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A Few Good Men

A Few Good Men is a 1992 American legal drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore, with Kevin Bacon, Kevin Pollak, Wolfgang Bodison, James Marshall, J. T. Walsh and Kiefer Sutherland in supporting roles.

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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (Italian: Una lucertola con la pelle di donna) is a 1971 Italian giallo film directed by Lucio Fulci.

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A Lovely Way to Die

A Lovely Way to Die is a 1968 American crime film directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Kirk Douglas, Sylva Koscina, Eli Wallach and Kenneth Haigh.

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A Low Down Dirty Shame

A Low Down Dirty Shame is a 1994 American action comedy film written, directed by, and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans.

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A Man Called Shenandoah

A Man Called Shenandoah is an American western series that aired Monday evenings on ABC-TV from September 13, 1965 to May 16, 1966.

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A Prairie Home Companion (film)

A Prairie Home Companion is a 2006 American ensemble comedy film directed by Robert Altman and is his final film.

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A Soldier's Story

A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film directed by Norman Jewison, adapted by Charles Fuller's from his Pulitzer Prize-winning Off Broadway production A Soldier's Play.

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A Study in Terror

A Study in Terror is a 1965 British thriller film directed by James Hill and starring John Neville as Sherlock Holmes and Donald Houston as Dr. Watson.

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A Time to Kill (1996 film)

A Time to Kill is a 1996 American crime drama film based on John Grisham's 1989 novel A Time to Kill, directed by Joel Schumacher.

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Abbott and Costello

Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work on radio and in film and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and early 1950s.

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Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (also known as Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (full screen title)) is a 1951 horror comedy film directed by Charles Lamont and starring the team of Abbott and Costello alongside Nancy Guild.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Adventures of a Private Eye

Adventures of a Private Eye is a 1977 British sex comedy film starring Christopher Neil, Suzy Kendall, Harry H. Corbett and Liz Fraser.

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Agatha (film)

Agatha is a 1979 British drama thriller film directed by Michael Apted, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton, and written by Kathleen Tynan.

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Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.

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Alan Ladd

Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film and television producer.

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Alex Cross

Alex Cross is a fictional character created by author James Patterson.

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Alexander Key

Alexander Hill Key (September 21, 1904 – July 25, 1979) was an American science fiction writer, most of whose books were aimed at a juvenile audience.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Alien Nation (film)

Alien Nation is a 1988 American buddy cop neo-noir science fiction action film directed by Graham Baker.

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Along Came a Spider (film)

Along Came a Spider is a 2001 American neo noir psychological thriller film directed by Lee Tamahori.

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Alphaville (film)

Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution) is a 1965 French New Wave science fiction noir film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

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Amblin Entertainment

Amblin Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded by director and producer Steven Spielberg, and film producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in 1981.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Amnesia

Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or psychological trauma.

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And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by English writer Agatha Christie, widely considered her masterpiece and described by her as the most difficult of her books to write.

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And Then There Were None (1945 film)

And Then There Were None is a 1945 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's best-selling mystery novel of the same name, directed by René Clair.

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And Then There Were None (1987 film)

And Then There Were None (original title Ten Little Niggers, Десять негритят) is a 1987 Soviet film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel of the same name.

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André Breton

André Breton (18 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer, poet, and anti-fascist.

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Angel Heart

Angel Heart is a 1987 American neo-noir horror film based on William Hjortsberg's 1978 novel Falling Angel.

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Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong (born Wong Liu Tsong, January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was an American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition.

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Appointment with Death

Appointment with Death is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 May 1938 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Marvin

Arthur Weed Marvin (May 26, 1859 – January 18, 1911), was an American cinematographer who worked for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in which his brother Henry'' 'Harry' ''Marvin was one of the four founders (the others being Herman Casler, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson and Elias Koopman).

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Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American thriller film in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan that combines elements of the western genre with that of film noir.

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Banyon

Banyon is a detective series broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of its 1972-73 television schedule, though a standalone two-hour television movie was broadcast first in March 1971.

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Barrabas (film)

Barrabas is a 1920 French silent crime thriller film directed and written by Louis Feuillade.

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Basic (film)

Basic is a 2003 American/German mystery-action thriller film directed by John McTiernan and starring John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, and Samuel L. Jackson.

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Basil Rathbone

Philip St.

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Batman

Batman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Batman (serial)

Batman (or The Batman) is a 1943 black-and-white 15-chapter theatrical serial from Columbia Pictures, produced by Rudolph C. Flothow, directed by Lambert Hillyer, that stars Lewis Wilson as Batman and Douglas Croft as his sidekick Robin.

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Baynard Kendrick

Baynard Hardwick Kendrick (April 8, 1894 – March 22, 1977) was an American mystery novelist.

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Bela Lugosi

Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian-American actor famous for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films.

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Ben Affleck

Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Berserk!

Berserk! is a 1967 British horror-thriller film starring Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors and Judy Geeson in a macabre mother-daughter tale about a circus plagued with murders.

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Bill Cosby

William Henry Cosby Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, author, and convicted sex offender.

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Billy Wilder

Samuel "Billy" Wilder (June 22, 1906March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades.

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Black Angel

Black Angel is a 1946 American crime film noir directed by Roy William Neill starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent and Peter Lorre.

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Black Belly of the Tarantula

The Black Belly of the Tarantula is a 1971 Italian giallo film directed by Paolo Cavara.

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Black eye

A black eye, periorbital hematoma, or shiner, is bruising around the eye commonly due to an injury to the face rather than to the eye.

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Blade Runner

Blade Runner is a 1982 American-Hong Kong neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos.

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Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s.

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Blood and Black Lace

Blood and Black Lace (lit) is a 1964 giallo film directed by Mario Bava.

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Blood Work (film)

Blood Work is a 2002 American mystery thriller film produced, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood.

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Blow Out

Blow Out is a 1981 American neo-noir political thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma.

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Blowup

Blowup is a 1966 British-Italian mystery thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a fashion photographer, played by David Hemmings, who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film.

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Blue Velvet (film)

Blue Velvet is a 1986 American neo-noir mystery film, written and directed by David Lynch.

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Bob Hope

Sir Leslie Townes Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) known professionally as Bob Hope, was an English-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author.

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Bob Kane

Robert Kane, known professionally as Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn; October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998), was an American comic book writer and artist who co-created, with Bill Finger, the DC Comics character Batman.

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Boris Karloff

William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor who was primarily known for his roles in horror films.

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Boston Blackie

Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle (October 19, 1881 – October 1928).

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Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion

Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion (also known as Booked on Suspicion) is the eighth of 14 Columbia Pictures B movies starring Chester Morris as reformed thief Boston Blackie.

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Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture

Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture is a 1949 mystery film directed by Seymour Friedman, starring Chester Morris, in this film, the last of Columbia's Boston Blackie fourteen pictures (1941–49).

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Bourne (film series)

The Bourne films are a series of action spy thriller movies based on the character Jason Bourne, a CIA assassin suffering from extreme memory loss who must figure out who he is, created by author Robert Ludlum.

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Brett Halliday

Brett Halliday (July 31, 1904 – February 4, 1977), primary pen name of Davis Dresser, was an American mystery writer, best known for the long-lived series of Michael Shayne novels he wrote, and later commissioned others to write.

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Brian De Palma

Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter.

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Brick (film)

Brick is a 2005 American neo-noir mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson in his directorial debut, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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Broken Lizard

Broken Lizard is an American comedy troupe consisting of Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske.

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Brotherhood of the Wolf

Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des loups) is a 2001 French historical action horror film directed by Christophe Gans, co-written by Gans and Stéphane Cabel, and starring Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Émilie Dequenne, Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel.

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Brown's Requiem (film)

Brown's Requiem is a 1998 film written and directed by Jason Freeland.

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Bulldog Drummond

Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is a British fictional character, created by H. C. McNeile and published under his pen name "Sapper".

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Bulldog Drummond (1922 film)

Bulldog Drummond (1922) was the first film adaptation of the Bulldog Drummond fictional character, starring Carlyle Blackwell Sr. and Evelyn Greeley, and directed by Oscar Apfel.

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Bullitt

Bullitt is a 1968 American thriller film directed by Peter Yates and produced by Philip D'Antoni.

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Burt Lancaster

Burton Stephen Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American actor and producer.

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Burt Reynolds

Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (born February 11, 1936) is an American actor, director, and producer.

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Busman's Honeymoon (film)

Busman's Honeymoon is a 1940 British detective film directed by Arthur B. Woods.

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Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer.

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C. Auguste Dupin

Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe.

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Cadfael (TV series)

Cadfael is a British mystery television series, broadcast on ITV between 1994 and 1998, based on The Cadfael Chronicles novels written by Ellis Peters.

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Calcutta (1947 film)

Calcutta is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by John Farrow, and written and produced by Seton I. Miller.

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Camera

A camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location, or both.

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Camouflage (2001 film)

Camouflage is a 2001 comedy film/action film starring Leslie Nielsen and Lochlyn Munro.

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Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922)St.

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Casa d'appuntamento

Casa d'appuntamento (Translation: The House of Rendezvous) is a 1972 giallo film directed by Ferdinando Merighi under the pseudonym "F.

