Films like The Face of Fu Manchu
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the T...
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The Verdict
Film · 1946 · also crime and thrillerAfter an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
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The Glass Key
Film · 1942 · also crime and thrillerA crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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Blackmail
Film · 1929 · also crime and thrillerLondon, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Ali...
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Winged Creatures
Film · 2009 · also crimeA psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a docto...
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Ministry of Fear
Film · 1944 · also crime and thrillerStephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he...
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Hammett
Film · 1982 · also thrillerChinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpe...
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Nightfall
Film · 1956 · also crime and thrillerAn innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Film · 2019 · also crimeNancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit i...
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The Naked City
Film · 1948 · also crime and thrillerAfter a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
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Cry of the City
Film · 1948 · also crimePetty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to a...
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