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Genre "Detective Film" Movies (showing 1 to 48 from 48 total)
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A Little Trip to Heaven (2005)
Genre:
Crime,
Comedy Drama,
Ensemble Film,
Detective Film.
Director:
Baltasar Kormákur.
Actors:
Forest Whitaker,
Julia Stiles,
Jeremy Renner,
Peter Coyote,
Philip Jackson,
Anne Reid,
Phyllida Law,
Alfred Harmsworth,
Joanna Scanlan,
Iddo Goldberg,
Vladas Bagdonas,
Matyelok Gibbs.
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Three stories of human treachery are given an unexpected link in this dry comedy drama from Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur. Holt (Forest Whitaker) is an insurance investigator who is sent to Minnesota to look into a bus accident; the bus seems to have had significantly more passengers after it crashed than it had when it left the station, and Holt, posing as a police detective, needs to kno ...
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Angel Heart (1987)
Genre:
Mystery,
Detective Film,
Post-Noir (Modern Noir).
Director:
Alan Parker.
Actors:
Mickey Rourke,
Robert De Niro,
Lisa Bonet,
Charlotte Rampling,
Stocker Fontelieu,
Brownie McGhee,
Michael Higgins,
Elizabeth Whitcraft,
Eliott Keener,
Charles Gordone,
Dann Florek,
Kathleen Wilhoite,
Judith Drake,
Gerald L. Orange,
Peggy Severe,
Sarita Allen,
Murray Bandel,
Loys T. Bergeron,
Nicole Burdette,
Yvonne Bywaters,
Hope Clarke,
Oakley Dalton,
Karen Davis,
Viola Dunbar,
George "Buck" Flower,
Joshua Frank,
Karmen Harris,
Valerie Jackson,
Roselyn Lionhart,
Kendell Lupe,
Percy Martin,
Rickie Monie,
Jarrett Narcisse,
Neil Newlon,
Courtney Peldon,
David Petitjean,
Mark Taylor,
Toots Sweet Band,
Pruitt Taylor Vince,
Rick Washburne,
Ernest Watson.
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The time is the 1950s: seedy Brooklyn private eye Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by shady Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to locate a pop singer who reneged on a debt. Harry ventures into Harlem, the first step of a Heart of Darkness-inspired odyssey. Each time Harry makes contact with someone who might know the singer's whereabouts, he or she is killed in a horrible, ritualistic fashion; a Sa ...
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Basic (2003)
Genre:
Thriller,
Psychological Thriller,
Detective Film.
Director:
John McTiernan.
Actors:
John Travolta,
Connie Nielsen,
Samuel L. Jackson,
Giovanni Ribisi,
Brian Van Holt,
Tim Daly,
Cristián de la Fuente,
Dash Mihok,
Taye Diggs,
Roselyn Sanchez,
Harry Connick, Jr.,
Chris Byrne,
Clayne Crawford,
Charles L. Fails,
Cliff Fleming,
Georgia Hausserman,
Dena Johnston,
Nick Loren,
Steven Maye,
Jonathan Rau,
Curtis Ricks,
Tait Ruppert,
Margaret Travolta,
Timothy S. Wester.
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The disappearance of a military leader and the death of four of his men leads two investigators to wade through a morass of deceptions and half-truths in search of the facts in this thriller. Sgt. Nathan West (Samuel L. Jackson) is the leader of an elite team of U.S. Army Special Forces operatives known as the Army Rangers; West is known as a highly effective officer, but one with a short temper a ...
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Stockholm policeman Martin Beck (Peter Haber), created by novelists Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, is seen in this thriller about the search for a pedophile who kills his young victims. The Sjowall-Wahloo character has previously been adapted to numerous films by directors Stuart Rosenberg (The Laughing Policeman, 1973), Bo Widerberg (The Man on the Roof, 1976), Gosta Ekman, and others. Beck is a Swe ...
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Blood Work (2002)
Genre:
Thriller,
Crime,
Crime Thriller,
Detective Film.
Director:
Clint Eastwood.
Actors:
Clint Eastwood,
Jeff Daniels,
Anjelica Huston,
Wanda De Jesus,
Tina Lifford,
Paul Rodriguez,
Dylan Walsh,
Mason Lucero,
Gerry Becker,
Rick Hoffman,
Alix Koromzay,
Igor Jijikine,
P. J. Byrne,
Amanda Carlin,
Chao-Li Chi,
Dina Eastwood,
James W. Gavin,
Robert Harvey,
Brent Hinkley,
Craig Hoskins,
Matt Huffman,
Sam Jaeger,
Beverly Leech,
June Kyoko Lu,
Glenn Morshower,
Derric Nugent,
Natalia Ongaro,
Maria Quiban,
Ted Rooney,
Mark Thomason.
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A retired detective must battle former colleagues and his own failing health in order to bring a murderer to justice in this action drama produced and directed by its star, Clint Eastwood. Terry McCaleb (Eastwood) was one of the best and most thorough detectives at the FBI's Southern California office, until a massive heart attack sidelined him from police work for good. Following a heart transpla ...
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Brick (2005)
Genre:
Mystery,
Post-Noir (Modern Noir),
Detective Film.
Director:
Rian Johnson.
Actors:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Nora Zehetner,
Lukas Haas,
Noah Fleiss,
Noah Segan,
Matt O'Leary,
Meagan Good,
Emilie de Ravin,
Lucas Babin,
Brian J. White,
Richard Roundtree.