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Cast a Deadly Spell

Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) is a comedy horror detective film with Fred Ward, Julianne Moore, David Warner and Clancy Brown.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Charlie Chan

Charlie Chan is a fictional character created by Earl Derr Biggers.

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Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 22, 1976 to June 24, 1981, producing five seasons and 110 episodes.

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Cheri Caffaro

Cheri Caffaro is an American actress who appeared mainly in low-budget exploitation films in the 1970s.

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Chester Gould

Chester Gould (November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains.

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Chester Morris

John Chester Brooks Morris (February 16, 1901 – September 11, 1970) was an American stage, film, television, and radio actor.

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Chevy Chase

Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an American actor, comedian and writer.

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Chi l'ha vista morire?

Chi l'ha vista morire? (Who Saw Her Die?) is a 1972 giallo film directed by Aldo Lado and Vittorio De Sisti, starring Anita Strindberg and George Lazenby.

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Chick Carter, Detective

Chick Carter, Detective is a 1946 Columbia film serial.

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Chinatown (1974 film)

Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film, directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.

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Circus of Fear

Circus of Fear (Das Rätsel des silbernen Dreieck/ Mystery of the Silver Triangle), also Scotland Yard auf heißer Spur, also Circus of Terror) is a 1966 Anglo-German international co-production thriller film starring Christopher Lee, Suzy Kendall, Cecil Parker, Klaus Kinski and Victor Maddern. The U.S. title was Psycho-Circus. It was based on the novel The Three Just Men by Edgar Wallace (1926).

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City of Angels (1976 TV series)

City of Angels is a 1976 television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins, who had previously worked together on The Rockford Files.

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Claude Chabrol

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s.

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Clive Barker

Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English writer, film director, and visual artist.

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Club Dread

Club Dread (also known as Broken Lizard's Club Dread) is a 2004 American comedy slasher film written by the comedy group Broken Lizard, who also created Super Troopers.

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Clue (film)

Clue is a 1985 American ensemble mystery comedy film based on the board game of the same name.

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Color Me Dead

Color Me Dead is a 1969 Australian thriller directed by Eddie Davis, starring American actors Tom Tryon and Carolyn Jones.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Coronet Blue

Coronet Blue is an American TV series that ran on CBS from May 29, 1967, to September 4, 1967.

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Courage Under Fire

Courage Under Fire is a 1996 American war film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan.

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Craig Stevens (actor)

Craig Stevens (born Gail Shikles Jr.; July 8, 1918 – May 10, 2000) was an American film and television actor, best known for his starring role on television as private detective Peter Gunn from 1958 to 1961.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Crime Doctor (character)

The Crime Doctor is a fictional character created by Max Marcin.

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Crime Doctor (film)

Crime Doctor (1943) is a crime film adapted from the radio series of the same name.

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Crossfire (film)

Crossfire is a 1947 film noir drama film which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement.

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Crossroads (1942 film)

Crossroads is a 1942 mystery film noir directed by Jack Conway and starring William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor and Basil Rathbone.

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Cruising (film)

Cruising is a 1980 crime film and thriller written and directed by William Friedkin, and starring Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, and Karen Allen.

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Cry Danger

Cry Danger is a 1951 film noir thriller shot in twenty-two days in Los Angeles.

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Cry Uncle!

Cry Uncle!, released in the UK as Superdick (theatrical title) and American Oddballs (video title), is a 1971 film in the Troma library.

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Cry Wolf (2005 film)

Cry Wolf (stylized as Cry_Wolf) is a 2005 American horror film directed by Jeff Wadlow, co-written by Wadlow and Beau Bauman, and starring Julian Morris, Jon Bon Jovi, Lindy Booth, Jared Padalecki and Gary Cole.

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D.O.A. (1949 film)

D.O.A. is a 1949 American film noir directed by Rudolph Maté, considered a classic of the genre.

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D.O.A. (1988 film)

D.O.A. is a 1988 American crime-thriller film and a remake of the 1949 film noir of the same name.

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Dahmer (film)

Dahmer is a 2002 American biographical horror film directed by David Jacobson and starring Jeremy Renner as the American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, a mentally-unstable recluse in Wisconsin, who captured 17 men.

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Dan Duryea

Dan Duryea (January 23, 1907 – June 7, 1968) was an American actor in film, stage, and television.

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Dana Andrews

Carver Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 – December 17, 1992) was an American film actor and a major Hollywood star during the 1940s.

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Dario Argento

Dario Argento (born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, producer, film critic and screenwriter.

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Dark and Stormy Night

Dark and Stormy Night is a 2009 independent film spoofing the haunted house and murder mystery films produced by Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Darker than Amber (film)

Darker than Amber is a 1970 film adaptation of John D. MacDonald's mystery/suspense novel, Darker than Amber.

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist.

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David Burke (British actor)

David Burke (born 25 May 1934) is an English actor, known for playing Watson in the initial series of Granada Television's 1980s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which starred Jeremy Brett in the title role.

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Dead Again

Dead Again is a 1991 American romantic thriller film written by Scott Frank and directed by Kenneth Branagh.

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Dead Man's Island

Dead Man's Island is a 1996 American made-for-television mystery-thriller film starring Barbara Eden, William Shatner, Roddy McDowall, Morgan Fairchild, Traci Lords, David Faustino, Christopher Atkins, Olivia Hussey, Jameson Parker, Christopher Cazenove and Don Most.

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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a 1982 comedy-mystery film directed by Carl Reiner.

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Dead Reckoning (1947 film)

Dead Reckoning is a 1947 Columbia Pictures film noir starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott and featuring Morris Carnovsky.

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Deadlier Than the Male

Deadlier Than the Male is a 1967 British crime mystery film.

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Deanna Durbin

Edna Mae Durbin (December 4, 1921 – April 17, 2013), known professionally as Deanna Durbin, was a Canadian-born actress and singer, later settled in France, who appeared in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Death on the Nile (1978 film)

Death on the Nile is a 1978 British mystery film based on Agatha Christie's 1937 novel of the same name, directed by John Guillermin and adapted by Anthony Shaffer.

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Deep Red

Deep Red (original title Profondo rosso; also known as The Hatchet Murders) is a 1975 Italian giallo film, directed by Dario Argento and co-written by Argento and Bernardino Zapponi.

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Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist.

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Destiny

Destiny, sometimes referred to as fate (from Latin fatum – destiny), is a predetermined course of events.

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Detective

A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency.

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Detective dénouement

The detective dénouement is a variant on the literary dénouement common to mystery stories.

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Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.

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Devil (2010 film)

Devil (also known as The Night Chronicles: Devil) is a 2010 American supernatural horror film directed by John Erick Dowdle.

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Devil in a Blue Dress (film)

Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Carl Franklin and photographed by Tak Fujimoto.

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Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder is an American crime mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings and John Williams.

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Dick Powell

Richard Ewing Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, film producer, film director and studio head.

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Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould.

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Dick Tracy (serial)

Dick Tracy (1937) is a 15-Chapter Republic movie serial starring Ralph Byrd based on the Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould.

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Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry is a 1971 American action crime thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the ''Dirty Harry'' series.

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Don Knotts

Jesse Donald Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor and comedian, best known as Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, a 1960s sitcom for which he earned five Emmy Awards.

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Don Quixote

The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), or just Don Quixote (Oxford English Dictionary, ""), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer and poet.

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Dujardin

Dujardin is a French surname, meaning "from the garden", and may refer to.

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Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and director, with a career in film, television, and theater since 1960.

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Earl Derr Biggers

Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright.

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Ed Wood

Edward Davis Wood Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, and author.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Edgar Wallace

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English writer.

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Edna May Oliver

Edna May Oliver (born Edna May Nutter, November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942) was an American stage and film actress.

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Edward Arnold (actor)

Edward Arnold (born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider, February 18, 1890 – April 26, 1956) was an American actor.

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Electra Glide in Blue

Electra Glide in Blue is a 1973 film starring Robert Blake as a motorcycle cop in Arizona and Billy "Green" Bush as his partner.

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Elisha Cook Jr.

Elisha Vanslyck Cook Jr. (December 26, 1903 – May 18, 1995) was an American stage, film and television character actor who often specialized in roles as "cowardly villains and neurotics.", Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of Time Warner, Inc., New York City, New York.

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Ella Raines

Ella Wallace Raines (born Ella Wallace Raubes, August 6, 1920 – May 30, 1988) was an American film and television actress.

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Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen is a crime fiction house name created by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, and later used by other authors under Dannay and Lee's supervision.

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Elliott Gould

Elliott Gould (born Elliott Goldstein; August 29, 1938) is an American actor.

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Enemy of the State (film)

Enemy of the State is a 1998 American conspiracy-thriller film directed by Tony Scott, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by David Marconi.

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Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author.

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Errol Flynn

Errol Leslie Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-born American actor who achieved fame in Hollywood after 1935.

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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975 film)

Escape to Witch Mountain is a 1975 American fantasy-children's film, adapted from the science fiction novel written by Alexander H. Key in 1968.

