Posts Tagged ‘murder’

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: John Cusack | Kevin Spacey | Jack Thompson | Irma P. Hall | Jude Law | Alison Eastwood | Paul Hipp | Lady Chablis | Dorothy Loudon | Anne Haney | Kim Hunter | Geoffrey Lewis | Richard Herd | Leon Rippy | Bob Gunton
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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This panoramic tale of Savannah’s eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William’s famous Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim’s violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the irrepressible Lady Chablis, a drag queen commedienne, Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams, whose famous dog UGA is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs, an odd man who keeps flies attached to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water supply, the Married Ladies Card Club, and Minerva, a spiritualist. Between being Jim’s buddy, cuddling up to a torch singer, meeting every eccentric in Savannah, participating in midnight graveyard rituals and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Billy’s murder, Kelso has his hands full.

Sweeney Todd (2006)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Radu Banzaru | David Bradley | Zoltan Butuc | Paul Currier | David Foxxe | Roger Frost | Ingo Gottwald | Tom Hardy | Radu Andrei Micu | Anthony O'Donnell | Gabriel Spahiu | Ben Walker | David Warner | Ray Winstone | Essie Davis
Directors: Dave Moore
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A BBC adaptation of the classic tale of the 18th century demon barber of Fleet Street, London, who cuts the throats of his unsuspecting clients in his shop.

Mr. Brooks (2007)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Demi Moore | Dane Cook | William Hurt | Marg Helgenberger | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Danielle Panabaker | Aisha Hinds | Lindsay Crouse | Jason Lewis | Reiko Aylesworth | Matt Schulze | Yasmine Delawari | Traci Dinwiddie | Michael Cole
Directors: Bruce A. Evans
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The story follows a man with a murderous alter ego. Tracy Atwood is a tough detective whose devotion to her craft catches the attention and respect of the serial killer she is hunting, which leads to a symbiotic relationship.

Michael Clayton (2007)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Wilkinson | Michael O'Keefe | Sydney Pollack | Danielle Skraastad | Tilda Swinton | George Clooney | Wai Chan | Alberto Vazquez | Brian Koppelman | Thomas McCarthy | Denis O'Hare | Julie White | Austin Williams | Jennifer Van Dyck | Frank Wood
Directors: Tony Gilroy
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Michael Clayton is an in-house “fixer” at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen’s dirtiest work at the behest of the firm’s co-founder Marty Bach. Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton’s firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach’s brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.

The Woman in Green (1945)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Hillary Brooke | Henry Daniell | Paul Cavanagh | Matthew Boulton | Eve Amber | Frederick Worlock | Tom Bryson | Sally Shepherd | Mary Gordon | John Burton | Harold De Becker | Leslie Denison | Tony Ellis
Directors: Roy William Neill
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Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamoruos woman. The fiendish Dr Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is belived to be involved.

The Scarlet Claw (1944)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Gerald Hamer | Paul Cavanagh | Arthur Hohl | Kay Harding | Miles Mander | David Clyde | Ian Wolfe | Victoria Horne | Harry Allen | Ted Billings | Bill Cartledge | Charles Francis | Olaf Hytten
Directors: Roy William Neill
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A village in Canada has an old legend about a phantom that years ago killed three villagers. Many residents are afraid that the monster has come back, because some of them have seen strange luminous shapes, and then some sheep were found with their throats slashed. Their worst fears seem to be confirmed when Lady Penrose is found killed in the same way. Meanwhile, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are in Quebec, attending a meeting of the Royal Canadian Occult Society, where they are involved in a sharp debate with Lord Penrose about his village’s legend. Not long after Lord Penrose receives word of his wife’s death, Holmes receives a letter that the dead woman had written before she died, begging for his help and protection. When Holmes goes to the village to investigate, he finds himself hunting a determined murderer who is also a master of disguise.

The Pearl of Death (1944)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Dennis Hoey | Evelyn Ankers | Miles Mander | Ian Wolfe | Charles Francis | Holmes Herbert | Richard Nugent | Mary Gordon | Rondo Hatton | J.W. Austin | Wilson Benge | Billy Bevan | Harry Cording
Directors: Roy William Neill
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When a pearl with a sinister reputation for causing misfortune to its owners is stolen from a museum by a master criminal because of Sherlock Holmes’ show-boating, he is naturally obliged to find it. Soon, he learns of a series of brutal murders that seemed to have been commited by a malevolent man mountain known only as the Creeper. Now, Holmes must deal with the seemingly overwhelming menace of this man and his boss in order to retrieve the pearl.

The House of Fear (1945)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Aubrey Mather | Dennis Hoey | Paul Cavanagh | Holmes Herbert | Harry Cording | Sally Shepherd | Gavin Muir | Florette Hillier | David Clyde | Richard Alexander | Wilson Benge | Hobart Cavanaugh | Alec Craig
Directors: Roy William Neill
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In a gloomy mansion in the west of Scotland the seven members of the Good Comrades Club are dining. One of them receives a curious death threat, an envelope containing seven orange pips. He dies the next night in a car crash. At his funeral another member receives an envelope with six pips, and ten days later his body is recovered from the sea. Sherlock Holmes is called in.

Terror by Night (1946)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Alan Mowbray | Dennis Hoey | Renee Godfrey | Frederick Worlock | Mary Forbes | Skelton Knaggs | Billy Bevan | Geoffrey Steele | Gilbert Allen | Harry Cording | Boyd Davis | Gerald Hamer | Leyland Hodgson
Directors: Roy William Neill
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Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs’ mother, Lady Margaret. Believing the diamond will be stolen on a train trip from London to Edinburgh, Holmes deftly switches diamonds with Lady Margaret while in her compartment. Soon after, Roland is murdered and the fake diamond is stolen. Red herrings abound as Holmes, aided by Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, discover the murderer’s hiding place and deduce that long-time foe Moriarty’s henchman Colonel Sebastian Moran is somehow involved in the crime.

Hood of Horror (2006)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Snoop Dogg | Ernie Hudson | Danny Trejo | Pooch Hall | Anson Mount | Daniella Alonso | Lin Shaye | Brande Roderick | Richard Gant | Aries Spears | Dallas Page | Jeffrey Licon | Noel Gugliemi | Sydney Tamiia Poitier | Tucker Smallwood
Directors: Stacy Title
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A hip hop horror anthology of three tales of terror told by the Hound of Hell (Snoop Dogg) that revolve around the residents of an inner-city neighborhood whose actions determine where they will go in the afterlife.