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A tough-talking teen attempts to uncover his ex-girlfriend's killer in director Rian Johnson's hard-boiled high-school noir, told in the style of a Dashiell Hammett mystery. An outsider by nature, Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is forced to penetrate the elaborate ranks of the high-school social scene and its more insidious underbelly when the body of his former girlfriend Emily is found lying lif ...
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Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
Genre:
Horror,
Mystery,
Detective Film,
Supernatural Horror,
Horror Comedy.
Director:
Martin Campbell.
Actors:
Fred Ward,
David Warner,
Julianne Moore,
Clancy Brown,
Alexandra Powers,
Arnetia Walker,
Peter Allas,
Ritch Brinkley,
Jaime Cardriche,
John de Bello,
David Downing,
Colin Drake,
Charles Hallahan,
Scott Lincoln,
Michael Reid Mackay,
Robert Mickelson,
Raymond O'Connor,
Curt Sobel,
Lee Tergesen,
Ken Thorley,
George Wilbur.
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This clever and well-crafted production (produced for Home Box Office) goes the distance with its innovative concept, which is equal parts Raymond Chandler and H.P. Lovecraft. Taking place in 1948 Hollywood — in an alternate reality where magic spells, curses and demons are commonly used and accepted — the story revolves around hard-boiled gumshoe Harry P. Lovecraft (Fred Ward, ...
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Chain of Fools (2000)
Genre:
Comedy,
Romantic Comedy,
Crime Comedy,
Detective Film.
Director:
Traktor.
Actors:
Steve Zahn,
Salma Hayek,
Jeff Goldblum,
Lara Flynn Boyle,
Tom Wilkinson,
David Cross,
Elijah Wood,
David Hyde Pierce,
Orlando Jones,
Kevin Corrigan,
Michael Rapaport,
Devon Drewitz,
Claudia Schiffer.
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In this independent comedy, a man finds stolen treasure cannot change his bad luck. A luckless barber (Steve Zahn), despondent over his life's downhill slide, is considering suicide when he comes across a stash of rare and valuable coins. But the coins turn out to be stolen, and before long, an increasing number of strange people are after him, the coins, and each other, including hired thief Avne ...
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Chinatown (1974)
Genre:
Mystery,
Post-Noir (Modern Noir),
Detective Film.
Director:
Roman Polanski.
Actors:
Jack Nicholson,
Faye Dunaway,
John Huston,
Perry Lopez,
John Hillerman,
Diane Ladd,
Darrell Zwerling,
Denny Arnold,
Dick Bakalyan,
Jim Burk,
Fritzi Burr,
Lee de Broux,
Cecil Elliott,
Doc Erickson,
Jerry Fujikawa,
Bruce Glover,
Bob Golden,
Elizabeth Harding,
Nandu Hinds,
John Holland,
James Hong,
Rance Howard,
Paul Jenkins,
Roy Jenson,
George Justin,
Charles Knapp,
Joe Mantell,
Claudio Martinez,
Elliott Montgomery,
James O'Reare,
Belinda Palmer,
Roman Polanski,
Beulah Quo,
Frederico Roberto,
Roy Roberts,
John Rogers,
Jesse Vint,
Allan Warnick,
Noble Willingham,
Burt Young.
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"You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth cop-turned-private eye J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) starts nosing around Cross's water diversion scheme. That proves to be the ominous lesson of Chinatown, Roman Polanski's critically lauded 1974 revision of 1940s film noir detective movie ...
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City Heat (1984)
Genre:
Mystery,
Drama,
Action,
Detective Film,
Police Comedy,
Gangster Film,
Buddy Film.
Director:
Richard Benjamin.
Actors:
Clint Eastwood,
Burt Reynolds,
Jane Alexander,
Madeline Kahn,
Rip Torn,
Irene Cara,
Richard Roundtree,
Tony Lo Bianco,
William Sanderson,
Nicholas Worth,
Robert Davi,
Jude Farese,
John Hancock,
Harry Caesar,
Hank Calia,
Hamilton Camp,
Michael Cassidy,
Anthony Charnota,
Dallas Cole,
Nick Dimitri,
Richard Drown,
Daphne Eckler,
Buddy Ekins,
Lou Filippo,
Bruce M. Fischer,
George Fisher,
Richard Foronjy,
Holgie Forrester,
Allan Graf,
Wiley Harker,
Bill Hart,
Bob Herron,
Chuck Hicks,
Art La Fleur,
Gene Lebell,
Julius Le Flore,
Fred Lerner,
Jimmy Lewis,
Minnie Lindsay,
Carey Loftin,
Arthur Malet,
Fritz Manes,
Michael Maurer,
Bob Maxwell,
Lonna Montrose,
Christopher Moore,
Jack Nance,
Gerald O'Loughlin,
George Orrison,
Charles Parks,
Alex Plasschaert,
Debby Porter,
James Hooks Reynolds,
Walter Robles,
Mic Rodgers,
Ernie Sabella,
Sharon Schaffer,
Joan Shawlee,
Preston Sparks,
Tom Spratley,
Beau Starr,
Darwyn Swalve,
Bob Terhune,
Tab Thacker,
Jack Thibeau,
Wayne Van Horn,
George Wilbur,
Glenn Wilder,
Alfie Wise.
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This standard, tongue-in-cheek, gangsters and good guys saga is carried on the star power and screen presence of Clint Eastwood as Lt. Speer, a taciturn, tough, play-it-by-the-book cop, and on Burt Reynolds as Mike Murphy, Speer's old friend in the force, now turned private eye but still a captivating rogue at heart. With a sub-text of playing their well-known screen personas off each other, Eastw ...
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Clean Slate (1994)
Genre:
Comedy,
Mystery,
Detective Film,
Fantasy Comedy.
