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Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find days β¦later. Stewart's wife Claire is the last to find out. Deeply disturbed by her husband's action, her faith in her relationship with Stewart is shaken to the core. She wants to understand and tries to make things right. In her determination to help the victim's family Claire sets herself not only against her own family and friends but also those of the dead girl. Her marriage is taken to the brink and her peaceful life with Stewart and their young son hangs in the balance. The story of a murder and a marriage - a film about the things that haunt us. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedyconspiracy |
Themes: | murder investigationcampingracismmurder |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | catholic churchtowntrucklakeaustraliarural settingchurch |
Characters: | australian aboriginaltruck driverpolice detectivefishermanlittle boylittle girldetectiveserial killerteenage girldoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | australian aborigineindigenous cultureindigenous peopletown name in titleremote controlpark rangerfishing tripfishing rodlooking at oneself in a mirrorlooking out of a windowrefusing to shake handscounting to threethe bee geesmobile telephonetitle sung by character β¦news readerdriving alonenear drowninganswering the telephonesprayed with wateropening a windowpower linesaying thank youuse of bloody as epithetdead body in water7 year oldhonking a car hornanimal deathbased on supposedly true storyschool classmurder victimparking a carlaborerwoman driverwoman in bedposing for a photographlooking at picturecrossing selfoutdoorssalmonframed photograph19 year oldremotefinding a dead bodyaboriginefade to blackrescue from drowningwaking upeuphemismlying on bedbare chested boydisposing of a dead bodytelling someone to shut uphikingbreast feedingaboriginalindigenousdead girlalarm clockopening a doortaking a picturecrime sceneministervisitcampbeer drinkinggraffitimurderercountrysidebased on short storybinocularsparkold womanspankingfishingman with glassesapologyold mannewspaperf wordswimmingriverprayerdead bodyplace name in titlevomitingarrestcamerablondemirrorcorpsesongtelephone callsurprise endingsingingtitle spoken by characterfemale nudityone word title (See All) |
Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Widely (and incorrectly) regarded as being based on a true story, the movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, β¦not the answering of them. (Read More)
Mood: | night |
Locations: | townlakeaustraliarural settingchurch |
Characters: | teenage girldoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | opening a windowuse of bloody as epithetbased on supposedly true storyfinding a dead bodyaboriginewaking upopening a doortaking a pictureprayerdead bodycamerablondemirrorsongsinging |
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Al β¦ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
Themes: | murder investigationmurder |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | detectiveserial killerdoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | finding a dead bodygraffitimurderercountrysidebinocularsparkman with glassesapologynewspaperswimmingdead bodyarrestcameramirrorcorpse β¦telephone callfemale nudity (See All) |
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the count β¦ry's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. (Read More)
Themes: | racismmurder |
Locations: | truckaustralia |
Characters: | australian aboriginaldoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | indigenous peopleaboriginalministercampfishingold mannewspaperswimmingriverdead bodyarrestcorpsesongtelephone callsinging β¦title spoken by characterone word title (See All) |
As a child piano prodigy, 'David Helfgott' (qv)'s musical ambitions generate friction with his overbearing father, Peter. When Helfgott travels to London on a musical scholarship, his career as a pianist blossoms. However, the pressures of his newfound fame, coupled with the echoes of his tumultuous β¦ childhood, conspire to bring Helfgott's latent schizophrenia boiling to the surface, and he spends years in and out of various mental institutions. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | australia |
Characters: | family relationships |
Story: | woman driverlooking at picturewaking uplying on bedtelling someone to shut upopening a doorvisitman with glassesapologynewspapercamerablondeone word title |
Taking place in a dystopian Australia in the near future, Mad Max tells the story of a highway patrolman cruising the squalid back roads that have become the breeding ground of criminals foraging for gasoline and scraps. When his wife and child meet a grisly end at the hands of a motorcycle gang, Ma β¦x sets out across the barren wastelands in search of revenge. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | truckaustralia |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | driving alonewoman driverlooking at picturewaking uptelling someone to shut upopening a doorcountrysideold womanman with glassesapologyf wordtelephone call |
