Movies: Attempted murder

A classic and at the same time unrealistic and phantasmagoric love story with betrayal and hatred. A woman's ruthless hatred of her husband suddenly starts to surface in the programs of the TV channel she has co-founded with her husband....

Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless....

Yu Kwok-Kei cannot pay his debts and disguises himself as Ma Ka-Wai, his cousin Yu Lan-Fun's fiancee. He tries to kill Lan-Fun. A fisherman saves Fun. She believes that Ka-Wai was the attacker, but she can't understand why. After Fun has been missing...

Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an alcoholic impotent. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and b...

A police officer investigates his former lover's death which is believed to be a suicide by others....

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder....

English doctor John Winthrop (Francis Matthews) must protect his new wife, Ann (Kay Callard), from his wealthy and entirely too overbearing mother, Katherine (Margaretta Scott), who has some strong opinions about her son's new union. But things go to...

A side-by-side analysis of Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality and S.S. Rajamouli's Maryada Ramanna....

Long Yang is a strategist, martial artist, diplomat, and the first ever male paramour of all Chinese history. Living in the warring states period of ancient China–– a time of turbulence and uncertainty––he manages to gain the favor of Ji Yu, the King...

Based on the model of documentary fiction (alternating period films, interviews and re-enactments with actors), the film begins on September 8, 1961 with the failure of the Pont-sur-Seine attack on a road convoy carrying Charles de Gaulle, then Presi...

A series of murders eliminates the poverty-stricken heirs to a 10 million-dollar fortune while Didi Dodel, the unsuspecting main heir, blithely escapes the attempts on his life. After a wealthy miser dies and leaves his fortune to Didi and five other...

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Eying a large inheritance, a reporter marries a rich woman with failing health. When she begins feeling healthy after the wedding, the reporter takes drastic measures to make sure his wife dies....

A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes....

Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister and daughter, brother, and grandfather. Rafi is Palestinian, in Spain since age 12. Before her father returns from work, Leni reveals Rafi's origins....

Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them....

Carmen is a shy taxi driver who walks the chaotic streets of downtown Lima. One night, she witnesses a macho attack that brings out her worst fears....

An employee at a high-end resort leads a handful of students into shark infested waters after he's beaten and humiliated by one of the guys in the group....

Intimate portrait of the social outcast Ricardo Lopez, chronicling the last days of his life in 1996 as he creates and sends a letter bomb rigged with sulfuric acid to Icelandic singer Björk and heads home to record his own suicide on video....

After the woman who nearly killed her is brought to trial, Eun-hie finds that she must take the stand to give evidence. However, the defense attempts to turn the tables on her by revealing her sordid past and trying to make it seem as if she deserved...