Director:
Mick Jackson.
Actors:
Dana Carvey,
Valeria Golino,
James Earl Jones,
Kevin Pollak,
Michael Gambon,
Michael Murphy,
Jayne Brook,
Vyto Ruginis,
Olivia D'Abo,
Barkley,
Ian Abercrombie,
Brad Blaisdell,
Mark Bringelson,
Gary Bullock,
Reg E. Cathey,
Bryan Cranston,
Peter Crook,
Mike Jolly,
Ken Kerman,
Jeff King,
Phil Leeds,
Steven D. Maines,
Mindy Marin,
Michael McKean,
Christopher Meloni,
Michael Monks,
Angela Paton,
Brian Reddy,
Gailard Sartain,
Timothy Scott,
Myra Turley,
Kevin West.
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Dana Carvey plays a private detective who forgets everything when he goes to sleep at night, waking up each morning with a "clean slate," in this hit-and-miss comedy that plays like a companion piece to the much funnier Groundhog Day. Pogue (Carvey) is afflicted with his unique form of amnesia after getting injured in a car explosion. With the aid of a mysterious woman (Valeria Golino) w ...
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Courage Under Fire (1996)
Genre:
War,
War Drama,
Political Drama,
Detective Film.
Director:
Edward Zwick.
Actors:
Denzel Washington,
Meg Ryan,
Lou Diamond Phillips,
Michael Moriarty,
Matt Damon,
Bronson Pinchot,
Mark Adair-Rios,
Bob Apisa,
Sean Astin,
Rory J. Aylward,
Diane Baker,
Julius Carter,
Armand Darrius,
Michael Dolan,
Reed Frerichs,
Seth Gilliam,
Scott Glenn,
Daniel Gonzalez,
Tim Guinee,
Albert Hall,
Amy Hathaway,
Zeljko Ivanek,
Ken Jenkins,
Lucky Luciano,
Jamal A. Mays,
Bruce McGill,
David McSwain,
Kyle Mickaelian,
James Paul Morse,
Erica C. Newman,
Manny Perez,
Jimmy Pickens,
Ashlee Jordan Pryor,
Tim Ransom,
John Roarke,
Tom Schanley,
Matt Sigloch,
Christina Stojanovich,
Regina Taylor,
Sean Patrick Thomas,
Ned Vaughn,
Richard Venture,
Jeffrey Waid,
Jack Watkins,
Michole Briana White,
Kathleen Widdoes,
Pat Young.
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A soldier discovers how elusive the truth can be in this first major film about America's role in the Gulf War. Lt. Col. Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) was the commander of a unit during Operation Desert Storm who mistakenly ordered the destruction of what he believed to be an enemy tank, only to discover that it actually held U.S. soldiers, including a close friend. Since then, Serling has ...
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Exit to Eden (1994)
Genre:
Thriller,
Comedy,
Detective Film,
Comedy Thriller,
Sex Comedy.
Director:
Garry Marshall.
Actors:
Dana Delany,
Paul Mercurio,
Rosie O'Donnell,
Dan Aykroyd,
Hector Elizondo,
Stuart Wilson,
Sean O'Bryan,
Stephanie Niznik,
Real Andrews,
Judith Baldwin,
Marvin Braveman,
Rod Britt,
Joyce Brothers,
Frank Campanella,
Pat Collins,
Ed Cree,
Lucinda Crosby,
Brian Davila,
Donna Dixon,
Lou Evans,
Rosemary Forsyth,
Diane Frazen,
Ira Glick,
Lynda Goodfriend,
Ronny Hallin,
Laura Elena Harring,
Don Hood,
Joey House,
Julie Hughes,
Gloria Hylton,
Mandy Ingber,
Diana Kent,
Allan Kent,
Lisa Boyle,
Arnold Margolin,
Bud Markowitz,
Barbara Marshall,
Kathleen Marshall,
Scott Marshall,
Lori Marshall,
Valorie Massalas,
Alison Moir,
Jane Morris,
Mel Novak,
Julie Paris,
Stephen Perkins,
Deborah Pratt,
Phil Redrow,
Steve Restivo,
Leslie A. Sank,
John Schneider,
Joe Torry,
Shannon Wilcox,
Tim Wrightman.
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This sexy farce stars Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell as Fred Lavery and Sheila Kingston, a pair of cynical detectives investigating the disappearance of a key witness in a diamond-smuggling case. The case leads them to a Club Med-styled S&M resort where dog collars and cat o' nine tails abound; further complicating matters, the smugglers end up on the island as well. The missing witness, phot ...
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Eye of the Beholder (1999)
Genre:
Thriller,
Detective Film,
Psychological Thriller.
Director:
Stephan Elliott.
Actors:
Ewan McGregor,
Ashley Judd,
Patrick Bergin,
k.d. lang,
Jason Priestley,
Geneviève Bujold,
Jason Baerg,
Howard Bilerman,
Maria Bircher,
Bob Brewster,
Anne-Marie Brown,
Kaitlin Brown,
Al Clark,
Carole Collin,
Carl Crevier,
Amanda Davis,
Leonard Farlinger,
Lisa Forget,
Gayle Garfinkle,
Garth Gilker,
Dr. Erwin Goldberg,
James Hieminga,
Erik Johnson,
Don Jordan,
Tom Karle,
Una Kay,
Philip Le Maistre,
Stephane Levasseur,
Josa Maule,
Steven McCarthy,
Vera Miller,
Louis Negin,
David Nerman,
Michel Perron,
Charles Powell,
Donovan Reiter,
Maria Revelins,
Cara Reynolds,
Nadia Rona,
Stephanie Sbrega,
Merlee Shapiro,
Sam Stone,
Michelle Sweeney,
Janine Theriault,
Al Vandecruys,
Mauro Venditelli,
Vlasta Vrana,
Russell Yuen.
