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Mystery movies
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A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max (Joaquin Phoenix), Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife (Catherine Keener), family and simple life as a small-town private eye. |
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The thriller tells a tragic story that happens in the US Army. Warrant Officer Paul Brenner (John Travolta) is assigned to investigate the murder of Elisabeth Campbell (Leslie Stefanson), the daughter of the prominent Lieutenant General Campbell (James Cromwell). The young woman, who is an army captain in psychological operations, is found naked, tied to tent poles and strangled. Seven years ago, when Elisabeth was a cadet at West Point, she was brutally beaten and gang-raped by fellow trainees during a training exercise. Her father forced her to keep mum and thus the assailants escaped punishment. The incident itself and the General's deliberate cover-up changed the girl's attitude towards her dad and psychologically damaged her, causing her to become sexually promiscuous. The investigator and his assistant, Sara Sunhill (Madeleine Stowe), find compromising videotapes in a secret room in Elisabeth's house. The grief-stricken General, who is a Vice-Presidential candidate for the upcoming elections, finds himself in a political crisis and wants Brenner to close the investigation... |
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Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) is an ordinary 23-year-old hairdresser who likes a calm, carefree life, and the last thing she wants to think of is religion. After receiving a gift of the rosary beads that belonged to a now deceased priest in a small town in Brazil, her life swiftly and drastically changes. Frankie begins speaking with another person's voice and suffering from stigmata, the bleeding wounds Jesus Christ received from his crucifixion. The news reaching the Vatican, Cardinal Daniel Houseman (Jonathan Pryce) sends Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne), once a scientist and now an ordained Jesuit priest, to the U.S. to investigate the matter. |
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After a girl has a premonition of a horrific roller coaster accident, her and several of her friends get off the ride. Only when her vision comes true does horrible things start happening to those that got off. Now, everyone who got off is dying in various ways in the order they died in the vision. Now, her and her friend, armed with only the picture she took at the carnival, have to find out how her classmates are going to die and how to stop it. |
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In this world you have to pay for everything. Sometimes you have to pay for some things with your life. U.S. census worker Steve Kady (Jeremy Sisto) learnt this to his cost. Sent to the small town of Rockwell Falls, he started taking the census only to find a population anomaly. Steve noticed that the town's population had remained unchanged for the century. Whenever the census was taken, there were always 436 citizens. Extremely intrigued, Steve tried to find the causes of uncommon stability, without knowing how shocking and lethally dangerous the truth could be... |
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Jamie Ashen (Ryan Kwanten) whose wife Lisa (Laura Regan) has recently died under mysterious circumstances becomes the prime suspect. While Detective Jim Lipton (Donnie Wahlberg) starts a routine investigation, Jamie, who is quite certain of not having done away with his own wife, goes out on his own to unravel a web of mysteries surrounding the untimely decease of his beloved. He takes as a starting point an old ventriloquist dummy which Lisa received shortly before her death. The further search leads him to his hometown of Raven’s Fair where he meets his seriously ill father, Edward Ashen (Bob Gunton), and the vindictive ghost of Mary Shaw (Judith Roberts), a notorious ventriloquist killed by townspeople for her frauds. |
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When a happily married couple, Elizabeth (Ashley Judd) and Nicholas Parsons (Bruce Greenwood), decide to take a romantic sailing trip, they don’t think they may have any trouble. The end of the trip is, however, dismal. As the saying goes, misfortune never comes alone. Nick is drowned in the bosom of the sea, Libby is sent to prison on a murder rap, their 4-year-old son Matty (Benjamin Weir) is adopted by Libby’s friend, Angie (Annabeth Gish), who unexpectedly disappears with the kid. Libby seems to have had all the trials and troubles one must have. But this is not the case. While serving prison time, Libby discovers the awful truth that she was faked by her own hubby who is actually safe and sound and lives in clover. Knowing that she won’t be twice imprisoned for the same criminal offense she makes up her mind to take revenge on Nicholas. Therefore, when she is paroled six years later, Libby straightway escapes from a halfway house to find her missing son and her treacherous husband.
