A mystery novelist’s detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed. Read More »
Mystery
Gambling Lady (1934) Archie Mayo, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee’s. Read More »
Remains to Be Seen (1953) Don Weis, June Allyson, Van Johnson, Louis Calhern
June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a murder is committed. Read More »
The Green Glove (1952) Rudolph Maté, Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks, Cedric Hardwicke
In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona Read More »
Mystery in Mexico (1948) Robert Wise, William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez
Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. Read More »
Forty Naughty Girls (1937) Edward F. Cline, James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord
Police Inspector Oscar Piper and Hildegared Withers attend the opening night of a Broadway play in New York City Read More »
Vinodentro (2013) Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani, Vincenzo Amato, Pietro Sermonti, Daniela Virgilio
It all started with the first wine sip Giovanni Cuttin had in his life. Read More »
Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) H. Bruce Humberstone, Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore
When an experimental plane is hijacked and its pilot murdered, the new guidance system that will allow it to fly unmanned is stolen. Read More »
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982) Christopher Petit, Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman, Pippa Guard
A rather loose adaptation of the P. D. James novel. Cordelia Gray, the survivor of a partnership in a detective agency Read More »
Maniac (1963) Michael Carreras, Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston
Kerwin Matthews, playing a dissolute drifter down on his luck, Jeff Farrell, is stranded in a cheap bar in France where he falls for Annette Read More »
Twice-Told Tales (1963) Sidney Salkow, Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Brett Halsey
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Read More »
The Baron (2011) Edgar Pêra, Marina Albuquerque, Marcos Barbosa, Vítor Correia
A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Read More »
Nightcap (2000) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Read More »
Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936) H. Bruce Humberstone, Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke, Mystery
Gravelle, a former baritone believed dead after an opera house fire, has been languishing in a mental institution for the past seven years, an anonymous amnesiac. Read More »
Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936) H. Bruce Humberstone, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sport, Thriller
While steaming from Honolulu to Los Angeles the owner of a prize racehorse headed for the Santa Anita Handicap is killed, apparently kicked to death by his stallion. Read More »