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Evidence

Evidence, broadly construed, is anything presented in support of an assertion.

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Evil Under the Sun

Evil Under the Sun is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1941Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon.

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Exploitation film

An exploitation film is a film that attempts to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content.

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Exploitation of labour

Exploitation of labour is the act of treating one's workers unfairly for one's own benefit.

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Eyes in the Night

Eyes in the Night is a 1942 American crime mystery directed by Fred Zinnemann, based on Baynard Kendrick's 1941 novel The Odor of Violets and starring Edward Arnold, Ann Harding and Donna Reed.

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Eyes of Laura Mars

Eyes of Laura Mars is a 1978 American mystery-thriller film starring Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones and directed by Irvin Kershner.

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Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins

Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is a fictional character created by mystery author Walter Mosley.

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Faceless (film)

Faceless is a 1988 French slasher film directed by Jesús Franco.

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Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.

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Fantômas

Fantômas is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914).

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Farewell, My Lovely

Farewell, My Lovely is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1940, the second novel he wrote featuring the Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe.

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Fear in the Night (1947 film)

Fear in the Night is a 1947 film noir crime film directed by Maxwell Shane starring Paul Kelly and DeForest Kelley (in his film debut).

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

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Five Dolls for an August Moon

Five Dolls for an August Moon (Italian: 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto) is a 1970 Italian giallo film directed by Mario Bava.

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Fletch (film)

Fletch is a 1985 American action-comedy directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Andrew Bergman and is loosely based on Gregory Mcdonald's popular Fletch novels.

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Fletch Lives

Fletch Lives is a 1989 American comedy film starring Chevy Chase and a sequel to Fletch directed by Michael Ritchie with a screenplay by Leon Capetanos based on the character created by Gregory Mcdonald.

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Flightplan

Flightplan is a 2005 German-American mystery-thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke, written by Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray, and starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Kate Beahan, Greta Scacchi, and Sean Bean.

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Footsteps in the Dark

"Footsteps in the Dark" is a 1977 slow jam recorded by The Isley Brothers as an album track featured on the group's double-platinum album, Go For Your Guns.

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Foul Play (1978 film)

Foul Play is a 1978 American comedy mystery-thriller film written and directed by Colin Higgins, and starring Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore, Burgess Meredith, Eugene Roche, Rachel Roberts, Brian Dennehy and Billy Barty.

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Four Flies on Grey Velvet

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (Italian: 4 mosche di velluto grigio) is a 1971 Italian giallo film written and directed by Dario Argento, from a story by Luigi Cozzi (who also served as assistant director).

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Fox Film

The Fox Film Corporation was an American company that produced motion pictures, formed by William Fox on 1 February 1915.

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François Truffaut

François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Frenzy

Frenzy is a 1972 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Gacy (film)

Gacy is a 2003 direct-to-video biographical-drama film directed by Clive Saunders and written by Saunders and David Birke.

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Garrison Keillor

Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality.

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Gene Hackman

Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist.

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Gene Wilder

Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, singer-songwriter and author.

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Gentleman detective

The gentleman detective is a type of fictional character.

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George C. Scott

George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American stage and film actor, director, and producer.

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George Montgomery (actor)

George Montgomery (born George Montgomery Letz, August 29, 1916 – December 12, 2000) was an American actor, painter, sculptor, furniture craftsman, and stuntman who is best known as an actor in Western film and television.

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George Peppard

George Peppard Jr. (October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American film and television actor.

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George Raft

George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s.

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George Reeves

George Reeves (January 5, 1914 – June 16, 1959) was an American actor.

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George Sanders

George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was an English film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author.

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George Segal

George Segal (born February 13, 1934) is an American actor and musician.

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Get Smart

Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre that was popular at the time.

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Giallo

Giallo (plural gialli) is a 20th-century Italian thriller or horror genre of literature and film.

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Glenda Farrell

Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 – May 1, 1971) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.

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Gone Baby Gone

Gone Baby Gone is a 2007 American neo-noir mystery drama film directed by Ben Affleck.

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Gorky Park (film)

Gorky Park is a 1983 mystery drama film based on the novel Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith.

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Gosford Park

Gosford Park is a 2001 British mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes.

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Grand Guignol

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol ("The Theatre of the Great Puppet") — known as the Grand Guignol — was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis). From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialised in naturalistic horror shows.

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Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor, one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s.

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Grindhouse

A grindhouse or action house is an American term for a theater that mainly shows exploitation films.

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Gumshoe (film)

Gumshoe is a 1971 film, and was the directorial debut of British director Stephen Frears.

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Gunn (film)

Gunn is an American 1967 mystery film directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Craig Stevens, based on the 1958-1961 television series Peter Gunn.

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Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston.

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Guy Ritchie

Guy Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English filmmaker known for his crime films.

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H. C. McNeile

Herman Cyril McNeile, MC (28 September 1888 – 14 August 1937), commonly known as Cyril McNeile and publishing under the name H. C. McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper, was a British soldier and author.

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H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction.

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Had I but known

"Had I but known" is a form of prolepsis or foreshadowing that hints at some looming disaster in which the first-person narrator laments his or her course of action which precipitates some or other unfortunate series of actions.

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Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions is a British film production company based in London.

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Hammett (film)

Hammett is a 1982 mystery film directed by Wim Wenders and executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola.

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Hannibal (film)

Hannibal is a 2001 American psychological horror film directed by Ridley Scott, adapted from the novel of the same name by Thomas Harris.

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Hannibal Lecter

Dr.

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Hardboiled

Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective stories).

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Harper (film)

Harper (released in the UK as The Moving Target) is a 1966 Technicolor film based on Ross Macdonald's novel The Moving Target in Panavision and adapted for the screen by novelist William Goldman, who admired MacDonald's writings.

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Harper's Island

Harper's Island is an American horror mystery limited series created by Ari Schlossberg for CBS.

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Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor and film producer.

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Harry Potter (film series)

Harry Potter is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling.

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a 2002 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released in the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 fantasy film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Hec Ramsey

Hec Ramsey is a television Western starring Richard Boone, a creation of Jack Webb's production company, Mark VII Limited in association with Universal Studios, broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of the NBC Mystery Movie wheel show during the 1972-73 and 1973-74 seasons.

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Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie.

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Herschell Gordon Lewis

Herschell Gordon Lewis (June 15, 1926 – September 26, 2016) was an American filmmaker, best known for creating the "splatter" subgenre of horror films.

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Hickey & Boggs

Hickey & Boggs is a 1972 American neo-noir crime film written by Walter Hill and directed by Robert Culp.

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Hildegarde Withers

Hildegarde Withers is a fictional character who appeared in several novels and films.

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Historical period drama

The term historical period drama (also historical drama, period drama, costume drama, and period piece) refers to a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television.

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Hollywoodland

Hollywoodland is a 2006 American period mystery film directed by Allen Coulter and written by Paul Bernbaum.

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Honey West (TV series)

Honey West is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC during the 1965–1966 television season.

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Howard Hawks

Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era.

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Hugh Beaumont

Eugene Hugh Beaumont (February 16, 1909 – May 14, 1982) was an American actor and television director.

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American screen and stage actor.

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Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.

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Hysteria (1965 film)

Hysteria is a 1965 British murder mystery film directed by Freddie Francis, produced by Hammer Films and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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I Heart Huckabees

I ♥ Huckabees (known usually as I Heart Huckabees but also as I Love Huckabees) is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by David O. Russell, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeff Baena.

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I Love a Mystery

I Love a Mystery is an American radio drama series that aired 1939–44, about three friends who ran a detective agency and traveled the world in search of adventure.

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I Love a Mystery (film)

I Love a Mystery is a 1945 drama film directed by Henry Levin and starring Jim Bannon, Nina Foch, George Macready, and Barton Yarborough.

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I, Robot (film)

I, Robot (stylized as i) is a 2004 American science fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas.

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I, the Jury

I, the Jury is the 1947 debut novel of American crime fiction writer Mickey Spillane, the first work to feature private investigator Mike Hammer.

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I, the Jury (1953 film)

I, the Jury is a 1953 American film noir crime film based on the novel I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane.

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I, the Jury (1982 film)

I, the Jury is a 1982 film based on the best-selling detective novel of the same name by Mickey Spillane.

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Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels.

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Identity (film)

Identity is a 2003 American psychological thriller film directed by James Mangold from a screenplay written by Michael Cooney.

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In the Heat of the Night (film)

In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison.

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In the Light of the Moon

In the Light of the Moon (also known as Ed Gein) is a 2000 American horror film directed by Chuck Parello, and written by Stephen Johnston.

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In the Valley of Elah

In the Valley of Elah is a 2007 crime drama mystery film written and directed by Paul Haggis, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon.

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Independent film

An independent film, independent movie, indie film or indie movie is a feature film that is produced outside the major film studio system, in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies.

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Insomnia (2002 film)

Insomnia is a 2002 American psychological thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank.

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Inspector Clouseau

Inspector Jacques Clouseau is a fictional character in Blake Edwards's farcical The Pink Panther series.

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Irrational Man (film)

Irrational Man is a 2015 American crime mystery drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey and Jamie Blackley.

