Autopsy
"autopsy" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Diagnosis: Murder
Synopsis:
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
Starring:
Dick Van Dyke,
Charlie Schlatter,
Barry Van Dyke
Plot:
partner,
cult tv,
murder,
doctor,
hospital,
detective,
diagnosis,
two word title,
father son relationship,
friendship
...
#2
The Closer
Synopsis:
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
Starring:
J.K. Simmons,
Raymond Cruz,
Jon Tenney
#3
Z
Synopsis:
Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises troubling questions. Though it's too late to save Z's life, a postmortem examination suggests that the ruling party was behind his death. As the fact…
Starring:
Jacques Perrin,
Jean-Louis Trintignant,
Magali Noël
Plot:
murder investigation,
rally,
right wing,
police,
government,
military,
politician,
1960s,
violence,
political cover up
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#4
The Silence of the Lambs
Synopsis:
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Starring:
Anthony Heald,
Tracey Walter,
Anthony Hopkins
#5
The Name of the Rose
Synopsis:
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence – which is considerable.
Starring:
Sean Connery,
F. Murray Abraham,
Christian Slater
Plot:
middle ages,
abbey,
monk,
franciscan,
14th century,
death,
order,
wealth,
novice,
investigation
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#6
The Fog
Synopsis:
Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and m…
Starring:
Jamie Lee Curtis,
Nancy Kyes,
Charles Cyphers
Plot:
fog,
ghost ship,
lighthouse,
navigator,
sea,
dog,
chase,
blood,
tale,
cult director
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#7
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Synopsis:
The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
Starring:
Brigitte Mira,
Bruno S.,
Walter Ladengast
Plot:
1830s,
1820s,
lord,
english,
nuremberg germany,
piano,
period drama,
year 1828,
19th century,
kaspar hauser
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#8
The Crimson Rivers
Synopsis:
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
Starring:
Jean Reno,
Dominique Sanda,
Vincent Cassel
Plot:
neo noir,
child,
scene of the crime,
climbing a wall,
france,
murder,
secret,
mountain,
corpse,
detective
...
#9
Tarantula
Synopsis:
A lone-wolf scientist sequestered in a mansion near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new, and very female, assistant, they discover that, far worse, something much larger and hungrier than it ever should be, is de…
Starring:
Nestor Paiva,
Leo G. Carroll,
John Agar
#10
Taking Lives
Synopsis:
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.
Starring:
Tchéky Karyo,
Paul Dano,
Justin Chatwin
#11
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Synopsis:
This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. In order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Starring:
Lee Dae-yeon,
Song Kang-ho,
Shin Ha-kyun
Plot:
revenge,
sign language,
torture,
three act structure,
suicide,
kidnapping,
murder,
dead woman in a bathtub,
make love,
petting
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#12
Sphere
Synopsis:
A spacecraft is discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the Habitat, a state-of-the-art underwater living environment, to investigate.
Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson,
Peter Coyote,
Queen Latifah
#13
Outbreak
Synopsis:
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
Starring:
Kevin Spacey,
Donald Sutherland,
Morgan Freeman
Plot:
virus,
epidemic,
monkey,
disease,
quarantine,
helicopter,
hospital,
doctor,
dog,
chase
...
#14
Mystic River
Synopsis:
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.
Starring:
Laurence Fishburne,
Kevin Chapman,
Emmy Rossum
#15
Mississippi Burning
Synopsis:
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Starring:
Willem Dafoe,
Stephen Tobolowsky,
Pruitt Taylor Vince
#16
Memories of Murder
Synopsis:
1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about a serial murderer grow louder. A special task force is set up in the area, with two local detectives Park Doo-Man and Jo Young-Goo joined by a detecti…
Starring:
Kim Roi-ha,
Song Kang-ho,
Go Seo-hee
#17
L.A. Confidential
Synopsis:
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Starring:
Kim Basinger,
Kevin Spacey,
Danny DeVito
Plot:
corruption,
neo noir,
1950s,
murder,
call girl,
police procedural,
police detective,
prostitute,
based on novel,
femme fatale
...
#18
In the Heat of the Night
Synopsis:
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
Starring:
William Schallert,
Scott Wilson,
Warren Oates
#19
Insomnia
Synopsis:
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Starring:
Robin Williams,
Paul Dooley,
Martin Donovan
Plot:
murder of a teenage girl,
detective,
murder,
police,
homicide,
insomnia,
alaska,
midnight sun,
bullet,
dirty cop
...
#20
Ikiru
Synopsis:
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Starring:
Takashi Shimura,
Haruo Tanaka,
Nobuo Kaneko
Plot:
meaning of life,
cancer,
death,
bureaucrat,
playground,
park,
old age,
stomach cancer,
existentialism,
terminal illness
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