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Part high-tech spy thriller and part psychological study, Eye of the Beholder was Ewan McGregor's first feature film following his mainstream breakthrough performance in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The Eye (Ewan McGregor) is an agent of the British Secret Service, equipped with the latest in high-tech crime fighting gadgetry and assisted by his indefatigable collegue, Hilary (k.d. lan ...
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Fallen (1998)
Genre:
Thriller,
Detective Film.
Director:
Gregory Hoblit.
Actors:
Denzel Washington,
John Goodman,
Donald Sutherland,
Embeth Davidtz,
James Gandolfini,
Elias Koteas,
Gabriel Casseus,
Michael J. Pagan,
Robert Joy,
Chuck Jeffries.
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Directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear), Fallen is a blend of the police drama and supernatural thriller genres. Homicide detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) narrates, taking the audience back to "the time I almost died." This sets a flashback in motion, beginning at the prison cell of serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas), who grabs Hobbes' hand and sings the Rolling Stones' & ...
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Fearless (1978)
Genre:
Mystery,
Drama,
Detective Film.
Director:
Stelvio Massi.
Actors:
Franz Antel,
Joan Collins,
Annarito Grapputo,
Jasmine Maimone,
Maurizio Merli,
Gastone Moschin,
Werner Pochath,
Franco Ressel,
Alexander Trojan,
Massimo Vanni.
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Gleaming the Cube (1989)
Genre:
Mystery,
Drama,
Detective Film,
Teen Movie.
Director:
Graeme Clifford.
Actors:
Christian Slater,
Steven Bauer,
Min Luong,
Art Chudabala,
Le Tuan,
Richard Herd,
Charles Cyphers,
Eric Dressen,
Joe Gosha,
Tommy Guerrero,
Tony Hawk,
Vien Hong,
Buddy Joe Hooker,
Christian Jacobs,
Natas Kaupas,
Kieu Chinh,
Peter Kwong,
Ed Lauter,
Chi Muoi Lo,
Mike McGill,
Micole Mercurio,
Angela Moya,
Andy Nguyen,
F. William Parker,
Max Perlich,
Joshua Ravetch,
Jack Riley,
Rita Rudner,
J. Jay Saunders,
Arsenio "Sonny" Trinidad.
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Gleaming the Cube does for skateboarding what Over the Top did for arm wrestling — i.e. not a hell of a lot. Christian Slater is the skateboarding star, playing Brian Kelly, a sneering and laconic teen outcast. He feels left out and envious of his adopted Vietnamese brother Vinh's (Art Chudabala) success as an honor roll student and as the center of attention in his family. When Vinh com ...
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Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Genre:
Thriller,
Detective Film.
Director:
Ben Affleck.
Actors:
Casey Affleck,
Michelle Monaghan,
Morgan Freeman,
Ed Harris,
John Ashton,
Amy Ryan,
Amy Madigan,
Titus Welliver,
Michael Kenneth Williams,
Edi Gathegi,
Mark Margolis,
Madeleine O'Brien,
Slain,
Trudi Goodman,
Matthew Maher,
Jill Quigg,
Sean Malone.
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Ben Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Gone, Baby, Gone stars Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie, a private investigator from working-class Boston who takes on a case involving a kidnapped girl. The girl's aunt begs Patrick to take the case because he has connections to criminal Boston that the police do not. He agrees and along with his partner, Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan), they unc ...
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Gorky Park (1983)
Genre:
Mystery,
Detective Film,
Police Detective Film.
Director:
Michael Apted.
Actors:
William Hurt,
Lee Marvin,
Brian Dennehy,
Ian Bannen,
Joanna Pacula,
Michael Elphick,
Richard Griffiths,
Rikki Fulton,
Alexander Knox,
Alexei Sayle,
Ian McDiarmid,
Anatoly Davydov,
Patrick Field,
Niall O'Brien,
Tusse Silberg,
Lauri Torhonen,
Henry Woolf.
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In the dead of a Moscow winter, three bodies are found in Gorky Park. Police Inspector Renko (William Hurt) is unable to identify the corpses, since even their fingerprints have removed. For reasons unknown to him, Renko's investigation is somehow being stymied by his higher-ups. Ferreting out information on his own, Renko makes the acquaintance of Soviet dissident Irina (Joanna Pacula), a friend ...
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Island In The Sky (1938)
Genre:
Mystery,
Detective Film.
Director:
Herbert I. Leeds.
Actors:
Gloria Stuart,
Michael Whalen,
Paul Kelly,
Robert Kellard,
June Storey,
Paul Hurst,
Leon Ames,
Willard Robertson,
George Humbert,
Aggie Herring,
Charles D. Brown.
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Just Cause (1995)
Genre:
Thriller,
Mystery,
Psychological Thriller,
Detective Film.
Director:
Arnold Glimcher.
Actors:
Sean Connery,
Laurence Fishburne,
Kate Capshaw,
Blair Underwood,
Ed Harris,
Christopher Murray,
Brooke Alderson,
Ned Beatty,
Tony Bolano,
Ruby Dee,
Colleen Fitzpatrick,
Taral Hicks,
Melanie Hughes,
Scarlett Johansson,
Hope Lange,
Richard Liberty,
Kevin McCarthy,
Gary Landon Mills,
George Plimpton,
Chris Sarandon,
Victor Slezak,
Lynne Thigpen,
Liz Torres,
Daniel J. Travanti.