Sent from the city to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in a small Alaska town, a police detective (Pacino) accidentally shoots his own partner while trying to apprehend a suspect. Instead of admitting his guilt, the detective is given an unexpected alibi, but this "solution" only multiplies β¦the emotional complexity and guilt over his partner's death. He's also still got a murder to solve, in addition to the blackmail and framing of an innocent bystander being orchestrated by the man they were chasing. There's also a local detective (Swank) who is conducting her own personal investigation... of his partner's death. Will it all come crashing down on him? (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Themes: | murder investigationmurder |
Locations: | towntruckrural setting |
Characters: | police detectivedetectiveteenage girl |
Story: | dead girlalarm clockfishingdead bodyvomitingcorpsetelephone callfemale nudity |
Two young men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, meet when they get a job as sheep herders on Brokeback Mountain. They are at first strangers, then they become friends. Throughout the weeks, they grow closer as they learn more about each other. One night, after some heavy drinking, they find a deeper co β¦nnection. They then indulge in a blissful romance for the rest of the summer. Unable to deal with their feelings for each other, they part ways at the end of the summer. Four years go by, and they each settle down, Ennis in Wyoming with his wife and two girls, and Jack in Texas with his wife and son. Still longing for each other, they meet back up, and are faced with the fact that they need each other. They undeniably need each other, and unsure of what to do, they start a series of "fishing trips", in order to spend time together. The relationship struggles on for years until tragedy strikes. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Themes: | campingmurder |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | lakerural settingchurch |
Characters: | little boylittle girlteenage girlhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | fishing tripfishing rodbased on short storybinocularsfishingswimmingriverplace name in titlemirrorsongtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by characterfemale nudity |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo β¦k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
Themes: | murder investigationmurder |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | police detectiveserial killerteenage girlhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | murder victimdead girlcrime scenemurdererparkman with glassesnewspaperdead bodyarrestcameratelephone calltitle spoken by characterone word title |
JJ 'Jake' Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city's water supply system, of having an affair. Gittes does what he does best and photographs him with a young girl but in the ens β¦uing scandal, it seems he was hired by an impersonator and not the real Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is found dead, Jake is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest, and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | racismmurder |
Mood: | night |
Characters: | police detectivefishermandetectivehusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | fade to blackcrime scenebinocularsfishingdead bodyplace name in titlecameracorpsetelephone callsurprise endingtitle spoken by characterone word titlefemale nudity |
Three backpackers travel into the Australian Outback, only to find themselves stranded at Wolf Creek crater. Once there they are encountered by a bushman, Mick Taylor, who offers them a ride back to his place. Little do the three know that their adventure into the Outback, would be a complete nightm β¦are after the backpackers find a way to escape. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | truckaustralia |
Characters: | serial killerdoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | woman driverwaking uplying on bedhikingopening a doormurderercountrysidef wordswimmingdead bodyvomitingmirrorcorpsesongsinging β¦title spoken by character (See All) |
The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside t β¦heir differences if they are to successfully hunt down a killer who for years has terrorized a community in the shadow of a general disregard for women rooted in a misogynistic past. (Read More)
Themes: | murder investigationmurder |
Locations: | town |
Characters: | police detectivedetectiveserial killerteenage girl |
Story: | dead body in waterremotedead bodycorpsetelephone calltitle spoken by characterfemale nudity |
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shippi β¦ng news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey... (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Locations: | townlakerural setting |
Characters: | fishermanlittle boylittle girldetectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | remote controlfishingnewspaperrivervomitingcameracorpse |
An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | australia |
Characters: | serial killerdoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | dead body in waterlooking at picturelying on bedopening a doormurdererbinocularsapologyswimmingdead bodycorpsesongfemale nudity |
In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerin are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death.
