Opened by Mistake
★ 7 · 1940 · 66m · Comedy · Mystery
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
More Like This
Brenda Starr
1989 · ★ 4.7
Fearless reporter Brenda Starr needs a big scoop if she wishes to retain her lofty status within the world of journalism, so she ventures deep into the Amazon Rainforest to investigate a story involving a mad scientist's plot to blow the planet to smithereens. Her investigation pits her against a collection of dastardly villains and the myriad dangers of the jungle.
More info →
The Heart of Justice
1992 · ★ 5.7
David Leader investigates a seemingly senseless murder, and in the course of it is drawn into the labyrinth of a sinisterly unique wealthy family...
More info →
Affectionately Yours
1941 · ★ 4.5
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
More info →
The Gore Gore Girls
1972 · ★ 5.4
A young reporter enlists a top notch private eye to solve the murder of a female stripper at a Chicago nightclub.
More info →
Cryptid
2022 · ★ 4.4
A small rural town in Maine is shocked as a mysterious animal leaves a local resident brutally ripped apart. Deemed to be a random bear attack by town officials, freelance journalist Max Frome suspects it might be something more.
More info →
Piranha
1978 · ★ 6
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
More info →
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 · ★ 7.5
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
More info →
State of Play
2009 · ★ 6.8
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
More info →
The Princess Comes Across
1936 · ★ 6.2
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
More info →
Libeled Lady
1936 · ★ 7.3
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
More info →
Top Five
2014 · ★ 6.1
Though he began in stand-up comedy, Andre Allen hit the big-time as the star of a trilogy of action-comedies about a talking bear but now he wants to be taken seriously. His passion project about the Haitian Revolution, a movie called Uprize, was panned by the NY Times film critic. A couple days before the wedding to his reality star fiancée, he's forced to spend the day with Chelsea Brown, a profile writer for the New York Times. Unexpectedly, he opens up to her, and as they wind their way across New York, he tries to get back in touch with his comedic roots.
More info →
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
1985 · ★ 6.6
While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.
More info →