The Lodger (1927), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Vampyr (1932), The Lodger (1944), Pushover (1954), The Dark Corner (1946), Chickens in the Shadows (2010), The Leopard Man (1943) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Shadows movies.
Storyline: When a landlady (Marie Ault) and her husband (Arthur Chesney) take in a new lodger (Ivor Novello), they're overjoyed: He's quiet, humble and pays a month's rent in advance. But his mysterious and suspicious behavior soon has them wondering if he's the killer terrorizing local blond girls. Their daughter, Daisy (June), a cocky model, is far less concerned, her attraction obvious. Her police-detective boyfriend (Malcolm Keen), in a pique of jealousy, seeks to uncover the lodger's true identity.
Plot Keywords: silent film, suspense, thriller, film noir, serial killer, alfred hitchcock, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', renamed for the American market to prevent audiences mistaking it for a musical (for which Powell was already famous) has private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a eight year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years. The case is tougher than Marlowe expected as his initially promising inquiries lead to a complex web of deceit involving bribery, perjury and theft, and where no one's motivation is obvious, least of all Marlowe's.
Plot Keywords: film noir, detective, crime, mystery, murder, 1940s, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Allan Gray arrives late in the evening to a secluded riverside inn in the hamlet of Courtempierre. An old man enters his room, puts a sealed parcel on the table, blurts out that some woman mustn't die, and disappears. Gray senses in this a call for help. He puts the parcel in his pocket, and goes out. Eerie shadows lead him into an old house, where he encounters a weird village doctor. The doctor receives a bottle of poison from a strange, old woman. Through the window of an old castle Gray recognizes the old man from the inn. A shadow shoots the man, who drops dead. Inside the house Gray finds his two daughters, Gisèle and Léone, and some servants. He opens the parcel, and finds an old book about vampires. Léone is seriously ill after being bitten by a vampire. Instead of helping her, the village doctor places the bottle of poison at her bedside table, and then abducts her sister Gisèle. An old servant starts reading the old book, and finds out that the vampire in Courtempierre is a ...
Plot Keywords: horror, vampire, black and white, surrealism, fantasy, gothic, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In late Victorian London, Jack the Ripper has been killing and maiming actresses in the night. The Burtons are forced to take in a lodger due to financial hardship. He seems like a nice young man, but Mrs. Burton suspects him of being the ripper because of some mysterious and suspicious habits, and fears for her beautiful actress niece who lives with them.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: suspense, thriller, crime, film noir, murder, detective, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A bank heist yields $210,000. Soon, sultry Lona McLane, girlfriend of one of the robbers, meets Paul Sheridan and has a torrid affair. When she finds out Paul's a cop, to save herself she sets out to corrupt him. He's a pushover. But it won't be easy for Paul to get his hands on the money when he's part of a complex, peeping-tom stakeout. Soon, he's in much deeper than he'd planned, amid atmospheric night scenes.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, drama, thriller, mystery, police, undercover ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Private investigator Bradford Galt has moved to New York from San Fransisco after serving a jail term on account of his lawyer partner Tony Jardine. When he finds someone is tailing - and possibly trying to kill him, Galt believes Jardine is behind it. As he finds there is rather more to it, he is increasingly glad to have his attractive new secretary Kathleen around, for several reason.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, mystery, detective, betrayal, conspiracy, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nasser-Ali, a talented musician, loses the will to live after his wife breaks his beloved violin during an argument. He searches for a replacement, and finding none that sounds quite the same, he vows to die. Eight days later, he does. This is the story of his last week of life, where we see flashbacks and flash forwards of his previous life and his children's futures. We also see appearances of a nude Sophia Loren as well as the angel of death, Azarel. As we see his life, we realize exactly why he chose to end it and the profundity of this choice.—Irefusetotellyoumyname
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, dark, farm, supernatural, horror, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the encouragement of her manager, a nightclub performer in New Mexico (Kiki Walker) takes a leashed leopard into the club as a publicity gimmick. But her rival, angered by the attempt to upstage, scares the animal and it bolts. In the days that follow, people are mauled and the countryside is combed for the loose creature. But Kiki and her manager begin to wonder if maybe the leopard is not responsible for the killings.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, film noir, mystery, psychological horror, supernatural, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When her older sister Jacqueline disappears, Mary Gibson is forced to leave her private school and decides to travel to New York City to look for her. A bit naive and out of her depth, she is not quite sure how to go about finding her. Eventually she meets Gregory Ward, her sister's husband and a mysterious psychiatrist, Dr. Louis Judd who claims to know of Jacqueline's whereabouts. What she doesn't realize is that her sister became involved with devil worshipers who now want to eliminate her for having revealed their existence.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: horror, film noir, psychological thriller, mystery, supernatural, cult, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on the 1930's pulp fiction and radio drama series, this movie pits the hero against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city ransom using an atomic bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud men's minds", the Shadow comes blazing to the city's rescue with explosive results.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, fantasy, superhero, film noir, mystery, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man accidentally kills his fiancée as he exits a train. Just as the train pulls out, he drops her body on the rear platform. No one saw him do it, but someone does see him at the otherwise deserted station: a mischievous, freckle-faced boy. Later, he's walking along a road when the town's newspaper editor stops and gives him a lift. The editor tells his passenger that a flood has washed out the bridge. For now, there's no way out of town, so he takes the stranger to a boarding house. Fate decrees that of all houses, this is the one where the boy lives. The boy thinks he recognizes the new boarder. The new boarder thinks it's time to get rid of the boy. And a sexy blonde living at the house thinks it's time to run off with a man she knows is a murderer.—J. Spurlin
Plot Keywords: mystery, crime, film noir, murder, detective, psychological thriller, secrets ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: film noir, detective, crime, mystery, los angeles, 1940s, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a massive power outage plunges the city of Detroit into total darkness, a disparate group of individuals find themselves alone. The entire city's population has vanished into thin air, leaving behind heaps of empty clothing, abandoned cars and lengthening shadows. Soon the daylight begins to disappear completely, and as the survivors gather in an abandoned tavern, they realize the darkness is out to get them, and only their rapidly diminishing light sources can keep them safe.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, supernatural, dark, apocalyptic, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her...
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, dark, mystery, nightmare, hallucination ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A psychology student (Laura Regan) and her friends begin to have nightmares, resulting in strange marks appearing on their bodies.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, psychological fear, supernatural, dark, nightmare ...
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