Tag Archives: murder

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)

The Scarlet Claw

IMDB Rating: 7.90
1195 votes

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A village in Canada has an old legend about a phantom that years ago killed three villagers. Many residents are afraid that the monster has come back, because some of them have seen strange luminous shapes, and then some sheep were found with their throats slashed. Their worst fears seem to be confirmed when Lady Penrose is found killed in the same way. Meanwhile, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are in Quebec, attending a meeting of the Royal Canadian Occult Society, where they are involved in a sharp debate with Lord Penrose about his village's legend. Not long after Lord Penrose receives word of his wife's death, Holmes receives a letter that the dead woman had written before she died, begging for his help and protection. When Holmes goes to the village to investigate, he finds himself hunting a determined murderer who is also a master of disguise.
Actors
Dr. John H. WatsonNigel Bruce
Sherlock HolmesBasil Rathbone
Alistair RamsonGerald Hamer
Also posted in 1944, Crime, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The House of Fear

IMDB Rating: 7.60
1099 votes

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In a gloomy mansion in the west of Scotland the seven members of the Good Comrades Club are dining. One of them receives a curious death threat, an envelope containing seven orange pips. He dies the next night in a car crash. At his funeral another member receives an envelope with six pips, and ten days later his body is recovered from the sea. Sherlock Holmes is called in.
Actors
Sherlock HolmesBasil Rathbone
Dr. John H. WatsonNigel Bruce
Bruce AlastairAubrey Mather
Also posted in 1945, Crime, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery | Comments (0)

Hood of Horror

IMDB Rating: 4.20
641 votes

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A hip hop horror anthology of three tales of terror told by the Hound of Hell (Snoop Dogg) that revolve around the residents of an inner-city neighborhood whose actions determine where they will go in the afterlife.
Actors
HOH/DevonSnoop Dogg
RoscoeErnie Hudson
DerelictDanny Trejo
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, Drama, Horror | Comments (0)

Urban Justice

IMDB Rating: 6.20
552 votes

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Seagal plays a man with a dark and violent past, who seeks revenge for the murder of his son.
Actors
SimonSteven Seagal
Armand TuckerEddie Griffin
Alice ParkCarmen Serano
Also posted in 2007, Action, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

In Cold Blood

IMDB Rating: 8.20
6242 votes

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Truman Capote wrote the 'non-fiction novel' from which the film is drawn, using the novelist's craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on November 15, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep, bound and gagged, and then brutally murdered by two unknown assailants. After the latters' capture, sentencing and imprisonment prior to execution, Capote researched the case thoroughly, spent weeks talking with the prisoners, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, jurors, police, friends and neighbors, trying to unearth why such a senseless act was committed, and what society's response might have been.
Actors
Richard 'Dick' HickockScott Wilson
Perry SmithRobert Blake
Alvin DeweyJohn Forsythe
Also posted in 1967, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

The Cooler

IMDB Rating: 7.00
12555 votes

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The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas' aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse.
Actors
Bernie LootzWilliam H. Macy
Shelly KaplowAlec Baldwin
Natalie BelisarioMaria Bello
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Gone Baby Gone

IMDB Rating: 8.10
5674 votes

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Dorchester, one of the toughest neighborhoods in all of Boston, is no place for the weak or innocent. Its a territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets littered with broken families, hearts, dreams. When one of its own, a 4-year-old girl, goes missing, private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want the case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything — their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives — to find a little girl-lost.
Actors
Patrick KenzieCasey Affleck
Angie GennaroMichelle Monaghan
Capt. Jack DoyleMorgan Freeman
Also posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (1)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

IMDB Rating: 8.20
4935 votes

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Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.
Actors
Jesse JamesBrad Pitt
Zee JamesMary-Louise Parker
Mary JamesBrooklynn Proulx
Also posted in 2007, Biography, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Western | Comments (1)

Devour

IMDB Rating: 4.80
1091 votes

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In Cheever Lake, the twenty-one years old Jake Gray (Jensen Ackles) has bloody nightmares while awake. His friends Conrad Dean (Teach Grant) and Dakota (Dominique Swain) apply him in a weird game called "The Pathway". Jake begins to mix reality with daydreams, while his closest friends die. Jake blames the game, which might be connected to the devil, for the deaths of his friends and decides to investigate the mystery.
Actors
Jake GrayJensen Ackles
MarisolShannyn Sossamon
DakotaDominique Swain
Also posted in 2005, Horror | Comments (0)