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The Perfect Wife

Invalid date •English

Set in Rome, 'The Perfect Wife' follows the murder of the husband of a celebrity couple, which is staged as a deadly sex game. Entangled is a brilliant but cynical detective and an ambitious young magistrate in a labyrinth of deception, privilege, and forbidden desire, where every perfect marriage hides a perfect lie.

10.0

The Giant's Fist

November 1917 •German

A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband.

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Let The Right One In

May 2024 •English

Let the Right One In, a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, tells the story of Oskar, a lonely and bullied 12-year-old boy living in a suburban Swedish town in the early 1980s. Oskar befriends Eli, a mysterious girl who moves into his apartment complex. Eli is revealed to be a vampire, appearing youthful but carrying the burden of centuries of life and experience.

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Writer's Block

October 1991 •English

A female writer of popular thrillers decides that it is time to kill off one of her characters, a serial killer who has appeared in many of her recent books. Soon afterward, she finds herself pursued by a copy-cat serial killer.

5.9

A Fire in the Cold Season

September 2019 •English

A whisper among the sprawling forests and mill towns of central Newfoundland. A body found on the side of a river brings together a reclusive fur trapper and a heartsick mother-to-be. Scott is lonely and desperate to give himself meaning. Mona is strong-willed, but frustrated by her fragility. As a reluctant dependence blossoms the pair find themselves wading into violence, answering for the debts of a dead man. Stalked by outlaws, they plan an exit.

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Dwellers

October 2021 •English

While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a terrifying and vicious secret below the city's surface.

5.8

Deep Water

March 2022 •English

A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.

7.5

Lost Highway

January 1997 •English

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

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Ostia: The Last Night

March 2011 •Italian

A dark story of desire and betrayal inspired by the events of the night of the brutal slaying of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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The Silence of the Lambs

February 1991 •English

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

7.9

Fargo

March 1996 •English

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!

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Amadeus

September 1984 •English

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Once Upon a Time in America

May 1984 •English

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

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Insomnia

May 2002 •English

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

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Mala Noche

June 1987 •English

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the object of his affections — including a shared language — his desire to possess Johnny prompts a sexual awakening that results in a tangled love triangle.

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Charming Billy

October 1999 •English

Billy Starkman, just an average Midwestern every-man, wakes up one morning and decides to murder his family before taking up a sniper position on a water tower.

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The Murder of Stephen Lawrence

February 1999 •English

Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminating in a judicial enquiry into the event itself and also the inadequacies of the ensuing investigation by the London Metropolitan Police.

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Broken Knuckles

August 2013 •English

A noir action thriller about an amateur MMA fighter who is quickly and unknowingly thrust into the world of a criminal organization.

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The Blue Hour

January 1971 •English

THE BLUE HOUR tells the story of Tanya, a young woman with a mysterious past who finds herself trapped in a sexual hell in Los Angeles. Punctuated by striking visuals and avant-garde editing, THE BLUE HOUR is a lost masterpiece of late period sexploitation.

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Ann Carver's Profession

May 1933 •English

Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.