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The novel by John Katzenbach becomes this legal thriller starring Sean Connery as Harvard Law School professor Paul Armstrong. A legal expert whose days of trying cases are long behind him, Armstrong is moved by a plea he receives from a Florida death row inmate, Bobby Earl (Blair Underwood). It seems that the educated, upstanding Earl has been railroaded by an overeager sheriff (Laurence Fishburn ...
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Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Genre:
Thriller,
Film Noir,
Detective Film.
Director:
Robert Aldrich.
Actors:
Ralph Meeker,
Albert Dekker,
Paul Stewart,
Wesley Addy,
Maxine Cooper,
Cloris Leachman,
Jack Elam,
Juano Hernandez,
Gaby Rodgers,
Nick Dennis,
Jack Lambert,
Marian Carr,
Jerry Zinneman,
Leigh Snowden,
Percy Helton,
Madi Comfort,
Fortunio Bonanova,
James McCallion,
Silvio Minciotti,
Robert Cornthwaite,
James Seay,
Mara McAfee,
Mort Marshall,
Jesslyn Fax,
Sam Balter,
Marjorie Bennett,
Joe Hernandez,
Strother Martin,
Leonard Mudie,
Paul Richards,
Bob Sherman,
Kitty White.
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Regarded by many critics as the ultimate film noir, and by many more as the finest movie adaptation of a book by Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly stars Ralph Meeker as Spillane's anti-social private eye Mike Hammer. While driving down a lonely road late one evening, Hammer picks up a beautiful blonde hitchhiker (Cloris Leachman), dressed in nothing but a raincoat. At first, Hammer assumes that the ...
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Laura (1944)
Genre:
Mystery,
Film Noir,
Romantic Mystery,
Detective Film,
Psychological Thriller.
Director:
Otto Preminger.
Actors:
Gene Tierney,
Dana Andrews,
Clifton Webb,
Vincent Price,
Judith Anderson,
Dorothy Adams,
James Flavin,
Clyde Fillmore,
Ralph Dunn,
Grant Mitchell,
Kathleen Howard,
Dutch Schlickenmeyer,
Harry Strang,
Lane Chandler,
Terry Adams,
Dorothy Christy,
Kay Connors,
John Dexter,
Nestor Eristoff,
Jean Fenwick,
Lee Tung Foo,
William Forrest,
Frances Gladwin,
Beatrice Gray,
Cy Kendall,
Yolanda Lacca,
Frank LaRue,
Kay Linaker,
Buster Miles,
Forbes Murray,
Jane Nigh,
Aileen Pringle,
Cyril Ring,
Cara Williams.
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This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex series of backstage intrigues and hostilities, the film was ultimately credited to director Otto Preminger and cameraman Joseph LaShelle (who won an Oscar for his efforts). At the outset of the film, it is established that the title character, Laura Hu ...
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Livvakterna (2001)
Genre:
Detective Film.
Director:
Anders Nilsson.
Actors:
Jakob Eklund,
Samuel Fröler,
Lia Boysen,
Alexandra Rapaport,
Christoph Marius Ohrt,
Marie Richardson,
Orjan Landstrom,
Krister Henriksson,
Per Burell,
Lennart Hjulström,
Fredrik Dolk,
Rafael Edholm,
Magnus Roosmann,
Amanda Andersson,
Hanna Alsterlund.
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Jacob Eklund returns as hard-bitten cop Johan Falk in this sequel to the thriller Noll Tolerans. After causing a commotion with his last assignment, Falk has been given a desk job, which hardly agrees with his personality, and he ends up accepting an offer from an old friend to buy into a private investigation agency. Another friend of Falk's, Sven (Samuel Froler), purchased a business in Estonia, ...
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Lord of Illusions (1995)
Genre:
Horror,
Supernatural Horror,
Post-Noir (Modern Noir),
Detective Film.
Director:
Clive Barker.
Actors:
Scott Bakula,
Kevin J. O'Connor,
Famke Janssen,
Vincent Schiavelli,
Barry Del Sherman,
Sheila Tousey,
J. Trevor Edmond,
Wayne Grace,
Joseph Latimore,
Billy McComb,
Joel Sweto,
Susan Traylor,
Daniel Von Bargen.
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A private investigator hired to protect a popular stage magician finds himself drawn into a dark, occult underworld in this supernatural horror film from writer-director Clive Barker. With several nods to film noir tradition, the danger begins for detective Harry D'Amour (Scott Bakula) when he is approached by a beautiful woman, Dorothea Swann (Famke Janssen). Dorothea is married to Philip Swann ( ...
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Manhunter (1986)
Genre:
Thriller,
Psychological Thriller,
Detective Film,
Post-Noir (Modern Noir),
Crime Thriller.
Director:
Michael Mann.
Actors:
William L. Petersen,
Kim Greist,
Joan Allen,
Brian Cox,
Dennis Farina,
Tom Noonan,
Bryant Arrants,
Christopher Arrants,
Garcelle Beauvais,
David Allen Brooks,
Robert A. Burton,
Dan Butler,
Hannah Cacciano,
Joanne Camp,
Dawn Carmen,
Patricia Charbonneau,
Gary Chavaras,
Cynthia Chvatal,
Chris Cianciolo,
Ken Colquitt,
Bill Cwikowski,
Chris Elliott,
Frankie R. Faison,
Ron Fitzgerald,
David Fitzsimmons,
Lindse Fonora,
Jason Frair,
Benjamin Hendrickson,
Steve Hogan,
Kristin Holby,
Greg Kelly,
Stephen Lang,
Ryan Langhorne,
Mickey Lloyd,
Peter Maloney,
David Meeks,
Sherman Michaels,
Robin Moseley,
Alex Neil,
Paul Perri,
John Posey,
Mickey Pugh,
Dennis Quick,
Michael D. Roberts,
Lisa Ryall,
David Seaman,
Michele Shay,
Kin Shriner,
Bill Smitrovich,
Norman Snow,
Daniel T. Snow,
Michael Talbott,
Bonnie Timmermann,
Robin Trapp,
King White,
Lisa Winters,
Jim Zubiena.
