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A Murder Is Announced

IMDB Rating: 7.20
226 votes

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A murder is announced in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette to take place on October 5th, 7 PM at Little Paddocks cottage. The people living there, retired secretary Miss Blacklock, her companion Miss Bunner, Miss Blacklock's two distant cousins, Patrick and Julia and Mrs.Haymes, a gardener, have no idea what the ad is about. Several villagers arrive at the house under the false pretenses of "just walking by" or "Was in the neighborhood". At exactly 7 PM, the lights go out, and a man enters the room, and shines a flashlight in everyone's face. Then shots are heard. As the lights come back on, they find the man who entered the room has been shot. Miss Marple must unmask the killer but soon more murders turn up.
Actors
Miss Jane MarpleJoan Hickson
Letitia BlacklockUrsula Howells
Dora BunnerRenée Asherson
Also posted in 1985, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (0)

The Moving Finger

IMDB Rating: 7.20
170 votes

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Squadron Leader Gerry Burton is sent to a tranquil country village to recover from the effects of a plane crash and be nursed back to health by his beautiful sister Joanna. As they are new to the community, they are shocked to receive an anonymous, sexually explicit poison pen letter. They later find that other village gentry have been victimized by the same crank writer, and the vicar's wife sends for her friend Miss Marple in hopes of exposing the perpetrator. When a solicitor's wife apparently takes poison after receiving a particularly vicious message, Miss Marple suspects that the letters are a smokescreen for something more ominous. When a house maid is found bludgeoned to death, she knows she is right.
Actors
Miss Jane MarpleJoan Hickson
Edward SymmingtonMichael Culver
Angela SymmingtonElizabeth Counsell
Also posted in 1985, Crime, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (0)

Oxygen

IMDB Rating: 6.10
1840 votes

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A masochistic cop (Maura Tierney), who hides her predilection from her cop husband (Terry Kinney), gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini (Adrien Brody), who has kidnapped a rich woman (Laila Robins) and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband (James Naughton). Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandoning the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case.
Actors
Det. Madeline FosterMaura Tierney
HarryAdrien Brody
Clark HannonJames Naughton
Also posted in 1999, Crime, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Scream 3

IMDB Rating: 5.30
25679 votes

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STAB 3: RETURN TO WOODSBORO is currently in production, and a killer is on the loose cutting corners cast wise. The murders draw a reporter, ex-cop, and young woman to the set of the movie inspired by their life. They soon find out that they are dealing with a trilogy, and in a trilogy...anything can happen.
Actors
Dwight 'Dewey' RileyDavid Arquette
Sidney PrescottNeve Campbell
Gale WeathersCourteney Cox
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (29)

Michael Clayton

IMDB Rating: 7.80
7005 votes

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Michael Clayton is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach. Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
Actors
Barry GrissomMichael O'Keefe
Arthur EdensTom Wilkinson
Marty BachSydney Pollack
Also posted in 2007, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The General’s Daughter

IMDB Rating: 6.00
17000 votes

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Military police detectives Paul Brenner and Sarah Sunhill investigate a horrifically bizarre rape and murder of a respected female Pysch-Ops officer who is also the daughter of a renowned retiring general. Yet the case becomes more complicated when the autopsy showed no evidence of sexual assault. Furthermore, that is but the beginning of the twists when they discover the victim's secret life, her past and a disturbing determination by senior staff to keep this investigation short and quiet.
Actors
Warr. Off. Paul Brenner/Sgt. Frank WhiteJohn Travolta
Warr. Off. Sara SunhillMadeleine Stowe
Lt. Gen. Joseph CampbellJames Cromwell
Also posted in 1999, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Pearl of Death

IMDB Rating: 7.50
1024 votes

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When a pearl with a sinister reputation for causing misfortune to its owners is stolen from a museum by a master criminal because of Sherlock Holmes' show-boating, he is naturally obliged to find it. Soon, he learns of a series of brutal murders that seemed to have been commited by a malevolent man mountain known only as the Creeper. Now, Holmes must deal with the seemingly overwhelming menace of this man and his boss in order to retrieve the pearl.
Actors
Sherlock HolmesBasil Rathbone
Dr. John H. WatsonNigel Bruce
Insp. LestradeDennis Hoey
Also posted in 1944, Crime, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery | Comments (0)

The Woman in Green

IMDB Rating: 6.80
1484 votes

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Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamoruos woman. The fiendish Dr Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is belived to be involved.
Actors
Dr. John H. WatsonNigel Bruce
Lydia MarloweHillary Brooke
Sherlock HolmesBasil Rathbone
Also posted in 1945, Adventure, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery | Comments (0)

The Spider Woman

IMDB Rating: 7.50
1102 votes

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Alarmed by a series of baffling suicides of prominent gamblers popularly dubbed "The Pajama Murders" by the newspapers, Holmes fakes his own death and assumes the identity of Rajni Singh, a retired Indian military man with a paralyzed arm. After losing a large sum in a casino and writing a bad check to cover his losses, he appears to try to take his own life. He is prevented by the mysterious and sophisticated Andrea Spedding with an offer of a loan with his life insurance policy as collateral. Shortly thereafter, there is an attempt on his life with a rare but deadly spider with the only other clue a child's footprint. A resurfaced Holmes consults arachniolgists in an effort to solve the mystery.
Actors
Sherlock HolmesBasil Rathbone
Dr. John H. WatsonNigel Bruce
Adrea SpeddingGale Sondergaard
Also posted in 1944, Crime, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Terror by Night

IMDB Rating: 7.00
1358 votes

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Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs' mother, Lady Margaret. Believing the diamond will be stolen on a train trip from London to Edinburgh, Holmes deftly switches diamonds with Lady Margaret while in her compartment. Soon after, Roland is murdered and the fake diamond is stolen. Red herrings abound as Holmes, aided by Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, discover the murderer's hiding place and deduce that long-time foe Moriarty's henchman Colonel Sebastian Moran is somehow involved in the crime.
Actors
Sherlock HolmesBasil Rathbone
Dr. John H. WatsonNigel Bruce
Major Duncan-BleekAlan Mowbray
Also posted in 1946, Adventure, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)
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