Top 20 movies like Záhadný zločin
Top 20 Movies like Záhadný zločin
- 1. Damaged Goods
- 2. The Vixen
- 3. The Grand Parade
- 4. The Glimpses of the Moon
- 5. Fog Bound
- 6. Honor of the Family
- 7. Compromised
- 8. The Woman on Trial
- 9. Shadows of the Past
- 10. Gang War
- 11. Tragedies of the Osage Hills
- 12. Viy
- 13. V buynoy slepote strastey
- 14. Dance of death
- 15. Sin
- 16. Wenn Tote sprechen
- 17. The Shuttle
- 18. The Soul of Buddha
- 19. The Yellow Ticket
- 20. The Widow's Might
1. Damaged Goods
"Damaged Goods" pictures the terrible consequences of vice and the physical ruin that follows the abuse of moral law. It is a stirring plea for a pure life before marriage, in order to make impossible the transmission of hereditary traits to future generations. This film is presumed lost.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
2. The Vixen
In this lost film, Theda Bara took the role of spoiled, deceiving nymphomaniac "vixen" Elsie Drummond. She wooed Wall Street businessman Martin Stevens away from his interest in her sweet sister Helen . She continued to seek after rich men, eventually marrying young statesman Knowles Murray - but still willing to be unfaithful with Stevens who had since regained his fortune.
3. The Grand Parade
No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the sweetheart of minstrel-show performer Jack Kelly. Rising to the top of his profession, Kelly plummets to the bottom thanks to his fondness for intoxicating beverages. Molly nurses and coddles Kelly back to health, giving nary a thought for her own comfort or happiness.
4. The Glimpses of the Moon
The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.
6. Honor of the Family
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.
7. Compromised
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious times with the Brock patriarch, but when Stella becomes a mother, she seems to becomes accepted, although it's used as a way to shift Sidney's and the child's affections from her. Connie comes back into their lives, now seeking to reclaim Sidney, and manipulates the situation to convince Stella that he's been seeing her. So Stella decides to get a divorce, but fortunately, Sidney becomes aware of the deception in time.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
8. The Woman on Trial
A story of a woman who committed a murder. In a French court room her life is retold by long flashbacks of her testimony and life.
9. Shadows of the Past (Mineviku varjud)
The Livonian Order has conquered Estonia and country people try hard protecting their freedom. Uno, a brave man, escapes from imprisonment and goes back to his fellow tribesmen. Encouraged by his parents and a wise man, Kaljo has just become a young leader, when people are being attacked by the Brothers of the Sword. Kaljo's loved one Laine and Uno become victims of the enemy. Virve, Kaljo's sister, sneaks in and liberates Uno who will join the resistance fighters facing the battle of life and death.
10. Gang War
Saxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers that gangster boss "Blackjack" is also in love with her. "Blackjack" is also battling gang boss Mike Luego in a violent turf war.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
11. Tragedies of the Osage Hills
A lost film based on the 'Reign of Terror', a real-life series of several dozen murders committed against the Osage people. 'Tragedies of the Osage Hills' was directed by James Young Deer, the first known Native American film director, and boasted a cast of “hundreds of real Indians.” Described as a dramatic thriller interwoven with a “tender love story”, the film’s premiere in Cushing, Oklahoma occurred just months after the arrest of Ernest Burkhart, the subject of Martin Scorsese’s similarly themed 2023 film 'Killers of the Flower Moon'. The 'Cushing Daily Citizen' described 'Tragedies of the Osage Hills' as having a fictitious ending of the Osage and white men united under an American flag.
13. V buynoy slepote strastey (В буйной слепоте страстей)
A man in love with a married woman plans to kill her husband. By mistake he kills her brother, and is haunted by the ghost of the murdered brother.
14. Dance of death (Пляска смерти)
A conductor is haunted by hallucinations during a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns's Danse macabre.
15. Sin
Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.
16. Wenn Tote sprechen (Wenn Tote sprechen)
After finding her sister dead, Maria tries to find out who or what is to blame.
17. The Shuttle
Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
18. The Soul of Buddha
Theda Bara plays a Javanese priestess who elopes with an English military officer . Bara's Bavahari becomes a celebrated dancer but is murdered onstage by a vengeful Buddhist priest .
19. The Yellow Ticket
Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to degrade herself in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. She obtains a yellow passport, signifying that she is a prostitute.
20. The Widow's Might (The Widow's Might)
Dick Tavish, a young New Yorker, decides that there is money in cows, and he buys a western ranch. When the novelty has worn off he decided there is monotony as well. Then he falls in love with a girl on a calendar, and life takes on a new interest, particularly after he discovers who the girl is. The fact that her uncle swindled him on the ranch does not matter. He figures he can take care of the uncle, and he does, but not until he has been forced to masquerade as a woman, and have half the men at a fashionable resort fall in love with him.