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Red Dragon, the Thomas Harris novel that introduced serial killer Hannibal Lecter to the world, was adapted for the screen by Michael Mann as Manhunter. Ace criminal profiler Will Graham (William Petersen) is very good at his job because he has the ability to make himself think like the killers he tracks. Will has been in retirement since catching Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Brian Co ...
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Take My Eyes and Flowers from Another World director Icíar Bollaín takes the helm for this drama concerning a trio of female detective who are forced to turn their attentions inward if they hope to solve their latest cases. Ines, Eva, and Carmen are used to intruding on the privacy of others, but what happens when they have to use their well-honed sleuthing skills to tackle their own problems?
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Mississippi Burning (1988)
Genre:
Drama,
Political Thriller,
Detective Film.
Director:
Alan Parker.
Actors:
Gene Hackman,
Willem Dafoe,
Frances McDormand,
Brad Dourif,
R. Lee Ermey,
Gailard Sartain,
Stephen Tobolowsky,
Michael Rooker,
Pruitt Taylor Vince,
Badja Djola,
Kevin Dunn,
Lois Allen,
Tobin Bell,
Virginia Bennett,
Dwight Boyd,
Stephen Wesley Bridgewater,
John Brook,
Daniel Chapman,
Marc Clement,
Robert F. Colesberry,
Stanley W. Collins,
Zeke Davidson,
Ralnardo Davis,
Ron de Roxtra,
Dan Desmond,
Brenda Dunlap,
James Eric,
Robert Erickson,
Frankie R. Faison,
John P. Fertitta,
Howard Feuer,
Harry S. Franklin,
Charles Franzen,
Linda Fuller,
Pat Funderburk,
Ed Geldart,
Barbara Gibson,
Cullen Gilliland,
Jake Gipson,
Robert Glaudini,
Gladys Greer,
Mert Hatfield,
George Isbell,
Doug Jackson,
Barry Davis Jim Sr.,
Dianne Lancaster,
James Lloyd,
Ken Magee,
Tom Mason,
George Mason,
Ethel L. Mayes,
James Arnold Mayes,
Lannie Spann McBride,
Darius McCrary,
Mark Jeffrey Miller,
Gary Moody,
James F. Moore,
Geoffrey Nauffts,
Park Overall,
Alisa R. Patrick,
Bob Penny,
Bernice Poindexter,
Rev. Harry Quick,
Judy Sasser,
Paul Saveles,
Larry Shuler,
Jesse Merle Speaks,
Tonea Stewart,
Juliet Taylor,
Simeon Teague,
E.A. Thrall,
Lou Walker,
Rick Washburne,
Daniel Winford,
Georgia F. Wise,
Billie Jean Young,
Rick Zieff,
Frederick Zollo.
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Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Investigating the mysterious disappearances of the three activists are FBI agents Gene Hackman (older, wiser) and Willem Dafoe (younger, idealistic). A Southerner himself, Hackman charms and cajoles his way through the tight-lipped residents of a dusty Mississippi town whi ...
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Murder by Death (1976)
Genre:
Mystery,
Comedy,
Parody/Spoof,
Detective Film,
Ensemble Film,
Whodunit.
Director:
Robert Moore.
Actors:
Eileen Brennan,
Truman Capote,
James Coco,
Peter Falk,
Alec Guinness,
Elsa Lanchester,
David Niven,
Peter Sellers,
Maggie Smith,
Nancy Walker,
Estelle Winwood,
James Cromwell,
Richard Narita,
Dog: Myron.
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As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the mansion of the reclusive Lionel Twain (Truman Capote). In Ten Little Indians fashion, the gathered sleuths are locked into the forbidding mansion, and subject to various death-dealing devices. While struggling for their lives, the vainglorious gumshoes continue to try to on ...
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Murder On The Orient Express (1974)
Genre:
Mystery,
Whodunit,
Detective Film,
Ensemble Film.
Director:
Sidney Lumet.
Actors:
Albert Finney,
Lauren Bacall,
Ingrid Bergman,
Sean Connery,
Martin Balsam,
Vanessa Redgrave,
Jacqueline Bisset,
Richard Widmark,
Colin Blakely,
Jean-Pierre Cassel,
George Coulouris,
Vernon Dobtcheff,
John Gielgud,
Wendy Hiller,
Jeremy Lloyd,
John Moffatt,
Anthony Perkins,
Denis Quilley,
Rachel Roberts,
George Silver,
Michael York.
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Nick Knight (1989)
Genre:
Horror,
Supernatural Horror,
Detective Film.
Director:
Farhad Mann.
Actors:
Rick Springfield,
Allison Barron,
Al Berry,
David Byrd,
David Correia,
Richard Fancy,
Al Fann,
Robert Harper,
Rosanna Huffman,
Rif Hutton,
Laura Johnson,
John Kapelos,
Irene Miracle,
Dennis Moynahan,
Jack Murdock,
Mike Nader,
Craig Richard Nelson,
Davis Roberts,
Fran Ryan,
Cec Verrell,
Gregory Wagrowski.