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It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series)

It Takes a Thief is an American action-adventure television series that aired on ABC for three seasons between 1968 and 1970.

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Jack Nicholson

John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker who has performed for over sixty years.

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Jack Oakie

Jack Oakie (November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.

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Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is the best-known name for an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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James Caan

James Edmund Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American actor.

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James Ellroy

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.

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James Garner

James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor, producer, and voice artist.

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James Patterson

James Brendan Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an American author and philanthropist.

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Jane Greer

Jane Greer (born Bettejane Greer; September 9, 1924 – August 24, 2001) was an American film and television actress who was perhaps best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past.

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Jean Arthur

Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American actress and a film star of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic.

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Jeremy Brett

Peter Jeremy William Huggins (3 November 1933 – 12 September 1995), known professionally as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor.

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Jesús Franco

Jess Franco (born Jesús Franco Manera; 12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013) was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, best known for his stylish exploitation films, directing around 160 feature films.

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JFK (film)

JFK is a 1991 American conspiracy-thriller film directed by Oliver Stone.

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Jigsaw (1968 film)

Jigsaw is a 1968 mystery film directed by James Goldstone.

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Jim Bannon

James Shorttel Bannon (April 9, 1911 – July 28, 1984) was a radio announcer and Hollywood Western film actor known for his work on the I Love a Mystery and Red Ryder series during the 1940s and 1950s.

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Jim Harmon

James Judson Harmon (21 April 1933 – 16 February 2010), better known as Jim Harmon, was an American short story author and popular culture historian who wrote extensively about the Golden Age of Radio.

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Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, director, and producer.

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John D. MacDonald

John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers.

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John P. Marquand

John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer.

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Johnny Angel

Johnny Angel is a 1945 film noir directed by Edwin L. Marin and written by Frank Gruber and Steve Fisher from the novel Mr.

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Judex (1916 film)

Judex is the title of a 1916 silent French film serial concerning the adventures of Judex, who is a pulp hero, similar to The Shadow, created by Louis Feuillade and Arthur Bernède.

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June Vincent

June Vincent (July 17, 1920 – November 20, 2008) was an American actress.

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Kathleen Turner

Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954), better known as Kathleen Turner, is an American film and stage actress and director.

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Keenen Ivory Wayans

Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans, Sr. (born June 8, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and a member of the Wayans Family of entertainers.

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Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1959) is a British actor, director, producer, and screenwriter from Belfast in Northern Ireland.

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Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch, December 9, 1916) is an American actor, producer, director, and author.

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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a 2005 American neo-noir black comedy crime film written and directed by Shane Black, and starring Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan and Corbin Bernsen.

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Kiss Me Deadly

Kiss Me Deadly is an independently made 1955 American black-and-white film noir, produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, that stars Ralph Meeker.

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Kiss the Girls (1997 film)

Kiss the Girls is a 1997 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, and Cary Elwes.

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Klute

Klute is a 1971 American neo-noir crime-thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula, written by Andy and Dave Lewis, and starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, and Roy Scheider.

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L.A. Confidential (film)

L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American neo-noir crime film directed, produced and co-written by Curtis Hanson.

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Lady in Cement

Lady in Cement is a 1968 Neo Noir detective film, directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker, Martin Gabel and Richard Conte.

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Lady in the Lake

Lady in the Lake is a 1947 American film noir that marked the directorial debut of Robert Montgomery, who also stars in the film.

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Lady on a Train

Lady on a Train is a 1945 crime, comedy-drama, thriller directed by Charles David and starring Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, and David Bruce.

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Larry Blamire

Larry Blamire is an American filmmaker, writer and artist best known for the independent film The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.

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Laura (1944 film)

Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger.

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Les Vampires

Les Vampires is a 1915–16 French silent crime serial film written and directed by Louis Feuillade.

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Leslie Charteris

Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter.

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Leslie Nielsen

Leslie William Nielsen (11 February 192628 November 2010) was a Canadian actor, comedian, and producer.

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Lew Archer

Lew Archer is a fictional character created by Ross Macdonald.

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Lily Tomlin

Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer.

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List of female detective characters

This is a list of fictional female investigators from novels, short stories, radio, television, films and video games.

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List of film noir titles

Film noir is not a clearly defined genre (see here for details on the characteristics).

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List of mystery films

The following is a list of mystery films.

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Lloyd Nolan

Lloyd Benedict Nolan (August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985) was an American film and television actor.

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Lone Star (1996 film)

Lone Star is a 1996 American neo-western mystery film written, edited, and directed by John Sayles and set in a small town in Texas.

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Lone Wolf (character)

The Lone Wolf is the nickname of the fictional character Michael Lanyard, a jewel thief turned private detective in a series of novels written by Louis Joseph Vance (1879–1933).

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Looker

Looker is a 1981 science fiction film written and directed by Michael Crichton and starring Albert Finney, Susan Dey, and James Coburn.

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Lord of Illusions

Lord of Illusions is a 1995 American horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his earlier short story, The Last Illusion (from Books of Blood Vol. 6).

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Lord Peter Wimsey

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh).

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Louis Feuillade

Louis Feuillade (19 February 1873 – 25 February 1925) was a prolific and prominent French film director from the silent era.

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Louis Joseph Vance

Louis Joseph Vance (September 19, 1879–December 16, 1933) was an American novelist, born in Washington, D. C., and educated in the preparatory department of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.

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Louise Brooks

Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985), who worked professionally as Louise Brooks, was an American film actress and dancer noted as an iconic symbol of the flapper, and for popularizing the bobbed haircut.

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Lucille Ball

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian, model, film-studio executive, and producer.

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Lured

Lured is a 1947 film noir directed by Douglas Sirk and starring George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, and Boris Karloff.

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Made in U.S.A (1966 film)

Made in U.S.A is a 1966 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard that stars Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, and Yves Afonso.

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Madigan

Madigan is a 1968 American dramatic thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda.

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Madras Cafe

Madras Cafe is a 2013 Indian political thriller spy film directed by Shoojit Sircar and starring John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri, Rashi Khanna and Leena Paul in lead roles.

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Manhattan Murder Mystery

Manhattan Murder Mystery is a 1993 American comedy murder mystery film directed by Woody Allen, co-written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, and starring Allen, Diane Keaton, Anjelica Huston and Alan Alda.

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Manhunter (film)

Manhunter is a 1986 American crime horror film based on the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.

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Margaret Rutherford

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was a British character actress of stage, television and film, probably best known for her later career as Agatha Christie's character Miss Marple.

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Mario Bava

Mario Bava (31 July 1914 – 27 April 1980) was an Italian director, screenwriter, special effects artist, and cinematographer from the "golden age" of Italian horror films.

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Marlowe (film)

Marlowe is a 1969 American neo-noir film starring James Garner as Raymond Chandler's private detective Philip Marlowe.

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Married... with Children

Married...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie,Keating, H.R.F., The Bedside Companion to Crime.

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Meet Boston Blackie

Meet Boston Blackie is a 1941 crime film starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie, a notorious, but honorable jewel thief.

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Meet Nero Wolfe

Meet Nero Wolfe is a 1936 mystery film based on the 1934 novel Fer-de-Lance, written by Rex Stout.

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Memento (film)

Memento is a 2000 American neo-noir psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and produced by Suzanne and Jennifer Todd.

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Mercy (2000 film)

Mercy is a 2000 erotic thriller film directed by Damian Harris and starring Ellen Barkin.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr., 14 March 1933) is an English actor, producer, and author.

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Michael Shayne

Michael "Mike" Shayne is a fictional private detective character created during the late 1930s by writer Brett Halliday, a pseudonym of Davis Dresser.

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Michael Shayne, Private Detective

Michael Shayne, Private Detective is a 1940 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde and starring Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver and Joan Valerie.

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Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007), was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer.

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Mickey Spillane

Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer.

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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984 TV series)

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (later titled The New Mike Hammer), with Stacy Keach in the title role, is a television series that originally aired on CBS from January 28, 1984, to May 13, 1987.

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Mike Hammer

Michael "Mike" Hammer is a fictional hard boiled detective created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book I, the Jury.

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Mindhunters

Mindhunters is a 2004 American-British crime thriller film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Kathryn Morris, LL Cool J, Jonny Lee Miller, Patricia Velásquez, Clifton Collins Jr., Christian Slater and Val Kilmer.

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Minority Report (film)

Minority Report is a 2002 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick.

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Mirage (1965 film)

Mirage is a 1965 thriller directed by Edward Dmytryk from a screenplay by Peter Stone, based on the 1952 novel Fallen Angel, written by Howard Fast under the pseudonym Walter Ericson; the novel is not credited by title onscreen.

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Miss Marple

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in 12 of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in 20 short stories.

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Missing person

A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as his or her location and fate are not known.

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Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker.

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Mister Buddwing

Mister Buddwing is a 1966 American film drama directed by Delbert Mann and starring James Garner.

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Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures Corporation is a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, mostly on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.

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Mortal Thoughts

Mortal Thoughts is a 1991 American dramatic mystery thriller, about a woman who is interrogated by the police regarding the death of her friend's husband.