Locations: | truckrural setting |
Characters: | truck driverdoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | indigenous peopleremotenewspaperriverprayerdead bodyvomitingcameracorpsesongtelephone callsurprise endingsingingfemale nudity |
A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar β¦ is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out? (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | truck |
Characters: | truck driverpolice detectivehusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | remote controlcrime scenebinocularsold womanapologyold mandead bodyvomitingmirrorcorpsetelephone calltitle spoken by character |
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' m β¦erry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity? (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Themes: | racismmurder |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | australia |
Story: | looking at picturelying on bedtelling someone to shut upopening a doorman with glassesapologyf wordtelephone callfemale nudity |
Parisian murder detective commissioner Pierre Niemans is called to Gueron, a self-sufficient, prestigious university in a mountain valley, to investigate the murder on 32-year old professor and librarian Remy Caillois, whose corpse was found 50 meters high on a steep mountain side, naked, horribly c β¦overed in bruises and bleeding wounds, the result of some five hours of bestial torture including quasi-surgical amputation of hands cauterized to prevent bleeding to death- and eyes. Guernon is a closed society of virtually incestuous scientists, de facto succeeding to their parents' posts; the eye-doctor, formerly on the staff, says hereditary genetic diseases are the price of such elitism, but in recent years spread to the simple farming families. Inspector Max Kerkerian examines two crimes in the town: a school break-in with theft of old photos and archive papers as well as a graveyard desecration of Judith Herault, the daughter of local nun Andree, who lives in a dark cell since 15 years and mumbles the demons who made an attempt of both of their lives have returned to prevent the child endanger their secret. As both police investigations continue, the loner sleuths meet; secrets and other corpses are found, till it all ties together. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder investigationmurder |
Locations: | towntruck |
Characters: | police detectivedetectiveserial killerdoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | dead girlcrime scenecountrysidedead bodyvomitingcameracorpse |
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away, β¦ even on a fishing trip. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | fishermandoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | fishing tripbreast feedingalarm clockbased on short storyfishingriverdead bodyvomitingcameracorpsetelephone callfemale nudity |
In Monroe, Tennessee, Hank Deerfield, an aging warrior, gets a call that his son, just back from 18 months' fighting in Iraq, is missing from his base. Hank drives to Fort Rudd, New Mexico, to search. Within a day, the charred and dismembered body of his son is found on the outskirts of town. Deerfi β¦eld pushes himself into the investigation, marked by jurisdictional antagonism between the Army and local police. Working mostly with a new detective, Emily Sanders, Hank seems to close in on what happened. Major smuggling? A drug deal gone awry? Credit card slips, some photographs, and video clips from Iraq may hold the key. If Hank gets to the truth, what will it tell him? (Read More)
Themes: | murder investigationmurder |
Locations: | towntruck |
Characters: | police detectivedetectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | apologyprayerdead bodyplace name in titlearrestcameracorpsetelephone calltitle spoken by characterfemale nudity |
A visionary sheik believes his passion for the peaceful pastime of salmon fishing can enrich the lives of his people, and he dreams of bringing the sport to the not so fish-friendly desert. Willing to spare no expense, he instructs his representative to turn the dream into reality, an extraordinary β¦feat that will require the involvement of Britain's leading fisheries expert who happens to think the project both absurd and unachievable. That is, until the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary latches on to it as a 'good will' story. Now, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible. (Read More)
Locations: | church |
Characters: | fishermanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | salmonministerfishingapologynewspaperswimmingf wordriverprayercameratelephone calltitle spoken by character |
Earl Brooks is a highly respected businessman and was recently named Portland's Man of the Year. He hides a terrible secret however: he is a serial killer known as the Thumbprint Killer. He has been attending AA meetings and has kept his addiction to killing under control for two years now but his a β¦lter ego, Marshall, has re-appeared and is pushing him to kill again. When he does kill a couple while they are making love, he is seen and photographed by someone who also has his own death and murder fetish. In a parallel story, the police detective investigating the murder is having problems of her own. She is going through a messy divorce and a violent criminal who had vowed revenge some years before has escaped from prison and is after her. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | police detectivedetectiveserial killerdoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | crime scenemurderernewspaperprayerdead bodymirrorcorpsetelephone callsurprise endingtitle spoken by characterfemale nudity |
