Mystery movies

The Shattering (2015)

The Shattering (2015)

In the dead of night, Donovan drives with his girlfriend, Lucy and several friends to a secret rendezvous in the woods. They believe they are meeting a "healer" who can cure Lucy's cancer, but they grow suspicious when a booby-trap in the road forces them to stop...

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She Wolf of London (1946)

She Wolf of London (1946)

Several murders have been committed in a London park and the victims have been savagely clawed about the throat. The police believe that a woman is a killer, and perhaps she is a (she) werewolf. Heiress Phyllis Allenby, fears she is the criminal, based on the family...

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The Wolf Man (1941)

The Wolf Man (1941)

Upon the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. He visits a gypsy camp with village girl Jenny Williams, who is attacked by Bela, a gypsy who has turned into a werewolf. Larry kills the werewolf but is bitten during the...

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The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)

The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)

An eager scientist tests his new formula for invisibility on an escaped fugitive. When the formula works the criminal runs off to terrorize a family he believes cheated him out of a fortune years earlier. Starring Jon hall, Evelyn Ankers, and Alan Curtis. This is the...

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I Accuse My Parents (1944)

I Accuse My Parents (1944)

Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run....

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The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)

Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an ancient curse placed upon his grandfather by a tribe of South American Jivaro...

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The Alligator People (1959)

The Alligator People (1959)

A newlywed couple sit in a train. The husband receives a frantic telegram. He gets off at a station to make a phone call, the train pulls away without him on it, and that's the last his wife sees of him. Years later after a long search she finally tracks him down on...

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Bell From Hell (1973)

Bell From Hell (1973)

After being falsely accused of being insane and put in a asylum so his wicked aunt and her daughters could steal his money, a recently released young man returns to seek the ultimate revenge against them. Starring Renaud Verley, Viveca Lindfors, and Alfredo Mayo. A...

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Panic (1983)

Panic (1983)

A scientist's experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town. Starring David Warbeck, Janet Agren, Roberto Ricci. Veteran Spaghetti horror actor Warbeck stars as Captain Kirk a detective on...

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Silent Night Bloody Night (1972)

Silent Night Bloody Night (1972)

Wilford Butler returns home on Christmas Eve and his house had been turned into a mental institution for the criminally insane. But the day of his return, he is set on fire and dies. The locals believe his death was an accident, and the institution-house is later...

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House of the Living Dead  (1974)

House of the Living Dead (1974)

On a South African plantation, a maniac is on the loose, first killing the estate's animals, then starting on the human members. A man who is "cursed" and has an evil brother, brings his young fiancée to his home. His mother tries to drive her away because she wants...

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Don’t Look in the Basement (1973)

Don’t Look in the Basement (1973)

Nurse Charlotte Beale arrives at the isolated Stephens Sanitarium to work, only to learn that Dr. Stephens was murdered by one of the patients and his successor, Dr. Geraldine Masters, is not very eager to take on new staff. Charlotte finds her job maddeningly hard as...

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself. The first screen adaption of the Robert Louis Stevenson book. Starring John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, and Brandon Hurst. Drew...

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Torture Ship (1939)

Torture Ship (1939)

A mad scientist performs experiments on "the criminal mind" on captured criminals on board his private ship. This curious movie is taken from a story by Jack London “A Thousand Deaths.” George Wallace Sayre. Starring Lyle Talbot, Irving Pichel, and Julie Bishop....

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Man in the Attic (1953)

Man in the Attic (1953)

After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper. London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist,...

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The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the...

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The Manster (1959)

The Manster (1959)

An American reporter in Japan is sent to interview an eccentric Japanese scientist working on bizarre experiments in his mountain laboratory. When the doctor realizes that the hapless correspondent is the perfect subject for his next experiment, he drugs the...

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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. His unknowing wife is also French, and she finds that her brother has been arrested by...

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Maneater of Hydra (1967)

Maneater of Hydra (1967)

Also known as Island of the Doomed, this Spanish-German co-production about a group of tourists who travel to an island to see its exotic botanicals. There they meet Baron von Weser (played by Cameron Mitchell), a reclusive scientist studying rare horticulture and...

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Atomic Age Vampire (1960)

Atomic Age Vampire (1960)

A stripper is horribly disfigured in a car accident. A brilliant scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty and falls in love with her. To preserve her appearance the doctor must give her additional treatments using glands taken from murdered women. His...

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Shadow of Chinatown (1936)

Shadow of Chinatown (1936)

A consortium of American businesses are disturbed by the loss of profits due to Chinese businesses located in Chinatowns in the United States. They hire a pair of Eurasians and their criminal organization to eliminate their competition. Starring Bela Lugosi, Victor...