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Mr. Moto

Mr.

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Mr. Wong, Detective

Mr.

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Mulholland Falls

Mulholland Falls is a 1996 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Lee Tamahori, written by Pete Dexter, and starring an ensemble cast featuring Nick Nolte, Jennifer Connelly, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Melanie Griffith, Andrew McCarthy, Treat Williams, and John Malkovich.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.

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Murder a la Mod

Murder a la Mod is a 1968 film directed by Brian De Palma.

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Murder Ahoy!

Murder Ahoy! is the last of four Miss Marple films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that starred Margaret Rutherford.

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Murder at 1600

Murder at 1600 is a 1997 American thriller film directed by Dwight H. Little.

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Murder by Death

Murder by Death is a 1976 American satirical mystery comedy film with a cast featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and Estelle Winwood, written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore.

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Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree is a 1979 British-Canadian mystery thriller film directed by Bob Clark.

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Murder Most Foul

Murder Most Foul is the third of four Miss Marple films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)

Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet, produced by John Brabourne and Richard B. Goodwin, and based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie.

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Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet (released as Farewell, My Lovely in the United Kingdom) is a 1944 American film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor and Anne Shirley.

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Murder, She Said

Murder, She Said is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the novel 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie.

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Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932 film)

Murders in the Rue Morgue is a 1932 American Pre-Code horror film, very loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".

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Mutoscope

The Mutoscope was an early motion picture device, invented by W.K.L. Dickson and Herman Casler and later patented by Herman Casler on November 21, 1894.

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My Favorite Brunette

My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 American romantic comedy film and film noir parody, directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.

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My Gun Is Quick

My Gun Is Quick (1950) is Mickey Spillane's second novel featuring private investigator Mike Hammer.

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Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy (born Myrna Adele Williams; August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American film, television and stage actress.

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Mysterious Intruder

Mysterious Intruder is a 1946 American mystery film noir based on the radio drama The Whistler.

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Mystic River (film)

Mystic River is a 2003 American mystery drama film directed and scored by Clint Eastwood.

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Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew is a fictional American character in a mystery fiction series created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer as the female counterpart to his Hardy Boys series.

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Nancy Drew... Detective

Nancy Drew...

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Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) credited as Neil Simon, is an American playwright, screenwriter and author.

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Neo-noir

Neo-noir is a modern or contemporary motion picture rendition of film noir.

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Nero Wolfe

Nero Wolfe is a fictional character, a brilliant, oversized, eccentric armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout.

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Nick and Nora Charles

Nick and Nora Charles are fictional characters created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Thin Man.

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Nick Carter (literary character)

Nick Carter is a fictional character that began as a dime novel private detective in 1886 and has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century.

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Nick Carter, le roi des détectives

Nick Carter, le roi des détectives (1908) is a French silent serial film based on the popular American novels featuring the master-detective Nick Carter.

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Nick Carter, Master Detective (film)

Nick Carter, Master Detective is a 1939 film starring Walter Pidgeon in the title role.

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Nigel Bruce

William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 February 1895 – 8 October 1953) was a British character actor on stage and screen.

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Night Monster

Night Monster is a 1942 American black-and-white horror film featuring Bela Lugosi and produced and distributed by Universal Pictures Company.

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Night Moves (1975 film)

Night Moves is a 1975 American neo-noir film directed by Arthur Penn.

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Night of Terror

Night of Terror is a 1933 American Pre-Code horror film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, and starring Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, and Tully Marshall.

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No Way Out (1987 film)

No Way Out is a 1987 American political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, and Sean Young.

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No Way to Treat a Lady (film)

No Way to Treat a Lady is a 1968 black comedy thriller directed by Jack Smight, with a screenplay by John Gay adapted from William Goldman's novel of the same name.

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North by Northwest

North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason.

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Obsession (1976 film)

Obsession is a 1976 psychological thriller/mystery film directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow, and Stocker Fontelieu.

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One Frightened Night

One Frightened Night is a 1935 American film directed by Christy Cabanne.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.

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Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an American theatre and film director, originally from Austria-Hungary.

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Out of the Past

Out of the Past (billed in the United Kingdom as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas.

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Outland (film)

Outland is a 1981 British science fiction thriller film written and directed by Peter Hyams and starring Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, and Frances Sternhagen.

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P.J. (film)

P.J. (UK re-release title: New Face in Hell) is a 1968 crime-drama mystery film from Universal Pictures.

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Pam Grier

Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist.

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Paycheck (film)

Paycheck is a 2003 American science fiction action film based on the short story of the same name by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

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Perfect crime

Perfect crime is a colloquial term used in law and fiction (especially crime fiction) to characterize crimes that are undetected, unattributed to an identifiable perpetrator, or otherwise unsolved or unsolvable as a kind of technical achievement on the part of the perpetrator.

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Perry Mason

Perry Mason is an American fictional character, a criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner.

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Peter Falk

Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American actor, known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series Columbo (1968–2003), for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards (1972, 1975, 1976, 1990) and a Golden Globe Award (1973).

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Peter Gunn

Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series, starring Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn with Lola Albright as his girlfriend Edie Hart, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1958, to 1960 and on ABC in 1960-1961.

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Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein; 26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American actor.

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers, CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English film actor, comedian and singer.

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Phantom Lady (film)

Phantom Lady is a 1944 crime drama film noir directed by Robert Siodmak starring Franchot Tone, Ella Raines and Alan Curtis.

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Phantom Raiders

Phantom Raiders is a 1940 film, the second in the series starring Walter Pidgeon as Nick Carter.

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Philip Marlowe

Philip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler.

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Philo Vance

Philo Vance is a fictional character featured in 12 crime novels written by S. S. Van Dine (the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright), published in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Play It Again, Sam (film)

Play It Again, Sam is a 1972 film written by and starring Woody Allen, based on his 1969 Broadway play.

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Plot (narrative)

Plot refers to the sequence of events inside a story which affect other events through the principle of cause and effect.

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Plot twist

A plot twist is a literary technique that introduces a radical change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot in a work of fiction.

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Police officer

A police officer, also known as an officer, policeman, policewoman, cop, police agent, or a police employee is a warranted law employee of a police force.

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Police procedural

The police procedural, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of detective fiction that depicts investigations into several unrelated crimes in a single story or episode.

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Police Squad!

Police Squad! is an American television comedy series broadcast on the ABC network in 1982, created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin.

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Political thriller

A political thriller is a thriller that is set against the backdrop of a political power struggle.

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Poodle Springs

Poodle Springs is the eighth Philip Marlowe novel.

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Powers Boothe

Powers Allen Boothe (June 1, 1948 – May 14, 2017) was an American television, video game, and film actor and voice actor.

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Pretty Maids All in a Row

Pretty Maids All in a Row is a 1971 American mystery film that is part dark comedy, part murder mystery.

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Private investigator

A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services.

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Protagonist

A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).

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Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s.

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Pure Luck

Pure Luck is a 1991 American comedy film starring Martin Short and Danny Glover.

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Puzzle

A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge.

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Race to Witch Mountain

Race to Witch Mountain is a 2009 American science fiction adventure thriller film directed by Andy Fickman and stars Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Ciarán Hinds and Carla Gugino.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Radioland Murders

Radioland Murders is a 1994 comedy mystery film directed by Mel Smith and co-written and produced by George Lucas.

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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.

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Rear Window

Rear Window is a 1954 American Technicolor mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder".

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Red Dragon (2002 film)

Red Dragon is a 2002 horror film based on the novel of the same title by Thomas Harris.

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Red herring

A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important issue.

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Red Skelton

Richard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913September 17, 1997) was an American comedy entertainer.

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Remington Steele

Remington Steele is an American television series co-created by Robert Butler and Michael Gleason.

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René Clair

René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981) born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer.

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Retrograde amnesia

Retrograde amnesia (RA) is a loss of memory-access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease.

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Return from Witch Mountain

Return from Witch Mountain is a 1978 American science fiction-adventure film and a sequel to Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and the second film in the ''Witch Mountain'' franchise.

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Rex Stout

Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.

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Rian Johnson

Rian Craig Johnson (born December 17, 1973) is an American filmmaker and television director who wrote and directed the films Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Looper, Brick, and The Brothers Bloom.

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Richard Boone

Richard Allen Boone (June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981) was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns and for the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel.

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Richard Dix

Richard Dix (July 18, 1893 – September 20, 1949) was an American motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent and sound film.

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Righteous Kill

Righteous Kill is a 2008 American crime thriller film with elements of a buddy cop film directed by Jon Avnet, and starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

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Rising Sun (film)

Rising Sun is a 1993 American crime film written and directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Sean Connery (who was also an executive producer), Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company.

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Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Robert Culp

Robert Martin Culp (August 16, 1930March 24, 2010) was an American actor, screenwriter, voice actor, and director, widely known for his work in television.

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Robert Downey Jr.

Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor and singer.

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Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer.

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Robert Montgomery (actor)

Robert Montgomery (born Henry Montgomery Jr.; May 21, 1904 – September 27, 1981) was an American film and television actor, director, and producer.