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A night beat cop, a good vampire who only drinks cows' blood, is after a bad vampire, who is sucking the blood of the city's human inhabitants.
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Roseanna (1993)
Genre:
Thriller,
Mystery,
Crime,
Detective Film.
Director:
Actors:
Gösta Ekman, Jr.,
Kjell Bergqvist,
Rolf Lassgård,
Lena Nilsson,
Anita Ekström,
Barbro Hjort af Ornäs,
Agneta Ekmanner,
Inga Sarri,
Tom Younger.
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This Swedish thriller is based upon one of a 10 part series of novels by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. Two of their books have been made into films. In this first filmed episode, after an American tourist is mysteriously killed and tossed off a tour boat, the local police are baffled by the lack of clues. Enter Martin Beck who finally finds a clue and then sets a trap for the killer. A young policew ...
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Second Sight (1989)
Genre:
Comedy,
Sci-Fi Comedy,
Detective Film,
Comedy Thriller.
Director:
Joel Zwick.
Actors:
John Larroquette,
Bronson Pinchot,
Bess Armstrong,
Stuart Pankin,
John Schuck,
James Tolkan,
William Prince,
Michael Lombard,
Christine Estabrook,
Marisol Massey,
Mark Arnott,
Eugene Boles,
Dominic Chianese,
Susan Forristal,
Cornelia Guest,
Leonard Jackson,
Kim Chan,
Adam Le Fevre,
Pat McCorkle,
William Mooney,
Barry Nolan,
Paul O'Brien,
Suzanne Shepherd,
Ron Taylor,
Ellis Williams.
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Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)
Genre:
Action,
Action Thriller,
Martial Arts,
Detective Film,
Odd Couple Film.
Director:
Mark L. Lester.
Actors:
Dolph Lundgren,
Brandon Lee,
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa,
Tia Carrere,
Toshishiro Obata,
Reid Asato,
Rachen Assapiomonwait,
Keith Boldroff,
Carey-Hiroyuki Tagawa,
Phil Chong,
Susan E. Cox,
Rick Cramer,
Takayo Fischer,
Renee Griffin,
Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa,
Lenny Imamura,
Jim Ishida,
Rodney Kageyama,
Ernie Lively,
Tony Maccario,
Gerald Okamura,
Stephen Park,
Jeff Ramsey,
Simon Rhee,
Ryan Ryusaki,
R. David Smith,
Tera Tabrizi,
Philip Tan,
Keenan Thomas,
Rome Viharo,
Vernee Watson-Johnson,
Roger Yuan.
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Director Mark L. Lester modeled this police action drama on the Hong Kong style, guaranteeing plenty of over-the-top action sequences. Dolph Lundgren stars as police detective Chris Kenner, an American raised in Japan. He is given a new partner, Johnny Murata (Brandon Lee, making his Hollywood debut), a Japanese raised in America. The two are made for each other — Chris doesn't appreciat ...
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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Genre:
Horror,
Costume Horror,
Gothic Film,
Detective Film.
Director:
Tim Burton.
Actors:
Johnny Depp,
Christina Ricci,
Miranda Richardson,
Michael Gambon,
Casper Van Dien,
Jeffrey Jones,
Christopher Lee,
Richard Griffiths,
Ian McDiarmid,
Michael Gough,
Christopher Walken,
Marc Pickering,
Lisa Marie,
Steven Waddington,
Claire Skinner,
Alun Armstrong,
Mark Spalding,
Jessica Oyelowo,
Ray Park,
Peter Guinness,
Orlando Seale.
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Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman gets a few new twists in a screen adaptation directed by Tim Burton. In this version, Ichabod (Johnny Depp) is a New York City detective whose unorthodox techniques and penchant for gadgets make him unpopular with is colleagues. He is sent to the remote town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of bizarre murders, in which a ...
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Switchback (1997)
Genre:
Thriller,
Crime Thriller,
Detective Film.
Director:
Jeb Stuart.
Actors:
Dennis Quaid,
Danny Glover,
Jared Leto,
R. Lee Ermey,
Ted Levine,
William Fichtner,
Leo Burmeister,
Merle Kennedy,
Julio Oscar Mechoso,
Orville Stoeber,
Ted Markland.
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Scripter Jeb Stuart (Die Hard) made his directorial debut with this thriller about an FBI agent in pursuit of a serial killer. Politically ambitious Amarillo police chief Jack McGinnis (William Fichtner) uses a local murder to gain votes in his campaign, a setback for Sheriff Buck Olmstead (R. Lee Ermey), up for re-election. The situation looks better for Olmstead after FBI agent Frank LaCrosse (D ...
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The General's Daughter (1999)
Genre:
Thriller,
Mystery,
Detective Film,
Psychological Thriller.
Director:
Simon West.
Actors:
John Travolta,
Madeleine Stowe,
James Cromwell,
Timothy Hutton,
Leslie Stefanson,
Daniel Von Bargen,
Clarence Williams III,
James Woods,
Peter Weireter,
Mark Boone, Jr.,
John Beasley,
Boyd Kestner,
Brad Beyer,
John Benjamin Hickey,
Rick Dial,
Ariyan Johnson,
John Frankenheimer.
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A murder on a military base unearths a netherworld of corruption in this thriller based on the novel by Nelson DeMille. General Joe Campbell (James Cromwell) is a respected military leader with a flawless reputation; he's due to retire from the Army soon and is headed for a Vice-Presidential nomination. However, Campbell finds himself in both a personal and political crisis when his daughter is br ...
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The Name of the Rose (1986)
Genre:
Mystery,
Period Film,
Detective Film,
Gothic Film,
Whodunit.