A secret service agent, Jennifer Marsh, gets caught in a very personal and deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer who knows that people (being what they are - both curious and drawn to the dark side of things) will log onto an "untraceable" website where he conducts violent and painful murde β¦rs LIVE on the net. The more people who log on and enter the website, the quicker and more violently the victim dies. (Read More)
Themes: | murder investigationmurder |
Characters: | police detectiveserial killerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | remote controldisposing of a dead bodyman with glassesnewspaperdead bodyarrestcorpsetelephone callsurprise endingtitle spoken by characterone word title |
Lil ('Naomi Watts' (qv)) and Roz ('Robin Wright (V)' (qv)) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotion β¦s that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. (Read More)
Locations: | townaustralia |
Characters: | teenage girlhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorministerapologyf wordswimmingvomitingblondemirrorsongtelephone callsingingfemale nudity |
Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police de β¦tective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | police detectivedetectiveteenage girlhusband wife relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrordisposing of a dead bodyfishingapologyf wordprayervomitingblondemirrortelephone calltitle spoken by characterfemale nudity |
Raimunda, her daughter Paula and her sister Sole travel from Madrid to the windy and superstitious village of Alcanfor de las Infantas to visit the grave of their mother Irene, who died years ago in a fire with her husband. Then they visit Irene's sister Paula, an old senile aunt that raised Raimund β¦a after the death of her parents that insists to tell them that Irene is alive and living with her; later, they go to the house of her neighbor and friend Agustina, who gives a support to Paula. They return to Madrid, and after a hard day of work, Raimunda meets her daughter completely distraught at the bus stop waiting for her. When they arrive home, Paula tells her mother that she killed her unemployed father Paco, who was completely drunk and tried to rape her. While Raimunda hides his body, Sole calls her to tell that their beloved aunt Paula has died. The next morning, Sole travels alone to the funeral, and when she returns to Madrid, she finds her mother hidden in the trunk of her car. She brings Irene to her apartment, where secrets from the past are disclosed. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | rural setting |
Characters: | teenage girlhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | remote controlcrossing selfdisposing of a dead bodyvisitgraffitiold womanapologyriverdead bodymirrorcorpsesongtelephone callsingingfemale nudity β¦one word title (See All) |
John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seei β¦ng their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | rural settingchurch |
Characters: | serial killerhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | murder victimbased on short storyold womanold manprayerdead bodyvomitingarrestmirrorcorpsetelephone callsurprise endingfemale nudity |
The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the resolute Turkish army.
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | lakeaustralia |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | use of bloody as epithetlooking at pictureaboriginelying on bedtelling someone to shut updead bodyplace name in titletelephone callsingingtitle spoken by characterfemale nudityone word title |
A regular family - Maria ('Naomi Watts' (qv)), Henry ('Ewan McGregor' (qv)) and their three kids - travel to Thailand to spend Christmas. They get an upgrade to a villa on the coastline. After settling in and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool, like so many other tourists. A perfect paradise vaca β¦tion until a distant noise becomes a roar. There is no time to escape from the tsunami; Maria and her eldest are swept one way, Henry and the youngest another. Who will survive, and what will become of them? (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Locations: | truck |
Characters: | truck driverlittle boydoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | near drowning7 year oldfade to blackold womanapologyswimmingdead bodyblondecorpsetelephone callsurprise endingfemale nudity |
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and una β¦mbitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. They could not be more wrong. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | trucklakechurch |
Characters: | teenage girldoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | remotebreast feedingdead girldead bodyvomitingcorpsesongsingingfemale nudity |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | little boylittle girldoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | rescue from drowningriverarrestcameramirrorcorpsetelephone callsurprise endingtitle spoken by characterone word title |
Adrian Doria, a wealthy businessman named Man of the Year due to his high-tech company and his trade agreements with the Asian market, meets Virginia Goodman, a veteran lawyer expert in witness preparation and judicial declaration, recommended by Adrian's lawyer Felix Leiva in order to create a cred β¦ible defense. Arrested by the police in a mountain hotel room with the corpse of his lover at his side, photographer Laura Vidal, Adrian talks Virginia about the crime and his relationship with Laura, revealing that both suffered a car crash where a man called Daniel Garrido died, and how Laura manipulated Adrian to avoid the jail by Daniel's death. At the same time that Felix is looking for a clue that it could change the course of the events, Virginia and Adrian keep talking about the case but her, unconvinced of the Adrian's testimony, forces him to clear the dark points of his history, in a puzzle where the truth and the lie are easily exchangeable. (Read More)