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Roman Polanski

Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor.

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Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald is the main pseudonym that was used by the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar (December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983).

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S. S. Van Dine

S. S. Van Dine (also styled S.S. Van Dine) is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939) when he wrote detective novels. Wright was an important figure in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-World War I New York, and under the pseudonym (which he originally used to conceal his identity) he created the immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in movies and on the radio.

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Sam Spade

Sam Spade is a fictional private detective and the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel, ''The Maltese Falcon''.

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Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the female protagonist V.I. Warshawski.

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Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live television variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol.

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Saw (franchise)

Saw is an American horror franchise distributed by Lionsgate, produced by Twisted Pictures and created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, that consists of eight feature films and additional media.

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Scream (franchise)

Scream is an American horror franchise created by Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven.

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Screwball comedy film

Screwball comedy is a genre of comedy film that became popular during the Great Depression, originating in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1940s.

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Secret Window

Secret Window is a 2004 American psychological horror-thriller film starring Johnny Depp and John Turturro.

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Self-reference

Self-reference occurs in natural or formal languages when a sentence, idea or formula refers to itself.

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Serial film

A serial, film serial, movie serial or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, generally advancing weekly, until the series is completed.

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Serial killer

A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people,A serial killer is most commonly defined as a person who kills three or more people for psychological gratification; reliable sources over the years agree.

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Seven (1995 film)

Seven (stylized as SE7EN) is a 1995 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker.

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Sexploitation film

A sexploitation film (or "sex-exploitation film") is a class of independently produced, low-budget feature film that is generally associated with the 1960s, and that serves largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity.

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Shadow

A shadow is a dark area where light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object.

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Shamus (film)

Shamus is a 1973 American film directed by Buzz Kulik, and starring Burt Reynolds and Dyan Cannon.

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Shattered (1991 film)

Shattered is a 1991 American neo-noir/psychological thriller starring Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins, Joanne Whalley and Corbin Bernsen.

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Sheba, Baby

Sheba, Baby is a 1975 American blaxploitation action film directed by William Girdler and starring Pam Grier and Austin Stoker.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)

Sherlock Holmes is the name given to the ITV TV series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company Granada Television between 1984 and 1994, with the first two series bearing the title The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes on screen and being followed by subsequent sub-series bearing the titles of other short story collections by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)

Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 mystery period action film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror is the third film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes movies and the first to be produced by Universal Pictures.

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Sherlock Holmes Baffled

Sherlock Holmes Baffled is a very short American silent film created in 1900 with cinematography by Arthur Marvin.

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a 2011 period action mystery film directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, and Dan Lin.

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Sherlock Jr.

Sherlock Jr. is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez and Joseph A. Mitchell.

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Shutter Island

Shutter Island is a novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, published by Harper Collins in April 2003.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Sisters (1973 film)

Sisters, also known as Blood Sisters in the United Kingdom, is a 1973 American psychological horror film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt and Charles Durning.

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Sky Murder

Sky Murder is a 1940 film starring Walter Pidgeon in his third and final outing for MGM as Nick Carter.

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Slasher film

A slasher film is a film in the sub-genre of horror films involving a violent psychopath stalking and murdering a group of people, usually by use of bladed tools.

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Sleepy Hollow (film)

Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American gothic supernatural horror film directed by Tim Burton.

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Sleuth (1972 film)

Sleuth is a 1972 British-American mystery thriller film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.

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Smart Blonde

Smart Blonde is a 1937 American mystery film directed by Frank McDonald.

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Some Girls Do

Some Girls Do is a 1969 British comedy spy film directed by Ralph Thomas.

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Someone Behind You

Someone Behind You is a 2007 South Korean psychological horror film written, directed and co-produced by Oh Ki-hwan, based on the manhwa It's Two People by Kang Kyung-ok.

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Somewhere in the Night (film)

Somewhere in the Night is a 1946 film noir and psychological thriller directed and co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, and Lloyd Nolan.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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Soylent Green

Soylent Green is a 1973 American post-apocalyptic science fiction thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston and Leigh Taylor-Young.

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Spellbound (1945 film)

Spellbound is a 1945 American film noir psychological mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Splatter film

A splatter film is a subgenre of horror film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence.

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Spy film

The spy film genre deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way (such as the adaptations of John le Carré) or as a basis for fantasy (such as many James Bond films).

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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.

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State of Play (film)

State of Play is a 2009 political thriller film, based on the six-part British television serial of the same name which first aired on BBC One in 2003.

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Steampunk

Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.

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Steve Martin

Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Striking Distance

Striking Distance is a 1993 American action thriller film starring Bruce Willis as Pittsburgh Police homicide detective Thomas Hardy.

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Stuart Palmer

Stuart Palmer (June 21, 1905 – February 4, 1968) was a popular mystery novel author and screenwriter, best known for his character Hildegarde Withers.

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Super-Sleuth

Super-Sleuth is a 1937 film directed by Ben Stoloff.

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Supernatural

The supernatural (Medieval Latin: supernātūrālis: supra "above" + naturalis "natural", first used: 1520–1530 AD) is that which exists (or is claimed to exist), yet cannot be explained by laws of nature.

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Surfside 6

Surfside 6 is an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

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Suspect

In law enforcement jargon, a suspect is a known person accused or suspected of committing a crime.

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Suspense

Suspense is a feeling of fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, tension, and anxiety developed from an unpredictable, mysterious, and rousing source of entertainment.

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Swinging Sixties

Swinging Sixties was a youth-driven cultural revolution that took place in the UK during the mid-to-late 1960s, emphasising modernity and fun-loving hedonism, with Swinging London as its epicentre.

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Taking Lives (film)

Taking Lives is a 2004 American psychological thriller film starring Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke and directed by D. J. Caruso.

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Ted Bundy (film)

Ted Bundy is a 2002 American biographical crime film directed and co-written by Matthew Bright.

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The Addams Family (1964 TV series)

The Addams Family is an American television series based on the characters from Charles Addams' ''New Yorker'' cartoons.

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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother is a 1975 American musical comedy film with Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Roy Kinnear and Leo McKern.

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The Alphabet Killer

The Alphabet Killer is a 2008 thriller-horror film, loosely based on the Alphabet murders that took place in Rochester, New York between 1971 and 1973.

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The Alphabet Murders

The Alphabet Murders is a British detective film based on the novel The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie, starring Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot.

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The Artist (film)

The Artist is a 2011 French comedy-drama in the style of a black-and-white silent film written, directed, and co-edited by Michel Hazanavicius, produced by Thomas Langmann, and stars Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo.

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The Avengers (TV series)

The Avengers is an espionage British television series created in 1961.

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The Bat (1926 film)

The Bat is a 1926 American silent film based on the 1920 Broadway hit The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, directed by Roland West and starring Jack Pickford and Louise Fazenda.

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The Bat (1959 film)

The Bat is an American mystery film from 1959 starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead.

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The Bat Whispers

The Bat Whispers is a 1930 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Roland West, produced by Joseph M. Schenck, and released by United Artists.

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The Big Sleep (1946 film)

The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name.

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The Big Sleep (1978 film)

The Big Sleep is a 1978 film, the second film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name.

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The Big Valley

The Big Valley is an American Western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965 to May 19, 1969, starring Barbara Stanwyck as the widow of a wealthy 19th-century California rancher and Richard Long, Lee Majors, Peter Breck and Linda Evans as her family.

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The Black Bird

The Black Bird is a 1975 film released December 25, 1975 starring George Segal and Stéphane Audran.

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The Black Dahlia (film)

The Black Dahlia is a 2006 French-American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Josh Friedman.

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The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 American crime film and film noir, directed by George Marshall based on an original screenplay by Raymond Chandler.

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The Bone Collector

The Bone Collector is a 1999 psychological thriller film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, directed by Phillip Noyce and produced by Martin Bregman.

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The Bowery Boys

The Bowery Boys were fictional New York City characters, portrayed by a company of New York actors, who were the subject of feature films released by Monogram Pictures from 1946 through 1958.

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The Brasher Doubloon

The Brasher Doubloon (known in the UK as The High Window) is a 1947 crime film noir directed by John Brahm and based on the novel The High Window by Raymond Chandler.

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The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black (La Mariée était en noir) is a 1968 French film directed by François Truffaut and based on the novel of the same name by William Irish, a pseudonym for Cornell Woolrich.

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The Canary Murder Case

The Canary Murder Case (1927) is a murder mystery novel which deals with the murders of a sexy nightclub singer known as "the Canary," and, eventually, her boyfriend, solved by Philo Vance.

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The Canary Murder Case (film)

The Canary Murder Case is a 1929 American Pre-Code crime-mystery film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Malcolm St. Clair and Frank Tuttle.

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The Cat and the Canary (1927 film)

The Cat and the Canary is a 1927 American silent horror film adaptation of John Willard's 1922 black comedy play of the same name.

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The Cat Creeps

The Cat Creeps is a 1930 American pre-Code crime/mystery film, and a sound remake of The Cat and the Canary (1927).

