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Kanopy
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Metropolis (1927)
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
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Kanopy
89
8.3
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80
/2602/
80
/2361/
4.3
/195294/
100
/63/
95
/2238/

M (1931)
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
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The Roku Channel
85
7.9
/31926/
76
/699/
76
/530/
4.1
/42248/
95
/75/
90
/359/

The Big Heat (1953)
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
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MGM Plus
82
7.7
/20835/
76
/433/
76
/410/
4.0
/25743/
100
/17/
88
/247/

Scarlet Street (1945)
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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81
77
7.8
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75
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74
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Fury (1936)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Criterion Channel
80
77
7.9
/14374/
74
/265/
76
/271/
4.0
/17284/
86
/21/
90
/221/

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.
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Kanopy
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76
8.1
/7134/
75
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77
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/14/
90
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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.
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Kanopy
81
75
7.8
/9793/
73
/192/
76
/206/
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/11786/
94
/17/
87
/112/

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
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The Roku Channel
77
75
7.6
/19137/
73
/358/
74
/368/
3.7
/17647/
83
/29/
83
/178/

The Woman in the Window (1944)
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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The Roku Channel
78
72
7.2
/8148/
72
/184/
71
/186/
3.8
/10496/
100
/11/
77
/58/

You Only Live Once (1937)
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
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Kanopy
80
70
7.9
/5452/
71
/99/
75
/117/
4.1
/6649/
89
/9/
85
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Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.
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Kanopy
77
70
7.6
/7230/
69
/138/
73
/163/
3.8
/11090/
79
/24/
88
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Destiny (1921)
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.
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78
69
7.5
/4269/
71
/74/
74
/88/
3.8
/4908/
95
/19/
82
/49/

Spies (1928)
The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.
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73
68
7.1
/9508/
70
/201/
68
/186/
3.6
/12728/
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Ministry of Fear (1944)
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
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Amazon Prime Video
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66
7.4
/7216/
72
/134/
69
/136/
3.7
/5720/
87
/15/
67
/47/

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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72
66
6.9
/7706/
70
/146/
69
/137/
3.6
/6936/
91
/23/
66
/63/

While the City Sleeps (1956)
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
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74
66
7.2
/6903/
73
/126/
69
/119/
3.5
/6690/
87
/15/
75
/67/

Man Hunt (1941)
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
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65
6.8
/6019/
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/100/
65
/117/
3.6
/8451/
100
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Rancho Notorious (1952)
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
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6.9
/4172/
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/110/
68
/108/
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/3657/
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The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...
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JustWatchTV
73
63
7.3
/4157/
69
/88/
72
/111/
3.7
/3640/
80
/10/
72
/41/

Woman in the Moon (1929)
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
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Amazon Prime Video
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61
6.8
/6883/
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/104/
65
/96/
3.4
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/56/

The Blue Gardenia (1953)
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
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61
7.1
/7164/
70
/135/
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3.5
/8369/
60
/20/
74
/62/

Human Desire (1954)
A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, in 1997.
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60
7.0
/8071/
66
/132/
66
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3.5
/6971/
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/16/
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/95/

Clash by Night (1952)
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
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66
60
6.9
/6380/
68
/131/
68
/119/
3.5
/5538/
70
/20/
57
/56/

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
poster
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58
6.6
/6245/
68
/152/
65
/152/
3.5
/8709/
65
/17/
54
/50/

Secret Beyond the Door (1947)
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
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67
58
6.6
/4258/
66
/85/
64
/118/
3.6
/3637/
69
/13/
69
/36/

Moonfleet (1955)
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
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Kanopy
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57
7.0
/4711/
65
/86/
67
/97/
3.5
/5139/
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/15/
68
/35/

House by the River (1950)
Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.
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Kanopy
68
54
6.6
/3457/
66
/78/
62
/142/
3.5
/3671/
88
/8/
59
/18/

The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)
In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall in-love, triggering the Maharajah's vengeful ire.
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65
54
6.6
/3854/
68
/89/
65
/67/
3.5
/2764/
78
/9/
44
/27/

Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
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63
53
6.6
/3945/
70
/79/
63
/134/
3.3
/2160/
71
/7/
47
/39/

