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  Alien
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Alien
1979   |   117 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Ridley Scott
Starring:Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, and Harry Dean Stanton
Genre: Sci Fi
"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style ...
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  The Bride of Frankenstein
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The Bride of Frankenstein
1935   |   75 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:James Whale
Starring:Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, and Elsa Lanchester
Genre: Horror
This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy insid...
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  Cat People
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Cat People
1942   |   73 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Jacques Tourneur
Starring:Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, and Jack Holt
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Handed the exploitive title Cat People, RKO producer Val Lewton opted for a thinking man's thril...
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  Don't Look Now
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Don't Look Now
1973   |   110 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Nicolas Roeg
Starring:Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, and Massimo Serato
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
A married couple is haunted by a series of mysterious occurrences after the death of their young ...
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  Dracula
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Dracula
1931   |   84 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Tod Browning
Starring:Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, and Edward Van Sloan
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
"I am....Drac-u-la. I bid you velcome." Thus does Bela Lugosi declare his presence in the 1931 sc...
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  Faust
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Faust
1926   |   116 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:F.W. Murnau
Starring:Emil Jannings, Gosta Ekman, Camilla Horn, Wilhelm Dieterle, and Frieda Richard
Genre: Drama
Faust was the mammoth German production which won F. W. Murnau his contract with Hollywood's Fox ...
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  Jaws
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Jaws
1975   |   124 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:Steven Spielberg
Starring:Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, and Murray Hamilton
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark saga set the standard...
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  M
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M
1931   |   117 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Fritz Lang
Starring:Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, and Gustav Grundgens
Genre: Crime Drama
Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious t...
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  Nosferatu
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Nosferatu
1922   |   81 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:F.W. Murnau
Starring:Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schroeder, and G.H. Schnell
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
F. W. Murnau's landmark vampire film Nosferatu isn't merely a variation on Bram Stoker's Dracula:...
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  Nosferatu, the Vampyre
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Nosferatu, the Vampyre
1979   |   107 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:Werner Herzog
Starring:Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor, and Walter Ladengast
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
For Werner Herzog's 1979 remake of F.W. Murnau's classic 1922 silent horror-fest Nosferatu, star ...
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  Peeping Tom
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Peeping Tom
1959   |   109 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Michael Powell
Starring:Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Karl Boehm, and Maxine Audley
Genre: Crime Drama
Michael Powell's controversial meditation on violence and voyeurism effectively destroyed his car...
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  Picnic at Hanging Rock
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975   |   115 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:Peter Weir
Starring:Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver, and Vivean Gray
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Peter Weir's haunting and evocative mystery is set in the Australia of 1900, a mystical place whe...
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  Psycho
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Psycho
1960   |   109 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Alfred Hitchcock
Starring:Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Martin Balsam
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the ...
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  Rear Window
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Rear Window
1954   |   120 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:Alfred Hitchcock
Starring:James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, and Raymond Burr
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny,...
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  Santa Sangre
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Santa Sangre
1989   |   123 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring:Sergio Bustamante, Adan Jodorowsky, Jesus Juarez, Axel Jodorowsky, and Guy Stockwell
Genre: Fantasy
Circus horrors cross over into the mundane world in this terrifying, psychedelic film from Alejan...
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  Se7en
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Seven
1995   |   127 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:David Fincher
Starring:Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, R. Lee Ermey, and Richard Roundtree
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Director David Fincher's dark, stylish thriller ranks as one of the decade's most influential box...
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  Strangers on a Train
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Strangers on a Train
1951   |   101 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Alfred Hitchcock
Starring:Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll, and Patricia Hitchcock
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
In one of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense classics, tennis pro Guy Haines (Farley Granger) chances to...
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  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1919   |   69 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Robert Wiene
Starring:Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Frederich Feher, Lil Dagover, and Hans Heinz von Twardowski
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
In one of the most influential films of the silent era, Werner Krauss plays the title character, ...
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  The Conversation
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The Conversation
1974   |   117 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:Francis Ford Coppola
Starring:Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, and Cindy Williams
Genre: Drama
Made between The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), and in part an homage to Mich...
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  The Fall of the House of Usher
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The Fall of the House of Usher

1928   |   48 Minutes   |   NR

Directed by:Jean Epstein

Starring:Marguerite Gance, Jean Debucourt, and Charles Lamy

The French silent film La Chute de la Maison Usher is adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's Fall of the ...

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  The Man Who Laughs
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The Man Who Laughs
1927   |   110 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Paul Leni
Starring:Nick De Ruiz, Allan Cavan, Olga Baclanova, Mary Philbin, and Conrad Veidt
Genre: Drama
Released with sound effects and a music score that included the song "When Love Comes Smiling" by...
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  The Night of the Hunter
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The Night of the Hunter
1955   |   93 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Charles Laughton
Starring:Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, and Peter Graves
Genre: Drama
Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary...
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  The Phantom of the Opera
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The Phantom of the Opera
1925   |   93 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick, Rupert Julian
Starring:Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Snitz Edwards, and Gibson Gowland
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Lon Chaney stars as Erik, the Phantom, in what is probably his most famous and certainly his most...
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  The Shining
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The Shining
1980   |   146 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Stanley Kubrick
Starring:Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, and Barry Nelson
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" -- or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick's ...
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  The Silence of the Lambs
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991   |   118 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Jonathan Demme
Starring:Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, and Anthony Heald
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at...
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  The Third Man
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The Third Man
1949   |   104 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Carol Reed
Starring:Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, and Paul Hoerbiger
Genre: Drama
In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist,...
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  Vertigo
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Vertigo
1958   |   128 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:Alfred Hitchcock
Starring:James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, and Ellen Corby
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films ...
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  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962   |   132 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Robert Aldrich
Starring:Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, and Anna Lee
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
As a child, "Baby Jane" Hudson was the toast of vaudeville. As an adult, however, Baby Jane was o...
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  Woman in the Dunes
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Woman in the Dunes
1964   |   123 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Hiroshi Teshigahara
Starring:Eiji Okada, and Kyôko Kishida
Genre: Drama
When entomologist Jumpei (Eiji Okada) travels to sand dunes on an expedition, he is met by a grou...
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