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The Cat o' Nine Tails

The Cat o' Nine Tails (Il gatto a nove code) is a 1971 giallo film written and directed by Dario Argento, adapted from a story by Dardano Sacchetti, Luigi Cozzi, and an uncredited Bryan Edgar Wallace.

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The Champagne Murders

The Champagne Murders (Le scandale) is a 1967 French suspense thriller mystery film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Anthony Perkins.

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The Cheap Detective

The Cheap Detective is a 1978 American satirical comedy film written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore as a follow-up to their successful Murder by Death (Columbia, 1976).

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The Conversation

The Conversation is a 1974 American mystery thriller film written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman with supporting roles by John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr and Robert Duvall.

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The Crime Club

The Crime Club was an imprint of the Doubleday publishing company, which later spawned a 1946-47 anthology radio series.

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The Crime Doctor's Diary

The Crime Doctor's Diary is a 1949 American mystery film directed by Seymour Friedman and starring Warner Baxter, Stephen Dunne and Lois Maxwell.

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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion is a 2001 crime comedy film written, directed and starring Woody Allen.

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The Dark Corner

The Dark Corner is a 1946 black-and-white film noir directed by Henry Hathaway starring Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens and Clifton Webb.

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The Dead Pool

The Dead Pool is a 1988 American action film directed by Buddy Van Horn, written by Steve Sharon, and starring Clint Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan.

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The Detective (1968 film)

The Detective is a 1968 color neo-noir crime film in Panavision directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Aaron Rosenberg and starring Frank Sinatra, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp.

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The Devil's Mask

The Devil's Mask is a 1946 American crime film directed by Henry Levin and starring Anita Louise, Jim Bannon and Michael Duane.

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The Drowning Pool

The Drowning Pool is a 1950 mystery novel written by Ross Macdonald, his second book in the series revolving around the cases of private detective Lew Archer.

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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

The Ex-Mrs.

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The Falcon (character)

Gay Stanhope Falcon (later known in film and radio as The Falcon) is a fictional character created in 1940 by Michael Arlen.

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The Falcon Takes Over

The Falcon Takes Over (also known as The Falcon Steps Out), is a 1942 black-and-white mystery film directed by Irving Reis.

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The Falcon's Brother

The Falcon's Brother is a 1942 American crime drama film in which George Sanders, who had been portraying "The Falcon" in a series of films, appears with his real-life brother Tom Conway; with Sanders handing off the series to Conway, who would play the new Falcon in nine subsequent films.

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The Forgotten (2004 film)

The Forgotten is a 2004 American science fiction psychological horror-thriller drama film directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard, Linus Roache, and Anthony Edwards.

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The French Connection (film)

The French Connection is a 1971 American crime thriller film directed by William Friedkin.

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The General's Daughter (film)

The General's Daughter is a 1999 American crime film directed by Simon West and starring John Travolta.

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The Girl Hunters

The Girl Hunters (1962) is Mickey Spillane's seventh novel featuring private investigator Mike Hammer.

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The Glass Key (1942 film)

The Glass Key is a 1942 American crime drama film and film noir directed by Stuart Heisler and based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett.

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The High Window

The High Window is a 1942 novel written by Raymond Chandler.

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The House Without a Key (serial)

The House Without a Key is a 1926 American mystery film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet.

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The Kennel Murder Case (film)

The Kennel Murder Case is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Michael Curtiz and adapted from the 1933 novel of the same name by S. S. Van Dine.

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The Lady in the Lake

The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring, as do all his major works, the Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe.

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The Last of Sheila

The Last of Sheila is a 1973 mystery thriller that was directed by Herbert Ross and written directly for the screen by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim.

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The Late Show (film)

The Late Show is a 1977 American neo-noir mystery film written and directed by Robert Benton and produced by Robert Altman.

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The List of Adrian Messenger

The List of Adrian Messenger is a 1963 American mystery film directed by John Huston starring Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Clive Brook, Gladys Cooper and Herbert Marshall.

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The Lone Wolf (film)

The Lone Wolf is a 1917 American silent drama film based on the 1914 novel The Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance.

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The Long Goodbye (film)

The Long Goodbye is a 1973 thriller film directed by Robert Altman and based on Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel of the same title.

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The Long Kiss Goodnight

The Long Kiss Goodnight is a 1996 American action film directed and produced by Renny Harlin, written and produced by Shane Black and starring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson.

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The Machinist

The Machinist is a 2004 psychological thriller film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Scott Kosar.

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The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)

The Maltese Falcon is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film, based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett and directed by Roy Del Ruth.

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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)

The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 film noir written and directed by John Huston in his directorial debut, and based on Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel of the same name.

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fiction television series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and first broadcast on NBC.

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The Man with Bogart's Face

The Man with Bogart's Face (also called Sam Marlowe, Private Eye) is a 1980 comedy film, released by 20th Century Fox and based on a novel of the same name.

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The Midnight Man (1974 film)

The Midnight Man is a 1974 detective film starring and co-directed by Burt Lancaster.

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The Mirror Crack'd

The Mirror Crack'd is a 1980 British mystery film based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962) and directed by Guy Hamilton.

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The Mod Squad

The Mod Squad is an American crime drama series that ran on ABC from 1968 to 1973.

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The Monster Walks

The Monster Walks is a 1932 American Pre-Code black-and-white horror film directed by Frank R. Strayer.

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The Morning After (1986 film)

The Morning After is a 1986 American mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges and Raul Julia.

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The Munsters

The Munsters is an American sitcom depicting the home life of a family of benign monsters starring Fred Gwynne as Frankenstein's monster-type head-of-the-household Herman Munster, Yvonne De Carlo as his vampire wife, Lily Munster, Al Lewis as Grandpa, the over-the-hill vampire who relishes in talking about the "good old days", and Beverly Owen (later replaced by Pat Priest) as their teenage niece whose all-American beauty made her the family outcast and Butch Patrick as their half-vampire, half-werewolf son Eddie Munster.

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens.

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935 film)

Mystery of Edwin Drood is a 1935 American mystery-drama film directed by Stuart Walker and starring Claude Rains in the role of the villainous John Jasper.

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The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842.

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The Naked Gun

The Naked Gun is a series of American crime comedy films, created by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker.

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The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco.

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The Number 23

The Number 23 is a 2007 American psychological thriller film written by Fernley Phillips and directed by Joel Schumacher.

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The Orphanage (film)

The Orphanage (El Orfanato) is a 2007 Spanish horror film and the debut feature of Spanish filmmaker J. A. Bayona.

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The Parallax View

The Parallax View is a 1974 American political thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula, and starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels and Paula Prentiss.

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The Penguin Pool Murder

The Penguin Pool Murder is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy/mystery film starring Edna May Oliver as Hildegarde Withers, a witness in a murder case at the New York Aquarium, with James Gleason as the police inspector in charge of the case, who investigates with her unwanted help, and Robert Armstrong as an attorney representing Mae Clarke, the wife of the victim.

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The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)

The Perils of Pauline is a 1914 American melodrama film serial shown in weekly installments, featuring Pearl White as the title character.

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The Phantom Thief

The Phantom Thief is a 1946 American crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.

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The Pink Panther (1963 film)

The Pink Panther is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine and Claudia Cardinale.

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The Power of the Whistler

The Power of the Whistler is a 1945 mystery film noir based on the radio drama The Whistler.

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The Presidio (film)

The Presidio is a 1988 American crime drama film directed by Peter Hyams and starring Sean Connery and Mark Harmon.

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The Private Eyes (1980 film)

The Private Eyes is a 1980 American comedy mystery film starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts.

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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 DeLuxe Color film in Panavision written and produced by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder.

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The Raven (2012 film)

The Raven is a 2012 American psychological crime thriller film directed by James McTeigue, produced by Marc D. Evans, Trevor Macy and Aaron Ryder and written by Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare.

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The Reckoning (2003 film)

The Reckoning, also known as Morality Play (and as El misterio de Wells in Spain), is a 2003 British-Spanish murder mystery drama film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe, Tom Hardy, Gina McKee, Brian Cox and Vincent Cassel.

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The Red Queen Kills Seven Times

The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (La dama rossa uccide sette volte) is a 1972 giallo film directed by Emilio P. Miraglia.

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The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud is a 1975 American horror mystery film directed by J. Lee Thompson.

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The Ring (2002 film)

The Ring (stylized as the ring) is a 2002 American supernatural horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox and Daveigh Chase.

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The Saint (Simon Templar)

Simon Templar is a fictional character known as The Saint.

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The Saint in New York (film)

The Saint in New York is an American 1938 crime film, directed by Ben Holmes and adapted from Leslie Charteris's novel of the same name by Charles Kaufman and Mortimer Offner.

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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. is a 1974 novel by American writer Nicholas Meyer.

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The Silence of the Lambs (film)

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American horror-thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Scott Glenn.

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The Silent Passenger

The Silent Passenger is a British black-and-white mystery film produced in 1935 at Ealing Studios, London.

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The Singing Detective

The Singing Detective is a BBC television serial drama, written by Dennis Potter, which stars Michael Gambon and was directed by Jon Amiel.

