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As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...
2) Vertigo
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Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
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Two thrill-seeking friends strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of "the perfect murder, " their former teacher becomes increasingly suspicious that his proteges have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality.
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"The world's greatest detectives have been invited to dinner [at] the isolated mansion of eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain. Twain informs his guests that one of them will be murdered at the stroke of midnight. The pay-off: $1 million to whoever lives through the night. [The film] neatly lampoons both the mystery genre and the characterizations of these instantly recognizable gumshoes and super sleuths"--Container.
7) Vertigo
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San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe fear of heights. When a rich shipbuilder hires Scottie to follow his wife, who may be suicidal, Scottie finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually Ferguson becomes obsessed with the chance to re-create her in another woman.
8) Badlands
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Criterion collection volume 651
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Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
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Provoking mystery/thriller starring Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, an expert surveillance man. A routine wiretapping job turns into a nightmare when Harry hears something disturbing in his recording of a young couple in a park. His investigation of the tape and how it might be used sends Harry spiraling into a web of secrecy, murder, and paranoia. Set against the backdrop of San Francisco. A harrowing psychological thriller that symbolizes the uneasy...
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Harry's corpse is found in the autumnal New England woods. While no one mourns his death, several people feel responsible for it. The body is unearthed several times, humorous situations occur, and love affairs develop before the real cause of Harry's death is revealed.
12) Duel
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A traveling businessman is menaced on the highway by a huge diesel truck. Although he can never see the psychopathic driver of the truck, he soon realizes that this guy is out to kill him!
14) High anxiety
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In this manic spoof of Hitchcock, a neurotic psychiatrist becomes the new head of a sanitarium and is caught up in kidnapping, murder, and mistaken identity.
15) Things change
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"Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, seems destined for low level jobs like keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But 'things change' when Gino is mistaken for a Mafia boss and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status -- a dangerous adventure that only friendship will see them through alive"--Container.
17) Cloak & Dagger
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11-year-old Davey has retreated into a world of video games and an imaginary hero-pal. When an FBI agent about to be murdered slips him a video cartridge containing top-secret data, Davey is plunged into the intrigue and danger of real-life espionage.
19) The other
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The twisted story of 12-year-old twins whose devotion to one another is played out in a macabre game of murder.
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Newly released in 3D, a suspenseful story of love, adultery, blackmail and murder. A wealthy woman in London has an affair while her husband is away. She is subsequently blackmailed, and her husband attempts to have her murdered. One of Alfred Hitchcock's most famous films.