorable chicken Billina (voiced by Denise Bryer) who now can talk. Exciting new adventures await Dorothy in Oz... |
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There is a serial killer on the loose, Karen White is the only reporter he communicates with. After a near fatal encounter with him at a Pussycat Theater, she is ordered to take a vacation. Eddie was killed by Police, but Karen doesn't want to let it go and discovers that he came from a tiny community in the woods and that's where she decides to vacation with boyfriend Chris. Big mistake, because Eddie was an outcast of a pack of Werewolves who is trying to keep a low profile and doesn't want any interviews. Can Karen and Chris escape the village of the wolf? |
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Eugene Martone (Ralph Macchio), a young aspiring musician, becomes fascinated by the blues while studying at New York City's Julliard School. He dreams of someday winning fame as a blues guitar player and is determined to find the legendary bluesman Willie Brown to get an old missing song. He discovers him incarcerated in a Harlem hospital and agrees to help him to get out of the facility and return to Mississippi in exchange for the storied song.
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Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford), a renowned university research scientist, and his wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), a retired concert cellist, are a seemingly happily married couple. Their family life runs smoothly until Claire's daughter, Caitlin (Katharine Towne) goes off to college and the Spencers move into a lakeside house in Vermont that once belonged to Norman's father. Their new neighbors, Mary (Miranda Otto) and Warren Feur (James Remar), always make quarrels. One rainy night Claire sees Warren taking a carpet out of the house and putting it in the trunk of his car. When Mary abruptly disappears, Claire realizes that these two events are closely related to each other and begins seeing spectral images and hearing mysterious voices everywhere. At first she thinks it is her neighbor's wraith which is haunting her, but Mary then turns up alive. However, a mysterious woman's ghost keeps haunting Claire, and Norman suspects that his frightened wife experiences hallucinations as a consequence of an accident when Claire's car smashed into a tree a year ago. But the ghost (Amber Valletta) soon tells Claire a dreadful secret which is being carefully kept by her husband. |
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Based on the book The Club Dumas, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Dean Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its owner unimaginable power). The man hires Corso to track down the other two copies and compare them to his, but complications - both natural and supernatural - arise at every turn. |
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This movie is based on the real events that took place at the Sioux Indians' reservation. A young FBI agent is ordered to conduct investigation of the murders which shook the local Indian population. His veins contain Indian blood, so the mission becomes a point of honor for Val Kilmer's character, to some extent. From Washington, what happened seems apparent, but at the place the things seem inexplicable and even mystic. Here, at the reservation, the legendary agent Cuttell (Pullman) already works, and it gradually becomes apparent that the uranium field can be the important clue to the crimes. Unfortunately, the history knows many examples when fighters for the truth was killed and then declared guilty. |
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Mel Gibson is a New York taxi driver, who has a strange habit. He makes complicated scenarios of conspiracies and publishes them in a newsletter sent out to five recipients. He keeps doing that, until something unbelievable happens: One of his "conspiracy theories" turns out to be real, and so he finds himself chased by the man hiding behind the whole thing. |
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New York based freelance journalist John Kelso (John Cusack) arrives in the small town of Savannah to write a feature on an extravagant Christmas party held by local wealthy socialite James 'Jim' Williams (Kevin Spacey). Later that night, the host of the party acting in self-defence shoots dead his gay lover, Billy Carl Hanson (Jude Law), a troublesome young man. Clint Eastwood depicts the murder trial in great detail and states two different versions of the incident without giving any definite answer how the murder was committed. |
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BBC Adaption of Agatha Christie's novel. In the small village of St. Mary Mead, Colonel and Mrs. Bantry, owner of the local manor - Gossington Hall is shocked when one morning a young lady's body is found in the library. They call in the police who soon run up against a brick wall, only finding out that the body is that of a dancer in London who the Bantry's didn't even know. But how and why was her body left in the library? To find out the truth, the Bantry's call in the help of their good friend and detective - Miss Jane Marple. |
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Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), Chronicle reporter along with ace aviator Sky Captain are on the investigation as the many famous scientists around the world have mysteriously disappeared in 1930s. As they travel to a variety of exotic places around the globe and risking their lives, the fearless duo attempts to stop Dr. Totenkopf, the evil mastermind laying a plot to destroy the Earth. It begins when New York is under attack by robots and alien-looking space craft. Angelina Jolie co-stars as the charming Captain Franky Cook, commander of an all-female amphibious squadron, in this action-packed blockbuster abundant with plenty of innovative special effects. Giovanni Ribisi appears as Dex, an extraordinary technical genius, who have joined the duo in hopes of saving the planet before it's too late. |
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