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The Drums of Jeopardy (1931)

The Drums of Jeopardy (1931)

A mad Russian doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death. A remake of an earlier silent serial. Starring Warner Oland, June Collyer, and Lloyd Hughes. The lights go out more than once. The phone is dead. A...

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Son of Ingagi (1940)

Son of Ingagi (1940)

A wealthy old recluse wills her fortune and exceedingly-gloomy house to a pair of newlyweds, Robert and Eleanor Lindsay. Years before, Dr. Jackson had been in love with Eleanor's father, who was younger than her and did not return her love. N'Gina, an ape-man, Dr....

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The Iron Mask (1929)

The Iron Mask (1929)

A Three Musketeers movie! King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son—an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in...

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Haldane of the Secret Service (1923)

Haldane of the Secret Service (1923)

Houdini stars in this exciting silent movie! Heath Haldane (Houdini) tracks down a vicious gang of counterfeiters, narrowly missing death several times. He must rescue Adele Ormsby, whom he loves despite her pending marriage. Starring Harry Houdini, Gladys Leslie, and...

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Frozen Alive (1966)

Frozen Alive (1966)

A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder. Starring Mark Stevens, Marianne Koch, and Wolfgang Lukschy. Maybe you want to be frozen alive or...

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Legacy of Blood (1971)

Legacy of Blood (1971)

In order to qualify to inherit the family fortune, the four heirs, their in-laws, and the household servants must spend the night in the family estate. However, during the night someone starts killing them off. Starring John Russell, Jeff Morrow, John Carradine and...

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Government Agents Vs Phantom Legion (1951)

Government Agents Vs Phantom Legion (1951)

Two federal agents battle a gang that hijacks trucks carrying materials vital for the security of the country and sells them to foreign powers. Starring Walter Reed, Mary Ellen Kay, and Dick Curtis. Great early '50s cars, and lots and lots of fistfights (usually on a...

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The Black Book (1949)

The Black Book (1949)

A movie about the French Revolution, Robespierre, a powerful figure in the revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked by him for the guillotine and a key to help him eventually emerge as the...

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Clutch Cargo – Pirate Isle (1959)

Clutch Cargo – Pirate Isle (1959)

In this first of three episodes, Clutch gets a mysterious telegram telling him to go to the Galapagos Islands. Next the gang is off another adventure called The Dragon Fly. One of Clutch's old friends is being tormented by a giant dragonfly, or so he thinks. In the...

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Gang Busters (1942)

Gang Busters (1942)

Detective Lt. Bill Bannister has the assignment to run down an unknown gang of terrorists spreading a net of crime over the city. Aiding him is Detective Tim Nolan, news photographer Vicki Logan and reporter Happy Haskins. Bill finds that the gang's leader is a...

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Mr Wong in Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

Mr Wong in Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

Mr. Wong in Phantom of Chinatown-1940. In the last of the Mr. Wong movies, Boris Karloff is replaced by Keye Luke as his nephew Jimmy Wong. In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton the famous explorer,...

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Mr Wong in Chinatown (1939)

Mr Wong in Chinatown (1939)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca8O8LktYiQ A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa,...

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Mr Wong in Doomed to Die (1940)

Mr Wong in Doomed to Die (1940)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wez8SM6WB7c Mr. Wong is Doomed to Die-1940. Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office… at the...

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The Mystery of Mr Wong (1938)

The Mystery of Mr Wong (1938)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTQOL5eGjp4 The Mystery of Mr. Wong-1939. San Francisco detective James Lee Wong tries to solve the murder of antiques collector who was in possession of a famous jewel known as "The Eye of the Daughter of The Moon." Starring Boris...

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Beat the Devil (1953)

Beat the Devil (1953)

A quartet of international crooks (Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello) are stranded in Italy whilst their steamer is being repaired. With them are an English couple, the Dannreuthers. The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but all is not as...

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The House that Would Not Die (1972)

The House that Would Not Die (1972)

A woman and her niece move into an ancestral house in the Amish countryside haunted by two ghosts from the Revolutionary War. Ruth Bennett and her niece Sara Dunning move into the house of Ruth's recently deceased aunt and shortly thereafter they learn the house is...

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Lion Strike: Ring of Fire 3 (1994)

Lion Strike: Ring of Fire 3 (1994)

Dr. Johnny Wu becomes involved in a global Mafia arms cartel when they kidnap his son Bobby. The cartel—made-up of underworld leaders from around the world—become aware that he stumbled onto valuable information on a computer disk he possesses. Louie and his Russian...

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My Man Godfrey (1936)

My Man Godfrey (1936)

In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as the family butler. He finds the Bullocks to be the epitome of the idle rich, and nutty as fruitcakes....