Themes: | murder investigationmurder |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | police detectivehusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorframed photographfinding a dead bodymurdererold womandead bodycameramirrorcorpsetelephone callsurprise endingone word title |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Themes: | murder investigationmurder |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | little boylittle girldetectiveserial killerteenage girldoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | murder victimdead girldead bodycameracorpsetelephone calltitle spoken by character |
John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the couple. Spilled blo β¦od and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now... Annabelle. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
Characters: | police detectivelittle girldetectivedoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | framed photographtaking a picturevisitgraffiticameratelephone calltitle spoken by characterone word title |
In 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her fath β¦er. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl's life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with "those people". In the first deliberately willful action of her life, Baby later sneaks out to see Johnny - ostensibly to apologize for her father's rudeness - and ends up consummating her relationship with Johnny. A jealous fellow vacationer sees Baby sneaking out of Johnny's bungalow the next morning, and in an act of retribution, tells management that he is responsible for a theft the evening before, knowing he would not furnish his real whereabouts. (Read More)
Mood: | night |
Locations: | rural setting |
Characters: | teenage girldoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | parking a carfade to blackwaking upeuphemismlying on bedopening a doorvisitman with glassesapologyblondesinging |
In New York, the former NYPD detective Ben Carson is hired to work as night watch of the remains of the Mayflower Department Store that was partially destroyed by fire many years ago. Ben became alcoholic and was retired from the police force after killing a man in a shooting. His marriage was also β¦destroyed and now he is living in the apartment of his younger sister Angie. However he has not been drinking for three months and sees the employment as a chance to rebuild his life. When he goes to the rounds in his first night, he finds that the mirrors are impeccably clean and his colleague explains that the former night watch was obsessed with the mirrors. After a couple of nights, Ben sees weird images in the mirrors, but due to the lack of credibility of his past, his ex-wife Amy believes he has hallucinations as a side effect of his medication. When Angie is found brutally murdered in her bathtub, Ben discovers that there is an evil force in the mirror that is chasing him and jeopardizing his family. (Read More)
Mood: | night |
Locations: | rural setting |
Characters: | little girldetectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirroralarm clockgraffitiapologyprayervomitingcameramirrorcorpsesurprise endingtitle spoken by characterfemale nudityone word title |
Walter Goodfellow, the vicar for the small English country parish of Little Wallop, has allowed his marriage to Gloria go stale, and he is so detached from his family that he has not taken notice that his 17-year-old daughter Holly is going through a succession of relationships with unsuitable boyfr β¦iends, and his son Petey fears going to school owing to being bullied. Out of desperation for affection, Gloria begins to fall for the advances of Lance, an American golf pro who is giving her "private" lessons. The problems upsetting the family start to fade away after Grace Hawkins, the new housekeeper, arrives and starts tending to matters as an older, and rather darkly mysterious version of Mary Poppins. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | lakerural settingchurch |
Characters: | little boylittle girlserial killerteenage girlhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | old womanman with glassesold manprayerdead bodyarrestcorpsesurprise endingfemale nudity |
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn β¦'t, and converts him to their cause - to destroy the underground movement. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedyconspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | night |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | looking at picturefade to blacklying on bedopening a doorvisitman with glassesapologycorpsetelephone callsurprise endingtitle spoken by characterone word title |
Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, gets at last a good job - for which he needs a bike - hanging up posters. But soon his bicycle is stolen. He and his son walk the streets of Rome, looking for the bicycle. Ricci finally manages to locate the thief but with no proo β¦f, he has to abandon his cause. But he and his son know perfectly well that without a bike, Ricci won't be able to keep his job. (Read More)
Locations: | catholic churchtruckchurch |
Characters: | little boyhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | crossing selfrescue from drowningbinocularsold manswimmingriverprayerarrestsongsinging |
Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman, who endlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found deca β¦pitated. It is called an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent "accidents". (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | townchurch |
Characters: | police detectivedetectiveserial killerdoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | crime sceneministergraffitiapologyf worddead bodyarrestcameracorpsetelephone call |