The Return of Frank James (1940)
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
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Kanopy
67
51
6.6
/3189/
64
/66/
60
/115/
3.5
/2952/
88
/8/
57
/13/

The Indian Tomb (1959)
Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to escape but is hunted and captured by Ramigani and his men. Meanwhile Irene Rhode and her husband Walter Rhode suspect that Maharaja Chandra is not telling the truth about Harold's destiny. The conspirator Ramigani forces Seetha to accept to get married with Chandra to provoke the wrath of the priests and get the alliance of Prince Padhu and his army. In the meantime, Harold succeeds in escaping from the dungeon and seeks out Seetha to save her.
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51
6.7
/3550/
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/92/
60
/77/
3.3
/1799/
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/8/
58
/18/

Western Union (1941)
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
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69
47
6.8
/2069/
66
/38/
65
/43/
3.6
/2992/
86
/7/
57
/10/

You and Me (1938)
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
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Kanopy
65
40
6.5
/1597/
58
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59
/37/
3.3
/1451/
83
/6/
58
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The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea (1919)
In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.
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74
38
6.8
/1323/
71
/9/
64
/25/
3.4
/756/
100
/7/
75
/13/

Liliom (1934)
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after going out with Liliom; he's fired by his jealous employer for going out with Julie. The two lovers move in with Julie's aunt; unemployment emasculates him and a local weasel tempts him with crime. Julie, now wan, is true to Liliom even in his bad temper. Meanwhile, a stolid widower, a carpenter, wants to marry Julie. Is there any future on this earth for Julie and Liliom, whose love is passionate rather than ideal?
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53
28
6.1
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/13/
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3.1
/1103/
30
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The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship (1920)
When we last saw Kay Hoog (millionaire adventurer, courageous hunk), he’d been beset with tragedy. Having escaped an ancient Incan city by the skin of his gleaming teeth, Hoog looked forward to a few years of settled life with his (amicably) captured Incan lovely, Naela. But the past struck quickly. Hoog’s arch-nemesis, the homicidal femme Lio Sha, murdered Naela on the very grounds of Hoog’s estate, prompting him to swear revenge upon her and her criminal organization, the Spiders. Now he must find them, as the Spiders continue their global quest for the Buddha-head Diamond. The head, it’s said, has the power to restore Asia to world dominance.
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53
24
5.9
/1438/
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/17/
3.1
/573/
60
/10/
24
/9/

American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2001.
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Kanopy
57
21
5.9
/692/
58
/6/
59
/18/
3.1
/501/
50
/46/

Four Around the Woman (1921)
Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past.
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49
19
5.6
/940/
53
/16/
57
/23/
2.9
/863/
25
/14/

Harakiri (1919)
The daughter of a daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to come back for her and his new child, but when he comes back to Japan, he brings his European wife.
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58
14
5.9
/685/
51
/6/
59
/14/
3.2
/549/

The Wandering Image (1920)
When Irmgard becomes pregnant from Georg, a free-love disciple, she decides, for the sake of her child, to pretend they are married. The secret plan is to wed his twin brother, John, who will pretend to be Georg in front of the priest. Soon after that happens, Georg disappears and is declared dead. Years later, Irmgard is trying to escape John, who is obsessed with her. In the mountains, she finds a stranger willing to protect her.
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?
71
/6/
67
/7/

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Part 1 – The Great Gambler (1922)
Doctor Mabuse is a criminal mastermind, doctor of psychology, and master of disguise, armed with the powers of hypnosis and mind control, who oversees the counterfeiting and gambling rackets of the Berlin underworld. He visits gambling dens by night under various guises and aliases, using the power of suggestion to win at cards and finance his plans.
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?
6.9
/90/

Half-Blood (1919)
The story of a man destroyed by love.
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6.0
/72/
30
/1/

Master of Love (1919)
Lost film. A man's devotion for a woman brings about his ruin.
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57
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6.4
/326/
45
/6/
66
/7/

Journey to the Lost City (1960)
An exotic dancing girl of India inflames the passions of a traveling draftsman.
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
The French language production of Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse.


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