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The suspenseful drama revolves around Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams), an aging gay who works as a late-night radio show host. When his program is on the air, Gabriel receives a phone call from a 14-year-old listener, Pete (Rory Culkin), who tells him the sad story of his hard life. As a child, Pete suffered sexual abuse at the hands of his parents who are serving time in federal prison now. After his parents' arrest his life, however, didn't become easier. Pete was adopted by a kind-hearted blind woman, Donna D. Logand (Toni Collette), but shortly afterwards doctors found that he had a terminal case of AIDS. The story of the little martyr evokes strong emotions in Gabriel, and he develops a friendly phone relationship with the boy. Eventually, Gabriel begins to have paternal feelings for the poor boy. But he soon discovers the bitter truth... |
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This fantastic thriller bears strong resemblance to the "Cube" and "Pi" movies, and, at some points, lets us feel the paranoid atmosphere of Kafka's books. This ominous and ingenious film is one of the most outstanding indie projects, a "Sundance" and "Fant-Asia" festivals nominee. Simon (Jeremy Sisto), a young programmer, finds an unexpected package in his room, and, when the box is opened, he finds himself surrounded by strange events and obsessed by sudden wishes. Being a test subject in a dangerous experiment testing a new advertising scheme, Simon turns out to be plagued by mysteriously empty brown packages, a sense of paranoia and a craving to drink lots and lots of milk. |
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The thrilling drama follows Nancy Drew (Emma Roberts), a precocious teenaged girl with a penchant for solving various mysteries as she accompanies her dad Carson (Tate Donovan) to Los Angeles, California on an extended business trip. The ancient mansion they rent was formerly owned by Hollywood movie actress Dehlia Draycott (Laura Harring) who went missing under notably mysterious circumstances in the early 1980s. Though Nancy has promised her worried dad to give up her dangerous detective work, she can't resist the temptation to crack the unsolved case. But the deeper she digs into the case, the more obstacles she faces on the way towards the truth. |
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A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters. Featuring extended underwater sequences and a look into the affairs of treasure hunting. Based on a novel by Peter 'Jaws' Benchley. |
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A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help. |
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A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues. |
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What if one day you were told that everything you knew, everything you loved, everything you remembered never really happened? The film starts out several days after a plane crash with a grieving mother, played by Moore, trying to get over the death of her son. When she finally seems to be doing better, strange forces seem to be trying to cause the children to be forgotten, and therefore giving the mother no other choice but to find out why. |
| Scream 2
[1997,
USA]
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| Jemand ist mit seiner Liebe zu Fortsetzungen einen Schritt zu weit gegangen. (Somebody has taken his love for sequels one step too far.) (2 more taglines...) |
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Sidney Prescott relocates to Winsdor College, trying to forget what happen in Woodsborro, only to find that another psychotic killer wants her dead. They also make the Woodsborro events into a motion picture, "Stab", based on the Gale Weathers book. |
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Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor who almost cannot stand the death of his wife when something weird happens. Dead and dying patients start to speak to him in his wife's voice. He goes after the clues that the symbols left, which lead him to different mystical places. Is he just insane? Is she speaking to him from beyond the grave? Or is she still alive? Ending would be very surprising… |
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Danny (Stephen O'Reilly), Matt (Sean CW Johnson), Rex (Kris Lemche), Charlie (Jennifer Sky), and Emma (Laura Regan) are five twenty-something volunteers who yearn to get a truly gripping experience by partaking in a reality show watched by more than a million viewers. Their reasons for participating are great thrills, money, fame, and new friends. According to the rules, the contestants must spend six months together in an isolated weird house without leaving it before the end of the game. They will each receive $1 million award provided that none of them break the rule whatever betides. |
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Successful property developer Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleeson) lives with his trophy wife Jane (Kim Cattrall) and his adolescent son Connor (Brian Gleeson) in a huge mansion in Dublin, Ireland. On the surface Liam lives in a clover. However, it is in semblance rather than in fact. His marriage has become stale and flat; his business is just about to go under; his rebellious son takes an interest in communism, and his aging mother (Moira Deady) turns out to love his sister Oona (Sinéad Cusack) more than him. To make matters worse, Liam finds himself standing on the brink of a precipice when, stuck in a traffic hold-up, he encounters his begging doppelganger (Gleeson again) who proves to be cunning and opportunistic. His ruthless identical twin brother comes up with a nefarious idea to step into Liam's shoes, depriving him of his family, his house and his job. |
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Karen Davis is a woman residing in Japan with her boyfriend, who is studying there. Temporarily assigned to be caretaker for a woman with severe sleeping disorder, Karen goes to the patient's house. What she finds is something she would never expect. The house is plagued by the presence of murderous ghosts, the result of a curse. The curse is born from someone dying in a powerful rage. Now, Karen finds herself being tormented by that curse, as it eventually starts claiming it's victims. |
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A prominent criminal psychiatrist, Dr. Miranda Grey (Hale Berry), awakens to find herself a patient in her own asylum for the criminally insane. With no recollection of how and why she was locked there, the woman is shocked to learn that she murdered her husband, Dr. Douglas Grey (Charles S. Dutton), the hospital's administrator, in a fit of madness. Miranda begins reconstructing the fateful night bit by bit, and comes to remember that she had a horrific car accident after trying to avoid running into an enigmatic young woman in the middle of the road in the dead of night. The girl named Rachel Parsons (Kathleen Mackey) is in fact dead for several years. Struggling to regain her freedom and her memory, Miranda comes to realize that she is a victim to the vengeful ghost of the girl who insidiously uses her body and manipulates her. |
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