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Mystery-Suspense
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The Man Who Wasn't There
(2001) [MA]
1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano... More
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Panic Room
(2002) [MA]
Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) play a deadly game of cat and mouse with three intruders - Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) and Junior (Jard Leto) - during a brutal home invasion. But the "Panic Room" into which they escape, is the very place... More
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Marnie
(1964) [M]
The Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock creates a spellbinding portrait of a disturbed woman, and the man who tries to save her, in this unrelenting psychological thriller. 'Tippi' Hedren is Marnie, a compulsive thief and liar who goes to work for Mark Rutland (Sean Connery), then attempts to... More
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Mulholland Drive
(2001) [MA]
David Lynch's masterpiece Mullholland Drive is a slick, sinister, psycho-sexual thriller from the darkest recesses of Hollywood, a Los Angeles of strange dreams, unrequited love, and a jealous burning rage. As nightmarish as Lost Highway, as strange as Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive is Lynch at his... More
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The Deep End
(2001) [MA]
The Deep End delves into the psychology of deception and pushes back the boundaries of the classic suspense thriller. A woman (Tilda Swinton) covers up a murder in order to protect her teenage son from being implicated. But someone knows her secret. Information is worth money and the price of... More
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Enigma (2001)
(2001) [M]
Enigma is director Michael Apted's skillful adaptation of the best seller by Robert Harris. In March 1943 the code breakers at Bletchley Park, Britain's top secret intelligence station, are facing their worst nightmare. Nazi U boats have unexpectedly changed the code by which they communicate... More
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The Pledge
(2001) [R]
The Pledge stars Jack Nicholson as Jerry Black, a homicide detective who undertakes one last case on the day of his retirement. An eight year old girl has been found murdered in the snow-covered mountains of Mexico and her mother begs Black to unravel the mystery of her daughter's death. With the... More
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Along Came A Spider
(2001) [MA]
Morgan Freeman reprises his Kiss The Girls role as Alex Cross in this spellbinding psychological thriller. After the harrowing death of his partner, detective and best-selling author Alex Cross has retreated to the peace of retirement. But when a brilliant criminal (Michael Wincott) kidnaps a... More
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Harry He's Here To Help
(1999) [M]
When Michel (Laurent Lucas) bumps into old school acquaintance Harry (Sergi Lopez) en route to his summer holiday with his young family he thinks nothing of it. But when Harry buys Michel a brand new jeep to replace his broken down car and invites himself to the family's remote holiday home,... More
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Memento
(2000) [MA]
Leonard (Guy Pearce) is an insurance investigator whose memory has been damaged following a head injury he sustained after intervening on his wife's murder. His quality of life has been severely hampered after this event, and he can now only live a comprehendable life by tattooing notes on... More
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The Gift
(2000) [MA]
Widow and mother of three, Annie Wilson (Blanchett), makes her living by foretelling others' futures... though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by client's violently jealous husband (Reeves) and plagues by visions of a missing town-girl (Holmes), Annie is unwittingly... More
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Hannibal (2 disc set)
(2001) [R]
Ten years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) escaped from custody: ten years since FBI Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) interviewed him in a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. The doctor is now at large in Europe, pursuing his own interests, savouring... More
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Shadow Of The Vampire
(2000) [M]
Somewhere in Eastern Europe, 1922… Filming of F.W. Murnau’s classic vampire movie, Nosferatu, is being disrupted not only by funding problems, but by rumours of disappearances amongst the cast and crew. Leading man Max Shreck (Willem Dafoe) is never introduced to the crew, and he is never... More
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The Virgin Suicides
(1999) [MA]
Based on the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, then adapted for the screen and directed by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a story about five sisters and their mysterious existence, told in the words of the neighborhood boys who worshiped them from a distance. It is a solitary story of the girls... More
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Stir Of Echoes
(1999) [MA]
Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is a blue-collar worker, a family man, the most ordinary guy in the world…who is about to be plunged into a shattering encounter with another world. And it doesn't matter that Tom doesn't believe in the supernatural. Because something supernatural has started to believe... More
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The Beach
(2000) [MA]
"Leonardo DiCaprio is electrifying" (David Sheehan, CBS-TV) in this adrenaline-drenched, tantalisingly seductive thriller from the director of Trainspotting. Richard (DiCaprio) a young American backpacker, is willing to risk his life for just one thing: that mind-blowing rush you can only get... More
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Sleuth (1972)
(1972) [M]
Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) is regarded as one of the world's foremost authors of mystery novels. Wyke is also a fanatic game player who has converted his magnificent 16th century manor into a gallery of robots, performing dolls, dart boards, chess sets and mazes. One afternoon Wyke invites... More
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Double Jeopardy
(1999) [M]
The chase is on! Ashley Judd shines in this unstoppable, untoppable box-office smash that co-stars Tommy Lee Jones in his best performance since The Fugitive. Judd plays Libby Parsons, who discovers that the husband she's convicted of murdering staged his own "death" and framed her for the crime.... More
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The Talented Mr Ripley
(1999) [M]
Nominated for Five Academy Awards in 1999, the Talented Mr Ripely was billed as one of the best films of that year. To be young and carefree amid the idyllic landscape of sun-drenched Italy in the late 1950s... that's la dolce vita Tom Ripley (Damon) craves - and Dickie Greenleaf (Law) leads.... More
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The Bone Collector
(1999) [M]
A killer is taking victims' lives and leaving behind mysterious pieces to a bizarre puzzle. Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington), a former homicide investigator, is the only person who may be able to make sense of the serial killer's deranged plan. But Lincoln is powerless, as after a tragic... More
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Eyes Wide Shut
(1999) [R]
Cruise plays Dr. William Hartford, who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage - and may even ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery - after his wife's (Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick... More
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PI
(1998) [M]
Max, a mathematical genius and number theorist, theorizes that everything in nature can be understood through numbers, and that if you graph the numbers properly patterns will emerge. He works on finding patterns within the stock market, using its billions upon billions of variables as his data... More
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It Came From Outer Space
(1953) [PG]
A meteor crashes in the desert near a small Arizona town, and research scientist John Putnam (Richard Carlson) thinks it's a spaceship, but no one will believe him except his loyal girlfriend, Ellen (Barbara Rush). Weird evidence begins to back up his theory however, from the strange behavior of... More
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Cookie's Fortune
(1999) [M]
Life in small town Mississippi means fishing, drinking and singing the blues. But when a dead body is discovered, everyone in Holly Springs soon becomes involved in the liveliest and funniest murder mystery the South has ever seen. A wonderfully warm-hearted comedy, Cookie's Fortune boasts superb... More
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Deathtrap
(1982) [M]
An intricate and well-conceived mystery involving a playwright, his ailing wealthy wife, and a talented former student. More
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A Simple Plan
(1998) [M]
Two brothers discover over four million dollars of stolen money. Their attempts at keeping the money a secret from the authorities lead to mistrust, lies and finally murder... More
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Dark City
(1998) [M]
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the... More
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Snake Eyes
(1998) [M]
From its sensational opening shot to its atmospheric final showdown, Snake Eyes seethes with inventiveness and suspense. Nicolas Cage and Gary Sinise star in this acclaimed Brian De Palma thriller that combines the glitter, glamour and bedlam of a heavyweight championship fight with... More
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Dial M For Murder
(1954) [PG]
A woman slowly realises that her husband is trying to murder her. When the wrong person falls victim, a deadly series of events begins. A Hitchcock masterpiece More
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The Gingerbread Man
(1998) [M]
Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. He becomes hooked on her, and when he learns her nut-case father Dixon is threatening her, he puts the weight of his law firm behind Mallory, has Dixon arrested and subpoenas her ex-husband Pete to testify against Dixon... More
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