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The Singing Detective (film)

The Singing Detective is a 2003 American musical crime comedy film directed by Keith Gordon and loosely based on the BBC serial of the same name, a work by British writer Dennis Potter.

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The Sleeping Car Murders

The Sleeping Car Murders (French title: Compartiment tueurs) is a 1965 French mystery film directed by Costa-Gavras from the novel by Sébastien Japrisot.

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The Spanish Cape Mystery

The Spanish Cape Mystery is a novel that was written by Ellery Queen as the ninth book of the Ellery Queen mysteries.

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The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh

The Strange Vice of Mrs.

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The Thin Man

The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in the December 1933 issue of Redbook.

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The Thin Man (film)

The Thin Man is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett.

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The Third Day

The Third Day is a feature film released in 1965.

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The Third Man

The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene.

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The Two Jakes

The Two Jakes is a 1990 American neo-noir mystery film, and the sequel to the 1974 film Chinatown.

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The Unknown (1946 film)

The Unknown is a 1946 mystery film directed by Henry Levin made by Columbia Pictures as the third and final part of its I Love a Mystery series based on the popular radio program.

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The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects is a 1995 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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The Whistler

The Whistler is an American radio mystery drama which ran from May 16, 1942, until September 22, 1955, on the west-coast regional CBS radio network.

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The Wild Wild West

The Wild Wild West is an American Science Fiction/Spy/Western television series that ran on the CBS television network for four seasons (104 episodes) from September 17, 1965, to April 4, 1969.

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The Wisdom Tree

The Wisdom Tree is a 2013 independent mystery science fiction film.

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They Might Be Giants (film)

They Might Be Giants is a 1971 film based on the play of the same name (both written by James Goldman) starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward.

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Think Fast, Mr. Moto

Think Fast, Mr.

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Thomas Harris

William Thomas Harris III (born September 22, 1940) is an American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter.

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Threat

A threat is a communicated intent to inflict harm or loss on another person.

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Thriller film

Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that involves excitement and suspense in the audience.

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Tightrope (film)

Tightrope is a 1984 American suspense thriller produced by and starring Clint Eastwood and written and directed by Richard Tuggle.

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Tih Minh

Tih Minh is a 1918 French film serial directed by Louis Feuillade.

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Tim Burton

Timothy Walter BurtonTim Burton's middle name is cited as Walter by the Museum of Modern Art on its and covering Burton's career as an artist and filmmaker, though it is cited as William by other sources, such as the (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator.

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Tim Conway

Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway (born December 15, 1933) is an American actor, writer, director, and comedian.

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Tom Conway

Tom Conway (born Thomas Charles Sanders, 15 September 1904 – 22 April 1967) was a British film, television and radio actor remembered for playing private detectives (including The Falcon, Sherlock Holmes, Bulldog Drummond and The Saint) and psychiatrists.

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Tony Rome

Tony Rome is a 1967 American Neo Noir detective film starring Frank Sinatra and directed by Gordon Douglas, adapted from Marvin H. Albert's novel Miami Mayhem.

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Torchy Blane

Torchy Blane is a fictional female reporter starring in a series of films in the 1930s.

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Total Recall (1990 film)

Total Recall is a 1990 American science-fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, and Michael Ironside.

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Total Recall (2012 film)

Total Recall is a 2012 American dystopian science-fiction action film directed by Len Wiseman.

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Tracy Scoggins

Tracy Dawn Scoggins (born November 13, 1953) is an American actress known for her roles as Monica Colby in the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty and its spin-off series The Colbys, Cat Grant in the 1993–1997 television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and as Captain Elizabeth Lochley during the final season of Babylon 5 in 1998.

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Travis McGee

Travis McGee is a fictional character, created by American mystery writer John D. MacDonald.

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Trenchcoat (film)

Trenchcoat is a 1983 American action comedy film starring Margot Kidder and Robert Hays produced by Walt Disney Productions during an era of adult-oriented films made by the company alongside with The Devil and Max Devlin, Tex, Night Crossing, Never Cry Wolf, Something Wicked This Way Comes and a few others.

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Trouble Man (film)

Trouble Man is a 1972 Soul Cinema Classic film produced and released by 20th Century Fox.

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True Confessions (film)

True Confessions is a 1981 crime film directed by Ulu Grosbard, The film stars Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall as the brothers Spellacy, a priest and police detective.

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TV Tropes

TV Tropes is a wiki that collects and expands descriptions and examples of various plot conventions and plot devices, more commonly known as tropes, that are found within many creative works.

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Twilight (1998 film)

Twilight is a 1998 American thriller neo-noir film directed by Robert Benton, written by Benton and Richard Russo, and starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing and James Garner.

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is a 1992 psychological horror film directed by David Lynch and written by Lynch and Robert Engels.

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Two in the Dark

Two in the Dark is a 1936 mystery film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Gail Patrick, and Alan Hale.

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Two O'Clock Courage

Two O'Clock Courage is a 1945 American film noir directed by Anthony Mann and written by Robert E. Kent, based on novel written by Gelett Burgess.

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor.

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Under Suspicion (2000 film)

Under Suspicion is a 2000 American-French thriller film directed by Stephen Hopkins.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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V. I. Warshawski

Victoria Iphigenia "Vic" "V.

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Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, and a political activist.

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Velvet Smooth

Velvet Smooth is a 1976 American blaxploitation film about a crime lord who hires a female private detective to find out who's stealing his business.

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Vertigo (film)

Vertigo is a 1958 American film noir psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Vincent Price

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films.

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Walter Mosley

Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction.

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Walter Pidgeon

Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian-American actor.

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Warner Baxter

Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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What Have You Done to Solange?

What Have You Done to Solange? (Cosa avete fatto a Solange?) is a 1972 giallo film directed by Massimo Dallamano, and starring Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger, Cristina Galbó, and Camille Keaton.

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What Lies Beneath

What Lies Beneath is a 2000 American supernatural horror film directed by Robert Zemeckis.

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When the Bough Breaks (1993 film)

When the Bough Breaks is a 1994 American thriller about a serial killer, directed by Michael Cohn, and starring Ally Walker, Martin Sheen, Ron Perlman and Tara Subkoff.

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When Were You Born

When Were You Born is a 1938 murder mystery film starring Anna May Wong as an astrologer who helps the police.

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Where's Marlowe?

Where's Marlowe? is a 1998 comedy mystery film written by Daniel Pyne and John Mankiewicz.

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Whistling in Brooklyn

Whistling in Brooklyn (1943) is the third and last film starring comedian Red Skelton as radio personality and amateur detective Wally "The Fox" Benton, following Whistling in the Dark and Whistling in Dixie.

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Whistling in Dixie

Whistling in Dixie is a 1942 crime comedy film, the second of three starring Red Skelton as radio detective and amateur crime solver Wally Benton (aka. The Fox) and Ann Rutherford as his fiancee.

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Whistling in the Dark (1941 film)

Whistling in the Dark is the first of three comedy films starring Red Skelton as Wally "the Fox" Benton, who writes and acts in radio murder mysteries.

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Who Done It? (1942 film)

Who Done It? is a 1942 comedy-mystery film starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.

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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? is a 1978 comedy mystery film starring George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Morley based on the novel Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe by Nan and Ivan Lyons.

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Whodunit

A whodunit or whodunnit (a colloquial elision of "Who done it?" or "Who did it?") is a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the audience is given the opportunity to engage in the same process of deduction as the protagonist throughout the investigation of a crime.

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William Powell

William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984) was an American actor.

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Witch Hunt (1994 film)

Witch Hunt (1994) is an HBO horror detective film starring Dennis Hopper and Eric Bogosian, directed by Paul Schrader and written by Joseph Dougherty.

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Without a Clue

Without a Clue is a 1988 British comedy film directed by Thom Eberhardt and starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley.

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Woody Allen

Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, and musician whose career spans more than six decades.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Xenophobia

Xenophobia is the fear and distrust of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange.

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Yesterday Was a Lie

Yesterday Was a Lie is a 2008 neo-noir film written and directed by James Kerwin and starring Kipleigh Brown, Chase Masterson, John Newton, and Mik Scriba.

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Young Sherlock Holmes

Young Sherlock Holmes (also known as Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear) is a 1985 American mystery adventure film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Chris Columbus, based on the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Zero Effect

Zero Effect is a 1998 mystery comedy film written and directed by Jake Kasdan.

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Zodiac (film)

Zodiac is a 2007 American mystery-thriller film directed by David Fincher.

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1941 in film

The year 1941 in film involved some significant events.

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1944 in film

The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura.

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1949 in film

The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.

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1954 in film

The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones.

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1958 in film

The year 1958 in film in the US involved some significant events, including the hit musicals South Pacific and Gigi.

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1959 in film

The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.

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1974 in film

The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.

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1979 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1979.

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1980s in film

The decade of the 1980s in Western cinema saw the return of studio-driven pictures, coming from the filmmaker-driven New Hollywood era of the 1970s.

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1986 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1986 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1986 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1986.

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1995 in film

This is a list of films released in 1995.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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