9 Les Diaboliques
Les Diaboliques
Simone Signoret stars in this frightening French film about two women seeking revenge. A wife and her husband’s mistress conspire to kill the brutal man that they both have loved. Murder, however well-planned, can return to haunt you in a particularly deadly way.
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8 Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express
An international all-star cast makes solving this Hercule Poirot mystery all the more fun. En route to Paris, a luxury train is delayed by a heavy snows in the Balkans. A passenger is found dead in his compartment. Stabbed 12 times, the victim seems to have had plenty of enemies. All aboard for murder!
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7 The Kennel Murder Case
The Kennel Murder Case
Philo Vance, the forerunner of suave detectives like Nick Charles and Ellery Queen, is never better in this 1933 film starring a deliciously dapper William Powell. Vance is called on to investigate a classic locked room mystery that seemingly begins with the death of a terrier at a society dog show.
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6 Rear Window
Rear Window
A masterpiece of suspense, Hitchcock’s Rear Window has a less-than-sympathetic Jimmy Stewart sunk to spying on his neighbors while recovering from a broken leg. His crusty nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter) ‘smells trouble’ and she’s got it right. Can it be true that a woman has been murdered and dismembered by her husband in the apartment across the courtyard?
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