Movies: Mystery writer
- 1987
Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
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Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie's...
- 2014
Big Driver (2014)
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Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road....
- 1956
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
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A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates....
- 1959
The Bat (1959)
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Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Flemin...
- 1945
Blithe Spirit (1945)
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An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings...
- 1934
The Black Cat (1934)
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After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor....
- 1979
Agatha (1979)
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England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace....
- 1954
The Mad Magician (1954)
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Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The...
- 1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
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A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife....
- 1936
Mad Holiday (1936)
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A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder....
- 1942
A Night to Remember (1942)
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A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns ...
- 2017
Daphne du Maurier: In Rebecca's Footsteps (2017)
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A portrait of the masterful author whose novels were adapted into the classics 'The Birds,' 'Jamaica Inn,' and 'Rebecca."...
- 2014
The Vanished Elephant (2014)
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A crime novelist receives a vital clue to the whereabouts of his long-missing fiancée....
- 1982
Buscando a Perico (1982)
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- 1933
Whistling in the Dark (1933)
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A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder....
- 2024
Edgar Allan Poe - Amerikas abgründiger Pop-Poet (2024)
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Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous American authors. And probably the most abysmal. In his texts, he deals with the dark side of humanity like no other. And was himself scarred by this throughout his life. The writer not only shaped the genres...
- 1941
The Hard Life of an Adventurer (1941)
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A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody....
- 1983
A Talent for Murder (1983)
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A famed mystery writer and her doctor ex-lover solve her daughter-in-law's murder....