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The Invisible Woman (1940)
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(1940) (United States) (theatrical)
Eccentric Professor Gibbs, brilliant but impractical, invents an invisibility machine and advertises for a guinea pig. What he gets is Kitty Carroll, an attractive, adventurous model, who thinks being invisible would help her settle a few scores. Complications arise when...
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The Mummy's Hand (1940)
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(1940) (USA) (theatrical)
A couple of comical, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a...
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Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe (1940)
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(1940) (USA) (theatrical)
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov,...
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The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
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(Universal Pictures Corporation)
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(1940) (United States) (Universal Pictures Coporation) (theatrical)
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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Son Of Frankenstein (1939)
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(as Universal Pictures Company Inc.)
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(1939) (USA) (theatrical)
Wolf von Frankenstein returns to the Baronial manor from the United States with his wife Elsa and son Peter. He not made welcome by the locals who are still terrified of his father's works and the monster he created. The local Burgomaster gives him a sealed briefcase left by...
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The Phantom Creeps (1939)
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(1939) (United States) (theatrical)
A monstrous, eight foot tall robot with a fearsome face and sharp, fang-like teeth emerges from a vault in the laboratory of the mad Dr. Alex Zorka. The insane scientist hopes to create an army of such monsters in his bid to conquer the world. He's also developed an...
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Flash Gordon's Trip To Mars (1938)
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(1938) (USA) (theatrical)
Flash, Dale, and Dr. Zarkov return from their former space adventures only to find that their enemy, Ming the Merciless of planet Mongo, has a new weapon: a deadly ray that crosses space to wreak havoc on earth. Earth's only hope is for our heroes to take off again and stop...
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Flash Gordon (1936)
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(1936) (USA) (theatrical)
A rogue planet is 'rushing madly toward the earth.' Impending doom creates worldwide pandemonium. But maverick scientist Dr. Zarkov hopes to stay disaster by travelling to the new planet in his experimental rocket. Two chance-met strangers, athletic Flash Gordon and damsel...
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Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
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(A James Whale Production)
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(1935) (USA) (theatrical)
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new...
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The Black Cat (1934)
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(1934) (USA) (theatrical)
Honeymooning in Hungary, Joan and Peter Allison share their train compartment with Dr. Vitus Verdegast, a courtly but tragic man who is returning to the remains of the town he defended before becoming a prisoner of war for fifteen years. When their hotel-bound bus crashes in...
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The Invisible Man (1933)
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(1933) (United States) (theatrical)
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(2002) (Germany) (DVD)
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(1934) (Poland) (theatrical)
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(2004) (Poland) (DVD)
A mysterious man, whose head is completely covered in bandages, wants a room. The proprietors of the pub aren't used to making their house an inn during the winter months, but the man insists. They soon come to regret their decision. The man quickly runs out of money, and he...
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The Mummy (1932)
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(A Universal Picture)
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(1932) (USA) (theatrical)
In 1921 a field expedition in Egypt discovers the mummy of ancient Egyptian prince Im-Ho-Tep, who was condemned and buried alive for sacrilege. Also found in the tomb is the Scroll of Thoth, which can bring the dead back to life. One night a young member of the expedition...
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Murders In The Rue Morgue (1932)
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(1932) (United States) (theatrical)
In 19th-century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship. He constantly meets failure as the abducted women die. Medical student Pierre Dupin discovers what Mirakle is doing too late to...
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Frankenstein (1931)
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(as Universal Pictures Corp.)
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(1931) (USA) (theatrical)
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(1938) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
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(1947) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
Henry Frankenstein is a brilliant scientist who has been conducting experiments on the re-animation of lifeless bodies. He has conducted experiments on small animals and is now ready to create life in a man he has assembled from body parts he has been collecting from various...
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Dracula (1931)
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(A Tod Browning Production) (as Universal Pictures Corporation)
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(1931) (USA) (theatrical)
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(1938) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
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(1947) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
An estate agent, Renfield, travels to Transylvania to complete a real estate transaction with Count Dracula. Unbeknownst to Renfield however - despite warnings of evil by some of the locals - Dracula is a vampire and the visitor is soon his unwilling servant. They travel by...
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The Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
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(Jewel) (as A Universal Production)
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(1925) (USA) (theatrical)
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(1930) (USA) (theatrical) (reissue with new scenes shot in 1929)
A grotesquely disfigured composer known as "The Phantom" haunts Paris' opera house, where he's secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. Luring her to his remote underground lair, The Phantom declares his love. But Christine loves Raoul de Chagny and plans to...
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1923)
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(1923) (United States) (theatrical)
In 15th-century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with a gypsy dancer.
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