Rural Australia in the late nineteenth century: Capt. Stanley and his men capture two of the three Burns brothers, Charlie and Mike. Their gang is held responsible for attacking the Hopkins farm, raping pregnant Mrs. Hopkins and murdering the whole family. Arthur Burns, the eldest brother and the ga β¦ng's mastermind, remains on the loose and has retreated to a mountain hideout. Capt. Stanley's proposition to Charlie is to gain pardon and - more importantly - save his beloved younger brother Mike from the gallows by finding and killing Arthur within nine days. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Themes: | racismmurder |
Locations: | australia |
Characters: | australian aboriginalserial killerdoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | aborigineprayerdead bodyvomitingarrestcameracorpsesongsinging |
Themes: | camping |
Locations: | lakerural settingchurch |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | town name in titlegraffiticountrysidefishingnewspaperplace name in titletelephone callfemale nudity |
Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she's divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and β¦is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | police detectivedetective |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorbinocularsf worddead bodyarrestcorpsesurprise endingfemale nudity |
Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Ame β¦lia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father's suicide and thinking she's next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer. (Read More)
Themes: | murder investigationmurder |
Characters: | police detectivelittle boylittle girldetectiveserial killerdoctor |
Story: | crime sceneman with glassesf wordcameracorpsesurprise endingtitle spoken by character |
In the middle of the night, a guard working the night shift at the morgue located deep in the woods has a terrible car accident, and as a result, he is now in a coma, suffering multiple skull injuries and fractures. But what made the guard panic and leave his post in the first place? Furthermore, ac β¦cording to the register, the body of Mayka Villaverde, a beautiful well-off businesswoman, is mysteriously missing from the morgue. Presumably, Mayka died of a heart attack, nevertheless, who signed the death certificate with the autopsy pending? In the end, when in forensic medicine the principle of: "every death is a homicide until proven otherwise" is a basic general rule, finding out who is behind this case shrouded in mystery is going to be an arduous task. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | night |
Characters: | police detectivelittle girldetectivedoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorframed photographfinding a dead bodyapologyold mandead bodyvomitingtelephone callsurprise endingfemale nudity |
After his father is killed in a car accident, things unravel for Kale Brecht and he is placed under house-arrest for punching his Spanish teacher. Having nothing better to do, Kale occupies himself by spying on his neighbors. But one night, he witnesses what appears to be a murder going on in Mr. Tu β¦rner's house. Kale becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind these murders but, after a few unsettling run-ins with Mr. Turner, it becomes a matter of life and death. And the ominous question: Who is watching whom? (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | night |
Characters: | police detectiveserial killer |
Story: | binocularsfishingnewspaperswimmingdead bodyplace name in titlearrestcorpsetelephone calltitle spoken by characterone word title |
One summer at Camp Crystal Lake, a group of young counselors begin to get ready to lead campers. Unfortunately for the former, someone isn't happy about what's going on in the camp and enjoys playing kill the counselor. As bodies fall to the ground in the camp, no one is safe.
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | trucklakerural setting |
Characters: | truck driverserial killer |
Story: | murder victimcampmurdererold mandead bodyblondecorpsesurprise endingfemale nudity |
1950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; β¦Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Themes: | racismmurder |
Characters: | police detectivedetective |
Story: | crime sceneman with glassesf wordplace name in titlearrestmirrorcorpsefemale nudity |
Late one night, a beautiful and well-dressed young woman, Grace, arrives in the mountainous old mining town of Dogville as a fugitive; following the sound of gunshots in the distance which have been heard by Tom, the self-appointed moral spokesman for the town. Persuaded by Tom, the town agree to hi β¦de Grace, and in return she freely helps the locals. However, when the Sheriff from a neighbouring town posts a Missing notice, advertising a reward for revealing her whereabouts, the townsfolk require a better deal from Grace, in return for their silence; and when the Sheriff returns some weeks later with a Wanted poster, even though the citizens know her to be innocent of the false charges against her, the town's sense of goodness takes a sinister turn and the price of Grace's freedom becomes a workload and treatment akin to that of a slave. But Grace has a deadly secret that the townsfolk will eventually encounter. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | towntruckrural settingchurch |
Characters: | little boydoctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | old womanspankingdead bodyplace name in titlecorpsesongtelephone callsingingtitle spoken by characterone word title |
Maria Altman sought to regain a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | remote controllooking at oneself in a mirrorparkold womanapologyold mannewspaperf wordarrestmirrorsongtelephone callsinging |