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Title: Cast a Dark Shadow Summary: A clever fortune-hunter with a penchant for murder does in his elderly, supposedly rich, wife and manages to get away with it. After an investigation results in a...
Title: Faces in the Dark Summary: Businessman and inventor Richard Hammond is determined to develop and market the perfect light-bulb. In a freak lab accident he is blinded and suffers a partial br...
The Amazing Colossal Man is a 1957 American black-and-white science fiction film directed by Bert I. Gordon starring Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, and William Hudson. The film is based on the uncredit...
The Dark Mirror is a 1946 American FILM NOlR psychological thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak starring Olivia de Havilland as twins and Lew Ayres as their psychiatrist. It is representative o...
Title: Cast a Dark Shadow Summary: A clever fortune-hunter with a penchant for murder does in his elderly, supposedly rich, wife and manages to get away with it. After an investigation results in a...
A woman recovering from a car accident in which she lost her unborn child finds herself pursued by a coven of devil worshipers after taking part in a ritual.
The best noir ever made except for Casablanca and Maltese Falcon. Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American dark comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder, Charles Brackett and D...
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is a 1970 giallo film written and directed by Dario Argento. It follows an American writer named Sam Dalmas, who witnesses an attempted murder in an art gallery ...
Title: The Living Ghost Summary: Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy kidnap victim Walter Craig. Craig unexpectedly turns up alive but with...
Flatliners is a 1990 American science fiction psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Michael Douglas and Rick Bieber, and written by Peter Filardi. It stars Kiefer Suthe...
Dementia is a 1955 American black-and-white experimental horror film produced, written, and directed by John Parker, and starring Adrienne Barrett and Bruno Ve Sota. As the narrator invites us to e...
Onibaba, also titled The Hole, is a Japanese horror film directed by Kaneto Shindo that explores themes of love, betrayal, and the primal instincts of survival in a war-torn setting. Set in 14th-...
And Then There Were None is a 1945 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1939 mystery novel of the same name, directed by René Clair. In the film, ten strangers are invited to a remote island by a ...
Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. The story follows a young woman named Charlotte "...
Witchfinder General is a 1968 British period folk horror film directed by Michael Reeves and starring Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer, Robert Russell and Rupert Davies. The screenplay, by R...
"The Black Book," also known as "Reign of Terror," is a 1949 historical thriller film directed by Anthony Mann, set during the French Revolution. The film centers on Charles D'Aubigny, who imperson...
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf; then meets a tall dark man Alexis, who seems to know all about such things.
Cape Fear is a 1962 American psychological horror thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson , from a screenplay by James R. Webb , adapting the 1957 novel The Executioners by John...
"B-budget delivers A-budget thrills" "Memorable and intelligent" "A little gem!" (IMDB reviews quotes). Well regarded British sci fi/horror from 1963, in which like "Invasion of the the Body Snatch...
I nvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) is a science fiction film that explores themes of paranoia and conformity. The plot unfolds in the fictional town of Santa Mira, California, where a small-tow...
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is a political thriller directed by John Frankenheimer, based on Richard Condon's novel of the same name. The film revolves around the themes of brainwashing, politi...
Morgiana is a 1972 Czechoslovak Gothic drama film directed by Juraj Herz, based on a novel by Alexander Grin, Jessie and Morgiana. The film explores themes of jealousy, betrayal, and the dark sid...
The Stranger is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed and co-written by Orson Welles, starring himself along with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young. The story follows war crimes investig...
he Strange Door is a 1951 American horror film directed by Joseph Pevney . It is based on the short story "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" by Robert Louis Stevenson . The film features notable perfor...
The Italian Connection (original title: La Morte Toccò a Forth ) is a 1972 Italian crime film that belongs to the poliziotteschi genre. The film centers around a drug trafficking operation in Ital...
The House of the Seven Gables , directed by Joe May, is based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel of the same name. The film presents a blend of mystery, romance, and supernatural elements.The story is ...
The Collector is a 1965 psychological horror film directed by William Wyler, adapted by Stanley Mann and John Kohn from the 1963 novel by John Fowles. It stars Terence Stamp as a young man who abdu...
The Hands of Orlac is a silent horror film directed by Maurice Tourneur , based on the novel by Maurice Renard . The story follows Paul Orlac , a successful pianist whose life takes a dramatic turn...