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No Escape (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
No Escape
director: Charles Bennett actor: Lew Ayres / Sonny Tufts …
other title: Unschuldig gejagt / No escaparán
When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a struggling songwriter who is playing piano in a bar to be blamed for the crime. The girl, knowing that neither she nor the piano player committed the murder, helps him to escape from the police dragnet and try to find the real killer.
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Reap the Wild Wind (1942) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Reap the Wild Wind
director: Cecil B. DeMille actor: Paulette Goddard / Ray Milland …
other title: Vento selvaggio / O Vento Selvagem …
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
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War-Gods of the Deep (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
City Under the Sea
director: Jacques Tourneur actor: Vincent Price / David Tomlinson …
other title: 20.000 leghe sotto la Terra / Piratbyen under havet …
A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their kidnapped friend Jill. Held captive in the underwater city by the tyrannical Captain (Vincent Price), and his crew of former smugglers, the three plot to escape...
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Kind Lady (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Kind Lady
director: John Sturges actor: Ethel Barrymore / Maurice Evans …
other title: El hombre que mintió / Femme en péril
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Elcott, who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in Mary is to covet everything she has.
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The Lost World (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Lost World
director: Irwin Allen actor: Michael Rennie / Jill St. John …
other title: Mondo perduto / Den forsvundne verden …
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
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The Big Circus (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Big Circus
director: Joseph M. Newman actor: Victor Mature / Red Buttons …
other title: Il grande circo / Die Welt der Sensationen …
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
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Black Magic (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Black Magic
director: Gregory Ratoff actor: Orson Welles / Nancy Guild …
other title: Cagliostro / Graf Cagliostro
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
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Night of the Demon (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge NeoDB WikiData Douban
Night of the Demon
director: Jacques Tourneur actor: Dana Andrews / Peggy Cummins …
other title: La notte del demonio / Der Fluch des Dämonen …
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
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Secret Agent (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Secret Agent
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Madeleine Carroll / John Gielgud …
other title: Amore e mistero / Hemmelig agent …
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
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Foreign Correspondent (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Foreign Correspondent
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Joel McCrea / Laraine Day …
other title: Il prigioniero di Amsterdam / Udenrigskorrespondenten …
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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The 39 Steps (1935) [Movie] Skybridge TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
The 39 Steps
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Robert Donat / Madeleine Carroll …
other title: Il club dei 39 / De 39 trin …
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.