Director:
Jean-Jacques Annaud.
Actors:
Sean Connery,
F. Murray Abraham,
Christian Slater,
Elya Baskin,
Michel Lonsdale,
Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.,
William Hickey,
Ron Perlman,
Valentina Vargas,
Volker Prechtel,
Helmut Qualtinger,
Franco Adducci,
Urs Althaus,
Mark Bellinghaus,
Peter Berling,
Carlo Bianchino,
Andrew Birkin,
Lucien Bodard,
Lars Bodin-Jorgensen,
Eugenio Bonardi,
Alberto Capone,
Pietro Ceccarelli,
Mario Diano,
Franco Diogene,
Vernon Dobtcheff,
Emil Feist,
David Furtwaengler,
Michael Habeck,
Valerio Isidori,
Patrick Kreuzer,
Pete Lancaster,
Ennio Lollainni,
Franco Marino,
Armando Marra,
Francesco Maselli,
Maurizio Merli,
Renato Nebolini,
Donal O'Brien,
Ludger Pistor,
Gina Poli,
Gianni Rizzo,
Francesco Scali,
Hans Schoedel,
Kim Rossi Stuart,
Leopoldo Trieste,
Franco Valobra,
Dwight Weist,
Peter Welz,
Vittorio Zarfati.
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Adapted from Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a 14th century murder-mystery thriller starring Sean Connery as a Sherlock Holmes-esque Franciscan monk called William of Baskerville. When a murder occurs at a secluded Benedictine Abbey, William is called in to investigate. As he and his apprentice, Adson von Melk (Christian Slater), delve deepe ...
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Author William F. Nolan and producer/director Dan (Dark Shadows) Curtis combined forces for the made-for-TV The Norliss Tapes. Roy Thinnes stars as Dan Norliss, an investigative reporter specializing the supernatural. Norliss' tapes consist of his observations when tracking down a report about a "walking dead man." As it happens, the tapes seem to be all that is left of Norliss, who has ...
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The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Genre:
Comedy,
Farce,
Slapstick,
Detective Film,
Crime Comedy.
Director:
Blake Edwards.
Actors:
Peter Sellers,
Christopher Plummer,
Catherine Schell,
Herbert Lom,
Peter Arne,
Gregoire Aslan,
Peter Jeffrey,
Eric Pohlmann,
Burt Kwouk,
Victor Spinetti,
John Bluthal,
Andre Charisse,
Carol Cleveland,
Claire Davenport,
Hugo de Vernier,
Lesley-Anne Down,
Mike Grady,
Jeremy Hawk,
Peter Jones,
David Lodge,
Andre Maranne,
Michael Nightingale,
Milton Reid,
Nadim Sawalha,
Omar Sharif,
Graham Stark.
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After several years at loggerheads with one another, director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers reteamed for the slapstick fiesta The Return of the Pink Panther. It looks as though wizard cat-burglar Sir Charles Litton, played by David Niven in the original 1964 Pink Panther but here essayed by Christopher Plummer, is back in business. Dispatched to the Swiss resort town of Gstaad by his long-s ...
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The X-Files (1998)
Genre:
Science Fiction,
Sci-Fi Action,
Alien Invasion Films,
Detective Film.
Director:
Rob Bowman.
Actors:
David Duchovny,
Gillian Anderson,
Martin Landau,
Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Blythe Danner,
William B. Davis,
John Neville,
Mitch Pileggi,
Jeffrey DeMunn,
Terry O'Quinn,
Glenne Headly,
Lucas Black,
Dean Haglund,
Bruce Harwood,
Tom Braidwood.
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This 60-million-dollar science fiction suspense drama (marketed with an additional 25 million dollars), was adapted from the popular TV series The X-Files — arriving in theaters while the Emmy-winning series was still being aired, continuing plot threads familiar to many of the series' 25 million viewers, and featuring several familiar recurring characters introduced during the previous ...
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This Hollow Sacrament (2006)
Genre:
Horror,
Detective Film,
Slasher Film.
Director:
Greg William Stechman.
Actors:
Marcus D. Shelby,
April Potter,
Sheila McClay,
Anthony Falcon,
Todd Gearou,
Meaghan Sinclair,
Krystle Ferrin,
Ryan Pratton,
Julian Ortiz.
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Inspired by a series of real-life murders that shook Northern California in the late 1990s, director Greg William Stechman's harrowing crime thriller details the intense search for a killer who claimed the lives of four young women in the most vicious manner imaginable. As the tormented ex-soldier-turned-police detective and his partner investigate a confounding series of missing person cases, the ...
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True Crime (1999)
Genre:
Drama,
Crime Drama,
Detective Film.
Director:
Clint Eastwood.
Actors:
Clint Eastwood,
Isaiah Washington,
Denis Leary,
Lisa Gay Hamilton,
James Woods,
Bernard Hill,
Diane Venora,
Michael McKean,
Michael Jeter,
Mary McCormack,
Hattie Winston,
Penny Bae Bridges,
Francesca Fisher-Eastwood,
John Finn,
Laila Robins,
Sydney Poitier,
Erik King,
Graham Beckel,
Frances Fisher,
Marissa Ribisi,
Christine Ebersole,
Anthony Zerbe,
Lucy Liu.
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Investigative reporter Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood) has just relocated to the west coast after getting fired from the New York Times. Thanks to his old friend, Alan Mann (James Woods), the editor-in-chief of The Oakland Tribune, Everett still has a job, but that's hardly the end of his problems. An alcoholic and a womanizer, he's been sober for two months and his marriage to Barbara (Diane Venor ...
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