A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor’s murder, which occurred during the performance of a play. Read More »
Thriller
Dead End Run (2003) Gakuryû Ishii, Tadanobu Asano, Urara Awata, Mikako Ichikawa, Action, Thriller
Dead End Run is an hour length collection of three short films by Japanese visual genius Ishii Sogo. Read More »
Matador (1986) Pedro Almodóvar, Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martínez, Drama, Thriller
An ex-bullfighter who gets turned on by killing, a lady lawyer with the same fetish and a young man driven insane by his religious upbringing – these are the main characters in this stylish black comedy about dark sides of human nature. Read More »
Bluebeard (2017) Soo-youn Lee, Jin-woong Jo, Goo Shin, Dae-Myung Kim, Thriller
Dr. Seung-hoon sedates his landlord before medical check-up, when the old man begins telling him a convincing murder confession. Read More »
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) Robert Wiene, Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Read More »
The Hands of Orlac / Orlacs Hände (1924) Robert Wiene, Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Strassny, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Orlac is a world famous pianist. One day he is badly hurt in a big train wreck. He is in danger of losing both his hands so his wife begs the doctors to save them. Read More »
The Naked Jungle (1954) Byron Haskin, Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
It’s 1901. At 19, tough, stubborn Christopher Leiningen came to South America and built levees to claim thousands of acres of Rio Negro river land for a chocolate plantation. Read More »
Topkapi (1964) Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
A small-time con-man with passport problems gets mixed up with a gang of world-class jewelry thieves plotting to rob the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Read More »
The Madonnas Secret (1946) Wilhelm Thiele, Francis Lederer, Gail Patrick, Ann Rutherford, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
This drama is an updated version of Ulmer’s 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work. Read More »
Specter of the Rose (1946) Ben Hecht, Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Ivan Kirov, Drama, Film-Noir, Music, Romance, Thriller
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he’s not the only one. Sanine is charming, if a little peculiar. Read More »
Whoever slew Auntie Roo? (1972) Curtis Harrington, Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Horror, Thriller
This is a retelling of the old tale of Hansel and Gretel, but set in England in the 1920s. To the children and staff at the orphanage, Auntie Roo is a kindly American widow who gives them a lavish Christmas party each year in her mansion, Forrest Grange. Read More »
Ordeal by Innocence (1984) Desmond Davis, Alan Birkinshaw, Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer, Mystery, Thriller
Paleontologist Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to give them an address book that belongs to Jack Argyle. Read More »
The Second Arrival (1998) Kevin Tenney, Patrick Muldoon, Jane Sibbett, Michael Sarrazin, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After Zane Ziminski is found dead five people received envelopes with details of an alien invasion. Read More »
The Rosary Murders (1987) Fred Walton, Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Life in the Catholic Church of the Holy Redeemer in Detroit is upset by a series of killings whose victims are all priests and nuns. Read More »
Le Confessionnal (1995) Robert Lepage, Lothaire Bluteau, Patrick Goyette, Jean-Louis Millette, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The year is 1952, in Quebec City. Rachel, 16, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Read More »