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The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)

In this unusually broad comedy for Fairbanks, the acrobatic leading man plays "Coke Ennyday", a cocaine-shooting detective who is a parody of Sherlock Holmes. Ennyday is given to injecting himself from a bandolier of syringes worn across his chest, and liberally helps...

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The Return of Dr Mabuse (1961)

The Return of Dr Mabuse (1961)

German Commissioner Lohmann is planning his holidays when an unexpected phone call calls him back to work. A member of Interpol has been murdered. The head of an organization wants to come into contact with the gangster organization of Chicago. But who is this?...

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House on Haunted Hill (1959)

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren and his 4th wife, Annabelle, have invited five people to the house on Haunted Hill for a "haunted House" party. Whoever will stay in the house for one night will earn ten thousand dollars each. As the night progresses, all the...

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The Devils Hand (1962)

The Devils Hand (1962)

Rick Turner is engaged of Donna Trent and is having nightmares with a beautiful blonde woman dancing in the sky. One night, he is mysteriously driven to a doll shop, and in the next morning he returns to the place with Donna. He finds a doll that resembles his fiancé,...

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Law of the Jungle (1942)

Law of the Jungle (1942)

Nona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a café in Duakwa, British Rhodesia, Africa. The café owner is secretly in league with two foreign agents with a goal of making the natives restless. American explorer Larry...

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Drive in Massacre (1974)

Drive in Massacre (1974)

Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword. Staring John F. Goff, Steve Vincent, and Douglas Gudbye. You will never want to go to a drive-in again! Warning: The red stuff...

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Dressed to Kill (1946)

Dressed to Kill (1946)

Sherlock Holmes is intrigued when Dr. Watson's friend, Julian 'Stinky' Emery, visits and tells them of a strange robbery at his flat the previous night. Stinky is an avid collector of music boxes and has several quite expensive pieces in his vast collection. The...

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The Fatal Hour (1940)

The Fatal Hour (1940)

When Captain Street's best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer, though not until several more murders occur. Staring...

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The Master Key (1945)

The Master Key (1945)

The Master Key-1945-Part 1. Set in 1938 with Nazi agents kidnapping scientist Professor Ellwood Henderson in order to get his Orotron machine that can extract gold from seawater. Operating under the secret leadership of “The Master Key,” with the operatives headed by...

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The Bat (1959)

The Bat (1959)

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has...

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Mandrake the Magician (1939)

Mandrake the Magician (1939)

Crafty underworld leader “The Wasp” will stop at nothing to steal Professor Houston's radium-energy machine. The Wasp wreaks havoc on a radio station, a dam, and a power plant in his attempts to get the invention, but luckily master Magician Mandrake is there every...

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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and...

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Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)

Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)

On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the...

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Queen of the Jungle (1935)

Queen of the Jungle (1935)

Young David Worth and Joan Lawrence are children with a group of explorers that are seeking African radium deposits. They are playing in the basket of the party’s air balloon when the bag takes off with Joan aboard, last seen sailing over the back-lot jungle. A flash...

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Invisible Ghost (1941)

Invisible Ghost (1941)

Charles Kessler (Bela Lugosi) is plagued by homicidal urges. His wife (Betty Compson), who had left him for another man, gets into a car accident that leaves her brain damaged and is kept in a cellar in secret, by Kessler's gardener. When an innocent man is executed...

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Mr. Moto’s Last Warning (1937)

Mr. Moto’s Last Warning (1937)

A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments....

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Mr Wong Detective (1938)

Mr Wong Detective (1938)

When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. He uncovers a international spy ring hoping to steal the formula for a poison gas being developed by the first victim's company....

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The Devil Bat (1941)

The Devil Bat (1941)

Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the...

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Bowery At Midnight Bela Lugosi (1942)

Bowery At Midnight Bela Lugosi (1942)

Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Karl Wagner uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things get out of hand, Wagner kills his henchmen, who wind up as zombies in the cellar...

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Robot Monster (1953)

Robot Monster (1953)

Ro-Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a bigfoot in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth. He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young woman in the group. Love...

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A Shriek in the Night (1933)

A Shriek in the Night (1933)

Pat Morgan and Ted Kord are rival newspaper reporters always trying to out scoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building. Starring Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, and Harvey Clark. A great retro-murder...

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One Body Too Many (1944)

One Body Too Many (1944)

Insurance salesman Albert Tuttle arrives at the Cyrus J. Rutherford estate to sell the millionaire some life insurance. Rutherford is already dead and his heirs have gathered at the mansion to hear the reading of the will. Rutherford's will won't be read until he is...

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Black Dragons (1942)

Black Dragons (1942)

During World War II a secret society of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb (Bela Lugosi). It is only until detective Dick Martin is assigned to the case that...

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